Join Hayley Lowe, this year’s SRC illustrator, for an underwater themed art class. Experiment with fun watercolour techniques to make beautiful jiggly jellyfish. Whilst they dry, learn some illustration secrets to bring your jellies to life!
To finish, Hayley will read from one of her books and will be available for Q&A.
Ages 6-12
Online Registration required.
Phone: 604-885-3260 / Email: info@sechelt.bclibrary.ca
xRCCA is excited to invite you to CREEK DAZE 2026!
Join us this year as we kick off the festivities at Roberts Creek School, gathering for the lively Higgledy Piggledy Parade leading down to the Pier! Get creative with your costumes straight from the tickle trunk! Meet at 10:45am, parade at 11:11am!
Explore a diverse array of vendors offering information, crafts, delicious food, and engaging activities for everyone to enjoy. Kids will love the KidZone featuring face painting, games, and playful activities.
Don’t miss the vibrant music performances at the mandala stage from 11:30am-6pm (see the discussion board for lineup) and the Slow Sundays Stage at Library Park from noon-3:30pm. Performance by the Story Theatre at the Gazebo, Be sure to browse through the renowned Library Book Sale from noon-3pm—it’s a can’t-miss event!
Stay tuned for more details about the stage line-up, artists, vendors and more! Bring the whole family for a day packed with fun! There will be a water station so bring your water bottles to fill! We do our best to make this a zero waste event!
We always need volunteers to help make these wonderful events happen! Please sign up at volunteersignup.org/LETMW
You’re community spirit is appreciated!!!
This event is supported by the Province of British Columbia.
to Sept 27th. Fri – Sat – Sun, 11am-5:00pm or by appointment during the rest of the week.
To schedule a visit, please text or call 604-989-6686 (mobile) or call 604-883-9472 (landline).
to July 19th. Join us to celebrate the creativity of our community during Present Tense, our annual exhibition featuring the work of GPAG members in all different mediums and styles. Present Tense began with GPAG’s inception in 2003 and it’s still growing. Twenty-three years later we continue to invite all member artists, makers, and creatives to exhibit their work as a fundraiser for local artists and for GPAG. You will find works in all different mediums and styles, including paintings, drawings, prints, pottery, photography, textiles, sculpture, wood working, and much more. There is truly something for everyone! Plus, in Joe’s Lounge, find our Members’ Tiny Exhibition featuring artworks under 6in x 6in at a set price of $40 each!
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, June 27th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Calling all artists on the shores of the Salish Sea and beyond! You are invited to come for an afternoon of Artist Trading Cards.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9
12:30 to 2:00pm
The Alley, upstairs from our store
What’s that? You don’t know what Artist Trading Cards are? Well, in short, Artist Trading Cards are self-made unique works or small series, signed and dated on the reverse by the artist/producer, exchanged and collected by the people who participate in this collaborative event. There are only 2 “rules”: the cards must be 2.5″x3.5″ (the same as modern hockey cards or baseball cards), and they are only to be traded, not sold.
We hold regular ATC meetups every month on the last Thursday of the month, but that doesn’t really work well for anyone who has to take a ferry so for our birthday month, we decided to have a ‘summit’ and time it in such a way that folks who have to travel from away can make a day of it and still get home and sleep in their own beds. See below for
Make them ahead of time, or make them on the spot. We’ll bring some blanks and other art supplies.
And this is a family-friendly event!
FERRY & OTHER TRAVEL INFO
Coming from Vancouver Island? Catch the 9:55am from Little River & head home on the 5:15pm (or 8:45pm) home
[Hot tip: the location is only 2 blocks from the Westview ferry terminal so you don’t even need to bring your car! Unless you want to zip around elsewhere after the summit before you head home]
Coming up the Sunshine Coast? You’ll want the 10:35am from Earl’s Cove, and the 4:55pm (or later) home.
Want to make a weekend of it and also attend our birthday party on Saturday, August 8? There are several accommodations within walking distance:
Waterways, A Boutique Hotel
Base Camp Suites
Beyond Bliss Suites
Plus loads more a little further away, and some truly amazing camping opportunities. Reach out to our wonderful Visitor Information Centre if you need any more information or advice.
Can you believe it’s been 5 years already?! Time is weird – sometimes it feels like it’s been forever, and sometimes like it was only yesterday we opened the doors.
As you have come to expect, our birthday (or is it an anniversary? birthaversary? we haven’t quite figured that out yet …) will be filled with all kinds of fun things like our Make Your Own Button and colouring table, yummy treats and fun prize draws. Stop by the store to pick up your button template before the party.
Please mark your calendars accordingly and stay tuned for updates of other fun activities throughout August as we finalize the important details.
Learn to bind your own books for journals, chapbooks, or art books with Stephen Murphy at the Art & Words Festival, Sunday, August 23, 10:30 to Noon.
Learn the essentials of bookbinding including: papergrain and folding, sewing, and forming signatures to create a basic pamphlet book suitable for journaling or art projects.
Take part in a collaborative storytelling experience in this Dungeons & Dragons one-shot adventure inspired by kin-between: monsters/beasts/relations and the natural world of the Pacific Northwest Coast with Sarah Ellis Fox and Matt Klassen of D&D comedy podcast Adventure.exe.
Join a party of adventurers as they venture into a mysterious, ancient forest. Form bonds with the spirits of the forest and vanquish the real monsters who seek to harm the relationship between the (super) natural world and the people who rely on it. No D&D experience or supplies are needed, and players of all experience levels are welcome. Character sheets, dice and snacks will be provided.
