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Be an artist at this year's Exquisite Corpse Event!


If you haven't played Exquisite Corpse it's a really fun artists game adapted from a 1920 parlor game . In our version three artists get together and paint a single canvas, head torse and legs. The first painter paints the head portion then covers all but an inch then the next painter follows suit with the torse and then the last artist paints the feet. Once everyone has finished we have a gala where the paintings will be revealed and auctioned off! Plus everyone will be encouraged to come dressed in their most exquisite attire fancy or funky, it will truly be a night to remember.
 
By registering you will be given (at random)a canvas and assigned head, torso or legs to paint. You will be emailed the date to come in and pick up the canvas,  at the McMillan Art Centre. You will then have 1 week to paint and return the canvas (with your portion covered). By registering you will also receive a ticket for a single seat for yourself at th
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13516282697?profile=RESIZE_584xCalling Salmon Home: a community chorus
 

March 30th will be an afternoon of community celebration as poets, listeners, readers, and lovers of salmon gather to share
their voices. Harold Rhenisch will be reading from his latest poetry collection, “The Salmon Shanties” and sharing his

experience about the land and history of Cascadia – the region of North America that includes much of the Pacific Northwest.
 
Rhenisch describes the event as:
 

“…a performance uniting voices of poets, salmon and people who have been weaving
Cascadia together since our islands and mountains rose from the sea. For fifteen years, I
travelled throughout Cascadia, following salmon up their rivers and setting settler history
aside to speak stories of land, salmon, water and the people who care for them.
To celebrate my book, The Salmon Shanties”, we are gathering readers, listeners, lovers
of salmon and poets, to come together and bring their voices to the conversation. The
book stands mid-stream in a river. We are a

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