IOTA | 2018

GABRIOLAISLE OF THE ARTSFESTIVALAPRIL 4 – 15A celebration of the arts with 30 workshops and 10 events. Make, learn, and play with island artists.

BELIGHTWhat is it that lightens your step?

What brings the glint, the shimmer, the illumination to your everyday?

What adds colour and limns your life? What delights, sheds light, and enlightens?

You there … standing in the spring sun.

For many of us Gabriolans, it’s art. Singing. Dancing. Photographing. Painting. Potting. Building. Writing. Crafting. Creating, with tools, with materials, with our hands.

Our Festival launches this year with the Gabriola-made documentary, A Time For Making. How perfect — with the return of the light, it’s a great time for making here.

This year’s theme is (you guessed it) LIGHT. So take things lightly. Try your hand (or feet) at something new. Enjoy yourself, at a workshop, event, or the Artist’s Toolkit. Bask in your creative life and our artistic island.

Landscape Photography: Phillip VanniniFestival Photography: Bill Pope, Philip McAdamBrochure Design: Tim Gambrill

• Registration opens 10:00 am Tuesday, March 13.

• Online at: www.artsgabriola.ca

• In person: Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre (10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tuesdays only).

• No phone or email registration.

• Unless otherwise indicated, registration includes required materials. Participants may be asked to bring other materials.

• Limited space—register early.

• Refunds: Full refund minus $10 administration fee until March 31. No refunds after March 31.

• Visit festival listings at www.artsgabriola.ca for workshop and event updates, addresses, and maps.

• For more info, email: mitch@artsgabriola.ca

We strive to make all of our events accessible to as many people as possible. If finances are an obstacle for you, please visit www.artsgabriola.ca for ways you can still participate.

Inclusion at GAC

Join us! Become a member of the Gabriola Arts Council, or donate. GAC is a registered charity and can issue tax receipts. www.artsgabriola.ca or info@artsgabriola.ca.

Supporting the Arts

The Gabriola Arts Council would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia

“Reconciliation not only requires apologies, reparations, the relearning of

Canada’s national history, and public commemoration, but also needs real social,

political, and economic change … Canadians from all walks of life are responsible

for taking action on reconciliation in concrete ways, working collaboratively with

Aboriginal peoples. Reconciliation begins with each and every one of us.”

— the truth and reconciliation commission of canada

Gabriola Arts Council is committed to promoting a deeper understanding of our true history, and supporting the path to a new relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples. We acknowledge our hosts, the Snuneymuxw First Nation, and recognize that we live and create on unceded Coast Salish territory. As part of GAC’s mandate, we support the resurgence of Indigenous culture and the work of Indigenous artists.

Reconciliation: A Commitment

REGISTRATION

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Giving Voice: An introduction to Vocal Sounding

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Leah Hokanson

The voice is a vehicle for expression, healing, transformation, and connection. Release your expressive potential, deepen your connection with others, and bring more of your uniqueness to the world in this safe, inclusive, playful, and supportive workshop.

Leah Hokanson enjoys multi-faceted exploration of the voice. She directs the Song Keepers Women’s Choir, and facilitates the Gabriola Sounding Circles.

THE THEATRE CENTRE | $25 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 16 PARTICIPANTS

Making a Copper and Leather Cuff Bracelet

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | Cheryl Jacobs

Enjoy your creativity with Cheryl as you learn to stamp and texture metal, texture leather and form it into a copper and leather cuff bracelet. Explore different design options, and work with patina to change the colour of the metal and create something uniquely yours.

Cheryl Jacobs has 32 years experience teaching, exhibiting across Canada and being an ambassador of the metal medium and jewelry making.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $75 | AGES 12+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

Festival Launch: A Time For Making7:00 pm | at the Roxy Theatre

Festival opening ceremony, followed by the island premiere of an inspiring new documentary about Gabriola artisans, A Time For Making (60min). It explores the social significance of hand-making, as we follow 9 master artisans pursuing and reflecting on their craft on the “isle of the arts”. www.atimeformaking.com

Screening will be followed by an intimate chat with “stars” and filmmakers, around the questions: why handmade? And why now? Refreshments served.

