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SCOA Events

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The Saskatoon Council on Aging is a non-profit, community-based organization serving the approximately 79,000 older adults in Saskatoon and area. Our vision is positive aging for all in age-friendly community.
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Looking for things to do this fall? Check out our art classes with instructor Cecilia Elizabeth from Riverhouse Gallery. To register for classes phone 306-652-2255.

Explosive Ink on Tile
Have an explosive time creating colourfully inked 6×6 ceramic tiles for your home or for the holiday season. There is no skill required – all supplies included. You will take home 4 amazing tiles and 2 stands for display. You won’t want to miss this fantastic fun-filled opportunity to add some vibrant colour into your life or to give a great gift to someone special.
Date: October 22, 2018 (3hrs) 1pm-4pm Cost: $50 per class

Winter Wonderland Christmas Card
Paint a watercolour Christmas card with snow laden pine tree against an evening winter sky. Explore watercolour techniques of frost salt, snow spatter, dark blue sky mix and scrub out for snow highlights. All supplies included.
Date: November 29, 2018 (3hrs) 1pm – 4pm Cost: $50 per class

Also check out our
Older Adults Life Skills Workshop
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2018

Service Canada presentation on a variety of programs and service offerings of interest to older adults. For information on CPP/OAS call Service Canada at 1 800 O-Canada (1-800-622-6232) or visit online at www.canada.ca

Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc. (CLASSIC) presentation on Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives, and Wills. The law student can provide legal information only and will not be able to provide legal advice.

Registration fee charged by SCOA as a registration fee. Information on Government of Canada services and Classic is free.
$10 Registration Fee (snacks and coffee provided)
To register call SCOA at 306-652-2255.

Inktober 2018

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Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober Drawing Challenge by doing one ink drawing a day for the entire month and posting those drawings to social media with the hashtags #inktober and #inktober2018.

Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.

https://inktober.com

Nuit Blanche 2018

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NUIT BLANCHE FESTIVAL

Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon’s free, all-ages, nighttime art festival, is happening on Saturday, September 29th, 2018, from 7pm until 1am. This year’s festival will feature projects in the Broadway, Riverlanding and Downtown areas. Join us for a night of art and shopping, as numerous local businesses will be staying open. Come out and see Saskatoon in a new light!

Nuit Blanche website

Reconciliation Artwork Unveiling

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On behalf of the Saskatoon Tribal Council and the City of Saskatoon, you are invited to attend the upcoming unveiling event for the Where Our Paths Cross Reconciliation Commemorative Artwork, “The Coming Spring,” on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Victoria Park (Spading Crescent West, between Ave D and Ave E).

Unveiling Event
6:30 AM – 8:30 AM Pipe ceremony
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Coffee and bannock
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Unveiling Ceremony

“The Coming Spring,” by Canadian artist, Gordon Reeve, was commissioned by the Saskatoon Tribal Council and the City of Saskatoon, with funding from the Government of Canada. Its creation is in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, No. 79: educating and creating a sense of shared awakening.

InkTober

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Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. 31 Days 31 Drawings

InkTober rules:

1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it on your blog (or tumblr, instagram, twitter, facebook, flickr, Pinterest or just pin it on your wall.)
3) Hashtag it with #inktober
4) Repeat

Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. INKtober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.

That’s it! Now go make something beautiful.

mrjakeparker.com/inktober

Wonderful Words

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Creative Writing Seeds presents
Wonderful Words

Explore wonderful words and their power with local artist Monique Martin, in this multi medium workshop!

Interpret words that are meaningful to you using your artistic skills. An exhibition of completed work will be displayed at Market Mall Playland Gallery, Summer 2016

Saturday, May 28, 2016
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Art Studio, George Vanier school, 820 Wilson Crescent, Saskatoon
For young artists ages 8 – 13

See www.creativeseeds.com for more information on program schedule and artists, or call 306-979-1463 for more information.

Art Trek

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Art Trek is a self-guided tour of eight Saskatoon artist studios featuring 60 painters, printmakers, weavers, glass artists and sculptors who aim to promote art within Saskatoon.

