ARTS AT THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY UPDATE

[Don Keith]

OPEN TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTORS, PROFESSORS, AND GENERAL PUBLIC

 

Arts at the Heart of the Community

August 29 & 30, 2006  Kelowna B.C.

 

Conference Location - The Rotary Centre for the Arts and The Kelowna Art
Gallery

The Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna B.C. will be hosting an Arts
Educator's Conference August 29-30, 2006. Designed to inspire teachers of
drama, music, visual arts, media and dance at the start of a new school
year, the conference will feature guest speakers and a variety of workshops
in all aspects of Arts Education. We will celebrate the ways in which the
learner and community intertwine and support one another expressively. This
conference is open to all Arts teachers in the Province, and will focus on
Advocacy and Professional Development for Elementary and Secondary School
teachers and Administrators. 

 

"The arts must be at the heart of every child's experience if they are to
have a chance to dream and to create, to have beliefs, and to carry a sense
of cultural identity"   James D. Wolfensohn, former chairman of The Kennedy
Centre

 

Conference Schedule August 29    

 

8:30      Creative Group Activity 

9:00      Keynote  Dr. Stuart Richmond (Mary Irwin Theatre)

10:00    Coffee Break

10:15    Round Table Discussion  ~ small group discussion inspired by
keynote

11:30    Lunch ~ on your own

1:00      Workshops  - Rotary Centre and Kelowna Art Gallery

3:00      Complimentary "Tapas" and cash wine bar

 

Conference Schedule August 30

 

8:30      Creative Group Activity 

9:00      Keynote Dr. Sharon McCoubrey  (Mary Irwin Theatre)

10:00    Coffee Break

10:15    Round Table Discussion ~ small group discussion inspired by keynote

11:30    Lunch

1:00      Workshops - Rotary Centre for the Arts and Kelowna Art Gallery

3:00      Complimentary Tapas and cash wine bar

 

Keynotes

 

August 29    Dr. Stuart Richmond 

 

"The Arts, Community and the Authentic Learner"

 

Overview: The Arts are forms of understanding that develop mind, feeling,
imagination, and touch, and thus are very powerful emotionally. They involve
aesthetics, and can be practiced for their own sakes, which teaches us about
intrinsic value, but also, as with the development of appreciation for the
environment they can have significant social and community response.

 

 

Stuart Richmond is Professor and Coordinator of Arts Education at Simon
Fraser University. He was founding Dean of the School of Creative Arts,
Sciences and Technology at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Director of
the Simon Fraser Gallery, and Editor of the Canadian Review of Art
Education.  He has published in the leading international journals of arts
education, and he taught for several years in the public schools of Alberta
and BC. In 2003 was appointed Visiting Professor at the Tianjin Academy of
Fine Art, China. His exhibition, "Medieval Places: Recent Photographs of
French Romanesque Architecture" was held at Alliance Francaise in Vancouver
in May, 2006.  

 

August 30  Dr Sharon McCoubrey  

 

 "Arts Education is Alive and Well"

Experiences in the arts continue to be vital aspects of children's learning
and development.  This is being recognized by national and international
organizations, and is resulting in some initiatives that produce hope for
all arts educators.  Along with the examples of inspiring projects and
effective work that prompt us to celebrate are some challenges that
hopefully prompt us to action.

 

 

Dr. Sharon McCoubrey is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education
at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.  She is President of the
Canadian Society for Education through Art, and on the Executive of the BC
Art Teachers Association.  She has a BEd and a MEd from the University of
Victoria, and a PhD from UBCV.  She has been awarded the "Art Educator of
the Year Award" from the National Association for Education through Art
(Chicago, 1993), from the Canadian Society for Education through Art
(Montreal, 1997), and the BC Art Teachers' Association (Vancouver, 2002).
Dr. McCoubrey has authored several art education resource books, and has
research interests in all aspects of art education, in aboriginal education,
teachers' beliefs, and assessment.  She serves as Chair of a municipal
Public Art Commission, Chair of Lake Country ArtWalk, is a Director of the
Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, and when possible, finds time to spend
in her studio painting.

 

 

Please check out our website www.rotarycentreforthearts.com
<http://www.rotarycentreforthearts.com/>  for complete information, keynotes
and workshops.  

 

CLICK ON COURSES/SUMMER/ARTS EDUCATORS

 

Registration cost   $100.00 plus gst before June 30     $150.00 plus gst
after June 30

 

 

Don Keith

Education Coordinator

Rotary Centre for the Arts

421 Cawston Ave

Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6Z1

250-717-5304  ext 111

 

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