Overly Creative Minds

Just a little speak peek snap of tonight’s performance! Tune in THIS EVENING @ 7pm to experience this year's UNYA OCM Talking Stick Festival Youth Performance: Virtual Medicine: The Voices of Turtle Island Youth! VIEW the performance on VIMEO when the video is aired and made available at 7pm @ https://vimeo.com/513612046 The link will also be available on https://fullcircle.ca/... Show Description: For more than a decade, UNYA’s Overly Creative Minds (OCM) Program has been providing space for youth to find and strengthen their voice through the arts. Virtual Medicine showcases the tremendous talent and work of emerging artists from the urban Indigenous community. From music to poetry, hip-hop and dance, come bear witness to what our youth have to say through the performing arts!

THIS SUNDAY @ 7PM! Join us for a LIVESTREAM of this year’s UNYA OCM Talking Stick Festival Youth Performance: Virtual Medicine: The Voices of Turtle Island Youth! This year’s VIRTUAL performance features an AWESOME lineup of youth talent in hiphop, animation, story telling, song, dance & more! ... Tune in to bear witness to what these talented Indigenous Youth performers have to say through the performing arts! STAY TUNED for links to the livestream, Facebook event, and more info on how to watch.

We hope you all had a safe and wonderful weekend We'll be kicking off this Monday with UNYA2GO from 1-4pm. You know the drill! Come on by and grab snacks, gift cards, bus tickets, paints, small canvases, paint brushes, school supplies, pencils, pens, sketch books, felt pens, rattle, baby moccasin, and medicine bag making kits, embroidery kits, masks and more! WHEN: Every MONDAY between 1-4pm!... WHERE: @ the back alley entrance to the OCM studio @ UNYA, 1618 E Hastings! Youth can text or message us on Facebook and Instagram @unyaocm for info and to schedule a time to drop by: Keilah 606-353-3570 Catherine: 604-379-5068 IMPORTANT: Please make sure that you can answer "NO" to all of the "safer meetings" questions in this post before attending. Please attend at a later date if you answer "yes" to any or are feeling unwell. Let's help to keep each other safe!

In this special edition of Art At Home Live, Christina Jones, Family Programs Coordinator, will be joined by Keilah Lukenbill-Williams and Catherine Louis from ...UNYA - Urban Native Youth Association’s Overly Creative Minds Program. Together, they will explore the artwork and impact of renowned Coast Salish artist Susan Point. Susan Point is a contemporary artist of Musqueam heritage who combines her Coast Salish cultural knowledge with her own unique vision. Point’s work serves to remind all who live on the unceded ancestral territory of the xmkym (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and slililwta (Tsleil-Waututh) nations of the knowledge that has existed on this land for thousands of years. Taking inspiration from the theme of interconnection and using washable markers and upcycled Styrofoam, Christina will teach us how to create an artwork that expresses your own knowledge and unique vision of the world around you. Join us to learn more!

Hey UNYA youth! Happening NEXT WEEK, Wednesday, December 9th at 1pm!: Experience the power of storytelling through art, and discover a new activity that you can try with your family at home! Join us for #ArtAtHome, a super fun and creative webinar livestream with Vancouver Art Gallery Family Programs Coordinator Christina Jones. Grab some art supplies and create along with us via our livestream watch party or register to engage in the chat more directly on Zoom at https://b...it.ly/3iCViG5. This session’s activity is inspired by the work of contemporary artist of Coast Salish descent Susan Point, who often combines the motif of the spindle whorl with a uniquely Salish vocabulary of circles, crescents and curved triangles. Christina will tell us the story of the incredible life of contemporary artist Susan Point. Together, we will discuss the elements and shapes specific to Coast Salish design that Point uses in her prints, carvings and public sculptures. We will then learn how to make our own prints that express interconnection using shapes and elements from our imaginations, memories and cultures. WHAT YOU WILL NEED: a sponge, water, washable markers, pencil, scrap paper, heavy paper, up-cycled Styrofoam! Message us for details! Image Details: Susan Point Northern Lights, 2008 screenprint on paper Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist Vancouver Art Gallery

Hey UNYA youth! Hope you're staying safe and well out there and taking some time to get creative! Here is part 2 of a video session of virtual "Music with Myles" with OCM and AYW program volunteer Myles! Youth can check us out/add us @unyaocm to see more content from Myles as well as other virtual tutorials, and to learn about other OCM workshops and events!

Snacks, gift cards, bus tickets, paints, small canvases, paint brushes, school supplies, pencils, pens, sketch books, felt pens, mini birch bark canoe, embroidery, moccasin, and medicine bag making kits, masks and more! Come by for UNYA2GO with the OCM Program and grab a bag of supplies, snacks, gift cards and more! This program is for Indigenous Youth ages 11-30!... WHEN: Every MONDAY between 1-4pm! WHERE: @ the back alley entrance to the OCM studio @ UNYA, 1618 E Hastings! MOCCASIN & MINI BIRCH BARK CANOE TUTORIALS are now available on our Facebook page for those of you that grabbed kits! More mini moccasin, medicine bag and birch bark canoe kits will be available, so come grabs your today! (Limited quantities)* ***Please note that as of this week we will no longer be giving away grocery gift cards but will have a variety of other gift cards available! *** Youth can text or message us on Facebook and Instagram @unyaocm for info and to schedule a time to drop by: Keilah: 604-353-3570 Catherine: 604-379-5068 IMPORTANT: Please make sure that you can answer "NO" to all of the "safer meetings" questions in this post before attending. Please attend at a later date if you answer "yes" to any or are feeling unwell. Hope to see you all soon and that everyone is staying safe and well out there!

Snacks, gift cards, bus tickets, paints, small canvases, paint brushes, school supplies, pencils, sketch books, embroidery, rattle, moccasin, and medicine bag making kits, masks and more! Come by for UNYA2GO with the OCM Program and grab a bag of supplies, snacks, gift cards and more! WHEN: Every MONDAY between 1-4pm! ... WHERE: @ the back alley entrance to the OCM studio @ UNYA, 1618 E Hastings! This program is for Indigenous Youth ages 11-30! Youth can text or message us on Facebook and Instagram @unyaocm for info and to schedule a time to drop by: Keilah: 604-353-3570 Catherine: 604-379-5068 IMPORTANT: Please make sure that you can answer "NO" to all of the "safer meetings" questions in this post before attending. Please attend at a later date if you answer "yes" to any or are feeling unwell. Hope to see you all soon and that everyone is staying safe and well out there!