Author: 4e

Outside the Box:  4elements’ initiatives to encourage creative outdoor activity, on Manitoulin’s trails and waterways, for all ability levels.  For more info on our guided outings, and Drawing Boxes, see […]

[one_half] Thanks, everyone for a great season. We’ll see you again next year!  Summer 2017 Program Subject: Plants, Trees, & that Green Slime! July 5, 9 – noon Simple plant […]

Books available December 2017! Click pic to order. Inquiry and land-based early learning:  After many seasons of offering inquiry-based learning in early years classrooms and community settings on Manitoulin Island […]

Elemental Festival and the Billings Connection Trail: Nature. Art. Heritage. September 28 – October 1, 2017 Over the last many months, 4e and our community partners have been working to […]

Gently Active Outings on Manitoulin Island Especially for older adults, but open to all ages and fitness levels –Walks, Bicycle Rides, and Snowshoeing, along with Ecology, Arts, and other Land-Based […]

July-August 2014 Summer Events Calendar facilitated by or in conjunction with 4elements Living Arts July 2014 Bonnie Blink Exhibit July 3rd – 23rd Sheguiandah July 2014 Animating the Archive July 3rd […]

Working with Manitoulin Permaculture, 4 Elements Living Arts is coordinating a season long permaculture internship program on Manitoulin Island. For the 2013 growing season (May – Oct), participants will gain […]

Upcoming Events for 2015 Family Fun Day – February 16th 2015  Winter Land Art and Snow Shoe Part of Get Active with the Arts Bridal Veil Trail (Kagawong) Guides & […]

4elements now offers artist residencies. If you would like to work with 4elements on an existing project, or design your own, please contact us.   2016 Residency Lisa Hamalainen Lisa Hamalainen […]

4e works closely with local schools to support arts education and supplement existing curricular expectations. In addition to classes in communities around the Island (Gore Bay, M’Chigeeng, Mindemoya, Kagawong), we […]

  The Art of Being Billings, a year-long project ongoing through summer 2013, highlighted community connections between people and places in Billings Township, through creative arts and community mapping initiatives. […]

The Bonnie Blink house was one of the first settler houses built on Manitoulin. The name Bonnie Blink means ‘beautiful view’.  When the Robinson-Huron Treaty enabled white settlement on Manitoulin,  […]

4elements provides support for arts educators: training and education for place-based education, curriculum development, facilitation skills   We also do the work so that you can do yours: workshop organization, […]

There is a good deal of behind-the-scenes support required for artists to do what they do, and for organizations like 4e to do the work we do in communities. Call […]