Find more information and register online. Limited to six people – register soon!
A look at the realm of Coastal and Interior Salish Transformer stories as a relational matrix of storied ecology rather than a collapsed box of morality lessons and mythology. Free, with registration required; a link to the event via Zoom will be sent to you after registration. Please note that this event takes place online only, on Thursday June 18th, 6pm – 8pm. Find more information and register online.
Ronnie Dean Harris is a Stō:lo/St’át’imc/Nlaka’pamux artist, researcher, and community leader based in New Westminster whose work bridges music, film, sound design, and Indigenous land-based storytelling. Ronnie’s research explores Indigenous history, cosmology, genealogy, and policy, informing his community-based projects and facilitation work.
Join us for an Artist Talk with Jeannette Sirois on Saturday, June 20th, 2pm – 3pm. Free to attend, no registration required. All are welcome!
Jeannette Sirois is a queer visual artist based on Salt Spring Island whose work focuses on representation, identity, and visibility. Sirois has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions across Vancouver Island and on the Lower Mainland. She holds a diploma in Design, a Bachelors of Fine Arts, and a Masters of Education in Visual Arts. Beyond her own individual artistic practice, Sirois also mentors visual arts students and collaborates with emerging artists and curators on exhibitions intended to foster dialogue and connection. At the Table | The Architecture of Control is a portrait-based exhibition highlighting the lived experiences, identities, and truths of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and examining the structures and systems that have regulated and defined trans and queer lives.
Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to rehome one of Evelyn’s luscious landscapes or charismatic creatures.
Opening Reception June 5 – 5pm-8pm. Show runs to July 4
to June 30th. DRIFT- This work is inspired by the ever- changing landscapes of the places the artist has called home, drawing on shifting horizons, light and atmosphere to evoke memory and sensation. Through a minimalist approach, the work explores liminal spaces where sky and land meet, capturing quiet transitions and a sense of boundless possibility.
Commissions are welcomed.
Fri Opening Reception 6-8pm; Sat & Sun 10-5pm. Featuring Donna Stewart, Charly Mithrush and Lore Schmidtz.
Coastal Layers explores the intersection between land, sea, and self — the shifting boundaries that define life on the west coast of British Columbia. These works reflects the physical, emotional, and cultural strata that make up coastal experience: mist and mountain, tide and forest, memory and change.
Too many art supplies? Bring your extras to Stash Swap!
REDUCE WASTE * MAKE SPACE * BUILD COMMUNITY
If you’re a maker, you’ve got art supply Stash. Some of it you’re definitely going to use, and some of it just takes up space while taunting you and your best, inspired intentions.
Bring that Stash you’ll never use, and give it a new life
Discover new-to-you Stash for free or affordable prices
Make space in your studio
Foster a circular economy and our creative community
All are welcome to attend.
Please register to reserve table space for your Stash.
to June 17th. Inspired by the people who have said to Coralie Swaney “I’d love to see inside your head”, Thinking Out Loud melds portraiture with still life painting and explores the notion of the observer being able to look inside the mind of the subject. Whether illuminating simple thoughts, memories, fleeting notions, or a full-blown obsession, all portraits represent a reprieve from a world fraught with angst and tribulation. Also included are a family of sculpted characters, members of a fictional book club, with the interactions between these characters exposed and explored. An exhibition in Joe’s Lounge, on display May 28 – June 17th. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 30, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
to June 21st. A multi-media exhibition curated by Kamala Todd that opens space for the in-between, sharing expansive cosmologies that blur binaries, uphold radical kinship, and question the idea of what a monster truly is. With works expressing cultural knowledge and practices that are rooted in the interconnected world, featured artists include Senaqwila Wyss (Squamish Nation), Siobhan Joseph (Squamish Nation), Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations), Savanna Todd (Métis-Cree), and Candace Campo (Sechelt Nation). An exhibition on display in the Eve Smart Gallery May 28th – June 21st, 2026. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday May 30th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
to June 21st. At the Table | The Architecture of Control is a portrait-based exhibition highlighting the lived experiences, identities, and truths of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. Large scale hyperrealistic drawings offer complete transparency, with differing conceptions of identity, vulnerability, and strength put prominently on display. Jeannette Sirois invites viewers to step closer, engage deeply, and contemplate the importance of being seen. While each subject’s story is distinct, together they convey a shared truth, asserting that what 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals bring to the table is the same as anyone else; the right to exist authentically and without fear. In an era of increasing hostility toward 2SLGBTQ+ communities, this project provides a vital space for visibility, dialogue, and empathy, and encourages reflection on the systems that determine who is seen, heard, and valued. An exhibition on display in the Main Gallery May 28 – June 21. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 30, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 30th, 2pm – 4pm for the Opening Reception of our newest exhibitions. All are welcome!
In the Main Gallery, Jeannette Sirois’ At the Table | The Architecture of Control highlights the lived experiences, identities, and truths of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. In the Eve Smart Gallery, kin-between: monsters/beasts/relations opens space for the in-between, sharing expansive cosmologies that blur binaries, uphold radical kinship, and question the idea of what a monster truly is. Curated by Kamala Todd, kin-between: monsters/beasts/relations features the work of Senaqwila Wyss (Squamish Nation), Siobhan Joseph (Squamish Nation), Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations), Savanna Todd (Métis-Cree), and Candace Campo (Sechelt Nation). In Joe’s Lounge, Thinking Out Loud by Coralie Swaney melds portraiture with still life painting and explores the notion of the observer being able to look inside the mind of the subject.
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