On Tuesday November 18th, 3% of sales at the Kootenay Co-op store will be donated to Oxygen Art Centre! Oxygen Art Centre would like to thank the Kootenay Co-op and its members for supporting artist-run culture through the Community Donation Day program. Keeping the doors open and programming accessible to everyone is a constant struggle, and funds received through this program will help ensure Oxygen Art Centre’s continuing ability to serve its community. Please visit Oxygen Art Centre’s table at the Kootenay Co-op store on November 18th and stock up
Read More »Saturday November 15th from 2-5pm at The Civic Theatre With more than six thousand FaceBook fans, the Humans of Nelson is a beautiful, touching, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories celebrating our individuality and capturing the spirit of Nelson, British Columbia. Ryan Oakley, the photographer behind The Humans of Nelson project which is a spin-off of the popular Humans of New York, is launching a book about the project on Saturday Nov 15th at the Civic Movie Theatre between 2pm and 5pm. This 232 page hardcover coffee-table book
Read More »An Evening of Stories and Poems On Friday, November 14th, Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to host Nelson author Ernest Hekkanen as he launches his new book, a novella, I’m Not You. Set in Manning Park, I’m Not You tells the story of a man who awakens after a beating and can’t remember who he is or how he has come to be there. Hekkanen is well-known in Nelson and beyond as the editor of the New Orphic Review, co-curator of the New Orphic Gallery, and author of more than 45 books.
Read More »Imaginarium exhibition and catalogue fundraiser What happens when six artists are given free reign of the walls of an art gallery? Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination is a collaborative painting Residency and Exhibition now open at Oxygen Art Centre. The walls of the gallery space burst with colour and imagery created by six emerging Kootenay artists; Amber Santos, Sergio Santos, Chelsey Freyta, Coleman Webb, Bryn Stevenson, and Tanya Pixie Johnson. Imaginarium begins in the gallery but moves the conversation to the street as sections of the exhibit
Read More »Fernie author Angie Abdou has developed a reputation for tackling controversial issues in her fiction. She’s been called a fearless writer, who “bravely goes where few Canadian novelist would dare.” Her latest novel, BETWEEN, in which she takes an unflinching look at modern marriage and parenthood, is no exception. As part of our Bold New Stories series, we are pleased to welcome Angie Abdou back to Nelson, for an evening of discussion of her work to date, and her deliberate choice to write stories that make us squirm. Thursday,
Read More »BIBO and Oxygen Art Centre present Bent Light, an Experimental Film Collective from Winnipeg SCREENING AND PERFORMANCE I Sept 16th, 8:00 PM | 518 Hall Street BiBO BiBO Nelson is a restaurant that frequently presents interesting visual art and live music, but on the 16th of September BiBO will expand that list to include Expanded Cinema and Experimental Film. What is Expanded Cinema? You may well ask … in short Expanded Cinema is a performance that uses light images, lenses, mirrors and homemade contraptions to create a film
Read More »Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination – Collaborative painting Residency & Exhibition with Amber Santos, Sergio Santos, Chelsey Freyta, Coleman Webb, Bryn Stevenson, and Tanya Pixie Johnson. Exhibition dates: September 27 – October 11 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday from 1-5pm Opening: Friday September 26 from 7-9pm (Culture Days event) Artist talk: Saturday September 27 at 4pm (Culture Days event) Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination, an exhibition by six emerging Kootenay artists, opens at Oxygen Art Centre this Friday at 7pm. Painted panels from
Read More »Megan Dickie – SPIN OFF Opening: Friday August 8th 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday August 9th at 1pm Exhibition Dates: August 9 – 30, 2014 Gallery hours: Wed – Sat from 1-5pm Columbia Basin Culture Tour: August 9 & 10 from 10am – 5pm Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to present new work by Victorian artist Megan Dickie. SPIN OFF is a sculpture and video installation. The video references the format of video games; flat, multi-leveled obstacle courses that are traversed by a character who continually fails and reattempts the challenges
Read More »Fashion Design: The Creative Process with Natalie Purschwitz July 26 & 27 9.30-5pm Cost $160* + see material list Course Description This course will explore the concept stage of the fashion design process. In this two-day workshop you will learn the basic principals of fashion design, develop a concept, collect inspiration and make initial sketches for a fashion line. Through discussion, demonstration and hands-on experimentation you will gain an awareness of the fashion design process while honing your own creative process for these initial stages. NB: This workshop does
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