Maclaren Art Centre

Inspired by SMITH Magazine's “Six-Word Memoirs” project and bestselling book series, this community exhibition has been adapted especially for Carnegie Days 2011. The MacLaren Art Centre is collecting six-word memoirs created by Simcoe County youth on themes of identity and perception. We invite you to write your own creative memoir and submit it to us as part of a county- wide competition this fall.

Twelve winning submissions will be selected for public display in various downtown store-front windows during the MacLaren Art Centre’s Carnegie Days Festival, September 29 through October 2, 2011.

This poetic form is so close to texting you may become addicted.

Congratulations to our competition winners!

Simply Tea & Chocolate, " I always try to say yes "— Naomi Grattan
Bell, Book & Candle, "Young in body, old in spirit" — Sara-Louise McKenna
Page & Turners, "Dreaming while awake instead of sleeping" — Madelaine Khan
Mady Centre For The Perfoming Arts "I sang in the rain, unafraid" — Hannah Guirguis
Mady Centre For The Performing Arts, "Actor in life, true in play" — Jesse James
Second Cup, "BIG mugs make the day bearable" —  Carly McMillan
Joshua’s Greenery,"Like a forest, forever I flourish" — Kassandra Braün
Trek Bicycles, "I am the one that got away! "— Sandy Ann Humphreys
Page & Turners "Bohemian writer who longs for freedom" — Ciara Hall
MacLaren Art Centre, "Living large in a small world" — Kim Schaschl
MacLaren Art Centre, "Blur your borders and rest peacefully" — Samantha Molnar
MacLaren Art Centre "Storm with a seven letter name" — Kaitlyn Harris