The Arts Station

Explore the world of Theatre

An Arts Station Program

With Denise Baughan

Saturday, April 19 to May 17 (5 Weeks) 2:30 - 4pm

Ages: 7-12

Do you have the acting bug? Do you love to create stories? Play make-believe and have a good time? If so, then this is for you!

Get introduced to tons of exciting improvisation games, while learning how to create a character, and the basics of stage dynamics. All the while exploring movement, voice and the imagination. This course guarantees a supportive environment and loads of fun.

$50/student, no materials required.

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Instructor: Carolyn Nikodym

April 15 - June 3, 8 Tuesdays, 7 - 9 pm

Let’s have some fun with language. Let’s look at different ways to make your writing pop off the page.

Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, learning to choose the “write” words is as important as eating your breakfast. It’s the fuel to get you through.

We’ll look at different ways to get the writing brain juiced and running without focusing on results. We’ll play with nonsense verbs and rhetorical schemes. We’ll romp in mood-altering words and open new doors of perception. We’ll discover the benefits of writing in the here and now. We’ll play with different points of view and unleash their different powers.

There’ll be a lot of discussion and a lot of in-class writing and a tiny bit of homework. We may do a bit of work-shopping of your existing works in progress, but the hope is that you’ll be able to take what we learn and apply it to your own practice.

Cost: $80 (+ $35 Arts Station membership if you don’t have one)

For more info, please contact Carolyn Nikodym at 430.2283 or carolyn.nikodym@gmail.com

An Arts Station Program
For 5-8 yr.olds

• Monday April 21 - June 9 4-5:30 (no class May 19)
• Tuesday April 22 - June 3 4-5:30
• Saturday April 19 - June 7 10-11:30(no class May 17)

For 9-12 yr.olds

• Thursday April 24 - June 5 4-5:30

With Lesley Graham

For 5-8 years & 9-12 years

Outdoors & studio exploring - Get fired up to sketch, draw, paint, build & sculpt! What a blast!! Da Vinci flying machines? Chagall dreamworlds? Royal animal portraits? Famous artworks springboard our own imaginings & project ideas. When we express curiosity & try new things we expand into our possibilities…so let’s go!!

7 weeks $89 Includes all materials

For 4 & 5 years

Playing is learning - and so is mucking about!

Gather a group of 5 children together & let’s make a date! 1 hour with artmaking springboard story & movement.

$ 8 per child includes great materials, studio experience… and cleanup!!

Do you have quilter’s block? Are you finding it hard to put aside time to sew?

Well, get your fabrics together because the Fernie Quilters Guild is hosting a weekend of quilting at the Arts Station March 14 to 16. Open to members of the Guild and to the public, the weekend offers quilters a space and time to work on their own projects.

“Quilt ’til you Wilt is a weekend for anybody who wants to find out what quilting is about or would like to bring a project and work on it that weekend,” explains four-year quilter Donna Miller. “And we’re trying to open it up to all quilters - anybody who wants to come that doesn’t belong to the Quilt Guild.”

If you’re a beginner, Quilt ‘Til You Wilt is also a wonderful opportunity to find out what quilting is all about and to find out what the Fernie Quilters Guild has to offer. Aside from hosting regular quilting weekends, the Guild meets twice a month on the second and fourth Tuesdays. Instructional meetings take place on the fourth Tuesday of the month.

“It’s an instructional evening where someone in the Guild passes on some of their knowledge to the rest of us,” Miller says. “There are quite a few experienced quilters who love to teach. There’re a couple who are founding members from before the Arts Station was there.”

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How to apply for CKCA grants

Krista Patterson, of the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA), will present workshops on how to apply for Columbia Basin Trust arts, culture and heritage funding, distributed by the CKCA.

The workshop is free to the public and open to any groups or individuals residing in the Canadian Columbia Basin who are interested in applying for arts, culture and heritage project funding.

For more information contact us for more information.

Painting with Barbara Amos
March 1 & 2, 9:30am - 4:00pm

Adult & Children Classes

Open the doors into colour! Celebration, food & party will be the subject matter to explore the full single primary palette at full tilt. Double primary palette will also be discussed. An understanding of tonal colour, analogous colour, complimentary colour will be developed through abstraction and realism. Three 18×24 paintings, on canvas or board, will be developed over the 2 days. For the beginner or the more advanced painter.

$120/person. Enroll by: February 22. barbaraamos@shaw.ca

Pottery with Kerri Holmes
February 26 - March 19
Tues & Wed’s, 7:00-8:30pm

Take your wheel skills to the next level. Strengthen basic skills through specific projects. New forms will be introduced that demand shaping and altering clay. Appropriate for those who have some experience on the wheel. Adults 16 and up. $140/session. (inc. $20 clay/studio fees)

Limited to 5. Enroll by: Feb.21

skerriholmes@hotmail.com

Art Workshop with Valerie MacPhee

A good painting includes elements of design. Two of these are colour and value. Explore how these two tools can be used together to push life into paintings. Following a morning demonstration, you will be given time and encouragement to practice and explore your own ideas. A strong emphasis will be placed on values and judging a colour value. Learn acrylic techniques and about acrylic products. Create! Create! Create! This lively course is full of fun. Bring supplies and a sense of humor! $80/person.

Enrollment deadline: Feb.15.

email: Valerie

Hot Wax – Handle Creatively!

Art Workshop for adults using hot wax techniques.

Expand your artistic horizons!
Sink into the delight of colour by using hot wax to build up and scrape through, to make stunning images.

Cranbrook artist Ronda Wood, has been working with Encaustic for many years. She will be giving an introduction to encaustic, its tools, waxes and techniques. No previous artistic ability needed… anyone can create in encaustic and you will take home some amazing work.
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Encaustic, which means to burn in, relates to the use of heat as the solvent for coloured waxes. Learn techniques starting with the simplest marks that a heated iron makes with the molten waxes, worked onto the sealed painting card surface. These basic effects are complied into abstracts, landscapes, fantasy scenes… Small class size so enroll now! 423-4842.
All tools and materials will be supplied for the workshop … all you need is your imagination. $45/person; $10 materials. For information contact ronda.

July 23-26
Rhythm Incorporated Studio of Dance offers dance workshops.

So you wanna dance? Classes in jazz, ballet, hip-hop, modern, pointe, jumps and turns, musical theatre, lyrical, floor barre and daily stretch class. All ability levels welcome! Take only the classes you want:
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