

Sun, May 15
|West Vancouver
Creative Voices: Art + the Environment
Meet next to the Silk Purse Arts Centre for a shoreline walk & gallery tour to reconsider what may be underneath our ocean surface, learn about efforts to protect & clean our waters & how art can be tool for advocacy.
Time & Location
May 15, 2022, 11:00 a.m.
West Vancouver, 1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1A1, Canada
Guests
About the Event
Creative Voices: Art + the Environment. Sunday May 15, 11am.
Meet next to the Silk Purse Arts Centre for a shoreline walk & gallery tour to reconsider what may be underneath our ocean surface, learn about efforts to protect & clean our waters & how art can be tool for advocacy. Join Amy Liebenberg from @divinginbc , Henry Wang from Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans @cleanerlakes , & Ruth Simons from Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society @howesoundbiosphere , for a walk along the Ambleside shoreline, as they offer insights on environmental sustainability & issues currently affecting our oceans. The short walk returns to the Silk Purse Gallery to meet artists Cath Hughes @cathhughes71 & Monica Gewurz @mgdesignsca , & view the touring exhibition Diving In: Turning Trash into Treasure comprised of ocean trash reimagined as innovative works of art.