LOST CAT! OXYGEN OFFERS FREE ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP WITH RAYYA LIEBICH
Altered Books with Rayya Liebich
Saturday, February 24, 2024
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: Oxygen Art Centre, #3-320 Vernon St. (alleyway access behind Baker St.)
Admission is free
Oxygen Art Centre presents a series of community art events entitled Lost Cat! Taking place during the Spring 2024 semester, the series offers free art-making sessions with local artists.
The third workshop of the series takes place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Oxygen Art Centre. Writer and educator Rayya Liebich leads the workshop, which will guide participants in altered book and poetry practices.
This all levels, all ages workshop is for anyone who likes to create and doesn’t want to be bound by rules! Using the container of a hardcover discarded book, participants will be introduced to a variety of artistic mediums (blackout poetry, book folding, collage, stenciling, stamping, and more) to transform their book into a unique creation.
This hands-on and fun project reveals infinite possibilities of creative play, celebrates divergent thinking, and results in artworks as diverse as the people who made them. Inspiring examples and a wide array of materials will be provided.
The public are invited to attend the third Lost Cat! event at Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All materials provided. No experience necessary. Interested participants are expected to take part in the full two-hour session. Contact Oxygen Art Centre with any questions about the sessions or access needs to the facility.
Lost Cat! is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Learn more about upcoming events via Oxygen’s website and social media.
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Image Credit: Rayya Liebich, headshot, 2023; Courtesy the artist
Press Contact:
Julia Prudhomme
Executive Director
Oxygen Art Centre
250-551-6329
Artist Bio:
Rayya LIEBICH (she/her) is a Canadian writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. Winner of the Richard Carver Award for Emerging Writers (2019), The Geneva Literary Award (2015), and The Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award (2015), she holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and a B. Ed from The University of Victoria. Her debut full-length poetry collection Min Hayati was released in 2021 by Inanna Publications and her poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals internationally. Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she teaches poetry and CNF to youth and adults in beautiful Nelson, BC.
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Natasha Smith (she/her)
Education Coordinator/ oxygen art centre
#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance.
Nelson, British Columbia
Tel: 250 551 6329
Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.