ArtSpring

12/20/2024

Just a reminder ArtSpring's building is closed for the holiday period Dec 21-Jan 6, but we are always open online to purchase tickets and gift vouchers! With our new "print at home" option you'll be able to have something in hand.

If you are considering donating to the Annual Appeal, please visit our website, or now that Canada Post is back, you can mail cheques dated for 2024. Thank you to all our patrons, donors, volunteers, staff, board members, colleagues, and performers for keeping the arts such a vital part of community life on Salt Spring.

Have a wonderful holiday season and we will see you at ArtSpring in the new year!

12/18/2024

Looking forward to our Bateman Exhibition in May here at ArtSpring. Stay tuned for more news! There's a twist.

“All little kids like art and nature. I’ve never met a little kid who doesn’t like art and nature. But most normal human beings grow up around the age of 12 and go on to more grown up things. I just have not grown up yet.” ~ Robert Bateman

12/16/2024

Give the gift of the arts this season with tickets or gift certificates to ArtSpring Presents performances, Met Operas, and workshops. Local. Sustainable. No packaging. Create memories and experiences with the transformational power of the arts.

Printed tickets and gift certificates can be purchased online and picked up through December 20 at the Box Office. Gift vouchers can also be purchased and gifted online, with notification coming to you or directly to the recipient.

ArtSpring’s 2024/25 Season continues in January through May with 20 more extraordinary performances from BC, Canada, and around the world, four Met Operas, and The Flame Storytelling Workshop January 18-19.

Box Office Tue-Fri 10am-2pm. Building closed Dec 21-Jan 6.
Phone: 250.537.2102

12/16/2024

NOTICE: "O, Come All Ye Soulful" was rescheduled from Saturday to TOMORROW due to storms and ferries. Now, it's Tues Dec 17 | 7:30pm. | Tickets available. |$5-$35 | $15 Angel Tickets on sale at the Box Office (Tues) by phone or in person.

Join two award-winning powerhouses – vocalist Dawn Pemberton and bassist/bandleader Jodi Proznick with an all-star band as they bring a joyful and soulful bounce to your favourite holiday classics. The music includes holiday classics made famous by Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, John Legend, Donny Hathaway, Otis Redding, Darlene Love, Vince Guaraldi, and more!

Thank you to Mouat’s Old Salty for sponsoring this performance and offering a special holiday discount to its store for ticket holders.

See you for this snazzy, jazzy, Christmas concert to remember.

12/14/2024

NOTICE: O Come All Ye Soulful….Tonight’s concert featuring Dawn Pemberton and Jodi Proznick has been rescheduled.

Due to the weather conditions and cancelled ferries, it is confirmed that the O, Come All Ye Soulful artists cannot make it to Salt Spring for tonight's concert.

We are pleased to announce we are able to reschedule this concert for Tuesday, December 17 at 7:30pm.

We hope everyone is able to make the new date for what will surely be a memorable Christmas concert. Just hold on to your existing tickets and seats.

If you cannot make the new date, refunds will be provided. Please contact the Box Office at [email protected] or call (250) 537.2102 at your earliest convenience to make arrangements.

12/12/2024

12/12/2024

What an uproarious evening last night at “Juliet: A Revenge Comedy” from Vancouver’s Monster Theatre. Laughter took the roof off with this clever take on Juliet’s refusal to die and realizing she can change the narrative, she brings other famous heroines destined to die on a journey to escape the boundaries of Shakespeare’s plays and the author himself. Local references made their way into the dialogue and really connected with the local audience. The production said it was one of the best audiences it had experienced and that drove the energy of the actors themselves. What a hoot!

12/11/2024

Like so many other non-profits across the country and here at home, ArtSpring is experiencing the serious impact of the Canada Post strike. As the Globe & Mail recently published, holiday giving is down as much as 50% due to mail interruption. With nearly 40% of our annual budget reliant on donations, we urgently hope you will consider giving this year through one of the following ways:

1. By credit card online or by phone
2. Through Canada Helps (one-off or monthly)
3. By secure e-transfer ([email protected])
4. By dropping off a cheque by December 20

Donations received by December 31 of $20 or more will receive a 2024 tax receipt. Should you find it necessary to mail your cheque, as long as it is dated 2024, it can be processed when service resumes.

For those who have already donated, we express our deepest gratitude. If you haven't yet, but have ever been to a concert, performance, production, film screening, school show, workshop, lecture, or exhibition at ArtSpring that made an impression on you -- we encourage you to support us at any level you can.

