The Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is collaborating with One Straw Society and the Arts Building on a unique journey of the history, local character and art of food on the Sunshine Coast.
Our Food: Then and Now is an exhibit that will be on display until June 15 offering a retrospective of local food culture during the last 100-plus years through photographs, oral history, stories and artifacts. In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a series of workshops and films presented by the One Straw Society on production, harvesting and preservation of food.
To kick things off, the three groups are hosting a hootenanny on April 2 from 5 to 8 p.m. at both the museum and the Arts Building. Come on down and peruse the museum, listen to acoustic bluegrass by Matthew Lovegrove and friends, hear about traditional food with Sechelt Elder Barb Higgins, see the beginnings of a community garden, and dine on West Coast flavours. That evening there will also be an art opening/silent auction of work that artists have interpreted from the theme of local food as well as spring pots and seedlings for sale.
The museum exhibit will be on display Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day until June 15.
Also as part of the collaboration, there will be a series of workshops at both the museum and Arts Building. They include: Nourishing Nettles at the Arts Building from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on March 27; the Art of Food Preservation at the museum April 9 from 10 a.m. to noon; and Wonders of Kale at the Arts Building later in April as a date has not been finalized.
Two films will also screen at the museum with Fresh on April 8 at 7 p.m. and Islands on the Edge on April 30 at 2 p.m.
To register for the workshops. contact [email protected]. For more information, see onestraw.ca (call 604-741-9859), sunshine coastmuseum.ca (call 604-886-8232) or arts building.org (call 604-740-7790).
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