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Mondays – 5:00 to 7:00 PM

Now until December 19, 2022
Drop-in: no pre-registration required

Experience the benefits of creative expression in a supportive group environment. No experience required.

Join us at our weekly open studio, each with its own theme, using a variety of art making mediums and techniques like mending, stitching, paint, collage, clay, found objects, 2d and 3d, weaving, and nature to explore what is immediate for you in the moment.

Making art together can support us to move through life’s challenges, helping us to grieve our losses, mitigate feelings of isolation and loneliness and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety.

The sessions will be facilitated by Art Therapist Heidi Abbott, and Art Therapy Intern Farrell Elliot.  Heidi and Farell both have a love for the therapeutic, meditative, healing, and self-expressive attributes of creating together.

Everyone welcome, free, all supplies are provided.

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Tides & Moons: Herring Capital is a new animated art installation by Cindy Mochizuki that shares memories and stories from Japanese Canadian fishing and boat building families who populated Nanaimo shorelines before World War II.

Throughout her practice, Cindy has developed multi-media installations, fictional audio works, performances, animations, drawings, and social collaborations that relate to Japanese Canadian experiences in B.C and Japan. She works with members of these communities and often includes her paternal family’s history both within internment camps and as repatriated Japanese Canadians in Japan after the war.

In the early 1920’s Japanese Canadian fishers lived and worked in Nanaimo at Hammond Bay (also known as Kujira Bay), Departure Bay, Shack Island (a way station for salmon and coho fishers traveling north), and Saysutshun. While Nanaimo had been known as a coal town for half a century, it also had 43 Japanese herring salteries. Due to the unexplainable abundance of t

Our popular OCAC Members Show features 2D or 3D artwork, in any medium, no larger thatn 6″X6″X6′.

Join us in celebrating the miniature creations by local artists.  A perfect Christmas gift!

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Milner Christmas Magic

Make memories with family and friends this holiday season by experiencing Milner Christmas Magic’s outdoor stroll through thousands of twinkling lights and festive window displays. Find something for everyone on your holiday shopping list in our Gingerbread Gift Shop drop off your letters to Santa in our North Pole Mailbox with a wave to Santa and Mrs. Claus themselves! Warm up with a selection of fresh hot food and refreshments for sale in front of Milner House and remember to bring cash to get your own pair of Holiday Specs holographic lenses that miraculously transform Christmas lights into magical figures! Admission runs from 5pm – 8pm with viewing until 8:30. Entry is by suggested donation of $5 per adult $2 per child or $12 per household. Dress warm and grab your camera – you won’t want to miss it!

Kimberly MILLER

Cathy STEWART

Cindy MAWLE