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
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
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
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.”