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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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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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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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