Filmmakers Phillip Vannini and April Vannini are artists, educators, and researchers, both on faculty at Royal Roads University. They’re passionate about small island culture and the creative economy, and active contributors to Gabriola community life as volunteers and parents.

TICKETS $10–$20 (SLIDING SCALE) | AVAILABLE ONLINE | ALL AGES Event proceeds go towards arts programming at Gabriola Elementary School

Twilight Radio TheatreTwo Nights: Wednesday, Thursday | 7:30pm | at the Surf Lodge

1940’s Radio Show Classics Live on Stage! Full of great character voices, live sound FX and swinging commercials from a bygone era. Be sure to bring your imagination as Twilight Radio Theatre spins its golden radio magic right before your eyes!

Chris Jans, David Botten, Adam Kerby, and Kathy McIntyre recreate the charm of the Golden Age of Radio as Twilight Radio Theatre.

TICKETS $20 | AVAILABLE AT NORTH ROAD SPORTS, THE SURF LODGE | ALL AGES

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 — THURSDAY, APRIL 5

FRIDAY, APRIL 6

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Drumming Together As One: New and Traditional Songs

9:00 am – 1:00 pm | Patrick Aleck, and others

Come together with Patrick to share drumming songs, stories, and gifts. Learn some of Patrick’s original songs and traditional ones from his community. Let’s trust our spirits and do things in a good way! No drumming experience necessary.

Patrick Aleck is from Stz’uminus First Nation and Penelakut Tribe, and lives in Nanaimo. He has been given the gift of drumming and speaking by his community.

ROXY THEATRE | $30 | ALL AGES | MAX: 20 PARTICIPANTS NOTE: Bring a drum if possible. Some drums will be available to share

Basic Chainmaille

10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Gail Wilson

In this workshop Gail will teach you the basics of chainmaille. Learn the correct technique for closing rings in the traditional way and explore patterns that will enable you to create your own unique bracelet and (time allowing) earrings. We will be working in anodized aluminum.

Gail Wilson has been a chainmaille artist for over fifteen years and sold her work extensively throughout Western Canada. You can see her work on Facebook at Chain Chain Chain.

1715 EL VERANO DR | $40 | AGES 15+ | MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

Making a Hand Bound Journal

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | Trisha Klus

In this workshop the student will create a blank journal with covers made from handmade papers. Exposed decorative stitching will decorate the spine. This journal is perfect as a trip journal, for collage or sketching.

Trisha Klus is a respected published lettering and book artist. Her work is in many private and public collections.

THE THEATRE CENTRE | $65 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

SATURDAY, APRIL 7

Ay Lelum: Art Opening and Fashion Show6:30 pm | at the Hive Emporium

Work from Ay Lelum - The Good House of Design: art garments, painting, carvings, blankets, and bentwood boxes. Fashion show will feature natural, eco-friendly clothing that embraces West-Coast elegance and First Nations culture. www.aylelum.com

Multi-generational artists from Nanaimo, traditional Coast Salish Master Carver William Good, artist Sandra Moorhouse-Good, and Coast Salish artist Joel Good create art independently, as well as collaborate with Aunalee and Sophia in designing their Coast Salish clothing line, Ay Lelum.

ENTRY BY DONATION | ALL AGES

Family Matinee: A Time For Making2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | at the Roxy Theatre

Afternoon screening of an inspiring new documentary about Gabriola artisans, A Time For Making (60min). It explores the social significance of hand-making, as we follow 9 master artisans pursuing and reflecting on their craft on the “isle of the arts”. See Festival Launch Friday, April 6 for more information. www.atimeformaking.com

ENTRY BY DONATION | ALL AGES Event proceeds go towards arts programming at Gabriola Elementary School

Photo Encaustic Techniques for Beginners

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | Chris Straw

Learn how to select images for photo encaustic treatment, mount them, paint on them with wax (encaustic medium), and manipulate the wax to create a unique and durable presentation of your photos. Discuss techniques for framing and finishing your pieces.

