Joshua Creek Art Heritage Centre
Connections is fortunate indeed to have Sybil Rampen as one of our members. Using a family inheritance she has made available to us a wonderful new art centre that is under construction on her property. The facilities allow us a “play day” every three months, and her willingness to teach her innovative techniques provides an inexhaustible supply of inspiration to other members.

Vision Statement

  • Approximately ten acres of the 52 acres is envisioned as a cultural oasis in the future city where people of like mind and interests can gather, learn, communicate and breathe. Membership is offered to people with similar interest who may be willing to volunteer and participate.

  • Oulton Hall, currently under construction, is named after our English ancestors, going back to 1066. It will accommodate many interests and kinds of functions.

  • The Mercy Fish Gallery will be used as an art gallery to encourage local artists, small concerts, workshops or gatherings.

  • The adjoining Forum, opening on to a large covered porch, can be a dining space or a work space, with a catering kitchen for workshops, receptions, book launches, weddings, retreats, lectures, meetings and tea parties.

  • The access and space allows for people in wheel chairs, and wobbly seniors to attend functions. There will also be a small elevator. The David Horne Library on the upper level is to be a study and research centre with a wide collection of books and catalogues and on the web as a reference library.

  • The MacZiggy Computer Graphic Centre is an intimate teaching space with at least four Apple computer graphic stations.

  • The garden, lawns and terraces will encourage wedding photographs and gardening.

  • An outreach idea is to offer children's creative programmes, small garden plots to grow vegetables, raised beds for wheel chairs, a herb garden, an orchard, soft fruits and a flower picking garden

The Structure

  • Joshua Creek Heritage Centre would be created by Oulton Rampen Holdings as a Foundation with conditions to protect the family interests.

  • A Heritage Centre Endowment Fund will be established. This will be invested with interest adequate to cover the basic running costs of the centre.

  • A Scholarship Endowment Fund will be established for the purpose of encouraging cultural research and studies.

  • Salaried positions will be contracted for:

    • The Manager/Director, who will run the Foundation

    • Legal and financial advisors

    • A part-time Events Co-ordinator

  • A board of directors of nine members will oversee the establishment and maintenance of the Joshua Creek Art Heritage Centre. The first board will be chosen by the Rampen family. After that the members are elected or re-elected for a three year term, but to accommodate the initial members, three will serve for three years, three for four years and three for five years so the rotation is three a year and not all at once.

 

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