SOUNDINGS FOR SOUL

“Music Meditations as Internal Massage”
Sunday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 pm starting March 21st

“Like soundings taken from deep in the ocean, we sound our personal depths
for inner wisdom we may have missed in our stressful lives.
We all have inner guidance, but often overlook it
because we never arrive at a still enough place to listen.
Soundings for Soul gives you that opportunity.
It is a place to let down your burden and allow yourself
time to float and tune in to your soul’s frequency.” 
(Devon L. Muhlert)

Soundings for Soul is a series of music mediation workshops presented by Devon Muhlert. Devon uses guided imagery and visualization, Tibetan and crystal bowls, together with her “beautiful meditative (flute) compositions” to facilitate relaxation. It's like having an internal massage. Simple chants and toning add to the experience to renew and recharge your spirit.

Participants are asked to choose an image and “massage” words into Haiku (Japanese minimalist poetry), an artistic expression which Devon believes also promotes well-being and helps crystallize the healing experience.

“The body is held together by sound and the presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune. ” Dr. Deepak Chopra

Sunday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 pm starting March 21st
Register for four consecutive weeks:
March 21st, March 28th, April 4th and April 11th.

$40.00 for all four sessions

Please register by Friday, March 19th.
Payment is due at time of registration.
(Cash or cheque accepted.)

Devon L. Muhlert, B.Ed., CMP is a multi-talented Vernon artist. A long time flautist, photographer/photojournalist, songwriter, music director and poet, she has a degree in education with a music major from the University of British Columbia and is a Certified Music Practitioner in healing music.

Her publications include a collection of original works “Songs to Lighten the Load” and more recently two CD’s – “Sounds for a Sound Body”, containing flute music and meditations and “Shimmers of Silver”, flute improvisations on her original songs.

Writing Workshops

with Dona Sturmanis

Starting in February, Gallery Vertigo will be offering four exciting workshops for writers.

These interesting and affordable sessions will be led by Dona Sturmanis.

About Dona Sturmanis
Dona Sturmanis, BFA, MFA, has been a professional writer, editor and publisher for 30 years. Her poetry, fiction and journalism have won many awards and has been published in magazines and journals across Canada. She has taught writing courses for Okanagan College Continuing Studies for 17 years at all campuses.

Back By Popular Demand! We are happy to provide these workshops with this popular instructor! Dona Sturmanis recently offered two writing courses at Gallery Vertigo which were very well-attended and well-recieved.  These sessions are perfect for both experienced and aspiring writers. Class size is limited. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

February 13th - Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction

Currently the most popular type of writing is creative non-fiction — the truth with a twist. Your work is based on reality, but through your unique interpretation. Articles, stories and all kinds of books from biographies to travelogues fit into this category. Learn the limits of when it turns into fiction! Come and explore what and how to write in this exciting genre.

March 13th - Editing Essentials— A Crash Course

Learn in a day the short cuts to polishing a piece of writing to perfection! We’ll cover the basics of "trimming the deadwood," grammar, punctuation and honing purpose and content. We’ll look at the easy 5-step editing method and start using the master checklist to analyze how to improve a manuscript.

March 20th - Self-Publishing Success

Ready to get your book in print? These days you can do it quickly and affordably with all the self-publishing services being offered. This need-to-know workshop will guide you through all the steps you need to know when you want to publish your own book—how to produce it right, how to successfully market it and how to prevent a basement full of books that won’t sell!

March 27th - The Art of Selling Magazine Articles

There’s a market waiting out there for writers with great ideas they want to see in print! Learn how to match up your inspired stories with the right publications, how to write winning query letters, how to successfully finish the articles, and how to effectively slant the same idea for many different publications.

Registration Information:

Cost is $65.00 per workshop for NOAA Members and $80.00 for Non-Members.
Special Price: $240.00 for all for 4 workshops for NOAA Members only.

Sessions will run on Saturdays, 10am to noon, break for one hour and then from 1 to 4pm.

Pre-registration is required at Gallery Vertigo by Tuesday November 10th. You may register for one, two, three or four workshops.

Payment is due at time of registration. Cash or cheque please.

Welcome Back to Smarties!
Sundays from 2 to 4pm
At Gallery Vertigo we take having fun very seriously! That’s why we have rounded up some highly qualified instructors to lead a variety of exciting art-making activities that the entire family will enjoy. All ages welcome! So kids, bring an adult and join us. And adults, bring along a favourite kid and prepare to have some fun! Wear old clothes and bring along your imagination. We’ll supply materials, encouragement and  smiles! Suggested Donation: $3.00 per person. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sunday Januarty 17th - 2- 4pm
Recycle Bin Art with Instructor James Postill
Take a closer look at the contents of your recycle bin and create some unique works of art! James will show you how.

