{"id":3238,"date":"2016-02-14T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2016-02-14T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T02:24:53","slug":"deryk-houston-the-mad-hatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3238","title":{"rendered":"Deryk Houston &#8211; The Mad Hatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Art Works Gallery!<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLOVE\u201d opening reception and fund raiser on February 12th was<br \/>\nfantastic. It was fun to dress in costume for this very special event.<br \/>\nWe were very fortunate to have the very talented \u201cTiny Islands\u201d trio<br \/>\nwith our daughter Amy Hall on cello, playing Beatles\u2019 songs live. We<br \/>\nraised money for Creating Homefulness &#8211; Woodwynn Farms , Sole Food<br \/>\nStreet Farms and the Save on Meats token program \u2013 all to benefit the<br \/>\nhomeless. And the \u201cLOVE\u201d exhibition itself &#8212; it&#8217;s been a pleasure to<br \/>\nhave the opportunity to share my paintings. See my other blog postings<br \/>\nfor details of each painting exhibited in this show. If you missed the event,<br \/>\nyou can still see the work at Art Works in Vancouver, BC<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artworksbc.com\">http:\/\/www.artworksbc.com<\/a> until Mar. 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Fund raising efforts are continuing until Mar. 6th as well. The gallery<br \/>\nis selling $5 raffle tickets for Rain a tribute to the Beatles on April<br \/>\n20th with dinner at Hamilton Street Grill. Thank you for your support in<br \/>\nhelping us to change our small corner of the world by helping those that<br \/>\nneed help the most.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to those that helped: @YBIA, Hamilton Street Grill, Pan<br \/>\nPacific, Genesis Publications Limited, Jonalyn Siemans of Designer\u2019s<br \/>\nGuild, Brix, Hub, Chateau Victoria Hotel &amp; Suites, Pagliacci&#8217;s<br \/>\nrestaurant, BC Ferries, RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles , Select Wines,<br \/>\nCzechrose Natural Therapy Massage Clinic &amp; all the volunteers that<br \/>\npitched in. THANK YOU! Love to all of you &amp; have a Happy Valentines!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3239\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0612-e1455502018876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3239\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3239\" alt=\"Deryk Houston - The Mad Hatter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0612-e1455502018876-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0612-e1455502018876-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0612-e1455502018876-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0612-e1455502018876.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deryk Houston &#8211; The Mad Hatter<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Art Works Gallery!<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLOVE\u201d opening reception and fund raiser on February 12th was fantastic. It was fun to dress in costume for this very special event. We were very fortunate to have the very talented \u201cTiny Islands\u201d trio with our daughter Amy Hall on cello, playing Beatles\u2019 songs live. We raised money [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}