August

Season 12 Farewell!

Thank you to all the participants, supporters, and community organizations that worked with Art Bikers during the summer! We were thrilled to reunite with families and return to magical gardens and green spaces throughout the city! We were also delighted to meet new faces and make art together throughout the hot summer months! Thank you all! Stay tuned for more photos, recaps and sharing on the blog in the next week.

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As we wrap up this summer's program, we welcome your ideas, suggestions, photos and feedback year round!

Wonder'neath Art Society was thrilled to be a part of the Art Bikers program for the second year in a row and we are deeply appreciative of the opportunity to work with 4Cs Foundation in support of this beautiful program.

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Mural Repair at Bayers Westwood

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Art Bikers are excited to be returning to the community of Bayers Westwood Friday, August 17th from 11:30am-3:30pm for mural repair work! A fresh batch of paints have been sourced and mixed. Aprons, brushes, drop cloths and tools are all packed, and we can't wait to work together on this mural!

This will be Art Bikers last trip to Bayers Westwood drop by to say hi, or put on an old shirt and a sun hat and join us in brightening up this fabulous mural. All welcome! No painting experience necessary!

Schedule Change

We are concerned about the extreme heat/humidity and possibility of lightening on Thursday, August 16th.

YIKES!!

Instead of biking to the Pizza Oven in Dartmouth - where we were scheduled to be - the studio will be open from 2-4pm for Pizza bunting making! Add your favourite pizza toppings to our awesome pizza-themed bunting and then Art Bikers will deliver it to the Pizza Oven once it's done! The studio address is: 2891 Isleville Street, in north end Halifax.

Upcoming:

Bayers Westwood mural repair on Friday, August 17th from 11:30-3:30.
Ardmore Park (at Almon and Oxford Street, Halifax) ...more cats

Saturday, August 18 from 11:30-3:30.

Last Visit to the Green in Fairview

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Art Bikers will be visiting the Green today, Wednesday, August 15th from 11:30am - 3:30pm! It's the last visit of the summer to one of our favourite spots in the city! Please join us in making comics! At the request of folks at this location, we will be drawing and telling stories - both large scale and small scale in a collaborative book and a whole batch of mini comic books!

Welcome To This Place - a national art project

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The Art Bikers team is excited to be joining community members, artists, and ISANS and Mabelle Arts for the Halifax launch of Welcome to this Place - a national art project.

Please join us August 10 from 2-4pm for Cyanotype Printing (an historic contact print method using sun and natural objects!) at Glen Garden in Clayton Park. We'll be turning our prints into buttons and then joining in the picnic from 4-6pm. All welcome, free, interpreters on site!

For more information, check out these links or see contact details on the poster.

http://www.isans.ca/get-involved/community-gardens/
http://www.mabellearts.ca/…/25/welcome-to-this-place-toronto

Pop Up at Mosaic Garden with ISANS and Garden Friends!

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Art Bikers will be working alongside staff of ISANS at the Mosaic Garden August 8th from 12-3:15pm. The location of Mosaic Garden is 28 Willet Street in Fairview and there's lots of shelter if the weather is uncooperative!

Join Art Bikers and friends in making garden-inspired costumes and props to animate the ISANS garden parade later this season. All welcome: all ages, all levels of artistic experience. Free!

Last Day Celebration! All welcome!

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.

Last week of the 2017 season!

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.

Cyanotype Prints!

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!

Art Bikers in Clayton Park this week! August 15, August 17, August 18th

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!

Soft Sculptures

Children at "the Green" made wonderful drawings that we then sewed into soft sculptures. They will be used for today's film shoot!

Beautiful Day at Bayers Westwood!

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.

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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.

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More than 50 participants of all ages joined us throughout the day!

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So many special connections happening: sharing stories, songs, laughs. Thanks Bayers Westwood!

Bayers Westwood Tie Dye Day!

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!

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A busy day with approximately 30 folks joining us at Bayers Westwood!

Africville Reunion and Celebration

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!

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!

These cyanotype prints were from natural materials found in Africville!

Many prints were created throughout the day!

Many prints were created throughout the day!

Farewell for another year

Art Bikers are done for the season. We had such a great summer! There were so many amazing community members we had the pleasure to work with and the projects that we created with them continued to surprise and inspire us all summer long. So many talented creative people! We will seriously miss you. Thank you so much! (this picture is from our last day working with Hope Blooms just one of the amazing groups we worked with this summer)