This 25th Anniversary year has been a true celebration of arts and and community — past, present, and future. Your contributions make a direct and immediate impact within our unique community, making it possible (and accessible) to engage, connect, and inspire as only the transformational power of the arts can do.

CONTACT:
http://www.artspring.ca/donate (includes Canada Helps link)
Box Office 250.537.2102
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-2pm
ArtSpring Closed Dec 21-Jan 6

12/07/2024

Salt Spring Film Festival presents US, OUR PETS AND THE WAR | Wed Dec 11 | $ 14 | TICKETS NOW ON SALE.

Amidst the worst of circumstances, courageous Ukrainians are risking their lives under Russian bombardment to rescue animals left behind by those forced to flee.

From dogs & cats miraculously surviving in demolished buildings & abandoned shelters, to exotic wildlife helplessly stranded in the nation's zoos, unbelievable rescue efforts are underway to extract animals from the war zone and bring them to safety.

Some of the rescued animals unexpectedly become online celebrities, such as Patron the Jack Russell terrier, who was awarded the Order of Courage by President Zelenskyy for his work locating unexploded landmines.

Inspiring the very best of the human spirit in the face of mortal danger, ordinary people do extraordinary things in this astonishing celebration of our bond with animals, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Irish Film Institute’s Documentary Festival in September.

Co-presented by the Salt Spring “Friends of Ukraine” Committee & the Salt Spring BCSPCA.

12/06/2024

To help support Viva Chorale's Christmas food bank concert, ArtSpring has a box in our lobby to collect non perishable food items leading up to December 20. If you are in buying tickets or visiting the lobby exhibition, please consider dropping an item into the collection. Tickets for the concert (on sale now) have a food bank component. Every year, enough community cheer and charity are raised to make a difference!

Come join us!

12/05/2024

Buy your tickets today to this powerful and inspiring documentary!

12/04/2024

TUE DEC 10 7:30pm | $5 Youth, $35 Adult, $15 Angel Tickets NOW AVAILABLE upon request.

Monster Theatre's "Juliet, A Revenge Comedy" asks the question – what if Shakespeare’s Juliet didn’t die? In this popular and award-winning show, we find Juliet stuck in an endless loop of turning a dagger on herself. But what if Juliet breaks out of her tragedy in search of a reason for her tragic demise? On the way, she recruits a team of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters to find out why they’ve been forced to die. Can they alter their fate or are they doomed to play out the same tragic tales for the rest of eternity?

Carly Pokoradi reprises her Jesse award-winning role playing over 20 characters including Lady Macbeth and Ophelia to bring this canon-bending comedy to life once more.

“...a delightful tale that’s equal parts feminist critique, Renaissance romp, and bravura acting not to be missed.” (NOW Toronto)

12/03/2024

Why are the arts relevant? The arts may be the last bastion of providing a safe space to have a difference of opinion. To have different responses or feelings without judgement. To be engaged, entertained, or enlightened. To stand next to your neighbour and 100% disagree over what you are experiencing, yet walk away as friends. The ultimate act of freedom of speech and expression.

The arts may be the biggest community-builder we have as a resource, and we hope you join us in our ongoing mission to keep this venue alive, relevant, and accessible to all on Salt Spring.

Thank you for your support this year.

12/03/2024

WED DEC 4 | 7:30pm | "Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story."

Presented by Salt Spring Film Festival, join us for this "Best of the Fests" screening. Once you hear Jackie Shane sing, you’ll never forget it. With an outsized stage presence that eclipsed even the greatest R&B artists, the Nashville-born transgender soul singer shattered barriers in Montreal & Toronto in the late 1960s and early ’70s with raw talent, courage and an unbreakable commitment to living as her authentic self.

Through dazzling state-of-the-art animation, never-before-heard recordings and an incredible soundtrack, the full scope of Jackie’s extraordinary life is revealed in this unforgettable portrait of a largely forgotten star miraculously brought back to life on the big screen.

Co-presented by Gulf Islands Community Radio and the Salt Spring Jazz & Blues Society.

Tickets $14 at artspring.ca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnlvygHhqrM&t=9s

Now playing in select theatres across Canada: https://events.nfb.ca/events/any-other-way-the-jackie-shane-story-in-cinemas/A Banger Films and The National Fi...