Workshops:

These workshops are a fun way to get insight into the artmaking styles of our special festival guests. Great for artists, tinkerers and creators of all types.

Playschool for Adults

A lecture and creative writing workshop with interdisciplinary artist Alexis O'Hara. Using exercises created by the Surrealists, as well as other games, this workshop aims to unleash creativity and free the mind from its habitual neural pathways. Highlighting intelligent approaches to absurdity, this workshop is interactive. Participants are asked to bring a notebook, a pen, a short text and an object that represents home for them.

Sunday, June 12, 2:00 – 4:00

Fee: $30

Scrapyard Guitars

Ken Gregory, our artist-in-residence from Manitoba will show how acoustic couplings work. This is a hands on workshop where everyone makes an instrument they can take home: a single string 'guitar' made out of a 2x4, a piece of wire and a tin can.

Ages 12 to adult

Saturday, May 28, 10 - 3 (Sold Out)

$35 for members

$45 non-members

Autonomous Robot Creatures

Two of our guest artists, Jessica Field and Laura Kikauka will teach a workshop on making the most basic, self-thinking robot: one that knows how to avoid obstacles by having whiskers to sense its environment. Students will make a small bug-like robot, using origami techniques to create 3D bodies.

Ages 12 to adult

Sunday, May 29, 10 - 3 (Sold Out)

$40 for members

$50 non-members

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