SPRING BREAK ART CAMP 2014 CAMP is FULL for the Spring! REGISTER ONLINE for SPRING BREAK ART CAMP 2014! (Click here) OR CALL TO REGISTER: 250 352 6322 OR EMAIL: info@oxygenartcentre.org SPRING BREAK ART CAMP 2014 WEEK 1 (MARCH 17-21): PUPPET SHOW for Ages 5-10 Course dates: March 17-21 9am – noon Ages 5-7 2 – 5pm Ages 8-10 Cost: $120 Children will be introduced to the process of creating a 5-minute puppet show. Topics covered will include storyline and character development, stage/set design, and puppet design. The finale will
Read More »Fri., Oct. 4, 7:30 PM, Oxygen Art Centre: Vernon editor, graphic designer and novelist Corinna Chong reads from her new novel, Belinda’s Rings. (More info click here) Mon., Oct. 28, 7:30 PM, lobby of Touchstones Museum & Art Gallery, 502 Vernon St.: A Hallowe’en special–Vancouver’s Miriam Clavir reads from her murder mystery, Insinuendo: Murder in the Museum. (More info click here) Fri, Nov. 8, 7:30 PM, Oxygen Art Centre: joint book launch featuring two local authors/local publishers–Ellen Burt of Argenta launches her memoir/essays When the Path is Not
Read More »NANAIMO POET AND ARTS REVIEWER PETER CULLEY SPEAKS AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE, FEB. 21, 7:30 PM Nanaimo innovative poet Peter Culley, who has wide experience as an art, book and film reviewer, will read from his poems and speak about his work at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. The Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance). Culley’s appearance, part of Oxygen’s Presentation Series, is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public. Culley’s books of
Read More »On Friday February 7th blue night presents Free Art Openings featuring the work of 18 artists at 9 venues in Nelson . All venues run from 7pm-9pm, except at Shanti Yoga, which is open from 8pm-11pm. Take to the streets of Nelson by whatever art-inspired route you desire and be sure to check out all the highlights. Touchstones has much to see in both galleries. In Gallery A, you find a new group show, “Found: The Art of Re-Use”, featuring De Souza, Mizgala, Bomford, Bomford, and Bukowski. In Gallery
Read More »TWO ENVIRONMENTALLY MINDED OKANAGAN POETS, SHARON THESEN AND NANCY HOLMES SPEAK JAN 31, 7:30 PM AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE Two Okanagan poets with an interest in the intersection between the arts and environmental awareness will read from their poems and speak about their work at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m. Authors and University of B.C. Okanagan instructors Sharon Thesen and Nancy Holmes co-edited the UBCO magazine Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment from its inception in 2006 until the magazine suspended its
Read More »ILLUSTRATED TALK BY NELSON ARTIST DEBORAH THOMPSON JAN. 17, 7:30 PM AT NELSON’S KOOTENAY STUDIO ARTS (KSA) CONSIDERS LINKS BETWEEN MEDIEVAL WOMEN MYSTICS AND CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART Links between medieval women mystics such as St. Teresa of Avila and 21st Century art practices will be discussed by popular Nelson artist, teacher and curator Deborah Thompson at Selkirk College’s Kootenay Studio Arts (KSA) in Nelson on Friday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The talk and visual presentation will take place in room 310 at the KSA building, 606 Victoria St. The
Read More »Oxygen Art Centre’s Continuing Arts Education Programming for Winter/Spring 2014: TO REGISTER: *New this year – Online registration (click here!) OR by Phone: 250-352-2821 OR drop by: Kootenay School of Arts. 606 Victoria Street, Nelson BC V1L 4K9 For more information about classes please contact OXYGEN ART CENTRE at: P: 250 352 6322 E: info@oxygenartcentre.org BEGINNING JANUARY 2014*: Balkan Choir with Bessie Wapp, January 15 – March 5 Singing the Blues with Bessie Wapp, January 16 – March 6 Fine Art Shadow Boxes with Natasha Smith, February 15 &
Read More »Paul Walde – Requiem for a Glacier Exhibition: January 4 – February 8, 2014 Gallery hour: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm Opening: Friday, January 3 from 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday, January 4 at 4pm Requiem for a Glacier, a video and sound installation by Victoria artist/composer Paul Walde, will be exhibited at the Oxygen Art Centre from January 4th to February 8th. Local, independent curator Kiara Lynch, who led the coordination efforts for the project, is the guest curator at Oxygen Art Centre for this exhibition. This work was
Read More »Artist in Residence at Oxygen Art Centre Wuulhu – Bracken Hanuse Corlett Artist Talk: Thursday, December 5 from 7-9pm Workshops: Saturday, December 7 & 14 from 1-4pm The Oxygen Art Centre welcomes NorthWest Coast multimedia artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett as their artist in residence for the month of December. Corlett hails from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. Corlett feels that art making is just a part of his heritage and his everyday life. He draws much of his inspiration from his ancestry and in fact reclamation and identity politics are
Read More »POET, PUBLISHER, AWARD-WINNING BOOK DESIGNER JASON DEWINETZ TO SPEAK NOV. 22, 7:30 PM AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE A young Renaissance man of Canadian literature, Jason Dewinetz, will read from his poems and speak about his award-winning work as book designer, publisher, and typographer at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance). Dewinetz’s appearance, part of Oxygen’s Presentation Series, is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public. Dewinetz’s books of poems include
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