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 Apr. 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 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 Apr. 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 Apr. 8 at 7 p.m. and Islands on the Edge on Apr. 30 at 2 p.m.
To register for the workshops contact [email protected]. For more information visit onestraw.ca, call 604-741-9859, sunshinecoastmuseum.ca, call 604-886-8232 or artsbuilding.org call 604-740-7790.
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