BCIT Wellness puts on the perfect destressing, study break for students in the form of a paint night. For anyone who hasn’t been to a paint night before here’s what it looks like:
- Pay $5 in advance to hold your spot ($5 is an amazing price compared to the going rate for paint nights elsewhere)
- Arrive at Habitat Pub on campus where there are easels and canvases already set up
- The front of the room will have a sample painting that the instructor made
- Get your paint colours
- Order a beer
- Follow along with the instructor
The beauty of paint night is you don’t even have to paint the same picture as the teacher. Lots of people just show up and paint whatever they want!
The painting this time was of a bunch of cacti on a solid background. I chose to paint that one and so did my friend who came with me. I do not normally consider myself artistic but I have to say I was very happy with the end result! I also really enjoyed how different everyone’s paintings turned out!
My friend and I spend 2 hours chatting, painting and focusing very hard on our creations. We are also at a very busy time in the semesters and have a lot of work and studying that has to be done. As much as this paint night took 2 hours away from our school work productiveness, it gave us something better. There was a questionaire to fill out before and after we started painting. Before painting it asked us our stress levels. Mine was a 6, my friend’s was a 7. After 2 hours of painting our reported stress levels were closer to a 2. Without even noticing, this artistic adventure took us away from our stressful student lives and allowed us some stress free, relaxing time!
I commend BCITSA Wellness for putting on such a great event for students and for making it affordable and fun! I will be going to the next one for sure!