Local Arts

The Lonesome Ace Stringband is bringing its grit, skill and abandon with old-time, Appalachian folk songs to Bowen Island. These are songs and tunes for life and all of it’s occasions: festivals, dances, wars, parties, and funerals.

The new year is upon us, the cold is sticking around for a few more months, so now is the perfect time to connect with your inner creative spark.

We invite you to create a mini-masterpiece for the 2017 Mini Gala Fundraising Event

She once followed bear scat to find the low-bush blueberries hidden… Mary Greener Thompson crossed the Rockies on horseback and built a cabin with her husband in Blue River. She was a pioneer, an opera singer, and Jude Neale’s grandmother.

Richard Wagner believed that the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was proof that music works better with words. This was in opposition to the idea at that time of instrumental music being “absolute music.

In 1982, Brian Thomas-Peter joined a high-security forensic psychiatry service and worked primarily with young personality-disordered offenders whilst studying for a PhD.

At the CSA Christmas Craft Fair on Sunday, Dec. 4, the CSA will be launching a new fundraising initiative for the Bowen Island Community School (BICS) Community Playground upgrade.

Did you know that Arts Pacific Gallery is entering its 19th year of business? That’s cause for celebration and we’d love to include you in this.

Just one year after publishing his novel, It’s No Big Thing , Bowen Island author Nick Faragher is celebrating the publication of his second book of short-stories, Best Served Cold .

On tour this fall, The Comedy of Music, a one-man variety show presenting a satirical view on modern culture and the role of the arts in contemporary society.