Registration for winter Art Club is now live! We can’t wait to make art with you! Click the button at the top of this page to register for our Swallowing Clouds Art Club Programming 🎶💃🏻🎨
Saturday, January 11th, 2025 , 10:00am – 11:30am *Guest Artist: Heather Wolf
Saturday, January 18th, 2025, 10:00am – 11:30am *Guest Artist: Brandon Valdivia
Saturday, January 25th, 2025, 10:00am – 11:30am *Guest Artist: Sarah Burgoyne
Saturday, February 1st, 2025, 10:00am – 11:30am
Swallowing Clouds presents: Art Club! A series of all ages welcome art-making sessions, hosted on Zoom. Art Club focuses on individual and collaborative creation within a supportive community setting. Participants are encouraged to participate in any way they feel comfortable, it’s all about giving space for creativity without any pressure or expectation!
Participants will be led by Swallowing Clouds facilitators as well as special guest artists through various activities which will inspire and ignite a creative spark. Participants will then be offered creative prompts to help guide their creation process and given time for independent creation, all from the comfort of their own home! Participate alone or collaborate with anyone else in your home that needs a bit of creativity in their life. Come as you are, no artistic experience necessary, all ages and abilities are welcome!
This season, we are interested in the process of song-writing and we’ll be exploring the theme with our guests Heather Wolf, Brandon Valdivia, and Sarah Burgoyne. Our past guest artists have included a Chinese Opera Performer, a Jingle Dress Dancer and Beadmaker, and a Singer and Musician, a Kathak dancer and choreographer, a tabla artist and composer, a poet, an animator and Capoeira artist, puppet and theatre artists, costume designers and many more!
Participation Fee Statement
TPDP is introducing a small participation fee for Art Club to help cover the cost of running the program. As a not-for-profit organization, we value providing high quality and enriching arts education programming and this fee helps us continue to do so. We intend to keep our programming as accessible as possible, so if this fee creates a barrier to participation for you, please reach out to us at artsedu.assist@princessproductions.ca for subsidized registration. Those who are inspired and able to make a bigger contribution, can make a donation when registering for Art Club.
Donations of $25 and above will receive a charitable tax receipt.
Option 1: $20 for all four sessions
Option 2: $10 per session
Option 3: $5 per session
Option 4: $3 per session
Option 5: Subsidized (please reach out to artsedu.assist@princessproductions.ca for this option)
Please choose the option that best suits your needs.
If you are unable to make a session that you have paid for, credit will be given toward another session of Art Club. Refunds will be handled on a case-by-case basis. To request a refund, please reach out to artsedu.assist@
Values Statement
Our team of facilitators are thoughtful about the content they share with participants and we believe our offerings to be family friendly. We are a company that is proud to present and support artists from a variety of practices, backgrounds and identities including BIPOC artists, Queer artists, artists with disabilities and other underrepresented voices. We value freedom in creative expression and acknowledge that through this lens, our choices may not exactly align with others in our community. We respect that individuals can reasonably disagree on what content is family friendly.
Disclaimer
The content presented during the program is, in our opinion, appropriate for all ages, however artists that are presented do not create content exclusively for children.
A note about Zoom:
Our Zoom workshops work best when participants share their video feed with us. We have had wonderful results when the participants stay with us keeping their visual feeds live. In the pursuit of creating a safe space, facilitators will ask participants to turn their camera on during the check-in to say or wave ‘hello’ at the beginning of each session. This is to ensure we are aware of who we are sharing the digital space with. However, if you have questions/concerns about this, please reach out to our team to discuss options.
For more information, email: info@princessproductions.ca
Guest Artist #1 – Heather Wolf
Heather Wolf Artist for the Remembrance of Folk WisdomBrewess, herbalist, musician, facilitator, voice teacher, and sacred circle practitioner from the islands of the Salish Sea, Heather is devoted to the study of folk wisdom traditions and the remembrance of our ancestral heritages. Running through her work is a conviction that these arts and practices – carried by the collective, belonging to the whole, and forming the vital foundation of every healthy culture – can help us embody our relatedness to other humans and the living world. Heather leads private sessions, retreats, and workshops worldwide, gives mythopoeic ritual performances of folk song & story with the mountain dulcimer, and performs with her bands Wild Revival & Witch Pop. She is lead trainer for Teen Talking Circles.
www.heatherwolf.love @heatherwolf (instagram)
Guest Artist #2 – Brandon Valdivia
Brandon Miguel Valdivia is a drummer, percussionist and composer based in London, Ontario. Over the past twenty years Valdivia has emerged as one of the most prolific musicians in Canada. He is primarily known for his contributions to groups such as Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Picastro, The Cosmic Range and Lido Pimienta. In addition to these projects Valdivia has also been heard alongside the likes of such diverse groups such as Laraaji, Bomba Estéreo,Tanya Tagaq, Sook-Yin Lee, U.S. Girls, Anthony Braxton, Jeremy Dutcher, and as remixer for Run The Jewels. He amassed Juno Award nominations, Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations and two Polaris Prizes. He has worked extensively in music for dance and theatre having collaborated with Aluna Theatre, Cinnamoon Collective with whom he was nominated for a DORA award for original composition.
Brandon’s work as his solo project as Mas Aya integrates his eclectic musical activities of his life: exploring his studies of Global musical traditions combining with contemporary electronic musical expressions. He has garnished international acclaim with recent releases on Telephone Explosion Records with 2021’s “Máscaras” and 2024’s “Coming and Going,” receiving warm critical reception from such sources as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, CBC, the New York Times and more.
Guest Artist #3 – Sarah Burgoyne
Sarah Burgoyne is the author of Because the Sun (Coach House: 2021) and Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016). She has been published widely across Canada and the US and has forthcoming work in Poetry Magazine.