{"id":7840,"date":"2024-11-15T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:54:42","slug":"big-art-a-lot-of-heart-in-beach-fundraiser-for-queens-county-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/11\/15\/big-art-a-lot-of-heart-in-beach-fundraiser-for-queens-county-food-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Big art, a lot of heart in beach fundraiser for Queens County Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spend a day at the beach with Jane Dunlop-Stevenson for Hands Across the Sands, a fundraiser for the Queens County Food Bank on Sunday at Summerville Beach. (Rick Conrad<\/p><\/div>\n

You can help turn a day at the beach into a work of art this weekend, and raise some money for a local charity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liverpool artist Jane Dunlop-Stevenson is organizing Hands Across the Sands: Art with Heart for the Food Bank<\/a> on Sunday at 1 p.m. on Summerville Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea is to draw 30-foot tall stick figures on the beach at low tide. You make a $20 donation to the Queens County Food Bank for each figure. And Dunlop-Stevenson and other volunteers will help you bring your beach art into the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt started with a gentleman saying to me it would be neat to see people being drawn on the beach,” Dunlop-Stevenson said in a recent interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

“And that led me to think of a picture of all these stick people and what we could do with it and it just evolved into let’s charge some money and help out the food bank and create this great picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe original goal was to draw 150 30-foot stick figures at $20 a piece which would then (be) $3,000 to the food bank. We\u2019re at a third of that right now. So that’s really good. I’m pleased with that. Just to envision 77 30-foot stick drawings is incredible across the beach, all holding hands, … with their feet in the water. It’ll be really neat to see the tide coming in and touching their toes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After everybody has drawn their figures, Dunlop-Stevenson will take drone footage of the whole scene and post it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first time she\u2019s created sand art at Summerville with so many other people. But she\u2019s a veteran virtuoso at creating striking short-term sand art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably her best known work was a 120-foot-by-60-foot tribute to Olympic shot putter Sarah Mitton<\/a> before this summer\u2019s games. That one featured an 85-foot Eiffel Tower, a Canadian flag and the Olympic rings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dunlop-Stevenson created this tribute to Sarah Mitton this summer at Summerville Beach. (Jane Stevenson photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

She\u2019s also recreated the logo for the Liverpool International Theatre Festival. And she\u2019s taken small groups to Summerville to create mandalas and other images.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Sunday\u2019s event promises to be her biggest group effort yet. She and some other volunteers will sketch out the heads of all the stick figures ahead of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And participants just have to bring their own rakes to help give their pieces texture, so that they show up against the smooth sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they will rake the head and choose their design however they want it, however simple or dressed up they want their little person to be, it’s totally up to them. No perfection is necessary. <\/span>If you have your little picture drawn and you know what you want to put in the sand, it will probably take you 20 minutes maybe to draw a stick figure. So it\u2019s very possible to draw a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has to be perfect. It\u2019s all just for fun and to see this really cool art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dunlop-Stevenson has set up a Facebook event, which includes a link to a Google registration form. You can go by yourself or get a team of five together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And if the weather doesn\u2019t co-operate this weekend, they\u2019ll try it again on Nov. 30. Look for updates on their Facebook event Hands Across the Sands: Art with Heart for the Food Bank<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBring your rakes, find some pictures online, bring your 20 bucks and bring your friends. … <\/span>We can always be warm at the beach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/handsacrosssandsnov1524.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

QCCR acknowledges the support of the Community Radio Fund of Canada\u2019s Local Journalism Initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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