Wow! What a fun weekend!
We were lucky enough to have our good friends Erin and Katy join us @ the Shiny Kids Festival @ Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre this past weekend. We all had so much fun watching performances, listening to stories, wearing silly hats, exploring blow up environments, and making flags for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival!
Check out Heather’s beautiful visual interpretations of the installations you will find at this years Vancouver International Children’s Festival courtesy of our crew that includes: Robyn Jacobs, John Kastelik, Heather Jones and Linzee Kesler.
CLICK HERE for more info about the installation & activities.
Also thanks goes out to Diane & the boys @ the SPCA thrift store, Choices Market, Erin Pasternak, Tyler Oleson, Amanda O’Keefe, Luke Detheridge, Steven Smethurst, Cody Bisson, The Hammock Residency & Heidi Nagtegaal.
One of the community groups I strongly advocate for is the “Maker” community. Makers are ANYONE who makes ANYTHING and wants to share it with other people, not for the fame, but for the fun of it! My role is to inspire and encourage young people to make things and show off their work to other Young people in order to inspire more and more Makers(check out the BRC’s Young Makers section to learn more)
I feel this is an especially important idea to keep alive in a society where we are able to buy nearly anything these days.
The main event for “Makers” is a “Makerfaire”
A “Makerfaire” is the type of place where everyone is welcome, and everyone is excited to share their ideas and offer their advice and suggestions. Anyone who makes ANYthing should sign up! Seriously, last year we had hacked Furby toys, robot bugs made of cell phone pager batteries, “ugly doll” workshops, homemade floating rafts, a movie theatre made our of a shipping crate(powered by bicycles!) 2 giant human driven metal spiders, a giant solar powered tricycle …I could go on and ON!
Seriously, Check out makerfaire.ca!
Linzee & Heather are excited to have your help in creating ‘storytelling flags’ that will become part of the decor for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 29-June 3.
Come pass on your stories through color, shapes and words on the following dates:
May 5 Shiny Kids Family Festival
11:00am-4:00pm@Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre
7646 Prince Albert St
http://shinykids.wordpress.co…
May 8 @ Dunbar Salmonberry Days
3:30-5:30pm @Immaculate Conception Parish Centre
3745 West 28 Avenue
Check out the Dunbar Salmonberry Days Calendar(pdf)
May 21@ Sutcliffe Park
3:00-5:30pm Granville Island
Just south of False Creek Community Centre
The show at the MOV went well! Nice to meet and hang out with so many talented and motivated people!
The Bright Red Crayon booth at the fundraiser was dedicated to BRC’s activities (which included GIANT CRAYONS and 9 ft coloring sheets) but also to raising awareness for a program called Young Makers that BRC will be hosting in the near future. Young Makes utilizes makers in the community as teachers in a program that interdisciplinary collaboration between subjects, which in turns encourages divergent thinking and problem solving skills.
Stay tuned for a new section on the Bright Red Crayon site dedicated to the Young Makers Program!
That’s right we will be @ the MOV with bells on, not just bells, with bells and GIANT CRAYONS.
Yes, you read that correctly, we have been busy experimenting with a brew of various waxes to prepare for the Makerfaire Fundraiser!
WHaAaAaAaaTtT?
You have never heard of Makerfaire???
I have posted it once, and I will post it again..it’s the coolest family friendly event EVER.
Maker Faire is the premier event for grassroots innovation. As the World’s Largest DIY Festival, this two-day family friendly Faire has something for everyone – a showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness and a celebration of the Maker mindset.
-text taken from the website
and it’s HERE in Vancouver for the 2nd time ever, and it is run by my good friends @ Vancouver Hackspace(VHS).
Check it out!!!
http://makerfairevanmov.eventbrite.com/
Maker Faire Vancouver 2011 from Ben Z Cooper on Vimeo.
Heather and Linzee are *extremely* pleased to announce The Bright Red Crayon will be creating art installations, running workshops, designing decor & creating community based art projects for the entire Vancouver International Children’s Festival!
This years’ theme is Storytelling, so we decided to host 3 different workshops(each in a different themed fort) Each workshop focuses on different ways stories can be told: Storytelling(words & expressions), Shadow Puppetry(pictures & movements) & Sound(pitch, tone, timbre etc).
Leading up to the festival, you will find us in schools and community based organizations throughout Vancouver teaching workshops which will generate decor of the festival.
We are very excited, so we better get back to work!
Stay Tuned for Workshop dates!
Besides the Children’s Festival , The Bright Red Crayon will also be creating some funky interactive DIY art for the Makerfaire Show and Tell fundraiser event @ the Museum of Vancouver this March 15.
See you There!
WInter session of Kids Yoga
I designed a didactic for the Heritage wall about to be revealed for the ‘Here and There’ celebration. This is an Artist Residency I was involved in 2 years ago at Sunset Community Centre/Rink/Moberley Arts and Cultural Centre
Here and There
…a community engaged public art project is completed
Mark Your Calendars to attend this community celebration!
When? Wednesday, January 11, 5:00-7:30PM
Where? Hall at Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main Street
You are invited to join members from the Sunset Board,
representatives from, the Arts & Culture Office- Park Board,
the Stan Thomas Family and artists-Lisa g Nielsen, Pat Beaton & Linzee Kesler.
Come celebrate the completion of this 2 year community engaged arts project.
