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Author Samantha Adkins, composer and musician Cindy Fairbank, and textile and visual artist Sarah Haxby are preparing a special evening of readings, music, and art on Saturday, March 25 from 7 – 9 at the Hearth Gallery with the generous support of The Hearth Gallery and Bowen Island Municipality.
The event is called: Sampler and it will be an evening of bite-sized music, stories & stitchery shared by the trio of talented Bowen Islanders.
Samantha will be reading from her recently published novel, Enough, an historical fiction work written in parallel narratives telling the stories of Elrica Braun, a painter and pastor’s wife living through the Depression and World War II, and her granddaughter Caroline Williams, a pianist and pastor’s wife living in 2018. The novel explores the importance of creativity. While writing her novel, Adkins dreamed of releasing her work in the company of other artists.
Artist-Teacher Cindy Fairbank moved to Bowen Island from Toronto, Ontario with her family in 2014. Cindy received her degree in Jazz Performance (piano) at McGill University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, and is currently working towards her master's degree in arts education at Simon Fraser University. Cindy has shared her love of music, band, and choir with the students of Bowen Island Community School for the last eight years while pursuing her own performance, recording, and creative projects including collaborations with local Canadian musicians Shari Ulrich, David Graff, Christie Grace, Buff Allen, and John Stiver and her Jazz Album, imaginaries.
Sarah Haxby received a BA at Emily Carr University and a Master's Degree in Art and Art History from the University of Wales and is a talented multi-media visual artist, writer, and is a community school coordinator. She will be presenting textiles inspired by historical practices as well as other art collections. “My work is hand-drawn on to the surface of the canvas using vintage, new and reclaimed threads. I juxtapose and overlap ideas of high and low brow art by placing needlework in the realm of fine art and the traditional painted surface -with a sense of humor and detail... that is best conveyed by experiencing the work in person. My work seeks to be wry in a Canadian fashion,” and every artwork has a story behind it.
The three artists all find inspiration in their family histories. They plan to weave their individual music, written and textile story threads together throughout the evening with a special surprise collaboration at the end. The trio of talents are calling their event Sampler: a small decorative piece of needlework, a collection, or assortment. There is no charge to attend this event. The Hearth is hosting a cash bar. Books, CDs and artworks will be available for purchase.
BICS student artworks inspired by local ecology. March 17 - April 1, 2023.
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Field Recording Workshop on Bowen Island in partnership with the City of New Westminster’s Art + Technology Department. City of New Westminster
This workshop will introduce participants to field recording techniques and soundscape composition by learning about acoustic ecology, acoustic communication, listening techniques, sound walks, and field recording. Ages 18+
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2023 9AM - 12 NOON
SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2023 11AM - 4 PM
Limited Spots! Register today!
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Community Centre Project
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INSPIRING ARTISTS: Sasha is back for another session with special guest mentors Liz Nankin, Raghu Rao & Eleanor Rosenberg
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Save the date, and join us for a showing of the film The New Corporation (2020), directed by Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, on Thursday, April 6.
Drop in, no registration required. Come a little early and grab a comfy chair—film starts promptly at 6 pm, and runs 105 minutes. Rated PG (Ontario).
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Shari Ulrich ‘Trust Me Series”
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Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Small Gallery
March 17 – April 15, 2023
Jean Bradbury
Artist Talk + Reception: Friday March 17th at 5pm
Jean Bradbury’s portraits are life-sized paintings on cut plywood depicting the sitter’s relationship to the land, and the land’s significance to the sitter. From the land defenders at Fairy Creek logging blockade to the arborists cutting trees, Jean is interested in honouring the environments that these subjects find themselves within. Working with a scale to life, these works are simultaneously portraits and landscapes.
Jean Bradbury has been a painter of nature and landscape for many years. Her work celebrates the wonder of our natural world and highlights native species in the hope in learning to love something we will seek to protect it. But in the past couple of years this has seemed inadequate to her urgent concerns about our relationships to the land. She has begun to paint people in relationship to the environment – and specifically people who take strong stances about protecting the environment. She began with a self-portrait depicting a piece of land she had just purchased on Bowen Island.
What does it mean to own land? Learn More HERE
NEW MEDIA GALLERY
a B I O T I C
February 4 - April 23, 2023
..all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named. E.O. Wilson
Before biosphere, before life, there were only the non-living, abiotic factors and a world of water.
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