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About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 5-8, or primary students in grades […]
About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 9-12, or intermediate students in grades […]
About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 13+, or secondary students in grades […]
Lucas Myers & Krista Lynch, Lance Ledger, and the Nelson Writing Salon return to the Nelson Museum for everyone’s favourite FREE children’s program–Museum Mash! Explore the building, get crafty with puppet-making, sing and dance, and have a blast! There’s lots of room to run and play, and no shushing here!
About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 5-8, or primary students in grades […]
About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 9-12, or intermediate students in grades […]
About Visual Exploration Club (VEC): Students can expect to learn about other artists, experiment with various materials, and make mistakes. Each participant receives a sketchbook to track their skill development in a wide range of materials such as drawing, painting, printmaking and 3-dimensional art. This session is for ages 13+, or secondary students in grades […]
Outside a military base in Debert, Nova Scotia, on a cold day in February 1984, a small but mighty group of women harnessed the power of performance art, protest, and the media—and captured the attention of the entire country. That same day in February, 329 people were planning on using the bunker for rehearsal of […]
Come hear the winners of Write Off he Bat! an on-site, theme-based writing marathon and juried writing competition that happened February 22 and 23 at Taghum Hall. This free event on March 16 at 7pm will reveal the winners, with juror comments, author readings, and refreshments in a friendly community celebration of creativity under duress!
In late February, a draft of writers (a scribble? An epic?) came together for a marathon writing weekend. Two accomplished jurors read all 24 submissions with an eye to the quality of the writing, originality, and how they addressed the assigned theme. Who won? Come find out! Hear some winning words, and have a great […]
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals Revered Canadian songwriter Stephen Fearing and the award-winning Scandinavian indie-folk band The Sentimentals share a mutual passion for crafting evocative melodies and refined musical interplay that leave audiences cheering. Combining their shared admiration for classic Tin Pan Alley songwriting and storytelling with richly textured soundscapes, they have forged a singular […]
The Dark Chapters project encompasses the renowned career of Métis artist and educator David Garneau, through the dual lens of exhibition and publication. The book, Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, invites 17 Canadian artists and academics to write a response – poetry, creative writing, critical essay – to one of Garneau’s […]