BC ARTS AND CULTURE WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES

BC ARTS AND CULTURE WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES

April 21-26
 

SURFACE TECHNIQUES ON HANDMADE PAPER 

with Dorothy Field  (call Sophia to register)

Saturday April 21, 10-4pm, at The Arts Centre,

$35 includes materials

We'll be experimenting with surface treatments for handmade paper: starching, crumpling, burnishing, and adding imagery using stenciling, potato printing, applying Xeroxed imagery, etc. Many of these are contemporary adaptations of traditional Japanese techniques. The techniques are very straight forward as well as being very useful for changing the look and feel of the paper for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. The papers we will produce are excellent for cards, book covers, sculpture and more. This is a great chance to play around and experiment.

Students should bring the following:

-big cheap brush for starch

-smaller cheap brushes for mixing pigment

-stencil brush if you have one

-paring knife

-a potato

-xeroxed images, xerox transfers, polaroid transfers, etc preferably on handmade paper or machine-made paper that is not crisp

-variety of papers to experiment with - it's possible to try almost anything

-anything that can work as a stencil

-spoon for burnishing

Instructor will supply:

-tapioca starch, konnyaku, graphite, dry pigments, acrylic medium, PVA, mid-weight strong Japanese paper for starching, Crisco, acetate

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES-PART 2

with Sara de Rose

Sunday April 22, 1pm-4pm. Community Hall.

$10

This workshop will focus on the astronomy part of the Music of the Spheres, showing you how to find the sun, moon and planets in the Zodiac, so that you can make your own horoscope by reading the sky. We will also study music theory, each participant personifying a musical note and playing a copper pipe. Then, looking at recurring patterns, you will understand why music and astronomy were sister subjects in the ancient world.

The students of False Bay School have been studying the Music of the Spheres for two months and will be performing an educational play for the community on April 27. Because there are so few students in the school, I am hoping to have the participants of this workshop take small parts in the play. Lines and actions are minimal and a commitment of coming to two practices at the school during the week of April 23-27 will be enough to create a wonderful co-production with

the kids. Please join in! The cast needs another 10-12 people.

MOSAIC SHRINES

with Valeria  De Rege

Monday Apr 23 , 11- 4, The Arts Centre

$20 includes all material except figurines

We will be creating small decorative pieces in metal trays and oyster shells using painted and colored glass, mirror, broken china, and perhaps a favorite figurine or sacred object. (See Valeria’s shrines at Maryjane's to get the idea and be inspired.)  Grouting will happen the following day.

Please call ahead to reserve a spot.

LIFE DRAWING OPEN STUDIO

Tuesday April 24, 1-4, At The Arts Centre

$5

This will be an opportunity to work with a live model in one sustained pose. Bring your paints, clay, carving tools or drawing materials.

GLASS PAINTING: Windows and Wine Glasses

with Darlene Olesko

Wednesday April 25, 12.15-5pm, The Arts Centre

$20 includes materials

Create a hand-painted wine glass that will be both a piece of art as well as a nice addition to your glassware collection. Or, bring a single-pane window of your choice and we will paint an image or an abstract scene on it, using permanent Vitrail glass paints which give a stained glass look.

Instructor will supply wine glasses as well as several small wooden-sash windows.  Ambitious participants can do both projects!

INTRO TO NEEDLE FELTING

with Emily Carnes

Thursday April 26^th, 10-1, The Arts Centre

$10

Have fun with un-spun wool and make a small 3-D object, creature, or puppet head. Bring 100% wool clothing that needs mending or wants decorating! Felting needles and colourful wads of wool will be supplied.

*All workshop fees are payable to the instructor at the beginning of the class. NOTAFLOF: if cost is prohibitive, please pay what you can.