Upcoming Engagement Sessions for the public

Excited News! We are happy to announce the dates of our upcoming hands-on workshop. These workshops are all free drop – in session with all materials provide, anyone is welcome. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

March 6th 6:30 – 9:00PM // Zine Workshop

You are invited to make a simple 8 panel zine that explores the theme of home and community. You will be encouraged to use the zine as a medium to create a short 6-7 pages story/memoir/bio that relates to memories at the Thompson neighbourhood and community. We will share samples of zines that we’ve made too. It will be a fun and relaxing hands-on activity.

March 7th – 21st // Community Board Engagement

There will be a fun interactive bulletin board set up at the Thompson Community Centre for a two weeks span. We invite everyone to draw or write in respond to the Community themed questions on the board! In addition, we will leave copies of the interactive activity zines for people to take home, allowing you to have more time to answer the questions. After, People can either return the zines back to the submission box that will be attached to the board or take a photo and send it to us via email.

*This engagement involves a lucky draw component with lots of amazing gifts. More details to come closer to date, so keep yourself updated with our blog and social media!

April 18th 10 – 2:00PM // Appreciation Postcard Making

Draw or decorate a friendly postcard and send to someone in the community that you feel grateful for: perhaps your favourite Thompson staff member, a long term friend that you go to fitness class with, or maybe your neighbour, etc. This will be a simple, relaxing, art making session where you can also show some appreciation towards the community! 

Please join us for these upcoming workshops 🙂 Your participation may inform or aspire a new mural for the Thompson Community Centre!

Thompson Community is Getting a Mural!

Thanks to Thompson Community Centre and the City of Richmond, a new mural will be created by us, located on a wall near the north entrance at the Thompson Community Centre. We aim to create a mural that celebrates the history, the diversity and the intergenerational community at the Thompson neighbourhood. 

In hopes to engage with the local community members throughout the process, we will be hosting a series of free hands-on art workshops at the centre in March and April 2020. Other ways to participate is to follow us on instagram @popoandlola. You are invited to be engaged in a series of fun, interactive activities and questions on the theme “home” and “community.” 

This artist blog will be our website where we communicate and document the process and evolution of the community mural project. More information on the workshops will be posted shortly. Stay tuned!

Love,

Popo and Lola

Thompson Community Centre is located at 5151 Granville Ave, Richmond, BC.

Introduction

Popo and Lola — the artist duo consisting of Dawn Lo and April dela Noche Milne 

Popo • //Po4Po2//• Grandma in Cantonese 

Dawn Lo is a local illustrator. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Richmond, BC. Her work has appeared in picture books, stationery, greeting cards, public art installations, murals and more! She aims to create works that are high-spirited and whimsical while retaining a certain degree of simplicity and humour. Most of her work is inspired by little everyday moments and mix-culture experience. 

Lola: lo‧la – filipino for grandma

This is April! April dela Noche Milne is a local illustrator ~~~ raised in Vancouver, she works with a mixture of traditional and digital mediums. She has illustrated a children’s book, The Imperfect Garden; a graphic novel, The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration; and contributed to the Cloudscape comics anthology The Witching Hours. She’s also had her work appear in a few public art installations, as well as various publications. Her work is often inspired by grief, memories, and everyday life.

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