Homer Holiday

Saturday December 7th, 2024 | 12-3:30pm  

Join us for a festive afternoon filled with seasonal stories, art making and refreshments!

Story time with Shannon:
12:30-1pm, 2-2:30pm | Cayley Gallery 
 

Celebrate the winter season with a delightful story time led by Shannon, where enchanting tales will spark the holiday spirit in children and adults alike.

Drop-in Flat Felt Gnome making with Emilie:
12-3:30pm, Flat Felt Gnome | Watson Gallery 

Explore your creativity with a drop-in art activity hosted by Emilie, where you’ll have the chance to create your very own flat felt gnome! Perfect for kids of all ages, this hands-on activity allows everyone to explore their artistic side and take home a unique holiday decoration.  

Proceeds from our Homer Holiday event will support our mission to make art accessible by funding exhibitions, educational programs for all ages, and preserving the collection for future generations. 

Register for this 1 day clay workshop!

No Art Experience Needed!
Family Workshop suitable for artists 3+ with adult supervision

$35.50 (Friends of the Gallery price $31.95)

Join us for a clayful workshop in conjunction with our Homer Holiday. Participants will make clay hanging tiles imbued with seasonal cheer! This is an introduction to clay slab surface embellishing techniques to create texture and imagery.  

If you are an adult supervising a young artist but will not be creating your own tile please register using the “Artist Supervisor”.

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The Loch Doon area was memorialized in celebrated Scottish poet, Robert Burns piece “Ye banks and braes O’ bonnie Doon”

Ye banks and braes o’ bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu’ o’ care?
Thou’lt break my heart, thou warbling bird,
That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn:
Thou minds me o’ departed joys,
Departed, never to return.

Aft hae I rov’d by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodbine twine;
And ilka bird sang o’ its love,
And fondly sae did I o’ mine.
Wi’ lightsome heart I pu’d a rose,
Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree;
And my fause lover stole my rose,
But, ah! he left the thorn wi’ me.

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