Chris Straw is a photographer, teacher and mixed media artist who specializes in infusing photographic prints with encaustic medium (beeswax).

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $75 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

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Composition Fundamentals

9:00 am – 1:00 pm | Elsa Bluethner

Artists/photographers working in two dimensions will learn how to enhance 2D images. Create work understanding the principles of composition such as centre of interest, value, mood, placement, and much more.

Elsa Bluethner creates expressive, imaginative works of art imbued with satire, irony and humour. www.elsabluethner.com

980 CHICHESTER RD | $60 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 10 PARTICIPANTS

Mail Art and More

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | Trisha Klus

Create beautiful artistic correspondence. You’ll get a packet full of goodies of postal ephemera and interesting papers to inspire you to make your own mail art, create unique envelopes and you’ll learn how to write the perfect letter.

Trisha Klus is a lettering and book artist specializing in hand bound artist’s books. Her artworks have been published and exhibited extensively.

THE THEATRE CENTRE | $65 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

Salish Sea Weaving and Stories

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Dave Spiritwolf Bodaly | Music by Patrick Olmsted

Weaving together cedar, stories, and sacred teachings, create a Traditional Coast Salish Cedar Basket with a master weaver.

Dave Spiritwolf Bodaly is an artist, archivist, storyteller and cultural interpreter from the Snuneymuxw First Nation.

THE HIVE EMPORIUM | $45 | AGES 12+ | MAX: 15 PARTICIPANTS

The Goddess Circle: Clay Sculpture for Women

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Ayala Reznik

In this workshop we’ll revive the ancient tradition of women who sculpted themselves in their own image. Inspired by ancient figurative art we’ll explore ideas about the female body from Paleolithic times to the relevance of these perceptions today.

Ayala Reznik is the 2018 Haven Artist-In-Residence and a professional art teacher, with extensive international experience leading workshops.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $20 | ALL AGES | MAX: 15 PARTICIPANTS

Making a Paper Lantern

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Tara Qua

Make a globe lantern to celebrate the return of light! Create a one-of-a-kind lantern using papier-mâché techniques.

Tara Qua professionally trained at Sheridan College’s SOCAD Textiles Fibre diploma program.

THE COMMONS | $45 | AGES 14+ | MAX: 10 PARTICIPANTS

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Creating A Braided Rug

9:00 am – 3:00 pm | Val Galvin

Learn how to turn recycled textiles into your own unique, beautiful and practical braided rug. Val teaches you techniques and provides you with a kit. You go home with the knowledge and inspiration to complete the rug you start in class.

Val Galvin has decades of experience teaching workshops on hooking and braiding rugs with an emphasis on using recycled materials.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE $100 (INCL. KIT VALUED AT $65) | AGES 18+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

Lighten Your Being with Raku | Session 1 of 3

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Graham Sheehan

Raku is an ancient Japanese ceramic tradition. Join Graham for three sessions and take a piece of featureless clay and transform it through your creativity, taught techniques and fire into a thing of beauty.

Graham Sheehan has operated Sunstone Pottery on Gabriola for 40 years and has conducted many workshops for both children and adults.

SUNSTONE POTTERY, 520 ARGYLE LANE | $60 FOR 3 SESSIONS AGES 12+MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

• Session 2: Thursday, April 12; 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (drop in)• Session 3: Friday, April 13; 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Patrick Olmsted in Concert7:00 pm | at the Hive Emporium

Original music on unique guitar family instruments that respect tradition, and reflect the rich physical beauty and the deep cultural heritage of the Salish Sea.

Patrick Olmsted is a Gabriolite, luthier, musician and composer. www.gabriolaguitars.ca

$10 | TICKETS AT DOOR | ALL AGES

Conversation, Process, and Artmaking

10:00 am – 3:00 pm | Carolyn Bell

This workshop will illuminate the participants’ own inner-knowing, ground their experience of making and thinking about art, as they share their experience in conversational segments. You’ll make a piece of art guided by the process. Potluck lunch.

