August 27 at 2 PM: Our family workshops offer fun, hands-on activities for the whole family! Everyone is invited to explore collective creativity!
Using Claude Roussel’s maquettes of his sculptures for public space as inspiration, create your version of a sculptural maquette. With cardboard, monochrome gradation paint, and glue, imagine a deconstructed construction that could potentially live in the public space of your choice.
Tickets are $25 per family and are 10% off for members.
This basketry workshop is designed for beginners and has the scope to accommodate the interests of intermediate basket weavers as well. Locally collected plant fibres will be introduced. Participants will learn about foraging for plant fibres, processing, and storage techniques, and how to prepare the fibres for use in weaving.
Workshop runs from 9 – 4:30 pm with a break for lunch. The cost is $150 and includes all materials necessary for creating a basket.
Participants are required to bring a pair of scissors, a measuring tape, a spray bottle and a hand towel.
The Atlantic Art at Night Festivals Alliance is hosting 3 front-facing workshops for the public to attend this summer that are themed around participating in art festivals. They are having a workshop/artist talk coming up this week entitled Collaborative Projects – June 8, 5:30 AST with Robert Hengeveld, Marcia Huyer & Serina Tarkhanian.
Register for this workshop and the others through the “Registration” button below.
Please join AX in welcoming Caitlin Wilson as she demonstrates the method of relief printmaking with linocut. Relief printing is the oldest medium of printmaking and is certainly the most accessible printmaking medium. This is an ideal medium for beginners as it is easy to work with, has a low start-up cost, and does not require the use of a printmaking press, making it extremely accessible to those who may be interested in pursuing it after the workshop.
Register online, by phone at (506) 433-8351, or in person at 12 Maple Avenue, Sussex.
The event itself will be on Saturday, June 10 from 10:00 to 5:00 p.m.
All supplies provided. Each class differs between still-life creations to follow along instructional. Be prepared for the unexpected, and over-all, enjoy the joy of painting! In May, join Cass at InterAction School of Performing Arts (enter at Queen St side entrance) and let your creative vibes flow.
Cassandra is a Saint John born artist who uses art to reconnect with themself, and to help better identify a sense of culture in this crazy world. They strive to create a fundamental outlet for those who believe that art and creating is for the select few- helping break narratives that anyone can create- and being that helpful guide that can bring them to the happiness that comes with celebrating a creative outlet and lifestyle.
All ages and experience invited and welcome! Teens are welcome to come on their own, but children must bring an adult.
When: April 29, 2023 (Workshop: 3pm-5pm // Reading: 7pm)
Workshop Cost: $45
Reading Cost: Free, donations appreciated.
Reading Description: Will be reading from Animal Person. Register here
Workshop Title: “Who are these people and what is happening to them?” Re-thinking the Relationship Between Character and Plot in Fiction. Register here
Workshop Description: Character and plot. For many readers and writers, these are the two most important narrative elements in any story.
Some people read and/or write primarily for characters. They feel that a story, at its core, has to be about someone or about a collection of figures. A family saga, for example. Others prefer plot. For them, narrative is what happens, and, in the end, a good story – a mystery for example – is essentially a sequence of unfolding scenes or events. What is a writer to do with this back and forth, chicken and egg kind of problem?
Rather than trying to quiet these tensions, this workshop instead explores the vital interdependence of plot and character and it asks us to think deeply about the way characters are produced and /or revealed by what happens to them. Using some key exercises and working with examples selected from masterpieces of literature, we will try to reflect on the ways that these two narrative elements can be strategically combined to produce powerful and memorable scenes. We will also try to branch out a bit to see how good characters and good plotting absolutely require key contributions from the more poetic elements of our writing, such as pacing, tone, rhythm, diction, imagery and sentence structure.
Who are these people and what is happening to them? How does their story “go?” What does it look and sound like? These are just a few of the questions we will try to answer.
