Category: Archived Posts

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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Thank you!

Elemental Festival 2017 was a huge success, and we have you to thank! Thank you so much to all our volunteers, board members, artists, performers, workshop leaders, and participants! We […]

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Elemental Festival 2017

Over the last many months, 4e and our community partners have been working to develop and install 32 historical interpretive plaques and 7 new permanent public sculptures around the Township of Billings to create […]

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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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Outside the Box

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 […]

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River School

[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 […]

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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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Early Learning

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 […]

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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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Walking Program

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