This duo highlights the delicate balance between sound and silence, presence and absence, as the tar and santur intertwine in a musical dialogue.

Join Susan Andrews Grace and Jim Holyoak as they discuss the hidden realities of a life spent making art and how the life of an artist and their work is received in today’s society.

Please bring a pad of paper or sketch book and drawing tools of your choice eg: pencils and pencil crayons.

Join Laura Carter and Susan Andrews Grace in a discussion around women’s labour and its afterlives.

Moderator: James Wallis  Panelists: Chelsey Luke, Marnie Temple  Join Chelsey Luke and Marnie Temple in conversation as they explore stories as a way to find common ground and demarcate differences. Unfolding difficult ancestral inheritance and colonial histories requires trust and an open heart to move into areas that have concretized divisions and adversarial tensions. How […]

Geologist and artist Carol Wallace and environmental feminist and phenomenologist Astrida Neimanis will lead a walk along the shores of Kootenay Lake in Kaslo.

Join exhibition artists as they demonstrate and discuss some of the new materials that they are incorporating in their creative practices; plant based inks and binders, bio plastics and found materials.

Guest Curator: Deborah Thompson  Artists: Susan Andrews Grace, Jim Holyoak, Hildur Jónasson, Genevieve Robertson, Maggie Shirley, Marnie Temple, and Carol Wallace Deborah Thompson is an artist of settler ancestry living on unceded indigenous territory or the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Her practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Through her work she […]

Moderator: Genevieve Robertson  Panelists: Iraleigh Anderson, Astrida Neimanis, Carol Wallace  Join this panel of artists and scientists as they explore knowledge-creation, looking through both scientific and artistic lenses to find commonality. In the context of climate crisis and the increasing need for ecological conservation, we will explore burgeoning symbiotic relationships between artists and environmental scientists, […]

Join poet Eimear Laffan as she leads participants in responding directly to works of art in the exhibition LOOT

Join the panel of artists as they share their varied experiences of how living rurally in the Kootenays has influenced their art practices and shaped their lives.