Extended! 3rd Annual Fair Trade For Peace Holiday Markets: Dec 6th to 8th, 1-4pm!

Published November 21, 2011 | By Julie

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SelfDesign High is holding an annual Fair Trade for peace market organized by the students and mentors to support Fair Trade and to fund projects like peace camp, the YA program, and many others.

What is Fair Trade?

Fair trade is when people, organizations, and stores support the people in developing countries by purchasing products in order to support their sustainability. Fair trade includes care and concern for people and their well being, equal rights, and their natural and work environments.

The Fair Trade for Peace Market will take place on

Friday December 2nd 5-9pm and Sat December 3rd from 10-4pm

at SelfDesign, (the second floor of the Nelson Legion)

There will be a wide variety of crafts including home décor, textiles, and many gifts. All ages are welcome; there will be children’s activities planned and a café.

Please come and support Peace through ethical purchases for the holidays!

Visit our website to check out photos from the 2010 Fair Trade for Peace Markets

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Gap Theatre Workshops at SDH starting January!

Published November 16, 2011 | By Julie

This course, facilitated by the West Kootenay Women's Association, will consist of a ten-week series of workshops based on Theatre of the Oppressed, a form of popular theatre that has grown into a global movement since it's development in Brazil in the 1960's. It uses a set of games, exercises and practices that create space for people to name their reality, identify the contradictions, dialogue through theatre, and try out different solutions. It uses movement, storytelling and tableaux to explore how images of one’s personal experience reflect universal issues of power and social transformation. The final result is short scenes that are collectively created by drawing on participants’ life experience in order to engage in discussion of issues.

At the end of the workshops, participants will have the option of performing the scenes we create for the community, and performers will receive a $100 honorarium. All participants get high school drama credits through SelfDesign High.

This course has an application process. To apply please contact Marya at marya@nelsonwomenscentre.com, on Facebook at Gender Action Project Theatre, or by phone at 352.9949.

Workshops will run from January to March, 2012 and performances will happen in April and May.

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Tonight at Back Alley Studio – Dream: An adult play for actors and puppets…

Published November 8, 2011 | By Julie

RSVP Here!

Nelson Arts and Heritage Festival

and

Runaway Moon Theatre Company Present:

DREAM

An Adult Play for Actors and Puppets

Based on a Mexican Folk Tale

Created and Performed by

Cathy Stubbington and Zompopo Flores

who presented last years “The World Is Upside Down” at the TNT Playhouse

Tickets: $12 Adults $5 Students – at the door

Back Alley Studio (formerly Livingroom Theatre)

across from Oxygen Art Centre

8 PM, Thursday and Friday, November 10 and 11

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SDH Graphic/Studio Art workshop course in Kelowna!

Published September 22, 2011 | By Julie

The Total Package

A SDH Graphic/Studio Art Gr 10 & 11 workshop course in Kelowna

with Community Mentor, Heather Parlane

This Graphic/ Studio art course will explore some aspects behind the theory and history used in graphic design. Students will produce significant pieces of art while learning art techniques, studio skills and design principles.

Some of the themes to be covered:

psychology of colour
typography
packaging design
colour theory
advertising history
drawing techniques

Students will develop a visual journal/ sketch book where they will develop their initial project ideas, homework assignments and experimentation.

To Register or for more information, contact: info@selfdesignhigh.org

Want to organize a workshop in your community?

A minimum of 5 learners is all it takes to get started. We can help.

Call us 250 354 1312

www.selfdesignhigh.org

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Fall Drawing Competition, deadline to enter is Fri Oct 15th!

Published September 6, 2011 | By Julie

BC STUDENTS TO BENEFIT IN FALL DRAWING COMPETITION, HOSTED BY VANCOUVER ARTIST DEB CHANEY

VANCOUVER – August 19, 2011 – Local Vancouver Artist, founder of Illuminate The Artist Within™, launches illustration competition for high school art students. Its aim is to increase student awareness of working artists and career opportunities in the arts and to provide an opportunity to have their artwork published. The winners also receive credit at OPUS Art Supplies and attend a 2-day painting workshop valued at $350.

“When I was in high school I LOVED art and had a natural affinity to being creative, however I was not encouraged or supported to pursue an “artsy fartsy” career and did not realize what was possible. It’s my hope that students that are exposed to the contest realize that there are artists out there – like myself – who are making art, being creative, and making a living doing so.”

The Illuminate the Artist Within™ Illustration Competition is open to all high school students across BC.

The winning illustrator receives:

A $150 gift certificate valid at OPUS Framing and Art Supplies
A spot on the featured artist page at http://debchaney.blogspot.com
A 2-day painting workshop valued at $350
their work will be featured in some Illuminate the Artist Within™ products

Student artists are asked to email their (3) drawings to itawcontest@gmail.com

by Friday October 15th, 2011.

For ideas on what to draw, participants are asked to visit http://debchaney.blogspot.com

The winners will be posted and announced online on Deb’s blog at 7:30 am Tuesday October 25th, 2011.

Illuminate the Artist Within™ is a company whose mission is to playfully and compassionately engage the artist that lives inside each and everyone of us, awakening our creative potential and realizing that our lives are the masterpiece of our own creation.

Chaney is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and has been selling her mixed media abstract paintings internationally for over 10 years. As well as maintaining her own studio practice, she is also a published writer, and workshop facilitator.

Read more about contest: http://debchaney.blogspot.com

For more information, please contact Adrian Sinclair

adrian@transformationprojects.ca | 778.837.8889