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Culture Days will return September 20 – October 13, 2024.

  • Photo credit: Ming Yeung, Created by Ming Yeung, Year of work: 2013, The beautiful monarch butterflies was displayed in the Art Column on Number 3 road in September 2019.
    Waltzing At Dusk - Watercolor on rice paper
  • Photo credit: Ming Yeung, Created by Ming Yeung, Year of work: 2022 - A completed sample of painting for self-guided
    A completed artwork - Watercolor on calligraphy paper
  • Created and photo taken by Ming Yeung 2022 - A sample of stencil for self-guided
    Monarch butterfly stencil
  • Students' painting at City Centre Community Centre, Richmond, BC July 2022,  Photo taken by Ming Yeung
    Beauty Contest - Monarch butterflies are like other butterflies. They are helping to transfer pollen from one flowering plant to another.

Monarch Butterflies Fly Over City of Richmond

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Drawing Nature & outdoors Painting Self-guided Visual arts
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Date and time

This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.

Location

Richmond, BC

Access

Free.

Offered in English.

About

More and more sad news articles have reported that the Monarch butterfly population is falling again. They are now on the endangered 'red list'. Monarch butterflies are threatened by deforestation, climate change, and the loss of native plants. One of the best ways for our community to reverse wildlife decline and restore wildlife habitats is to create a beautiful drawing or painting of Monarch butterfly as a way to raise awareness of the endangered species. This is the least we can do for a good cause.

Through the activity, the benefit for the public is that they will gain a deeper understanding about the importance of raising awareness of the need to protect and maintain healthy ecosystems for wildlife.

Feel free to copy the provided stencil of Monarch butterfly from the uploaded images and complete it with your favorite colors. Let's display the creations on the windows of your place and let them fly over the City of Richmond. Installing art within a city street scape to tell a story creates opportunities for viewers see, feel, think and ask social questions.

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Organizer

Ming Yeung

After achieving an 'Artistic Innovation' award in 2019, Ming has continued her ongoing art project 'Art for the World's Endangered Species' through exhibitions and teaching. She has been promoting her style of Chinese painting through exhibitions, teaching classes, artist demonstrations, and interviews in the Lower Mainland since 2002. She is an exceptional artistic person with a very deep commitment to her Chinese Free Style painting style and her unwavering commitment to the world's endangered wildlife species. In 2019, her creation 'Wildlife in the City' depicted local wildlife, including monarch butterflies, was displayed in the Art Column on Number 3 road. The work aims to raise awareness of species at risk for future generations. We protect wildlife because they inspire us.

This event is part of a hub:

Richmond Culture Days

City of Richmond Richmond, BC

From September 23 - October 16, Richmond will celebrate creativity everywhere and every way. Over these three weeks, dozens of Richmond artists and arts organizations will offer free, behind-the-scenes access to a wide range of art forms an...