The Arts Station

After 12 wonderful years of serving the arts community, our volunteer Gallery Coordinator, Karen MacDonald, is stepping down. Our deepest thanks go to her.

If you have skills of working with artists, experience with hanging shows and coordinating arts events, we would like to hear from you. This volunteer position requires approximately 3 to 6 hours per month. If you are interested in helping artists bring their art to the public forum, please For more information contact us.

January 26, 2 - 4pm (Last Saturday of each month)

Enjoy a fun interactive tour of the current Arts Station exhibit (at 2pm) & then dive into art-making with a related art project for the whole family ! Suggested donation $5 per parent & child. All materials provided. Designed for children 4+ to attend with an adult. (12 year olds welcome too!) *Please, no unaccompanied children.* No registration required.

When School's Out We're Open!
January 25, Feb, 8, 21& 22, & March too! 9am-12noon

Join us for Art, Music, Movement & more! Bringing together teachers with skills to share with your child for studio learning and fun. A creative collaboration of the Arts Station, Image School & Essential Yoga.
$25/day. Sibling discount. Gr 1-3 & 4-7

Register ahead to secure your spot.

Dinner Theatre
Big Dreamers present a gripping play as you dine at the Blue Toque.
Tickets available at Carosella’s. $40 before December 6, $45 after this date.
For more information contact Sage McBride at 250-423-1535

Activities for Adults & Children

Masterclass Writing
Tuesday, January 8 to March 25, Weekly, 7 – 9pm. (12wks)
The Fernie Writers Conference offers a three-month ‘team taught’ writers workshop with Angie Abdou (local author—Anything Girls Can Do and the Bone Cage), Keith Liggett (Director, Fernie Writers Conference) and Carolyn Nikodym (former Managing Editor of the Edmonton VueWeekly). The focus will be on developing and refining new work without genre bias—poetry, fiction, memoir, and non-fiction are all welcome. Limited to 10.
$150/series, ($120 FDAC members) www.ferniewriters.org

Altered Books
Jan 17- Feb 21, 7-9pm
Fun! Fun! Fun! Give yourself a creative jump, break some rules & breathe life into an old hardcover book by building up a new one! Play with Japanese paper collage, cutouts, painting, lino prints, popup structures & photograms, while sharing the power of a group. Warmup movements and activities begin each class. Emphasis on process. All levels welcome.
$65 for 5 weeks includes all great materials Register by January 12.

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Saturday, October 27, 2 - 4pm
Enjoy a fun interactive tour of the current Arts Station exhibit (at 2pm) & then dive into art-making with a related art project for the whole family ! All wonderful messy materials provided.

Designed for children 4+up to attend with an adult.
*Please, no unaccompanied children*

Suggested donation $5 per family.

See you there!
At the Arts Station gallery & upstairs studio. No registration required.

For more information contact us

School maybe out…
but the Arts Station is ‘Open’
9am-12noon
October 20, November 2, November 23

Enjoy an energized creative morning of music, movement, art & craft activities!
Register for 1 morning or all 3
Sibling discount available.
Grades 1-3 and Grades 4-7
$25/morning includes all materials
A creative collaboration of the Arts Station, Essential Yoga & Image School.
To register, call Oz @ the Arts Station at 423-4842 or email at info@theartsstation.com

Come Young, Come All…

Wow your kid this fall!
With Creative Classes that will spark their creativity.

This fall the Arts Station introduces a host of programs for young artists. (And adults, too) Puppet making, writing and book making, pottery, painting and music. The Arts Station is the center for your fall project.

Mixed Media Classes. Mix it up, learn & have fun… Paint, clay, and lots more. And discover exciting results. Monday thru’ Friday & Saturday too!

Young Authors. Tell your story and make your own book. Saturdays.

Art Fridays. On every “Off� Friday, the Arts Station gathers artists, dance instructors and musicians to provide a special half-day off for the kids. Space is limited so book-in now.

And for the holidays. Work in clay to make Halloween Masks to scare the best and Christmas Ornaments just in time for decorating for your tree.

Not just for Kids, Family Gallery on the last Saturday of the month, drop-by and take a tour of the current exhibit, then delve into a related art project.

Adult Pottery Workshops on Tuesdays and Thursdays evenings.

Drumming Circles (young and old) make the beat together.

Classes start in October, So register NOW!

For more details and a complete fall listing of all the Arts Station will be offering members and non-members, please contact Oz at 250-423-4842, info@theartsstation or visit the web site at www.theartsstation.com

With Special Pre-Conference Workshops

The Fernie Writers Conference brings award-winning established writers to work with writers
of all levels in an intensive workshop setting. By encouraging positive critique
of work–both in-progress and new–writers sharpen and refine their craft over the course of the Conference.

While centered around the workshops, the featured panel discussions, evening presentations
and social events surrounding the conference create lasting and fruitful relationships.
Editors, publishers and writers mingle over meals, in the receptions and during the public readings.

For more information visit The Fernie Writer’s Conference Website Or
Contact Keith Liggett or call 423-5999 x 222

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Fernie Writer’s Conference coming in July. Check out our event listing.