Art Of The Peace Symposium

Update: You can now download a PDF copy of the Symposium Brochure, which includes the registration form. Click here to download it: Page 1 & Page 2.

What It's All About

To help celebrate the Art gallery’s 25th year located in a renovated heritage grain elevator, the South Peace Art Society will be hosting the 6th annual Art Symposium for the Peace River area on October 24th, 25th, & 26th. Visual artists from throughout the British Columbia and Alberta Peace Region are invited to attend three days of educational lectures, workshops, and entertainment.

Friday, October 24th

Kick off of the symposium will start at 7pm at the Art Gallery with our second annual Pick a Painting Fundraiser. The South Peace Art Society members will have painted or adorned canvases with their own media, and image which will have been on display three weeks before the event. Visitors to the gallery are invited to purchase a ticket for $100 to participate in the Pick a Painting draw. On the Friday night of the draw the names will go into a hat and as they are drawn, the lucky person chosen will pick the work they want from the wall. Then the next person is drawn and so on.

On this evening special guest, Sommelier Tim Ellison from Rocky Mountain Wines, will be present and will be giving wine tasting demonstrations on British Columbian wines throughout the evening.

A special appearance from one of Saturday’s guest speakers, Emily Carr will also be present. Molly Raher Newman is an artist & author who has played the role of Emily Carr for over 7 years, appearing at Emily Carr House, the Royal British Columbia Museum, The Art Gallery of Victoria, and at community functions such as the Moss Street Paint-In, Gorge-On-Art, art gallery openings, street festivals, and art fairs.

Saturday, October 25th

Starting at 8am at KPAC, we will start everything off with an informal meet and greet over coffee and muffins. The rest of the day will be full of talks by renowned artists and art experts.

Our first speaker will be Molly Raher Newman. Artist & Author, Molly has played the role of Emily Carr for over 7 years, while entertaining and educating local and international visitors with stories of her life and readings from her journals and books. Molly herself is an artist and yet she is still inspired to perform in Emily Carr’s character to focus attention on the written works of Emily Carr - seven volume books of Emily's life & schooling in, about early Victoria. Emily's anecdotes, thoughts, journals and, artist's notes comprise the complete body of her written works. Molly's broad art training in Europe and in San Francisco set a foundation for her living interpretation of Emily Carr's spirit and her style.

Australian Potter, Greg Crowe is our second guest speaker. Highly respected for his wheel-throwing skill and wood firing effects, Greg's vessels explore the textural boundaries of the clay body. Stretched and torn, the roughly marked surfaces are enhanced by their salt-glazed veneers, in varying degrees of translucency, and in a range of diverse colour. “My current salt-glazed work concentrates on clay bodies and slips developed from locally dug materials. I am fascinated by the colour responses in areas protected or shielded from full exposure to the salt vapours.” Greg Crowe is the lecturer for ceramics at the West Coast College of TAFE, Carine Campus in Western Australia.

Our last speaker of the day will be Private Art Dealer, Doug MacLean. With over 25 years of gallery experience, Doug MacLean will share his take on contemporary art and issues around collecting and exhibiting it. His Canadian Art Gallery, based in Canmore, specializes in historical and contemporary paintings, original prints, sculpture and fine art photography by Canadian and international artists.

He has developed and continues to have a working relationship with many important dealers across the country. In his talk, Doug will discuss art sales and exhibitions from coast to coast. He’ll share his thoughts on the art he likes, and on exhibitions he didn’t like. “Stimulating, insightful, possibly even controversial, Doug’s talk promises to generate plenty of discussion.”

Registration forms for the Saturday’s lectures will be available at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery. Costs are as follows:

Serious Moonlight Productions proudly presents:
Vincent
By Leonard Nimoy
Directed by Bas Rynsewyn

The tumultuous life of history’s most well known and least understood artist comes to the stage in Serious Moonlight Productions’ upcoming play “Vincent”.Theo van Gogh, the only person to truly support him, brings us the story of his brother, Vincent, through his memories and stories. This powerful full-length play will shine insight into Vincent’s conflicted life and the people that had influenced him in his love, his passion and his art.Played brilliantly by Wayne Empey, the principal character of Theo van Gogh struggles to convince the audience that his brother was not, in fact, a fool or a madman. Written by author/actor Leonard Nimoy this sensitive story is based on letters written by Vincent to his brother throughout his short life.

Sunday, October 26th

The Dawson Creek Art Gallery will be offering three workshops:

Times and costs of workshops is still to be announced.

How You Can Take Part

Registration forms for the Symposium, the workshops and tickets for Pick a Painting and Vincent will be available at the Art Gallery starting in September. Call the Art Gallery at 250-782-2601 for more information.

You can also download a PDF copy of the Symposium Brochure, which includes the registration form. Click here.