“Basically, we human beings, what we do is we tell stories. We tell stories about everything.” Raquel Rivera Writing Workshops to Understand Ourselves, Our Experiences and the World We [...]
As we adjust further into life with physical distancing, we are discovering more about the ways we can reach youth with online art education. Listening to young students speak [...]
'The purpose of art is to comfort the disturbed, and to disturb the comfortable', and that’s what I want to do.” - Deanna Smith (Quote by Cesar A Cruz, [...]
the tanline of a book on my thigh -Grand Prize winning poem of the Great Summer Haiku Contest This summer’s winner of the Great Summer Haiku Contest, hosted [...]
St. Thomas High School in Pointe Claire did a unit on Graphic Novels for their Grade 11 English classes. They brought in Raquel Rivera, a writer with a background [...]
Award winning writer Monique Polak, gave two remote writing workshops to the students of Saint-Francis Elementary School in Richmond, located in the Eastern Townships. Her workshop was delivered video [...]
Writer Raquel Rivera was welcomed to Heritage Elementary School in Huntingdon, in Quebec’s Chateauguay region. In the library for a full day, Raquel conducted half hour workshops for Grades [...]
We all have a story to tell! Patti Warnock was welcomed to Ayer’s Cliff Elementary School to lead the grades 3 to 6 students in her W.R.I.T.E. ® Storytelling [...]
Poet, writer, and spoken word performer Deanna Smith worked with teachers and students at her alma mater, Laval Senior Academy. Deanna’s workshops on Black Canadian history were offered to [...]
At Verdun Elementary School students created their own pop-up books, using watercolor pencil crayons and various types of paper. Brush techniques for these materials and simple paper-folding styles for pop-ups were [...]
