Anvil Centre

01/10/2025

✨ Join Us for A Lecture and Video Presentation By Inthirani Arul! ✨

Date: January 12, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Room 417, Fourth Floor, Anvil Center

Potteryworks is thrilled to invite you to a captivating lecture that promises to ignite your creativity and connect you with the artistic process. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just curious, this event is for you!

This engaging conversation will offer new perspectives on the creative journey and explore the power of art-making in a supportive and interactive environment.

🖌️ No registration required, but seating is limited—arrive early to secure your spot!

We can’t wait to see you there and share this inspiring afternoon together!

01/08/2025

Do you have an idea that you've been wanting to explore? In this class you will learn the elements of fiction writing including character, dialogue, plot, and setting in order to write your own short story.

Follow the link in bio to register today!

📅 January 15 - February 12
🕕 6:00pm-8:00pm
🔎 Registration ID: 222556

📅 February 19 - March 12
🕕 6:00pm-8:00pm
🔎 Registration ID: 222557

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12/23/2024

Showcase your artistic talents by creating your own merchandise in the form of 'zines, buttons, stickers, and more! Join us for this class designed specifically for young art entrepreneurs. Work on designing your own illustration style and create cool items to collect, sell, and trade.

📅 January 11 - March 8 (no class February 15)
🕜 1:30pm - 3:30pm for ages 9-13
🔎 Registration ID: 222545

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12/23/2024

Join this class and learn how to apply inks, watercolours, and gouache to your illustrations. We will challenge your imagination and create artworks you'll want to hang up!

📅 January 11-March 8 (no class February 15)
🕦 11:30am-1:00pm for ages 9-12
🔎 Registration ID: 222538

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11/29/2024

"The Way We See It; A Colour Collective Presentation" by PotteryWorks comes to the Anvil Center Community Art Gallery.

PotteryWorks is a studio/gallery space located in New Westminster that is supported by the Community Living Society. A collective of talented painters, potters and jewelers overcoming disability through their art.
The Colour Collective is a group of painters and photographers within the PotteryWorks studio that focus on the foundations of painting, colour theory, and the elements of design.
The Colour Collective features the works of, and studies different artists, art schools, theories and techniques. In the past, The Colour Collective has studied The Group of Seven, Marc Chagall, and Pointillists like Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
The Colour Collective also includes Snap Photo Club, where artists go out into the community to learn the basics of photography. They later show their photos as they are, or use them as reference for their paintings.
This exhibit includes a collection of landscapes and abstracts from PotteryWorks Colour Collective studio sessions.

Location: Anvil Center, Community Art Gallery
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 2, 2024 - Jan. 29, 2025

“Sundays are For Art” Public Programming:
Event Date: Dec.8, 2024
Event Hours: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Event Location: Community Art Gallery, 4th Floor Studio 411
Please join us for an artist talk and video presentation by Potteryworks Studios!
The talk will highlight the history of the Woodlands institution and the results since moving residents to Community Inclusion Options.

No registration required but space is limited.

11/27/2024

REGISTRATION OPENS THIS WEEK - Thursday, November 28, 10AM
Explore classes and register at the link below.

At Anvil Centre, we offer performing and visual arts, health and wellness programs for all ages. We hope you will join us in the studios this Winter!

https://www.newwestcity.ca/registration?utm_campaign=rec&utm_source=websiteOnlineRegistration&utm_content=Registration%20Information

09/28/2024

Since 2014, Anvil Theatre has welcomed over 90,000 audience members to enjoy a diverse realm of music, theatre & dance performances, workshops, talks, artist residencies & site-specific installations.

Over the years, Anvil Theatre has proudly established ongoing presenting partnerships including Arts Club Theatre, Jazz at the Anvil presented by Piva Modern Italian, the PuSH Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Society, Coastal Dance Festival & the Royal Canadian Theatre Company.

