<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">February 18, 2020</span></p>
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Announcement</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Creating Mandala: a transformational
workshop </span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With Caetani Cultural Centre & Vernon Community Art Centre’s
artist-in-residence, Ela Mukherjee, all the way from India. </span></i></p>
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</span><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">At first glance a
mandala appears to be a symmetrical circle, a pretty image, sometimes made of coloured
sand, or flowers, or flour. Beneath that first glance, however, many layers of
symbolism, meaning and opportunities for transformation are revealed. </span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“I wanted to share an artform which has some
connection with my Indian roots and at the same time is appealing to
international learners. <span class="gmail-il">Mandala</span></span> is so very
Indian that it is a part of everyday life in some parts of India,” explains
Mukherjee.<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ela
Mukherjee is a ceramic artist and art educator based in Delhi, India. She was awarded
a Fulbright scholarship to study ceramics in the US and the Charles Wallace
India Trust scholarship to do the same in the UK. She’s received a number of
fellowships from the Government of India and participated in various international
art exhibitions and artist residency programs. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Besides
practicing art as a freelance artist from her own studio in Delhi, Ela teaches
in different art and design colleges as a visiting faculty. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Learn how
to make a mandala by signing up for </span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Ela’s
workshop online at <a href="http://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue">www.caetani.org</a>. You’ll spend all of Saturday February 22nd learning
about and creating mandala with her </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">in the Caetani Cultural Centre’s
Studio Gallery.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33)">Mukherjee
is the Caetani Cultural Centre’s CeramAiR </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Artist-in-Residence. The </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Caetani Centre’s Artist-in-Residence programs are
available to artists working on creative projects anywhere from 2 weeks to 3
months in length. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The artist stays and creates at the Caetani
Cultural Centre and is invited to share workshops, readings and exhibitions
with the North Okanagan community. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ela’s
residency is a partnership with the Vernon Community Art Centre's ceramics
studio.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">For more information
please visit our website </span><a href="https://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> or contact the Caetani Centre at
250-275-1525.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i><b>Please note:</b> I am in the office 2 days per week (Mondays & Thursdays until 1:00pm Pacific Time.) Because of that, replies may be slower than you're accustomed to.</i></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Janelle Hardy<div>Artist in Residence Program Coordinator<br>Caetani Cultural Centre</div><div><a href="http://www.caetani.org/creative-residencies" target="_blank">www.caetani.org/creative-residencies</a></div><div>250 275-1525<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>