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The Year Of the Snake- Snake Lantern evening

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h4>>The Winter solstice in December 2012 will once again see the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens in downtown Vancouver’s Chinatown lit up with 100’s of beautiful lanterns to celebrate the longest, darkest night of the year.  One of these lanterns was created specially this week in an enlightening and creative evening hosted together by the Gardens and the Eco-arts team. Led by Jacquie …

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Follow the Snake – Feb 8, 10, 17 and beyond…

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h4>>Snake in the News Province http://www.theprovince.com/news/foot+long+sculpture+marks+Year+Snake+Vancouver+garden/7896041/story.html Westender http://www.wevancouver.com/news/190029651.html Metro Vancouver cover photo February 8 on Breakfast TV with Dawn Chubai and on Shaw TV Lunaria snake and artist Jacquie Rolston were interviewed on CBC On the Coast February 8. Have you sighted …

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Winter Solstice Lantern Festival 2012

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h4>>Everyone is welcome to participate in this year's Winter Solstice lantern festival celebration at Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. We will once again have our giant community white-cube lantern at the event ready to be decorated by visitors. Please stop by and contribute to make it even more beautiful this year. This year we invite you to our Eco-Arts Salon at the Garden on Tuesday, …

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Hearts and Arts

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h4>>Hearts and Arts After our two heart-themed (and heart-felt) community arts dialogues, we've gotten rather attached to the theme of heART. Thank you to Jacquie Rolston for the poster designs.   September: Change of heART:  Self-Empowerment by Design October: Take Heart! Take Part! January: Heart to Heart: Art to Art   We recently tallied up the kinds of images we …

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Year of the Snake – Come make a lantern and eco-arts sculpture for Winter Solstice and Lunar New Year

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h4>>We'll make a lantern head from lunaria (silver dollar plant, honesty or money plant). This is the time of year to harvest these, and we'll need lots. Please save them for us. If you're not sure what this plant is, read up on it here. Jacquie Rolston is the artist who will be coordinating the lantern project. Groups will be invited to make part of the snake's body from ivy or other invasive …

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Bee Lantern

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h4>>We designed a few options for a bee lantern (for Folk Fest procession and other events) at the Cross-Pollinating Community Eco-Arts Salon on Wed. May 23. Here are some lanterns and sculpture done by others that inspired us:   Here are a couple of prototypes in progress:   Another option is a bee hive made with hexagonal modules of bamboo and then covered in tissue or …

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