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Hyjinx
Says Hello From Behind the TV Screen
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Screening T-Shirts for Hyjinx By Emily Martin, Hyjinx Student Representative  Emily Martin, Eliza Spaulding, and Anna McCormick show a freshly screened print of the 2008 Hyjinx logo design, surrounded by dozens of tie-dyed t-shirts. Imagine going to an arts festival where there are fun and games, a moon bounce, a concert and a whole lot more! My first time going to Hyjinx, I had no idea what was in store for me. The thing I will always remember were the awesome shirts the staff was wearing. Tie-dyed, there was red-blue, red-yellow, blue-yellow, blue and red. I wanted one right off the bat. This year I have volunteered for Hyjinx and have finally earned a staff shirt of my own. Recently, Dorinne Dorfman, supervisor of the Hyjinx committee, told me we would not only tie-dye but silk-screen the shirts as well. I had never heard of silk-screening and I’ll admit I was kind of nervous. First we tied the shirts with hundreds and hundreds of rubber bands and dyed them the usual colors. After 24 hours they were washed and dried and ready for silk-screening. The very first thing you have to do is find the design you want to put on the t-shirt. Ninth grader Ashley Merchant, created this year’s design, which consists of a hand with music notes surrounding it. Then once you get your design, you have to cut it out of a lacquer film with an X-acto knife exactly as the design looks. A week after we had tie-dyed the shirts, we had set up a silk-screening system. There were at least four of us working on it at a time, including Anna McCormick, Mariah Bradley, Eliza Spaulding, Caroline Wells, Michelle Lewia, Jessica Eno, Alyx Sellars, and myself over about six hours. This may sound easy but it is tougher then you think. We first had to make sure the design was on the EXACT spot of the shirt. Then one person holds the sides of the wooden screen down while the other person takes a squeegee and drags the ink across the stencil. Once that is done, you lift the screen up and the print is done. After the front of the shirt dried, we went onto the back of the shirts to add STAFF for Hyjinx volunteers and HEAD STAFF for our committee. We repeated this process like before 150 times – twice for each shirt – then we were really done! Every volunteer, whether teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and students receives a free t-shirt in appreciation of their hard work. Come see our beautiful shirts at the Hyjinx festival on Friday, May 16th from 4-10pm at Peoples Academy, rain or shine. For more information, visit www.morrisville.org/hyjinx. The Dirtminers Rock Out at Hyjinx By Eric Merriam, Peoples Academy Senior  Peoples Academy Senior Eric Merriam shows off the fun to come. Hello friends. My name is Eric Merriam and I am here to tell you about something great that’s happening in the near future. As the weather gets warmer with every day, the days get longer, and the snow starts melting, we all start getting excited for springtime. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the coming of spring than with a festival. What kind of a festival you ask? Well, it’s hard to categorize, because we have a little bit of everything. Hyjinx is a community arts festival that has been held at Peoples Academy since the spring of 2004. Organized mostly, if not entirely by PA students, and the likes of Dorinne Dorfman a multi-talented teacher/artist/intellectual, the festival is a warm, welcoming environment where families and friends alike can come together for food, fun, and entertainment. In the past we have been fortunate to have hosted a few popular entertainers such as Bread and Puppet theatre, Jeh Kulu, an African drum and dance group, as well as our local friend and hip hop artist Jihad Shippe. This year, we have a few new plans in store. As always, we will have games and activities for the young and old who like to feel young. There will be delicious bread, baked hot and fresh right from our own bread oven, compliments of PA French teacher, Mr. Van Carr, et l’equipe des eleves francais. A great band will be playing live, too. The Dirtminers, who I am going to tell you all about here in a second, will be playing in the band shell outside the school. The Vermont-based rock band is made up of some seemingly interesting dudes. I’ve gathered that this group is a little unpredictable, and their style is very unique. They make a lot of sounds that you wouldn’t hear in your everyday average Vermont rock band. The lead singer, Raphael Worrick, has an amazingly eerie voice that chimes in to sing typical rock and roll/blues lyrics about pretty girls, the good times and the bad, and also some lyrical content that relates to the lives of Vermonters. The rest of the band is as follows. Matt Rogalsky is on bass, lap steel and an assortment of other stringed instruments. Ron Rost plays on keyboard and organ. Jeff Labossiere is the drummer, and word is that he can really bang out. Michael Corn is said to be able to play every stringed instrument known to man. Wayne Riess is not officially part of the band, but he sits in as a guest on the piano once in a while. Hopefully we will be graced by his jazzy presence at Hyjinx. Roger Stauss, the brains of the operation, runs Animalville Records and the band’s sound tech. There are a couple of other drum players, who may join The Dirtminers in Morrisville as well. This is going to be a surprise for all of us, but one thing is for sure, it will certainly be a pleasurable experience. Check them out a www.dirtminers.com. This is Hyjinx in a nutshell, whether you have been joined us in previous years, or this is your first time, come along, because a festival is always more exciting and enjoyable when there are a lot of people. The greatest part is that mostly everyone here is going to be local, so you might run into some old friends, or even make some new ones. Entrance, activities, and events at Hyjinx are free of charge, thanks to the generous support of the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Rural Partnership, PA’s Unbound, and the Vermont Department of Education. Rain or shine, we will be out there and we hope to see you there on Friday, May 16th 4-10pm. The Dirtminers will perform at 8:30pm in Peoples Academy’s bandshell, or in case of rain, in PA’s gymnasium. |
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