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A collaboration between the Lunenburg Makery, the NSCAD Lunenburg Residency Program and the Lunenburg Art Gallery Foundation is going to ensure that youth in the area will have lots to do over their upcoming March break.
Dubbed “A Week of Learning and Making for Kids of All Ages,” the event incorporates a wide variety of creative activities covering six days of the March break period.
“We’re collaborating to make March Break the funnest week ever in Lunenburg,” says Michelle Engel, manager of the Makery. “Starting March 9 we are providing making opportunities all day, all the way through the break.”
On that date the Lunenburg Art Gallery Foundation will sponsor the opening event, “Go Make and Fly a Kite,” which will be hosted by NSCAD’s resident kite expert Andrew Maize and kiting colleague Garry Woodcock of the foundation.
Running from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. at the Lunenburg Art Gallery, the day’s activities will see participants make their own kite with materials supplied, then later have an opportunity to fly it at the Gus Vickers Memorial Athletic Field.
A weeklong event will be held at the NSCAD residence on Duke Street beginning March 11 under the direction of Lunenburg Residency Program members Hangama Amiri and Craig Budovitch.
“We will have all of the students coming right to our studio,” Mr. Budovich says. “We’ll have a huge brainstorm to figure out what we want to do by way of a theme, and then everybody is going to work together in a collaborative way to make a large-scale mural,
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He said it is hoped that students of all ages will be involved in the project and that those older will act as mentors for their younger peers.
The Lunenburg Makery will play host to a myriad of activities throughout the week, beginning on March 11 when a “Sew Day Camp” will be held at the studio.
Starting at 9 a.m. and running until 4 p.m., participants ages nine to 16 will learn machine stitching skills and tackle a pair of sewing projects — a colourful party bunting and their own tote bag.
March 12 will feature “Start a Veggie Garden” as the morning’s activity. From 9 a.m. to noon, youth of all ages will learn about vegetable gardening and plant seeds to take home. They will also make and sew felt row markers while learning hand-sewing skills.
Printmaking, which is also open to all ages, will be the topic of that afternoon’s 1 to 4 p.m. session with instruction in techniques, creating patterned paper and beautiful compositions.
March 14 kicks of with Ms Roher leading a workshop called “Watercolour World,” where participants ages six to 10 can “get messy” and learn tricks to create effects with watercolours.
That will be followed in the afternoon by “Design Your Own Stuffed Toy,” a workshop for all ages which teaches how to draft a pattern for your creation from templates, then cut, stitch and personalize it.
The Makery will also be at the Lunenburg Farmers’ Market that morning from 9 to 11 a.m.
The week’s activities wrap up on March 18 when Ms Roher conducts “Comic Jam” from 9 a.m. to noon for ages 13 to 17. Participants learn drawing and design techniques as well as ideas from comic artists for creating dynamic comics from their own stories.
“We’re keeping the afternoons open to all ages … the morning stuff is targeted at specific age groups,” Ms Engel says. “A lot of our projects are maybe more ambitious than what a lot of people want to do with kids. We do a lot of sewing and things like that, but we just think that the more you offer the kids, the more they can do.”
With Lunenburg’s growing reputation as an artistic community, Ms Engel feels it is appropriate that the week of activities will encompass an arts and crafts theme.