Classes and Meetings

Monday

Eat The Rich meeting - 5:30pm

Eat The Rich is a purple thistle pod that is running food centred events, and working to create a youth-driven community kitchen in east vancouver.

Collective Meeting (starts at 7pm)

Where brains meet and decisions are made. The Purple Thistle is run by a group of young people who use the space. If you want to propose a new group, get more involved in the Thistle, or ask us questions. Come down to a meeting. Everyone is welcome.

to contact the collective, email Mike or carla

Tuesday

Photography/Darkroom Support: 4-6pm 

Free black and white darkroom. Zach can offer support to those already familiar with darkrooms.

Wednesday

Yoga with Aurora - 4:30 - 6pm

As a part of my “yoga chez nous” series—denoting yoga at our place and also our yoga—Wednesday afternoons we will reclaim yoga from studio-rule and bring it back to the community level, making it our own. Because yoga isn’t only a trademarked set of movements done often at high cost in a studio environment. Yoga is also your practice, our practice of being with the body and being with the breath, and sharing and holding space for one another.

This class is totally open to all levels with lots of modifications for those with less or more experience. So come check it out! Non-intimidating, totally inclusive, did I mention free? yoga is here! And it’s ours to share

auroradiana@gmail.com


Web Design drop-in sessions: Some Wednesdays 6-9 PM

Email Alex at webdesign@purplethistle.ca for more info or to find out about the next class.

This FREE drop-in will be a combination of Q&A and ongoing lessons on web design, every Tuesday.

Using HTML and CSS you can learn to construct web pages, starting from the basics (plain text, links etc), and progressing up to a multi-page website with a modern layout and design.

You can also learn how to analyze and modify existing designs, as well as some broader web design tips and strategies.

Technical prerequisites-
You are not totally new to computers
You have some experience browsing the web

You can do basic file management on a PC or Mac (save and move files, create folders, etc).
Bring your laptop if you want (and a mouse for it too, if possible.)


Alternative Film Processes   6-8pm ** off for now**

contact maya: mayamotoi@gmail.com

Experimenting with and learning about making images on 16mm and 8mm motion picture film by exposing the film with and without cameras, by painting and scratching on film, and by having fun with varies chemicals in the dark.

Thursday

Life Drawing - 7pm

A night to practice drawing bodies - the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month! All welcome. Contact Mike at burnside604@gmail.com.

Friday

RAIN: Radical Art In Nature - Guerrilla Art - 3pm

“abolishing the gap between art and life”

We are a bunch of youth who are here to make art! all sorts of it, every kind! and to take it to the streets. to share. to engage in art and culture. public space is our space.

Contact Carla at carla@purplethistle.ca


Youngunz! 6:30-8:30 **off for now **

A time for our younger youth to use the centre to learn new skills and hang out together.

Sunday (closed to drop-in)

LIGHT IT UP - Sundays 12:30 - 2:30

In this uniquely fun, dynamic, and interactive playshop you will seriously light up your load!

To embark on this path of self discovery, as well as exploration of your connection to others. Individually and as a collective we will suspend our judgments, remove our armors, and give up barriers we have constructed against love and its unique expressions.

This wondrous ride will leave you with profound self-awareness, joy, and relatedness to what it means to be a sentient being.

You will leave feeling uplifted, liberated, self-expressed, and empowered.

Light it Up! draws on modalities, such as clowning, expressive therapy, energy-based healing techniques, body conditioning, voice projection, and guided meditation.

COME OUT and PLAY!
Admission by donation.

Email Paula at never.ending.abundance@gmail.com.


The Purple Thistle Institute Discussion Group

Every second sunday 3-5 pm. Contact Daniela at aiello.daniela@gmail.com to find out about upcoming discussions!

Contact info:

Tours and to talk with the collective

Contact Mike , Maya or Carla: carla@purplethistle.ca


Life Drawing A night to practice drawing bodies. contact: Mike

RAIN: Guerrilla Art Group: Contact: Mike Jo

Guerrilla Gardening! Contact Marla: marlarenn@gmail.com

Silkscreening Learn how to burn screens and silkscreen your tshirts, patches and more. Contact info@purplethistle.ca
or Sarah: screenprint@purplethistle.ca

Youngunz An arts afternoon for youth 11-15 including writing, photography, silkscreening and much else.
Contact Sylvia: corvus_photography@hotmail.com 

Website Related
Contact Carla : carla@purplethistle.ca

Purple Thistle Institute
Contact: institute@purplethistle.ca

All other inquiries
 Carla: carla@purplethistle.ca or Matt: matt@purplethistle.ca

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