Spring 2023 Art Bites Classes
- Jan 29, 2023 to Jun 11, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Have you been curious about trying an art class, but not sure what medium you would like? Not ready to commit to a full class (and art supplies) if you don’t know you’ll like it? Why not try this sampler course?
Art Bites is a course designed to give you a taste of a variety of art mediums. Each 2-hour class introduces you to a new medium and show you the basic techniques using a small array of supplies. Everything is provided; you don’t have to bring a thing! Go home each week with a piece of your own and a sense of how this art medium works.
Pick and choose one or more classes. Classes are $35 each.
AM classes are 10am-12pm; PM classes are 1-3 pm.
Follow the links below for class details and online registration
- January
- Jan 29 AM – Wash Drawing with Gordon Wilson
- Jan 29 PM – Zentangle with Rhonda Roy
- February
- Feb 5 AM – Oil Painting with Margery Blom
- Feb 5 PM – Watercolour Art Journaling with Merrilyn Laursen
- Feb 12 AM – Ink Relief with Gordon Wilson
- Feb
- January
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 (11)
The MAC’s Art Foundations Program
- Feb 6, 2023 to Jun 12, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Loved Art Bites? Ready for more?
The MAC’s Art Foundations Program is designed for people who want more formal education in the basics of visual art theory, as well as techniques for different mediums. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the principles of art and how they might apply to their own art practice.
Each of our classes will touch on areas such as line, composition, perspective, and colour, while giving you more in-depth practise in the medium or technique offered.
All of our instructors are artists, and many of them are also professional teachers. Our faculty is skilled at providing a friendly and relaxing experience while you learn.
Classes run on Mondays, from 10 am – 2 pm
Cost: $100 (all materials provided)
Follow the links below for class details and online registration
- Feb 6 – Dry Media Drawing with Gordon Wilson
- Feb 13 – Wet Media Drawing with Gordon Wilson
- Feb 27 – Decoding Colour: Colour Theory with Margery Blom
- Mar 6 – Let’s Go Abstract with Dennis Brown
- Mar 13 –
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Bayside Art Gallery - Claudia Lohmann & Grant Leier
- Apr 12, 2023 to Jun 30, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
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Qualicum Beach Farmers Market
- Apr 29, 2023 to Dec 30, 2023
- Location: Qualicum Beach Community Hall / Veterans Way 644 Veterans Way Qualicum Beach
- Description:
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Visit Qualicum Beach Farmers Market every Saturday from 8:30am-12pm, Year Round and enjoy an incredible selection of fresh produce and locally produced goods. Our vendors make, bake, or grow the products they offer for sale.Get to know who produces your food. Discover the wealth of mid-Island production from a wide variety of local home and commercial providers. Learn from them in person the joys and challenges of delivering quality fruits, vegetables and berries, maintaining heritage varieties and assuring the freshest and best flavoured homemade products.We love your fur babies too, but please leave your pets at home when visiting the market. - Created by: Events OCAC
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African Drumming - Beginner
- May 3, 2023 to May 28, 2023
- Location: Lighthouse Community Hall
- Description:
Drumming in community is scientifically proven to be good for your physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and social health! And the wonderful thing is that everyone can do it — drumming connects us with the primal heartbeat and makes everyone feel joyful. Join local African hand drumming instructor and drum circle facilitator Monica Hofer and experience the uplifting feeling of creating rhythmic landscapes in a safe, supportive space! This is intended as a beginners class but those with some drumming experience will also reap the benefits of getting into a weekly groove. Drums provided upon request. Minimum age 16.
Our instructor Monica Hofer has 17 years experience teaching African Drumming at all levels. For more information about Monica visit http://rhythm-spirit.blogspot.com/.
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Drums Alive - Combine Drumming and Dance
- May 3, 2023 to Jun 28, 2023
- Location: Lighthouse Community Hall
- Description:
Drums Alive is the most fun you will ever have getting fit! Every-body & ability level is welcome. Drums Alive is a full-body fitness workout where participants beat on fitness balls while moving & grooving to high energy, fun music. You can “power out” or “take it easy”, depending on your mood – but you will always leave smiling! Participants must bring their own exercise ball.
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The Last Hurrah! Lynn ORRISS
- May 3, 2023 to May 28, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Biography
My first painting that everyone talks about happened when I was about 3 years old and I physically painted my dog with glue made from horses hooves. He loved the taste of the glue but my parents and grandparents were not impressed!
My family owned a gallery and picture framing shop so I was always surrounded by wonderful art. I started taking classes at the Edmonton Art Gallery at about 8 years of age and continued classes into adulthood at the University of Alberta. Through our gallery, I was able to run workshops with many outstanding artists.
When I started to teach art, my own style started to develop although I was always experimenting so I never really stuck with one thing. My work includes watercolour, pastel, printmaking and acrylic but currently mainly mixed media. I also love to work with polymer art clay, making one of a kind jewellery and 3 D pieces. My passion has been sharing and working with students of all ages and I learned so much from my students.
In the
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TIDELANDS SOLO EXHIBITION KELLY CORBETT
- May 3, 2023 to May 28, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
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May 2 – 28, 2023
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, May 6th, 1-3pm
ARTIST TALK (free) Saturday, May 20th, 1pm
Nanoose Bay artist Kelly Corbett presents her expression of majestic British Columbia Holding diplomas in both Fine Art (UFV) and Photography Academy, Kelly combines academic training with her natural talent, painting with acrylics. Kelly’s style invites you to take a step outside; a trip through the forest; or an outing by kayak to commune with the natural world.
As an avid outdoorswoman, Kelly draws inspiration from her hiking, kayaking, and camping trips throughout BC. She captures the unique features of stunning wilderness scenes with her camera and uses the images taken as the muse for her paintings.
For the outdoorsy, Kelly’s painting style invites you to recall your adventures and relive the sights and scents of BC’s natural environment. And for those people that may not have the opportunity to get to remote wilderness locations, these paintings offer a glimpse into a world that is
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Spring Watercolour Classes with Carla Flegel
- May 4, 2023 to Jun 9, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
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Errington Farmers' Market
- May 6, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
- Location: Errington Community Park Next to the Errington War Memorial Hall 1390 Errington Road Errington, BC
- Description:
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Since 1973, the Errington Farmers’ Market has served the communities of Errington, Coombs, Hilliers, Whiskey Creek, and Parksville.“Make it, Bake it, Grow it” is the basic tenet of farmers’ markets. This means that in order to sell at the market, each vendor has to be directly involved in the making, baking or growing of their product! Customers are encouraged to ask questions of the farmers, food producers and artisans to receive knowledgeable, accurate answers.Shopping at farmers’ markets is a way to truly “Support Local”, and it’s a great way to connect with people in the area, learn new things, and try different foods.Finding us is easy! We are only 2 km off the Port Alberni Highway on your way to Englishman River Falls Provincial Park.
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2023 HAMMOND BAY STUDIO TOUR!
- May 27, 2023 at 10:00am to May 28, 2023 at 4:00pm PDT
- Location: Various
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