Workshops + Live Events
Art Talks: Colonial Symptoms + Decolonizing Practices
Sunday, Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 3
10AM – 12PM
Session One will begin with language and terms that we use.
Annual General Meeting 2023
Sunday December 3rd, 2023
2PM
We invite all of our Members (current and future) to join us
Calling all Youth Artists
Tuesday, December 19, 4PM - 5PM
Calling young artists between the ages of 13 and 17 to join us for some food, art-making and ideas-sharing.
For Young People
Kids Summer Camps
This year we are delighted to offer 3 kids summer workshops, each combining art making with outdoor exploration.
Young Artists Exhibition
The Young Artists Exhibition features work created in our local schools and is also open to youth who create art independently.
Community Programs
House of Songs
The Gathering Circle brings women together to share traditional knowledge, culture, and teachings. Explore your art, ancestry, stories, and traditions. The Gatherings are collaborative, we learn from each other.
The Gathering Place
Through this space formal and informal programs and workshops are offered to our communities, creating encounters between indigenous and settler residents and visitors.
Current Exhibitions
November 24 – December 22
Aileen Bahmanipour – Sketches for Investment Plans
November 24 – December 22
Sketches For Investment Plans is a multidisciplinary installation based on an accumulation of diagrams collected by the artist from Google Image searches for “How to invest in Iran?”
Re-Wildings – Cath Hughes
November 24 – December 22
Re-Wildings is a curated exhibition developed in response to issues of climate change, and a questioning as to what this term might mean, both for civilization, and for us as individuals.
Banner Project: Fantastical Food
November 24 – December 22
Vote for your favourite banner designs from elementary students across the Coast. The selected 20 banners will be on display at full size in Civic Square.
ABOUT THE SCAC
The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is a volunteer-based society founded February 22, 1966 to raise to profile of local artists and artisans and to broaden the opportunities for Sunshine Coast citizens to enjoy and to participate in cultural activities. The SC Arts Council maintains the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre located at Trail & Medusa in Sechelt, British Columbia.
TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
For thousands of years the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people have stewarded this land, their own (unceded) traditional territory. The SCAC is grateful to gather on these lands and waters, and we work from a place of respect and responsibility to this gift.