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° Anisland Publishers Newsmagazine

May 23, 1990

large reflection.

/ THE ARTS:

THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS

anada’s largest amateur arts event
comes to Saanich and Greater Victoria
this week. And if, as Greater Victoria
arts manager lydia Kasianchuk says, art is the
mirror with which we view ourselves, the B.C.
Festival of the Arts is providing us with a very

Beginning with Wednesday
night’s opening ceremonies,
residents will have the chance
to watch an estimated 1,300
artists ply their trade — in a
sense, the fes-
tival is an in-
vitation to go
through the
looking glass,
to glimpse the
many talents
offered b

On Tut

Undoubted-
ly, the event
features the
finest of those
talents. Festi-
val delegates
are selected
from the best
of the 100,000 people who
participate, each year, in local
and regional competitions and
exhibitions held throughout

the province. And at those
competitions, there’s a lot of
incentive to do well: an invita-
tion to attend the B.C. Festi-
val is an invitation to receive
public expo-
sure (15,000
people are ex-
pected to at-
tend this
year’s festival
events) and to
receive criti-

professional
artists
But it’s not
only the
scores of artis-
tically in-
clined B.C.
youngsters
who benefit from the arts ex-
travaganza.

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British Co- cism and
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ART STUDENTS FROM SPECTRUM
School’s Grade 12 class will paint
one of two & x 60 ft. murals (Central
Junior art students will paint the
other) forthe B.C. Festival of the Ars.
The murals will be painted during the
Images and Objects exhibition at
the Cedar Hill tennis bubble and, at
the festival’s end, will be dismantled
and taken to Spectrum and Central
schools. Here, the talented young
anists show samples of their class

work. With Requiem ,(top) is Jeremy

Standbridge while Carmen Pollard
(middle) and Jeremy Cook (boi-
tom) show works which are not yet
titled.

Story by KERRY READSHAW
Photos by TONY KANT