Oxygen Art Centre

Spring Break Art Camp 2013

SPRING BREAK ART CAMP 2013

WEEK 1 (MARCH 11-15):

PUPPET SHOW for Ages 5-8

Course dates:
March 11-15
9am – noon
Cost: $120

Children will be introduced to the process of creating a 5-minute puppet show. Topics covered will include storyline and character development, stage/set design, and puppet design. The finale will be a fantastic show put on for parents and friends.

Instructors: Laura Hyde & Chelsey Freyta

THEATRE & MASK-MAKING for Ages 10-14

Course dates:
March 11-15
2-5 pm
Cost: $120

Are you theatrically inclined? Do you love telling stories & playing characters? Here’s your chance to create your own unique mask, costume & character – and help create an original new play! Join theatre-maker Bessie Wapp and artist Fiona Brown for an exciting week of mask-making, costume design, theatre games, character development and collaborative play creation. The week culminates in a Friday performance for family and friends.

Instructors: Bessie Wapp & Fiona Brown

WEEK 2 (MARCH 18-22):

STOP MOTION ANIMATION CAMP for Ages 9-15

Course dates:
March 18-22
9am – noon Ages 9-11
2 – 5pm Ages 12-15
Cost: $120

Oxygen Art Centre has pulled out all the stops to bring you Suez Holland and her extensive skills as an animator and teacher. With 7 years experience working with groups of young students at The Gulf Island Film and TV School, Suez offers quick hands-on creativity. Learn how to magically move paper cut-outs frame-by-frame and turn your sequence into a movie clip. Take your character development and animation skills to the next level.

Suez trained as an illustrator/cartoonist at Academie des Beaux Arts de Liege, then went on to get a degree in Animation at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Following that, she honed her animation skills even further with Video Compositing Courses at Vancouver Film School. Her animation career features work on ‘I, Robot’, ‘Stargate’, and ‘Blades of Glory’, as well as concert video design for musicians such as ‘U2’, ‘Mix Master Mike’, ‘Beats Antique’, and ‘Mother Mother’.

Schedule:
Day 1 – Introduction to animation and techniques for capturing frame-by-frame
Day 2 – Story boarding, character development and paper cut-out puppet making
Day 3 – Production of animated exercises
Day 4 – Production of animated clips
Day 5 – Production of animated clips and screening *family and friends are invited to come half an hour before the end of camp for a screening of work produced

MARCH 25 Workshop:

EASTSHORE STOP MOTION ANIMATION WORKSHOP for Ages 9-15

Course dates:
March 25 at Crawford Bay
10am – 3pm (w/ lunch break) Ages 9-15
Cost: $50

1- day workshop – Introduction to animation and techniques for capturing frame-by-frame. Story boarding, character development and production of animated clips and screening *family and friends are invited to come half an hour before the end of the workshop for a screening of work produced

Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon St (enter from the back alley way)

INSTRUCTOR BIOS:

Suez Holland

Suez first began animating in 1993 while studying art in Belgium. Near the art college, there was an animation school for kids very much like the one in Nelson, where groups of kids aged 9 – 16 could learn how to magically move objects frame-by-frame and turn the sequence into a movie. Suez worked at this kids art school throughout her time in Belgium, which eventually led her to re-direct all studies towards animation back in Canada.

Since then, Suez has taught over 8 years of classes to kids and youth of all ages, most notably at The Gulf Islands Film and Television School. Currently, Suez creates animated sequence for musical stage shows and bands, weaving together techniques in stop motion, digital motion graphics, and video compositing.

To see more of her work, visit www.electrabelle.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2925887/

Bessie Wapp

Bessie Wapp is a theatre maker, musician, and educator. Bessie was based in Vancouver for 20+ years where she was a core member of two performing ensembles: stilt-dance theatre company Mortal Coil and Eastern European music sextet Zeellia. With these groups Bessie performed throughout North America and in Europe, including New York City’s Lincoln Centre and Zagreb, Crotia’s, DanceWeek Festival.

In 2006 Bessie co-founded Twin Fish Theatre in Nelson, and with the company co-created Hello, I Must Be Going and Loco Phantasmo, two works inspired by stories in her family history.

Local musical theatre and opera roles Bessie has performed include Pontius Pilate (Jesus Christ Superstar, 2012), Hekate (KHAOS, 2012), and Orpheus (Orpheus & Eurydice, 2008).

Bessie plays with local music groups The Bessie Wapp Quartet, Bessie & the Back Eddies (2012 Kootenay Music Award: Best Roots/Blues), Adham Shaikh & the Outworld Orkestra, and Oxygen Orkestar.

Bessie enjoys teaching theatre & music privately & with groups.

Fiona Brown

Fiona Brown is a clay artist and certified BC teacher whose passion for travel, books, and nature has drawn her to explore the world through mixed-media art-making. She has a BA and BEd from UBC and a DFA from the Kootenay School of the Arts. Before moving from Vancouver to Nelson 15 years ago, she lived and taught in France, Spain, Guatemala, and the Czech Republic. Locally, she has taught art in schools, small group settings, and privately out of her home-based studio. Her own work involves functional and relief clay work, a series of 100 hand-made books, plaster and papier-mache masks, found-object art, low-tech prints, woodwork, and jewellery. Her clay work can be seen at fionabrown.ca. Fiona enjoys collaborating with other artists and is excited and inspired to teach a new course at Oxygen with the amazing Bessie Wapp.

Laura Hyde

Laura Hyde studied Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She practices ceramics, drawing, fibreart and printmaking. Working with children has been a passion since high school, and her first summer as the Arts and Crafts director of a summer camp near her hometown of Truro, Nova Scotia. In 2006, Laura moved to Nelson and has made a home here, working, teaching and running a small business. Laura also enjoys singing, biking and walking her dog in our beautiful neck of the woods.

Chelsey Freyta

Chelsey is an international designer/ illustrator with clients in Australia, USA and Europe. She has a Bachelor of design and a certicate in fashion styling. Chelsey has loved creating art since a young age. With all her work she enjoys developing characters and pieces that tell a story. She’s very excited to be teaching puppets this spring with her accomplice Laura Hyde .

Chelsey Freyta
chelsey@chelseyfreyta.com

Program Director – Miriam Needoba

P: 250 352 6322 E: info@oxygenartcentre.org

A note from Art Camp founder – Anita Levesque
Art is essential. It connects us and brings great joy to our lives. By making and creating, we become problem solvers, exercising both sides of our brains. It is a celebration of beauty, a mode to express what is deep within, and a tool to better understand our place in the world.

That which is most essential is often overlooked and taken for granted. The arts are under represented in our schools and communities today. Understanding the importance of art education for our children and youth has been the core inspiration behind our children’s art programming over the past three years. It is with great joy that we see this program growing and becoming a consistent and reliable way for parents to enrich their child’s lives through art.

Thank you to all of you that have been a part of this journey, so far. We look forward to seeing even more smiles and excitement on children’s and parent’s faces as our program develops.

Anita Levesque, on behalf of Oxygen Art Centre

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