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Kootenay Brain Injury Association (KBIA) located in Castlegar with outreach support to surrounding areas including Rossland, Trail, Fruitvale, Nelson, and Grand Forks.

September Newsletter
09/12/2024

September Newsletter

08/30/2024

Castlegar Activities For September 2024

All events located at:
Kinnaird Park Community Church

1250 – 26TH Street
11:00am – 1:00pm

Meet in Room 10 or the Kitchen for cooking days.

Groups include lunch!

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024, ~ Art therapy with Rebecca

Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, ~ Spaghetti Squash

Notice of Annual General MeetingMonday September 23, 2024 at 1:00 pmTrail Legion HallAll are welcome, registered members...
08/19/2024

Notice of Annual General Meeting
Monday September 23, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Trail Legion Hall

All are welcome, registered members are able to vote.
Refreshments will be served.

Today’s activity was the same as yesterday’s in Trail. We discussed the quote and what it made us feel/ think about. The...
08/19/2024

Today’s activity was the same as yesterday’s in Trail. We discussed the quote and what it made us feel/ think about. Then we made art based on that. We talked about similarities between animal and human behaviour, as well as the importance of play, and the sense of magic in nature.
Attendance:
Alex

Castlegar Art Therapy April 16, 2024As you saw, we were doing a drawing exercise called “blind contours”. The idea is to...
08/19/2024

Castlegar Art Therapy April 16, 2024
As you saw, we were doing a drawing exercise called “blind contours”. The idea is to look at an object or person and draw them without looking down at your page and without taking your pencil off the paper (1 continuous line). I notice it often does a good job at capturing the essence of the thing even if it’s not a “perfect” representation. The activity is playful and aims at letting go of producing a “perfect” drawing. There were many giggles during the activity.

Attendance:
Daryl
Lauren
Michelle
Cynthia
Patrick
Cora

Trail Art Therapy March 27, 2024With Easter weekend coming up, I brought a childhood tradition of mine in for the art ac...
08/19/2024

Trail Art Therapy March 27, 2024
With Easter weekend coming up, I brought a childhood tradition of mine in for the art activity today. Growing up my mom and I would make “Easter trees”. It always started with going for walks behind our house to see the spring buds and collect branches. We put the branches in a vase and decorated them with flowers, feathers and painted eggs etc.

To bring in a positive art therapy approach, I brought in cut outs of butterflies and Easter eggs to colour and then the intention was to write or draw a symbol on the back representing something you want to “hatch”/manifest/bring to fruition this spring.

In addition to the cutouts and drawing materials I brought branches and various materials to decorate with.

Colouring the cutouts took up most of our time, so we didn’t quite get to decorating branches.

Valentine's Day gathering
08/19/2024

Valentine's Day gathering

Trail Art Therapy April 24, 2024Today, in honour of Earth Day this past Monday I read one of my favourite quotes from W...
08/19/2024

Trail Art Therapy April 24, 2024
Today, in honour of Earth Day this past Monday I read one of my favourite quotes from Walden’s Pond by Henry David Thoreau. It is about the importance of unexplored, wild nature and how special it is. I invited the group to share their fondest memories of being in nature and to draw that, or tell the story to the group. Another option was to make a nature collage from the nature images in magazines.



Conversation was lively, discussing nature and memories, cars and movies. There was not much engagement with art today, but I’m glad the subject sparked conversation.

Attendance:
Patrick
Angela
Janis
Cathy
Grant
Scott
Mike
Chris
James

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
Henry David Thoreau

Castlegar Art Therapy April 30, 2024Last day of our Earth day activity. We started with a rose/thorn or one word check i...
08/19/2024

Castlegar Art Therapy
April 30, 2024
Last day of our Earth day activity. We started with a rose/thorn or one word check in. Most individuals were happy to share and be heard for a few minutes. Then we got into the art while conversation continued between the members. Some enjoyed just flipping through the old national geographic magazines looking at the pictures from many years ago.

Castlegar Art TherapyMay 14, 2024Finally a sunny day to make sun prints (cyanotypes)! Today I introduced the activity r...
08/19/2024

Castlegar Art Therapy
May 14, 2024
Finally a sunny day to make sun prints (cyanotypes)!



Today I introduced the activity right away so people had time to think of composition and arrange their objects appropriately. The activity was well received as something new to try and had a fun element of surprise with the final product. We used nature materials, found objects, the sun, and of course the special cyanotype paper to create art today. Once objects were arranged on the paper we brought them outside in the sun and placed a piece of glass on top so nothing moved around or flew away. Then we waited about 20min before removing the objects and rinsing the paper to develop the print. Once the prints were dry, one member even took it a step further by adding colour and detail with pencil crayons.

Attendance:
Brad
Daryl
Lauren
Patrick
Cora
Cynthia
Cathy
Kathy
Rick

Trail Art Therapy group May 22, 2024With the rain today we were unable to do cyanotype/sun printing. Instead we engaged ...
08/19/2024

Trail Art Therapy group
May 22, 2024
With the rain today we were unable to do cyanotype/sun printing. Instead we engaged with collage. I brought a range of pre cut images, objects, people and places and gave 4 options for activities. The first was to create a new face from parts of other faces. In my example I used facial features from a man, woman and dog. The second option was to do a creative self portrait using images and/or words that represent you. The 3rd was to do a collage to represent your past, present and future, or one of the 3. And the 4th was to make a collage of things you like/are inspired by.

Attendance:
Scott
Grant
Don
Lawanda
Dan
Mike
Chris

More artwork from the amazing artists at KBIA
08/19/2024

More artwork from the amazing artists at KBIA

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