Jasper is a wonderful place. And submitting funding requests to add more art to something that is already wonderful is almost beyond words. Almost.
The Habitat for the Arts has hosted its first Creative Campus sponsored COME FOR THE SMILES event – a 1/2 day of engaging in art, pottery, video and theatre for adults. You see, we don’t think anyone quite understands exactly what it is that we are doing up here. So we invited all of Jasper’s ‘Communicators’ to a FREE morning of play.
Town officials were allowed to get their hands dirty – instead of focusing on infrastructure or bylaw issues – they had to focus on centering a wedge of clay on the wheel. Tourism officials were allowed to forget about the coming season – instead of wondering how to make 2011’s summer successful – they got to don grass skirts and butterfly wings in the improvisational theatre room. Teachers who normally are the ones trying to creatively engage with their students got to drop into the world of video editing and just engage creatively with themselves.
Funders like programs with names…a traceable entity when it comes to volunteer or financial statistics. While we may have chosen COME FOR THE SMILES hurriedly to get the project rolling – it couldn’t have been more suitable for the morning of smiles and laughs that rolled through the halls of Habitat on March 2nd. And as usual – many adults were hesitant to come out and play…so we shall repeat the day with another group of ‘communicators’ in a few months.
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Our second annual CELTIC HOUR approaches…music by two extraordinary fiddlers…Lisa MacDonald and Monika Schaefer. March 17th of course from 7-8pm tap your toes to the lure of Ireland for only $5!
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More updates…coming soon. Gotta go open the doors to the Aaron Paquette exhibit! See the previous post on March and A Musements…