{"id":135,"date":"2013-12-03T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=135"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:59:00","slug":"dawson-students-help-standard-life-celebrate-the-spirit-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/dawson-students-help-standard-life-celebrate-the-spirit-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawson students help Standard Life celebrate the spirit of giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Life launched the <em>Together, in our community<\/em> program in June 2012 in response employees&#8217; wishes to be more involved in the Company&#8217;s community investment projects. To commemorate the launch, employees across Canada participated in a collective painting activity. Three art students from Dawson College then polished the painting so that it&#8217;s blended into a beautiful piece of art. <\/p>\n<p><P>The painting, finalized in collaboration with Dawson College students, is meant to represent Standard Life employees&#8217; mark in their community and is a legacy to future employees. <\/P><\/p>\n<p>While the original 12 x 5 feet work of art will be suspended in the lobby of Standard Life&#8217;s headquarters in Montr\u00e9al, reproductions of the painting will hang in all of Standard Life&#8217;s Canadian offices. <\/p>\n<p>Dawson Visual Arts teacher Joe Di Leo said, &#8220;This was a challenge for myself and my students but we rose up to meet it and I&#8217;m thrilled with the results.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"ID3Path\" src=\"\/public\/standard_life_painting.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<h5>From left to right: Sophie Fortin (Standard Life), John De Rosa (Standard Life), Joe Di Leo (Dawson College), S\u00e9bastien Niemi (Dawson College), Arizona O&#8217;Neill (Dawson College), Caroline Lavall\u00e9e (Standard Life), Charles Guay (Standard Life) (CNW Group\/Standard Life)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Life launched the Together, in our community program in June 2012 in response employees&#8217; wishes to be more involved in the Company&#8217;s community investment projects. To commemorate the launch, employees across Canada participated in a collective painting activity. Three art students from Dawson College then polished the painting so that it&#8217;s blended into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}