The next workshops will be March 11 & 25, 2014
Please see the Workshops Page for details.
To register phone: 604-257-8140.
February 11, 2014 LMA artist in residency Merlyn Chipman started a series of workshops in the Craft Room of Aberthau Mansion, called Weaving With Light. Chipman, who calls himself a video feedback artist, guided workshop participants through the hands on process of discovering interactive video projection to create rich and complex patterns. Participants were then able to take these beautiful mosaic designs and print them to fabric, ready for sewing! The next workshops will be March 11 & 25, 2014 Please see the Workshops Page for details. To register phone: 604-257-8140.
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November 27, 2013 the West Point Grey Community Centre hosted the Lighting of Aberthau event. Two-hundred plus guests were entertained by the Junior Choir from Ecole Jules Quesnel and three LMAC artists presented digital art works during the evening. Photos: Laura Lee Coles, Mark Nazemi, Wynne Palmer, Sarah Shamash Please see the link to VANDOCUMENT'S video of evening highlights HERE Mark Nazemi presented a video mapping installation on the ceiling of the Oak Room. Mark used computer software to create an ambient atmosphere of swirling patterns and colours on the ceiling. People attending were fully engaged and often uttered "wow, this is interesting" or "Nice!" or "Hey look at that!" Wynne Palmer presented her work Light Pulse. Over time in local Vancouver history, Aberthau Mansion, situated on the west side of the city near Jericho Beach, has undergone various identities and incarnations based on ownership and occupancy of the land. In keeping with the Welsh name Aberthau, meaning “a place filled with light”, the buildings and grounds today engage the community as West Point Grey Community Centre, an identifiable seed for human growth through hands on activities, workshops and events for an entire community. Eventually the land and the buildings develop character and an identity warranting it’s own mark. Light Pulse leaves a distinctive thumbprint, for while it addresses human identity with one of the two most common fingerprint types, in this case an arch, it also incorporates a seed of a tree, making comment on how we are nature, and nature is us! Wynne also conducted a demonstration workshop during the festivities. Anyone could make and El Wire ornament and contribute to the outdoor community lighting area along a row of cedar trees that Wynne chose as the staging area. The workshop was very well attended by kids and parents alike who worked with the El Wire and formed some interesting items. The slide show above presents some of the ornaments made and displayed during the "lighting" ceremony. Comments included: "Neat", "Cool, can I make something?", "What is that?", "Look at that!", "Oh, I want to try something". Rob Scharein presented a digital mandala in the library, where several people sat and mediated over the random changing patterns of digital weaving and knotting. Phil Thomson in Residency January - March 2014 with Guest Artists Meghan Goodman and Igor Santizo11/17/2013 Phil Thomson and guest artists Meghan Goodman and Igor Santizo will engage in an exploration/research of dance and movement in natural settings, culminating in an indoor dance/movement performance with music and video during the months of January - March 2014. On the evening of Thursday, March 15, 2014 in the Oak Room at Aberthau Mansion, West Point Grey Community Centre, the artists will present a final performance work. Phil Thomson is a Vancouver-based listener, composer and writer/editor. His works have been heard in concert and broadcast in Canada, the US and abroad. His works for dance have been heard at performances by Jennifer Clarke Arora, James Gnam and Sara Coffin. His writings have been published online by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and in print by Cambridge University Press. For Packt Publishing, he is currently serving as a technical editor for a forthcoming book on the sound programming language SuperCollider. Igor Santizo is a creative free agent living and working in Vancouver. He teaches & facilitates: creative process, foundational principles, cultural literacy and more ... while encouraging students with their creative potential, emerging selves and budding art practices. By way of his artwork, he has sought a complimentary dialogue between: metaphysical principles & material forms. Currently, he is exploring through drawings: variations of an abstract motif, allusion to cthonic force. Originally from Toronto, Meghan Goodman is an interdisciplinary dance artist and certified Iyengar yoga instructor. Meghan graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in dance, and minor in mathematics in 2003. She has been actively performing, choreographing and teaching in Vancouver for the past decade. Meghan has been a member of the Aeriosa Dance Society aerial dance company since 2009, and co-directs the Body Narratives Collective with dance artist Julia Carr. Telling Traces a multimedia installation by LMA Collecitve resident artist Sarah Shamash and Aisha Jamal at Aberthau Mansion - West Point Grey Community Centre engaged 35 participants into a world of exploring ideas around the myths / fictions / truths of oral family histories in the context of Middle Eastern diaspora and the Arab spring. Quotes:
Painting With Your Voice - Youth Camp Summer 2013 at Aberthau Mansion - West Point Grey Community Centre Using a sound app on a iPhone, residency artist Rob Scharein guided students to see how their voice created patterns. Fun was had by all! Some students spelled their names and saw how their name looked, while others played using animal sounds, one particularly interesting sound was that of a dolphin! LMAC artist in residence Jamie Griffiths lead a one day workshop on the powerful software Isadora. Even though it was a beautiful, hot day outside, the workshop was full to capacity for those eager to learn this software, taught by an expert! This free workshop was open to beginners, although it was recommended users be comfortable finding their way around their own computer. The focus was on the use of photography, video and sound to conceptualise and design an interactive multi-media presentation using Isadora software. The software allowed control of video or sound using your hands or your voice. Examples were to sing a drawing or video or gestures to make sounds. The goal was for participants to to build short 5 minute interactive performance or installation on their own chosen conceptual themes, in a group workshop environment in order to learn basic use of the interactive elements of the software. |
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