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1st entreamigos Grand Slam! Ping Pong Tournament

ina — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:03:41 +0000

If you know how to play and are 12 years or older join us this wednesday 18^th at 3 PM at entreamigos for some old fashioned ping pong fun!

Prizes: 1^st $700p, 2^nd $500p, 3^rd 300p

Sign ups at entreamigos today -- $50p

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ina — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:26:31 +0000

There is so much going on at entreamigos this month that you really need to come and sign up for something…or everything!!
You can experience San Pancho’s amazing biodiversity in our whale watching trip or our excursion to the most incredible wild orchid farm in th area; we have the very first Entreamigos Ping Pong Grand Slam with cool prizes, and there´s also first aid and screenprinting workshops, but this is only the beginning, please check our calendar for more information.
Remember spaces are limited so hurry up!

Handmade Bookbinding Intensive workshop

ina — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:20:45 +0000

This wednesday January 11th & thursday January 12th join us at entreamigos from 3 to 6 PM for a two session workshop where we will learn how to create a handmade hard cover notebook!
Workshop is presented by Candela Mirabello from CuelgueCosido bookbinding.

Cost: $200 * Materials are included

Entreamigos Annual Holiday Festival Today!

ina — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:28:36 +0000

This tuesday 20th at 4:00PM, enjoy our amazing Circo de los Niños show and afterwards join us for this warm, colorful and fun celebration.
Our posada is an opportunity for the whole community to get together and celebrate the accomplishments of the children and the spirit of the Holidays. Please join us!!

Help us launch our Eco Design Center!

ina — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:28:34 +0000

Great news! We have received an incredibly generous gift from our friends at Loaded boards & orangatang (loadedboards.com).They will match all donations made for our Eco Design Center!!

For every dollar we receive from our donors, they will give an extra dollar. If you donate 25, we will actually be receiving 50!!
But we need your donations now. Give today a gift that will last all year long, double your dollars, and make a difference!

Big thanks to everyone in the loaded and otang family!

If you can, please watch this short video of our children in our last summer workshops…you will understand what this is all about!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZxqBFhYLfU

In our effort to create opportunities for children and families in San Pancho, we are trying to set in motion the entreamigos Eco-Design Center, which is a collection of creativity workshops dedicated to finding innovative new uses for recycled products.

Our Eco Design Center will provide jobs for parents in San Pancho and education opportunities for their children. Your donation supports healthy families providing pride and income for parents to feed and supply their family needs and education and support for children to reach for their dreams.

It all started with the glass workshop, which currently produces more than 20 different items out of recycled glass, sold in our store. This workshop represents work for 5 households and its profit supports our library and educational projects with the children.

Now… we are really close to setting up the Eco Design Center, which means two more productivity areas:

The Sewing Workshop will allow us to recycle used clothes into new products, create bags out of old sign boards and many other products and also to create job and education opportunities for local people.

The Screen-Printing Workshop will allow us to print t-shirts for us and for different organizations in the area; it would open a world of possibilities to develop new projects and products for our store. There is no other screen printer in the region… a tremendous opportunity to help create employment while expanding and promoting the use of recycled materials.

We have already started our workshops and are just missing a small amount to finish the job. We need to raise $2500usd to make it real, and we firmly believe that all of us together will make it happen.

Any amount will get us closer to our goal; donate 1,5, 25, 50, 100, or 500USD, it all will help! Please if for some reason you cannot participate with money, forward this message to your freinds and family or anyone else that might like the idea; any contribution that helps to make these workshops happen, no matter how small, is the kind of contribution that will keep on giving.

Summer workshops 2011

ina — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:39:44 +0000

Check out the video of our Summer Workshops 2011! The smiles of all all these kids is a wonderful thing to watch.

Big thanks to all the volunteers who took part of it and helped us have the best Summer Workshops yet, we’re pretty sure next year will be even better and hopefully more kids will be able to share the experience with us.

If you want to join the fun check our Volunteering section on the website

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZxqBFhYLfU

Holiday events at entreamigos!!

ina — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:19:14 +0000

Holidays are here and we hope to see you and your loved ones at entreamigos! We have all sorts of activities planned through December; there will be parties, workshops of all kinds, special christmas sales, cooking with the kids…and more importantly, we will try to give back to San Pancho a little bit of all the wonderful things that San Pancho has given to us.

Please check out our calendar and share this amazing time of the year with the entreamigos family!

Christmas Workshop: Introduction to vitrofusion (glass fusing). Create your own presents!

ina — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:51:27 +0000

Vitrofusion is a glass fusing technique which bonds together layers of thin sheets of glass by exposing them to a 1500 F temperature, to create new patterns or images. You can design and cut your own piece of jewelry, home decoration or any other thing you can imagine.

The workshop will be taught by Adriana Coss, head of entreamigos glass workshop, and will take place in entreamigos. The first block will be on December 5,6 & 7 from 4 to 6 PM and the second block on December 12,13 & 14 from 4 to 6 PM.

Cost is $500p, all materials are included. Space is limited.Come and sign up at entreamigos!

Making a living giving! World Ventures visit to entreamigos

ina — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:41:30 +0000

Wow! We just had an amazing time with 80 volunteers who joined us for a day of service at entreamigos. World Ventures, a luxury travel marketing company and many of their associates chose to use one afternoon of their vacation time to give back to the community. With loads of energy and spirit we were able to give a huge facelift and big start to the children’s community garden project. We tilled soil, raised a roof structure, painted a mural and planted and cleaned… doing the work of weeks in just a few hours. More and more we have worked together with big groups, organizations and companies that see the team building value and the importance in giving and service. The slogan for the World Ventures crew was, “Making a living… giving!” That sure seems like a great motto for all of us!

Imaginarte Store Grand Opening! November 17th

ina — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:50:29 +0000

Join us for a glass of wine this Thursday November 17th at 5:00 PM in the Grand Opening of the entreamigos Imaginarte store & gallery. We are celebrating our new concept, which says it all…everything you can imagine!!

Our 2011 line is full of new, beautiful products for this winter! From our trademark recycled glasses, vases and ashtrays in every color and shape to every other thing you can dream to make out of glass bottles, funky lamps, practical spice containers and lovely candle sets.
We have also the coolest children clothing line, made out of recycled fabrics of course!

Our items are green, handmade and unique, and when you buy at Imaginarte the proceeds are used to support entreamigos current programs.
Do your holiday shopping in Imaginarte, it is the perfect gift for your loved ones and for children in San Pancho!

See you this Thursday!