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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This year in cooperation with the Arts Station, the Writers Conference will grant a scholarship to the Short Story or the Poetry session to an Arts Station member. The winner may opt to apply the value of the scholarship to attend the Jump Start Your Novel session or one of the other Novel sessions (space available only).

Completed applications must be in the Conference office or the Griz Inn front desk by 5 pm Friday, April 18, 2008. Awards will be made the following week.

For full application details please visit Fernie Writers Conference Scholarship page.

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!!

Photographers of the community, its time to Show your Stuff

The Elk Valley Camera Club is hosting it’s
3rd Annual photography collective,
Promoting and exposing visual talents of the valley

From March 27th to April 23rd 2008
Opening night is on the 27th March from 7-9pm.

Submission criteria:

1. Be a member of the Arts Station.(memberships are 35$/annually)
2. Enter a maximum of 3 pieces (must be of a photographic medium)
3. Categories : whatever will do
4. Black & White or Color images will be accepted
5. Images must be framed and ready to be hung otherwise will not be accepted.
6. Each piece should have the name of artist, title and price for each image on the back of the frame.
7. Frames are to be dropped off on Tuesday March 25th from 6pm to 9pm at the Arts Station. ( if not possible on this date, other arrangements can be made with Andrée@ 423-7412 or andreericher@hotmail.com)

Please contact Andrée for more info.

Wednesday March 12th, there will be a meeting from 7-9pm for individuals who would like to provide files of there images to be used for the promotional poster and for people wanting feedback for choosing their images. I can also provide help with matting of work.

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The Fernie & District Arts Council is accepting grant applications for funding under the CKCA #1 Individual Artists grants and CKCA #2-10 Organizations grants, funded by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.

The deadline for submissions to the funding must be made by Thursday, March 20 by 5pm.

Grant Applications can be obtained at the Arts Station, 601 1st Ave., Fernie. Office hours are from 10am to 4 pm. Monday to Friday.

More information can be obtained by visiting the CKCA website or just download the PDF.

G I A N T Puppet Mania

Turn big cardboard into faces, beasts, wings & things with papier mache buildup, fabrics & paint on tall celebration poles - swinging in for spring!

What a blast! Dress for mess as we transform the Art Station’s upstairs attic studio into your imagination space!

Explore 3d construction, with basic fun tools & creature staplers!

March 17 - 20

Ages 5 - 8 from 9:00 - 10:30am
Ages 9 - 12 from 11:00 - 12:30pm

- OR -

March 25 - 28

Ages 5 - 8 from 9:00 - 10:30am
Ages 9 - 12 from 11:00 - 12:30pm

$50/session. Includes all amazing materials.

Limited space. Choose a week & register now.

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Join the Griz Days fun.

The Arts Station is encouraging innovative sculptors and creative people to use the mounds of snow on the Arts Station deck to make Griz related images.

For more information contact us for more details.

Liza Gareau Tosh & Sharon Pulvermacher
February 16 to March 22

Can you imagine colour, although subtle, dominating? And shapes, although defined, being buried? For this show, Liza uses the contours of the human figure to create her painterly acrylic works that have a drawn quality. Sharon explores the undulating landscape and uses a prairie palette to define the subtexts of breath and movement in her watercolours. "What will intrigue you in this show is that while the contours draw you in, it is the layering that will keep you really looking?" says Liza Gareau Tosh.

Sharon Pulvermacher was born in 1953 at Bruno, Saskatchewan. She has a B.FA. (Honours) in ceramics, and a B.Ed. with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan. Sharon worked as a professional potter for ten years. For the last fifteen years she has used watercolours to explore the landscapes of Saskatchewan, Quebec, northern British Columbia and Australia. She has studied under Sheryl Katzenberger, Brian Atyeo, Jacques Hébert, Barbara Nechis and Gernot Dick. Sharon is a member of the pan-Canadian artist collective ARTX9. She participates each year in CBC/Radio-Canada"s annual Cards From the Heart art card charity auction. Her works are in corporate and private collections in Canada, Europe and Australia. She resides with her family in Regina, SK.

The Gallery is open 10-4 weekdays

Deadline: Friday, February 15 12:00

Now in it's fourth year, The Banner Project Committee is looking for 36 diverse works of art to showcase on the 2008 City of Fernie Banners. Selected art will be reproduced on high-quality outdoor banners, hung on lamppost along Victoria Ave and then Highway #3. This project has brought colour to our streets and gives profile to the talent in the community.

The adjudicators will be looking for: eye-catching images to the street-level observer with bold colours and striking imagery that stands out from a distance. Variation in themes and artistic disciplines will be considered and submissions are requested to fit the banner proportions of '1 wide by 2 high' ratio.

To receive 'Banner Guidelines' contact us.

Drop off your CD with the jpeg file to the Arts Station by the deadline. The Banner Project Launch, hosted at the Arts Station, held on Sat. April 19th, 2008, during BC Arts & Culture Week.