Sunday Januarty 24th - 2 - 4pm
Olympic Shapes and Colours with Christine Kashuba
Let Christine lead you through exercises and fun with an Olympic theme. Explore circles, spheres and colours with movement in mind. The Olympic rings will be the inspiration and jumping off point for this fun class.
About Christine:
Christine is a recent grad of UBC Okanagan's Fine Arts program. She is a studio artist at Gallery Vertigo and Program Coordinator at the Vernon Arts Centre. The artist has extensive teaching experience

Sunday - January 31st - 2 - 4pm
Let's Knit Together! with Instructors from the Gallery Vertigo Knitting Circle
Let's Knit! We'll provide everything you need to try your hand at knitting. All you need to bring is your enthusiasm. Patient knitters will provide the expertise and help. Suitable for all ages. 
About The Knitting Circle:
The Knitting Circle meets the first and third Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon.  A large group of passionate knitters knit and learn from each other...if you have a question, someone in the group will know the answer. For knitters and crocheters of all experience levels. Admission is a $5 donation to Gallery Vertigo’s Smarties Family Sunday Art Program. Please join us! For more info, call 250-503-2297 or see www.galleryvertigo.com or e-mail info@galleryvertigo.com

Sunday - February 7th - 2-4PM
Mardi Gras Masks with Tara Hennigar
Mardis Gras falls on February 16th this year, and Tara will be teaching a class on how to make Mardi Gras masks out of cardboard, paint, and sparkly things! Come join the fun!
About Tara Hennigar:
Tara Hennigar is a Vernon artist who began her career in Toronto working in the graphic design field. Tara is currently pursuing her degree in Fine Art at UBC Okanagan.

Sunday - February 14th - 2-4PM
Valentines Cards with Eleanor Deines
Make one-of-a-kind valentines for the special someones in your life!
Eleanor will give you some pointers.
We'll supply everything you need to take home a fistful of cards!
Eleanor Deines is a non-practicing RN and currently on medical disability due to a serious illness. She enjoys being creative and dabbles in lots of different arts and crafts. Her favourite things to do are small quilting projects and making cards. Her creations have been on display at Creative Chaos in the past and Eleanor stages her own show before Christmas every year to raise money for breast cancer research.

Sunday - February 21st - 2-4PM
Cave Paintings with Miranda Aschenbrenner

Sunday - February 28th - 2-4PM
Opening the Actor: Listening to Hear with Matt Brown
This acting workshop teaches the importance of actually hearing what is going on with the actor’s self and the others around them. We will listen and recognize the inflection of each of our own speech patterns as a group to enable us to feel the natural rhythms so that we can then incorporate them into performance. From inflections we move onto "listening" to the story that is in the "work" to grasp the message in a monologue or scene. A three time read through is the object of learning these steps. It will be my goal to teach each person to be able to read the materials provided three times through, put it down, and deliver the work as close to perfect from memory.
About Matt:
Vancouver born actor Matt Brown moved to Vernon in 2002 and has since made the Okanagan his home away. Matt started on stage at an early age and stuck to many dramatic activities growing up as well as some amateur film and television. He started his professional acting career when he was sixteen, joining a Shakespearean Theatre Company, and working for various companies afterward of many different directions. Matt now splits his work between the Okanagan and Vancouver, still travelling to do auditions for film and television. His credits range from theatre companies to various independent film roles to music videos (both directed and acted). Brown started sharing his passion in the form of teaching when he was twenty and started his teaching program in Vernon in 2006. He is the founder of Prodigy Productions, a company involved in many media facets as well as performance classes.

Sunday - March 7th - 2-4PM
Making Memories with Cherie Hanson
Bring in drawings, stories, pictures, anything that makes a memory for you and make your own card or story book.
The book is you! Poetry, narrative, drawings, scrapbooking. There are no limits to what you can create.
About Cherie:
At Western Washington State University Cherie earned a B.Ed. and a B.A while minoring in art, philosophy and dance. Completing an M.A. at UBC, Vancouver in Contemporary American Poetry, she went on to teach English, Acting, Video Production. She retired in 1999 and concentrated on digital photographic art, drawing, painting and poetry.
Juried into the City of Kelowna’s Rotary Centre for the Arts in 2006 as a resident artist, Cherie continues to show throughout the Okanagan Valley, in Prince George, Edmonton, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Toronto as well as in juried shows at the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery. NY Arts Magazine selected her as an artist to watch in 2005. In December of 2007, in Florence, Italy at the Biennale of Contemporary Art she was awarded a jury prize. In 2009 she exhibited in Toronto, Chicago, Sacramento, Austria and Ferrar, Italy.

