The Art Bikers are going to be having a studio prep day. We will be coming to Ardmore tomorrow at 12pm to have a day of more brainstorming about a larger project there and make some more silly faces for the fence. Hope to see you all there.
Final Day in The Green
What amazing time in The Green in Fairview. These kids are truly special. They made a large cardboard tv and acted out their own tv shows that they created and performed them for each other. So creative and amazing!
2 More Days in the Green in Fairview
Art Bikers at the Green in Fairview today and yesterday. We are having such a good time with these kids, so much amazing creativity and invention.
Silly Faces and Fence Decorations at Ardmore Park
Art Bikers were welcomed back to Ardmore Park by community residents to continue the fence decorations (Silly Faces in other years). The fence has become a kind of "living mural" over the last few years. We are thrilled this community enjoys creating community art together and that we are invited back. Check out the photos of some of this year's additions to the fence. Thank you, Ardmore residents!
Printing Postcards at the Africville Reunion
We joined in the amazing Africville Reunion at Seaview park with lots of materials for participants to make postcards. We are grateful to have been part of a really wonderful community event and love all the art that was made and shared.
Youth Project Pride Decorations
The Art Bikers were happy to return to The Youth Project yesterday to helped create awesome props for their candy-themed float for the PRIDE parade. We were overwhelmed with the warmth and energy that the Youth Project shared with us. It was a great day of creating community & connections through art. Happy PRIDE to everyone!
Veith House Summer Camp
It was a first time activity for us to work with the kids at the Veith House summer camp and we liked this opportunity to create together with other residents of Veith House (the location of our studio this summer). The focus of the activity was exploring ways and materials to make different textures. It was great spending a creative afternoon with the campers!
Upcoming Dates and Locations
Bayers Westwood Parade Building
Art Bikers have been spending time in the Bayers Westwood community since our very first summer in 2007. We are always excited to return and see how old friends have grown over the winter and to meet the "new kids". This visit we all worked on building props, musical instruments, stilts, and costumes for a parade. Together we also made a giant creature named "Jeff" that the kids could walk under. The kids were so inventive - they were inspiring for us all!
Nature Weaving and Water Lanscapes at Chocolate Lake
Being at Chocloate Lake is fun, but making art at Chocolate Lake is even better! Art Bikers arrived with some bicycle rims, art materials, pop caps, and weaving materials. It didn't take long for participants to come up with all kinds of fun ways to creatively use the materials. The waterwheels made from bike rims were a creative piece of engineering. (Science and art working together in a way that seemed only about fun!)
Nature weaving is always a big hit and on this day was a relaxing break from the sun in a more shaded part of the park.
What a beautiful, art-filled, day!
Bayers Westwood Cardboard Creations
We had an awesome last couple days at Bayers Westwood. The kids are so creative and made lots of really inventive masks as well as a spaceship, make up dresser, superhero costumes, a cow, and an alligator - all out of cardboard!
What we are up to!
Earth Loom at Common Roots Farm
Evening in the Garden at Spryfield Urban Farm
Making a wish tree at the Evening in the Garden at the Spryfield Urban Farm, 2014.
Advice Exchange!
Advice Exchange!
It ended up to be a beautiful day for Pride Parade this year and the Art Bikers took advantage of such a great crowd of people to present a fun and interactive advice exchange booth!
We asked for people to leave their best advice, and feel free to read what others had left and to take some advice that spoke to them. People of all ages really enjoyed browsing through the sage words of their fellow Haligonians!
We managed to snap a few pictures...
Wish You Were Here!
Wish You Were Here!
Art Postcard making at Fuller Terrace Park
We spend a really wonderful day at this lovely little park in the North End of Halifax happily making art postcards to send to someone special...it was a day of making connections!
The families here were so pleased to have us and encouraged us to please come back again soon!
With our new friends, we made art postcards featuring our favorite places in the HRM and sent them to someone special explaining why we wished they were here. Our art was mailed in our magical postbox and sent off into the world! Will anyone write back?!?!
Creature Creations at Cornwallis Park
Creature Creations at Cornwallis Park
The first week of July marked the Art Bikers official launch party and we kicked things off with a 2 day project at Cornwallis Park downtown by the Westin/train station.
This was our first time at this park and found it to be a very pedestrian thoroughfare location, with local business people, sunbathers, traveler tourists, daycares, ESL students and day camps all passing through. We managed to entice more than a few to take part, creating whimsical contributions to our exquisite creatures, which became amazingly fantastical "stand in" panels that we left installed in the park for all to enjoy!
We really enjoyed meeting everyone who came by and we'd like to encourage the folks of HRM to take the time to go see these funny characters and take a few photos! Tag us on Facebook so we can see!
(www.facebook.com/artbikers)
The Sound of Ardmore
The Sound of Ardmore
The park was alive with the sound of music!
Our first project of the summer back at Ardmore park was a jam! We explored instrument making, playing together and recording sounds!
We built our own guitars, shakers, xylophones and drums out of recycled materials and found objects. Then we practiced playing them together using different rhythms and dynamics.
Our recordings are going to be made into a song available for all to hear! Coming soon!
Thanks to everybody who participated!
Dinosaur Day!
ROOAAAARRRRR!!!! DINOSAUR DAY!!
On July 23rd, we went back to hang out with our friends at Bayers Westwood. Except this time, we were all dinosaurs! We had a full day of dinosaur activities including curating a dinosaur museum, making a dino mural, creating skeletons which were then excavated from millions of years of fossilization, documenting our discoveries in notebooks, and finally EXPLODING A VOLCANO! We had a BLAST! Literally.
Splashy Painty Fun!
On July 19th, we went to Isleville Park to have the paintiest and messiest day of them all! We found a whole lot of enthusiastic kids to join us in our painty celebrations. We left behind a beautiful "art gallery" on the fence for all to see. Come check it out and don't be afraid to get messy and have FUN!
