The Art Bikers program wraps up for the season and participants are invited to come together to watch films created this summer and celebrate our time together this Saturday at Wonder'neath Art Society 2891 Isleville Street from 5 to 7pm. This is a potluck meal and final celebration. All welcome (2nd floor location).
Please bring something to share for our potluck meal if you are able! For more information, email or call: artbikers@gmail.com or 902-454-5781.
We are biking to ISANS Community Garden at 67 Glenforest Drive today and will be there from about 11-3pm!
~ Wednesday is a day of prep/packing up the studio.
~ Thursday, we pop up at Ward 5's Neighbourhood block party (rain or shine) on Russell Street (between Gottingen and Isleville) from 2-4pm.
~ Friday, we have our end of season with a final debrief and packing up the studio for the season. (Not open to the public.)
~ Saturday: join us at Wonder'neath Art Society 2891 Isleville Street in Halifax from 5-7pm for a potluck meal and final celebration. Participants are invited to come together to watch films created this summer and celebrate our time together. Free, all welcome (2nd floor location). Please bring something to share for our meal if you are able! For more information, please email or call: artbikers@gmail.com or 902-454-5781.
From our time with the community at Clayton Park Junior High - some human body size cyanotype prints! Participants placed their bodies, leaves, natural materials, and found objects across big prepared sheets. Amazing results!
Today from 12-3 pm with the Art Bikers make lifesize cyantotype portraits. Meet us in front of Clayton Park Junior High to play with light and silhouettes!
The Art Bikers will be in Clayton Park all this week! Join us from 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Details below.
Tuesday (15th) Clayton Park Junior High (in front, green area)
Brainstorming, gathering ideas for activities.
Wednesday (16th) We are back at the studio to prepare materials.
Thursday (17th) Clayton Park Junior High (in front, green area)
We are back to work with you on creative art-making based on the ideas from Monday!
Friday, August 18th - Clayton Park Junior High (in front, green area)
Final day of creative art-making based on the ideas from Monday!
Children at "the Green" made wonderful drawings that we then sewed into soft sculptures. They will be used for today's film shoot!
"Cranky theatre" (the hand cranked theatre built with children at "the Green" is being brought back, with characters from the stories coming to life! Meet some of the characters below: Rhino, Cheetah, and Creeper with scone!
We will be at "the Green" from Wednesday, August 9th to Saturday, August 12th!
The rain is stopping us from brainstorming with you today. because of the rain. See you tomorrow 12-3pm! And Thursday, Friday, Saturday too!
We have a long relationship with the folks in the Bayers Westwood community. we are always happy to go back to this community to see old friends and meet new ones.
Parade costumes that just keep evolving! Fun with inventing costumes and characters using found materials. Young participants figuring out all the ways of connecting creative bits and parts.
More than 50 participants of all ages joined us throughout the day!
So many special connections happening: sharing stories, songs, laughs. Thanks Bayers Westwood!
Tie dye was the big request form our brainstorming ideas together. We tracked down t-shirts from a local merchant and loaded up the bike trailers with amazing colours, buckets, and t-shirts. A great creative time that continues Friday, August 4th 12-4pm. We are planning a celebratory parade!
A busy day with approximately 30 folks joining us at Bayers Westwood!
The Art Bikers visited Westwood Park Playground, located at 3315 Romans Avenue on Tuesday. We will be back again Thursday and Friday from 12-4 to have some fun with fabric and dye as suggested by the kids.
Making some masks on Tuesday!
We had lots of participants come and hang out in the shade with us.
Some excellent masks.
It was a delight meeting families and making cyanotype prints at the 2017 Africville Reunion! Here are some photos from our day together:
Water rinses away chemicals masked by leaves, flowers, found objects to reveal sun saturated cyanotype prints!
These cyanotype prints were from natural materials found in Africville!
Many prints were created throughout the day!
This week Art Bikers are looking forward to returning to the community of Bayers Westwood!
Here is the schedule:
Tuesday, August 1st 12-4pm - On site: brainstorming! coming up with ideas together for an art project!
Wednesday, August 2nd - Prep day for us in the studio.
Thursday, August 3rd 12-4pm - On site: working with you!
Friday, August 4th 12-4pm - On site: working with you and celebrating our time together.
Join Art Bikers on Saturday, July 29 from 11am-3pm in celebration of Africville! Collect natural and curious objects to create stunning cyanotype prints!
Art Bikers had a great day at Point Pleasant Park! Thanks to everyone who joined them. Thursday, July 27 from 12-4pm they will be at the Commons in Halifax, near the playground. Join them for giant bubbles and secret messages in bottles, also POTIONS and storytelling!!!
Join the Art Bikers at Black Rock Beach (Point Pleasant Park) today from 12-4pm! Look for giant bubbles, messages in bottles, and brightly coloured art biker bins... !
Tomorrow, join Art Bikers at the Commons, near the playground, from 12-4pm.
Art Bikers will be filling their trailers with colourful supplies for a day with participants of The Youth Project.
Together on Friday, July 21/17 from 12-4, we will be helping create Halifax Pride Parade float art. To see the big reveal, check out the Pride Parade on Saturday, July 22!
POP UP DAY! Join us Wednesday, July 19 from 12-4pm at Ardmore Park! Awesome wooden shapes and colourful paint will be among the supplies on hand to add to and repair the Silly Faces Fence. All ages, free art making in the community: hooray!
Children and grown ups had a fun creating all kinds of fun headwear at the Mad Hatter Tea Party for Mad Pride this past Sunday on the Commons!
What a fabulous finale to a week of Cranky Theatre at the Green! Thanks for a great week of artmaking and performance!
