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Events
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April 29, 2023
Now in its 70 th year, the Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society is holding its annual
Spring Show on Sat., April 29, 10 am - 6 pm & Sun. April 30, 10 am-4:30 pm at the Mary
Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC.
The Show is recognized Island-wide as a superior exhibition and sale of original paintings, sculpture,
pottery, fibre and textile arts, fine crafts and jewellery. Over 700 pieces of art from hundreds of
artists will be available for sale.
Tickets are $10 at the door or purchase online at: https://spacsociety.com/
The exclusive Patrons Gala on Friday evening, April 28, will give art supporters the first look at this
year’s artwork, an opportunity to meet the artists and an evening to enjoy wine, music and gourmet
appetizers. The $150 tickets includes $100 toward the purchase of art and a listing of you or your
company’s name on the brochure. A limited number of tickets are available. Go online to purchase
at: https://spacsociety.com/spring-show/patrons/
Contact: showchair@spacsociety.com Kari Fraser (250)508-4689
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April 29, 2023 02:00 AM May 28, 2023 12:00 AM
Opening Friday, April 28 @ 7pm
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates St, Victoria BC | http://deluge.ca | Wed–Sat, 12–5pm
Canadian artist Laura Dutton has long been interested in making photo-based work untethered from referents. This approach has allowed her the exploration, study and documentation of the ineffable while illuminating the materiality of the photo itself. Staring Into Fog arose from a trip to St. John’s, Newfoundland where the artist experienced an extreme example of this natural weather phenomenon from Signal Hill, leading her to embrace it as a subject that both conceals and reveals. This will be Dutton’s second solo exhibition with Deluge Contemporary after Nearness To or Distance From in 2018 and will include photographs and moving image.
Laura Dutton is a photo/video-based artist and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria. She received an MFA from the University of Victoria in 2011 and a BFA (Hons.) from Concordia University, Montréal in 2006.
Dutton works with photography and video installation to unravel the materiality of photographic images and disrupt our ability to look straight through to the referent described. By obscuring, degrading, or removing the subject matter altogether, her images reveal their own process and become distilled suggestions of what once stood before the lens, offering an epistemological space for the viewer to meditate on the act of seeing and knowing.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna), Deluge Contemporary (Victoria), Esker Foundation Project Space (Calgary), PAVED Arts (Saskatoon), VU Photo (Québec City) and group exhibitions at Vancouver Art Gallery, Gallery Jones (Vancouver), Chernoff Fine Art (Vancouver) and Open Space (Victoria). She was included in the opening exhibition for the inaugural year of the Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver and was the Québec winner of the 2006 BMO First Art competition. She has received project grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council. Her work is included in collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Bank of Montreal and the University of the Fraser Valley.
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April 29, 2023 05:00 PM June 17, 2023 07:00 PM
This is the classic 8 week Mindfulness course, designed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in England. Developed by Mark Williams as an accessible and experiential course on Mindfulness. Fun and experience-based course with just some home practice required to get the most out of the course.
Cost: Adult: $250 Senior/student: $200 Includes complimentary copy of the book of the same title, by Mark Williams.
We meet Saturday mornings, commencing Saturday, April 29 at Vic West Community Centre, 521 Craigflower Road, Esquimalt.
10 a.m. to 12 noon. Course completes: Saturday, June 17, 2023.
For more information visit: www.victoriamindfulcounselling.ca
To register contact course facilitator Graham Bleasdale. Tel. 250-812-6417 Email: counsellorgraham@gmail.com
Upcoming Events
April 29, 2023 05:00 PM October 23, 2023 12:00 AM
Curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques & Denise Ryner
While Black: a forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold is a multi-year series of forums, talks, and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers, and audiences. This project is a collaboration between Or Gallery, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the AGGV, and is organized by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques and Denise Ryner in consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, Allison Yearwood.
In 2021, the curators asked each artist to produce a document of their relationship to the art gallery and its systems of representation as Black artists working in Canada, including consideration of the project query what the gallery can’t hold? Through multimodal and multimedia responses, these ten artists offered questions, imperatives, proposals and insight into their own experiences within contemporary art institutions. Since While Black was intended to initiate conversation and exchange between artists, curators and audiences, space to talk, respond and introduce new questions and ideas into the project is an important element within the presentation space. Artists in the iteration at the AGGV present questions, imperatives, narratives, and proposals to initiate exchange on the space for Black art in public culture with local respondents, collaborating curators and gallery visitors. As well as three exhibitions of these projects at Or Gallery (Vancouver), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and now the AGGV, While Black has also included two discursive gatherings in Montreal and Saskatoon.
Artists include: Lucie Chan (Vancouver, BC), Karma Clarke-Davis (Toronto, ON/Berlin, Germany), Kemi Craig (Victoria, BC), Spatial Esk (Toronto, ON), Stanley Février (Montréal, QC), Iyunade Judah (Winnipeg, MB), Anna Jane McIntyre (Montreal, QC), Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Winnipeg, MB), Jan Wade (Vancouver, BC), Valérie D. Walker (Vancouver, BC).
Exhibition runs April 29, 2023 - October 22, 2023
Image Credit: Iyunade Judah, Bond, 2019, digital print
Upcoming Events
April 29, 2023 05:00 PM
Now in its 70 th year, the Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society is holding its annual
Spring Show on Sat., April 29, 10 am - 6 pm & Sun. April 30, 10 am-4:30 pm at the Mary
Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC.
The Show is recognized Island-wide as a superior exhibition and sale of original paintings, sculpture,
pottery, fibre and textile arts, fine crafts and jewellery. Over 700 pieces of art from hundreds of
artists will be available for sale.
Tickets are $10 at the door or purchase online at: https://spacsociety.com/
The exclusive Patrons Gala on Friday evening, April 28, will give art supporters the first look at this
year’s artwork, an opportunity to meet the artists and an evening to enjoy wine, music and gourmet
appetizers. The $150 tickets includes $100 toward the purchase of art and a listing of you or your
company’s name on the brochure. A limited number of tickets are available. Go online to purchase
at: https://spacsociety.com/spring-show/patrons/
Contact: showchair@spacsociety.com Kari Fraser (250)508-4689
Upcoming Events
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