Kids’ Corner – Stewart Hall Cultural Centre

MINI-EXHIBITION: LET’S PLAY!

For the past 30 years, Rolland Vachon has been making games from recycled wood. Uniting his love for board games and woodwork, he builds board games for people of all ages. About ten games will be presented in the Kids’ Corner. Discover a popular traditional game of the New France era, Shot the box, or Le Barreau, a game that has been played since antiquity.

STEWART HALL CULTURAL CENTRE – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Sunday to Wednesday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed December 24, 25, 26 and 31, 2024, and January 1 and 2, 2025.

Open December 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2024, from 1 to 5 p.m.

MINI-EXHIBITION: ILLUSTRATIONS BY ÉLISE GRAVEL 

Antonio, Ada, and monsters arrive at Stewart Hall!

Through these illustrations, discover the pencil strokes and characters of the great Quebec writer and illustrator Élise Gravel. Curious and observing, the illustrator addresses several contemporary themes including diversity, inclusion, environmental protection, animals, monsters, and even bugs!

A fun and inspiring mini-exhibition that will please curious little ones and will lead to many discoveries along the way.

ARTIST : Élise Gravel

STEWART HALL CULTURAL CENTRE – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MINI-EXHIBITION: PREHISTORIC CREATURES FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE

With the help of a series of illustrations from artist and scientific communicator Martin PM and the description from scientific author Patrick Couture, discover prehistoric aquatic creatures who might have lived in the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre’s backyard during the prehistoric era.

STEWART HALL CULTURAL CENTRE – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

*Closed on May 20

Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Saturday: Closed

MacLean Family Archives

MINI EXHIBITION : TARTANS & PEARLS – MACLEAN FASHION

To celebrate the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre’s 60^th anniversary and in collaboration with Le Grand Costumier, the Kids’ Corner is exhibiting a series of outfits inspired by archival photos of the MacLean family, residents of Stewart Hall (formerly Mull Hall) from 1917 to 1929. What did they wear during their grand receptions? And during day, during their walks along the lakeside? Made by seamstresses and costume designers, these clothes are the product of a happy partnership between artisans and historians.

If you would like to learn more about the history of the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre and Mull Hall, we invite you to visit the exhibition Visions of Stewart Hall, located along the hallway of the second floor.

STEWART HALL CULTURAL CENTRE – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

In collaboration with Le Grand Costumier

Sunday to Wednesday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

MINI EXHIBITION : THE COLOURED SKELETONS – DIA DE MUERTOS

This fall, in collaboration with the organization PAAL Partageons le monde, the Kids’ Corner of the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre presents a colourful mini exhibition that will allow you to discover the rituals and symbols that surround Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead).

Celebrated the 1^st and 2^nd of November in Mexico, this annual celebration is a moment when families come together to celebrate the lives of their deceased loved ones. At the heart of this mini exhibition, a series of altars will be specially designed by participants from our community, under the direction of mediators from PAAL, to take you into the heart of this major Mexican celebration.

PAAL is a socially innovative organization that educates and sensitises the public on cultural diversity. They are also the organizers of the Festival Dia de Muertos NDG.

STEWART HALL CULTURAL CENTRE – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

In collaboration with PAAL partageons le monde

Sunday to Wednesday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Marta Barnes, Flernmingo, 2021

MINI-EXHIBITION: PLANIMALS – A WHIMSICAL WILDLIFE

Have you ever seen a Wombanana? Or a Flernmingo? This summer, come and meet these fantastic beasts in the Kids’ Corner. Illustrator and author, Marta Barnes presents a series of surrealist watercolours inspired by her love for animals, plants and her world travels.

Created during the confinement, the artist decided to take up an art challenge during a livestream on her Instagram account. The prompt for “Planimals” involved rolling two dice – one to choose a plant and the other to choose an animal – and combining them into a surrealist form. Within a few minutes, a new wildlife was created right in front of the viewers’ eyes. After a few challenges, a whimsical watercolour series was created.

A pair of dice will be available for those who would like to live this experience and create their own fantastic beast.

STEWART HALL – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Closed on Saturdays in June, July and August

MINI-EXHIBITION: LAKESHORE WEAVERS GUILD

The Lakeshore Weavers Guild is celebrating their 60^th anniversary having been in residence at the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre since 1963. The Weavers are an integral part of the Pointe-Claire community, participating yearly in the Pointe-Claire Artisan Show and the Cultural Rendez-Vous. We are excited to share some of our history and joy in our fiber craft with this mini-exhibition from current and passed members. A floor loom will also be displayed for occasional demonstrations.