09/21/2024

Over the past decade New Media Gallery has presented the work of more than 200 international artists in 35 group exhibitions, representing over half a century of extraordinary artistic accomplishment in new media.

New Media marks a decade with their newest exhibition MASTER, on until December 1st.

09/18/2024

Celebrating a decade of cultural magic at Anvil Centre! For 10 years, we’ve been the heartbeat of our vibrant community, sharing community stories and engaging their interests through inspiring exhibitions, dance and music performances.

Arts New West - New West Cultural Crawl is an annual arts & culture festival. Anvil Centre is pleased to participate in showcasing New West's creative talents on October 04 & 05, 2024.

09/14/2024

🎉 Time to Celebrate! 🎉
Today marks our 10th anniversary at Anvil Centre in New Westminster.
We want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to the million+ visitors who have joined us over the years. We're grateful for all the ideas, energies, and cultures that have come together under our roof. Here's to many more incredible years ahead!

09/05/2024

Sundays are for ART! 🥰

Sunday, Sept.8, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Please join us at the Anvil Centre for an Acrylic Painting Workshop: “Colours and Textures; Intuitive Flower Vase", facilitated by exhibiting artist Gayatri Yelegaonkar.

Art supplies will be provided.
Event is FREE, and everyone is welcome ☺️
No registration required but space is limited.

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08/28/2024

Sing, move, play, and learn. These engaging classes will guide children through the foundations of music in a fun and interactive way. Classes are taught by highly qualified early childhood music instructors and musicians using a bespoke approach which takes the best of Kodaly, Dalcroze, Orff, and Colourstrings Kindegarten methods to instill a life-long love of music. Stimulating for babies, toddlers, and kids alike!

📅 Tuesdays, September 24-December 10
🎷Ages 0-5 years

🕙 10am-10:45am
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🕚11am-11:45am
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🕛12pm-12:45pm
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Anvil Centre

08/12/2024

08/08/2024

Sundays are for ART!
Sunday August 11, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Please join us at the Anvil Centre for a workshop with artist Ania Salmina! The topic for this month's workshop will be "Strokes of Colours: Painting Mountain View".

Event is FREE, and everyone is welcome ☺️

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Arts New West City of New Westminster

06/15/2024

Join us in the Anvil Centre Community Art Gallery next Thursday evening on June 20 for the opening of "Under My Wing" by Cedar Sage & Sweetgrass!

Cedar Sage & Sweetgrass seeks to encourage and promote young Indigenous Artists. We created Cedar Sage & Sweetgrass with the goal of giving Indigenous Artists a forum where they could show their best art, connect and encourage one another.

This exhibit is entitled “Under My Wing”. Taken under the wing means protection and keeping warm and dry, generally showing the ropes, coaching and nurturing. It's a reference to birds, who when they perceive danger, gather their chicks together and cover them with a wing.

Artists featured in “Under My Wing” include Maryanne Lindberg-Landrie, Pat Calihou, James Groening, Sheila Rae Lowe, Chantelle Trainor-Matties, Ryan Hughes, Jerry Whitehead, and Feature Artist Ronald George Straight!

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Arts New West

06/10/2024

We're thrilled to announce that VRGE is returning to Anvil Centre on June 22, 2024, with their biggest show ever! More gaming, more music, and an unforgettable experience await at the expo.

https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/schedule.html

06/08/2024

We can't wait for Paper Play Camp this summer!

Get inventive with paper! Kid-friendly projects include recycled paper making, paper sculpture, card-making, paper bead making, and paper clay modeling. A focus on material manipulation development is balanced with experimentation and imaginative play.

📅 July 8 - 12

🕤 9:30am - 12pm for ages 6-8
🔎 Registration ID: 210715

🕐 1pm - 3:30pm for ages 9-12
🔎 Registration ID: 210717

🔗 to register: https://tinyurl.com/3bt7rhrv

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Anvil Centre City of New Westminster City of New Westminster Parks and Recreation

06/07/2024