The Woodstock Art Gallery and local Children’s Aid Society have teamed up to get home art kits to kids in need.
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Woodstock gallery, Children's Aid launch art kit program – Woodstock Sentinel Review
The Woodstock Art Gallery and Children’s Aid Society of Oxford are distributing new home art kits to kids in need. Pictured, Head of Education Stephanie Porter, CAS Oxford Executive Director Tina Diamond, Education Assistant Deanna Logan and IPC Certified Financial Planner Eric Hedges celebrate the launch of the Community Creation Art Kits program at the Woodstock Art Gallery. (Trish Roberts, Custom Concept Photography/Woodstock Art Gallery)
The Woodstock Art Gallery and the city’s Children’s Aid Society have teamed up to get home art kits to kids in need.
The Community Creation Art Kit – a partnership between the gallery and Children’s Aid Society of Oxford – contains a full set of art supplies, an instruction booklet and more.
“Now, more than ever, the (gallery’s) education department acknowledges our responsibility to provide meaningful, accessible and inclusive programming for the community at large,” said Stephanie Porter, the gallery’s head of education.
The kits were sponsored by the Investment Planning Counsel and have already been distributed to the first round of kids in need.
The program partially replaces the gallery’s summer art camp, which was cancelled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, staff said.
Tina Diamond, executive director of the Children’s Aid Society of Oxford, said the pandemic has had a significant effect on kids, so the society was excited to partner with the gallery on this initiative for children’s wellness.
“The inclusive design of this initiative will allow more children and youth in our community to develop their imaginations, explore their creativity, and to communicate their ideas and feelings through art,” Diamond says.
Free PDF versions of some of the activities can be found online at woodstockartgallery.ca, and two new art kits being developed by the gallery will be available this fall and for the holidays.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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