An annual celebration celebrating folks of all ages that make Wells a part of their art-full life!
We’re looking for new board members for our organization! Join us!
Join Snack Witch Joni Cheung in the Wells-Barkerville Community School Kitchen for some hand-folded, edible goodies!
In the IMA Public Gallery from Jan 10th - Feb 23rd, 2025
Lights. Camera. Action! Young Movie Makers returns March 17th - 21st, 2025
The 2025 International Harp School runs Aug 11 - 15th, with a special welcome on Sunday the 10th.
November 10th, 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM (2323 Pooley Street)
Cost: $45.00
Kick off the holiday season with a cozy day of creating watercolour art cards for the holidays! Create 2-3 mini art pieces and use your favourite image to scan onto personalized greeting cards. In this step by step watercolour class you'll learn great techniques and understand how to work with one of the most versatile art mediums. All supplies are included and you get to keep a specially designed Butterfly Forest Paint dot palette so you can keep on painting with pure watercolours. This workshop is perfect for beginner to intermediate painters and anyone who just wants to come have fun.
Artist Bio: Christina has instructed hundreds of in-person classes throughout the province and designed online courses reaching students around the globe. In addition to teaching she has also created her own watercolour paint brand, Butterfly Forest Paints sold online and in small stores throughout North America. Her passion lies with helping other artists succeed and assists the PG Community Arts Council as a part-time gallery/gift shop coordinator. She is a very down to earth individual and loves to play and laugh till she cries.
All ages included! Please contact info@imarts.com for any questions.
Registration closes by November 1st, so reserve your spot now!
We are excited to invite you to our 2024 auction event! Whether you can make it to our gallery, or can only participate from afar, come bid on some fabulous donations of artwork, unique items and experiential packages. All proceeds from the auction directly support IMA in our programming, such as our Artist-in-Residence program, Toni Onley Artist's Project, the ArtsWells Festival and much, much more!
Look out for the link to the online auction event. Be sure to follow IMA on all socials to keep updated on our prizes!
Early Bird to June 30th - $399.00 + GST + $10.73 Fees = $429.68 total.We will be hosting two songwriting workshops from July 30th to August 2nd: Youth Songwriting & Creation and Adult Songwriting.
The Toni Onley Artist Projects, which focuses on the exploration and development of visual artists, will have a maximum of 12 spaces available. This year's mentors are Rita McKeough and Peter Flemming!
MULCHMULCHMULCH is MULCH Collective’s first experience collaborating and exhibiting work together. The works presented are the result of a year-long endeavour to establish an artistic network of collaboration and cooperation, in an effort to support, degenerate, entangle, repurpose, and enrich each others works and practices.
It is a PAY WHAT YOU CAN screening!
An allegory contemplating the nuances of forest stewardship and the interconnectedness of monoculture tree farms with Canada's current wildfire crisis.
Join us for an afternoon artist talk with Rachel Rozanski, who’s exhibition of Archival earth is on at IMA from April 18th - May 19th.
This workshop explores creating cloth bags as collective storytelling.
Join artist Lisa Cristinzo for a hands-on workshop on creating bioplastics from renewable biomass sources.
In a workshop full of play and connection to place, participants will work with wild colour sources to make ink. No art experience is required, only curious minds.
In this workshop you will learn basic techniques to create a wall hanging on a frame loom.
an artist residency, considering what that means in the midst of the climate crisis. Applications due Feb 23rd (Extended from Feb 18th) .
Island Mountain Art's Annual General Meeting is upon us!
We will have option to attend in person and online this year. Please register in advance so we can make sure we have enough space for everyone!
https://forms.gle/vQ5uqGREu6y9pSMP9
If you have any questions, please send them along to info@imarts.com
Join us for Rachel Rozanski’s Archival Earth
April 18th - May 19th
Thursday - Sunday, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Harp School is back!
Featuring instructors Shoshanna Godber, Sharlene Wallace and Amelia Romano!
This year’s harp school runs August 17th to 21st, with a special meet and greet on Friday, August 16th in the evening!
During the mornings, dive in with your selected teachers. Then in the afternoons, hear all about a special topic!
Evening concerts and events to be announced!
Secure your space at the early bird rate ($399 until June 15th) - Click Here!
Join Shoshanna's Novice/Intermediate Harp Workshop for a holistic musical journey! Learn practical steps to take to minimize stage fright from a self-proclaimed “Nervous Nelly” with insights learned the hard way. Gain strategies for effective practice to help you learn pieces faster. Delve into warm-up routines tailored for technique enhancement and learn how to apply the technical exercises to jamming with with fellow musicians and crafting your own unique arrangements.
Shoshanna’s Specialty Workshop: "Singing Strings - How to Accompany Yourself or Others on the Harp"
Do you wish you could sing while you play? Shoshanna will give you ideas on how to get started accompanying yourself. Not interested in singing? Fear not! The strategies presented can be applied to accompanying other instruments as well. Participants will learn hands-on how to craft a simple arrangement which will get them accompanying themselves and others right away.
