Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to announce two Spring Break art camps for young people now open for registration. Taking place from March 17, 2025, to March 23, 2025, at the artist-run centre’s downtown facility, the program features a week-long clowning and theater camp and a weekend Manga drawing workshop.
Join clown, playwright, and teaching artist, Marya Folinsbee in “Play and Play-Making! Clown and theatre for young people” to learn acting and clown exercises, collaboratively create short performances, and explore introductory playwriting skills. Participants will come away from the class with new performance skills and tools, as well as their own new material, and hopefully we’ll share some of our performance/writing with the community at the end of our time together!
Folinsbee’s camp takes place over five afternoons, from March 17 – 21, 2025, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm, and is intended for young people ages 11-15. Students are encouraged to bring a snack and water bottle with them. All other materials will be provided.
Following the clowning and theatre workshop, join multi-talented artist Zen Wang in “Manga Drawing Workshop” over the weekend, from Saturday, March 22, 2025, to Sunday, March 23, 2025, from 1 – 4PM. At this workshop, students will learn basic techniques for Manga comic style drawing. During the first session we will do exercises to improve our skills in anatomy, faces, hair, clothing, posture, composition. During the second session we will work on designing a manga poster for your own character. Students can take home the poster to remind them of the new skills they’ve learned in the workshop.
Wang’s camp encourages students to bring existing Manga drawings, provides a suggested list of materials, and is intended for young people ages 11-17.
Learn about the camps and your instructors. Register early to reserve your spot! Classes are small to create a dynamic experience for each student, but they fill up quickly.
Oxygen’s Education program has offered professional art classes to adults and youth for over 20 years. The program is unique as it is developed and taught by established, professional local artists and art educators, who share their masterful skills and advanced education with the community.
Interested participants can register to attend each class by signing up online through Google Forms.
As a non-profit artist-run centre we rely on minimum registration to pay professional artist instructor rates and to ensure enough time for instructors and staff to prepare for your class. For information about Oxygen’s registration policies are available on their website and on each registration form.
Oxygen Art Centre is an artist-run centre located at #3-320 Vernon Street along the alleyway behind Baker Street. For more information about how to access the facility or to register for a class, please visit Oxygen’s website.
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