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100 Jackson Avenue
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2V8 Canada Get Directions
250.537.2102

ArtSpring is an 11,800 square-foot, two-level heavy timber structure boasting a 5,200-square-foot exhibition/ multi- purpose area and a 6,600-square-foot, 265-seat theatre.

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The Salt Spring Forum with Lisa Young

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

The recent election in Alberta saw the United Conservative Party returned with majority. Premier Danielle Smith is moving the province further to the right, while seeking much greater autonomy within Confederation. Professor Lisa Young, a distinguished political scientist and prolific public commentator, is the best person in Canada to help us understand these developments. Lisa […]

$15 – $20

Still Working Nine to Five: Free Film

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

“Still Working Nine to Five” Join us for a Free Admission Film, hosted by the Salt Spring Community Response Network and the Salt Spring Film Festival. This award winning film highlights age-defying actresses and activists, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda, who comment on their original 1980 film that was the highest grossing comedy […]

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Gently Down the Stream

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Scott Merrick’s final performance before his Celebration of Life is a readers’ theatre presentation of Gently Down the Stream, written by acclaimed playwright Martin Sherman. Beau meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life of disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused […]

Unbroken: An Evening with Indigenous Journalist Angela Sterritt

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Join RAVEN and SS Public Library for an evening with CBC journalist and author Angela Sterritt, in conversation with Cowichan educator Maiya Modeste (Stqeeye Society) about her new book, Unbroken. Though the topic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited ( MMIWG2S) People is heavy, Sterritt's storytelling is incredibly life-affirming. Her new bestselling […]

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MICHAEL KAESHAMMER: Turn It Up

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

PUBLIC TICKETS SEPT 12 Michael Kaeshammer isn’t so much a piano player as a piano whisperer, a master musician, and songwriter able to coax dazzling, kaleidoscopic sounds from his instrument in a way few can rival. Joined by his ensemble of four musicians, that gift powers Turn It Up, Kaeshammer’s superb 15th album, broadly described […]

$5 – $35
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LOVE BOMB

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Premiering in Vancouver in 2015, the award-winning Love Bomb is described as “a rock concert within a play – and a mystery on top of that.” A concert of emotion rips through main character Justine’s first performance in years and all because of one uninvited guest, her music takes on a life of its own. […]

$5 – $35
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BANFF CENTRE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Since 1976, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, a flagship program of Banff Centre, has been an international industry leader in showcasing a selection of outstanding adventure, exploration, and mountain culture speakers, films, books, and photographs from around the world. Following the nine-day festival in Banff, its annual World Tour reaches more than 40 countries […]

$5 – $15

Vetta Presents: Life’s a Beach

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Amy Beach was a trailblazing composer who wrote with her heart on her sleeve. Join pianist Jane Coop and the Vetta String Quartet performing the Haydn Sunrise Quartet, Shostakovich’s earliest quartet, and the Amy Beach Quintet. Joseph Haydn               String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise" […]

SS Forum with Erin O’Toole

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

The Salt Spring Forum are delighted to welcome Erin O’Toole, former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and widely regarded as one of the last true gentlemen of Canadian politics. There will be much to discuss with him, not least whether social media and US influences have set us on the same course as […]

$15 – $20
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OKTOPUS

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Award-winning Oktopus is a major presence on the Canadian world music scene, with over 250 performances to its credit at home and abroad. The group is primarily devoted to klezmer, distinguished by a novel approach that pulls together components of the classical and Quebecois repertoire, with some jazz and Balkan accents. BUY TICKETS Eight virtuoso […]

$5 – $35
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TRIO FIBONACCI: The Giants of Minimalism

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Discover a captivating body of works that go straight to the heart of melody. The highlight of this concert is Max Richter's masterful re-composition of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, which takes us to the convergence of past and present. Works by Glass, Nyman, Amar, Eno, and Einaudi complete this program of spellbinding simplicity. Trio […]

$5 – $35
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MET OPERA: DEAD MAN WALKING

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Met Opera Now On Sale. DEAD MAN WALKING | Jake Heggie Sat Oct 12 | 9:55am-1pm Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the […]

$15 – $25
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MIDDLE RAGED

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Get ready to have a laugh and relate to the real life scenarios in the live sketch comedy MIDDLE RAGED, written and performed by Geri Hall (a regular on This Hour Has 22 Minutes) and Gary Pearson (a writer for Corner Gas, MadTV, and Just for Laughs.) This smart and funny stage show explores the […]

$5 – $35

SS Forum with Rashid Sumaila

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Can we still save the oceans? Salt Spring Forum guest, Rashid Sumaila is the man to ask. BUY TICKETS Professor Rashid Sumaila and his colleague Daniel Pauly have provided scientific evidence for a simple solution: All fishing on the high seas should be banned. Earlier this year, their research and advocacy earned them the Tyler Prize […]

$15 – $20

Songs of Life & Love

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

BUY TICKETS Songs of life, peace, and love will be told during this evening of glorious sound with Cicela Månsson and Don Conley on voice and piano. These life journeys, recounted in a story, a scene, or a vignette, offer a small view into the creator’s life, sharing how they viewed the world around them. […]

$5 – $30

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VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Young Artists Collegium Program The very best students from Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Young Artists Collegium Program come to ArtSpring for a special chamber music concert. Featuring ensembles of outstanding young talent on strings, winds, and piano, the concert will be followed by fascinating on-stage feedback to these rising stars from a great master artist. […]

$5 – $20
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PIQSIQ

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

With a style inspired by haunting northern beauty, sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik are Inuit throat singers from Arctic Canada who blend their ancient traditional form with contemporary technology to create haunting soundscapes and improvisational compositions that change with every show. With roots in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq Regions, the sisters grew up in […]

$5 – $35
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BOUGE DE LÀ: Through My Eyes

ArtSpring - Theatre 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

A dancer enters the stage and discovers a ball. Intrigued, she moves toward it, carefully. As soon as she touches it, the magic of the stage is unleashed: the lights go up, the decor appears all around her, shadows play their tricks…and transform one dancer into many! Now there are four of her, to play […]

$5 – $35