World of Writer's Workshop

Kevin Spenst will lead 3 hour workshop on memoir, autofiction or the lyric essay on 
Saturday, March 14th at the Agassiz Library.​
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​December 21st

Winter Solstice Crown-making workshop

with current KHAC Artist in Residence, 

Ava P Christl
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Sculptural Installation Workshop
with
Sylvie Roussel-Janssens

Saturday, October 19th
12:00 - 4:00pm
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​Sunday June 9, 2019, 1-4 pm
Cyanotype Workshop 

create beautiful blue prints using the sun!
Aileen Penner, Artist In Residence
​Ranger Station Art Gallery 
Cost: KHAC Members: free; $20 non-members
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Success with the Sun!
Everyone was hooked on Cyanotype printing by the end of the workshop! Aaron was going home to apply it to wood and other materials and Jane was brimming with ideas for a photo project. Helene persisted on her own on Monday and managed to get her two (quite difficult) negatives printed with a stronger sun day. Aileen also spent time printing some unique items, such as this rusty nail coil.
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Aileen Penner
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Aaron Moran
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Helene Juzda
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Aaron Moran
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May 4, 2019
Sculpture using found & discarded materials
Aaron Moran
Time: 12-4pm
​Location: Ranger Station Art Gallery 
RSVP to kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca
Cost: KHAC Members: free; $20 non-members
DETAIL of what sculptures could look like.(pdf)

This workshop will provide an opportunity to create a three dimensional sculpture with emphasis on using reclaimed wood. It presents an additive building process in which the sculptures are made from adding material, rather than removing it (as found in carving). The process will begin with basic framing to create a form, and will present several methods of covering the structure. These included the use of geometric wood fragments, wood veneer, and wood panels. The completed works will be the result of each participants aesthetic decisions.Each participant will take home a sculpture created during the workshop.
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Encaustic Monotype Printmaking
November 10, 2018 
9AM-12:00PM
$15 for non-members                                                            

Aileen Penner
Kent Harrison Arts Council Artist in Residence
Limited to four (4) people. Email your interest to Aileen at aileenpen(at)gmail.com
Venue: Ranger Station Art Gallery
Waitlist being taken for future classes.

Learn to make one-of-a-kind prints using beeswax and pigment on an anodized aluminum plate. The act of heating the wax on the plate fuses the image to the paper when simple hand pressure is applied. This is a fun, easy introduction to working with wax.
No experience necessary.

Watch a video of this technique.
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Book Launch
Lexie Owen
Fair Secrets
28 September, 2018
6 PM - 8 PM
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This book launch is part of the curatorial series Touchstones: Deep Time in the Near Future developed by Far Afield. For more information on the project, visit www.farafield.ca

This is the third component of the Touchstones series that evolved through a collaboration with the Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival. Domestic, horticultural and agricultural production is steeped in tacit, embedded knowledge, and success in these endeavours is often the result of decades, or even centuries-long relationships with materials, matter, and living organisms. At the festival, Lexie Owen’s Fair Secrets invited participation from the local community through an assortment of secrets—from prized recipes to personal confessions.

​Through anonymous contributions, Fair Secrets aims to create a collective representation of the knowledge harboured within the region. The shared secrets have been transformed into a publication and will be launched as a small limited edition. Join us for this intimate book launch!





Sunday July 2nd, 3-4 pm
Recital of Music for Double Bass
performed by Adam Hill

Enjoy works by Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Adam Hill, and J.S. Bach.

Adam Hill creates music with pencils, paper, computers, and a variety of instruments. He has written songs, symphonies, and suites, and has released four albums of new-timey music. He also performs creations of other songwriters and composers.

Free
Email kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca for more information.  




SATURDAY JUNE 24, 2-4 pm
WRITING A SENSE OF PLACE, A WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers
Ranger Station Art Gallery

Explore your relationship with the landscapes you love. Use detailed description, nature observation, and local lingo to re-create settings on the page. Use photos as jumping off points to tell a story. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the Narratives of the Lost show at Ranger Station Art Gallery. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen. 

Cost: $10 for non-members, free for KHAC members
Email kentharrsionartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up






SATURDAY JUNE 17, 2-4 pm
SONGWRITING WORKSHOP with Adam Hill

Stretch your musical mind in this afternoon workshop on songwriting. Short lessons on fundamentals and techniques will draw on examples from great songs by great songwriters. Participants will then engage in activities that give them a chance to try their hand at building harmonies, rhythms, and lyrics.

Great for stalled songwriters wanting to get the creative juices flowing or beginners who'd like to give songwriting a shot. Suitable for teens and adults that have some background with a musical instrument. Bring a notebook, a pencil, and your favorite instrument. Beginner participants may find reference tools like chord charts useful as well.

Cost: $10, free for KHAC members
Email kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up
SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2-4 pm
POETRY AS PLAY: A WRITING WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers
Ranger Station Art Gallery

Celebrate National Poetry Month by playing with poetry. Try your hand at a variety of forms from lists to ghazals, erasure to collaborative poems. Express yourself in a new way through these fun experiments. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen. 

