“Shadow Ecology” pairs Heather McCaig’s sculpted glass and Emily Phillips’s paintings to create a gallery exhibition about environmental conservation in Canada.
Heather McCaig’s glass draws attention to the disappearing ecosystems of Canada that are quickly becoming shadows on our landscapes due to human disturbance. Her incredibly detailed native flora and fauna from each region brings the country’s ecosystems together in one room, allowing the viewer to recognize that by losing these crucial ecosystems, we are losing ourselves.
Emily Phillips’s art connects people with beloved wild places in the Fundy region. She aims to evoke in her viewers the same attachments she feels to these places along with an appreciation for their intrinsic value and continued conservation.
Join us this Friday for the Opening Reception this Friday, September 2, from 5-7PM
Explore Raku glazing and decorating techniques to create the three basic characteristics of Raku – Crackle, Lustres, and Carbonization. Raku firing is one of the most natural techniques that you can encounter in pottery. In raku firing, all of natural elements are used, earth, fire, air, and water.
Lithography is a printing process dating back to the 18th century, based on the principle that grease and water don’t mix. This beginner lithography workshop will cover the basics of the lithography process from preparing the lithographic stone, drawing the image on the stone, preparing the stone through an etching process, and finally resulting in a print.
Draw from a live model to flex your drawing skills! These sessions are for beginners and experienced drawers who are interested in practicing drawing the human figure. A model will do multiple poses to challenge your perception and way of seeing the figure.
This inspiring live Celebration Concert stars 50 musicians, actors and vocalists and pays tribute to the fortitude and resilience shown by Maritime Performing Artists when the performing arts were all but banned for two years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instrumentalists, actors, vocalists and teachers will express themselves through music, theatre, dramatic readings and singing to share how they were able to survive emotionally through the darkest days of the pandemic and how they were able to seize the moment to keep the arts alive.
The following are some of the featured performers who will be performing in concert in St. Andrews at the Power of Live! Celebration Concert at 4 pm, August 17, 2022 at the KIRA Amphitheatre. The Concert is free.
Staged readings of five of the winning short plays on a maritime theme from Old Sow Theatre Festival’s
5 Minute Play in a Week Playwriting Competition plus a reading of M.A.D. about Van Horne Grace Helen Mowat’s Music, Art and Drama Society attempting to mount a play about the railroad magnate.
Minister’s Island – outdoors or in the tent depending on the weather
Freewill donation at the door (non-M.I. members will be required to purchase access to the Island).
In this unique workshop, each student will have the rare opportunity to work with Broadway professionals using their own prepared material. Working in a group format, the Broadway by the Sea Team will coach, give direction, offer honest, constructive feedback on performance material, and help students craft their musical theatre techniques! Space is VERY limited so sign up today! The event is on August 17th from 10 am to 1 pm and has 13+ age admission.
KIRA
Tickets:
$150 for participation: Participate and receive coaching, direction, and honest constructive feedback
$50 for audit: View the experience but no personal feedback will be given
“In Back Bay, a rural fishing village in Atlantic Canada, the daily routine revolves around twenty-six foot tides and the lobster harvests synchronize the annual calendar. The two eleven-week seasons begin with a tradition of extended families gathering on the wharf in the frigid pre-dawn. Excitement, laughter and chatter fill the moments before one last prayer and repeated pleas to ‘be careful.’ Finally, a horn announces the 6 am rush to drop the traps into the depths.
It was in this setting that I began to photograph a girl and a lobster, echoing the tempo along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. I photographed seventeen local girls annually, charting their growth in a series of two to six portraits of each one. Using the bay at dusk as a common backdrop, each girl chose her own outfit and the way she held her lobster. Some girls were cautious with the crustaceans, while some were proud and still others nonchalant.
The cycles of this ancient tidal landscape and the shifting light offers a contrast to the fleeting stages of girlhood. I hope to reveal something of each girl’s character as she takes stock of a sea creature symbolizing both the familiar and the unfathomable. By creating this series, I study identity, femininity and how family, local culture and the pervasive influences of society at large manifest themselves in each girl over time.
Sea Change was inspired by the tidal landscape and the lobster harvest of the Bay of Fundy in St. George, New Brunswick, Canada. Photographing girls from this region annually, each holding a lobster – a symbol of their community – I show how each girl’s identity evolves over time and with the pervasive influences of local culture and society at large. As a response to the ‘Big Catch’ photographs of fishermen, the 65 photographs in this series underscore the importance of girls and women in this community and beyond. Sea Change captures the significant transformation from girlhood to adolescence to womanhood.” – Susan Lapides
Mondays, July 18 – August 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 3: 00 p.m. (Aug.1 session will move to Tuesday, August 2 due to the NB Day holiday)
Beginner / Intermediate / Adult / Youth 14+
Renowned Canadian artist Ted Michener will provide guidance as required on subject and composition, setting up, individual palettes and colour mixing. Ted will be painting alongside, in his characteristic bold and loose style, as a demonstration of progressions in working towards a finished project.
Materials Required by students: Materials list to be provided.
