Comox Valley Arts

words + images: collage poetry workshop
2025-04-13 13:30 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
Celebrate National Poetry Month by exploring this year’s theme, “family,” to create your own collage poem, as well as to contribute to a collaborative poem.
All materials will be provided, just bring your own scissors and any extra special bits you want to use for your creation.

Email wordsandimagescollagepoetry@gmail.com to register.

Pop-Up Poetry Booth
2025-04-12 14:30 - 16:30 | Gladstone Brewing Company, 244 4th Street, Courtenay, BC, Canada
Come celebrate National Poetry Month by visiting a Pop-Up Poetry Booth at Gladstone Brewing Company on Saturday, April 12th from 2:30 – 4:30, where you can meet with a poet, have a chat, and they’ll write you a brand new poem to take home…for free!

POEM-PALOOZA
2025-04-05 14:00 - 16:30 | Courtenay Library, 300 6th Street, Courtenay, BC, Canada
Come celebrate National Poetry Month at the Courtenay Library on Saturday, April 5th at this free, family-friendly event!
There’s an interactive poetry booth, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., where you chat with a poet who will write you a brand new poem to take home. Then, from 3:00 – 4:30 you can join us for a showcase reading by poets who have written poems for this year’s downtown Poetry Walk.

words + images collage poetry workshop
2024-07-21 13:30 - 16:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
Join poets/multidisciplinary artists Carys Owen & Diana Kolpak to explore the magical intersection of found poetry and images. Poets and collage artists at all levels of experience are welcome.Bring your own scissors, your imagination and your sense of adventure…all other materials will be supplied for you to create your own frame-worthy collage poem to take home! Feel free to bring special materials of your own.This session dives into the wonders of haiku & offers an opportunity to contribute a panel to a collaborative collage poem…but you can also just solo freestyle if that’s what heats you up!
Max. 16 participants. Email dlkolpak@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
