The Cultural Campus offers the beginner, student, amateur and professional participant in the performance and creative arts an opportunity to study more deeply explore their skills and talents in their chosen field through specific intensive retreats.

These intensives will feature first class instructors chosen for their ability to inspire and who are appropriate for the level of study being undertaken.

Our initial offering of the cultural campus will be limited as we more fully explore this wonderful opportunity as a part of the operating strategy of the new cultural and lifestyle centre.

 

Joy Laking Painting Workshop --- May 21-23, 2008

Joy is a full time watercolour painter. After graduating from University with a degree in art thirty-four years ago, she has lived and painted in Nova Scotia. She is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and has had national solo exhibitions including one at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia which the AGNS subsequently toured for a year. Joy has painted in many countries including Japan, Thailand, Peru, Turkey, Spain, France and Italy. She was a popular night school watercolour teacher for twenty years retiring from this ten years ago.

Creative Orchestra Workshop --- July 8-12, 2008

Proficient musicians with improvisational experience interested in building an improvising orchestra from scratch are invited to enroll in a 5 day intensive course led by three master musicians:Lisle Ellis – bass and circuitry (NYC) , Pierre Tanguay - drums (Montreal) and Paul Cram – clarinet/saxophone (Halifax).