May 2022 at Place des Arts
home to our arts community
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Greetings!
This month, we have an adult-only portrait night, a classic concert featuring Beethoven and Brahms and an online event for teens!
If you have not had a chance to submit a story from your time at Place des Arts for our 50th Anniversary, the deadline is May 31!
Last month was National Volunteer Month and we wanted to give a shout out to Lois Icheln who has been a volunteer with us for 30 years. Find out more about Lois and her time at PdA under "get inspired".
There are also some great events happening out in the community (including one from our Registration Clerk, Kaiden!) Find out more below.
Aurora van Roon
Communications Coordinator
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Adults-only event Portraits and Pinot on May 6 |
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Instructor Rebecca Blair will give you tips on how to draw the proportions of a generic face and then apply them to individual people. You’ll also have the chance to bring your portraits to life with shading. Gather friends and get set to explore your imagination, in a fun and relaxing atmosphere!
Supplies and instruction are included in the ticket price.
Tickets cost $26/person or 2 for $42 (+ GST)
ABOUT REBECCA
Rebecca Blair has been an active member of the arts community in Vancouver, which includes a decade of teaching at Place des Arts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Lethbridge and a Master’s of Arts from the University of Victoria.
Rebecca’s art experiences have also taken her to Italy where she taught for a semester in Florence and attended a fresco restoration workshop in Altamura, Puglia. She has participated in several local art events such as the East Vancouver Cultural Crawl and art shows at Place des Arts.
Rebecca’s body of work focuses on watercolour landscapes and portraits in various media which is inspired by her travels both local and abroad.
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Art After Dark is on this month! |
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On May 28, from 7:00-9:00 pm, Place des Arts’ Youth Arts Council invites teens ages 13 to 17 to a free night of the arts. Explore your artistic and creative interests through a variety of casual arts activities. The event will be hosted on Discord! |
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Join us for a classic concert on May 14! |
On May 14 from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Place des Arts, enjoy our concert, From Beethoven to Brahms: The Clarinet Trio Transformed.
Beethoven transformed the piano trio when he replaced the usual violin with a clarinet. Almost a century later Brahms would come out of retirement to take this ensemble to new depths of romanticism. Together, these works contrast joy and despair and highlight the inevitability of change.
Admission: Students* & Seniors** $16 | Adults $21 (+ GST)
*Student pricing is available for all Place des Arts students, regardless of age, or for students holding a valid student card from other institutions.
**Age 65+
Buy tickets online by clicking on the button below or by phone at 604.664.1636.
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Please submit your stories for our 50th celebrations by May 31 |
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For the past few months, we have been collecting stories from all of you who have interacted with Place Des Arts.
We are so grateful to everyone who has submitted their stories. They have been so inspiring and wonderful to read.
If you have an opportunity to share your story with us, please do! It means so much to us to be able to learn from you and see the impact of Place des Arts.
The deadline to submit is May 31, 2022.
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Meet Lois Icheln (Volunteer Feature) |
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In April, as a part of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, we featured some of the incredible volunteers we have worked with who are pivotal in making Place des Arts the organization it is. Lois is a volunteer who has been with us for over 30 years and consistently makes PdA a brighter place with her energy and dedication.
Meet Lois
Place des Arts has been part of my life for a little over 30 years. I started with the intention of updating my office skills and going back to work after my youngest graduated from school. I worked every Tuesday with Gillian Elliot (then director of PdA), but after my husband retired, I decided not to work, but stayed on as a volunteer. I have done many jobs, but now do the art cards, which I enjoy and seeing the different mediums of art.
How have you changed over the past two years? What small or big transformation has been a milestone?
Not so sure there’s been a transformation, but do want to say I have worked with some wonderful people at Place des Arts. Some in the past, some current and I always enjoy a conversation with them and notice their interest. One of the memories was working in the Mackin House while they were renovating “the old, original” Place des Arts into the lovely building it is now. That was an experience!
Anything to share?
Hard to put into words, except to say that I have always been glad that I started with PdA – it has always been a place of enjoyment “people-wise” and an excellent opportunity for anyone to volunteer.
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Place des Arts will be closed on Monday, May 23, 2022.
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Congratulations to:
- Jane Lee who completed the Winter Survey and has received a $75 credit to her account, and
- who completed our Artisan Shop Survey and has received a $25 gift card for Opus.
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Community Exhibition deadline extended! |
The deadline is now Monday, May 9, 2022
We are seeking submissions from current and past students, teachers, and staff for the 2021/2022 Place des Arts Community Exhibition. The Exhibition will take place in the Atrium from June 3 – 23, 2022 and online at placedesarts.ca/exhibitions from June 10 – August 31, 2022.
We'd love to see your work!
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Cracking the Egg (2022) Exhibition at Port Coquitlam City Hall Gallery
April 28 - June 28, 2022
Opening reception May 6, 2022 | 6:00 -8:00 pm
We're so happy for our Registration Clerk, Kaiden Alford whose upcoming exhibition is on at the Port Coquitlam City Hall Gallery.
Cracking the Egg presents the work of emerging non-binary artist Kaiden Alford. This series of paintings documents moments and expressions of the artist's trans-ness. Strictly self-portraiture, this exhibition traverses a spectrum of experiences: the elusive characterization of pre-transition dysphoria, entry into an expression of ‘outness’, and Alford's open transition coinciding with their final year of studio work at Emily Carr.
Chronicling both an internal and external rectification that has been set in motion by medical transition, these portraits reveal a changing self-perception. In painting a record of their first six months on T (testosterone), Cracking the Egg organizes the subtle physical changes occurring to their body into a realized body of work. To share this journey is innately vulnerable. However, it is in this intimate space that the ever-changing experience of identity is framed.
explorASIAN 2022
several events in May & June
Take part in the 26th annual explorASIAN Festival Program. Find 60+ Asian Heritage Month in-person/virtual events and exhibitions presented by various community partners.
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
May 5-15, 2022
Western Canada's largest documentary film festival, returns to present its 21st edition in theatres and streaming online!
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transformation inspiration |
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“We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die”
W.H. Auden
Poet
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