Dear Friends,

With our Covid Safety plan in place we are looking forward to a gradual reopening.

There are only a few days left to participate in The Pandemic Limerick Project, a collaboration with the Salt Spring Island Public Library, and Salt Spring Island Foundation. Submit your five line limerick between July 27 and August 14. Limericks will be judged by three Salt Spring authors and two prizes will be awarded. BC residents of all ages welcome.

Renew or purchase your ArtSpring membership before the end of August and receive 5% off of ArtSpring Presents tickets for the 2020-21 season. New season starts in October.

With all best wishes,
Cicela Månsson
Executive & Artistic Director, ArtSpring

ArtSpring Events

The Pandemic Limerick Project
Submit your limerick>

Online Events

Fundraising

A grateful thank you!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Catherine and Bill Griffiths for their recent donation. Catherine says, “I would usually set aside money to spend at Treasure Fair, and I thought we would still give the same amount to ArtSpring as there is no Treasure Fair this year. I have truly missed the magic and mayhem and look forward to it in some form next year!”

And thanks as well to Pacific Rim Storage Salt Spring for their great service with trying to find a storage solution for us. Treasure Fair donation collections start again in Feb/Mar 2021.

Support us with the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. If you already have a Smile Card from ArtSpring you can continue loading it up and we’ll receive 5%.

Don’t have a Smile Card from ArtSpring? Contact us – info@artspring.ca or 250.537.2102 – and we’ll happily put one in the mail for you. Please confirm which address you’d like it sent to.

Thank you for your continued support!

Dear Friends,

With our Covid Safety plan in place we are looking forward to a gradual reopening.

Today we launch The Pandemic Limerick Project in collaboration with the Salt Spring Island Public Library, and Salt Spring Island Foundation. Submit your five line limerick between July 27 and August 14. Limericks will be judged by three Salt Spring authors and two prizes will be awarded. BC residents and all ages welcome.

Below you’ll find an encore performance. Last October ArtSpring had the honour to present the Montreal Guitar Trio and the California Guitar Trio. If you were lucky enough to be in the audience you would have been treated to their version of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. With the recent passing of composer Ennio Morricone it is a good time revisit their performance.

With all best wishes,
Cicela Månsson
Executive & Artistic Director, ArtSpring

ArtSpring Events

The Pandemic Limerick Project
Submit your limerick>

Salt Spring Painters Guild
Annual Summer Show and Sale. More>

Maritime Day, by Peter Eyles

Online Events

Eric Whitacre’s “Sing Gently”

17,572 singers from 129 countries come together to perform.

Montreal Guitar Trio and California Guitar Trio

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, by Ennio Morricone.

All Bodies Dance Project – See & Be Seen

Brings together artists with and without disabilities to explore the endless creative possibilities in difference. More>

Fundraising

Support us with the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. If you already have a Smile Card from ArtSpring you can continue loading it up and we’ll receive 5%.

Don’t have a Smile Card from ArtSpring? Contact us – info@artspring.ca or 250.537.2102 – and we’ll happily put one in the mail for you. Please confirm which address you’d like it sent to.

Thank you for your continued support!

Dear Friends,

I hope this newsletter finds you safe, well, and out enjoying the sun. It will soon be four months since ArtSpring closed its doors. We are very pleased to have our Covid Safety plan in place and are looking forward to welcoming the Painters’ Guild with their exhibit which starts on Monday July 27. It will be a slow and careful restart, ever mindful of the safety of our staff, clients, and patrons.

With all best wishes,
Cicela Månsson
Executive & Artistic Director, ArtSpring

Events online

World Premiere: Vivian Fung’s Prayer conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

CBC article

Les 7 doigts de la main – Cuisine & Confessions

Thanks Jane for finding this amazing ensemble! The 7 Fingers tells stories using death-defying acrobatics with a life-affirming theatricality.
Grab a tea, coffee, or beverage and settle in for a feast! This is the complete performance.

Fundraising

Support us with the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. If you already have a Smile Card from ArtSpring you can continue loading it up and we’ll receive 5%.

Don’t have a Smile Card from ArtSpring? Contact us – info@artspring.ca or 250.537.2102 – and we’ll happily put one in the mail for you. Please confirm which address you’d like it sent to.

Thank you for your continued support!

ArtSpring Patrons’ Survey

There’s still time to complete the survey, which will help us understand more about how our patrons feel about attending events at ArtSpring again.

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting all businesses and organizations throughout Canada, but particularly the cultural sector. The survey results will be important for ArtSpring to prepare for recovery planning and for a return to live events. We want our patrons to have confidence in the steps we’re taking as we follow the B.C. Public Health guidelines, and to feel safe about coming back to the theatre. We are counting on your valuable collaboration. Please be assured your responses will be anonymous. We do not ask for your name, contact information, or any other information that could identify you. The time required to complete the survey is between 3 and 5 minutes. The link to the survey is:

https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/l/patrons-survey-June2020

The survey is now open and will close on June 29, 2020.

