arts and youth
Call for Art: So You Want to Be An Artist, National Gallery of Canada, open to Canadians 16-19 years old
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2011 TO 11:59 PM So You Want to Be an Artist is a contest about art and you. Make an artwork about something you care about and post it here. Then it’s up to your friends, family and other people to vote on the entries. The 12 artworks with the most votes [...]
Reel Youth helps incarcerated kids create life-changing music videos
By Christabel Shaler, The Vancouver Observer, January 6, 2011 “I knew we were doing something right when one of the girls who was being released before the program finished, requested to stay an extra day,” explained Mark Vonesch of Vancouver’s Reel Youth organization. Vonesch directed a four-day literacy program, partnering Reel Youth with young women and [...]
Coquitlam: Workshop aimed at immigrant youth
The Tri-Cities Arts Door Project is hosting an information-sharing session tomorrow (Thursday) about how inclusive the local arts and cultural industry is for immigrant youth. The Arts Door youth leadership team, made up of 14 newcomer youths, will share its preliminary research on how accessible opportunities are for immigrant and newcomer youth in the Tri-Cities [...]
100 Mile House: Student gallery instant success at Parkside
Parkside Art Gallery is feeling pride in a newly designated area just for student art. It opened on Sept. 17, and Parkside director Joanne Young says it met with instant success. She was one of the main supporters of the idea to make student art visible to the public. What she hadn’t anticipated was the [...]
Children’s 4Kids art studio opens in Royal Oak
Regan Kirkland worked as a television producer, graphic designer, publicist and photographer before she found her dream job. “I’m a pretty fun-loving person and I have a good sense of humour, so I’m looking forward to joking around and making art with kids,” said Kirkland, who recently founded an arts studio dedicated to kids. With [...]
Budding child artists finding their place, The void left by cuts to arts programs is being filled by creative endeavours catering to kids
There’s a new kind of buzz on the mum telegraph lately. At the playground, rumours of new and exciting art activities for children in the city have been cropping up: whisperings of 10-year-old boys enjoying wool-felting classes, toddlers constructing baby-genius mobiles at hip little artmaking klatsches, and local artists stepping up to mentor youth. Turns [...]
SkyTrain rolls out anti-gang art, Posters by young artists get the message out on special transit car and in schools
TransLink unveiled a special SkyTrain car on Thursday covered in anti-gang posters made by Metro Vancouver students. The three graphic artists won The Vancouver Sun-Gang Task Force Teens Against Gangs poster contest earlier this year. And TransLink joined in to help get the message out about the dangers of gang life. “Gang life impacts teens, [...]
Terrace mayor defends Co-op graffiti, Pernarowski says “Graffiti Fest” successful in its intent
Terrace’s mayor is standing firmly behind his council’s decision to grant two local groups the right to use the former Co-op building as a canvas for local artists. Ever since the “Graffiti Fest” just over a month ago, there have been complaints from residents and business owners about the building’s new look. But Mayor Dave [...]
Mean Days for Kids’ Festival $200,000 slash in government funding prompts urgent request for funds
The Vancouver International Children’s Festival is facing perhaps the toughest year ever in its 32-year history. Provincial and federal funding have been sharply cut, despite the festival’s decades of success. As festival board chair Paul Dumontet said in a recent email to supporters, “Over the past 12 months, we have developed a new vision for [...]
New prize has $15K for young musicians
A new, $15,000 award has been created to recognize promising young Canadian performers of classical music. The Canada Council for the Arts and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada announced the Michael Measures Prize Tuesday in Toronto. The prize is being established with a $1 million bequest from Michael Measures, an Ottawa classical music lover [...]
Courtenay: KidsFest back again
Recreation and play is essential to the development of children. The Canadian Parks and Recreation Benefits Catalogue states that we learn physical motor skills and social skills through play and that we learn creativity and develop intellectual capacities and concepts through play, arts and cultural activities. Comox Valley KidsFest aims to provide plenty of play [...]
New art studio opens with a splatter in South Surrey
The apple doesn’t fall far from the apple tree – or, in Anna Kajda-Minett’s case, the artistic apple tree. Kajda-Minett, who just opened the doors to a new franchise of 4Cats Arts Studio for Kids in South Surrey last week, was hit by the art bug early in her life. “My godfather was Witold Palka, [...]
Nanaimo: Brugge’s talents behind the camera putting him in spotlight
Before Devyn Brugge could write, he was making mock radio broadcasts on a Playskool tape deck. Flash forward several years and he was making home videos on the family video camera. Then the Wellington Secondary School graduate took a video production class in Grade 9 and his interest in film soared to new heights. Brugge [...]
Surrey: Choral arts program holding auditions
The Surrey Choral Arts Project Society wants you to join the Surrey Children’s Choir family of choirs for our 2010/2011 season. Auditions are now being held for all voices, ages six to 70, for places in the Junior and Intermediate Training Choirs, Senior Children’s Choir, Chamber Choir, 2008 CBC Choral Competition Prize-winning Youth Choir and [...]
Victoria: Coast Salish project takes shape, colour
Bonnie Quaite fine tunes the painted borders of a spirit in the sky, blowing a ship to shore. The idea behind the image, Quaite says, “is that you’re always surrounded, looked over and watched – taken care of in a way.” Quaite is the team leader of a group of six youth spending their summer [...]
