Clay Workshop: Your Story in Clay
Date: Dec 5
12:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
Where: Art Gallery Classroom
Workshop
Your Story in Clay
Working with stoneware clay, participants will first experience Shary Boyle's "Outside the Palace of Me" exhibition and will have the opportunity to incorporate themes and inspiration from the exhibition in a 3-hour clay workshop. Workshop participants will use personal items such as heirlooms, textures, textiles and other important found objects in the home to add to their sculpture work. This is a fundamentals workshop and will introduce participants to working with the medium of clay.
No previous experience working with clay is necessary.
Pre-registration is required. Limited seats available. Cost is $132.25 (All materials included), 10% Discount for members.
To register, please contact Visitor Services at 757-8090. For more information on the workshop schedule and content, please contact Joy Barfoot via email joybarfoot@therooms.ca
Restrictions due to COVID 19 will be in place for everyone’s safety. Masks and proof of vaccination with ID required.
In partnership with the Craft Council Clay Studio
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Join us each day for an interpretive guided tour in one of our galleries. From the story of the Cod fishery to visiting a current art exhibition to a Family Rainbow tour, there is something for everyone.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.
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Join us each day for an interpretive guided tour in one of our galleries. From the story of the Cod fishery to visiting a current art exhibition to a Family Rainbow tour, there is something for everyone.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.
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Please join us for a conversation with Sophie Angnatok, an Inuk throat singer and drum dancer from Nain, Nunatsiavut.
Sophie has been practicing the art of throat-singing and traditional Inuit drumming for 20 years and plays an active role within her local urban Inuit community.
Learn about her love of Inuit culture, the knowledge she shares in the community, her relationship with The Rooms, and her experiences in the Inuit drum dance group, Kilautiup Songuninga (Strength of the Drum).
Sophie performed for the Canadian Prime Minister during the Truth and Reconciliation apology for Labradorimut, the Governor General of Canada, and the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2024, she was the inaugural recipient of the Chris Brookes Memorial Award for “artists effecting positive change in the world”.
This is a free event but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or by calling (709)757-8090.