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		<title>What Kindness Looks Like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are wrapping up another amazing school year &#8211; I can hardly believe it  is almost over! I have a stack of paintings in my office that are  testament to the vast and inspiring creativity of the young painters we  are fortunate to work with. Here is a sampling of the paintings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/what-kindness-looks-like-2/</link>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. While I love that we have a special day to honor our planet, our young painters regularly use images from nature to express themselves.
They seem to know instinctively that the natural world can offer a sense of respite from their daily lives. As Hall Borland said in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/happy-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>Keep Kids Painting!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cuts to education are getting worse, but our kids still need to express themselves!  Join us for an evening of music, comedy, and fun and help keep Brush Fire&#8217;s innovative expressive arts classes in schools.
Our evening features: Professional hair &#38; make up styling! Henna Tattoos! Body painting! Tarot card reading! Chinese tea service! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/keep-kids-painting/</link>
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		<title>More Paintings from the Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just posted the latest round of paintings from our program at the Youth Services Center in San Mateo on our Facebook page. If you have not seen them, please check them out. Just go to Facebook and search for Brush Fire Painting Workshops. While you are there, become a fan to get regular updates.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/more-paintings-from-the-hall/</link>
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		<title>Why Creativity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can making art change our communities? We know in our bones that it does, but articulating how can be challenging. How can  creativity promote social justice? Consider this:
&#8220;You never change things by fighting the existing reality,&#8221; wrote Buckminster Fuller. &#8220;To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.&#8221;
Socrates said something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/why-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Shout Out Across the Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d like to give a shout out to Habitot Children&#8217;s Museum, the East Bay&#8217;s award-winning hands-on discovery museum for young children.
Habitot&#8217;s Guide to Nurturing Creativity includes many of Brush Fire&#8217;s foundation ideas, which are applicable to any adult participation in art activities with children and youth of all ages. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the Guide:

Avoid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/shout-out-across-the-bay/</link>
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		<title>No Name Calling Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to out friends at the Togetherville Blog for this post:
The No Name Calling Week campaign kicks off today!
Since 2004, No Name Calling Week (launched by the Gay, Lesbian &#38; Straight Education Network and Simon and Schuster Publishing) has been  providing anti-bullying resources to schools and youth-serving organizations.
A hallmark of the No Name Calling Week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/no-name-calling-week/</link>
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		<title>MLK, Art, and Social Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am reflecting on the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how his work shapes my thinking about Brush Fire as a tool for social justice. Dr. King said, “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” I feel the truth of this quote in my heart. We all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/mlk-art-and-social-justice/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our supporters (that’s you!) Brush Fire had a big, beautiful 2009 &#8211; reaching a record number of kids with our innovative, process-based art programs, creating new partnerships with San Mateo Juvenile Hall, Camp Kemp and 10 new schools in San Francisco, all the while providing opportunities for underserved youth express their deepest fears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Girl Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were beyond thrilled to bring Brush Fire Panting Workshops to Camp Kemp, just down the hill from San Mateo Youth Services Center.
Opened in the fall of 2006, the Margaret J. Kemp Camp for Girls houses young women of San Mateo County between the ages of 13 and 18 who are facing current criminal charges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/girl-power/</link>
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