STEWART HALL – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI-EXHIBITION: WHAT DO YOU SEE FROM YOUR IMAGINARY WINDOW? – PATRICIA DAVID

Patricia David is an artist who uses glass in order to create dazzling mosaics that resemble luminous paintings. This mini-exhibition is dedicated to the ideal surrounding a window, specifically the perspective it offers us onto the exterior world and all its wonders: an animal, a plant, a landscape, a snow-covered city… The artist presents glass mosaics inspired by children’s drawings on the following theme:  What do you see from your imaginary window?

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
WELCOME TO MY MINIATURE WORLD – TAMAR COHEN, MINIATURE IT

As a child, Tamar Cohen only dreamed of becoming an artist and creating miniatures like the ones she would see in the local museum. Before moving from Israel to Montreal with her family, she had a career as a gymnastics teacher and training in the art of silversmithing.

During the pandemic, she began to explore her creativity and fulfilled her childhood dream of creating miniatures! Already, her work has been featured in magazines such as the “DollsHouse World” and “DollsHouse & Miniature Scene”. Making miniatures and dioramas allows her to create a world of various architectures and environments that only exist in her mind!

STEWART HALL – KID’S CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
MARINE UPHEAVALS – CARMELLE PILON

Carmelle Pilon is an artist who works and lives in Montreal. Over the past decade, she has developed a protean practice that includes painting, print art and installation. This stopover of her exhibition, Marine Upheavals, expresses her concern towards the environment and showcases the multiple language practice that she exploits. She presents to you several paintings found in the corpus of works created in 2021. Each painting represents both the splendor of the ocean and one of its disturbances, such as; global warming, oil spills, plastic pollution, deadly migrations or impacts on biodiversity.

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
ODE TO NATURE – LA BOUTURE, MARIE MALGORN 

Trained in graphic design, creativity is Marie’s playground. Founder of La Bouture, she creates flowers made of high-end crepe paper which are sculpted, shaped and dyed by hand, in Montreal.

Marie resolved to bring paper flowers back into fashion as they require no water, don’t cause any pollen allergies, and they do not wilt. Furthermore, they are unique and sustainable, and allow her to express all of her creativity by working with paper and colours.

Bringing you joy and poetry is La Bouture’s philosophy!

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
WHAT WE IMAGINE – VALERIE MCKEE 

In this watercolour exhibition, local artist Valerie McKee invites us to revisit our familiar surroundings through the lens of imagination. Influenced by plein air painting and daily sketches, she reimagines familiar places (parks , streets in her neighbourhood, etc.), while introducing animal characters with human traits into her playful creations.

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Page taken from Morna MacLean’s scrapbook  — MacLean Family Archives

MINI EXHIBITION
CHRISTMAS AT MULL HALL 

This exhibition unveils a moment in time at Mull Hall when the MacLean family lived there (1919–1940).  Discover a dollhouse and some of its original furnishings that once belonged to Morna MacLean, who lived at Mull Hall well before the advent of the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre!

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

WHIMSICAL SEA CREATURES…AND OTHER IMPROBABLE SPECIES
CATHERINE BOUCHARD

Discover the playful world of Catherine Bouchard through her sardine cushions fished from the sea, her wacky animal sculptures and her colourful paintings. Inspired by the 70s, her creations stand out by the richness of their colours and astonish us with their free spirit.

IN THE MANNER OF MANON GAUTHIER – Virtual exhibition

In fall 2020, the Pointe-Claire Public Library organized a series of virtual workshops between illustrator and collagist Manon Gauthier and grade 3 and 4 students from École Marguerite-Bourgeoys. Through these workshops, students discover various albums illustrated by the artist and are initiated in the artist’s technique so that they can create their own collage, accompanied by a short story.

ARTISTS: École Marguerite-Bourgeoys, grades 3 and 4

We would like to thank the teachers, the school École Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, and the artist Manon Gauthier.

Click on the links below to see the artworks:

Group 301 – Class of Sylvie Demers: part 1 | part 2
Group 302 – Class of Isabelle Charbonneau: part 1 | part 2
Group 303 – Class of Marie-Hélène Milot: part 1 | part 2
Group 309/409 – Class of Marianne Lirette: part 1

PAPER STORIES – MANON GAUTHIER

Manon Gauthier is a self-taught illustrator and collagist who previously worked in graphic arts. Since 2006, she has illustrated numerous books in Québec, Europe and Asia, such as Poésies pour la vie by Gilles Tibo, and De Jade Janvier à Dany Décembre by Bertrand Gauthier. Her work has received numerous awards and she has been nominated four times for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award. Manon also leads creative art workshops in elementary schools.

UNTIL JUNE 20
Monday to Sunday, 1 to 4:30 p.m.