Although the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival wrapped up its annual show last year, there is still a significant quilt and fibre fest series of events being held in Gibsons and Pender Harbour during August.
Enjoy a choice of workshops in quilting, beading, knitting, spinning, weaving and more. Birgit Rasmussen offers a knitting class this weekend at Unwind Knit and Fibre Lounge in Gibsons and Doreen MacLachlan shows you how to knit two socks at a time. Call 604-886-1418 for more details.
Other workshops in rug hooking, dyeing and creating colour in yarn will take place at various locations in the coming weeks. For more information, e-mail [email protected] call Yvonne Stowell at 604-883-2380.
Painting to music
And now for something completely different, tonight (Friday) from 7 to 8 p.m. in the gazebo at the end of the wharf - a show called New and Improv with Graham Ord, sax and flute, Barry Taylor, drums, and Paul Steenhuis, guitar, who will follow the lead of visual artist Nadina Tandy as she fills her canvas to music.
On Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., there's music in Pioneer Square with Charlotte Wrinch, vocals and guitar, and Barry Taylor on drums.
From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. next to Leo's, Charlotte Mahoney and Sam McLennan, young musicians on guitar and vocals, will entertain with their first busking gig.
Saturday night, the Creek Big Band led by Graham Ord, will fill the Harbour with classic big band and jazz tunes, so bring out those dancing shoes,lawn chairs and blankets. Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. it's back on the Sundial Stage with Rod Millican on keyboard and vocals, who will be joined by Ken Grunenberg on sax with special guest vocalist Crystal Spence. You can see images and find out more at www.facebook.com/Music.Landing.
This weekend
Stroll Gibsons Landing today (Friday) and tomorrow to visit its many galleries and stores during this year's Art Stroll. Be sure to pick up a brochure at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery to let you know which of the venues are participating.
Also this Saturday, author Pamela Proctor will meet the public at Woods Showcase in Sunnycrest Mall from 1 to 3 p.m. Her most recent book, entitled Honouring the Child, will be of interest to all those who are intrigued byinnovative ways of educating children. Dreamscapes
For August, One-O-One, the office supply store on Cowrie Street in Sechelt, is displaying the art of Cheryl Metz and Jan Jensen in a collaboration they have named Dreamscapes.
Metz has been doing various forms of art since she was a child, and has most recently picked up painting. Jensen also has explored different media from childhood and studied drawing, painting, and sculpture in her 20s.
For this show, Metz has supplied abstracts that share soft tones and a fluid, rhythmic line; they are meditations, explorations of fundamental spiritual energies, a pervasive theme in her approach to art. Jensen's work moves between the representational and pure design. Her canvasses are experiments in paint moving towards sculpture, while her sculptures are fine design pieces based on found objects, integrated with novel paint techniques. This show runs until the end of the month.
Transformation
Coast artist Francine Desjardins is part of a show, Transformation, of mixed media paintings and assemblages by visual artists/students of Jeanne Krabbendam's courses at Emily Carr University. The exhibition is at the Concourse Gallery, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, and runs until Aug. 13.
Deadline Tuesday
Send items for Art Beat (include who, what, where, when, why and ticket info as briefly as possible) to me via e-mail ([email protected]) or phone (604-886-4692) by Tuesday before 5 p.m. for Friday's newspaper. Art Beat covers events up to one week ahead only.