About the instructor: Coming soon!
Inspiration. Fluidity. Beauty. Technique. Repertoire. Harp-Joy!
Shar's Intermediate harp class will dive into new tunes, left hand accompaniments, exercises and arranging ideas while incorporating technical ease, pattern recognition, beauty tone, expressive playing, improvisation and... other joyful inspirations!
Shar's Specialty Workshop: Learn a new Shar-Tune
Bring your harp and joy to learn a new tune written just for you! Sharlene will guide you through her piece musically, technically and compositionally. All levels are very welcome.
About the Instructor
Canadian harpist and composer, Sharlene Wallace, is a musician flowing between and mingling Classical, folk and contemporary genres and performing, recording and teaching on both pedal and lever (Celtic) harps. Winner of two international competitions, Sharlene has toured internationally and performed in festivals and concert series across North America and in Europe. She has released seven albums featuring her compositions inspired by explorations with South American, Celtic, Classical and contemporary music. This year, Sharlene will be releasing a new album of Shar-compositions for acoustic and electric lever harps with electronics by Jean Martin. She is also creating a co-composition recording-performance-environmental project, Trees.Listen, with composer Frank Horvat, also for Celtic harp and electronics. Sharlene teaches lever and pedal harp at Wilfrid Laurier University and York University. sharlenewallace.com
Dive into the world of syncopation and classical music for lever instruments with Amelia Romano’s advanced class!
Amelia’s Specialty Class: Writing for harp in chamber music
In this session, Amelia will present two works demonstrating the process of arranging with lever harp as the focal point.
About the Instructor
Amelia Romano (harp, voice) is a concertizing lever harpist, programming classical re-imaginations alongside original works. She received her master’s in classical lever harp performance at San Francisco State University under the tutelage of Karen Gottlieb, retired second harpist of the San Francisco Symphony. Her latest album, “Levers Engaged: Classical Works Re-imaged for Harp '' and sheet music collection “Classical Re-imaginations," present the instrument as a valid voice in classical music. A composer, arranger and trailblazer in the lever harp world, she is equally at home writing Latin America inspired works for solo harp as she is adapting classical pieces for chamber collaborations.
Lights. Camera. Action!🎬✨
Are the young people in your life interested in storytelling, scriptwriting, editing, or acting? Island Mountain Arts and @youngmoviemakers are excited to introduce a four day filmmaking camp coming up on March 25th - 28th 2024 for youth aged from 6-17.
A part of the Northern Exposure Conference, featuring performances from Method Dance (Dance), Elisa Thorn (Music), and Amanda Wood (Music + Storytelling)
A part of the Northern Exposure Conference, featuring performances from Ben Matchett (Music), Brian Fidler (Theatre) and Genevieve Jaide (Music)
Armed with a Compass is a 2.5 day conference. Part workshop, part networking and part showcasing, together we will dive into the climate crisis from the perspective of rural arts and events organizers, with a particular emphasis on emergency preparedness.
A Free Plein Air outing with Wells-Local painter, Peter Corbett - Register here: https://forms.gle/efYfN2EkU4J1ePqj6
Live music after the lifts close - by donation at the door in the Troll Ski Hill Lodge - (7271 Barkerville Hwy)
February 01 2024 - March 03 2024: an annual showcase of work from the students of Wells. If you have home-schooled students who would like to showcase art, please message Elyssia Sasaki at elyssia@imarts.com.
We will prepare food and refreshments for this session - please RSVP using this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfk3beOqqOofJZzmi9ItL4o_0UN8B-Tc7q3RwqFL2NYd-E4Lw/viewform
The music and art that we program is made infinitely better when it is grounded in principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). As arts administrators, we curate our offerings to embrace art and artists of different genres and experiences, and seek to ensure fair access for all to enjoy and participate in our activities and operations. We have work to do to make this goal a reality, work that requires humility, courage, and commitment.
In order to make room for all voices to be heard we need to create forums to engage with individuals and groups in our community, especially those that are marginalized and under-represented, to better understand their needs and desires. In partnership with Island Mountain Arts, Coldsnap 2024 will host a facilitated “Northern IDEA’s” workshop, toward increasing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Northern Arts community.
This conversation will be facilitated by Amy Blanding (Director of Inclusion, Equity, Diversity and Accessibility at Northern Health
This conversation is presented in partnership with the Coldsnap Music Festival and supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Sunset Theatre, Island Mountain Arts and Frog on the Bog Gifts invite you to ring in the new year with a 1930's flair.
An annual celebration of work from the Wells-Barkerville Bowron area
Join our hip-hop classes every second Monday
Artwork, experiences, items and more! All in support of a more art-full life!
We’re taking a seasonal break through October and November.
Do you want to get in touch with the gallery? Message us at info@imarts.com
Capture a bit of the warmth that this summer gave you by writing and addressing a postcard to your future self. IMA will collect them and hold them close, and send them to you at an undisclosed time sometime this winter.This event is a part of the End of Season Block Party: https://fb.me/e/78OATsbuk. This event is free to all.
