Music + Arts Program
Crescent Arts Centre Music + Art Program
A workshop experience that addresses the life experiences of aging through the mediums of visual arts, spoken word and music.
No art experience? Express yourself with collage. Experienced and want to experiment? Perfect for you! No music experience? No problem. Soundscapes are built with sounds – you will have fun with my synthesizers!
Class Schedule
1:00 – 1:30pm: Agree on a topic such as:
1:30 – 3:00pm: Create painting, drawing or collage that is inspired by the topic.
When you’ve completed your art you bring it to Grant and together we create some music/sounds that goes with the painting and words.
Outcome: Grant will create/edit all the pieces together in an online video to be shared with the participants. The art, words and soundscape will be created by the participants with the professional coaching on site.
Art Coach: Sandi Howell
Music Coach: Grant Simpson
Total time: 120 minutes
Limit of participants: 10 per class
Cost per class: $20.00 or Pay What You Can.
Sign up for one or all three.
Dates:
Saturday 17 Feb 1:00-3:00
Saturday 23 March 1:00-3:00
Saturday 20 April 1:00-3:00
To register - please send an email to Sandi Howell at the email address below.
Please indicate the visual media you would like to use.
i.e., paint (watercolour or acrylic), collage, draw (pen/graphite/coloured pencil/or pastel)
This will help us plan the supplies.
Send an email to Sandi Howell at: [email protected]
This program made possible by the generous financial assistance from the New Horizon's Fund and the fundamental support of the Crescent Fort Rouge United Church.
Here is an example of one called "Yukon Moon"
Painting by Mary Beattie.
Sound Design by Grant Simpson
From Grant:
For this project I used my favorite painting which hangs on my studio wall. It's by my friend Mary Beattie who is an amazingly unique artist who spent thirty years sharpening her skills in an off-the-grid cabin in the remote Yukon wilderness. In 2009 I released an album with a song I wrote called "Beneath the Yukon Moon" and Mary liked it enough to create this beautiful painting of a scene from the song.
I took the painting and created a sound design of the theme. In the song there is a line "Singing in the night's a lonely Loon." So I took the Loon Call and used that three note motif to build the sound design around.
A workshop experience that addresses the life experiences of aging through the mediums of visual arts, spoken word and music.
No art experience? Express yourself with collage. Experienced and want to experiment? Perfect for you! No music experience? No problem. Soundscapes are built with sounds – you will have fun with my synthesizers!
Class Schedule
1:00 – 1:30pm: Agree on a topic such as:
- Gaining wisdom and confidence
- The body ages
- Loss
- If I only knew then
- The best thing at this age
- Hopes and dreams
1:30 – 3:00pm: Create painting, drawing or collage that is inspired by the topic.
When you’ve completed your art you bring it to Grant and together we create some music/sounds that goes with the painting and words.
Outcome: Grant will create/edit all the pieces together in an online video to be shared with the participants. The art, words and soundscape will be created by the participants with the professional coaching on site.
Art Coach: Sandi Howell
Music Coach: Grant Simpson
Total time: 120 minutes
Limit of participants: 10 per class
Cost per class: $20.00 or Pay What You Can.
Sign up for one or all three.
Dates:
Saturday 17 Feb 1:00-3:00
Saturday 23 March 1:00-3:00
Saturday 20 April 1:00-3:00
To register - please send an email to Sandi Howell at the email address below.
Please indicate the visual media you would like to use.
i.e., paint (watercolour or acrylic), collage, draw (pen/graphite/coloured pencil/or pastel)
This will help us plan the supplies.
Send an email to Sandi Howell at: [email protected]
This program made possible by the generous financial assistance from the New Horizon's Fund and the fundamental support of the Crescent Fort Rouge United Church.
Here is an example of one called "Yukon Moon"
Painting by Mary Beattie.
Sound Design by Grant Simpson
From Grant:
For this project I used my favorite painting which hangs on my studio wall. It's by my friend Mary Beattie who is an amazingly unique artist who spent thirty years sharpening her skills in an off-the-grid cabin in the remote Yukon wilderness. In 2009 I released an album with a song I wrote called "Beneath the Yukon Moon" and Mary liked it enough to create this beautiful painting of a scene from the song.
I took the painting and created a sound design of the theme. In the song there is a line "Singing in the night's a lonely Loon." So I took the Loon Call and used that three note motif to build the sound design around.
