Join us for a playful collage workshop celebrating creativity and intuition. This two-hour session is open to teens and adults of all experience levels—no art background required, just curiosity. We’ll begin with a series of simple exercises exploring how shape and colour can express mood, energy, and ideas.
For inspiration, Marlene will introduce you to historical and contemporary women (including local) artists who use collage as part of their creative process. She will share a bit about how collage has been used as a form of expression, storytelling, and reclamation—especially by women. The second half of the workshop is open studio time, where you’ll create your own collage, following your instincts and personal interests. Please bring scissors & a glue stick.
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Davis Bay Hall: Women’s Campaign School
Learn what it takes to run for municipal council, school board or regional director in the upcoming elections in October 2026. Many women and gender-diverse people face barriers to their candidacy, or hesitate to step forward. We need candidates who represent the diversity of our neighbourhoods and understand what the job entails before they sign the nomination papers.
The day will focus on collaborative networking aimed at helping women and gender-diverse people to make a well-informed decision about running for elected office or be strong supporters of those who choose to run.
This is a non-partisan event. You MUST register in advance. Suggested donation $20 at the door.
“Stealing Like an Artist” Painting Workshop with Marlene Lowden
If you’re ready to get your hands seriously messy, join me for a two-day painting extravaganza inspired by the idea that great artists gather, remix, and make it their own. Across these two days, we’ll play, experiment, and make art that’s all yours, inspired by sparks you find in other artists’ work. And yes, we’ll be guided by David Bowie’s glorious wisdom: “The only art I’ll ever study is the stuff that I can steal from.”
This workshop is best for folks who have some painting experience (or who joined me for the previous weekend) —you don’t need to be a pro, just comfy enough with your materials to dive in and explore.
Assertive Communication Workshop
Do you often replay conversations afterwards, wishing you’d spoken up — or worry that being more direct might upset someone or create tension? This small-group workshop is for people who tend to people-please, avoid conflict, or second-guess themselves, even when they know their needs matter.
The first half of the workshop focuses on understanding what assertiveness is and why it can feel so hard to put into action. We’ll explore common communication patterns, the role of the nervous system in moments of discomfort or conflict, and why many people freeze, over-explain, or stay quiet rather than risk being misunderstood or creating conflict.
After a 30-min break, the second half provides space to apply what you’ve learned. Participants are encouraged (but never required) to bring real-lif
SC Arts Centre: Sunday Film Series: The Stand
We close the series with The Stand, a film by Christopher Auchter that honours the Elders, activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the Haida Nation—and for all of Canada. In the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people stood on a muddy logging road on Lyell Island—and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, sovereignty and environmental justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, courage and quiet humanity of that moment.
Doors at 3:30; Entrance by donation
SC Arts Centre: Sunday Film Series: No Other Land
No Other Land will be our March film. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance, and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
Doors at 3:30; Entrance by donation
SC Arts Centre: Sunday Film Series: Mighty Jerome
Honouring Black History Month and a screening of Mighty Jerome. From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada’s most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used to tell the triumphant and compelling story of what Harry Jerome’s own coach called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.”
Doors at 3:30; Entrance by donation