Carolyn Bell is a multimedia artist with extensive experience in performance, education and exhibition. This is her third year doing workshops for the festival.

2590 ISLANDS VIEW DR | $50 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

MONDAY, APRIL 9

TUESDAY, APRIL 10

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PHC Soup and Sing Concert12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | at the Commons (upstairs)

Singer/songwriter Paul Gellman brings his merry band of “Mutineers” from his popular weekly music workshop, for songs and singing after the Soup Social (11 am). Feel free to bring your acoustic instrument, or just your voice.

All are welcome at the weekly Soup Socials (Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays), organized by People for A Healthy Community (PHC). Donations welcome.

FREE | ALL AGES

Let’s Play Music!

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Paul Gellman

Enjoy playing instruments and singing together, and learn some basic concepts and components of music. Gain musical confidence and take the next step. No experience necessary. Bring your own instrument if you have one.

Paul Gellman is well known on Gabriola as a singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist. He is also a music coach, and has recorded a CD of his original songs called “On This Island”.

THE COMMONS | $15 | ALL AGES | MAX: 20 PARTICIPANTS

DJ Gym Night: Retro Danceparty Workout Session7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Classes 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm at the Gabriola Fitness Centre

Dig up your legwarmers and neon leotards. Forget about those digital fitness devices. Let’s timewarp back to the 1980’s for some good old ‘retrosweat’ fun! Yup, it’s an eighties-inspired fitness night at the gym, complete with live DJ music, aerobic and spin classes, juice bar, and of course a disco ball. Guaranteed to be ridiculous.

Music with DJ Tim G. Aerobics with Tasha Mae. Spin with Judy Chadwick.

FREE FOR GYM MEMBERS | $8 NON-MEMBERS | AGES 16+

Harmonica in a Day

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Keith Bennett

Learn to make great music with a harmonica. Learn how to buy one, how to hold a harp, different styles, how to get single notes, how to improvise, how to blend notes, maintenance and repair. And have fun!

Keith Bennett has been playing the harmonica professionally for over 40 years and has an impressive performance and recording history.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $40 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS NOTE: Bring your own 10-hole diatonic harmonica in key of “C”. Limited amount for sale for $20.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10: CONTINUED …

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Let the Sun Shine In: Fused Glass Mobile | Session 1 of 2

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Annie Holmes

Have fun and learn how to fuse glass and use decorative materials to make a mobile. You’ll go home with a glorious piece to catch the light in a favourite window. In this first session you’ll fuse glass.

Annie Holmes is a warm and experienced instructor of introductory workshops on fused glass and ceramics.

THE COMMONS | $75 FOR 2 SESSIONS | AGES 16+ MAX: 10 PARTICIPANTS

• Session 2: Thursday, April 12; 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Relax into Creativity: Yoga and Writing

9:00 am – 12:00 pm | Amanda Lewis

Good writing happens when you are relaxed. Amanda will guide you through a restorative sequence and meditation designed to stoke your creative fires. Then, through guided writing, you’ll frame your ideas, and build a strategy for next steps in your work.

Amanda Lewis is a yoga teacher, editor, and writer. She’s been a yoga practitioner for 17 years and studied movement and a decade of experience in coaching writers.

THE ROXY | $40 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

Improv Patchwork

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | Barb Mortell

Make a small quilt - no rules! Bring solid coloured cotton fabrics (and a zinger fabric that doesn’t match), and you’ll create a unique improvised machine-sewn quilt that carries your own signature in every seam.

Barb Mortell has exhibited locally and internationally. She improvises colourful contemporary quilts and teaches quilt-making workshops in south-western BC.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $50 | AGES 18+ MAX: 18 PARTICIPANTS | NOTE: Please bring a sewing machine

Lighten Your Being with Raku | Session 2 of 3

10:00 am – 6:00 pm (drop-in) | Graham Sheehan

In this second session of three focused on the ancient Japanese ceramic traditions, Graham will teach you about glazing (applying the decorative surface) and you’ll glaze the work you created in the first session. Drop-in for an hour during the da y, at your convenience.

