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Melanie McDuff: Volunteer Extraordinaire! 

This week, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, youthLEADarts Inc would like to feature and celebrate an incredible young woman, leader and community volunteer, Melanie McDuff.   Melanie is the heartbeat of youthLEADarts Inc Nova Scotia. Melanie has been volunteering at the Lismore District and Community Centre since she was a little girl, as well as …

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The Great Canadian Cupcake and Cookie Decorating Contest

January’s youthLEADarts Nova Scotia drop-in program for youth aged 7-14 was a great success! An abundance of local community kids joined us for the Great Canadian Cupcake and Cookie Decorating Contest.   In teams, they created a company logo, poster, promotional shot or commercial and presented them, along with their beautiful cupcakes, to our local celebrity …

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Helping Others to See: Hastings Youth Debut Their Art at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas Last week, youthLEADarts participants from Hastings Elementary in Vancouver celebrated as their exhibition, “Whale Tales: A Call to Action” opened at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia.  The art featured the whale doodles and slogans that …

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Unleashing Inner Brilliance: Empowering Marginalized Children through Art and Performance Arts

To wrap up International Arts in Education Week, we are pleased to have a contribution by guest blogger and author Simone Pertuiset.  Simone’s books are inspired by her own family’s stories: one about France (and travelling to Africa and South America) in the 1800s and one about the early 1900s in England and the trenches of the …

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