Cost: $10 for non-members, free for KHAC members
Email kentharrsionartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up
SATURDAY MARCH 4TH, 2017 1-4 pm
THINK LIKE AN EDITOR: A WRITER'S REVISION WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers

Agassiz Public Library
Free of charge

Strengthen your stories, poems and essays through editing. Try out different revision strategies and take home a checklist for future revisions. We will write and edit new material during the workshop. Suitable for teens and adults.

Bring a notebook and a pen/pencil.

Registration appreciated, drop-ins welcome
For more info or to register, call Agassiz Library
at 604-796-9510
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13TH, 2016 2-4 pm
IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS: A WRITING WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers
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Make your writing come alive with concrete language, fresh images, and sensory observations. Through fun exercises, learn to infuse your writing with memorable details. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen. 

Cost: $10 for non-members, free for KHAC members
Email kentharrsionartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up

Bio: Bren Simmers is the author of two books of poetry, Night Gears (2010) and Hastings-Sunrise which was a finalist for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH 2016 2-4 pm 
SKETCHBOOK AS DAILY PRACTICE WORKSHOP
with artist Siobhan Humston @ Ranger Station Art Gallery

This workshop will delve into the use of a sketchbook or journal to springboard a committed daily art practice. Combining the fundamentals of sketching with discussions around idea formulating & writing, we will look closely at aspects of nature and how to cultivate your own ideas. Learn how to make a daily practice into a creative mandate and turn that into art work that will evolve naturally, authentically and progressively.

LIST OF MATERIALS
Please bring your sketchbook or notebook and favourite drawing/writing utensil. Other materials will be provided

BIO
Siobhan Humston is an interdisciplinary artist with a full-time practice in drawing/painting, photography, fibre arts, and sculptural installation. By combining abstracted aspects of nature with man-made elements she creates narratives that intersect at environmental concern and environmental awe. Over the past four and a half years Siobhan has worked in over a dozen studios in three countries including artist residencies in New York, the Ranger Station Art Gallery in Harrison Hot Springs and the UK. She has shown her work in over sixty gallery exhibitions, received a Pollock Krasner Fellowship and a BC Arts Council grant and was most recently awarded an MFA degree with distinction from Falmouth University, UK.

www.siobhanhumstonart.com
SATURDAY AUGUST 13TH 2016 2-4PM
DIY WIRE WEAVING WORKSHOP
with artist in residence Anne J Steves @ Ranger Station Gallery

Come on by for a couple of hours of weaving fun at the Ranger Station Gallery. Working with wire and found materials, we will create a flexible art work that can be free-standing, a wall work or worn as a cuff. Anne will show you how to make your own DIY loom, a variety of unusual materials to make art with and the many ways these pieces can be displayed or worn.

Please email the gallery at kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up for a spot. Maximum of 12 people. Suitable for teens and adults. $5 charge at the door to cover supplies.
FRIDAY JUNE 24TH 2016 7PM
ARTIST TALK
with artist in residence Anne J Steves

Join us for an artist talk by Anne J Steves, KHAC artist in residence 2015-2016. Take the opportunity to see her exhibition 'soft truth: ad-dressing the landscape'  and hear how life in the Kent Harrison district has influenced her current work and daily practice as an artist. Anne will speak on the effect of travel and place on the act of making, her Welsh ancestry as an influence in her use of crafts, and methods for moving beyond traditional painting and drawing. Refreshments Supplied.

This event is free to the public. Please RSVP at kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca or call 604-796-2723 so that we can prepare seating.
MARCH 23RD 2016 1-5pm
COMMUNITY COLLAGE WORKSHOP
with Anne J Steves @ Ranger Station Gallery

Our artist in residence, Anne, is preparing for her exhibition here at the Ranger Station in June. She wants your help to make a large wall piece for the gallery and so we are holding a Community Collage drop-in this Spring Break!

Come on by any time between 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday March 23rd for some painting, drawing, writing, sewing...fun. Stay for an hour or all afternoon.
All ages welcome. All materials supplied. Free!

* Please make sure all children under 10 years of age are accompanied by an adult. *

www.annejstevesstudio.wordpress.com
MARCH 5TH 2016 1-4pm
WORLD OF WORDS WRITING WORKSHOP
with Mark Lieren-Young @ Agassiz Public Library

Join us at the Agassiz Public Library for a FREE memoir writing workshop with multimedia writer/performer Mark Leiren-Young

From memoirs to monologues to blogs, writers today have moved from sharing their most intimate moments with their ‘Dear Diary’ to revealing all to audiences. If you want to write about your life, what’s the best medium for sharing our stories? How do you choose which stories to tell? Where do you draw the line between sharing and over-sharing? This workshop will offer techniques and exercises to help writers share and remember the stories of their lives.

Mark is the author of 'Never Shoot a Stampede Queen - A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo', which won the Stephen Leacock award for humour. He has written and performed in films, TV and stage plays.

http://leiren-young.com/
JANUARY 22ND 2016 1-3:30pm
FENCE TILE WORKSHOP
@ Ranger Station Gallery

Come and paint a salmon, bear or eagle Fence Tile so that we can decorate the gallery surroundings with colourful local wildlife.

Kids of all ages are welcome! Children under 8 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

We will be here from 1pm to 3:30pm this Friday January 22nd (school district Pro D day) so pop in and join us.


SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21ST 2015 7PM
ARTIST TALK
with Rosa Quintana Lillo @ Ranger Station Gallery

Please join us at the Ranger Station Gallery for a slide show and artist talk by local artist Rosa Quintana Lillo . This lecture follows on from her successful residency in Gwaii Haanas and the opening of her most recent exhibition in Vancouver. 
OCTOBER 23RD 2015 2-4:30pm
FENCE TILE WORKSHOP
@ Agassiz Public Library

Bring the kids along to a fun Fence Tile decorating workshop at Agassiz Library! We will be there on Friday October 23rd from 2:00 to 4:30pm.

The finished wildlife shaped tiles will be installed on the fence outside the Ranger Station Gallery for all to see and to brighten our little space by the lake.

Kids of all ages are welcome from little ones to teens!
Under 8 years old will need an adult present to help with the decorating fun.




OCTOBER 3RD 2015 1-9pm
DRAW-IN
with Eden Veaudry @ Ranger Station Gallery

Come and join us, any time between 1 and 9pm on Saturday October 3rd for a collaborative drawing workshop. Vancouver based interdisciplinary artist, Eden Veaudry will be facilitating this drop-in workshop which will combine the act of drawing with the sense of sound. All ages and abilities are welcome. o edit.

http://edenveaudry.com/EDEN%20VEAUDRY/main.html
MARCH 22ND 2015 1-4pm
FRAMING THE LANDSCAPE
with Aimee Henny Brown @ Ranger Station Gallery

Through a series of multi-media drawing exercises, this 3-hour workshop explores drawing from plants, landscape and the environment as inspiration. Principles of line quality, texture, tone and shading will be used to create dynamic sketches and new approaches to observational drawing.

http://www.aimeebrown.ca/
MARCH 7TH 2015
FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP 1-4PM
@ Agassiz Public Library
AUTHOR READING 7PM
@ Ranger Station Art Gallery
with Aislinn Hunter

Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning, multi-genre writer and an award-winning teacher with degrees in creative writing, art history, and writing and cultural politics. She is the author of a story collection, two books of poetry, a book of essays on 'thing theory' and two novels: Stay (which was made into a film starring Taylor Schilling and Aidan Quinn) and The World Before Us which has been called 'haunting' and 'magnificent'. The Globe and Mail called The World Before Us 'the sort of novel which forces you to look at the world—the people around you, the objects they hold dear—in a different light.'

www.aislinnhunter.com
DECEMBER 14TH 2014 1-4PM
BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP
with Aimee Henny Brown @ the Ranger Station Gallery

Learn techniques for handmade, hand-sewn blank books that can be used as journals or sketchbooks.

Workshop fee is $25/person with all supplies provided.

http://www.aimeebrown.ca/
NOVEMBER  14TH 2014 7-9PM
@ Agassiz Public Library
with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Join us for an artist lecture, slideshow and Q&A.
Refreshments and snacks will be served.
All are invited to this free event.

NOVEMBER 15TH 2014 10AM-4PM
@ the Ranger Station Art Gallery
with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Join us for a free Haida Manga workshop.
Pre-registration required before November 7th by email to kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca
Lunch and all materials supplied.
For participants 13 years and older.

http://mny.ca/en/biography
,JULY 5TH 2014 10AM-12PM
BUTTON MAKING WORKSHOP
with Jessi Sparks @ Agassiz Public Library

Come by and make some buttons with Jessi Sparks, as part of the Kent Harrison Arts Council's youth outreach.

https://fvrl.bibliocommons.com/locations/AG
APRIL 18TH 2014 5-7:30 pm
with Anouk Jonker @ Ranger Station Gallery
$20.00

BRINGING IT TOGETHER
In this workshop, we will discuss a variety of brushwork and blending techniques so you can familiarize yourself with the "feel" of the paint. There will be a demonstration on how to activate the oil paint, where we will focus on blending, layering, and mixing colours. We will be starting a still-life together as well.

Details: 10 spaces available, materials provided. Bring painting clothes or an apron. 

http://www.anoukjonker.com/
APRIL 11TH 2014 5-7 pm
with Anouk Jonker @ Ranger Station Gallery
$15.00

WHAT IS OIL PAINT?
This workshop will teach you about oil paint, and how to begin approaching the medium. Learn how to choose your brushes, your mediums, and your paint surfaces. You will also be introduced to the colour wheel. Together, we will do a monochrome exercise on canvas and tackle any questions you might have.

Details: 10 spaces available, materials provided. Bring painting clothes or an apron.

http://www.anoukjonker.com/