SUNSTONE POTTERY, 530 ARGYLE LANE | $60 FOR 3 SESSIONS AGES 12+ | MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

• See Session 1: Monday, April 9 for more information

Let the Sun Shine In: Fused Glass Mobile | Session 2 of 2

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Annie Holmes

This is the second session of a workshop teaching you how to fuse glass and use decorative materials to make a mobile. In this second session you’ll add decorative materials to the work completed in the first session.

THE COMMONS | $75 FOR 2 SESSIONS | AGES 16+ MAX: 10 PARTICIPANTS

• See Session 1: Wednesday, April 11 for more information

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

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Beginner Landscape Felting

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Dinah D

Let the warm, comfortable and encouraging atmosphere Dinah creates guide you — and Gabriola landscape inspire you — to create a work of art you’ll be proud to hang in your home.

Dinah D is a long-time Gabriola resident and a well-known multidisciplinary artist working in sound, fibre, and printmaking.

COMMUNITY HALL (DOWNSTAIRS) | $60 | ALL AGES (UNDER 12 WITH GUARDIAN) | MAX: 15 PARTICIPANTS

Learn and Practice Contradance

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Gary Nelson

A patient, easy way to learn a wonderful form of social dance with long lines of dancers and a caller. Contradance is a folk dance that is popular around the world. No need to bring a partner; no experience necessary. Come contradance with us! For more information, email: thecentregabriola@gmail.com

Gary Nelson is a dance instructor and a math teacher, builds tiny homes and calls contradances, raised in Montana, found true love in Tennessee, now living on Gabriola.

THE THEATRE CENTRE | $10 (INCLUDES DISCOUNT FOR FRIDAY DANCE) | ALL AGES | MAX: 24 PARTICIPANTS

Two Books, One Community: Reading and Reconciliation7:00pm | at the Surf Lodge

with Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Monique Gray Smith, and Shelagh Rogers

Inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the 94 Calls to Action, and the powerful conversation in IOTA17, we’re encouraging Gabriolans of all ages to read not one, but two books this year:

• Patti LaBoucane-Benson’s The Outside Circle (graphic novel) (12+, some swearing/violence) .

• Monique Gray Smith’s Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (non-fiction) (9+).

All ages will enjoy these books; they can be read with children or by young adults. Copies of both books are available at the Library, and through Page’s Bookstore.

Please join Patti and Monique for our Community Conversation, facilitated by Honorary Witness Shelagh Rogers. All ages are welcome. Let’s work together to create new and positive relationships between our community and our Indigenous hosts and neighbours.

Monique Gray Smith is a mixed-heritage woman of Cree, Lakota and Scottish ancestry and a proud mom of twins. She is an accomplished writer and speaker, and lives on Lekwungen territory in Victoria.

Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson is the Director of Research, Training and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) in Edmonton. She has a phD in Human Ecology.

$10 - 20 SLIDING SCALE | UNDER 18 FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Supported by: Friends of the Gabriola Library, Gabriola Island Branch — Vancouver Island Regional Library, Gabriola Museum & Heritage Society, From Truth to Reconciliation Committee, Page’s Bookstore & Marina.

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Exploring the Spirit of the Healing Sacred Drum

10:00 am – 4:00 pm | carol weaver

Weaver teaches you how to deepen your spiritual relationship with your own drum - exploring healing, journeying and history of the drum, plus building a partnership with your drum. Have fun learning songs and chants.

carol weaver is a shamanic visual artist and sound musician who’s been leading healing workshops and sacred drum circles for over three decades.

THE ROXY | $45 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 20 PARTICIPANTS | NOTE: Please bring your own drum

Creating Flying Lanterns

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Trevor Gear

Celebrate the light with a flying lantern. Have fun making lanterns for an interactive LED illuminated installation. Hang your lamps from the lantern tree, then take your lantern home to release into the night sky.

