WinterPLAY Snow Art Challenge - Come Play in the Snow!

Whether you consider yourself an artist or not, this year’s WinterPLAY Snow Art Challenge is sure to get your creative juices flowing. Taking place on Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21 – on the hill beside the Snye – WinterPLAYers are invited to contribute to this year’s first ever community art mural!

Local artist Sonia Burke-Smith, who runs the Boreal Artist Institute, is the Wood Buffalo resident responsible for bringing the Snow Art activity to WinterPLAY 2016. She and other artists from the Boreal Art Institute will be on site from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. each day to help, encourage, guide and inspire all participants to make the mural.

Brushes and spray bottles will be given to participants to create their masterpieces. Whether you use stencils or let your own artistic creativity guide you, the goal of this WinterPLAY activity is to create a free-flowing art piece with no parameters. The end result will be a physical representation of our community’s diverse culture, our Northern Spirit and our residents’ collective voice. The added bonus of this activity is that it will live on long past the festival. Community members can re-visit the piece and see its many changing phases until spring rolls into Wood Buffalo and the last colourful drop of snow melts away.

For those who may be worried about the Snow Art Activity’s environmental impact, do not fear! Food colouring will be used so as not to harm or disrupt the area.

Lastly, the whole event is sponsored by KAOS! All participants are eligible to enter into the draw, where at the end of the weekend three lucky winners will be selected at random to win an amazing Art themed gift basket.

Be sure to check out this colourful event and make your artistic contribution to our community art project!

Let's Get Sketchy! Nov. 30, 2013 at Keyano Theatre

A number of arts organizations are working together to put on a multi-disciplinary and interactive themed event at Keyano Theatre. “Let’s Get Sketchy!” will take place in Keyano Art Gallery and in the Theatre lobby on the evening of November 30th as patrons arrive for the Saturday performance of Catalyst Theatre’s new musical Vigilante. In the spirit of the production, set in the late 1800’s, actors in period garb will be posing in a number of different locations. Artists and community members will sketch the tableaus while poets and creative writers capture the scene in words. All of this will happen while local musicians create a live soundtrack to the #YMMARTS Happening.

“Let’s Get Sketchy!” is a collaborative project of Boreal Artist Institute, Brazen Elephant Productions, Full Moon Cafe, Keyano Theatre Company, Arts Council Wood Buffalo, Portrait Artists McMurray and NorthWord.

For more information contact:
Reinalie Jorolan – 780-880-0761

Russell Thomas – 780-881-3752

A Tribute to Our Elders: Voices from the Past

The Time on the poster is incorrect...the opening is actually from 5:00 - 7:30pm








































Good Day to Everyone!

Last day of spring and summer is upon us. I know this is coming at you very late but with all the events going on last week with the flooding we didn't want to be bugging everyone when they had so much to take care of ourselves included as my house and energy became devoted to just helping out.

But that being said we have put up the Show-Voices from the Past a Tribute to our Elders and hope that you can spread the word and come out to see the show. It was important for the Artists at Boreal to make our first show as a tribute to our Aboriginal Community out of respect and admiration.

We hope you stop by the opening and grab a piece of bannock and have some tea with us and enjoy the work of some new and emerging Artists.

May your day be blessed with smiles and laughter
Peace live4love always thanks
Sister so