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April 19, 2024 April 25, 2024
Come and join us for our second annual group exhibition, taking place the
week of April 19-25, 2024 at the ArtSea Gallery in Tulista Park, 9565 Fifth
Street, Sidney, B.C.
West Coast Wild features the work of seven artists, Carole Finn, Dyan
Myhr, Anna Spratt, Thomas Kero, Corinne Flaws, Bettina Williams, and
Jocelyn West, who take their inspiration from their love of rolling surf, sea
fog, mossy forests and of the wondrous creatures who inhabit land and
seascapes. The WCW group came together for the first time in April, 2022,
in the dwindling days of Covid 19. After months of masks, and isolation, it
was a relief and delight to meet each day, to share a passion for art, and a
love for the preternatural beauty of the Pacific Rim.
Seasoned artist and educator, Carole Finn, who will be participating in this
exhibit, hosted the week-long painting workshop in Ucluelet, B.C. Carole
generously shared her many skills and considerable experience over the
course of what proved to be a very productive week.
Judging by previews of the work that these seven dedicated artists are
showing this year at the ArtSea Gallery in Tulista Park, West Coast Wild
has outdone last year’s success. Packed with paintings and prints of every
size and medium—each artist displays a unique style and approach, united
by a deep love of the wild West Coast, and of Vancouver Island, in
particular.
Set aside some time on your calendar to see this impressive show of
windswept beaches, foaming waves, orcas, ravens, and more. Come by
the ArtSea Gallery on Saturday, April 20, from 1:00 t0 4:00 pm, and meet
the artists at the opening reception.
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April 19, 2024 01:00 AM 02:00 AM
Join us April 18 from 6-7PM for a free artist talk with City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and the creative team behind the exhibition Afroquatics: A Call and Response Below the Surface.
The talk will delve into exhibition themes and the technology which supports the installation, developed by Victoria’s Hololabs Studio.
Afroquatics: A Call and Response Below the Surface has been created by Kemi Craig as part of her City of Victoria Artist Residency.
Admission is free!
About Kemi Craig:
Kemi Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist primarily working through dance and media based here in the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Through her lived experience as a woman of African descent, Kemi’s art utilizes movement, materiality and new media to center experiences for people with racialized and gendered bodies. She is inspired by Black history and Afrofuturism, dance that expresses and augments what we do every day, DIY culture and by visual histories and pop cultural production.
Kemi is a graduate from the Emily Carr University of Art Design with a Masters degree in Fine Art. Since graduating she has exhibited and performed through local arts centers as well as across BC and Canada. Her film and video work has been exhibited at local galleries such as Legacy Art Gallery, Flux Gallery, the Ministry of Casual Living as well as the Victoria International Film Festival and Antimatter Media Arts Festival. She has worked with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Xchanges Gallery as an artist educator/mentor and curator. For the past three years, Kemi has been the Artist in Residence with Dance Victoria and currently works for the city of Victoria as the Artist in Residence.
Image Credit: Installation images courtesy of Hololabs Studio Inc.
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April 19, 2024 02:00 AM 04:00 AM
Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!!
"I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch," writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents' deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice), Vietnamese restaurants, the beach, London's Tate Modern, Las Vegas casinos, and a fish textbook. Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation.
KAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series, her writing also appears in The Walrus, Grain, Event, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.
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Anne Fleming's latest novel, Curiosities, opens with a present-day amateur historian, Anne, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that, astonishingly, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne, the contemporary historian, to piece together these interlocking stories, discover the fate of a pair of lovers, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be.
ANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast, 1998), which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Award, as well as the much-praised novel, Anomaly (Raincoast, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel, The Goat (Groundwood, 2017), which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega, optioned for film, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria, BC
WHEN: Thursday, April 18th, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).
WHERE: In-store at Munro's Books, 1108 Government St.
WHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician, Doug Hensley.
HOW: This event is free to attend.
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