Tag: social practice
Creative Action!
In less than a week Team Birds Not Bitumen has become one of the TOP TEN fundraising teams! of the Baille Birdathon. Thank you heart-lifting friends. And outward like ripples, several people have forwarded the resource section from my last BLOG post. A friend sent this new song. …Read on for BIG DAY REPORT…
What can we do?
This is my story of a small gift which I offer into the world. It holds love, hope and our fierce belief in a better way. The fossil-fuel-industrial-complex is a hungry and relentless bully, and it currently wants more and more and more of the river valley I live in. So the Fraser Valley has…
New Art Class Beginning Feb 13
creativity is like a muscle when you work it it gets stronger … T r a n s f o r m is a new course starting mid-February being offered as part of Gallery Gachet’s Art School. Its purpose is to support individuals in their daily creative practice. for self-identified artists of all abilities,…
launching a new creative project?
I’ve been finishing up a proposal for a Course that I hope to offer next term at the Gallery Gachet Art School, co-facilitated with my rad friend Caleb. Transform: Active Creativity for Personal & Social Change The backbone of this course is that we agree to make art, or to do something creative every…
my art as social practice
Chris Bentzen is a Vancouver curator, organizer, button-maker, and soon-to-be gallery owner. A few weeks ago we sat down to talk about art, and one result is this wee video. Chris releases one video weekly featuring a local Vancouver artist. Happy to be included in the roster! Good luck with your gallery opening, Chris. Interview…
flowers for mom
i made some flowers for my mom to celebrate her birthday. Lilies are her favorite. She said to me, “ah, now my lilies are not yet over for the season!” to find her treasure (the flowers) mom followed ten cryptic clues we laughed at our site-specific foibles, our love of this place, our family home,…
invitation to mindful moment
On the banks of beautiful Still Creek in Burnaby, BC i worked with a group of community artists and the Still Moon Arts Society to create the Spirit Fish Festival. Kyira Korrigan helped me create this Invitation to Mindful Moment which I image recreating in Stanley Park some day. INVITATION You are invited to…
velodeco : make something from nothing
for the last three years i’ve had the great pleasure to create and provide the decorations for a kids bike parade. I hand-make streamers out of used plastic bags + salvaged veggie twist ties. HOW i ride my bike all over town visiting various large-chain grocery stores where people ‘recycle’ their disposable plastic bags …
eighty nine : up to good
here come 12 old blog posts that are yet to be created sorry for the long lapse i guess this has been an unannounced holiday from blogging tho not from daily creative actions does this count?
eighty seven : leading folks in song
success!!! i led a group of community folk in a song as part of songs for birds a public event at our neighbourhood park that i co-facilitated with my housemate Jenna. I did it. It sounded good us all joining voices together. The woodpecker nesting close by liked it too. pictures on Ant’s website
I love this old video
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sixty four : mandala : old work
this is car crash mandala : the practice of present moment it was a performance piece that i create on the street at the encouragement of Mark Mushet of Vancouver Review Magazine in 2009 and he took the picture it was published as part of the magazine’s art centerfold. thanks Mark!
forty six : lantern making party
can i take credit for the cuteness of kids? mmm nope. finally some pictures from one of the lantern workshops that i coordinated held at the Secret Lantern Headquarters. these young fellows are very skilled at making things due to the encouragement they have received from parents who take them to community art events, and…
INVITE : Terry Lowe
regular blog viewers will already have seen this, tho not a finished version. i am posting so folks can view the INVITE through an email invite going out today.
forty two : tasty bread
leftover potato bread was delicious for breakfast this morning! potatoes were salvaged from farmers fields…
forty : beet star
how to make pickled beets : salvage beets from farmers field peel wash slice thinly arrange as star for photograph add salt with no iodine add tiny bit water caraway seeds wash bucket mix all wash plate make weight to rest on plate maybe another smaller bucket…
thirty nine : material lanterns
5 beautiful pictures from solstice.
thirty four : lanterns
Look at these beautiful lanterns we built for Winter Solstice Lantern Festival!
eleven: parade of lost souls
Left to right: Crow, Wolverine, Owl, Goblin, Squid (aka Octipii Vancouver), Jester, and Zoro’s cousin the lightening tamer. I am including this as my creative endeavour for the day, as I put together the Owl costume in a few minutes before we went out, after spending the day finishing previous projects and completing previous posts…
use what you got 