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The Love Walk, October 11th

What is The LOVE Walk?

The LOVE Walk is a social change initiative, created and founded by Althea Knight, to promote peace, joy and safety for all women and children (and everyone), while raising awareness and increasing bystander intervention and support, for women and children who are experiencing violence.

The LOVE Walk is a silent meditative walk with a focus on LOVE.

There is so much noise in our daily lives, that a way to draw attention to the cause of ending gender based violence and promoting peace, love, joy, and safety, in the fray of voices is to: “speak up silently” through The LOVE Walk. This silence also helps to lend positive support and encouragement for all those voices who have been silenced.

Please visit the LInk below to learn more and host your own LOVE Walk.

http://www.immigrantandrefugeenff.ca/blog/join-love-walk-wednesday-october-11th

The Love Walk

Parkdale Walking Group

Connecting our community in wellness & experiences one step at a time.

THE LOVE WALK by the Lake

Saturday, June 10th, 2017

A silent mindful walk by the lake where love is the focus. Promoting peace, safety, and joy for all women and children.

Join us and grow the LOVE movement one step at time!

In co-operation with OCASI and IRCNFF campaigns to raise awareness about the warning signs of woman abuse and promote bystander intervention with immigrant and refugee communities across Ontario. www.immigrantandrefugeenff.ca/violence-against-women

• Outside Parkdale Library, 10:45 meet-up, leave at 11am

• Please wear comfortable footwear and bring water to stay hydrated.

• The walk is about 1 hour.

• Free. Everyone is welcome, including pets.

Website: parkdalewalkinggroup@wordpress.com

Contact us at: parkdalewalkinggroup@gmail.com

Twitter: @ParkdaleWalking

https://parkpeople.ca/archives/6529

Ecuhome Workshop

Women’s Self-Care & Wellness Thursdays at Ecuhome Corporation. 12 week customized program co-designed with residents and staff

Thank you to St. John’s the Compassionate Mission for subsidizing participants costs for the retreat.

BLACK ARTISTS CANADA

Art and Artists of African descent in Canada. The creative process,Exhibitions,Ideas and new thoughts on Art as it intersects with community.

Click on Link for Original Text : BLACK ARTISTS CANADA

BLACK ARTISTS CANADA

Art and Artists of African descent in Canada.
The creative process,Exhibitions,Ideas and new thoughts on Art as it intersects with community.

Click on Link for Original Text : BLACK ARTISTS CANADA

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Althea Knight Artist- Healer

Althea Knight is an Artist and a Healer. Her work is eclectic, electric and radiates great vibes. She considers it “outsider art” or “Art Brut” which is work created by folks not formerly trained, but with a high aesthetic value.

She has combined her Healing practices with creative work,. I actually think she has found a way to work holistically. In her work, there is not a place where art starts and healing ends. I spoke to her.

(what is your) medium?;

AK;”Originally acrylics on anything: Paper,burlap. canvas.windows. Then later I tried pastels on canvas. Now I’m using pastels on paper, any paper

me; What’s your subject matter?

AK; Oh I go with colour as a theme. the Predominance of certain colours. Its the Spirit as Spirit. I work on the journey of the Spirit on Earth which for me are vibrations, energy, numbers colours- it’s very sub-concious . My work is about the healing of me, and my environment, and the world around us. I am the intermediary. For me, its a spiritual and Holy practice.

Me; You travel a lot how are you able to work?

AK; well i started to work with pastels on regular paper after my luggage was lost with all my work, its somewhere between Italy and Greece.

Me: oh?

AK; Yeah I lost two and half years of work just like that.

Me; how do you see yourself as a black canadian artist?

AK; I am Cosmic Dust Materialized baby!(laughs) i’m a cosmo-cosmic being.

Posted by bryan james at 8:58 PM

Labels: black canadian artist. Althea Knight.

2 comments:

Althea said…

Hey Bryan, thought it might be good to add my websites:

www.altheaknight.com

www.flickr.com/photos/altheasartforthesoul

I wanted to add that I don’t like to classify my work and what I feel most comfortable with is the term Visionary Art. First of all, I love the word and definitions of Vision because all the meanings relate to who I am and how I experience my life here on the Earth at this time. Secondly, my artwork are reflections of visions that I have of energies and vibrations on a conscious and subconscious level. Brought through with these colours and shapes, are healing messages from the Soul for the Soul.

The rituals that I once went through while painting: dance, meditation, the burning of essential oils, prayer and singing are now practiced in my “Creative Art of Being” Workshops.

Because I am on the move constantly, I now seize snippets of time, whether I am on a plane, in a park, in an airports, or in a guesthouse to give visual voice, with pastels and paper, to the Spirit Songs that lie within. Because I am willing to create in my journal I am free to allow the offerings to come through. This is a blessing and liberates my expression and nourishes my soul.

Guess I better get some pictures up of the pastelwork on the sites.

Wishing Love, Light, Magic, Truth, Peace, Power, Inspiration, Delight, Expression, Health, Joy, Freedom and Justice for All.

Althea Knight

April 1, 2009 8:06 PM

Althea said…

Bryan,

I would like to thank-you for creating this much needed site and for taking the time to interview me.

Much love and all that good stuff,

Althea

April 1, 2009 8:28 PM

Black Artists Canada was created by bryan james – theatre practitioner, visual and performance artist and playwright