🗓️ Mark your calendar at Woodgrove Centre. American Crown Circus is a celebration of passion, innovation, and community. Embrace the opportunity to explore the world of various interests in a dynamic setting in British Columbia, Canada. Don't miss out on this remarkable event 🌈.
Join us each Wednesday in Beban Park for a vibrant market where fresh, local products meet community spirit! Explore a delightful array of fruits and vegetables (in season), meat, eggs, preserves, artisanal baking, soaps, and specialty goods from our region's best farmers and artisans. Come and meet your local farmers and producers. Bring your friends and family to enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious flavours, community connections, and a celebration of local agriculture. Support our local economy while savouring the bounty of our region! We are inside the Centennial Building from October 2, 2024 - May 7, 2025. We move outside on May 14 until October. PLUS Special Christmas Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 22 from 10 - 2:30.
Toss The Boss is a FUNdraising event that challenges teams to raise funds in support of the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society. We are offering you a one-of-a-kind opportunity to do something you have only ever dreamed about... TOSS YOUR BOSS OFF A BRIDGE! ... with a bungy cord attached, of course! Donation and Team Sign-up Landing Page: https://tosstheboss.ca/
shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is an exhibition of new photo-based artworks by Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun. The title of this exhibition, set in Hul’qumi’num, Cree, and English, suggests both geographical proximity (the other side of the river) and spiritual proximity (the afterlife). Works in the exhibition consider relations with land, family, and ancestors through interventions in the medium of photography. In our daily scroll through digital images, it is easy to forget that pictures can be tangible objects with weight and texture. When we encounter printed snapshots, we can hold them and ask: Who is this person? Where are they standing? How are we related? Who took this photo? then flip them to look for handwritten notes on the other side. Photographs of all types can spark stories, but photographs as objects can carry unique traces of the people or places they represent. Sound and White-Hill begin with this understanding, and employ sculpture and installation to bring new life to photographic images. Through cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums, torn prints that have been repaired and adorned, drawings of spirits layered on top of archival images, and spindle whorl patterns cut out from historical landscape photographs, the artists work to enact care for their families, and communities, here and on the other side. shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is the third exhibition through which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: How can we work together? Image: Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Squpastul (Gathering), Detail of digitally altered historical photograph, 2024
To celebrate the opening weekend of shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side, join us for a conversation between artists Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun moderated by Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Indigenous Engagement Coordinator bailey macabre. In this casual discussion, Michelle and Eliot will expand on their use of photography to express connections to land, family, and ancestors. Image: Michelle Sound Theresa Sound Age 16, 2023 Cyanotype on Elk Hide Drum
Join us each Wednesday in Beban Park for a vibrant market where fresh, local products meet community spirit! Explore a delightful array of fruits and vegetables (in season), meat, eggs, preserves, artisanal baking, soaps, and specialty goods from our region's best farmers and artisans. Come and meet your local farmers and producers. Bring your friends and family to enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious flavours, community connections, and a celebration of local agriculture. Support our local economy while savouring the bounty of our region! We are inside the Centennial Building from October 2, 2024 - May 7, 2025. We move outside on May 14 until October. PLUS Special Christmas Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 22 from 10 - 2:30.
shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is an exhibition of new photo-based artworks by Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun. The title of this exhibition, set in Hul’qumi’num, Cree, and English, suggests both geographical proximity (the other side of the river) and spiritual proximity (the afterlife). Works in the exhibition consider relations with land, family, and ancestors through interventions in the medium of photography. In our daily scroll through digital images, it is easy to forget that pictures can be tangible objects with weight and texture. When we encounter printed snapshots, we can hold them and ask: Who is this person? Where are they standing? How are we related? Who took this photo? then flip them to look for handwritten notes on the other side. Photographs of all types can spark stories, but photographs as objects can carry unique traces of the people or places they represent. Sound and White-Hill begin with this understanding, and employ sculpture and installation to bring new life to photographic images. Through cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums, torn prints that have been repaired and adorned, drawings of spirits layered on top of archival images, and spindle whorl patterns cut out from historical landscape photographs, the artists work to enact care for their families, and communities, here and on the other side. shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is the third exhibition through which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: How can we work together? Image: Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Squpastul (Gathering), Detail of digitally altered historical photograph, 2024
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
THE PORT THEATRE PRESENTS Crow's Theatre production of As You Like It, or The Land Acknowledgement By Cliff Cardinal Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 7:30pm"Cardinal’s performance balanced hot anger with surprising levity and covered a wide gamut of anecdotes and statistics with gusto. Trick title or not, it was a superb piece of theatre, a conversation between artist and audience, and a testament to the power of marketing when making a show." — The Toronto Star Read the full review $32 Members | $37 Regular | $20 Students Prices include order fees
Join us each Wednesday in Beban Park for a vibrant market where fresh, local products meet community spirit! Explore a delightful array of fruits and vegetables (in season), meat, eggs, preserves, artisanal baking, soaps, and specialty goods from our region's best farmers and artisans. Come and meet your local farmers and producers. Bring your friends and family to enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious flavours, community connections, and a celebration of local agriculture. Support our local economy while savouring the bounty of our region! We are inside the Centennial Building from October 2, 2024 - May 7, 2025. We move outside on May 14 until October. PLUS Special Christmas Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 22 from 10 - 2:30.
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is an exhibition of new photo-based artworks by Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun. The title of this exhibition, set in Hul’qumi’num, Cree, and English, suggests both geographical proximity (the other side of the river) and spiritual proximity (the afterlife). Works in the exhibition consider relations with land, family, and ancestors through interventions in the medium of photography. In our daily scroll through digital images, it is easy to forget that pictures can be tangible objects with weight and texture. When we encounter printed snapshots, we can hold them and ask: Who is this person? Where are they standing? How are we related? Who took this photo? then flip them to look for handwritten notes on the other side. Photographs of all types can spark stories, but photographs as objects can carry unique traces of the people or places they represent. Sound and White-Hill begin with this understanding, and employ sculpture and installation to bring new life to photographic images. Through cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums, torn prints that have been repaired and adorned, drawings of spirits layered on top of archival images, and spindle whorl patterns cut out from historical landscape photographs, the artists work to enact care for their families, and communities, here and on the other side. shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is the third exhibition through which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: How can we work together? Image: Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Squpastul (Gathering), Detail of digitally altered historical photograph, 2024
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
25 Artists Paintings, pottery, photography, fabric arts, sculpture, recycled metal arts, jewelry, glass art, wood crafts, printmaking and art cards. Door prizes and refreshments area serving tea, coffee & home baking.
Vancouver Island Symphony presents Tchaikovsky & DvořákSaturday, October 19th | 6:30 pm Pre-Concert Chat | 7:30 Performance TCHAIKOVSKY & DVORAK - Vancouver Island Symphony Conductor: Cosette Justo ValdésGUEST ARTISTS: Sointu Aalto, CelloPaige Pierce, Nanaimo Youth Poet Laureate DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto Sointu AALTO: New Composition *World PremiereTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, op. 74 in B minor “The Pathétique” We launch the Symphony’s 30th “Pearl” Anniversary Season with the popular Dvořák Cello Concerto, featuring guest cellist and composer, Sointu Aalto. Tchaikovsky’s most famous Symphony No. 6, known as The Pathétique, was originally named The Passionate. For more information on the music and artists, please visit: www.vancouverislandsymphony.com
Artists' Collective Theatre is proud to bring GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play to Nanaimo this October! This award-winning show explores the intense struggles and inspirations behind the birth of the iconic horror story, Frankenstein.
