Contemporary Kids: String Workshop
Sunday, March 19, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM
For children ages 4-12.
Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.
Children are encouraged to use string or yarn to make figures and compositions that tell stories of connectedness. While thinking about the pulls and pushes that make us feel happy, or sad, or grumpy or excited, the workshop offers prompts that convey the comforts and discomforts that we all encounter in our lives.
Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.
Sunday, March 19th
12 – 2pm
About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)
Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey.
She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building. She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.
About Antyx
Antyx works in communities across Calgary. Antyx community arts projects can have a neighbourhood focus or they may be focused on addressing community-identified issues. Arts are used in development processes to build community capacity and to creatively and critically engage people in processes that address important community issues.
Their work has a focus on engaging youth in their communities, school and neighbourhoods.
Antyx uses the arts to engage youth and spark their curiosity and commitment. Community arts projects provide opportunities for youth to make tangible contributions to their community and be recognized for those contributions. The arts open the door to self-reflection and self-expression, allowing youth to explore who they are and their place in the world.
About the artist,
Darija S. Radaković
Darija is a Bosnian-born, Canada-based, internationally recognized artist whose work is predominantly conceptual, whether it is a performance, ready-made, sculpture, textual work, assemblage, or a large-scale installation. The common denominator of her artistic practice is her honest confrontation with the issues that trigger her attention and exposing that confrontation to the audience.
As she experienced being a refugee in the ’90s, then being an immigrant two decades later, her art is questioning issues of identity, equality, social conflict, and freedom of expression.
She earned her BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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