Art

weekly photo challenge: art

canon 18 - 55 mm test 059Recycled manhole covers for some abstract art on the old city street.

Eons ago this used to be very busy bus stop and the city tore is up as it brought unfavorable attention or some such thing..  For the life of me I don’t want to understand that sitting below the great columns upon the high ledge was such a big deal – it was a great vantage point for many thing especially finding our bus in a busy crowd!.  canon 18 - 55 mm test 057

Some of the walkway in front of the bank was granite so the city put the stone aside, powder coated the old man holes and with some creative canon 18 - 55 mm test 031arrangement came up canon 18 - 55 mm test 032with art that is recycled and usable. canon 18 - 55 mm test 030

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside the Victoria Chalk Festival

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside the Victoria Chalk Festival

 

This last weekend we attended the yearly Chalk festival in Victoria BC,  It is all about street chalk drawing.  Each artist was given a square to do.  Downtown Sept 14 13 019Downtown Sept 14 13 125Downtown Sept 14 13 127Downtown Sept 14 13 119

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Children were given small square to entice the artist flair.

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There was a stage in Centennial Square with traditional native song, drumming and dance.  They were fantastic.  This was a youth group from the north Island and it was there first performance in public.  They did very well.  I love the traditional dress.

 

 

Native women singers Sept 2013These lovely woman sang traditional plains Indian songs and they were stunning from the traditional clothing to their collective voices.

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