Aaron Paquette's Blog, page 5
April 17, 2014
What Will this Day Mean? A Story of Loss and Found
Little did I know what was going to happen. The afternoon started out innocently enough. It was close to Christmas and I was driving home along the highway. I was 20 years old and pretty much everything in my life was in chaos. I was so used to this state of affairs that I hardly […]
April 15, 2014
Thunderbird Rising
I had the honour of working with the students and staff of Homesteader School last week as we created a huge school mural. Luckily, the school has some unique architectural quirks and Mrs. Armstrong (the Principal) immediately saw the possibilities. In order to allow every student to add something, we cut all the facets of […]
April 13, 2014
The Train to Truth and Reconciliation – CBC Radio
National news icon, Gareth Hampshire, reports in-depth on the new Grandin Station Murals in Edmonton. Join him in discussion with host Bernard St-Laurent as they explore the deeper meanings and even deeper feelings that surround this hot button issue.
April 3, 2014
Great Creators Academy
So…I get a constant stream of requests for teaching the things I’ve learned over time about Creativity. What it is, where it comes from, how we use it to literally Create the lives we want to live. How we can use it to dream bigger, to perform better, to be changers of our own lives […]
March 20, 2014
The Stations of Reconciliation (a Conversation)
Artist Statement (mural on the east wall of the Grandin LRT Station, Edmonton) If you believe you are small, you are small. That was the hope of the federal government and various churches who attempted to eradicate the culture and identity of First Nations children across Canada. Murder, theft, lies and betrayals. Indoctrination, torture, rape […]
February 21, 2014
The Alchemy of Breathing
Just as you wouldn’t drink poison, you wouldn’t give your children poison to drink. This seems an obvious statement. But what about the poisons we don’t eat or drink? The poisons of the heart, the poisons of the mind? We allow toxic thoughts to spill out from us into the world and we accept that […]
