Join us for an engaging conversation and guided tour of our current exhibitions with other adult learners. Free for Kamloops Adult Leaners Society members. Register online at kals.ca

Drawing from the strategies of feminism, science fiction, and social utopianism, Feminist Land Art Retreat’s exhibition Free Rein proposes an alternate world in which land and gender relations exist without ownership or hierarchies. To engage more deeply with these ideas, we will spend this season reading the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future.

Register at the Gallery or by phone at 250.377.2400. Early registration is encouraged and rewarded: the first 4 participants to register will receive a free copy of the book.

Join us Wednesday afternoons to make art and be creative with a rad group of youths!
Each week, participants have the opportunity to learn about new mediums and techniques. Guided by one of our art instructors and our teen intern, participants will be encouraged to become more comfortable with various materials and styles to open new doors of creativity.

We are a safe space that welcomes EVERYONE aged 13 to 23.

This program was created by the KAG Summer Interns and is generously sponsored by the Edwina and Paul Heller Memorial Fund with the Vancouver Foundation.

Join us for a preview tour of the exhibitions and studio workshops being offered. Enter our draw to win a free Interactive Tour + Studio Workshop for your class and enjoy some snacks, music and our cash bar.

Teachers’ Preview Nights are FREE for all teachers. Registration is appreciated.

Please contact our Emily Hope, Education and Public Programs Director at ehope [at] kag.bc.ca to RSVP.

Are you up to the challenge of creating the ugliest, most dreadful art ever? Join us in our studios to combine paint, glitter, pom poms, hot glue, clay and anything else you can find in the quest to create the most obnoxious artistic creation ever to have graced this Gallery. We’ll provide all the materials. You bring the creativity! No registration is required. Participants must be accompanied by an adult.

This program is offered in collaboration with the Kamloops Library.

Drop in to our studios to participate in hands-on art-making workshops and interactive tours of our exhibitions that encourage you to share your voice.

Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome, and all materials are provided.

Art is for Everybody is a part of our Multigenerational Programs that encourage creative cross-generational collaboration and honour the contributions that participants of all ages bring to our conversations. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Join us as we explore the exhibitions, engage with interactive activities in the Gallery and create artwork inspired by the exhibitions in our studios. Parents, guardians and younger siblings are welcome to join in, too!

Young Interpreters is offered as one of our School Programs for Homeschoolers and Alternative Learners. These programs are informed by the new BC Curriculum and encourage student-led, inquiry-based learning.

Does your child enjoy teaching? Encourage them to sign up as a Special Helper! Every month, we invite one of our Special Helpers to join our instructor to assist in leading the group. Special Helpers of all skill levels and abilities are welcome.

Drop in and screen-print your own commemorative Feminist Land Art Retreat poster or tote bag! Bring your own tote or use one of ours. All skill levels welcome. No registration required.

Bring your half-baked ideas, in-progress artwork and freshly finalized artist statements to get honest and critical feedback from your peers. If your work is too big to transport, digital images are okay too.

A cash bar and popcorn will be available. No registration is required.

We invite your young artists to join us on an all-day adventure to learn about the history and contemporary practice of land art--complete with a field trip to Riverside Park to create their own!

Extended care is available from 8:30 to 9:00 am and 3:00 to 3:30 pm for an additional $5 per day. Please call the Gallery to inquire.

Register online or by calling the Gallery 250.377.2400

Are you up to the challenge of creating a brilliant masterpiece in 60 seconds or less--while blindfolded and in costume? You could be our next Art Duel champion!

This year, we challenge you to come as your feminist Utopian alter-ego and battle against the patriarchy for a better world (and to win an exhibition). Participants will be judged on their costumes, performances and their artwork. The winner will be awarded a solo exhibition on our Open Gallery, and has the honour of taking home a magnificent trophy to display on their mantle.

Not interested in participating? Perhaps you'd rather judge? Or heckle? We need plenty of each. Free snacks and a cash bar will be available throughout the event.

Art Duel has space for 8 competitors. Register early to ensure your place in the competition. Visit the Gallery or call 250.377.2400.

Join us in our studios for a lively student-centered adventure in art-making. Each month, our instructor will guide the group through an exploration of a new theme and technique using storytelling, music and mark-making and then give your young artists time and support to work on their own. Shortly before the end of class, we will all gather to share our artwork and talk about what we learned. Parents, guardians and younger siblings are welcome to join in, too!

All materials are provided.
No registration required.

Young Peoples' Drawing Club is offered as one of our new School Programs for Homeschoolers and Alternative Learners. These programs are informed by the new BC Curriculum and encourage student-led, inquiry-based learning.

Does your child enjoy teaching? Encourage them to sign up as a Special Helper! Every month, we invite one of our Special Helpers to join our instructor to assist in leading the group. Special Helpers of all skill levels and abilities are welcome.

On March 21, the Gallery will partner with the Library to offer an all-day Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon towards improving content on cis and trans women, the arts and feminism on Wikipedia.

If you are new to editing, or just want to get a head start, join us for a drop-in learn-to-edit session. No registration is required, just bring your laptop or tablet and your enthusiasm!

CC image courtesy of RyanMinkoff on Wikimedia Commons, 2019

STATUS QUO? THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF FEMINISM IN CANADA

Feminism has shaped the society we live in. But just how far has it brought us? How relevant is it today? In this documentary award winning filmmaker Karen Cho focuses on key concerns such as violence against women, access to abortion and universal childcare, asking how much progress we have truly made on these issues. Rich with archival material and startling current stories, Status Quo? is thought provoking and moving.

Art+Feminism is a global do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia with the goal of improving content on cis and trans women, the arts and feminism on Wikipedia. Join us at the downtown branch of the Kamloops Library for an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art and feminism.

We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, childcare and refreshments. Bring your own laptop—or borrow one of ours—and your ideas for entries that need updating or creating. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

RSVP in advance for childcare. Please stop by the Gallery or contact us by phone at 250.377.2400.

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women.

Want to get started early? Join us for one of our drop-in learn-to-edit sessions. No registration is required, just bring your laptop or tablet and your enthusiasm! Please note, we will not have laptops available for loan at these sessions.

Thursday, February 20 // 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Wednesday, March 4 // 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 7 // 1:00 to 3:00 pm

CC image courtesy of RyanMinkoff on Wikimedia Commons, 2019