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GPAG: Artist Talk with Jeannette Sirois

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.

Mad Park Art: Opening Reception – EEK by Evelyn E. Kirkaldy

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

Seaside Centre: THE MIX presents Costal Layers

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.

Persephone Beer Farm: Fibre Farm Launch!

Please join the Sunshine Coast Arts Council to celebrate the launch of the Sunshine Coast’s newest fibre arts and culture hub: Fibre Farm an Indigenous-led, disability justice centered, growing and gathering space! Art and fibre demos, storytelling, music, and a chance to participate in invasive species removal as you check-out the new accessible pathways, garden bed, fire pit, art studio, and deck.

It has taken a village to get this project off the ground, with funding from the Island Coastal Economic Trust, the BC Arts Council, alongside work from the incredible team at the SCAC and Persephone, and the generosity of local businesses like Salish Soils and Gibsons Building Supply, and the supportive community buzzing around this project- we couldn’t have done it without you! Please come out and celebrate the work that has been done, and the work that has just begun!

GPAG: Opening Reception | Bob Evermon, Yuan Wen, Maureen Sugrue, Rose Stardust

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.

GPAG: Opening Reception | Carlyn Yandle, Marianne Hansen, Holly Lowe

Join us for the Opening Reception of exhibitions by Carlyn Yandle, Marianne Hansen, and Holly Lowe on Saturday, April 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

In the Main Gallery, Carlyn Yandle’s 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. Grappling with critical environmental, political, and social issues, and offering possibilities for different futures, Yandle creates her pieces over the course of months or years with materials that are thrown away but never gone.

Dedicated to the birds of prey on the Sunshine Coast, Marianne Hansen’s Birds of Prey in the Eve Smart Gallery features fibre sculpted birds alongside their prey in natural settings. Highlighting their delicate forms and powerful presences, Marianne Hansen’s fibre sculptures reflect these animal’s grace, power, and perception; and encourage the viewer to reflect on the raptors of the Sunshine Coast, our coexistence with them, and the impact that we have on their environments.

In Joe’s Lounge, Holly Lowe’s Inkscapes explores the fluidity and flow of colour and texture using alcohol ink. Colour itself serves as the primary inspiration; the way that hues blend, contrast, and transform drives each composition. The medium of alcohol ink on synthetic paper enhances the vividness and transparency of the colours, contributing to the flowing aesthetic of the works and demonstrating a spectrum of expression, from recognizable landscapes interpreted through an abstract lens to completely non-representational forms.

Gibsons Public Market: Art Exhibition – Jan Poynter Sound of Light Collection

We’re excited to welcome local artist Jan Poynter to Gibsons Public Market! Her work will be on display from March 16th to April 30th, bringing beautiful, expressive landscapes to our space.
Join us for a special opportunity to meet Jan in person on March 22nd and 29th from 10am – 4pm, where she’ll be painting live and sharing her Plein Air techniques. Stop by, watch her creative process, and connect with the artist behind the work.

A portion of all art sales supports Gibsons Public Market and our community programming

Live painting: March 22 & 29 | 10am–4pm
Instagram: @jan.poynter
janpoynter.com

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Opening Reception

Join us for the Opening Reception of our three newest exhibitions on Saturday, February 14th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

In the Main Gallery, Jim Breukelman’s photographs capture a place called Sanson’s Diner in 1966; a place ordinary from the outside, but with a vibrant atmosphere inside filled with lively, open, and expressive people. In the Eve Smart Gallery, Nea Antoine’s Between Myth and Memory draws from the oral traditions of Dominica and the wider Caribbean, exploring Caribbean folklore as a living expression of Black identity, resilience, and creativity. In Joe’s Lounge, Jennifer Love’s Family Ties: Reframing Memory explores familial bonds through the medium of non-traditional printmaking, which often mirrors our sometimes complex family relationships.

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: OPENING RECEPTION | Amy Dyck; Boismier, Logan, Taylor; Tessa Carter

Join us for the Opening Receptions of our three newest exhibitions on Sat. January 17th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

All are welcome to join us at the Opening Receptions of Portals to Elsewhere by Amy Dyck in the Main Gallery, Three Ways Home by Matthew Boismier, Cambria Logan, and Eva Taylor in the Eve Smart Gallery, and The Four Seasons of Chapman Creek Estuary (ts’úkw’um) by Tessa Carter in Joe’s Lounge, on Saturday, January 17th, 2pm – 4pm.

