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Embrace the eclectic energy of Nanaimo at our Bathtub Races, a thrilling tribute to our marine heritage, or get lost in the magic of our Lantern Festival, join the city in colour for our Pride Festival, Jazz fest and more. Every season brings something new and exciting, ensuring that no two visits to Nanaimo are ever the same.

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2024 Nanaimo Fine Art Show

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a Homemade Christmas Makers Market

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Protection Island Art Walk 2024

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A Very Witchy Holiday Market

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24th Annual Bicycle Film Festival

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Vancouver Island Symphony presents Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

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Holiday Open House at Gardenworks

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PaperWorks: Printmakers of the Salish Sea

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Oas-City: 17th Annual Urban Issues Film Festival

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Nanaimo Artwalk 2024

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One in Spirit Festival

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Nanaimo Artwalk 2024

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Love’s in Need of Love

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Island Roots Farmers’ Market

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Joëlle & Buwa: Just the 2 of Us

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Vancouver Island Symphony presents Reindeer Games… The Sequel

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shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side

Nanaimo Art Gallery 150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo

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

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2024 Nanaimo Fine Art Show

Vancouver Island Conference Centre 101 Gordon Street, Nanaimo

The countdown is on for the opening of the 9TH Nanaimo Fine Art Show, November 14 – 17, 2024 at the Vancouver Island Conference ( 80 Commercial Street). Vibrant, diverse, surprising, evocative, the art from this group of experienced visual storytellers will not disappoint. It is organized by the Nanaimo Chapter of the of The Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), a premier national art organization.Every piece in a show has been juried by a panel of senior FCA artists. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Nanaimo Chapter with up to 125 artworks. There will also be a large silent auction, a great opportunity to pick up a special Christmas gift or art books and art supplies. Mark your calendar, make the time to go and show your support for keeping the finest of Fine Art coming to Nanaimo! Come and fall in love, fall in connection with a piece of art, be surprised, be charmed, experience the simple joy of viewing original art from your local artists. And it is free!

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a Homemade Christmas Makers Market

Beban Park Social Centre 2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo

The holiday season is synonymous with twinkling lights, festive music, and the joy of giving. What better way to immerse yourself in this enchanting atmosphere than by visiting A Handmade Christmas Makers Market? This 100% Canadian handmade market is a place where holiday magic and shopper surprises come together. It is a celebration of creativity, craftsmanship, and the Canadian spirit where one-of-kind gifts, hourly prize draws, visits with Santa and other delightful surprises await you.

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