Dance Our Snake on Granville Island
h4>>Jacquie Rolston lantern artist will be at the Granville Island Lunar New Year event - with the snake lantern.
We still need a couple more volunteers to dance the snake lantern. …
Snake Sculpture Workshops with Alastair Heseltine
h4>>Join our Eco-Arts initiative in the creation of a snake sculpture for the Year of the Snake!
Artist Alastair Heseltine will lead five half-day sessions at the Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard and teach skills on working with natural materials, including green willow. The snake sculpture workshops are part of a series of events to engage with community members celebrating the lunar new year. The …
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Community Arts Vancouver = 溫哥華社區藝術協會
h4>>Our name in Chinese:
溫哥華社區藝術協會
溫哥華 -- Vancouver
社區 -- Community [society-region]
藝術 -- Arts [art-skills]
協會 -- Association [collaborative-club]
Thanks to Alan Lau and Francis Heng!
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Winterlude………..
h4>>Well, the mid-winter festivals have been celebrated; today is the first day of a new year.
'The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older' - Pink Floyd.
It is a good life when there is something to celebrate in the middle of winter, especially in these cold and dark climes where the daylight hours are so, so, so, short. Feasting, partying (hopefully with some common sense), …
Snake Lantern Debut
h4>>The 21st December was the winter solstice 2012, the longest darkest night of the year, and the night Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese garden was transformed with hundreds of beautiful lanterns of all shapes and sizes hung in the trees, stationed in the ponds, and guarding hidden alcoves and rock features.
The lanterns are traditionally created into a variety of shapes in the form of animals, …
Salon
h4>>We're often asked: "What's a salon?"
The official definition: A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut …
