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News, events, shows and schedules for Connie's photography and the Guardians of the Everglades project.

Art & Conservation

World View - Madagascar ©Connie Bransilver

ART ALIVE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1st, 2017

5 - 8 pm
1719 Trade Center Way, #3
Naples, FL 34109

Look for the slide projections on the front wall of the studio.
Check out the Scout Guide video from December Art Alive on Facebook - scroll down!

https://www.facebook.com/connie.bransilver
https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.petrucci.16

You can see the next Guardian portrait in progress - Roy McBride & Chili.

Special Guests, LEA BORKENHAGEN, Ph. D. Fulbright Scholar, Cote d’Ivoire.
Presently Nike - Sustainable manufacturing - Asia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-borkenhagen-80ba071
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/about/advisory.html

MARC RIVERS, MFA Oxford Brookes University - Artist exploring light and time. See his images on display in the studio.
Portland, OR
www.MarcRivers.com

Join us in French, English, Bahasa Indonesia, or American.

KUNJANI COFFEE & GALLERY

780 Seagate Dr, Naples
https://kunjaninaples.com

Come see some of Connie’s African images. Buy and support projects in Africa.

ADD YOUR PHOTO

As most of you know, I am a Senior Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and now on the Board. We created 1Frame4Nature to share our dedication to conservation and to encourage everyone to participate.

“We are all connected to nature, and through it, to each other. Join our community and share your pictures and stories of your personal connection to nature. Tell us what action(s) you are taking on behalf of nature! Tag #1Frame4Nature on Instagram

Share your #1Frame4Nature images and stories here! www.1Frame4Nature.org and while you are on the site, check out my images about climate change and its potential effect on south Florida. Climate Change Is Real. Floridians should know!

Art for Conservation

Baby Gator - Fragility of Endangered Species ©ConnieBransilver

Aerial of Florida Bay ©Connie Bransilver

ART ALIVE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2017

5 - 7 pm, 1719 Trade Center Way, #3, Naples, FL 34109

Look for the slide projections on the front wall of the studio.
Check out the Scout Guide video from December Arts Alive on Facebook

facebook.com/connie.bransilver facebook.com/nicholas.petrucci.16

You can see the next Guardian portrait in progress - Roy McBride & Chili.

NEXT ART ALIVE - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1st, 2017

Special Guest, LEA BORKENHAGEN, PH. D. Fulbright Scholar, Cote d’Ivoire
Join us in French or English

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A HOAX

As most of you know, I am a Senior Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. We just created 1Frame4Nature to share our dedication to conservation and to encourage everyone to participate. Our letter states, in part,

“We are all connected. The water we drink, the air we breathe, and the food we eat unite us in caring for our world.

“The Fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers are dedicated to furthering conservation and the health of nature through their photography. They do so by sharing their pictures and stories of what they hold most dear - their connections to the land, water, wildlife, and all of nature for the nourishment of both our bodies and spirits.

“1Frame4Nature (1F4N) is an iLCP led campaign that aims to use our Fellows’ images and stories to encourage online audiences, the general public, to share their images and stories of their own personal connection to nature.”

Share your #1Frame4Nature images and stories here! 1Frame4Nature.org and while you are on the site, check out my images about climate change and its potential effect on south Florida. Climate Change Is Real.

DID YOU MARCH?

I did along with about 3,000 of my brothers and sisters in Naples. Comment here or on my FB page about what the march means to you.

Africa - Kunjani & Art Alive

AFRICA IN HIS BLOOD

Did you know that Nicholas lived in Africa with his father as a young man? Yes, Uganda and Kenya, and he took an art course at Makerere University in Kampala. His painting, Mombasa, 32” x 28” Framed Oil with Palette Knife on Canvas, link Nicholas’ love of Mombasa, where his father had a house on the beach, with his current work.

“Her Honor - the African Mona Lisa,” 20” x 24” Framed Oil on Canvas, is, some say, his best work. He met and immediately was in the spell of Nigerian jurist, Mrs. H. A. Balogun, a long time friend of Connie’s. His respect for her inner beauty is evident in his delicate brush strokes and in the almost-living hijab in red. These and several other paintings will be featured at Kunjani Craft Coffee and Gallery during the month of January.

Mombasa, 32” x 28” Framed Oil with Palette Knife on Canvas ©Nicholas Petrucci

“Her Honor - the African Mona Lisa,” 20” x 24” Framed Oil on Canvas ©Nicholas Petrucci

Kunjani Craft Coffee & Gallery - 780 Seagate Drive, Naples, FL 34103
across from Waterside Shops and just west of US 41 http://www.kunjaninaples.com

“Lifting each other up with love.” dedicated to doing good and spreading awareness . . . about the humanitarian crises in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa and offer hands-on, practical improvements . . .”

