An artwork conceptualized nearly six decades ago by Yoko Ono is the inspiration for this year’s birthday party for ART in Port Moody.
On Jan. 17, PoMoArts invites the public to its celebration for ART, an annual event started through the 1960s Fluxus art movement, of which the Beatles’ former wife has been a part of since it began.
Using her "Mend Piece" installation as a guide, participants can take the broken pieces of pottery and coloured glass donated to the St. Johns Street gallery and sink them into soft clay for a keepsake.
The activity will be led by PoMoArts ceramic volunteers and Ysabella Choung, the facility’s ceramics manager, from 3 to 8 p.m.
Ono’s "Mend Piece," which asks gallery visitors to fix fragments of ceramic coffee cups and saucers with twine, tape and glue as a euphemism to repair oneself and the community, was shown at the rennie museum in Vancouver in 2018.
The installation also follows the Japanese art of kintsugi, a technique of using gold to put cracked pottery together, thereby emphasizing the “scars.”
Jennifer Hayes, events coordinator for PoMoArts, told the Tri-City News its ART party is smaller than last year's début, which was held at Site B and included music and a cake contest.
The celebration, she said, “is a good way to start the new year. You can make something new from something unwanted.”
Hayes said participants can set their 2025 intentions by creating a 6”x6” piece to take home and use as an ornament, coaster or garden decoration, for example, as a reminder to heal and connect.
The BREAKisMAKE party is open to all ages.
“This is our commitment to celebrate the arts in the City of the Arts,” she said.
Tickets to ART’s birthday are $10. To reserve a slot in a workshop at PoMoArts (2425 St. Johns St.), you can visit the facility’s website.
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