Four art exhibits created by local elementary school students will be on public display during Peterborough’s four-day Canada 150 celebrations from Thursday, June 29th to Sunday, July 2nd.
Peterborough’s “Celebrate at Home’ Canada 150th Committee, in partnership with the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, sponsored the Canada-themed art projects at a dozen schools across Peterborough.
“The committee wanted to make sure we engaged students and school communities so that their voices were included in this important celebration of our country in our city,” says Galen Eagle, the Canada 150th Committee Communications Chair. “The art exhibits will be a must-see and should give residents another great reason to celebrate at home.”
The Art School of Peterborough helped develop and facilitate the art projects in local schools over the last several month and students are busy putting the final touches on their work.
The students have already created hundreds of unique artworks that will be shown in local schools, and a selection of the works will from the four public art exhibits that will be display at the Silver Bean Café in Millennium Park, the Charlotte Mews Tunnel, Hunter Street, and on the path and stairs between the Peterborough Museum and Archives and the Peterborough Lift Lock.
In addition to the student art exhibits, the Canada 150th Committee announced a special photography project called “Sparking Memories.” Throughout the four days of Canada 150th celebrations in Peterborough, volunteer photographers from the SPARK Photo Festival will be capturing the sights and sounds for a special 150th exhibit in the future.
Here are the four student exhibits that will be on public display:
Canada Growing Strong
Students from St. Catherine Catholic Elementary School have created and colourfully painted 150 clay flowers representing provincial flowers from across Canada. Displayed together, the flowers make a powerful statement about the beauty that unites our provinces coast-to-coast.
The exhibit runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from June 29 to July 2 on the west side of the Silver Bean Café in Millennium Park,
Canada-mation
Students from St. Alphonsus Catholic Elementary School, St. Paul Catholic Elementary School Peterborough, and Chemong Public School have created Canada-themed claymation videos.
The videos will be projected on the Charlotte Mews tunnel in downtown Peterborough throughout the four days of celebrations.
Canada Assembled
In this interactive exhibit, students from St. Anne Catholic Elementary School have created large wooden puzzle pieces that can be assembled to create the Canada 150th logo.
The exhibit will be display from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, June 30th on Hunter Street, when the road will be open to pedestrians only as part of downtown Peterborough’s Canada 150 celebrations.
Canada Walking Forward
Students from St. Paul Catholic Elementary School Peterborough and Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School have created and colourfully painted 150 clay footprints. The footprints are imprints of the students’ own feet and have been decorated to answer the question “What does Canada mean to you?”
The exhibit will be on display from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 2nd, along the path and stairs that connect the Peterborough Museum and Archives to the Peterborough Lift Lock grounds, as part of the day of heritage-related activities.
All the Canada 150 celebrations over four days in Peterborough are free. Some events are subject to last-minute changes, and other events are weather dependent. For more information and for last-minute updates on Peterborough’s Canada 150th celebration schedule, visit www.peterborough.ca/ptbo150, www.facebook.com/PTBO150, or @Ptbo150, and search for the hashtag #Ptbo150 on social media.