"The Way Back” A Naples mother and daughter reconnect with their African homeland: http://archive.naplesnews.com/news/local/the-way-back-a-naples-mother-and-daughter-reconnect-with-their-african-homeland-333876f5-8301-061f-e-381872581.html

Nicholas selected Bird Gardens of Naples as the Charity of the Month. Keri is dedicated to parrot welfare in captivity and conservation of wild parrots. Bud. E. Cockatoo Bird lived there for three years before he and Nicholas were reunited. Buddy now “owns” both Nicholas & Connie. Check it out and support Keri’s great work: https://birdgardensofnaples.org

ART ALIVE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017

5 - 7 pm, 1719 Trade Center Way, #3, Naples, FL 34109

Look for the slide projections on the front wall of the studio.
Check out the Scout Guide video from December Arts Alive on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/connie.bransilver and https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.petrucci.16

You can see the next Guardian portrait in progress - Roy McBride & Chili- see some of Nicholas’ abstract pieces, and check out five of Connie’s photographs just printed on canvas and ready to hang later this month — We will tell you where as soon as we can.

Guardian Roy McBride and Chili ©Connie Bransilver

NEXT ART ALIVE - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 2017

News for December 2016

YOU ARE INVITED!

JOIN US - WEDNESDAY DEC. 7TH, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

ARTS ALIVE - Naples Art District - 1st Wednesdays
+ SALON AT SEVEN - “ART FOR GOOD”

Studio - 1719 Trade Center Way #3
Naples, FL 34109

Look for the Fuchsia Flag!

Special surprise - OUTSIDE WALL IMAGES Check it out.

iLCP Senior Founding Fellow and Board of Directors, Connie, spent a week in Washington at WILDSpeak

with her international conservation photographer colleagues. Steve Winter keynoted Big Cats — remember the photo of the panther on a ridge in front of the HOLLYWOOD sign? — while Brian Skerry brought us Luminous Seas - his are the memorable shark images — while Sandesh Kadur explored India’s Mountains of Life. Many awesome others. We need, now, especially, to support conservation efforts not only for our precious Everglades (Guardians of the Everglades, of course), but also conservation around the world. iLCP members bring the beauty and need for care to all of us. It’s past Giving Tuesday, but not too late to make your 2016 tax deductible contributions to Guardians of the Everglades - http://www.wifv.org/events/#id=245&cid=783&wid=401 or to the International League of Conservation Photographers - http://www.give2gether.com/projects/focus-on-conservation-2016.babyrat/

WE ALL NEED TO STEP UP NOW!

Beautiful, too. Let's keep it all safe forever.

EMPTY BOWLS - for Harry Chapin Food Bank

We will have several hand crafted ceramic bowls on display in the studio to announce the Jan. 28th Empty Bowls event in Cambier Park in support of Harry Chapin Food Bank of SW FL. Stand by for more info or go to www.emptybowlsnaples.org.

©Connie Bransilver Photographer not painter

Big Cypress: Christmas Gift & 2016 Charitable Contribution

Franklin Adams has repeated his offer! You can gift yourself or your friends and take a charitable contribution at the same time.

SPEND A NIGHT IN THE BIG CYPRESS ~ EXPERIENCE THE WESTERN EVERGLADES AND SUPPORT THE GUARDIANS OF THE EVERGLADES

Want more info? guardiansoftheeverglades.com/you-are-invited/
(Click on the video trailer and watch Franklin Adams in action.)

Guardian Franklin Adams is offering an overnight trip for two into the Big Cypress Swamp of the Western Everglades. Franklin is a Florida Master Naturalist and a Gladesman Conservationist with a lifetime of experience in the Everglades region. This is an opportunity to have a memorable wilderness experience and learn about the cultural and natural history of this unique area while supporting The Guardians of the Everglades project.

Travel will be by swamp buggy to a remote privately owned rustic camp in an area rarely visited in the Big Cypress Swamp. Experience the open prairies, cypress strands, hardwood hammocks and pine islands as you slowly travel into the interior. Deer, wild turkeys, wading birds, raptors and Big Cypress fox squirrels are frequently seen. If you are fortunate enough, you may be rewarded with seeing a black bear or Florida panther. Wild flowers and butterflies can be observed and photographed if that is your interest.

Enjoy the sunset as you relax in the peace and quiet while sitting around the camp fire while native Floridian Chef Karl Greer prepares a delicious traditional cypress country supper.

YOU DON’T GET MANY OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS ONE!

Start the bidding at $5,000.00. Enter bids to guardiansoftheeverglades@gmail.com or call 239-405-2010 for more info.

Tax deductible above the value of the trip.

WE CAN TAILOR THE EVENT TO YOUR SPECIFIC INTERESTS, NEEDS AND FITNESS

You Are Invited! Bring Friends!

Naples Art District 1st Wednesdays
OCT. 5TH - ARTS ALIVE, 5-8 pm

SALON AT SEVEN - “BUT IS IT ART?”

Studio at 1719 Trade Center Way #3
Naples, FL 34109

A short video will ask “What is art?” to get the discussion started. Mirriam-Webster’s definition is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.” What do you think? Let’s start the conversation.

Here's where we are -

DC area readers, join us November 15 & 16 for WILDSPEAK!

It’s photography, conservation and communications presented by iLCP. Information at iLCP.com or sign up at http://tinyurl.com/htvtfus