July 24 & 25. Guided by our understanding of dreaming as ancestral and living technology, DREAM TECH explores dreaming as creative practice, as story, as connection, and as a way of building futures together. Learn to dye yarns using mushrooms and plants with xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Elder Rita Kompst and her daughter Zoe Kompst. Meet fungi through an embodied walk as the sun goes down, guided by artists and mycologists Isabelle Kirouac and Willoughby Arévalo. Join Jessica Silvey for weaving and storytelling. Hear your dreams set to live music by Toni-Leah C. Yake, Julia Úlehla and Malcolm Jack. Enjoy foraged desserts by local foodie and artist Erin Dutton. Full line-up and tickets at website.
Tag: fibre arts
SC Arts Centre: Teen Fibre Art Intensive
Join textile artist and educator Natalie Grambow for an inspiring weekend of colour, creativity, and sustainable fashion exploration. Using plants, natural dyes, and upcycled textiles, teens will experiment with printmaking, surface design, and wearable art techniques to create unique fabric pieces and transformed clothing.Teens will explore botanical printing, shibori-inspired resist dyeing, and creative textile processes while learning how art and sustainability can work together. Through guided projects and playful experimentation, teens will build creative intuition, develop new artistic skills, and explore further connections with nature, patterns, colour, sustainability and fashionIn this hands-on workshop, teens will:
-Experiment with botanical printmaking and natural colour extraction
-Learn eco-friendly textile and upcycling techniques
-Transform fabrics and clothing through dyeing, printing, and design
-Explore pattern, texture, layering, and composition
-Compose a variety of small works while building confidence in creative experimentation
-Discover connections between sustainability, fashion, art, and nature
Persephone: Hazel – Kinship Flags at wa shew̓áy̓ ta x̱wítl’em
Featuring Hazel Bell-Koski – a gathering of images that honour and celebrate the multi-faceted mysterious event called life on planet earth. The images come from many places: dreams, casual phrases, flashes of insight offered by a vision, poems, a conversation, a pattern of leaves on the ground, the song of a bird.
Learn more here.
PR – Texada – Annual Fly In
Griddled breakfast and lunch, a spectacular airshow, classic cars, and more! Bound to be a day of sky-high fun. 
If you have a classic car and would like to bring it to the event, please contact us to chat about timing; we’d love to have you there!
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Free Community Stitch Session with Carlyn Yandle
Join exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle for a free Community Stitch Session. Drawing on the scrap-quilt tradition of making something out of nothing, each participant is invited to hand stitch an improvisational 12 in. quilt block; a literal building block that can then be used as a personal artwork, use/gift object, or as a contribution to the ongoing ‘Hearth’ social engagement art project. All materials required are supplied, although participants are welcome to bring their own old clothes or fabrics to incorporate into their block if they wish. Learn a new life skill, create with other makers in our community, learn more from Carlyn Yandle about her artwork and her creative process, and find new ways to recycle old clothing and fabrics.
This event is free to attend and registration is not required. Find more information about Carlyn Yandle, her exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, and her ongoing social-engagement art project ‘Hearth” online at www.gpag.ca.
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk with Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Stephen Quinn
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.
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Spring Hare Felting Workshop with Marianne Hansen
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.
PR – qathet Art Centre: Fibre Space
Thursdays Drop In. All are welcome, bring a project to work on, come to see, or stay for a chat. Coffee and tea available.
PR – FibreSpace Drop In
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
PR – FibreSpace Drop In
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
PR – FibreSpace Drop In
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
PR – FibreSpace Drop In
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
Mending Matters Drop-in Workshop with Catherine Nicholls
September 18; October 16; November 27
Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery
FREE
Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.
Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.
Mending Matters Drop-in Workshop with Catherine Nicholls
September 18; October 16; November 27
Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery
FREE
Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.
Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.
Opening Reception: this place
Plus Virtual Artist Talk Aug 13, 2-3pm on FB.
3 textile artists from 3 different corners of the world explore what “this place” means to them. They explore the unique characteristics of where they live and work and their connection to these distinctive settings. @hedges.madeleine from Australia @edwinamackinnon from the UK, and Catherine Nicolls @ravensthread from Gibsons, Canada, each look at what connects them to their individual places, how they perceive and experience their environment and the emotional attachments of belonging to “this place”.
Hackett Park Artisan Fair
The Hackett Park Artisan Fair is an annual gathering of local and regional vendors. The Fair has been an annual tradition on the Coast for 34 years, and attracts close to 5000 visitors seeking to discover the creations of artisans who are jury selected based on talent, originality, and the unique items they have to offer for sale. In keeping with our ongoing tradition, the fair will coincide with the popular Festival of the Written Arts (August 11th-14th, 2022, celebrating 40 years!)
This year’s Fair will take place in the lower field of Hackett Park and at the Arts Centre.
We will have live musicians in Hackett Park’s new amphitheatre and fun activities at the Arts Centre. There will be a large variety of artisans, artists, entertainers, and food vendors!
Entrance by donation!
Knitting a Community
Tuesdays. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Join our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.
Knitting a Community
Tuesdays. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Join our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.