UPDATE: Tuesday March 24, 2020
Our Gallery is CLOSED in compliance with the provincial directive!
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UPDATE: Friday March 20, 2020
Please note we will be closed Sundays and Mondays effective immediately, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ORIGINAL POST: Saturday March 14, 2020
A Gift of Art made every effort to stay open, with heightened precautions against COVID-19, but the pandemic has evolved quickly and we are forced to close in light of the State of Emergency declared this morning by the Government of Ontario.
Part of this declaration includes facilities providing organized indoor activities. Our activities fall under this very broad umbrella and we must comply. Effective at day March 17, our March Break Camp will be closed in compliance with this direction from the Government of Ontario. All regularly scheduled classes are also postponed till further notice.
We thank you for your understanding. These are unprecedented times and we look forward to being of service to you and your children in the future.
A note regarding cancelled classes and rescheduling
We are attempting to provide everyone with up to date news on the dates of classes and workshops. First of course we have to confer with all the teachers to coordinate new class dates that don’t conflict with one another. We are overwhelmed by the numbers of people we must contact. Realize please that it took our Program Manger weeks to make the current schedule. Now in just a couple of days it must all be reorganized. We are contacting all the students on an individual or class by class basis to let them know the proposed postponement dates of their classes.
However based on the State of Emergency proclaimed by the Government of Ontario there will be no classes this weekend March 21st and 22nd.
If you read it here before we have contacted you we will get to you as soon as we can.
Hi,
Just wondering if we can we still submit to the writing and photography contests?
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Hello Danielle,
Yes, both the photography and writing contest are still open!
A Gift of Art Writing Contest:
The first prize will be $200.00 with second and third prizes $50.00 and $25.00 respectively.
Your short story submission should be a maximum of 2,500 words with no minimum. No specific topic or theme – just your story. There is a $5.00 entry fee.
The deadline for contest entries is midnight, April 20, 2020.
Your submission must include a cover sheet with the following:
Your name, age or grade if under 20, address, telephone number, and title of your piece.
Acceptable file formats are .pdf, .doc or .txt
A Gift of Art Photography Contest:
For a chance to win $100 courtesy of Newcastle Rona Hardware, submit your favourite Spring pictures for our Springtime Photography contest.
Send your entries (max of 5 images) to gallery@agiftof-art.com
– Image format: JPEG
– Image size: 1800 to 4000 pixels (file must not exceed 3 MB)
Please indicate the contest theme in the “subject” line and include your name, address, phone number, and the title of your image(s) in the email.
The deadline to submit is April 30th!