December 2009: Our Young Arts Market is open for business; everything from writers' groups to theatre group to music jam , art studio and more.



To Support, Promote, and Showcase the Creative Expression of the Young and the Disadvantaged

From entertaining young residents of a small Vancouver Island town with chalk drawings, to promoting child-centred art activities in Singapore, India, and Sri Lanka, Rough Diamonds (a non-profit agency) has taken on many different projects.
Over the past year our focus has been to promote the arts created by the young members of our community through showcasing the musical and literary talents through live performances as well as high quality recordings. Our 2009 compilation CD was launched on August 30.

Make a donation

to
Rough Diamonds Creative Arts Society
through Paypal



 On August 30, 2009, we released our first compilation CD showcasing three bands and two solo performers. It is going to be reissued in the spring of 2010.





Buy our CD!!



# of CDs + shipping&handling
To buy more than 5 CDs at a time, please contact us.

Watch RoughDiamondsTV on Youtube

 Watch for Vancouver Island Young Musicians Festival, 2010 on August 28.

See the poster for the

Vancouver Island Young Musicians Festival, 2009

Parksville Community Park, 4 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.
Sponsored by MusicMaxx, RDN, Wayne Chezick, Parksville Qualicum Community Foundation


Featuring:

Joey Chaos
The Detective Collective
Michael Bowman
Bashu
The B Sides
Born by Science
Kumbana Marimba
Jackson Babyshoe MacDonald
Plastic Chair Explosion
Jen Sublime



Seeds of Rough Diamonds project were planted in 2000 with a proposal to the local school district and public mental health agency. The project began in 2001 as an afterschool art program, a place for free creative expression, for students in grades six to eight. Rough Diamonds ran in the fall and spring of each year in different schools for a length of eight to ten weeks. The program was supported for four years in the district schools. Here are a few photos:


labyrinth tile
Working on a tile for the Labyrinth Mural (2002)


Painting "ArtsCans", fundraiser for the Literacy Project (2008)

Labyrinth mural (2002)

Painting at the Youth Coffee House (2008)


jamming with friends (2008)


Anti-war Poster painted by two boys and then joined together (2005)

Rough Diamonds at the KidsFest in Singapore (Summer 2005)

Saturday Night Breakfast (2008)

Children enjoy making art with chalk
on a summer afternoon (2006).


dancing at the Breakfast on the Grass (Summer 2008)


tel: (250) 240-1221
roughdiamonds.ca@gmail.com
roughdiamonds.ca

All material © RoughDiamonds.ca