Culture Days
The Northumberland Arts Collage
As part of Canada’s Culture Days 2011, on October 1, 2011 the Arts Council of Northumberland presented the Northumberland Arts Collage. The “Arts Collage” was an “event hub” featuring a number of different arts activities that are free to the public and engage participants in hands-on experience of the arts. This event featured three visual arts workshops, acting workshops, and the debut of Cobourg Public Library’s Human Book program.
Participating Artists:
- Jack Boyagian, Theatre
- April Bull-Jones, Visual Arts
- Judith Kreps Hawkins, Visual Arts
- Alice vander Vennen, Visual Arts
- Charmaine Lindsay, Director of the Cobourg Public Library, whose "Human Books" included:
- Ted Amsden, Photographer, Poet
- Frances Gage, Sculptor
- Vicky Vorsythe, Crafts
- James Hergott, Film Producer
- Shane Joseph, Author
- Mandy Martin, Journalist
- Shane Peacock, Author
- Antonio Sarmiento, Film Producer
Photos (click an image for a larger view)
Culture Days in Canada
Culture Days is a coordinated and collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.
A national Steering Committee, together with provincial committees (known as Provincial Task Forces) self-mobilize at the grassroots level to implement concurrent, annual, province-wide public participation events that take place throughout the country over the last weekend of September.
The first annual Culture Days event was held in September 2010 in over 700 Canadian cities and towns and, by all accounts, was a great success for all participating activity and community organizers and millions of Canadians who partook in events in their communities. The 2011 Culture Days weekend will take place September 30, October 1 & 2, 2011. The annual, Canada-wide Culture Days event features free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind-the-scenes”, to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their communities.
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