Author shares art and stories Saturday
Creemore Log Cabin board member Michele McKenzie and author Laurie Vandenhurk present artifacts and pictures in the Tinga Tinga style from Tanzania. This painting style utilizes bicycle paint to produce brilliant and highly-saturated colours to create modern images based on traditional Stone Age rock paintings. Tinga Tinga art could be considered the longest artist trend ever.
To quote Rudyard Kipling, “This, O my Best Beloved, is a story – a new and a wonderful story –a story quite different from the other stories…” that has been told inside the Creemore Log Cabin this Saturday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is a story of peacocks, bees and other items such as drums that are all part of the daily village life that takes place these days in Tanzania. Laurie Vandenhurk is our resident storyteller who will be showing some of her art and sharing some of her experiences as a Canadian who participated in development work in Africa. Please join us “at the log cabin” at this time to see these Tinga Tinga pictures and to find out what to do if you do ever find a cobra in your kitchen, or a beehive in your roof beams or an elephant in your garden.
Michele McKenzie is deputy CEO of Clearview Public Library.
