High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese plays Norway! The collaborative project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, developed through Oxygen’s Artist in Residence program, was featured in an international exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival in Bergen, Norway in August. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese is an interactive website exploring Chinese immigration and settlement in British Columbia. The work includes poetry by Fred Wah and interviews with Nelson and Vancouver community members as well as original music, graphics and video. The project was selected to be
Read More »This summer Oxygen Art Centre is offering 3 weeks of camps: Mixed Media Art Camp, Fashion Camp & Theatre Arts Camp! WEEK 1 (July 13-17): MIXED MEDIA ART CAMP with Teresa Segstro & Martina Avis July 13-17 9am – noon Ages 5- 7 2-5pm Ages 8-10 Cost $130/week These week-long camps for children ages 5-7 or 8-10 years old, will explore the wonderful world of art through mixed media projects including drawing, painting, drama, collage and assemblage. On the last day of camp we invite family and friends to join
Read More »José Luis Torres – Mutations Residency dates: August 16-28, 2015 Exhibition dates: August 29 – October 3, 2015 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday 1-5pm Opening night: Friday, August 28 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday, August 29 at 4pm Quebec resident and Argentina-born sculptor José Luis Torres will be the artist in residence at the Oxygen Art Centre this August followed by an exhibition of his work generated while in residency. Thematically, Torres intends to continue with a series of “in situ” installation pieces he calls Mutations where the artist assembles
Read More »Artist in Residence – Shannon Cooney Artist talk: Thursday June 4th at 7pm Workshop: June 6th and 7th at the Moving Centre Short Performance: June 15th at 7pm at City of Nelson Council Meeting Art Event: June 29th at 7pm* (Note new time is 7pm~ approximately 1hr length.) Shannon Cooney, artist in residence will open the space for a work in progress event/showing of her research from the month of June at created at Oxygen. It will be a casual affair, with a few interactive performative
Read More »EVERY WHERE: A WRITING PROJECT WORKSHOP WITH 2015 EMLF WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE FRED WAH Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9 10:30am to 3:30pm Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance) $180 The 2015 Elephant Mountain Literary Festival offers a workshop with writer-in-residence Fred Wah. For writers with a landscape-oriented writing project in mind or underway—in poetry, prose, or multigenre—this workshop will focus on methods and forms useful to develop your project. Approaches will include the investigative, formal, thematic, ecological, and more. Space in the workshop is limited, so enroll
Read More »Documentary Film Script Workshop in Nelson Having a great idea for a documentary film is one thing; figuring out what comes next can be the challenge. A documentary film script development workshop with Vancouver filmmaker and teacher Colin Browne on Saturday, May 30 is an opportunity to find that next step and ramp up the skills necessary to move from concept to successful documentary film. Browne is a co-founder of Simon Fraser University’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and the Art of Documentary Workshops. He taught filmmaking at SFU’s School
Read More »Acclaimed poet Colin Browne launches new collection in Nelson Author and filmmaker Colin Browne has earned critical acclaim on both artistic fronts, with nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award for his poetry as well as a Genie nomination for documentary film. Browne launches his newest book of poetry, The Hatch, on Friday, May 29 at 7:30pm at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson. In The Hatch “myth, history, and the present are contemporaneous in these poems; nothing is ever one
Read More »The 5th Annual Oxygen Art Market will take place on May 22, 23, 24, 2015 Hours: Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am – 5pm 320 Vernon Street (back alley entrance) in Nelson Every year, the Oxygen Art Market attracts hundreds of art-lovers to the Oxygen Art Centre. And it’s no wonder! Over 40 established and emerging Kootenay artists submit their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and other 2D work for this weekend-long event. The work is hung “Salon” style, in the manner of the Académie des Beaux–Arts exhibitions in Paris at
Read More »Oxygen Art Centre’s Continuing Arts Education Programming for Winter/Spring: TO REGISTER: – ONLINE REGISTRATION (click here!) OR by Phone: 250-352-6322 OR drop by: Oxygen Art Centre – 320 Vernon St (back alley entrance) New office hours! Wednesdays from 1-5 pm (between January 7th – March 11th, 2015) For more information about classes please contact Oxygen Art Centre at: P: 250 352 6322 E: info@oxygenartcentre.org Winter/Spring 2015 Semester schedule: Fine Art Shadow Boxes (after Joseph Cornell) with Natasha Smith 4 classes: February 16 – March 9,6pm – 9pm Mondays Course
Read More »Calling on the arts community to join in the conversation! Please joins us on Wednesday May 13th at 7pm at Oxygen Art Centre. Nelson at its Best Join in the Conversation for a Healthy, Poverty-Free Nelson! Nelson is a great place, but for some, it’s an expensive place to live. Poverty forces some residents of Nelson to make hard choices — between rent and medicine, food and transportation, childcare and employment opportunities; between moving towards a self-sufficient future or just getting through the day. Thirteen diverse Nelson organizations have undertaken
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