Not-just-snow camp
Snow camp. The title brings to mind a group of kids running in the snow, creating snow angels and starting snow-ball fights. While the annual event, hosted by the Mennonite Church Alberta Youth Leadership Team, does include those activities, it also encompasses so much more. The camp gives youth a break from the stressful school…
Quietly inspiring
The music studio and classroom in the backyard is decorated with Apple computer prints of creative individuals. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Einstein, Picasso, Amelia Earhart, some with the Apple logo covered with a piano sticker, share the walls with a painting by Leighton Jones of the Children’s Band. John Wiebe, who describes himself as…
Scenes along the ‘road to nowhere’
Ian Willms’s provocative photo of a young girl walking away through the windblown grasses towards a small Russian village on a lakeshore was part of his winning entry in the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Entitled “Road to Nowhere,” Willms’s photo exhibit was judged by a portfolio review panel consisting of some of the world’s…
