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Painting with Peninsula Arts and Ellen Bradley-Cheung
When: Wednesday, November 20th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Semiahmoo Arts Building at Centennial Park beside Centennial Arena
Join us for a fun evening of painting birch trees in acrylics with Ellen Bradley-Cheung. Ellen has a delightfully relaxed approach to painting. She will guide you through the painting while allowing you to put your own spin on it. No experience is necessary! All Ages. All materials included.
At the end of the evening you will have a finished painting to take home. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
Cost is $50 but if you register and pay before October 31 you will receive a $10 discount. Funds raised from this event will go towards our scholarship program to assist artists furthering their education.
For more information or to register send an email to info@peninsulaartsfoundation.org or call 778-288-9872
As a past Peninsula Arts Grant recipient we are pleased to see Kierah pursuing her career in music and are happy to support her future endeavours. Her concert on Nov. 16 will no doubt be an enjoyable one.
Kierah Raymond www.irishmadness.com
Kiérah is a very impressive and versatile Celtic performer from Western Canada. After 13 years of classical training, Kiérah received one of Canada’s highest marks on her A.R.C.T. performance exam with the Royal Conservatory of Music. However, with an Irish – Scottish heritage, Kiérah’s true passion is performing on the fiddle and composing Celtic and contemporary music, which she has done with equal dedication alongside her classical studies.Whenever Kiérah performs, her audience is fascinated with her exceptional musical ability, always playing with the clear and precise intonation for which she is known. As comfortable on stage as off, Kiérah is consistently dynamic and polished in her presentation. She possesses a remarkable ability to completely captivate and engage audiences of all ages. Kiérah has performed at numerous music festivals, folk venues, Delta & Shaw TV programs, live on several radio stations across Canada and countless public and corporate events.As the daughter of a stonemason and sister to four brothers in the stone industry, Kiérah has followed their creative and diligent work ethics for herself. Kiérah’s first two CDs – “Irish Madness” and “A Fiddle Affair” received nominations by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2008 and 2010. “A Fiddle Affair” also received an award from Highlander Radio for the Best Jigs and Reels 2010. As a prolific composer and due to numerous requests for her music, Kiérah has written and published Western Canada’s first book of all original fiddle tunes – “Kierah’s Collection”. It can be purchased at music stores across Canada as well as online.Kiérah’s high energy performance style is uniquely her own. Her musicality and outstanding technical ability give her solo performances a fullness all on their own. Kiérah received a near perfect mark on her A.R.C.T. performance exam of Bach’s Chaconne, considered to be one of the most technically and emotionally difficult piece of music ever written for the violin. While performing in Cape Breton she was often compared to Richard Wood. While in Ireland and playing with numerous musicians, she was repeatedly likened to Liz Carroll.Kiérah looks forward to a career in performing and one day teaching.
Crescent Gardens Retirement Community, 1222 King George Blvd.
November 9 at 7:30 pm
Dr. Bobby Ogdon – Irish Tenor
Dorle Eason & Yoshi Sawatsky – Cello Duet
Grace Lin – Piano
Julie Lin – Violin
Serena Wong & Rosie Lin – piano
Gloria Xu & Julie Lin – Violin/Piano
Chinese Gospel Choir
Date: June 1, 2013
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Location:Semiahmoo Arts Building in Centennial Park 14600 N. Bluff Rd. White Rock
Cost: $50 all materials provided
This workshop is on painting silk scarves with Sharpie markers. You don’t have to be an artist to do this craft. Just let the materials do the work for you and you will go home with two beautiful 11” x 60” scarves at the end of the class.
For more information and to register
call 778-288-9872 or email info@peninsulaartsfoundation.org
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Our organization was established in 1983 as the Elizabeth Foundation through the generosity of Dorothy Slaughter and Elizabeth Keeling and other community members through an endowment fund. With funding from the BC Gaming Branch, donations and memberships over the past 30 years we have continued to foster the dream of the original members and have awarded over a million dollars in grants to eligible individuals and groups involved in the arts in our community. This work is carried on primarily by our board of directors who are all volunteers. Over the years we have been blessed with some wonderful members and somehow we have kept the ball rolling. It is hard work and always a challenge to find ways to have enough funds to match the needs of the community. We never lack in requests for our support.
Carol Monaghan, one of our long term board members retired last year after many years of hard work on the board and we would like to thank her for her service. We will be listing the names of all of our past directors on our website. They may have moved on but they constitute an important part of the fabric that is Peninsula Arts Foundation.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”~Pablo Picasso. Well how about having a glass of wine with us and explore Painting with Wine on February 28 th at Rivers Bend Winery from 6:00 to 9:30 pm. We will start off the evening with a brief wine tasting and then instructor Leslie Redhead will guide us throug h the process. Surprisingly like watercolour painting the layers applied create a beautiful end result. You can book your space by calling Mary Wiebe at 778-294-4971 Space is limited so book early. The cost is $50 per person. This includes your materials, wine tasting, tote bag and your own artwork to display proudly. No experience is required. All proceeds go to the Peninsula Arts Foundation’s scholarship program.
This is the first workshop we will be hosting in 2013. We are exploring others ideas like pottery, dying silk scarves, jewellery making and other forms of art. We encourage you to contact us if you have suggestions for classes that you would enjoy seeing us put on. Stay tuned to our website’s events page for future classes. There are many things we can do but we have to make them affordable, find a suitable place to hold the event and also an instructor that will be willing to teach the class. Our goal is to broaden the awareness of the community to our existence and find new ways to fundraise wh ile having some fun doing it. We hope you will join us and tell your friends about it too.
