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Young Makers Classes

SPRING AWAKENING! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS!

April 8 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

SPRING AWAKENING!  |  PA Day for Kids!

Monday, April 8, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm

PA Day camp has been changed to Monday April 8, to align with UGDSB PA Day schedule.  Please contact programming@ecfta.ca if you have registered and would like a refund for the Friday, April 19 PA Day.

If you have registered already for April 19, your spot is secure. Please join  us on Monday the 8th!

Ages 4-12  |  Max 36

$70 no hst

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April SHOWERS bring May FLOWERS in this creative-play-day featuring expressive watercolour painting and paper. Let’s spread our arms wide and welcome April as we explore all the things that Spring brings us and let our creativity shine in our cheery Art Classroom and Maker Space! (more…)

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THE MIRROR ROOM IN JUNE! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS!

June 7 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

The MIRROR ROOM in June!  | PA Day for Kids!

Friday, June 7, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm

Ages 4-12  |  Max 36

$70 no hst

Join us for a colourful and cheery day discovering Yayoi Kusama’s magical world of PA Day POLKADOTS and MIRRORS! We’ll be focusing on pattern, repetition, and bending & shaping space & time, so get your noggin’ ready! http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/

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Micro Mini MAKERS! | Miniature World Summer Art Camp

July 2 @ 9:00 am - July 5 @ 4:00 pm

MICRO MINI MAKERS!  |  Miniature World Camp

Tuesday, July 2 – Friday, July 5, 2024 (4 day camp)

9 am to 4 pm

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst  

It’s a micro-art world week! Small hands can make great art in a week full of tiny builds, small-scale sculptures, and mini masterpieces!

We will explore a mix-up of mediums all micro-focused on the miniature. It will be petite-week of pint-sized perfection!

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Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Summer Art Camp

July 8 @ 9:00 am - July 12 @ 4:00 pm

Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Camp

Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 12, 2024 

9 am to 4 pm

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst 

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Get ready to think outside of the box! Modernist thinkers and artists pushed the boundaries of art making and new materials and so will we!

We’ll explore the modernist teachings of the Bauhaus and focus our skills on developing Paul Klee-inspired block printmaking; 3-D architectural sculptures in the style of Wassily Kandinsky’s landscapes; and a kinetic wall sculpture that would make Maholy-Nagy proud!

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Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Summer Art Camp

July 15 @ 9:00 am - July 19 @ 4:00 pm

Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Camp

Monday, July 15 – Friday, July 19, 2024 

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst 

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Campers! Let your imagination go sky-high in this hi-octane art power pack week of science and art! Design and build your own model rocket throughout the week and turn them into kinetic flying works of art.

On Friday, we’ll make sparks fly and launch our rockets into the sky for a ka-pow display of our creative genius! We will explore new worlds where young artists have never gone before!

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POW! POP! PLAY! | Pop-Art Power Summer Art Camp

July 22 @ 9:00 am - July 26 @ 4:00 pm

POW! POP! PLAY! | POP-ART Power Camp

Monday, July 22 – Friday, July 26, 2024

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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Explore the colourful KA-POW world of pop culture in this big bold week featuring some big-wigs of the POP Art world!

Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein will come to visit and inspire a week full of eye-popping colour, bold design, printmaking, stencils, collage and paint!

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MYSTERY Mansions! | Design it+Build it Summer Art Camp

July 29 @ 9:00 am - August 2 @ 4:00 pm

MYSTERY Mansions! | DESIGN IT+BUILD IT! Camp

Monday, July 29 – Friday, August 2, 2024

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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Roll up your sleeves this week and get ready to design + build a MANSION of monolithic proportions! We will be the designers, architects, and creators of our own collaborative mysterious build. Behind every door is a new mystery!

In each room will have a secret to solve. From invisible ink messages, trap doors, and kinetic sculptures, we will create a mansion that will put the Winchester house to shame. Will you be able to find your way out of this mystery?

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ABC’s + LMNOP’s | Alphabet Summer Art Camp for Ages 4-6!

August 6 @ 9:00 am - August 9 @ 4:00 pm

ABC’s + LMNOP’s | ALPHABET ART Camp for AGES 4-6!

Tuesday, August 6 – Friday, August 9, 2024 (4 day camp)

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 4-6  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst  

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The alphabet offers 27 amazing opportunities to get creative! Let’s go all alphagetti this week and explore the world of the ABCDErian.

We’ll learn about unusual words from other cultures, alphabets from around the world, night writing for the dark, and create our own personal alphabet font!

This camp is designed for you youngest artists who are just entering their learning journey. Projects will be geared for our 4-6 year olds, with a day full of making fun and play. A great introduction to Summer Camp!

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OUTDOOR Explorers! | Plein-Air+More Summer Art Camp

August 12 @ 9:00 am - August 16 @ 4:00 pm

OUTDOOR Explorers! | PLEIN-AIR+MORE Camp

Monday, August 12 – Friday, August 16, 2024 

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst

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Let’s break out of the studio this week and head outdoors for some plein air in the fresh air and learn about some earth-shaking art movements that embrace the environment and the earth beneath our feet!

We’ll explore the tradition of plein air painting in the great outdoors, with a nod to the Group of Seven, and get some green-spiration from the Earth Art and Environmental Art movements.

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MAGICAL Creatures! | Draw+Doodle Summer Art Camp

August 20 @ 9:00 am - August 23 @ 4:00 pm

MAGICAL Creatures! | DRAW + DOODLE Camp

Tuesday, August 20 – Friday, August 23, 2024 (4 day camp)

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst  

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If you love, doodling, drawing, toons, anime, story booking or story boarding, this camp is for you!

Magical Creatures is a drawing-forward camp, focusing on pencil, ink, illustration markers, watercolour, fun fonts and text. This camp is perfect for the young illustrator in you!

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Small HUMANS Big ART! | Big Ideas Summer Art Camp

August 26 @ 9:00 am - August 30 @ 4:00 pm

Small HUMANS Big ART! | BIG IDEAS Camp

Monday, August 26 – Friday, August 30, 2024 

9 am to 4 pm 

Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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Small hands can make BIG work in this week of thinking big and making bigger! Let’s look at the world around us through a new lens…a magnifying lens!

In this thinking-big week, young artists will create monstrously sized insects that glide over the classroom; explore printmaking with the bountiful patterns found in nature; and join in a collaborative mural that takes its inspiration from the abstracted chaos of Jackson Pollock mixed with a kid-made Rorschach test.

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SPARROW’S NEST MAKERSPACE!

December 17 @ 3:30 pm - December 19 @ 5:30 pm

SPARROW’S NEST MAKERSPACE

TUESDAYS  |  AGES 10 +  

WEDNESDAYS  |  AGES 8-10 

THURSDAYS  |  AGES 10 +  

Contact sparrowsnestelora@gmail.com 

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