Trevor Gear is a multi-disciplinary artist practicing in clowning, juggling, millinery and drawing.

THE THEATRE CENTRE | $40 | AGES 10+ | MAX: 20 PARTICIPANTS

Lighten Your Being with Raku | Session 3 of 3

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Graham Sheehan

In this third session of three focused on the ancient Japanese ceramic traditions, Graham will teach you about firing (heat setting the glaze and hardening the clay) and you’ll fire the work you created in the first session.

SUNSTONE POTTERY, 530 ARGYLE LANE | $60 FOR 3 SESSIONS | AGES 12+ MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS

• See Session 1: Monday, April 9 for more information

How to Write and Draw Cartoons

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Kaamran Hafeez

Come learn the basics of cartooning with a New Yorker cartoonist. Focus will be on process rather than results. Includes generating ideas and drawing techniques.

Kaamran Hafeez has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker magazine since 2010. His cartoons have appeared in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Harvard Business Review.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $25 | ALL AGES | MAX: 20 PARTICIPANTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

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Photo Composition

9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Anette Lorek

In this workshop, we will practice “seeing” photographically. During exercises and a short field-trip, we will learn how to frame our image in the camera to highlight and enhance our subject. We will also look at common composition errors and how to avoid them.

Annette Lorek has been photographing for over 40 years, and has taken workshops with several renowned photographers. She especially enjoys photographing people, animals and nature.

GABRIOLA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE | $60 | ALL AGES MAX: 10 PARTICIPANTS | NOTE: Camera with SDHC card required — limited number available to share

Making a Shadow Puppet Theatre

11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Amy Dawley

We’re celebrating light with some shadow puppet fun! Come to the library to learn how to create your very own stage and shadow puppets to take home. We supply the materials; you supply the imagination! What story will you make?

Amy Dawley is the librarian at the Gabriola Island Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library. The Gabriola Library offers many free, community-focused programs.

GABRIOLA LIBRARY | FREE | ALL AGES

Create Your Own Sanctuary Peace Work

9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Caroline James

Working in a 6 x 7” spruce block you’ll take your Peace Work from raw wood to a beautiful, shining piece of artwork that will be affirming and meaningful to you. We use many techniques and always have fun.

Caroline James is a professional painter nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2000. She has been teaching for two decades.

1490 HESS RD | $75 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 7 PARTICIPANTS

Introduction to Metalsmithing

10:00 am – 3:30 pm | Brendalee Astells

Make a beautiful sterling silver chain bracelet in this basic metalsmithing class. You’ll learn a variety of making techniques like soldering, texturing, and stamping. Surprise and delight yourself with a beautiful self-made piece of wearable art.

The natural world is a source of design inspiration for Brendalee Astells, as is sharing her love of creating nature-inspired jewellery designs with others.

1969 CLAMSHELL DR | $75 | AGES 18+ | MAX: 8 PARTICIPANTS NOTE: Please bring torch/butane — limited number available

Finale Weekend Contradance6:30 pm – 9:30 pm | at the Theatre Centre with the Dancing Heron Stringband and Dance Caller Gary Nelson

On the final Friday of the festival, enjoy an evening of folk dancing with Appalachian-style old-time music. This is a fun and invigorating form of social dance that’s taking root on Gabriola. No experience necessary. More info: thecentregabriola@gmail.com

TICKETS $12 | $8 FOR WORKSHOP ATTENDEES | ALL AGES

• See also: Thursday, April 12 for the Learn and Practice Contradance workshop.

Arty Party6:30pm | at the Surf Lodge

Let’s p-ARTy! Wear your smartest ARTfit. $6 ARTinis and free hearty ARTitizers. Croquet, crokinole, and other amusements. Bring something you made during the Festival and get a free drink.

We give away this year’s Arty Award at 7:30pm.

FREE | ALL AGES | WARNING: ARTICHOKING HAZARD

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An Artist’s Toolkit9:00 am – 4:00 pm at the Gabriola Arts & Heritage CentreOur popular professional development day is back, with a diverse offering of hands-on sessions, discussions about the artist life, practical information, and get-to-know-ya’s.

