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29 Marlene Street
Location Map
This is Tom King's second Mural at this wall. His earlier rendering from 2002 with artists Owen Carpenter and Ian August may be found in the RIP section of this website.
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Location: West Face
Occupant: Manitoba Housing
District: St. Vital
Neighbourhood: Lavalee
Artist(s): Tom King (unsigned)
Year: 2006
Sponsors: Marlene Street Kids Program
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About The Marlene Street Kids Program: Jane Brenner is the coordinator of all
the programs that happen here. Jane: "We also do things in partnership with other
organizations. We have a few groups running at the community Centre in partnership
with YMCA. We have a lot of contacts off-premise that we send our kids to. So
anything the kids come to me with or the parents come to me with, we try to do that. We
done a lot of different programs in the last year including all the artwork and the Marlene
Street Graffiti Program; we had a drama class, crafts, we have kids cooking which is
extremely popular for ages five to 11, and they just love to cook! We take the families to
Fort Whyte Centre once a month for the Greener Futures program. Sometimes we take
the kids to Bird's Hill Park Ranch and go on a wagon and chili ride. Through the Graffiti
Gallery we have a gentleman doing art classes on Saturday. The focus of the Marlene
Street Kids Program is ages 8 to 13 but we do things with kids as young as 5 and as old
as 20. One of our artists is 20."
"This Manitoba housing; low income, subsidized housing. We have a real diverse
population: aboriginals, lots of immigrant families from Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and
everywhere living here. So we try to plan our programs accordingly. Kids need to
understand where other kids come from. There are 98 units here; 98 families; about 200
kids."
"The Murals Project (the five collective walls) got nominated for an award through
Nancy Allen: The Manitoba Attorney General Safer Community Award. They didn't
win, but they were still nominated so we got pictures all made up for everybody and got
them all framed and handed them out; so they were pretty excited about that; it gave them
a little boost."
"For our Murals, what I'd like to do now is to look for another kind of art. We have
aboriginal art and graffiti art and I'd like to get some other style in here now because of
our multicultural place we live in. We're looking for some new ideas for our walls and
have just received some new funding from Clarica (the insurance company) for another
year (as of July 2003). That's how all these programs run."
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