The Corner Co-op Fun Fair
Saturday, April 1, 2023
10am – 2pm
At the Corner Co-op, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline
**Our Silent Auction is now live at https://www.32auctions.com/cornercoop! More information below.**
Please join us for the Corner Co-op Fun Fair! This treasured community event is back for the first time since 2019. There will be food, crafts, games, a silent auction, a puppet show, and much more! Admission (suggested donation for activities and puppet show) is $10 per child or $25 for a family of 3 children or more. For more information, please email [email protected]
Presenting: The Silent Auction
Thanks to the generosity of members of our Co-op community and local businesses, we have lots of exciting offerings at this year’s Fun Fair Silent Auction! Our auction is now live at https://www.32auctions.com/cornercoop.
You can view some of our auction items, make bids, and even buy items outright before the live auction begins. Bidding will continue in person for these *and many more* exciting items at the Silent Auction during the Fun Fair on Saturday, April 1 from 10am-2pm.
If you cannot attend the Fun Fair in person but would still like to participate in our silent auction, you can make a “proxy bid” by listing the maximum price you would be willing to bid on any item. As other people bid on this item, the site will bid for you up to your maximum amount. Your maximum amount will remain hidden unless you are outbid.
Below is a sampling of some of our Silent Auction items (start your bidding at https://www.32auctions.com/cornercoop):
Past Events
How Children Grow:
Human Nature & The Purpose of Education
A Corner Co-op Family-Staff Education Workshop
A human being is a life-force, a living, learning, unfolding, organic process. This organic nature implies that, as with a plant, the seed of growth in a human being rests within the organism itself. Human beings are born to learn, to grow; and to grow to one’s fullest is a fundamental human need. How do we facilitate this process in the best possible way? We’ll discuss the topic while integrating some relevant issues—freedom, safety, responsibility, discipline, conflict resolution, structure and playing, as well as some challenges along the way. The format will be informal, voluntary and participatory. Please join the dialogue with your own thoughts, questions and ideas!
Date: Thursday, January 19 Time: 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83702534288?pwd=SU9zSEo4RldRODFWbFJIdTZOMERidz09
Meeting ID: 837 0253 4288 Passcode: 587101
Facilitated by Rosie and Sajed Kamal
Rosie Kamal, EdD, was the Teacher-Director at the Co-op for 36 years. Sajed Kamal, EdD, was the Teacher Consultant at the Co-op for 32 years. They’re parents of Co-op alumnus Ashok Kamal.
Sajed has also taught courses in child psychology, childhood education and human development at Northeastern University and Boston University. Author of a dozen books on various subjects, his forthcoming books include, Human Being, Not a Humaton!: Revolutionizing Education Through Dialogue
“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse toward growth, or toward the actualization of human potentialities.” Abraham Maslow
Boston Area Preschool Fair
Saturday, November 19, 10am-12pm
Saturday, October 1
11am-12pm
in Waldstein Park off Beacon Street at Dean Road
next to Corner Co-op Nursery School
Outdoor Puppet Show:
Lindsay and her Puppet Pals
also Outdoor Activities
and Tours of Corner Co-op:
10-11am and 12-1pm
Come one, come all – open to the public
12-1 Tour the Corner Co-op. Have a slice! Meet & mingle with alumni and current Co-opers
1-2 Welcome: Gratitude, Honoring, Remembering
hosted by Beth, Susan Linn & Audrey Duck
2-2:45 A sing-along with Rosie, of course! Craft activities
2:45 Rainbow Cupcake Time!
3:15 Piñata, with Sajed!
4:00 In the Corner Co-op tradition… “Clean up, clean up!” Thank you!
Co-op 50-Year History
Fifty years ago, a group of All Saints Parish parents, whose children would be three years old in the fall of 1972, founded a nursery school at the church. Grace Price, the wife of assistant rector Darwin Price, suggested a cooperative nursery school. Five families (Lois and Larry Caporal, Mary and Hugh Dunlap, Jodi and Nat Gorton, Emily and Kon-Taik Khaw, and Vicki and Bob Sharpley) enthusiastically embraced this idea. With permission from the vestry, they incorporated as a non-profit, wrote by-laws, built furniture, hired the Co-op’s first teacher-director, Kathy Beers, and recruited 15 families to participate in the cooperative. Because All Saints is at the corner of Beacon Street and Dean Road, the new entity became the Corner Co-op Nursery School. Since its opening in September 1972, the Co-op has been a welcoming, inclusive, non-sectarian community serving families from around the world.
Now, in 2022, we are deeply grateful to the original All Saints families and to the congregation as we celebrate the fiftieth year of the Co-op! We express our heartfelt gratitude for the support of the late Rev. Louis Pitt, rector in 1972. We also acknowledge the continuing support of succeeding rectors: Christian Koch, David Chandler-Ward, Nathaniel Pierce, John Keggi, David Killian, Sarah Connor, and Richard Burden. Many parishioners, some of whom were/are vestry and and other committees members, have provided ongoing support to the Co-op. During the years of the pandemic, the Rev. Burden, Roberta Schnoor, and Charlie Rigg worked with Beth Mahar, current teacher-director, and the Co-op board to navigate the challenges of running the Co-op during COVID. Last, but not least, Renato Dantas, sexton of All Saints, has been, and continues to be, a dearly valued helper to the Co-op.
Sadly, Grace Price and Lois and Larry Caporal have passed away. We gratefully remember Grace’s vision and the dedication of the Caporals and the other original families in creating the Corner Co-op.
Join us as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary Reunion on 18 June—12 noon to 4 pm. At 1:00 pm, there will be a Welcome-Gratitude-Honoring-Remembering. Please visit our website for more information, and click the link for the reunion at www.cornercoop.org
Wishing you all the best,
Rosie Kamal, retired Teacher-Director (1981-2020)
Sajed Kamal, retired Teacher-Consultant (1986-2020)
