Similkameen Family Literacy and the new Keremeos and District Arts Council are co-sponsoring a series of afternoon sessions that start Wednesday January 22 and run each Wednesday afterwards to March 19.
Gibson House will host “Arts at Play,” three separate sessions in three parts for kids who enjoy arts, crafts, writing and performance.
The workshops run from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday.
The first three sessions, running January 22, 29 and February 5 are for nine to 14 year olds.
Puppets on Wednesdays - where youngsters are encouraged to explore materials and “grow” their own puppets in paper, plaster, clay, fabric, paint, wood, wire, then make up their stories to perform in a puppet stage.
The following sessions, February 12, 19 and 26 are for six to nine year olds and are called “Clayworks”.
These Wednesdays will be taken up with “the plastic arts” in plasticene, air dry clay, plaster, adding decorative materials to create figures, emblems, masks to weave into scripted stories from the group.
The final sessions of March 5, 12 and 19, for eight to 16 year olds, is called “Story to Stage”.
These Wednesdays will start with very short pre-prepared story pieces and then participants put their own stories to paper, dress themselves for thestage and perform at 5 p.m. March 19.
There is no workshop fee for any of the nine sessions. Materials fee is $5 per session and that fee is waived in case of need.
Volunteer helpers, including high school students, are most welcome to join in the sessions.
Pre-Registration is required.
Families can register from 8 a.m. to noon, Monday to Friday – Fri at 300 Veteran’s Avenue. (Telephone 250-499-2352.)