Author: Richard

Elemental Festival 2019

Elemental Festival 2020 will be held September 25 to 27, 2020.  The location is Kagawong, Ontario, on beautiful Manitoulin Island.  Keep an eye on this space for more details on […]

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4elements offers 3 stunning books on land/art/community

These three beautiful informative books will inspire you to connect with land and community in new ways!  Learn about 4elements’ work and let us expand how you see and engage […]

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Billings Connections Trail: Nature. Art. Heritage.

This project aims to acknowledge Canada’s 150th anniversary year by creating a Billings-wide art and heritage trail – the Connections Trail – comprised of public art work and heritage plaques across […]

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Annual General Meeting January 28

Thanks to 4elements Living Arts, many residents and visitors to Manitoulin Island have been learning the land creatively in 2016. Highlights of these learning opportunities, and of the exciting events […]

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Walk Outside the Box!

OUTSIDE THE BOX Check out 4elements’ new series!!! Walks, paddling, snowshoeing, geocached Drawing Boxes, yoga and stretching, all to encourage folks of all ages and abilities to explore Manitoulin. LaCloche […]

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Elemental Festival!

Fall is here, the salmon are spawning in the Kagawong River, and the Elemental Festival 2016 opened with a beautiful and moving performance of Lisa Hamalainen’s play There Is No […]

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River School is back!

4e is thrilled to announce a full-fledged River School program thanks to funding from The Ontario Trillium Foundation. We’ve partnered with Manitoulin Streams to deliver a series of summer programs […]

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Summer student jobs at 4e

DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline for all jobs is May 9th. If you were sorry that you missed the deadline; worry no more. We’ll be accepting applications until May 9th and […]

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Courses for everyone!

4e launches the first course of its new Institute of Land | Art Studies. Following our year’s theme of ‘walking + art’, we’ve designed a series of engaging activities. Pick […]

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new 4e after school programs

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Elemental Festival in Kagawong

Our first annual Elemental Festival in October 2015 featured innovative, contemporary site-specific and land-based works: installation, performance, music and writing. Check out the picture gallery from the festival! Among the […]

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Tracey-Mae Chambers – Artist in Residence

August 27th – September 4th: Exhibition August 26th: Encaustic Workshop Tracey-Mae Chambers is an artist and educator working with encaustic and fibre. She has taught and exhibited across Ontario, spreading […]

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DVD rentals FREE for 4e Members

Documentaries and other films listed on Island Cultural Calendar

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Executive Director and Intern hired

4elements has received very generous funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to hire an Executive Director and open an office on Manitoulin Island; our focus over the next two years […]

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