Sunday October 1st Leigh Waters – Celebrating our Resilience and Creativity
In mid October it will be 1 year of in person services after the pandemic. Can you believe it’s been only a year? It seems longer. To celebrate our resilience and commemorate our gathering again in person, I have designed a group art project specifically for Unitarians and Capital. The art will transform the space at New Horizons by your contribution of visual art, poetry, and music. And, we can create this together in the 20 minutes of a Sunday Service Homily. The visual art part is inspired by the stained glass windows of old churches and mandalas of Eastern religions.
The art making is inclusive of all ages, and for people of varying art inclination, abilities and skills. Out of town people can participate as well. You don’t need to do anything before the October 1st service, HOWEVER there is an option to mail in a small art works to me by September 29th if you attend by zoom, so it can be added to the whole. Or you can bring your art contribution if you attend in person if wish to make some beforehand. You may also choose a poem to post in the zoom chat during the service, or read aloud. Please email me with your choice and the words of the poem to, Leigh’s email.
This next paragraph is for people who make art to send by the mail or be printed out by Leigh. Address: 6-555 St Charles street, Victoria BC V8S 3N7, leiwtrs@gmail.com. You may write or call Leigh if you need further instructions or have questions, 250 418-8898. Also for those who want to bring a work the day of. Instructions:
Take a white sheet of paper such as printer paper and make it into a square. All the squares need to be 8.5 by 8.5 inches, or 6 by 6 inches, used in a diamond shape though. You may also use a circle 6 inches across. We will be making designs based on mandalas/circles, the art representing the cosmos (macro) and our world (the micro). And in diamond shapes, often seen in the stained glass windows of old European churches. The design can be abstract or it can be representational such as a photograph you have taken, or a drawing. A square of knitting or crocheting is very good too but it must be mounted/taped to white paper. You may repurpose paper that has been printed on as long as it is white. There are a number of approaches to the art you can make with this paper but the size is standard. The other standard is that there must be a circle shape in the design somewhere or the design based on a circle or mandala (radiating from the center). All small works will be joined together to form one larger work.
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