From all the team at ArtSpring, thank you for your contribution.

Readers’ Submissions

What have you been up to lately? We asked you to let us know how you’ve been keeping busy and creative. Please keep submissions coming to diana@artspring.ca

Thank you this week to Chloe Haigh, a grade 11 dance student at GISS:

“I have been dancing for a very long time but the work and art that came out of this weird, uneasy time has been some of the most rewarding. I think I speak for each of my fellow dancers when I say that it has been hard. Trying to find positive inspiration when you are feeling lost and alone was one of the trickiest parts of this term. I am used to finding inspiration in a daily routine where dance is incorporated in a specific time frame. During this time, it never felt like inspiration hit me when I needed it. Having no dance performance, nor a stage to look forward to at the end of the process made finding the inspiration and drive to create something to be proud of even harder. I have missed being in the environment of dance, the studio, the stage, the people. A place where creativity flows through you daily, a place of belonging and love. Though my dance mates and I have both been in places of distress and darkness, it has helped us all find a deeper and more meaningful side to ourselves and our dancing. This has led to beautiful solos from every dance student. I think when we all look back on these days, we will remember the hardships but we will also remember the beauty that came out of them.”

Events

BC Arts Council Microgrant Program

The Microgrant Pilot Program is intended to support professional artists and cultural practitioners in B.C. to adapt either an existing work or their professional practice to respond to emergent needs or changes in the arts and culture sector. Awards of up to $1,500 are available. More >

Isolation Commissions #93

Alex Mah, performed by Sasha Schaepe. More >

Fundraising

Support us with the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. If you already have a Smile Card from ArtSpring you can continue loading it up and we’ll receive 5%.

Don’t have a Smile Card from ArtSpring? Contact us – info@artspring.ca or 250.537.2102 – and we’ll happily put one in the mail for you. Please confirm which address you’d like it sent to.

Thank you for your continued support!

What have you been up to lately? We asked you to let us know how you’ve been keeping busy and creative. Please keep submissions coming to diana@artspring.ca

Thank you this week to Joy Holland, who says, ” I’ve been following these weekly Collage Jam sessions with Kal Honey. They are very inspiring and creative, and all the women who participate offer a lot during the 1 1/2 hour session Mondays 11:00 to 12:30. Every week there is a theme posted and the class is led by Kal, and his wife reads the comments and questions people write in while we are collaging. At the end you get to post your collage on Facebook, but only for the collage group. The best thing is you can use magazines, flyers, or your used art papers for ripping up and composing. And it’s all FREE.

This Virtual Collage Jam comes via YouTube from their house in Toronto. My friend from Winnipeg has joined in and I get to see what she has created too!
There are always comments about food, travel, gardens, and of course tips on design, use of colour, shapes . . . and it is fun!

Check it out

ArtSpring’s Staff Submissions

From Diana – ” My dad, who is, among other things my favourite human, is staying with my partner and me for a while. He isn’t feeling very well. He struggles with anxiety. He doesn’t sleep much and he has lost too much weight. I feel honoured that he has chosen our home to rest, relax, and try to recuperate.

After 5 days here on Salt Spring, he says he feels better than he has in the last 4 months. What a delightful thing to hear; fingers crossed the trend continues.

 
We’ve been enjoying the peace and quiet, some yard work, a few heartfelt conversations, card games, books, and good food. We explore the island a little bit too – something I don’t do enough of.

My dad is a writer. He has written a few books and a lot of poetry. I thought I’d share one of his creations, since creating is not my forte.

Two Worlds

in my Coast world
oysters on the half shell
freshly shucked from a tidal pool
burble over smoke-hot rocks
of my beach campfire

in my Prairie world
cowboys invite me to a roundup
-we’re short a coupla hands
-wanna help us out fer the day
they save the part about
the burning and the bawling and the blood
the fire
and the tool of a cattleman’s trade
branding iron
dehorning clamps
nuts knife
the frying pan
and a prairie oyster lunch

Events online

Hot Docs Festival 2020

An exciting array of documentary films. Exclusive feature-length documentaries from the 2020 festival. More

Red Sky Performance

In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Week

Through our Presenting Series, we introduce audiences to inspiring and leading Indigenous creators from across Canada and around the globe. We present talented emerging and established artists and provide them with opportunities to delve into new artistic territory and thrive on the stage. More

Fundraising

Support us with the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. If you already have a Smile Card from ArtSpring you can continue loading it up and we’ll receive 5%.

Don’t have a Smile Card from ArtSpring? Contact us – i nfo@artspring.ca or 250.537.2102 – and we’ll happily put one in the mail for you. Please confirm which address you’d like it sent to.

Thank you for your continued support!