5 Fabulous Golden Acrylic Mediums & how they can elevate your practice! Join us live for a deep dive into GOLDEN acrylic gels and mediums with GOLDEN representative Melanie Mathews, presenting remotely via Zoom. From controlling dry time to image transfers, texture, and finishing — learn how a few key mediums can completely change what your acrylics can do.
Registration required. Space is limited.
Make your own one-of-a-kind cyanotype postcard using nothing but sunlight! Join us outside the store for this free, drop-in printmaking demo — no registration limit, no experience needed.
**Weather willing. Only one print per person, while supplies last**
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us for a special evening of shíshálh culture and connection at GPAG with Candace Campo. Free and open to all.
Candace, ancestral name xets’emits’a (to always be there), is a Shíshálh (Sechelt) member from the Sunshine Coast, BC and the co-founder of Talaysay Tours. Trained as an anthropologist and teacher, she shares the stories and history of her people, focusing on Indigenous language and cultural revitalization alongside Shishálh Elders and Educators while providing Indigenous cultural and outdoor experiences to students and visitors throughout the world. Candace’s mission is to work with her youth and community members to support reconnection to the land that their ancestors have stewarded and lived on sustainably for thousands of years. Candace’s art expresses her ancestral shishálh connections & deep love for family – the ones here & the ones passed – through paint, mark making, screen printing & sculpture.
Land-based education, Shíshálh language, arts and cultural revitalization are Candace’s life work.
Nature Inspired Art for Home and Garden
A two-day exhibition of exceptional art in an expansive garden and intimate gallery.
Kate von Riesen and fellow guest artists, Marlene Lowden and David Evanson welcome you to
KvR Art’s Garden and Gallery
Jun 5 & 6, 2-7pm St Hilda’s; Jun 7, noon-5pm Sechelt Sr Activity Centre.
A community project honouring children who were killed in Gaza. All children are our children. Beautiful quilts. Each comes with a little booklet introducing the children, including photos and background info.
The Wood Expo showcases the Sunshine Coast’s talented wood users.
Learn about their craft, view their creations, and take-home unique pieces available for purchase.
Our local Woodcrafters Guild will be attendance with a wealth of talent and knowledge.
If you are interested in joining Wood Expo as a local wood craft artist, please sign up on our website.
Join us for the Opening Reception of our four newest exhibitions on Saturday, May 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
In the Main Gallery, Bob Evermon’s We Are the Eyes of the Stars features prints, paintings, and sculptures that speak to what can be sensed beneath the layers of visual art, as well as to the little moments in life that catch one’s attention. Yuan Wen’s Unbounding combines printmaking methods with painting, utilizing lithography and hand-drawn elements to create networks of organic forms, suspended fragments, and flowing gestures.
In the Eve Smart Gallery, Maureen Sugrue’s Pathways features mixed media textile banners that represent ideas that came from conversations about aging, paths taken or not taken, and the journey to “now” in our lives. In Joe’s Lounge, Rose Stardust’s Art, Wit, and Other Coping Mechanisms explores how creativity and wit help us make sense of things and keep going. It follows an arc from hope to doubt, from dawn to dusk, and back again.
Join us for a free Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. Yandle and Quinn will be discussing a variety of topics relating to Yandle’s exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, including how making is connecting — a form of resistance to forces of individualism.
Carlyn Yandle is a Vancouver-based artist whose art practice interweaves a childhood steeped in West Coast counter-culture, a range of skills in traditional craft methods, and her previous profession as a city newspaper journalist. Her exhibition in the Main Gallery Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement.
Stephen Quinn is the host of CBC Radio One’s popular morning show The Early Edition. Previously, he was the long-time host of afternoon radio show On The Coast, he spent eight-years as CBC’s civic affairs reporter, he guest-hosted several CBC shows, news specials and a series on the media for network radio, and he is also the creator and host of the very popular Quinn’s Quiz on CBC Radio One. A multiple RTNDA (The Radio Television Digital News Association) award winner, Quinn has covered a multitude of stories that affects British Columbians, in addition to interviewing prolific individuals.
Join Marianne Hansen on Wed. April 8th, 1pm – 3pm, to learn needle felting and fibre sculpting techniques and to make a spring hare. Tickets are $65, with a 10% discount for GPAG members, and include a kit of the supplies needed to make one hare. There is a max of 15 participants, so register soon! Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
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