Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

Dragons & Fantastic Beasts Workshop at Gardiner Museum

Sankofa Youth DropIn took part in an art workshop where they created dragons using clay. 


 Working on their master pieces

 Exhibit A

 Still in the works

Unique design by William 

Thank you for the amazing workshop Gardiner Museum. 
From left to right: William, Iris, Lily, Jenny, Kelly, Whitney
Behind: David 

Friday, February 3, 2017

Sankofa Youth DropIn - Tin Foil Art Sculptures

The theme of the program was Collaborative Art Work, the DropIn youth were asked to create scenery in teams with a sheet of tin foil provided to them. 
The Catch - you have 20 mins to complete the challenge. 
On the left: "love is in the air"- by J.P & Marvin
On the right: "When Carl finally reaches the top of the mountain with his house in the movie UP" by David & Jackie

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Multicultural Club Room Decoration

Bishop Marrocco / Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School's Multicultural Club is an afterschool club run by CultureLink in partnership with West Neighbourhood House. We meet weekly and try out different activities with the club members.

This week, we decorated our club room with some art pieces. Check out our creativity!

Henrique and Julios working on the room's main sign

How about a poster about China and its culture? By Susan, Mary, Yating and William.

A truly multicultural representation by Jose, Precious and Alejandra. 

Fun times with friends at BMTM's Multicultural Club!

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Pixelation 2016

February is Black History Month and we celebrated it through art. We went to OCAD University to check out Pixelation 2016

Us at OCAD U

Baby doll sculpture represented a social experiment where kids showed preference for dolls with lighter skin over dolls with darker skin

It was an eye-opening experience. Many of us were touched by the art in its exploration of what it means to be discriminated, what it means to celebrate diversity as well as what it means to self-discriminate base on the colour of our skin. 

Nancy with some of the art pieces




We had a wonderful time. Thanks Zviko, for showing us around!

Friday, February 12, 2016

A Big Welcome to Syrian Refugees from All of Us!

We are newcomer youths of CultureLink's youth program, and we want to say A BIG WELCOME to our newcomer refugee friends. Here's how: (watch til the end!)



If you wish to help too, please click here (select 3. Refugee Resettlement in the drop bar) or visit
CultureLink.ca for more information!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Crafty Welcome was a Success!

Sankofa Youth invited the public to join us for a crafts session and THIS happened:








"it gave me hope as what we were doing will be donated to
'New Canadians' or newcomers to this country" - CJ





The completed pieces will be donated to CultureLink's Refugee Distribution Centre. They are still seeking donation. Please click here to see how you can help (select "Refugee Settlement" in the drop-bar).

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Theatre: Fringe Festival

On May 9, we invited Carys Lewis to speak to us about the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Before the session started, Lynda showed some of us how to make some fresh lemonade using lemons, honey and ice-water. It tasted awesome!
Carys is really experienced in performing and acting on stage. She told us that theatre requires the person to have the ability to speak clearly and loudly for every audience member to hear. She also told us that we may go have the opportunity to go and watch some of the performances that will be coming up in July during Fringe Festival. It sounds interesting!
Everyone was listening to Carys Lewis
Next, Carys showed us some basic training moves for theatre. It is  a series of pre-training and stretching exercises that prepares the actor for the performance. The exercises included one where we had to make funny noises while letting air out from our diaphragm. This helps to train the performers ability to project their voices. It was great to get to move around and pretend that we were getting ready to be on stage.
After the session with Carys to learn about theatre performances, we played a game and Carys stayed to join us. Lynda wrote our names on the blackboard first. Everyone took turns to say something that they had done before, that they think no one else might have experienced before. If nobody else had tried that before, then the person gets a point.
When it was my turn, I said that I have been to at least 6 different countries. The other one that I said was that I once killed a rabbit by throwing it against the wall, when I was really young! I didn’t get the point the first time round, but I got one point for the second one round. The winner of this game was Emma at the end, and she got a little prize from Lynda. Congratulations!
Basic Training
At the end of the session, we learnt more about theatre, the Fringe Festival, and also got to know one another better! It was a lot of fun!
Written by: Jessica Wang
Edited by: Lynda Young
Posted by: Jessica Wang







Wednesday, May 8, 2013

... a long, fun time AGO

On Wednesday, May 8, the participants of Wintegration went on a trip to the AGO. You might question what AGO is, let me tell you. It's the Art Gallery of Ontario! It seems like a coincidence that the short form is AGO, but I actually can feel something from this name. Ago means before a period of time, and many of the precious masterpieces exhibited there were created years ago, isn't it so fun?
  We started our tour from the ground floor, we saw so many sculptures of ships and boats. I was really shocked because those ships were exquisite, even the details were quite accurate. I guess exquisite workmanship is the outstanding characteristic of these artistic handworks. Anyway, I liked them, very much!

We sort of walked around the whole gallery, and saw many different kinds of paintings , sculptures and even movies.

There's one movie on Ai Weiwei's drawing styles shown on the second floor, it did make me stop my steps and sit down. It was about the way he creates different kinds of objects, especially human beings. I'm not quite an artistic person, but I could feel the message that the movie wanted to bring across.
I've learnt and earned a lot of knowledge from that trip! I wish I could go back there again to just enjoy those elegant masterpieces. Thanks, KidsUpFront, for the tickets for us to go to the AGO!


Written by: Tiffany Garrick
Edited by: Lynda Young
Posted by: Jessica Wang