

Water Dancers: Appreciating the Planet Through Movement
Earth Day was last week, a time to reflect on our relationship with our planet. Do we treat her with respect? Do we protect her? As a member of Artists Rendering Tales Collective Inc (ARTCi), I was part of the team that delivered arts based, on line workshops to K-Grade 5 classes at Brockton Preparatory School in North Vancouver throughout April. The school chose the mentor text, "We are Water Protectors" written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade. I worked


SPRING into READING
This month ARTCi artists Brunella Battista, Candice Halls-Howcroft, Lori Sherritt-Fleming and Tracie Stewart are the Artists in Residence at Brockton Preparatory School in North Vancouver. Every year Brockton hosts a whole month of festivities that feature a tsunami of stories, a plethora of poems, and a colossal array of chapter books. This celebration of everything literary is known as “Spring Into Reading!” This year, ARTCi proposed that the K-Grade 5 classes select a ment