DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Monday October 18, 2021 at 4pm 

What you wear matters. If you are interested in rethinking your relationship to textiles while developing practical skills and exploring how to become involved in positive and fun climate action, then this program is for you. Slow fashion is about reducing textile waste, loving and caring for our clothes, and finding ways to make them say who we are and what we believe in. Over six months you will explore local fibres, experiment with dyes from local plants and mushrooms, learn visible mending techniques, explore sustainable fashion trends and experiment with repurposing material. The program will combine hands-on workshops with ongoing mentorship with local fibre artists and designers. By the end of the program you will have produced at least one wearable item, as well as samples from the various techniques you will explore. This will come together in an exhibition at the SC Arts Centre in April 2022.

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DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Friday November 12, 2021 at 4pm 

We are delighted to launch the Banner Project for 2021! The theme this year is “Imagined Creatures”. As always, submissions are made through teachers in elementary schools across the Sunshine Coast.

We hope all elementary students on the Coast participate by submitting a design.  We very much appreciate your work as an educator in support of this project, and look forward to seeing this year’s designs. Also attached is an information sheet and entry forms for the Young Artists Awards. The YAA will be on display alongside the banner entries from November 26 – December 10, 2021

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Are you, or do you know a young person creating art? Submit your art to the 2021 Young Artists Awards!

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council supports the young artists in our community. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sechelt, Opus Arts Supplies, and the Gibsons School of the Arts, The Young Artists Awards and Exhibition features work created in our local schools and is also open to youth who create art independently. We are proud to continue the annual Young Artists Awards which was initiated in 1988. Over the years we have seen our participants in these exhibitions go on to higher education and careers in the arts.

The Young Artists Awards are judged by a panel of working artists who feel passionate about encouraging creativity in young people.

Deadline for submissions – Sunday, November 13, 2021 at 4:00 pm.

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October 15 – November 14, 2021

Jennifer Brant + Jennifer Ireland

Jennifer Brant and Jennifer Ireland draw on their respective interdisciplinary practices to collaboratively investigate and re-envision decolonial relationships and responsibilities towards land and environment.

Configuring their artistic methods through an open and direct engagement with their environment that is site-sensitive, Brant and Ireland pursue material research that facilitates listening, observing, chronicling, and communicating with the natural world.  Characterized by responsiveness to nurture the emergence of kinship and problem solving, the artists will use audio, video, sculpture, performance, and drawing to articulate their relationships with the land of the Sunshine Coast, enabling the viewer to imagine and intuit along with them.

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THE BACK GALLERY
October 15 – November 14, 2021

Eleanor Mae
As I See It

I am drawn to patterns and beauty in the natural world, and with the unexpected ephemeral images that the camera captures. I am delighted with the resulting photos.

The photos are largely a collection selected from many that were enlarged and submitted to the Friends of the Gallery Exhibition of the years 2000 – 2021.

All works for sale are $200

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Once you register, you will receive clear instructions for accessing the livestream on the day of the event.

J.B. MacKinnon has won numerous awards both as journalist an author. In 2006 he won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. His latest work, The Day the World Stops Shopping, , faces one of the most pressing issues of our time: “We must stop shopping but we can’t stop shopping.” A fine writer, he persuades us through world-wide examples and interviews of the extreme dangers of our excessive consumption but also of the encouraging experience of people who have been obliged to cut their consumption. Covid-19 is the latest example. Ronald Wright says of this book that it is “one of the most important and well-written books I have”.

How to access the reading and to register for the programme of readings:
The Fall 2021 readings will take place on Zoom. You need to have access to a computer with video and sound, and a stable internet connection. Zoom also works with a smartphone or tablet. We encourage you to sign up early so that you can test out the link to make sure it works well for you.

Registration is free and space is limited. Register for only one link per household, even if you will have multiple people join. Once you register on Eventbrite, you will receive a link to the Zoom livestream for the event. On the day of the event, click on the link provided in your registration confirmation. This will take you directly to the reading livestream.

October 30th (Saturday)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (teaching), 3:00 – 4:00 PM (open studio)

Free/$25 (Members/Non-Members)Maximum number of students: 20
With Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi

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In these introductory drawing workshops, you will develop skills in drawing plants and flowers from observation. Using various drawing materials such as graphite pencil and pen, you will explore basic drawing techniques of line drawing, shading, stippling, and textural drawing while drawing from wild plants of the West Coast Botanical. Below you can find the list of plants chosen for each week. We will also discuss life cycle of these plants, how to collect them and how to preserve them by pressing.

October 30: Cattails (flowers), Wild rose (rosehips), and Salal (leaves)

Mehran will use these plants for step-by-step demonstrations. While Mehran encourages that you find one of the plants mentioned for each week and bring it to the online session, you are also welcome to choose any other plant of your choice.

You need to have access to a computer with video and sound, and a stable internet connection. Zoom also works with a smartphone or tablet. We encourage you to sign up early so that you can test out the link to make sure it works well for you.

Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. Originally from Isfahan, Iran, she immigrated to Canada about 20 years ago where she has received an MFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2017) and a BFA from University of British Columbia (2007). Her recent practice is mostly engaged with drawing and sculpture, although she has worked in a variety of media such as photography, video, painting, and installation. Modarres-Sadeghi has exhibited her work at several art galleries in British Columbia, including group exhibitions at the Cityscape Community Art Space, Surrey Art Gallery, Concourse Gallery (ECU), Charles H. Scott Gallery (ECU), and Centre A. Her recent exhibition was a solo show at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt, BC, in spring 2020. Modarres-Sadeghi’s work in this exhibition will be shown next at Gallery 1515 in Vancouver, BC, in fall 2021 and later at District Library, North Vancouver, BC, in winter 2022.