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Summer Kids’ Crafts Saturdays at the Courtenay and District Museum are back! (Closing Aug 24)

Courtenay & District Museum 207 Fourth Street,, Courtenay

Starting from June 22nd to August 24th, the museum will be hosting a Summer Kids Craft event every Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm. Join our Kids Craft Coordinator, Hannah, as she guides youth and parents through the steps to make new weekly creations you can take home. The museum provides all the materials […]

Salon des Refusés Exhibition (Ending Aug 24th)

Artful the Gallery 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay

In 1863 in Paris, France, the jury for the annual Salon rejected two thirds of the painters who had presented work for adjudication into the prestigious Salon. The list of the refused included Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Antoine Chintreuil, James McNeill Whistler, and Johan Jongkind. The rejected artists, their patrons, and supporters protested […]

CASCADIAN ZEN

The Abbey Studio 2689 Penrith Ave., Cumberland

Watershed Press, part of Cascadia Poetics Lab, is hosting a weekend to celebrate the  launch of Cascadian Zen Volume One in Cumberland, BC. on the 24th and 25th of August 2024. There will be talks by an Indigenous elder, poets, and philosophers, a poetry bash, and a poetry workshop. Aug 24, 2 pm: poetry workshop […]