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Profoundly Creative

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Vancouver, BC, CA

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What we’re about

Boost your creativity through on-line and in-person workshops, and become part of a welcoming, inclusive and creative community. Each workshop is designed to inspire new ways of thinking about and looking at the world through a variety of visual art and writing exercises.

Bring your curiosity and a playful attitude; no prior experience or skills necessary. A materials list is provided for each workshop (usually just a sketchbook or notebook and basic drawing or writing materials).

Upcoming events

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Art in motion: Making art on the skytrain
Sat, Jan 24 · 10:00 AM PST
VCC Clark Skytrain Station, VCC Skytrain, Vancouver, BC, CA
A big part of being an artist is noticing and recording the world around us. In this workshop, the skytrain is our art studio and observation laboratory.

We'll ride the Millennium Line together from VCC Clark to Lafarge Lake (45 minute ride), and work alone or in small groups on a series of prompts that ask us to pay attention to different aspects of the experience. You can record your responses to the prompts in your sketchbook or journal using whatever methods and materials appeal to you (writing, drawing, photos, video, painting, knitting, etc - be creative).

We'll meet at the VCC Skytrain Station for introductions to each other and to the process. We'll then board the train and sit together to work through the prompts. When we get to the end of the line at Lafarge Lake, we'll take some time together to review our notes and share our creative insights and discoveries.

At Lafarge Lake, you have the option of joining a second meet up at the Evergreen Cultural Centre to take in the art exhibition Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams. The exhibition is free to the public.

*Supplies - bring your own sketchbook or journal, drawing and/or writing materials, and anything else portable you'd like to play with to record your observations.

*Note: Each person is responsible for their own transit fare on the Skytrain!
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Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams
Sat, Jan 24 · 11:30 AM PST
Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree way, Coquitlam, BC, CA
Let's meet up and visit the exhibition Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. The exhibition is free to the public, and accessible via skytrain (Lafarge Lake station).

About the exhibition and artist (from the Evergreen website):
The life and work of Sharni Pootoogook (1922–2003), though still largely underexplored, draws clear and fundamental connections between first-generation artists in Kinngait, Nunavut, and the current trends in Inuit graphic art. Her bold designs helped to shape and inform the course of Inuit printmaking during a period of great turmoil that threatened Inuit land, culture and traditional languages.

Sharni Pootoogook was an Inuk artist from Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Nunavut. She worked primarily in drawing and printmaking and was involved with the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. She was part of a large family of artists: her brother Pauta Saila was a well-known carver, her husband was the carver and graphic artist Pudlat Pootoogook, and both her daughter and adopted son are also artists. Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, London; Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, among many others.

Note: This event is scheduled at the tail end of another Profoundly Creative meet up event where we'll be making art on the Skytrain. Choose to attend either or both!
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