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.

The Vernon Library is honoured to present a reading with Ivan Coyote, award-winning author and LGBTQ2S+ advocate. Ivan’s warmth, wit, and wisdom leaves audiences laughing, crying, and contemplating life’s complexities. Inclusivity and empathy inform their work, fostering understanding and compassion. This promises to be an evening that will touch your heart and stay with you long after the final word is spoken.

Come and join us and use art to explore the question of how art can contribute to peace. This free program is open to youth and adults and you are welcome to being a friend to connect to the circle. Art For Peace uses art to explore how it can contribute to peace in your own heart, your community and the world at large.

This program is free, open to all youths and adults, and art supplies are provided. You can also bring your own art supplies.

Join us at the Vernon Public Art Gallery for a diverse exploration of art-making materials and art processes through age-appropriate art activities. We invite parents and guardians to bring their little ones under the age of 5 to explore art-making with non-toxic materials in this fun and social program that encourages creative self-expression while developing fine and gross motor skills and sensory awareness. Make sure you dress for the mess as all are invited to join in on the fun! Parents must accompany children for the duration of the session and admission is by donation.

September 29 10:00 – 11:00 AM

Collage and Printmaking

This session will begin with a tour of the exhibition Illuminated Language, by Edmonton-based artist Dick Averns. This exhibition draws on multiple bodies of text-based art spanning over three decades of the artist’s career. in response to the themes of the exhibition, we will be making collages and printmaking.

Join us on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM in Marie Fleming Studio at the Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre for a screening of “Long Road to Justice: The Viola Desmond Story”, directed by Brian Murray. (Courtesy: Government of Nova Scotia)

The afternoon will include a screening of the documentary, free refreshments, and a Live chat with the lead performer and director of “Hey Viola!”, a musical exploration of civil rights trailblazer, Viola Desmond—the fearless woman featured on your $10 bill. It is a smashing tour-de-force performance by acclaimed Canadian jazz and blues singer Krystle Dos Santos, directed by Tracey Power.

Viola Irene Desmond (née Davis) was a businesswoman and civil libertarian born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Through her Desmond School of Beauty Culture, she mentored young Black women in Nova Scotia while building her career and business as a beautician.

As a result of her bold refusal to tolerate an act of racial discrimination, Black Nova Scotians who were no longer prepared to live as second-class citizens mobilized for change

Thanks in great part to Desmond and others like her who battled to be recognized as equal humans, segregation in the province was officially abolished in 1954.

Desmond would become the first Canadian woman to be pictured on the front of a Canadian banknote, it was confirmed in December 2016.

> Doors open at 11.30 am

> Running Time (including Live Chat): 90 minutes with a short break

> Seating on a first come first serve basis.

> Free Refreshments are provided.

This is a free event. Please register using this link

 

Discover a whole new world of creativity at your fingertips!

Stop by, relax, and use our 3D pens to build up your own doo-dads, gee-gaws, and curios!

FREE Event

Visit our Corn Maze and O’Keefe Ranch. Open every weekend in October from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Free/Admission by donation. Call 250 542-7868 for more information

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

Come down to the Arts Centre and watch ceramic artist, Sabrina Boulay, while she works on a large scale coil pot. Coiling pottery was one of the primary potting methods prior to the development of pottery wheels. Coil pots are sturdy in large forms and have been used for thousands of years across the globe.

Demonstrations will be held at the Vernon Community Arts Centre on Sunday, September 24th between 12:30-1:30pm, and Monday, September 25th, 4:30-5:30pm. If weather permits, we will be outside on the front lawn of the Arts Centre.

Free Event

 

Learn how one Vernon artist uses fibre to create works of art.

Drop into the Vernon Community Arts Centre on Tuesday, October 10th, from 6:30-8:30 and watch Emily Fraser as she creates beautiful and whimsical framed fibre art pieces using upcycled materials and fibres.

No registration required.

Donations are welcomed and will support future community arts programming.