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  • Painting Create Nights

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    Remember the good ole days when Bob Ross would guide you, step-by-step, through the process of making a painting? Isn’t it time to revisit such a fun yet methodically satisfying approach to making a beautiful painting? Painting Create Night is the newest format of *FUN* one-shot, evening workshop where you eat, drink, make merry, and…

  • Jeffrey Mackie read

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    This month was something of a “Poetry” month at Fleurbain. We hosted our first ever literary event, Open Mike Poetry Night (with no Mike) last weekend. We enjoyed original poetry, read by their authors. We sipped some fine herbal tea. We munched on ginger cookies. We all met new creative people, and new ideas and…

  • another four weeks of felt

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    Wanted to get in on Four Weeks of Felt (aka I Love Felt) last time? Well, here is your opportunity! In Four Weeks of Felt, students will learn how to make felt in the wet-felting process. We will make: * a flat project (the ever-popular scarf!) * a simple form that can be crafted into…

  • In February we show the LOVE!

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    It is the middle of winter. Energy is a little low, “sigh…” The weather is a little intimidating with all the snow and ice and icy cold mountains of slush. ?áIt’s not just the ubiquitous boots, but the whole experience of walking down the street makes people scream, “Ugg!” We see this and so, we…

  • impromptu art talk… video on “Poetry” in Fleurbain

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    The other day I made a three-minute walk-about film of my exhibition “Poetry”. I had wanted to share the experience of walking through the exhibit, as well as the photos of individual works, online. Here it is: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHizaDPsUXg] The show is on until March 1st. Keep your eyes open for an announcement about an upcoming…

  • Poetry (paintings)

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    A few years ago, I was captivated by a discussion about a poetic format. I was jogging with a poet friend and we were discussing this format, the Ghazal. She was describing the formal rules of the poem, and how poets opt to follow, break, bend, and twist those rules. We talked about the deeper…

  • Intro to Painting: Old Masters Basics

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    Intro to Painting: Old Masters Basics: In this eight-week course, students will learn techniques used in both oil and acrylic painting. Students can choose to paint in either oil or acrylics. (For absolute first-time painters, acrylic is recommended.) Natasha will provide you with a list of supplies you will need to bring, upon registration. Play,…

  • surprise!

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    The Small Works exhibition is on display?áin Fleurbain?áuntil January 7th, 2012. Originally?áwe’d planned to have the show on ’til only the end of last year, but happily events have occurred to allow the show to extend an additional week! So if you’d hoped to come by?áto see the Small Works but didn’t find time during…

  • taking care of things

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    We have a couple of new mascots in Fleurbain, and both would like to wish you a merry Christmas. Lady B came onto the scene at the same time as Rosemary, who had spent the summer in our friendly neighbourhood community garden. They are both over-wintering in Fleurbain, taking full advantage of our large bright…

  • Point Counter Point

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    Our first exhibition in Fleurbain’s gallery space is on until December 7th… Natasha Henderson presents Point Counter Point, a suite of paintings that use the music and concepts of JS Bach as a point of beginning. The works are richly layered with paint and ideas. Counterpoint is a method of music in which concurrent themes…