Enfants Enchantés
sponsored by Lavender Ridge Farms
in partnership with the Pontiac School of the Arts
Thursday July 15 1:00pm
Max 35, $10/ticket
Parents welcome to supervise
Welcome to a new concert for Pontiac Enchanté, a children’s concert. Sponsored by the beautiful Lavender Ridge Farm with materials supplied by Impressions of Shawville, this concert will host 35 children. Kate Aley (see below) and friends of the Pontiac School of the Arts will lead a workshop involving the musicians of the festival and the audience. Each child will be given the materials needed to transfer what they are hearing onto their paper.
There will be 4 different pieces of music to interpret
- Strings, with Donnie Deacon and Tait Becke
- Piano, with Carson Becke
- 3 voices (soprano, tenor, base), artists yet to be determined
- percussion featuring Ross Murray of Wakefield
Photographer Dave McColl (www.mccollphoto.com) will record the visual results allowing us to put together a slide show to be viewed on our web site at a later date.
Parents are welcome to this concert to help supervise. Should a second concert be required because of demand we will endeavor to do this at 10:00AM also July 15. A second concert would entail a entrace fee of $15/entrant .
Pontiac Enchanté is proud and happy to collaborate with artists and teachers of another discipline.
Thank you to our friends and partners:
Kate Aley
Kate has enjoyed cartooning, illustrating, creating murals and caricatures for 15 years. She graduated with a degree in graphic design and photography from Deakin University in 1990.
Originally from Australia, Kate has traveled widely and worked in many different media and disciplines; from murals for a milk bar in Cameroun, Central Africa to illustrations for a book of travel illustrations for a Ft. Colounge writer.
Her forte is quick, bold line drawings – well suited to cartooning and all related offshoots – animation, graphic novels, greeting cards and colour-in pages for children.
Relaxed, funny and informal, Kate is at ease with students of all ages. Encouragement and careful constructive direction are her goals in teaching art.
“We can all hold a pencil and learn to write,” she reasons “Stands to reason that everyone has the capacity to learn to draw.”
Kate currently works as a journalist at the West Quebec Post and Pontiac Journal, while freelancing as a writer and illustrator.
IMPRESSIONS
Almost twenty years ago I set up my studio upon moving onto a rural property in the north of the municipality of Bristol, Québec. The original studio was in an old shed.
That studio has gone through a number of stages and is now in the basement of our house. One hour's bicycle ride from home is the village of Shawville, Québec. When the opportunity arose in the summer of 2004 I inaugurated the Shawville annex of my home studio. Like my regular studio which is situated in the basement of my home, the new annex was also in the basement at 317 Main St . Shawville. With this Underground IMPRESSIONS Souterraines (UIS) was born -- at home and in Shawville.
My goals for Impressions have expanded to be more inclusive in regards to the visual arts.
"A Place for Art" means that Impressions is a place
- to see & appreciate art
- to learn about art
- to learn to do art
- to care for art
- to acquire the materials to practice art
Sponsored by Lavender Ridge Farms
in partnership with the Pontiac School of the Arts
