Artist in Residence Workshops for School Children

Thanks, in part, to generous funding provided by the Government of British Columbia, the City of Coquitlam and Westminster Savings, Place des Arts presented four free Artist-in-Residence workshops for local school students in our 2018-2019 season.

• October 2018 – Violin 101 with Genevieve MacKay
• November/December 2018 – Storytelling with Jo Billows
• February 2019 – Introduction to Classical Indian Music with Sharanjeet Singh Mand
• April 2019 – I Am Traditionally Contemporary with Christine Mackenzie

Please check back in the summer to learn about our 2019-2020 Artist-in-Residence program.

Learn more about our 2018/19 Artists in Residence

View a short video and e-book created by artist Jocelyn Sanchez as a legacy project of artist in residence Jo Billows’ storytelling workshops held for local school children and during our annual seasonal event, Reflections: Lantern Making and Storytelling in December, 2018.

The participants in these workshops created personal and collective reflections around the statement, “I am from.” Sanchez used these “reflections” to create her illustrations that illuminate the diversity and connections within our community.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. It is not our differences that divide us, it is the inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those difference. ~ Maya Angelou