Sessions will include:

• What’s going on in the Nanaimo Arts Scene

• What does reconciliation mean for Gabriola artists? How do issues of appropriation affect us?

• Lighten Up: Posture and self-care for artists

• Skill-building: Applying for Residencies and Public Exhibits $40 FOR THE DAY | ALL AGES

INCLUDES LUNCH, SNACKS, AND REFRESHMENTS REGISTER EARLY — LIMITED CAPACITY

Further details and registration available at www.artsgabriola.ca

Take Yourself Lightly: Clowning

10:00 am – 3:00 pm | Sue Davis and Janice Power

When we let ourselves make life a game, our lives are transformed into a delightful theatre piece. Clowns give everyone (including ourselves) permission to laugh and play! In this workshop, we will play ourselves into greater self-acceptance.

Janice Power and Sue Davis, as Now Clowns, have brought laughter and healing to residents in long-term care facilities since January 2014. They both have extensive formal training in clowning.

THE ROXY | $40 | AGES 16+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

Lighten your Life through Kind Cuisine

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | The Vegeteers

This workshop focuses on preparing foods that lighten our lives through consideration of nourishment, health, environment and other beings. Whether a beginner with plant-based food or yearning to know more about creating delicious and nutritious plant-based meals, come join us.

The Vegeteers — Kim Bjarnason, Sigrid Bjarnason, Kathi Chorneyko, and Trish Mooney — share their passion and gusto for tasty, plant-based meals. They have extensive experience and knowledge in plant-based cooking and nutrition.

THE COMMONS KITCHEN | $30 | AGES 12+ | MAX: 12 PARTICIPANTS

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

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FESTIVALAT A GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Twilight Radio Theatre | 7:30 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 5Twilight Radio Theatre | 7:30 pm

FRIDAY, APRIL 6Copper and Leather Cuff Bracelet | 10:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Giving Voice: Vocal Sounding | 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Festival Launch: A Time For Making | 7:00 pm

SATURDAY, APRIL 7Drumming Together As One | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Basic Chainmaille | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Making a Hand Bound Journal | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Photo Encaustic Techniques | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Family Matinee: A Time For Making | 2:00 pm

Ay Lelum: Art Opening and Fashion Show | 6:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11Fused Glass Mobile (1 of 2) | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 12Relax into Creativity: Yoga and Writing | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Improv Patchwork | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Lighten Your Being with Raku (2 of 3) | 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Fused Glass Mobile (2 of 2) | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Beginner Landscape Felting | 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Learn and Practice Contradance | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Two Books, One Community | 7:00 pm

SUNDAY, APRIL 8Composition Fundamentals | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Mail Art and More | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Salish Sea Weaving and Stories | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Goddess Circle: Clay Sculpture | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Making A Paper Lantern | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

MONDAY, APRIL 9Creating a Braided Rug | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Lighten Your Being with Raku (1 of 3) | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Patrick Olmsted in Concert | 7:00 pm

TUESDAY, APRIL 10Conversation, Process, and Artmaking | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

PHC Soup and Sing Concert | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Let’s Play Music! | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Harmonica in a Day | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

DJ Gym Night: Retro Danceparty Workout | 7:00 pm

FRIDAY, APRIL 13Spirit of the Healing Sacred Drum | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Creating Flying Lanterns | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Lighten Your Being with Raku (3 of 3) | 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

How to Write and Draw Cartoons | 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Finale Weekend Contradance | 6:30 pm

SATURDAY, APRIL 14Create Your Own Sanctuary Peace Work | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Photo Composition | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Introduction to Metalsmithing | 10:00 am – 3:30 pm

Making a Shadow Puppet Theatre | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Arty Party | 6:30 pm

SUNDAY, APRIL 15An Artist’s Toolkit | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Take Yourself Lightly:Clowning | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Lighten your Life through Kind Cuisine | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm