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Wild at Art Festival - March 14 - 23, 2008
Celebrate arts, culture and heritage along the Sea to Sky during this 10 day festival. There's fun for the whole family. Music, galleries, dance, theatre, film, culinary delights, wine tasting, train rides, Easter scavenger hunt and more. The hub is the West Coast Railway Heritage Park. Entrance to the Park is free during the festival. www.wildatart.ca for details or call 1 866-333-2010. Some ticketed events.
Consumer Art Group
A group of mental health consumers who meet to create art as a form
of therapy. Three teachers for drawing, painting and sculpting.
Contact: Gary Hughes
Box 1591 Squamish V0N 3G0
International Folk Dancing
Dance club which meets for fun get-togethers to learn ethnic dances
from around the world.
Contact: Theresa Silk or Astrid Lackner
Ph: 604 898 3604 (Brennan Park) or 604 898 1178
Sea to Sky Film Festival Committee
Hosts and organizes the annual Squamish Film Festival, usually in the
fall. Competition for short films from around the world.
Contact: Adrianne Polo
Ph: 604 898 5930
Email: apolo@shaw.ca
Squamish Spinners and Weavers
Box 227, Squamish V0N 3G0
Contact: Shirley Wilson
Ph: 604 892 3373
Howe Sound Performing Arts Association
Box 365 Garibaldi Highlands, BC V0N1T0
A not-for-profit society with charitable tax status whose mission is
to promote, assist and develop all forms of performing arts activity
in the community.
Phone contacts:
Tracy Stuchbry 604-898-3546
e-mail: info@howesoundarts.org
web: www.howesoundarts.org
Howe Sound
Quilters Guild
A group of mixed ages and quilting abilities meeting each first Wednesday
of the month at the Sea to Sky Hotel, 7:00 pm. Newcomers welcome.
Contact: Colleen 604 898 9240
Squamish Arts Council
Contact: Katherine Kerr
Email: kkerr@telus.net
Website: www.squamishartscouncil.org
Sea to Sky Singers
Adult community choir which performs from September - April each year.
Anyone wishing to have Sea to Sky Singers perform at their function
is invited to phone for information.
Contact: Vernoica McPhee
Ph: 604 892 7819
Web: www.seatoskysingers.net/index.htm
Squamish Community Band
Gord/Jan Durocher
Ph: 1-888-227-0451 (Gord)
or 604-898-3604 (Jan).
Squamish Nation Dance Group
Open to all ages. The dancers, wearing traditional costumes, perform
traditional songs and dances of the Squamish Naton that have been passed
on from the elders.
Box 2180, Squamish, B.C. V0N 3G0
Contact: Linda Williams
Ph: 604- 892-5166
Email: linda_williams@squamish.net
Howe Sound Players
Louisa Jardine-Ourum, President
Ph: 604-898-3332
Tony Biggin-Pound,
Ph: 604-898-9279. Fax: 604-898-3177
Box 2044, Squamish, B.C.
V0N 3G0
Between Shifts Theatre
Provides adults, youths and children in the corridor with an opportunity
to participate in and learn live theatre arts and skills. A member of
Theatre BC, BST competes in festivals and provides workshops and other
educational activities facilitated by professional theatre personnel
on an affordable basis to its members.
Kathy Daniels
Ph: 604-892-5078 Fax: 604-892-2267
Box 5121, Squamish
V0N 3G0
Email: kathy.daniels@sscs.ca
Web: betweenshiftstheatre.com
Diamond Head Legion Pipe
Band
Also known as the Black Tusk Caledonia Pipe Band. Always looking for
new members.
Contact: Luc Leblanc
Ph: 604 898 4260
Email: lucleblanc@shaw.ca
Squamish Writers' Group
Meets two or three times a month to workshop works of fiction, non-fiction
and poetry. This is a newly formed groups with big plans! Call for info
on next meeting or check website.
Contact: Jude Goodwin
Ph: 604 898 1013
Email: jude@goodwinstudios.com
web: squamishwriters.blogspot.com
Squamish Youth Theatre
To foster and develop youth talent in theatre. Performs short plays
in March at the Eagle Eye Theatre. Auditions take place early January.
Box 3640 Garibaldi Highlands V0N 1T0
Contact: Adriane Polo
Ph: 604 898 5930
Email: apolo@shaw.ca
VISUALS, Squamish
Valley Artists' Society
Supports the development, education and promotion of local visual artists.
Membership is open to individuals, businesses and/or organizations actively
engaged in the production of original works of art and/or people who
support the goals of the Society.
Box 1482 Squamish BC V8B 0G1
Contact: Wanda Doyle (President)
Ph: 604 896 0159
Email: wandad@telus.net
Web: www.squamishart.com
Foyer Gallery, Squamish
Public Library
37907 2nd Avenue, downtown Squamish
Web: Squamish
Public Library Foyer Gallery
Brackendale Art Gallery
- Centre for the Arts
41950 Government Rd., Brackendale BC
Ph: 604 898 3333
Web: www.brackendaleartgallery.com
Open Weekends & Holidays, Noon - 10:00 pm
Squamish Nation Artists
and Online Galleries
Web: www.squamish.net
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