In 2012, five artist groups collaborated to promote an urban art tour in the heart of Saskatoon. Now in its fourth year, Art Trek 2015 will feature nine artist studios and collectives.

2015 DATES/TIMES:
Friday, June 12th, 5 – 10 pm & Saturday, June 13th, 10 – 5 pm

LOCATIONS:
The Mix Artist Collective Artists (212 20th St West): Debbie Rumpel, Bridget Aitken, Ann Donald, Muveddet Al-Katib, Brenda Kennedy, Paul Denham, Brent McGovern. Jacqueline Miller, Elizabeth Yonza, Christine Devrome, Rick Pollock, Elisabeth Miller, Robert Miller, Paula Cooley

Studio on 20th (236A 20th St W): Jane Harington, Miranda Jones, Carol Wylie, Amira Wasfy, Bridget Aitken, Jan Corcoran, Nicki Ault, Karen Maquire, Kathy Bradshaw, Brenda Kennedy, Ann Donald

Artists’ Workshop (Grace-Westminster United Church, 505 10th St. East): Virginia Beaubier, Valerie Borycki, Margaret Bremner, Lou Chrones, Kathryn Green, Lorraine Khachatourians, Karen Maguire, Val Miles, Valerie Munch, Eva Peters-Kooy, Gail Prpick, Kathleen Slavin, Marilyn Weiss

330 Design Group (330 Avenue G South): M. Craig Campbell, Daryl Richardson, Paula Cooley, James Korpan, Dale Hicks, Ken Wilkinson

TAG -Textile Artist Group (Grace -Westminster United Church, lower level): Gwen Klypak, June Jacobs, Alison Phillips, Annie Wall

Studio Five (5th floor Charter House Building, 331 1st Ave. N.): Nora Jacek, Tyson Atkings, Jinzhe Cui, Alana Unruh, Ania Slusarczyk, Audra Balion, Jeff Chief, Valerie Poulin

Lauriston Street Studios (510 Lauriston St.): Paul Denham, Louisa Ferguson, Gerogia Horsley, Sandy Lendingham, Louise Struder

The Artist’s Loft (617 Main Street East)

BAM (229 20th Street W)

This is going to be THE weekend in Saskatoon for art lovers! Take the studio tour at your own pace to discover some of Saskatoon’s finest artists.

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Convoluted Beauty: In the Company of Emily Carr art lecture

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Members of the Congregation and the public are invited to a hear Irene Faber, Head of Collections of the Amsterdam Jewish Museum, speak about “Convoluted Beauty: In the Company of Emily Carr” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7. Our congregation and the B’nai Brith are sponsors of this important exhibition, which includes works by Charlotte Salomon who perished in the Holocaust.

The work of Emily Carr (1871-1945) is nationally respected for its pioneering of modernity in Western Canada. This project, curated by Lisa Baldissera, Chief Curator, Mendel Art Gallery, is the first significant presentation of Emily Carr’s work in Saskatchewan in almost 20 years. Convoluted Beauty examines Carr’s legacy through work by major international artists, including Charlotte Salomon.

“Charlotte Salomon (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death by her government soon after her arrival.” Wiki

The Mendel is grateful to Tourism Saskatoon, B’nai Brith Lodge 739 and Congregation Agudas Israel, Saskatoon, for sponsoring this exhibition.

More information can be found here.

Meet The Artist: Heather Shillinglaw

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Shillinglaw artwork: Sweetgrass Sway
The City of Saskatoon is hosting a public art presentation by Sweetgrass Sway artist
Heather Shillinglaw. The public is invited to meet the artist and hear her talk about her
artwork. Sweetgrass Sway is a temporary public art project comprised of 12 feather
shaped flags with images of sweetgrass on them and arranged in the infinity symbol.
It is currently installed at the entrance to Cosmopolitan Park at the top of the University
Bridge and end of College Drive through the City’s temporary public art Placemaker
Program.

The presentation will be:
Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
11 am
Kehrig Gallery
8th Floor of The Bessborough Hotel
803 – 601 Spadina Crescent East

Shillinglaw Poster

For more information about the Placemaker Program, please visit www.saskatoon.ca
and search under “P” for Placemaker Program.