This Lobby exhibit opens Monday January 6 at 4pm, then continues Monday to Friday 9:30am – 4:30pm, and during performances. It closes on Friday January 31 at 12:15pm. This show is an opportunity for Photo Club members to submit any image the photographer wants to exhibit, without the constraints of size or subject matter. Some […]
Ticket sales end at midnight, Thursday January 7, 2021. Support ArtSpring with the 2020 Raffle. The Grand Prize is spectacular: two nights for two people at the exclusive Sonora Resort, which is tucked away in the beautiful Discovery Islands. You and a companion will be spoiled like you’ve never been before. The prize includes flights […]
BUY TICKETS bar 1:30pm From producer Mike Delamont and the writers of Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie comes the funniest history lesson of a lifetime! A young boy named David hates Canada until the ghost of Pierre Berton appears to him in his classroom and takes him on a tour of Canadian History, from […]
BUY TICKETS Single show - $14 adult / $8 youth Two shows - $12 adult / $7 youth per show RainWood Dance Studio is pleased to offer our Winter Recital on the ArtSpring stage. Students and instructors are very excited to share our dances in various genres that they practiced over the last 5 months. […]
BUY TICKETS Single show - $14 adult / $8 youth Two shows - $12 adult / $7 youth per show RainWood Dance Studio is pleased to offer our Winter Recital on the ArtSpring stage. Students and instructors are very excited to share our dances in various genres that they practiced over the last 5 months. […]
BUY TICKETS One of America’s favourite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. “If you’re going to stage Gershwin’s opera, this is how,” raved the […]
THE EVENT SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY APRIL 11 WILL NOT TAKE PLACE AT ARTSPRING Death Café facilitated by JayaLynda | FREE OCT 26 | NOV 23 | FEB 1 | APR 11 plus special cemetery walk Dave Phillips At a Death Café people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective […]
BUY TICKETS Lorna McGhee, one of the world‘s pre-eminent flautists, playing the instrument of Pan – god of the wild and companion of nymphs. Mozart Flute Quartet in A Major Villa-Lobos Assobio a Játo/The Jet Whistle Kodály Duo for violin and cello Debussy La Flûte de Pan / Syrinx Beethoven Serenade in D major Dvorák Quartet […]
Lobby exhibit open Monday to Friday 9:30am – 4:30pm, and during performances. “Looking Up” is the sixth co-display by long time friends Suzanne Prendergast and Bill Underwood. Suzanne is a water colourist, painter and printmaker while Bill’s focus is exclusively photography. Their decision to co-display is premised on visual art as a ‘big tent’, one […]
BUY TICKETS Jaw-dropping in its hyper-masculine physicality, traditional Georgian dance takes centre stage in this passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the rigidly conservative and staunchly nationalistic confines of modern Georgian society. Having trained for years for a coveted position in the National Georgian Ensemble, Merab’s orderly world is turned upside-down with the arrival of the […]
BUY TICKETS Ken Wu is the charismatic former executive director and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, and has been working to protect ancient forests in BC for more than 25 years. He is a graduate of UBC’s ecological science program and is well known for his hands-on and active approach to environmentalism. Recently Ken […]
Exhibition open Friday February 14 3pm-4:30pm, Monday February 17 10am-2pm, Tuesday February 18 10am-4pm. Salt Spring artist Erin Cleal has been working with students grades 4-6 to develop their artistic skills and talents using mixed media and collage. The students' work is presented in an exhibition in the ArtSpring Gallery. ArtSpring is grateful to Country […]
Exhibition open Friday February 14 3pm-4:30pm, Monday February 17 10am-2pm, Tuesday February 18 10am-4pm. Salt Spring artist Erin Cleal has been working with students grades 4-6 to develop their artistic skills and talents using mixed media and collage. The students' work is presented in an exhibition in the ArtSpring Gallery. ArtSpring is grateful to Country […]
REGISTER All levels | Teens and Adults Elon Höglund and Emmanuelle Lê Phan, the two founders of Tentacle Tribe, draw on their experience as professional dancers (Cirque Du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, RUBBERBANDance, Bboyizm, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre) to develop a method that merges several philosophies of movement and a variety of techniques. The pair are well recognized in […]
Exhibition open Friday February 14 3pm-4:30pm, Monday February 17 10am-2pm, Tuesday February 18 10am-4pm. Salt Spring artist Erin Cleal has been working with students grades 4-6 to develop their artistic skills and talents using mixed media and collage. The students' work is presented in an exhibition in the ArtSpring Gallery. ArtSpring is grateful to Country […]
BUY TICKETS no intermission | post-show talkback Ghost Drawing from their wide scope of dance experience, co-founders Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund create conceptual hip–hop with a contemporary twist, while intermingling organic influences from earthly creatures. In this new work, the free-spirited pair known as Tentacle Tribe combines elements of contemporary dance, street dance, […]
BUY TICKETS With 16 Junos and over 10 million albums sold – and having been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame – Gordon Lightfoot is widely considered Canada's greatest singer-songwriter. Following Lightfoot's evolution from Christian choirboy to troubled troubadour, this definitive biography features disarmingly honest musings from […]
ArtSpring invites you to the opening reception for the exhibition by Birgit Freybe Bateman - УВИДЕННОЕ/ Mindful Vision. The exhibition runs from Monday February 24 to Sunday March 8, open daily from 10am - 4pm. Admission is free. Birgit will be giving an artist talk on Friday February 28, 12noon - 1pm.
BUY TICKETS bar 6:30pm Filled with irresistible rhythms that make fans bask in waves of contagious euphoria, Élage Diouf is a sensational Senegalese soul rocker. Recipient of outstanding awards: CBC’s Artiste Révélation Radio-Canada, JUNO World Music Album of the Year, FÉLIX World Music Album of the Year, and SOCAN Hagood Hardy – World Music prize, […]
BUY TICKETS From ‘Eco Footprint’ to ‘Ecological Overshoot’ What Chance a Sustainable Planet? The Salt Spring Forum welcomes: Dr. William Rees. Dr. William Rees is professor Emeritus and former director of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning. He is a human ecologist and an ecological economist. Bill Rees is especially well known as the […]
Opening reception - Friday February 21, 5:30-7:30pm Exhibit open daily from Monday February 24, 10am - 4pm Artist talk - Friday February 28, 12noon. Mindful Vision: Birgit Freybe Bateman talks and answers questions on her inspirations and and her life as a photographer. In 2010 Birgit Freybe Bateman, to her surprise, was invited to show […]
100 Women Who Care Salt Spring Island is collective philanthropy initiative aimed at gathering a group of now almost 200 women to raise money for local charities in a novel way. It is a creative way of supporting local, charitable not-for-profits who are often constrained by funding models with limitations. Woven into this model is a […]
Birgit Freybe Bateman talks and answers questions on her inspirations and her life as a photographer. Birgit's exhibition, УВИДЕННОЕ/Mindful Vision, is in the ArtSpring galleries from Monday February 24 to Sunday March 8, open daily 10am-4pm. The opening reception is on Friday February 21, 5:30-7:30pm
BUY TICKETS Handel’s tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the controlling, power-hungry Agrippina and Harry Bicket conducting. Sir David McVicar’s production ingeniously reframes the action of this black comedy about the abuse of power to “the present,” where it should loudly resonate. […]