Ai International Minnesota Faculty and Students, The Bee Hive, Guthrie Theater, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Jayme Halbritter.
Ai International Minnesota Faculty and Students, The Bee Hive, Guthrie Theater, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Jayme Halbritter.
Ai International Minnesota Faculty and Students, The Bee Hive, Guthrie Theater, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Jayme Halbritter.
Bee illustration. Image: Ai student.
Busy bee. Photo: Naomi Jean Bush.
Explore a creative response celebrating the essential role of bees in our ecosystem through the lens of design. A series of workshops that will educate and inform participants about the bee’s plight and how society can play a role in its survival and ultimately the planet’s survival.
Timed Events
Culinary Experience a “feast” around honey – from appetizers to dessert.
- 9 pm Appetizer
- 11 pm Dessert
Design Block Printing Workshop
- 9 pm until supplies are gone.
Build-A-Bee Workshop
- 10 pm Design and create your own bee. (Supplies for 1,000 participants.)
All Night Displays
Design – Info graphics to explain what’s happening to bees and what bees do for humans.
Interior Design – The students will explore the “dance of the bees” through a light show in a ginormous bee hive. Student-designed light boxes will showcase the dances.
Media – Video of bee farmers and how this affects them and an animation explaining the science behind the climate change affecting bees.
Photography – Be a Bee photo booth.
Team Credits: Aii Students
View more photos from Beehive on the Northern Spark Flickr here!