QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE UNLIMITED GUM EDITION

Posted by on Oct 9, 2018 in Publications, Texts, Uncategorized | No Comments
QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE UNLIMITED GUM EDITION

A product of Big Rock Candy Mountain, QA CHEW’s BUBBLE TROUBLE was developed with the Grade 6/7 students in Karen Sandu’s class at Queen Alexandra Elementary School in East Vancouver.

QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE GUM LAUNCH

Posted by on Oct 1, 2018 in Big Rock Candy Mountain, Events, Publications | No Comments
QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE GUM LAUNCH

Artists Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling, along with Queen Alexandra Grade 6/7 Students have been working hard of 2017-2018 to bring you the QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE gum edition. Join them for the launch of their edition on Halloween!

Sour vs Sour – Chocolate Bar Edition

Posted by on Jul 23, 2018 in Publications, Texts, Uncategorized | No Comments

Big Rock Candy Mountain – Sour vs Sour – As part of a 3-month engagement with a Queen Alexandra Elementary School grade 3/4 class, artists Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed taste-tested a range of flavours and developed a miscellaneous vocabulary to describe them: sounds, shapes, words, elaborate fonts, synesthetic line drawings and emojis. With visits to-and-from East Van Roasters, the group learned about single-origin, fairly traded dark chocolate and navigated its tense (and tacky) conflation with cheap candy from the gas station nearby.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Posted by on Mar 28, 2016 in Big Rock Candy Mountain, Projects | No Comments

Big Rock Candy Mountain is a flavor incubator and taste-making think-tank with elementary school students. The project takes its name from a folk song that has been revised and rewritten countless times over the past hundred years to reflect a comic utopia, where we hear a “…buzzin’ of the bees in the peppermint trees, ’round the soda water fountains.”