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Arts - Visual

#hopeandhealingcanada

10:00 am - Sat, Oct 12th, 2024 to Sat, May 3rd, 2025
at Kelowna Art Gallery

#hopeandhealingcanada invites an understanding between Indigenous and settler communities through a site-specific installation hand-crafted with vibrant red yarn. Read more

In a Strange Place

10:00 am - Sat, Jan 18th, 2025 to Sun, Mar 23rd, 2025
at Kelowna Art Gallery

In a Strange Place is a meditative 9-channel video installation and social engagement project that delves into the future of our forests and those who care for them. Read more

Wynne Leung McIntosh // True Songs

11:00 am - Fri, Feb 28th, 2025 to Sat, Mar 22nd, 2025
at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

True Songs is a deeply personal series born from a year of transition, reflection, and reconnection during the pandemic. Having spent eight years away from Canada, I returned feeling like a stranger in my homeland. This series became a way to explore British Columbia and rediscover a sense of belonging amidst the uncertainty. Read more

Paths that Ghosts Follow - Art Exhibition

1:00 pm - Sat, Mar 8th, 2025 to Sun, Apr 27th, 2025
at Lake Country Art Gallery

Featuring the work of Daniela Cinel O'Fee and My Name Is Scot, Read more

Similkameen Artist Residency // The Guest Book

5:00 pm - Fri, Mar 21st, 2025 to Fri, May 9th, 2025
at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

The Guest Book is a dynamic, rotating group exhibition that reflects on creative gestures made in the Okanagan-Similkameen. Read more

Emily Geen // Generation

11:00 am - Fri, Mar 28th, 2025 to Fri, May 9th, 2025
at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

This exhibition explores possible understandings of the word “generation.” Loosely referencing a living room, the exhibition space invites viewers to take a seat on an inflatable plastic couch of millennial childhood dreams and flip through the pages of album, an artist book project featuring found family snapshots interpreted by a naively poetic AI, as well as iridescent cellophane. Read more

AKB // manner(isms)

11:00 am - Fri, Mar 28th, 2025 to Fri, May 9th, 2025
at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

A meal. There’s nothing more common, more universally shared in every corner of the world, than the ritualistic togetherness of a meal. We all remember our favourite meals, the scent that fills homes through generations, or the rooms we hold in the core of our memories. Read more

Skin and Bones Music Series

- Tue, Apr 8th, 2025
at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

The duo of NPNP and Jairus Sharif will be performing for the first time in Kelowna on April 8th at DunnEnzies Downtown in Kelowna. This concert is the forty-third installment of the Skin And Bones Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan. Read more

Intro to Oil Painting - with Sparkle!

6:00 pm - Fri, Apr 25th, 2025 to Fri, May 9th, 2025
at Rotary Centre for the Arts

Join us for this three week course where you will learn both the fundamentals of oil painting, as well as unique ways you can incorporate gold leaf, and other materials into your work to add an extra bit of sparkle. Read more

Ebb and Flow

10:00 am - Sun, Nov 2nd, 2025 to Sun, Mar 30th, 2025
at Kelowna Art Gallery

Ebb and Flow explores the Okanagan Valley’s natural and cultural history through the Four Elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. This exhibition examines how these elements have shaped the valley’s landscape and influenced its inhabitants, from the ice age to the present. By highlighting the dynamic interplay between these fundamental forces, the exhibition fosters a deeper appreciation for the region’s rich heritage and ongoing evolution. Read more