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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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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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Event Series PaperWorks: Printmakers of the Salish Sea

PaperWorks: Printmakers of the Salish Sea

Ladysmith Gallery 7-32 High Street, Ladysmith

PaperWorks features an extensive array of works of seven printmakers who create using a range ofprintmaking methods in non-toxic print studios in communities of the Salish Sea. Hand-pulled orhand-burnished, each piece is an expression of the passion our members have for printmaking andthe environment.Printmakers Anne Jones, Dorothy Friesen, Kirsty Henderson, Leona Petrak, Leslie Mobbs, LouiseSlobodan and Nora Layard are offering an inspiring showcase of over 100 recent works influenced byour coastal environment, personal history, and a never ending curiosity. Their original artworkscover a wide array of styles; deeply personal expressions, emotive representational works, andwildly energetic abstracted pieces; Reduction and multi-plate Linocut prints, Drypoint engravings,Collagraphs, Monotypes and Monoprints. These printmakers work using traditional techniquesthough with freedom to bend ‘the rules’ but always use the least toxic techniques and material available. Prints range in size and price points, framed or unframed: also available are original one-of-a-kind cards and high quality art cards. Printmakers will be in the Gallery each day from 10am to 4pm and are happy to chat about the work, printmakingmethods and inspiration, answering questions. On some days, printmaking demos and other creativeactivity will also be part of the PaperWorks exhibition and sale.PaperWorks is the first group exhibition and art sale created solely by printmakers to be held at theLadysmith Gallery. Printmakers of the Salish Sea, a collective with a focus on less-toxic printmaking,was formed in 2021. There will be extended hours on Fridays, Saturdays, and Thursday, November 28th. There will also be a meet and greet with the artists on the afternoon of November 22nd.

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Event Series Nanaimo Artwalk 2024

Nanaimo Artwalk 2024

Everyone is welcome to attend Artwalk, the festival’s 26th-anniversary event, taking place on November 23 and 24 and featuring more than 50 artists. Nanaimo Artwalk is a unique opportunity to experience all forms of visual art from local artists located in venues in the Downtown area (primarily along Chapel and Commercial Street to Victoria Crescent) and the Old City Quarter, bordered by Fitzwilliam Street to the north, Wesley Street to the west, and Albert Street to the south, this event offers a prestigious platform for to see local art. You can get an Event Guide and Map from the Nanaimo Museum, Nanaimo Art Gallery and several shops and galleries around town. You can also view the guide on this website. Our Information/Welcome Desks are located at the Nanaimo Museum and St. Andrews United Church where you will also find public washrooms. We invite you to enter a draw for prizes worth $500 and see an amazing collection of local art available for every budget. Park your car and take a free Hop-On Hop-Off shuttle that travels between Downtown and the Old City Quarter every 20 minutes. Click the tab, Shuttle Bus (2024) to see the route. ​ Nanaimo Arts Council acknowledges with gratitude and respect that we are on the unceded traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, and Szt’uminus First Nations. Haych qa Siem.

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Love’s in Need of Love

Port Theatre 125 Front Street, Nanaimo

A new era is dawning for Island Soul Choir! We are thrilled to introduce to you, our new Music Director—Tom Arntzen—and invite you to explore with us, Tom’s interpretation of soul music. For this concert, he has included Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, The Beatles’ Because,the Blues Brothers’ cover of Solomon Burke’s Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, and Jon Boutté’s Tremé Song. He has also included one of his own original songs, as well as his arrangements of a medley of three 60s pop songs, and a traditional Zimbabwean proverb. The choir will also reprise two of Brian Tate’s songs: One Million Voices, a song dedicated to all those who have the courage to speak out against the abuse of power, and Om Mani Padme Hum, a transcendental arrangement of an Sanskrit mantra to create calm and healing. We are so excited by Tom's talent that he has agreed to be our opening act for this concert so that you, our audience, can get to know him and experience his talent first hand.

$8.50 – $31.50