Saturday October 18th NOON until MIDNIGHT at The Wolf, Central LIBRARY FREE CONCERTS AND TICKETED CONCERTS, WORKSHOPS FOR EVERYONE
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS: 2pm-4pm- "Artists Way Creative Workshop” with Joani Paige 12-2pm- “Songwriting From the Heart” with Jake Levesque, 4pm-6pm- “Drawing and Painting Workshop” with Tamara Croxall
TO SIGN UP in advance:SEND E-MAIL TO : info@artsquest.net TO VOLUNTEER send an e-mail to that address too!!
Mission Statement: Brief History:
Previous projects:
Arts Quest Festival Team's History Mohammed Essam Monika Gokstorp
John Osborne Production design, John Osborne is a multi-media artist, curator and musician. After completing the Fine Art Diploma Program at Fanshawe College in 1990, John began his artistic career primarily in local art exhibitions. Over the past 17 years, John Osborne has been involved in the art scene exhibiting, organizing and promoting local artists. Of the over 50 exhibits he has been in some of the highlights include: Arts Wells Festival of All Things Art Show 2006, Generating Voice,1994 McIntosh Gallery London, Art Mart,1994,95,2000,2005,2006 Museum London 47 Annual Western Ontario Show, 1998 Museum London INHERE IN Thames Valley Art Gallery, 1994, Chatham,ON Loop Gallery, 2004, Toronto
Arts Quest Festival 2007 London,
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Programs Director, Festival Coordinator Connie graduated from Capilano College, North Vancouver with a diploma in Arts and Entertainment Management. She has over eight years of experience for businesses in the realm of arts and culture as publicist, fundraiser, events coordinator, volunteer coordinator, and producer. Connie has invested many hours as a volunteer production assistant/stage manager for over 12 non- profit theatre production companies while studying in British Columbia and the Yukon. Last spring Connie travelled to the remote beautiful town of Wells BC to organize Arts Wells Festival of All Things Art third annual event.
Web designer, International Artist Liaison Graduated in high school in 1999 and studied English literature in Helwan University for 4 years and then 2 years of managerial information systems in the Modern Academy in Cairo, Egypt. During those years Mohamed worked as a graphic / web designer and was involved in many art activities in the realm of theatre production. He was he was a member of La Musica independent theatre group and the Egyptian Center for Culture and Art. He was also connected and working with local bands and visual artists. In 2005 he moved to London, ON and started establishing his networks through arts and culture event planning with the ARTS Project Mohamed is also an entrepreneur in London ON having established his own graphics and web design business in the spring of 2006, Creative Minds. Mohamed's most previous credits in London include Winter Folk Concert, Nile Quartet Art Exhibition by Essam Azouz and Izzeldinn Kojour.
Fashion
Show Production Manager, Make up design Monika is 27. She has her OSSD,
as well as her certification as a Professional Makeup Artist from Complections
International School of Makeup, receiving honors and top marks in her
class. Monika attended the 8 Month Master Study Program, specializing
in Fashion, photographic, B&W, runway and commercial work, Theatre
Makeup, Film Television SPFX makeup, Prosthetics and Animatronics. Monika
has worked on several local film projects, as well as Fashion shoots
and has done work in fashion shows for some of Canada's most promising
new designers. Monika loves all types of art expression and is looking
forward to promoting the fashion industry, as well as other art expressions
in the London area.