For those of you out there who aren’t familiar with Alternatives Day program, this is the best introduction! Alternatives' focus is on art, music and culture. Participants work on mosaics, painting, and crafts. We also learn about musical instruments, listen to different genres of music, and attend dances. This is a space where participants can express their creative and artistic sides!
While there is romance associated with being the ‘starving artist’, the truth of the matter is, it isn’t much fun. People don’t choose to become artists. They’re born that way.  Supplies are expensive and often never enough. With cut backs anåd belt tightening being a part of life everywhere, there is always a need for more supplies.

The dream is a patron of the arts! The trouble is there aren’t many princes left to approach, and the modern day equivalents in business don’t seem to be able, in this financial time, to be able to be as generous as they have been in the past.

Here at Alternatives we have been lucky enough to have a benefactress. Across the street, from a studio with the background of the most beautiful jazz, we met one of our neighbours who is also an artist. An artist, who we call Ms Barbara. She has brought us a treasure trove of art supplies – everything from canvas and drawing paper to easels and frames.  Ms Barbara was hoping to be able to find a suitable home 10 years worth of art supplies and she says she could have never imagined a better home for it all than Alternatives.

A casual conversation about who we were as a program and agency really opened up some amazing opportunities for the artists at Alternatives; to add to the incredible artwork that covers our walls!

The artists at Alternatives are looking forward to using so many new mediums to create and not having to worry about running out of supplies for a very long time thanks to the benefactress we have in Ms Barbara.

~With gratitude~
The Artists of Alternatives