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‘Tis the season! Join us for an informative workshop offering tax tips for artists with Accountant Jen Braem as part of our Out & About programming. Taxes for the creative community are unique and complex. This session walks artists through CRA’s filing requirements and how to make the process as smooth as possible. We will cover tax deductions specific to artists, how to ensure that you pay the right amount of tax, GST, and how to respond if CRA comes knocking. The aim is to have you leave this workshop feeling empowered - or at least significantly less stressed! ⚠️ Limited space is available, please register to guarantee your spot! ⚠️ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/out-about-tax-workshop-for-artists-tickets-862553198837?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl ✨ When: March 23, 2024 from 3PM - 4:30PM ✨ Where: 750 Fairfield Rd. Wheelchair accessible door at East entrance, right of Fairfield entrance door. ✨ Admission is free!

Krista Arias The Earth is my Elder is centred around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada. As a member of the Xicana diaspora, Arias' direct connection to Indigenous land, language and culture has been broken over generations of migration arising as necessity from colonial structures. She explains: "My greatest resource in cultural recovery and transmission as a mother, of finding belonging even in the liminal space of home-not-home without traditional Eldership, has been my own body-as-earth connection and awakening." The exhibition is curated by Toby Lawrence and will be presented in person at the Open Space gallery, 510 Fort St. Gallery hours: 12-4pm, Wed-Sat. Admission is free / by donation. Open Space is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a flight of 23 stairs with two landings. There are two gender-inclusive washrooms. COVID-19 protocols are in place throughout the gallery; the use of masks is required unless exempt. More details at : https://openspace.ca/programming/krista-arias-earth-my-elder

July 15th - 30th, Montreal-based new media artist Allison Moore returns to her West Coast roots to develop a new media arts project based on the Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site. Based out of Open Space artist-run centre, Moore’s production residency in Victoria will see her develop a new work that will culminate in a video projection mapping event at the historic lighthouse during proposed for the summer of 2020. Find more information here.

July 15th - 30th, Montreal-based new media artist Allison Moore returns to her West Coast roots to develop a new media arts project based on the Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site. Based out of Open Space artist-run centre, Moore’s production residency in Victoria will see her develop a new work that will culminate in a video projection mapping event at the historic lighthouse during proposed for the summer of 2020. Find more information here!

Saturday, May 11 from 1-4pm flutist, performer-composer, improviser, and Deep Listening® (DL) Certificate teacher Jane Rigler will present a deep listening workshop at Open Space. It will engage participants in activities exploring sound walk/mapping and graphic notations, informed by Jenni Schine & Jay White's exhibition Field Guides for Listeners. Participants are invited to explore sounds through playful and contemplative activities that include word games, poetry, movement, walking and drawing a “sound map” of their experiences. Bodies, breath, and any other means of making sound are all welcomed… The workshop will be followed by a performance on Sunday, May 12 at 7:30pm, to include recent works for soloist with and without electronics, as well as new work realized during her residency in Victoria. Possible guest artists TBD. Admission is free / by donation.