Come join us to the round table dedicated to poets in our community. Four poets: Daryl Zoellner, Lady Rojas Benavente, Lisa Potter and Marcia Goldberg will present what inspired them to follow this creative path and recite one poem.
Poetry may mean keeping a balance of thoughts on delicate subjects as equity, inclusion, and loss. It may be storytelling about pets. Or simply a way to express oneself and stay creative. Come be part of the discussion, sharing your own experience or poem!
Daryl Zoellner’s roots are in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. She has fully bloomed, however, in Quebec. She is interested in various arts including poetry, and has her studio known as Mes tables.
Peruvian-Canadian writer, Lady Rojas Benavente created an taught literature for 50 years in many academic settings from Peru to Canada, including Concordia University. She is now professor emerita and actively involved in the Latin American communities.
Lisa Potter is an “active engager” and she uses art and poems as creative venues. She is working on a story of a cat named Pogo and will present two poems that she wrote recently.
Marcia Goldberg is a retired teacher of English. She writes poetry, and during the pandemic, she joined a women writers’ online gathering pioneered by Lise Weil, a teacher and friend.
The Creative Science Shop is a monthly meet-up welcoming an exchange of ideas, innovations, scientific and artistic projects. This intergenerational group brings together passion in the arts and sciences from older adults, students, and researchers.
Join us on Thursday, December 9 from 2:30-4:00 pm for the Creative Science Shop on The Meaning of Art-making in Relation to Others.
Come to this opportunity to learn and share on how art-making can be so meaningful when it is in relation to others.
To what extent art skill shares can make life worthwhile? What is the transformative power of art-making in relation to others? Two members from the Art Hive Network will share their stories with us. Join the discussion on how this resonates with you, your own life and your professional or academic interests!
Edna Katz-Silver is an artist, actress, sculptress, Judaica jewelry designer, and furniture maker in commercial and private spheres. As an art teacher, she believes that teaching is healing for both parties.
For the past 30 years, Sondra Goldman has been a practicing Montreal artist and art therapist, working for senior residents and inspiring them to expand their expressive capacity. She also created one of the first institutional Art Hives in Canada.
The Creative Science Shop is a semi-monthly studio hybrid, both online and in-person at the Cavendish Mall. It is an exchange of ideas, innovations, scientific and artistic projects. This intergenerational group brings together passion in the arts and sciences from older adults, students, and researchers.
Join us on Thursday, November 11 from 2:30 to 4:00 pm for the Creative Science Shop on “When Writing Comes to Life”.
Come to this bilingual science workshop on the theme of creative writing.
Where does inspiration come from? How do you nurture the writing process? And what is the meaning of sharing it? Our two guests will give their perspectives, Eva Halus, from the point of view of an author and member of the Art Hive community, and Patrcia Landry, from the angle of publishing as a way to build bridges to help people with mental health issues.
A community discussion will follow. You are all welcome to share your experience during the discussion that will follow.
The Creative Science Shop is a semi-monthly studio hybrid, both online and in person at the Cavendish Mall. It is an exchange of ideas, innovations, scientific and artistic projects. This intergenerational group brings together passion in the arts and sciences from older adults, students, and researchers.
“HOME-MADE-STUDIO: A WINDOW INTO OUR CREATIVE SPACES THROUGH TIMES OF ISOLATION”
The Creative engAGE Living Lab and the Concordia University Art Hives invites the community to represent in any 2D visual media the space(s) in which we have all been creating during the past two years.
Submissions
You are invited to represent in any 2D visual media the space(s) in which you have been creating during the past two years.
We will accept a maximum of 3 artworks per artist or a maximum surface of 24 x 36 inches. Depending on how many submission we will receive and the size of each of them we can guarantee to showcase at least one artwork per artist. Please bring your art ready to hang.
Open to all ages and abilities!
Drop-off your artwork at the Concordia SGW Art Hive (ER101)
2155 Guy, Montreal, QC on any of the following dates/times:
• Tuesday March 15th, 12:00 to 5:00 PM
• Thursday March 17th, 2:00 to 8:00 PM
• Tuesday March 22nd 12:00 to 5:00 PM
Following a suggestion from one of our community members, we are opening this opportunity for anyone creating digitally or wanting to join the exhibit “virtually” due to geographical distances or other circumstances.
Such artworks will be shown as QR codes, allowing the visitors to scan and see them directly on their devices.
The last day to submit an artwork in digital format is Thursday March 17th, 2022.
For any questions, please send us an email to cuah.exhibit@gmail.com
Vernissage
Wednesday March 23rd 2022,
3:00 to 6:00 PM
Hive Café Solidarity Cooperative (Concordia)
1455 de Maisonneuve W. H-239, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
“Art was the link between everything. It was very important to me during the pandemic because everything stopped at once, but the Hive came to us at home,” Desmarteaux.
Home-Made Studio exhibit at the Hive Café. By Maiya Butcher
40 moments 40 espaces de mon quotidien 40 instants de créations Sur le bout de la table de cuisine Au chalet, dehors, sur la plage Simplement créer Créer pour vivre Vivre pour créer
Claire Chouinard
“Juste quelques espaces”. Photo collage. 2020-2022Claire Chouinard
“Making Space for Hope”
Medium: Photo taken with a smartphone, “Vivid” filter.
Description: “Martisor” or “Martenitsa” is a a small piece of adornment created from red and white strings, celebrating the beginning of Spring, in Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, and other regions.
It is believed that the person who wears it would enjoy a prosperous and healthy year!
Diana vozian
“Making Space for Hope”Diana Vozian
“Five faces” (with metal) . 20-24
“Over the moon”. 30 x30
“Togetherness”. 20×30
All have a meaning of life at any age
Edna Katz
Edna Katz
“La Ruche d’Art sur Zoom”
Collage, Assemblage and Plant on cardboard.
2022
ESTelle Gagné
La Ruche d’Art sur Zoom, 2022Collaborating with moths and other unlikely partnersCollaborating with moths (detail)Janis Timm-Bottos
Rayonnants de sérénité? Quand la douleur nous assomme et le corps ne supporte pas ces graves cris Quand les dents du désespoir mordent l’esprit Quand la mort cannibale veut-elle faire de nous une bouchée Nous nous réfugions dans notre jardin intérieur Quelqu’un nous chante une berceuse et peu à peu notre je enfantin s’endort Nous retrouvons nos fidèles amoureux de jeunesse clapotant dans les eaux de l’Océan Tout d’un coup nous dansons la valse du couple joyeux Ou Nous tournons seules ou seuls nous apprivoisons nos peurs nous inventons l’état de grâce Malgré les maladies et les blessures Malgré le vieillissement et les accidents Malgré les tourments et les tourmentes La fête de la vie est encore au rendez-vous.
LAdy Rojas Benavente, 2022
Poem (SP)International Women’s DayAventura Cosmica y HumanaLady Rojas Benavente
“Ways to Connect on Zoom”
“Supporting Ukraine”
“My Creative Space”
Digital painting (Paint 3D)
2022
Lisa potter, Active engager
Ways to connect on ZoomSupporting UkraineMy creative spaceLisa Potter
Adios Puerto Vallarta!
Ce fut une belle expérience relaxante que de faire de l’art tous les jours durant mes vacances.
Malaka Ackaoui
Malaka Ackaoui
Mon espace de création
Depuis le 13 mars 2020, mon espace de vie et de création se sont fusionnés. Autant cuisiner pour nourrir mon corps, autant l’art visuel nourrit mon mental. Ma cuisine, sa grande table de bois, ses chaises solides, mon portable Apple ont été littéralement colonisés durant ces mois d’enfermement.
Le thème de l’exposition était difficile pour moi à illustrer en l’art visuel mais voilà la photographie d’une installation de l’autel d’art organisé qui illustre bien mon désordre créateur.
Bienvenue dans mon intimité sans virus.
Marguerite Dorion
Mon espace de créationSans titre. D’après J-P WitkinMon espace de création. VitrailMarguerite Dorion
Title: “Un espace libre” / ” A Free Space”
Collage mix media
8″1/2 x 12″
Démarche: Se créer un espace libre dans un monde changeant Avancer avec des repères vers l’inconnu Installation sur le balcon, sur fond stable et changeant
Process: Create oneself a free space in a changing world To move forward with reference points towards the unknown Installation on the balcony, on a stable and changing background
Melissa Sokoloff
“Un espace libre”Melissa Sokoloff
Créer dans le désordre Créer sous pression Partager, partager, partager Zoomer, zoomer, zoomer Tenter de représenter l’amour Sur un bout de papier Tout ranger Tenter de vivre l’amour, l’affection En PRÉSENTIEL
Micheline desmarteaux, 2022
AraTangoAtelier à la maisonMicheline Desmarteaux
“Where is my body!”
Medium: mixed media.
Drawn on paper with a pen and added the color with photoshop.
Moh abdolreza
Where is my body!Moh AbdolrezaAn infinite loop, 2020The spaces I inhabit, 2021What is real?, 2022Momo
Tryptic: “It takes a jungle to hold me”
Watercolor
2022
Rachel chainey
Rachel Chainey
Elegant Orchids. Watercolor. I love beauty from nature to add colors to my creative space
Prince. Pastel. My pets are a relaxed and cozy addition to my studio when I create. This image is my little Prince.
Blue Vase and Flowers Blooming. Pastel. Flowers have a spirit of their own that add energy to my creative space.
I appreciate the efforts from the beginning of going on line to the creative process that has resulted. Just like the process of creating art ! So pleased to see continued results. @sharonb.s
sharon b. smith
Elegant orchidsPrinceBlue VaseSharon B. Smith
“Une salle à diner, devenue salle à dessiner, à placoter, à partager. Échange de couleur, échange de chaleur humaine. S’enfermer chez soi, pour finalement connecter un peu plus avec le monde, quel paradoxe. Prendre du temps, prendre du recul, se poser.”
Un coin du jardin à l’automne. Encres végétales et crayons Conté.
Montagne à gravir ou descendre. Encre végétale.
Ma salle à diner, mon atelier. Crayons de couleurs.
Véronique Emerand
Un coin du jardin à l’automneMontagne à gravir ou descendreMa salle à diner, mon atelierVéronique Emerand
In-person gallery
March 23rd, 2022. @Hive Café.
Hive Cafe x Concordia’s Art Hives present: Art Gallery Night
THURSDAY, 14 APRIL 2022 FROM 17:00-20:00
THE HIVE CAFÉ AND CONCORDIA’S ART HIVES TEAMED UP TO CREATE AN ART GALLERY NIGHT, AT THE DOWNTOWN HIVE.
Participants had the opportunity to make art at the Pop-up Art Hive, check out the art on the walls, talk to the artists themselves, and enjoy a live poetry reading. FB event
This work is a creative response in that it has no drawing, but is free form painting in Acrylic. Color and forms resonate.
Artist: Zainab Iton
Title: London Swooper
Medium: Painting
Size: 24” x 36”
The work is a creative response to the idea that a kite is a predator that cleans up cities of vermin. This one was photographed in London U.K. in 2013. They tend to swoop upon prey.
Beauty always has another side – looking for balance in the song.
Artist: Sue Proctor
Title: Mosaic with suns
Medium: Felt tip pens and ink on paper
Date: 2021
The Covid pens were dry from being unused for so long, so I kept moving from pen to pen. The Mall and the Art Hive are so open to possibility – like a circus tent – anything can happen.
This work is a response to how these last 2 years have been hard and it is important to continue walking forward. I took these video clips to show my way of escaping the pandemic by hiking in nature.
I was inspired by how the colours of pink reflect beauty in magical creatures.
Artist: Robyn Goodman.
Title: Rocks on the Shore
Date: 2015 As an Artist I have always been attracted to the idea of how to create movement in my painting. I aim to illustrate how to move to of the haystack through gusty winds.
As I took a walk that evening, the moon seemed to have this blue hue reflecting in the trees, and then bounced off these flowers. To me it seemed that the trees and flowers were dancing I got inspired and created both hue, this is my interpretation
Artist: NicoleM
Title: Blue Tree Fiesta
Medium: Acrylic, silk flowers, sequins on 2 canvases
Size: 32” x 24”
Date: 2021
The diptych Blue Tree Fiesta is the continuing inspiration from the full moon. I was wowed by the seasonal “Blue Moon” that occurred on Sunday (Aug. 22) . I later found out that it’s the last time we will see this type of moon until 2023.
