Exhibit Dates: September 12 to October 3
Monday to Thurs 9:00am-9:00pm | Friday-Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm | Sunday 12:00pm-4:00pm
Vernon Community Arts Centre is pleased to present “Encouraging Ability in the Arts”, an exhibit featuring works from the Joining Hands Program.
Joining Hands is an art based program providing adults with diverse abilities an encouraging environment to explore their artistic skills. Working with beginner, emerging and established artists, we focus on the development of individual ability and confidence in the arts. Our belief is that through art we create a sense of belonging in an inclusive community.
Join us in celebrating ability and diversity in the arts!
Exhibit Dates: September 12 to October 3
Monday to Thurs 9:00am-9:00pm | Friday-Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm | Sunday 12:00pm-4:00pm
Vernon Community Arts Centre is pleased to present “Encouraging Ability in the Arts”, an exhibit featuring works from the Joining Hands Program.
Joining Hands is an art based program providing adults with diverse abilities an encouraging environment to explore their artistic skills. Working with beginner, emerging and established artists, we focus on the development of individual ability and confidence in the arts. Our belief is that through art we create a sense of belonging in an inclusive community.
Join us in celebrating ability and diversity in the arts!
We are happy to provide many activities depending on the season. Everything from heritage buildings, museum exhibitions, interactive farm animals, a unique gift shop (full of local goods!), and other added special touches – your experience doesn’t stop there.
Visit our Mansion, St. Anne’s Church, Balmoral Schoolhouse, Cowboy Bunk House, General Store, Log House, Animal Exhibits, Model Railway Display, Blacksmith Shop & Domestic Barn.
Free/Admission by donation.
Open weekends 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 250 542-7868
Write here, write now. Come work on your short story, poetry, non-fiction piece, or future bestselling novel! Unleash your creativity in a supportive group setting, where you can write and discuss your work in progress. Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary to participate.
Stop by the library and listen to local youth author, Cedrick Anderson, as he reads from his book, Ceddybones and the Terrifying Lizard.
Ceddy Bones is a skeleton boy from a place not here nor there, a world just like ours, but with a little extra scare.
Join Ceddy Bones as he explores the Great Beside. His world is just like yours, except instead of other humans, its filled with ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and all sorts of other creatures.
Do you have a mini masterpiece that’s been longing for the spotlight? The Vernon Public Art Gallery will be home to Vernon’s Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG) for one week – and it’s mini-marvelous!
Imagine a pint-sized paradise for art lovers, where you can swap your small-scale creations for other tiny treasures. It’s like a mini art exchange party!
Bring your mini artwork, whether it’s a doodle, a miniature painting, or a tiny sculpture. No masterpiece is too small! Open the mini gallery door, place your mini marvel inside, and take a peek inside at the incredible mini artistry.
Swap your art for someone else’s, and let the mini art community flourish!
So, what are you waiting for? Join the Vernon Public Art Gallery’s miniature revolution today and let your creativity shine in the most charming way possible. After all, good things come in small packages!
The Allan Brooks Nature Centre BC Culture Days event invites painters and artists to come to the centre and paint “en plain air” (denoting or in the manner of a 19th-century style of painting outdoors), with a chance to win prizes in one of four categories: Experienced, Emerging, Youth and People’s Choice!
This event will engage the local and provincial community and create awareness of the artists working in the North Okanagan, as well as highlight the incredible beauty of this endangered grassland habitat.
This is a FREE event sponsored by the Arts Council of the North Okanagan and The Allan Brooks Nature Centre. Saturday, October 7 from 8-3:30pm. Artists can come register on the day-of, and choose a spot along the trail for the day. At 2pm, the artists will bring their art up to the centre for judging and refreshments.
Come celebrate art and nature with us.
Hello, my name is Mellissa and my art-and-crafts business is called It’s My Bag Studios.
I’m inviting you into my studios to see:
• how I create my art
• the types of supplies I use, and
• watch as I work on one of my many crafts and art:
• a mixed-media collage
• a paper collage
• a sculpture with air-dry clay or liquid polymer clay
• creating a Hallowe’en decor item
• painting with acrylic or watercolours, or
• sewing an upcycled, reusable tote bag
The hands-on component of your visit will include the opportunity to create your own piece of art from the categories I list above. Two visual training posters will be available to help you develop your piece: the 6 principles of good design and a colour wheel.
Behind The Curtain:If you like scary Hallowe’en decor, a section of the studio will feature the ghastly and ghoulish decor pieces that I create and feature at craft shows and markets at this time of the year. There will be a curtain across this display so that no one has to look at these “goodies” unless they choose to walk behind the curtain!
The event features a “pay what you may” bucket, but there is no charge for admission or most supplies.
Hello, my name is Mellissa and my art-and-crafts business is called It’s My Bag Studios.
I’m inviting you into my studios to see:
• how I create my art
• the types of supplies I use, and
• watch as I work on one of my many crafts and art:
• a mixed-media collage
• a paper collage
• a sculpture with air-dry clay or liquid polymer clay
• creating a Hallowe’en decor item
• painting with acrylic or watercolours, or
• sewing an upcycled, reusable tote bag
The hands-on component of your visit will include the opportunity to create your own piece of art from the categories I list above. Two visual training posters will be available to help you develop your piece: the 6 principles of good design and a colour wheel.
Behind The Curtain:If you like scary Hallowe’en decor, a section of the studio will feature the ghastly and ghoulish decor pieces that I create and feature at craft shows and markets at this time of the year. There will be a curtain across this display so that no one has to look at these “goodies” unless they choose to walk behind the curtain!
The event features a “pay what you may” bucket, but there is no charge for admission or most supplies.
Hello, my name is Mellissa and my art-and-crafts business is called It’s My Bag Studios.
I’m inviting you into my studios to see:
• how I create my art
• the types of supplies I use, and
• watch as I work on one of my many crafts and art:
• a mixed-media collage
• a paper collage
• a sculpture with air-dry clay or liquid polymer clay
• creating a Hallowe’en decor item
• painting with acrylic or watercolours, or
• sewing an upcycled, reusable tote bag
The hands-on component of your visit will include the opportunity to create your own piece of art from the categories I list above. Two visual training posters will be available to help you develop your piece: the 6 principles of good design and a colour wheel.
Behind The Curtain:If you like scary Hallowe’en decor, a section of the studio will feature the ghastly and ghoulish decor pieces that I create and feature at craft shows and markets at this time of the year. There will be a curtain across this display so that no one has to look at these “goodies” unless they choose to walk behind the curtain!
The event features a “pay what you may” bucket, but there is no charge for admission or most supplies.
We are looking for people who are available to help with a variety of activities. Send us a note and share with us what skills you have to offer.