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HOT SPOT: Anvil Centre

HOT SPOT Anvil Centre: The city’s downtown arts and cultural hub has released its spring programming brochure – and the centre is packed with programs for all ages, abilities and interests. Here are just a few of the highlights.
New West Record
anvil Centre, Making Scaries
Kids and seniors joined forces for a Making Scaries exhibition at the Anvil Centre last year. The centre is once again a hot spot for folks for all ages, as its spring programming guide is packed with ideas of all kinds.Record files

HOT SPOT

Anvil Centre: The city’s downtown arts and cultural hub has released its spring programming brochure – and the centre is packed with programs for all ages, abilities and interests. Here are just a few of the highlights.

 

FOR THE KIDS

Kids aged two to four can take part in Art Splash (starting April 2) and Movers & Shakers (starting April 10). The five-to-sevens can take part in Dance Essentials (starting April 10) and the five-to-eights can sign up for Art in the Streets (starting April 9) and help work on street banners for the city.

Older kids can explore contemporary dance (starting April 10), design street banners (starting April 9) or join a Shakespeare Playground (starting April 6).

 

FOR THE ARTY

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, you can try your hand at a host of programs. Among the offerings are Drawing and Watercolour Basics (starting April 7), Mixed Media Explorations (starting April 9), Monoprint (May 7), Linocut (May 14) and a Papergirl Presents: Mandala Drawing Wrokshop (May 7).

 

FOR THE YOGI

Try your hand (er, body) at a variety of yoga options: Inner Heat Power Yoga (starting May 7), Yoga for Beginners (starting May 7), or Parent and Baby Yoga (starting April 27).

 

FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SEEKER

Join in the Museum Book Club (for ages 16 and up) and discuss non-fiction literature related to one of the gallery’s current exhibitions. This month it’s all about Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art, by Ossian Ward, and the meeting is on Saturday, April 30.

Or join in Senior’s World (for the 50-and-up crowd) at Anvil Centre for a day of special activities surrounding the feature exhibitions – that’s Wednesdays, April 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Or, on International Museums Day, drop in to explore all the cultural spaces and galleries and take tours with curators and artisans. That’s May 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

FOR MORE

That’s just a taste of what’s on offer. Stop in to the Anvil Centre at 777 Columbia St. to check out the galleries and museums for yourself, or download a spring program guide at www.tinyurl.com/AnvilCentreSpring2016.