Commemorations + Celebrations
Commemorate events such as African History Month, Armistice Day, Asian Heritage Month, Diwali, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Christmas or special celebrations and season changes at your school with a narrative mural and paper cutouts, kite festival, clay tiles, glorious batik or textile quilt rom collective stories or portraits. Build your own musical parade with giant or rod puppets, decorative hats, lanterns, kites, butterflies, wands and paper dragons. Offered by all Angels’ artists ~
Lest We Forget ~ Rose Ave PS grades 4/5 ~ Charmaine Lurch ~ PHOTO Kevin Arsenault
Global Garden Story Quilt (En/Fr)
Create a narrative quilt of varied world designs in textile, embroidery, sequins, beads, yarn, pencils and markers with Mosa Neshama McNeilly. This is a very special one day per class art project on cultural understandings, diversity and inclusion. Students map connections among each other by researching their personal histories and finding parallels. Each child shares a treasured object from home and features a portrait of the object as an encoded symbol in the quilt. Through stitching and knotting students describe routes between their quilt squares. Reflection focuses on individual and group discovery of the ecology of cultural diversity, mirroring the web of biodiversity in our ecosystem, while highlighting equity as critical to wellness. Ideal as a graduating legacy gift. Adaptable to all grades ~
Seven Sacred Grandfather Teachings
The First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples of North America were given the great gift of human understanding in Seven Teachings of the Sacred Grandfathers, oral traditions that form the foundation of their spirituality. Each teaching is represented by an animal and honours one of the basic virtues to a full and healthy life. Grounded in these teachings is the notion of mindfulness. When we are in balance with our world we contribute to overall harmony. This program brings Mariposa In The Schools Ojibwa storytelling Esther Osche into the classroom in partnership with visual artist and ICA sculptor Charmaine Lurch. Young students learn about balance and harmony through these remarkable tales and practice a visual interpretation of each. Ideal for grades 3 to 6 ~
Artistic Process + Short Film