Learn to create captivating portraits with easy image transfer techniques. You will learn to transfer images and enhance them using water-soluble mediums like gouache and watercolour. Perfect for artists of all levels, join in to explore mixed media, and bring your subject to life! 16+ years Facilitator: Vivian-Sofia Mora
Join us each Wednesday in Beban Park for a vibrant market where fresh, local products meet community spirit! Explore a delightful array of fruits and vegetables (in season), meat, eggs, preserves, artisanal baking, soaps, and specialty goods from our region's best farmers and artisans. Come and meet your local farmers and producers. Bring your friends and family to enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious flavours, community connections, and a celebration of local agriculture. Support our local economy while savouring the bounty of our region! We are inside the Centennial Building from October 2, 2024 - May 7, 2025. We move outside on May 14 until October. PLUS Special Christmas Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 22 from 10 - 2:30.
Hosted by the Nanaimo Seniors Services Network, this Fair is “The Place to Research Products & Services for Healthy Aging”. FREE to attend, the fair features over 60 exhibitors, Health Talks, a Flu Shot Clinic and Door Prizes. Health Talks presentations topics include; Nutrition and Healthy Aging, CRA – Are you getting all your senior Tax Benefits?, Overcome Loneliness and Isolation and Help with Grief and Loss. List of exhibitors and information on the Health Talks are available on the NSSN website.
shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is an exhibition of new photo-based artworks by Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun. The title of this exhibition, set in Hul’qumi’num, Cree, and English, suggests both geographical proximity (the other side of the river) and spiritual proximity (the afterlife). Works in the exhibition consider relations with land, family, and ancestors through interventions in the medium of photography. In our daily scroll through digital images, it is easy to forget that pictures can be tangible objects with weight and texture. When we encounter printed snapshots, we can hold them and ask: Who is this person? Where are they standing? How are we related? Who took this photo? then flip them to look for handwritten notes on the other side. Photographs of all types can spark stories, but photographs as objects can carry unique traces of the people or places they represent. Sound and White-Hill begin with this understanding, and employ sculpture and installation to bring new life to photographic images. Through cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums, torn prints that have been repaired and adorned, drawings of spirits layered on top of archival images, and spindle whorl patterns cut out from historical landscape photographs, the artists work to enact care for their families, and communities, here and on the other side. shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is the third exhibition through which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: How can we work together? Image: Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Squpastul (Gathering), Detail of digitally altered historical photograph, 2024
We have resurrected Nanaimo's signature wine festival as we have not hosted this event since 2019. This annual wine festival hosted by The Grand Hotel Nanaimo brings over 200 wines from around the world and BC. Live music, appetizers, a Grand Prize compliments of Save On Foods, and a pop-up onsite store by the amazing Yo from The Landing Liquor Store. Purchase your tickets in advance at The Grand Hotel front desk or reserve your tickets via telephone 250-758-3000. This year we are raising funds for the Nanaimo District Hospital Foundation. This event is possible with our generous sponsors: Nanaimo Hospitality Association, Save On Foods, Harbourview Volkswagen, Hullo Ferries, The Landing Liquor Store, The Wave 102.3, and Tourism Nanaimo. We are thrilled to have the Winemaker Series again with our partner restaurants: Black Rabbit Kitchen, Melange, Mahle House, and Camas. Please support the dinners by contacting the restaurants directly and booking your table. We continue to support small restauranteurs and their brilliant creativity.
Join us each Wednesday in Beban Park for a vibrant market where fresh, local products meet community spirit! Explore a delightful array of fruits and vegetables (in season), meat, eggs, preserves, artisanal baking, soaps, and specialty goods from our region's best farmers and artisans. Come and meet your local farmers and producers. Bring your friends and family to enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious flavours, community connections, and a celebration of local agriculture. Support our local economy while savouring the bounty of our region! We are inside the Centennial Building from October 2, 2024 - May 7, 2025. We move outside on May 14 until October. PLUS Special Christmas Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 22 from 10 - 2:30.
shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is an exhibition of new photo-based artworks by Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun. The title of this exhibition, set in Hul’qumi’num, Cree, and English, suggests both geographical proximity (the other side of the river) and spiritual proximity (the afterlife). Works in the exhibition consider relations with land, family, and ancestors through interventions in the medium of photography. In our daily scroll through digital images, it is easy to forget that pictures can be tangible objects with weight and texture. When we encounter printed snapshots, we can hold them and ask: Who is this person? Where are they standing? How are we related? Who took this photo? then flip them to look for handwritten notes on the other side. Photographs of all types can spark stories, but photographs as objects can carry unique traces of the people or places they represent. Sound and White-Hill begin with this understanding, and employ sculpture and installation to bring new life to photographic images. Through cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums, torn prints that have been repaired and adorned, drawings of spirits layered on top of archival images, and spindle whorl patterns cut out from historical landscape photographs, the artists work to enact care for their families, and communities, here and on the other side. shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side is the third exhibition through which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: How can we work together? Image: Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Squpastul (Gathering), Detail of digitally altered historical photograph, 2024
Sun Over Swamp is an exhibition that takes its title from a 1964 painting by Takao Tanabe and features five artists who consider ecology through diverse approaches to abstract painting. Working on canvas, linen, wood, and ceramic, artists in Sun Over Swamp reflect on our fragile yet globally interconnected biomes. From tracing the environmental footprint of their materials, to employing storytelling, mythology, artificial intelligence, and embodied learning in their processes; Rebecca Brewer, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Rita Letendre, Gailan Ngan, and Takao Tanabe consider unknowably vast and complex lifeworlds through the practice of abstract painting. Tours are available on Fridays at noon through the run of the exhibition. Nanaimo Art Gallery is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays from 12 to 5 pm. Admission is by-donation.
The City of Nanaimo's Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2024 Concerts in the Park series. The free concerts showcase local talent against the backdrop of some of Nanaimo's most beautiful parks. Concert-goers will have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of music genres, including motown, indie rock, folk/blues, and celtic. Audience members are reminded to bring a chair or a blanket and to dress for the weather. New this year are a number of double or triple feature shows which will allow families to enjoy a variety of entertainment along with a picnic or dinner in the park! The 2024 schedule is as follows: · Sun, May 12, 1-2 p.m. - Laura Kelsey at Colliery Dam Park (as part of Family Fishing Day) · Fri, May 17, 6-8:15 p.m. - Mostly Motown and Turnpike at Maffeo Sutton Park (double feature in partnership with Food Truck Fridays) · Wed, June 12, 6-7 p.m. - Baby Bleu at Kin Park · Fri, June 28, 5-8:30 p.m. - The Shindigs, Danger Box and Maverick Cinema at Maffeo Sutton Park (triple feature in partnership with Food Truck Fridays) · Wed, July 10, 6-7 p.m. - Dagger Harbour at McGregor Park · Wed, July 17, 6-7 p.m. - String Fever at Pipers Lagoon Park · Wed, July 31, 6-7 p.m. - Cosmic Dust at Harewood Centennial Park · Wed, Aug 7, 6-7 p.m. - Piu at the Bowen Park Amphitheatre · Wed, Aug 14, 6-7 p.m. - Dublin2 at Oliver Woods · Wed, Aug 21, 6-7 p.m. - Mike Alviano at Westwood Lake Park · Fri, August 23, 6-8:15 p.m. - Sundown: The Gordon Lightfoot Experience and The Shineolas at Maffeo Sutton Park (double feature in partnership with Food Truck Fridays) A schedule with further details on each performance is available on the City of Nanaimo website. Please note that parking is limited at many parks, citizens are encouraged to use alternative transportation when possible.
Seven local professional artists, Patricia Banks, Janice Evans, Regina Seib, Halina Gryzb, Karen Evans, Coreen Zerr and Kathryn Galvin, along with guest artists appearing at their studios, are now busy painting up a storm, preparing to welcome each of you to their home gallery and studio, all within 2 km from Hammond Bay. Did you know that the Hammond Bay Studio Tour has been in our beautiful area since 2013? The artists can’t wait to welcome everyone to view, the how, what and where of their work and creative process.WE’VE KEPT IT SMALL SO YOU CAN SEE IT ALL!
This concert is a special celebration of Karla Mundy's final performance as our Artistic Director. The show includes some favourite songs from our repertoire - a collection of spiritual and gospel, pop, African and Afro-Cuban music. Special guest performance by Topazz.