The new and improved brigadoonvillage.org is up and running, and we couldn’t be more excited. Designed to reflect the incredible growth and happenings of building Brigadoon, our new site is an online community of events, updates, projects and people. And we want everyone to take part. So check us out, drop us a line and let us know what you think. One of our mantras at Brigadoon is that it’s going to take a village to build a village, so join the conversation. We’d love to hear from you.

Special thanks to Gesso Communications for a truly awesome site, to Andrew Bourke for his technical wizardry, and to Karen Purcell for her amazing photos (which incidentally, will be featured in the upcoming Picture This! exhibit at the Nova Scotia Gallery, April 25 to May 6. See you there!).

Dave

When we talk about building Brigadoon from the ground up, we literally mean starting from scratch, including our office space.

Thanks to the generosity of some Brigadoon’s biggest supporters, the good people at The Trail Shop, and the unwavering determination of two Dalhousie students (Michael Smith, Ryan Enta) and two Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Ashley Thompson, Amy Wetton), we went from Dave’s apartment and 1995 Honda Civic Hatchback (you’d be surprised at how many files you can store in the back of a Civic Hatchback) to comfortable loft living.

Say hello to the Big Bad Brigadoon Reno Crew "Mike Smith, Amy Wetton, Ashley
Thompson and Ryan Enta" four extremely industrious student interns.  Internship
agreements were forged between Brigadoon and the respective university of each student. 
As "teaching" and "experiential learning" are tenants of the Brigadoon mission - students
have always been involved with our development. 

The internships were for 4 months - each student received a B+ or above for their efforts. 
Their work and documentation of design and administrative systems was superb.

The entire office was renovated for less than $600. 

Thanks to all who donated furniture, tools and time.  Special thanks to Office Interiors
(John Mullally) for a mind-blowing chair and JJ McKeage for the desks and filing cabinets.

We are eternally grateful to our new landlords - The Trail Shop for the donation of space.

We never could have done it without the support, enthusiasm and generosity of our
Brigadoon community.

Dave

Ryan Enta, Mike Smith, Amy Wetton and Ashley Thompson

Brigadoon’s first office - Corner of Dave McKeage’s apartment

We were very fortunate to have furniture donated to the office and great
movers (Thanks Thompsons Moving)! to get the donations from
point A to point B.  The students coordinated all the logistics.

Amy and Ashley working on the walls

Amy and Ashley work on the stairs - 9 hours!     

Ryan Enta, Amy Wetton and Ashley Thompson take a well earned break

Front of Office

Mike Smith, with great concentration, paints the door frame

Andrew Bourke leads the IT meeting