Stone Sculpting Workshop for Beginners/Intermediates

Learn how to sculpt your very own piece of soft stone from established, international artist Don Watson in this fun weekend workshop!
We are happy to recommend accommodations for out-of-town participants!
*Weekend Workshop Fee $375 – materials & tools are supplied*
Register now at birgitbreuer2312@gmail.com or call 604-740-2306 to reserve your spot!

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk & Reading with Andrea Fritz

Come learn about Coast Salish art, culture and storytelling on Saturday Dec. 20th, 2pm – 4pm. Andrea Fritz will read from her newest book Woolly Dog Warms His Family and talk about its relation to her serigraph Sqwiqwi, on display now in her Eve Smart exhibition Lyackson Place Names. This event is free and open to all!

Lyackson Place Names features hand produced silk screen prints in the traditional style of the Coast Salish People, exploring place names and different aspects of storytelling and culture. Each print in Andrea Fritz’s exhibition focuses on a place within Lyackson territory on the Salish Sea or on an aspect of Coast Salish storytelling, and is accompanied by the story relating to the piece. Lyackson Place Names will be closing on Saturday, December 20th at 4pm.

Stone Sculpting Workshop

Learn how to sculpt your very own piece of soft stone from established, international artist Don Watson in this fun weekend workshop! If you’d like to meet Don, visit us during the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Oct. 17-19 from 10am – 5 pm:
Venue #60 at 127 Clark Rd, Gibsons!
We are happy to recommend accommodations for out-of-town participants!
*Weekend Workshop Fee $325 – materials & tools are supplied*
Register now at birgitbreuer2312@gmail.com or call 604-740-2306 to reserve your spot!

Sculpted Sips: A Mulled Wine Affair

Sip mulled wine with us to celebrate Don Watson’s fine art & designs at our Pre Art Crawl Party on Friday, October 17th! Dress up or down and bring your +1!

No plans for this weekend?
Pop in at our Art Crawl venue #60, 127 Clark Rd, Gibsons, October 17-19 from 10am-5pm!
Hope to see y’all!

Art Exhibition: SC Arts Centre – Lori Goldberg

to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.

Art Exhibition: SC Arts Centre – Eldon Underhill

to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Unseen Forces” is a series of paintings that reflect the idea of the unseen forces that often serve as unconscious catalysts to the creative process when working in the abstract, using a mix of standard, non-standard, and recycled substrates including canvas, upholstery fabric, burlap and construction building paper, as a reflection of the artist’s anxieties about the non-sustainable practices involved in the fine art industry.

Art & Mushroom Walk at Rockwood Centre Grounds and Lodge

Join Mycologist & artist Willoughby Arévalo and interdisciplinary artist Isabelle Kirouac for an Art and Fungi Walk in the ornamental gardens of Rockwood Lodge and nearby surroundings.Through this interactive walk, participants will engage with local fungi and plants and learn how they interact with other members of their ecosystems, including humans. Drawing from scientific and embodied knowledge alike, the walk will include simple art activities and sensory meditations inspired by fungi and the myceliated world underneath our feet.

Additionally, they will offer a free drop in activity inspired by mushroom scents inside the Rockwood Lodge, alongside The Only Animal’s exhibition at the Art Crawl. Participants will be invited to interpret a diversity of smells found in fungi!

An Afternoon with Bob McDonald – Host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks

We’re thrilled to welcome Bob McDonald—acclaimed author, CBC broadcaster, and longtime host of Quirks & Quarks—to the Raven’s Cry Theatre for a very special fundraising event.
With over 800,000 weekly listeners across Canada, Bob is one of the country’s most trusted voices in science communication. He’s just released his memoir “Just Say Yes” and has generously offered his time to support this cause.
This event will benefit the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, now in its 43rd year. The Festival continues to enrich our community through storytelling, author events, and literacy initiatives—like the much-loved Literacy Week in local elementary schools.

Click on the link below for ticket options.
https://writersfestival.ca/2025/an-afternoon-with-bob-mcdonald/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMsMj

PR – Powell River Legion: Beginner Line Dance

Come join us for beginner line dancing. $3 drop in.

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