All posts below reflect LocoMotoArt and guest projects, events and workshops held at the McBride Park Fieldhouse, as part of a 2013 -2015 residency with the Vancouver Park Board.
Re-creation's aim was to engage the dialectic of modern urban permaculture and the absence of the vibrant sounds of animal species once inhabiting such spaces. After the afternoon workshop and field trip, participants returned to McBride Park, where they processed the recordings and installed them, with the public invited to experience their sound installation. This workshop was lead by residency artist Miles Thorogood with the assistance from residency artist Phil Thomson, two of LocoMotoArt's four audio and sound artists! Both activities were part of the Sustenance Festival. Organized By: Village Vancouver (Ross Moster) and LMA's Miles Thorogood Photos: Laura Lee Coles  Time: October 5, 2014 from 9am to 5pm
Location: McBride Park Fieldhouse/Aberthau Mansion and surrounding environs Organized By: Village Vancouver (Ross Moster) and LocoMotoArt's Miles Thorogood Event Description: A hands-on community arts based workshop and public event presented by Village Vancouver in collaboration with Aberthau artist-in-residence LocoMotoArt. Re-creation aims to engage the dialectic of modern urban permaculture and the absence of the vibrant sounds of animal species once inhabiting such spaces. A re-creation of those sounds will be achieved through a distributed sound emitting system seamlessly woven into the physical and aural fabric of a local park space. Led by LocoMotoArt artist Miles Thorogood, LMA artist Phil Thompson will instruct participants in recording techniques and then sounds will be obtained through a field trip to Aberthau Mansion and Jericho Beach, where we will explore less urbanized spaces. Using 3 sets of recording equipment, groups of up to 4 participants will record what they consider to be important sounds in an environment to a permaculture. We will then return to McBride Park, where we’ll process the recordings and install them, and the public will then be invited to experience our sound installation (see separate event below.) FREE Registration: Pre-registration is required. Limit 12 participants. RSVP to Re-creation@villagevancouver.ca. Please bring your own water, lunch and snacks. Followed by a public event from 5-9:30 pm: RE-CREATION Sound Installation Re-creation aims to engage the dialectic of modern urban permaculture and the absence of the vibrant sounds of animal species once inhabiting such spaces. After the afternoon workshop and field trip (see above event), participants will then return to McBride Park, where they’ll process the recordings and install them, with the public invited to experience their sound installation. FREE. No registration is required for the evening installation. Both activities are part of the Sustenance Festival.  The evening of July 14th twelve members of LMA gathered at McBride Field House for our Summer meeting and dinner get-together. It was a great opportunity to see all the plants in bloom from our Spring clean up and to catch up with each other as friends and community artists during some spectacular weather! The meeting was also an opportunity to plan the details of our current and upcoming Summer shows, workshops and events for our group and participating guest artists over the next several months. Please keep an eye on our Aberthau, Patterns and Workshop Pages for updates! Photos: Wynne Palmer  MAY 31, 2014, LocoMotoArt hosted Swap 'Til Your Drop, in partnership with Village Vancouver Transition Society. Community members of the Kitsilano area, Cindy McMillan and Vida Mas were awarded a Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Greenest City Fund by Vancouver Foundation, via Kitsilano Neighbourhood House to plan and offer this afternoon event. Cindy and Vida organized tents, tables, goods, services, and the recycling depot. Also in the day's activities, LocoMotoArt promoted their various summer workshops and events, Rob Scharein, Dave Leith and Laura Lee Coles presented PoSSeSSiONz, an interactive sound and video installation about hoarding and consumerism. Approximately 75 - 80 people attended throughout the day, riding bikes, walking dogs, and dropping off items for the recycling depot. Here are some of the images from the day! Photos: Laura Lee Coles  May 16, 2014 was clean up day for the grounds around LMA McBride Field House Studio. Artists being artists, Laura Lee Coles, Rob Scharein and Bobbi Kozinuk decided to turn what may seem a mundane activity to some, into a fun photo and video project! Enjoying the current wonderful weather, Coles photographed the plant life around McBride and Scharein created a creative time lapse video, with custom software! There will be an upcoming show at the end of May, where LMA artists will be tabling their upcoming residency workshops. Video: Rob Scharein Photography: Laura Lee Coles  The early evening of May 12, 2014, LocoMotoArt, joined by Ross Moster of Village Vancouver, held an informal outdoor dinner and meeting to catch up with each other and to talk about future plans for shows, workshops and activities at both Aberthau and McBride field house studios, and through various City community centres. So far LMA artists in residency with the City of Vancouver, have provided demos, workshops, talks, shows. We have brought in guest speakers, guest artists and engaged local organizations, artist collectives and businesses. This LMA Blog has utilized Tags for all posts. To see individual artist or organization activities at either of our studios, please see both Aberthau and McBride Page links at top. Look under Categories in the right column and click on artist's name. If you would like to see activities by type of art, then please click on the term, ie generative art. We look forward to organizing and presenting more artist in residency work, introducing and working with more guest artists, collectives, lecturers and working with the very supportive administration, staff and volunteers of Aberthau Mansion, McBride and West Point Grey Community Centre. We also wish to acknowledge the ongoing support of our families, friends and wonderful sponsors: BC Hydro, Vancouver Cultural Affairs, Charqui Restaurant, CiTR 101.9FM Radio and William F. White International Ltd. Photos: Wynne Palmer  On Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 10AM - 12PM a free workshop Organic Food Gardening was conducted at McBride Park field house in community collaboration with LocoMotoArt.
Workshop Facilitator: Grant Watson (Grant's Gourmet Gardens) Workshop Organizer & Promotion: Village Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks Attendance: 25 + registered, but many cancelled due to the cold weather. 14 actually attended. Participants ranged in age from 20's to 60's. This workshop covered the basics of planning, preparing and starting a food garden. Participants were introduced to simple techniques for starting plants indoors and in the garden, given information where to get supplies and how to do garden without the use of artificial additives. The workshop was publicized on Village Vancouver’s website HERE. About Village Vancouver’s gardening workshops: This gardening workshop is part of ongoing Village Vancouver programming, which is designed to increase knowledge about growing food, build community cohesion, and increase security and food resilience in Vancouver neighbourhoods. Funding: Neighbourhood Small Grant Quotes: Grant is an excellent instructor. I learned a lot. Thanks for offering this workshop. I found it very informative. Once again, Village Vancouver has provided a great service to the community by organizing this workshop. |
