Membership

Someone used that word, "membership". If we ever have a membership roster, reading and commenting here will get you LOTS of stars by your name.

Anyone can read and comment here. You can even live in California! If you're a parent or someone specifically working with kids (past or present) , your comments are especially helpful. Of course if you've ever been a child your comments are also especially helpful. The more recent, the more helpful. If you've been a parent or watched a couple of generations grow up your comments are just as helpful. We'll listen to whatever observations come our way.

At the other end of the spectrum, if you're a core member at Artisan, the teenage child of a core member, or if you've been regular and serving at Artisan, people know you, and you're willing to help parents and children on Sundays you can fill out a form for a very official background check and when you pass, we will give you an official badge to wear on Sundays. That kind of security is important to us.

What are you joining? If you're reading and commenting here, you're joining a discussion.

If you're a regular at Artisan, have any interest in kids or you're a parent (not mutually exclusive!) you can be an active part of this guild. At this point, the things we're doing with children also include their parent(s).

But wasn't there something about a guild, historically, being an association of craftsmen or merchants? What is it we're doing exactly? Are we performing? Are we creating something? The Visual Arts people create visual art, the Music people perform and create music, the Writing people create writing (they might even "perform" their writing) .

What are we joining, exactly?

Funny you should ask.