Sunday - March 14th - 2-4PM
Recycle Bin Art with James Postill

Everyone is invited to come and discover the joy of creating art with James Postill! In this session, we will explore painting with corn syrup and food coloring, watercolours, basic printmaking, drawing, sketching, and sculpture (using found objects like toilet paper cores, 1L milk and juice cartons, and small cardboard containers). All ages are welcome.
About James:
James Postill grew up in Coldstream, B.C., went to art school at Okanagan University College (now UBCO), and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art in 1993. He has been a practicing artist for nearly twenty years, doing commision work in portraits, landscapes, pets, and wildlife, as well as completing both public and privately-commissioned murals.

Come and bring your friends to SMARTIES! No registration necessary, just drop in for some fun... Everyone is welcome...wear old clothes and bring your imagination. We’ll supply materials, encouragement and smiles! Suggested Donation: $3.00 per person. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Teens are welcome too.
Volunteers interested in art are invited to come down and assist at the workshops. No experience necessary. Fun for everyone! It happens every Sunday from 2 to 4pm.

Gallery Vertigo wishes to thank these sponsors of the SMARTIES program:
The City of Vernon and the Gallery Vertigo Knitting Circle.

Volunteers Needed for the Smarties Program!

Attention anyone interested in helping out with our Smarties program.
If you have ever taken part in a smArties workshop, you will know what a wildly fun mix of artistic expression we introduce to children of all ages. They absolutely love it and keep coming back for more, more, more!!! In fact, a small community is forming around this art's group and we hope to continue this thriving progrAm well into the new year and beyond. But there is one wee thing we ask--we need some helpful volunteers!!!

(And, first of all, a big thank you to each one of you who have helped us so far. Your efforts are much appreciated whether it's packing up a table or putting away a few chairs at the end of class or clearing a tray of goodies...it is very much appreciated).

"so,what does a volunteer have to do?"  you ask.
Just show up--one day each month would be great, but whatever you can oFFer we will gladly accept. The program runs each Sunday between 2-4. Our beloved volunteer will waltz their way into the studio at 1:30 and happily help to set up a few tables and ensure the supplies are out and ready for the instructor. After that, our volunteer welcomes the many enthusiastic little participants and helps them during the class. Next is offering up a delicious and possibly not-so-nutritious snack and then...clean up which is basically like Samantha on the olden days show, Bewitched, where you simply wiggle your nose and all of the mess magically tidies itself up. Yay! Just like at home. And on top of that, you feel so good and philanthropic.

and then...you are basically guaranteed a prize spot in nirvana or whichever celestial theatre you are planning to attend in your afterlife. Easy as that.  So please pretty please give us a call and sign up for some volunteer time to keep our
Smarties program going.

email: karenmeyer@ shaw.ca SMARTIES Coordinator
Or, call the gallery @ 250-503-2297

Can you help with a cash donation, or gift of supplies, equipment, etc?
Our program relies on the generous support of our community.
It's a great chance to help kids and adults enjoy affordable art experiences. ($3 drop-in fee suggested)
To show our appreciation, your logo will appear on all SMARTIES printed and e-materials

Knitting Circle At Gallery Vertigo
With Janet Armstrong and Allison Griswold
The first and third Saturday morning of each month

Drop in sessions for knitters of all experience levels are held at Gallery Vertigo the first Saturday morning of each month. These sessions are open to anyone interested in knitting, whether new or experienced. 

"These sessions are taking on a life of their own with knitters sharing their expertise and their stories. At our first knitting circle, one person picked up yarn and needles after a thirty year absence from knitting and her hands still remembered how. Another person picked up needles and knit for the very first time. Other knitters have years of experience. Everyone enjoys creating in a mutually supportive group atmosphere." (Judith Jurica, Director of Gallery Vertigo and new knitter).

There is a fee of $5.00 per person per session.  Registration is not necessary.  All proceeds will support the SMARTIES Sunday family drop-in art sessions held at Gallery Vertigo. Drop-ins are on the first and third Saturday of each month from 10am to noon.

Bring along yarn and needles, etc. and/or a project or two you are working on.

Allison and Janet are passionate, experienced knitters and love sharing their knowledge. Bring your knitting questions and problems, and they'll happily work out the solutions for you.

A warm welcome awaits you. Coffee and goodies are served. Donations of homemade goodies welcome.



Janet Armstrong can be contacted for interviews at 250-545-2474 or by e-mail info@janetarmstrong.com
www.janetarmstrong.com

Allison Griswold can be contacted on Tuesdays at Gallery Vertigo - 250-503-2297 or by email - ballisongriswold@shaw.ca

Call Gallery Vertigo for information. (250)503-2297 or info@galleryvertigo.com

About Janet Armstrong
Janet Armstrong believes that to be happy in life one must have a passion—hers is fibre, whether that be yarn, fabric or thread. In her workshops, she actively cultivates an atmosphere of invigorating creativity, encouraging discovery and invention amongst the participants. Janet coordinated the first Okanagan Knitting Retreat with colleagues Gloria Hanson and Wendy Henderson in 1999—the 11th retreat is scheduled this May. Janet has taught at national and international fibre art conferences.