WHAT WE’VE DONE — past projects

“The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.”
— Twyla Tharp

Previous Projects

The Arts are a positive force in the community. They are a powerful vehicle for communication, carrying ideas and expressing them in ways that are new and freeing. When we create or appreciate art, it arouses joy, or sadness, or any number of other emotions. For the artist, bringing a work of art to completion is sometimes a lonely journey, one that can benefit from exposure to others. The goal of The Third House is to facilitate and promote The Arts in the Shuswap. Sometimes we provide an opportunity to learn, other times to play. At the heart of our projects is the desire to allow artists to reach out and touch one another.

• Readers’ Theatre
  Readers’ Theater was an integrated approach to involving community in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in a social atmosphere. It required no sets, costumes, props, or memorized lines. Instead of acting out literature as in a play, the performer’s goal was to read aloud effectively, enabling the audience to visualize the action. Performers brought the text alive by using voice, facial expressions, and sometimes gestures. See more about it→. There was no charge..
• Ida and Old Baldy’s Seniors’ Theatre
  The most fun you can have in two hours — standing up or sitting down! No experience necessary. Come join us! You are never too late for Seniors’ Theatre.
• Isolation art
  This is a space that was dedicated to the arts community to share work that they create during the period of isolation that affected all of us during covid-19. The copyright© to all work in the gallery belonged to its creator. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us here.
• The Arts OnSite with Lady Nature
  Do you write, paint, dance, play in theatre, draw, compose music or pursue any other creative passion in the arts? If you did, then you were automatically invited to join in and participate in The Arts OnSite with Lady Nature. We met at the library, #1 - 2425 Golf Course Drive in Blind Bay. From here we carpooled to a preselected outdoor space→ to spend the day creating and enjoying nature. If our plein air art plans were spoiled by inclement weather, we would meet the following week. There was no charge.
• Website building and blogging workshop
  The purpose of this workshop was to provide creative individuals with an opportunity for self promotion by teaching them to build their own website using Wordpress themes and for those who wished, how to add a picture portfolio. The workshop was held in November of 2016 at Blind Bay Hall, 2510 Blind Bay Road.
• Scriptwriting workshop
  A scriptwriting workshop was held at the Okanagan Regional Library, South Shuswap Branch. Part of our focus was to create a Community Play for the South Shuswap, but participants with other writing interests were welcome to attend and found the activities productive and enjoyable. The end result was a public performance of an old time radio play at Cedar Centre in Blind Bay. The scripts presented were Mrs. Stiles Boarding House written by Susan McLellan and Losing It written by June Welter. These plays were aired on Voice of the Shuswap 93.7 FM.
• Photography workshop
  A workshop titled, Getting to know your Camera, with by Sara Schreiner was held on October 23 – 25, 2015 at the Cedar Centre in Cedar Heights. It was an opportunity for up and coming photographers to get to know their cameras better to get the best possible images. Through the knowledge of the inner workings of their camera they can now tackle the creativity and freedom that comes with having full control!
• Reading-writing and literature sessions
  Periodically, we sent out a call to authors to provide them with the opportunity to have a group of readers spend time reading, discussing and responding to a piece, or pieces, of their work. This was a voluntary activity. We are not critics, only readers, and spoke from that perspective. If you are interested in including your work in one of our future sessions or if you would like to be one of our readers, we invite you to let us know.