Live & Learn Centre
86 Dawson Rd N1H1A8 Guelph, ON, Canada

Celebrating the last week of the Live & Learn program before the X-mas break with our Annual secret Santa gift exchange Happy Holidays everyone

Here's your Monday morning headlines from our Supportive Arts program! Last week was 'Triangle Tree Forest' week, where we incorporated design, collaboration, ...mark making, patterning and learning from one another. We used oil pastels on spray-painted triangle templates to share ideas about designs for trees in all four seasons. Students volunteered to teach one another a set of marks or pattern to add to their trees. ECFTA Arts Instructor Eileen MacArthur helped us build on each other's ideas and created a lively, shared forest of trees. The act of repetition encouraged artists to consider variations on a design they already used. For our second project we practiced drawing trees by layering oil pastel, starting with the leaves and then adding the trunk and branches! During Mindfulness & Movement, Steph Toohill brought us lively choreography cards with "stickman" figures to inspire dance movement in our bodies. These figures mirrored shapes we have been exploring in our first weeks together. Dancing is always a favourite with this group! ECFTA Arts Educator Judy Anderson continues to work with the group on our collaborative mural (stay tuned for more on that later!!!) Thank you to the gang at Live & Learn Guelph for hosting our sessions every week, and for your enthusiasm and passion for this project. The growth of this program is thanks to an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant over the next 3 years. #OTF #eloracentreforthearts #ECFTA #liveandlearn #SupportiveArts #allabilities #artandmindfulness #inclusion #artforallabilities Ontario Trillium Foundation Live & Learn Centre Arthur School of Art Sparrow's Nest Elora, Ontario Fergus, Ontario The Wellington Advertiser The Grand at 101 Township of Centre Wellington County of Wellington Events in Elora Judy Anderson

Someone very special is in the worry box when you open it today. . I just loved hearing this today during our mindfulness lesson with Stephanie Lines-Toohill

Swag Wear Art projects completed International Day For Persons With Disabilities Mural Engaged participants Outdoor adventures New Giftables products coming your way We’ve been busy

The holiday season is a great time to take a minute to slow down, breathe, and recognize all of the things that you love! take a look at what some of the Live & Learn participants are acknowledging this holiday season.

Here's something heartwarming to brighten your Monday! Last week our all-inclusive Tuesday & Thursday Supportive Arts sessions were all about nature's palette ...and scents! We used our imaginations to wander out into nature to paint "en plein air". Our source photo helped us create these vibrant autumn acrylic landscapes in oranges, greens and blues on black canvas. ECFTA Arts Educator Judy Anderson loved seeing the many variations and expressive brushwork done by all our amazing young artists. Two of our participants even created work using AJ Casson’s 'Little Island' as inspiration! So great JD and Kerri! During Mindfulness & Movement with our serenity leader Stephanie Toohill, we used our sense of smell to find moments of mindfulness with sprigs of fresh mint, coriander leaves, cinnamon bark and a drop of lavender oil. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the beauty of nature and (literally) stop and smell the coriander! This program is made possible thanks to an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. #OTF #SupportiveArts #ECFTA #allabilities #artandmindfulness #inclusion #artforallabilities Ontario Trillium Foundation Judy Anderson Sparrow's Nest Live & Learn Centre Township of Centre Wellington County of Wellington Elora, Ontario Elora Centre for the Arts Fergus, Ontario Guelph Ontario The Wellington Advertiser The Grand at 101

L & L had a blast in creating Nature snow globes and Holiday Ornaments with the Elora Centre for the Arts last week. Participants also finished their Coffee house mugs, participated in Archery and had a great takeout lunch with Eastside Marios. A great week had by all

Exciting News Alert Live & Learn and Cottage Getaways have launched Swag Wear Merchandise!! Please note that in hopes to receive the items before the ...Christmas holidays, that the deadline for all order submissions are on November 19th at 11:59pm. Please ensure you will be able to pick up any purchased items at the Live & Learn Centre when they arrive as we are unable to mail or deliver at this time. Please email your order form to [email protected] Please email an e-transfer to [email protected] immediately to ensure your submission We are SO excited!

A horse of course! This week in our Supportive Arts program we created soft and beautifully-smudgy chestnut horse drawings using various shades of conte and tra...nsfers, led by our talented ECFTA art educator, Eileen MacArthur. A wonderful group of drawings by all of the artists! We ended our session with Mindfulness & Movement, where we explored our sense of sight by looking through kaleidoscope windows with the insightful Steph Toohill. The colours helped us see everyday objects with new perspectives and offered our minds the time to find joy in unexpected places. This program is made possible through the support of an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. For safety reasons, we are taking the program on the road and running the program at Live & Learn Centre. #OTF #SupportiveArts #ECFTA #allabilities #artandmindfulness #inclusion #artforallabilities Ontario Trillium Foundation Live & Learn Centre Arthur School of Art Sparrow's Nest Judy Anderson Township of Centre Wellington County of Wellington Elora, Ontario Elora Centre for the Arts The Wellington Advertiser The Grand at 101