One of the most delightful aspects of the celebrations of
the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary in Great Village in 2011 were the colourful
banners that the EBSNS created, which were displayed not only in Great Village,
but also along the shore, from Masstown to Five Islands. The banners contained
the image of Joy Laking’s painting “Starry Night in Great Village.”
The banners were effective in publicizing EB100 and were so admired that the
EBSNS sold them as souvenirs and as a fund-raiser for the EB100 Writing
Competition book (another EB100 legacy project we’ll tell you about as it
develops). Since the locally-made wrought-iron brackets are still in place, the
EBSNS Board thought that a visual art contest for young people in the area
might be a way to create a permanent banner, one that could be displayed every
year during the summer.
This idea has turned into “Images of My Village,” a visual
art project for young people in Colchester
County. The purpose of
this project is to celebrate the creativity of the youth in the county; to
encourage them to think imaginatively about what home, village, community means
to them; to express their feelings and ideas in visual art.
Elizabeth Bishop loved visual art and was herself an amateur
painter, who created delightful images of the places where she lived. In the
spirit of her love for her childhood home, Great Village, N.S.,
this visual art project will ask young people to re-imagine their own
connections to home and express how their identity is connected to time and
place.
The call for submissions is open to all young people in Colchester County from Grade Primary to Grade
Twelve. The EBSNS will curate a virtual exhibition of all the submissions,
which will be launched in the spring of 2013. The EBSNS will especially
encourage youth in the Great
Village area to submit.
The society will choose an image from submissions that it feels best represents
the spirit of Great
Village, and create a
permanent banner to be displayed in the village each summer.
The guidelines for submission can be found on the EBSNS
website: http://www.elizabethbishopns.org/imagesofmyvillage.html
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