Want to talk about drug use and drug toxicity on the Sunshine Coast? Come visit Jackie Dives exhibition “Of Course This Hurts”, get Naloxone trained, and then bring your questions and curiosity to an “ask us anything” community panel.
Huge thanks to the Community Action Team for facilitating this offering. Immense gratitude to Jackie Dives and her photography practice. We are so thrilled to be supporting this work!
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.
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.
Helena Wadsley and Carolina Franzen, both Sunshine Coast residents, have adopted a diverse tradition of Walking Art into their practices. Engaged with the challenges posed by land use, and in order to find alternative relations to the land, their inspiration for drawings, sculptures, and video comes through periods of intense physical contact to the environment; be it that objects found in the landscape may be contextually sculpted so that their meaning and history remains connected with the land, be it that a slow pace allows them to witness and to create through acts of acknowledgment and connectivity. Both artists’ drawings tread the lines of the land between natural and human-made, and yet, their sculptures, found objects, and video works have a second threshold in common: to record the walking experience while enabling the visitor to traverse with them.
to March 21st. This exhibition shares the work of late, Coast-based artist Barry Wainwright, alongside work by a number of local artists exploring the creative potentials of printmaking and print media. The exhibition launches our new print media studio at the Arts Centre, and celebrates the rich community of practice that thrives locally.
The exhibition shares the breadth of approaches to printmaking, with a focus on storytelling the materials and processes involved. We have invited artists to share work that expresses the diversity of print forms, and included here are woodblocks, lithography, etchings, gel printing, textile printing and so many others.
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
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
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!
The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is our annual celebration of the creativity of our membership. This wonderful exhibition launches our new year, and features the work of members of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.
The exhibition is a long-standing community event that has spanned more than 30 years. Its’ aim is to involve the broadest range of local artists, to acknowledge the role of the arts in our community, and to celebrate the extraordinary diversity in materials, forms and approach. Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition. Last year we had 111 artists, making it the largest FOG exhibition yet!
It’s been such an amazing year! We invite all of our Members (current and future) to join us, come meet our Board and Staff, learn of our achievements from the past year, and discover our plans for the year ahead. Food will be provided, come see our current exhibitions.
Financial Statements and a Report will be emailed to anyone who is registered.
Ground Breaking Ceremony led by Cease Wyss will honour the beginning of the Fibre Farm project.The Fibre Farm is an indigenous led and disability justice centered project located on Squamish territory. This project is motivated by closer relationship to the land. Building an accessible gathering space for community to participate in remediating a wetland ecosystem, dynamic workshops and teachings, processing natural plant material, the Fibre Farm will be a space to create community around culture and fibre artistry. You are invited to witness and participate in this ceremony which will involve inoculating the wetland and pond with native rhysomes and seeds.
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!
Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition. Open to anyone 14+; we offer free youth memberships (14-18). New members welcome!
Free, Max 50, Registration required (a few tickets will be held at the door)
We invite you to an evening of short play readings. The collection of plays explores stories about climate, ecology, and the environment, told through the perspectives of animals in our midst, as they contemplate the impact of pollution, climate change, and human ignorance on their habitat and the ecosystem.
Max 10 Registration required.
In this fun, interactive, hands-on workshop, you will write a short play in response to the climate crisis, by identifying issues that are essential to write about now, as well as exploring and expanding your sense of the possible. Playwriting has much to offer writers in other genres, such as developing your skills with dialogue, structure, story, vivid details and experimentation. Playwriting gives theatre artists unparalleled agency and an opportunity to identify the core of what they want to make work about.
We will explore a variety of approaches to making plays that have relevance for communities and connection to the natural world. You will learn what a theatre action is, how to workshop your short play, and explore where to go next. If you ar
Max 50, Registration required (a few tickets will be held at the door)
Celebrate the closing of the Festival with Candace Campo and Trent Maynard as they present their film Nature Girl. After the screening, Candace and Trent will engage in a discussion.
Filmmaking duo Trent Maynard and Candace Campo spent five years documenting the surprising species living in a small wetland in the shíshálh Nation swiya. Using poetry and motion sensor cameras, this short film documents the intergenerational bear families using a multi-species scratching post and watering hole, alongside newts, frogs, elk, owls and bats.
Woodcut-Intaglio Printmaking Workshop with Brigitte Potter-Mael
Dates: October 8/9, 2022
Time: Saturday/Sunday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $200/$240 (Members/Non-Members)
Max 6 students
In a two-day intensive workshop, Brigitte will guide participants through each and every step of her unique process. Beginning with preparing the wooden matrix, to applying inks in an intaglio fashion, to pulling prints, participants must have some printmaking experience, and must bring their own carving/wood-cutting tools.
If you have any questions please call us at 604-885-5412 or email us at info@sunshinecoastartscouncil.com
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.
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