Honouring our Food Producers and the Animal World

CALL TO ARTISTS

Image credit Wilma Millette The Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show is coming May 5-29, 2022 Prizes awarded. Start creating now. Online registration is March 28 to April 8.

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Honouring our Food Producers and the Animal World

Susan Down is managing director of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council.

Restauranteurs and food producers on the Island have had a tough go recently battling challenges from flooding to COVID-19 protocols to supply chain breakdowns. So the first show of 2022 in the Cowichan Valley Arts Council Annex is a timely focus on this critical sector.

NOURISH (January 6-27) is a photographic show and a celebration of local food and beverage producers, farmers, vineyards, and the restaurants that kept us fed. Jules Sherred, local commercial food photographer and stylist, and owner of Polaris Creative, will display his powerful photographs, most featuring Cowichan and Gulf Islands growers, producers, and restaurants, with one image paying tribute to crops lost due to wildfire.

TALK: As part of the show, Jules Sherred will give a talk Jan.15 at 2 pm, to discuss his own journey with food, culture, and disability. Jules will delve into the inspiration for the NOURISH exhibit, why he chooses photography as a storytelling medium, how he approaches his subjects, and his personal story about food and culture, and how this story influences all aspects of his work, including his upcoming cookbook Crip Up The Kitchen: Realistic Tips, Tricks, And Recipes For The Disabled Kitchen.

At the same time, January 6-27, the CVAC Gallery is going to the dogs! And the cats, and donkeys and giraffes…Wild or domestic, mythological or real, mammals or insects, large or small, animals play the starring role in this art show, called Animalia. More than

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www.trialbyfi repottery.ca I 250-710-8758 www.trialbyfi repottery.ca80 images and sculptures range from realistic to impressionistic and together provide a celebration of the creatures that share our world. are continuing the series of workshops on First Nations traditional crafts to explore everything from mask carving to Metis beading. See you in the Gallery! Also in 2022, we will start up the Art Café, a place to talk about art and culture each week. And finally we

Cowichan Folk Guild Presents: John Gogo The Chapel at Providence Farm

“One of the most talented singer songwriters this area has ever produced.” (Victoria Times Colonist)

Folksinger, songwriter and actor John Gogo hails from a large musical family in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. John has carved out a niche for himself with his songs about the people, places and events of western Canada, the west coast in particular. Several have themes of his family’s coal mining past and their history in logging, including his own. John starred in the touring productions ‘Moodyville Tales’, ‘Good Timber - Songs & Stories of the Western Logger’ which he also wrote songs for, as well as his own one-man ‘Coal & Wood Show’. He’s looking forward to starting 2022 off with this January 22nd concert at The Chapel which will include new songs soon to be recorded for his sixth album. January 22nd, 2022

John Gogo, The Chapel at Providence Farm Doors at 7:00, Show at 7:30 $20.00 Members, $25.00 Non-Members Call to Artists Start Creating Now CVAC Fine Arts Show

The Cowichan Valley Arts Council’s popular spring fine art show returns again May 5-29. As the largest nonjuried show in the region, the event showcases up to 140 art pieces from all over southcentral Vancouver Island. The show welcomes emerging and established artists, but CVAC also awards the outstanding entries.

For the first time, there will be cash prizes for the best in show, awards of excellence and jurors’ awards. Once again, the show can be viewed online or in person in the CVAC Gallery at the Cowichan Community Centre. For artists, registration will run from March 28 to April 8. cowichanvalleyartscouncil.ca