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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Broken Promises
DESCRIPTION:The Courtenay and District Museum is pleased to present the travelling exhibition Broken Promises from the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre. \nGrounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary\, multi-institutional\, community engaged project\, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators that include Eikichi Kagetsu of Fanny Bay and Hiroshi Okuda from Cumberland. Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war\, the administration of their lives during and after war ends\, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day. \nThank you to the Landscapes of Injustice Partner Institutions and the Government of Canada. \nSchool classes are welcome to visit this exhibit. Please arrange a time by contacting the museum at 250-334-0686 ext 2\, or by emailing us. Provide the grade level and number of people in the group. The visit is included with your general admission fee. The Landscapes of Injustice website affiliated with the exhibit offers interactive resources and lessons for both elementary and secondary students. 
URL:https://comoxvalleyarts.com/community-calendar-event/exhibit-broken-promises/
LOCATION:the Courtenay and District Museum\, 207 4th St\, Courtenay\, BC\, COURTENAY\, BC\, V9N 1G7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Exibits
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SUMMARY:CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX — The Forgotten Dreams
DESCRIPTION:A LIVE Art & Music Collaboration by Nate Schmold & Josh Klassen \nJosh Klassen & Nate Schmold are lifelong creators whose work spans walls\, waves\, pixels\, and emotional wavelengths. Josh brings a grassroots spirit—cutting his teeth on boxcars and murals\, community projects and café shows—balancing fine art and poetry with hip-hop and hands-on hustle. Nate channels his energy through illustration\, painting\, music\, video games\, and live theatre\, often orbiting themes of absurdity\, inner states\, and the weirdness of being alive. \nJoined by a mutual love and respect for the same artforms\, Josh and Nate have begun to create work in unison. Through their music project CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX\, they bend soundwaves through live improvisation into rhythmic\, hyperdimensional transmissions; and their collaborative mural paintings combine organically mutating shapes with a crisp cartoon-pop street art style. \nTogether\, their individual practices reflect a shared belief in art as a tool for abstract expression\, community connection\, and personal transformation—whether it’s spray paint on a door or a glitchy naked spaceman in a digital dream. \n— \nFor their show “The Forgotten Dreams”\, Nate & Josh bare their souls in an evening of live art-making and sound. The walls are lined with fragments from each artist’s past—paintings\, drawings\, and moments that spiral toward a shared portal-like center: a large blank canvas\, waiting to be activated. \nAs the night begins\, they take turns—one painting live\, the other performing a solo music set—trading roles and building something layered\, strange\, and alive. By the end\, the canvas becomes a shared artifact: a new piece grown from both of their histories. \nTo close the night\, they join forces as CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX\, performing a final live music set to pull it all together. It’s a night of color\, rhythm\, improvisation\, and deep creative trust. Hypnotic\, a little chaotic\, and very human.
URL:https://comoxvalleyarts.com/community-calendar-event/circle%e2%ad%95%ef%b8%8fcomplex-the-forgotten-dreams/
LOCATION:Artful the Gallery\, 526 Cumberland Rd\, Courtenay\, BC\, V9N 2C7
CATEGORIES:Exibits
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