MakerFaire at The Rooms
Date: Nov 27
4:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Level 2 & 3 Atrium
Family
Bring the whole family to The Rooms for our 2nd MakerFaire! Enjoy an evening of creativity and making, meet and work with local artists and learn all about communication and multiliteracies right in the Atrium! Students from Beachy Cove Elementary, Lakecrest Independent School, the Newfoundland and Labrador Association for the Deaf, Mary Queen of Peace, St. Bonaventure's College and St. Kevin's have been very busy this fall! They have created artworks that communicate about their culture and identity - and all their work will be on exhibition at The Rooms! We'll have local artists working at Makerspaces throughout the Atrium. Bookbinding, printmaking and portraiture are some of the hands-on activities to try.You can create an artwork to take home or add to the display, try your hand at a bookbinding stitch, upcycle an old t-shirt into new fashion or learn some American Sign Language. All are welcome! Free to attend!
Events & Programs
Two very significant, early European paintings depicting Newfoundland are coming to The Rooms in early November for an extended exhibition. These works by the Dutch artist Gerard van Edema may be the earliest European paintings of Newfoundland (if not of North America). It is thought that he may have visited the island in the late 1600s to travel and sketch along the “English Shore” between Bonavista and Trepassey.
Who was Edema? How and why did he come to Newfoundland? What do we know about these works and why they were created?
Rooms Curator Mireille Eagan moderates a conversation about these paintings with Heidi Sobol, Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Mark Ferguson, Collections Program Supervisor at The Rooms.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.