-- Standout." events
include: ;
Stone. sculptor Michael .
Binkley, . weaver’ Jane
Kenyon’ and First Nations

- Vancouver Seniors’

Vancouver is the subject of an ArtSpeak discussion today at noon by
Adrian Archambault, who has spent the past five years researching
.Binning through discussions with the late artist's wife, Jessie (above).

- Sixth annual W. Van festival kicks off

;. By Layne Christensen ;
‘Community Reporter

-. LAST Friday’s reception at West

Ca

Centre was the official opening

_ .Of Harmony Arts but it wasn’t

necessarily the beginning.
it has taken six months to organize
this week’s events and six years to bring

_ West Vancouver’s festival of the arts to

its current state, says festival coordinator
Valerie. York, .
... “As it becomes more established, th
‘level (of quality) keeps going up,” says
York of the 10-day celebration which
transforms streets and parks from
Ambleside to Dundarave into outdoor
showcases for arts and crafts, music and
theatre. Participation, too, continues to
climb.

Last year more than 200 artists and

artisans and 110 musical performers
r contributed to the festival’s success. This

year those numbers climb to 275 and
216 respectively.

More than 250 volunteers assisted
with last year’s festival, which organizers
estimate was attended by more than
10,000 local residents and visitors to the
area. This year, York places the volunteer
count at 400,

Ruth Payne, coordinator of the
Ferry Building Gallery, has seen partici-
pation in the festival’s popular ArtBeat
street gallery skyrocket.

Last year 80 merchants volunteered

ir store windows to showcase the
works of North Shore artists, both
emerging and established. This year the
“gallery walk” encompasses 150 store
windows along Bellevue and Marine
between 13th and 25th streets.

Removing art from the confines of a
gallery setting and taking it ro the streets

a te Woe 1s IS NEWS photo Cindy Googman
B.C. Binning's light-hearted drawings ‘as a record of life in West

makes art accessible to the public, says
Payne.’ And that’s exactly the goal of
Harmony Arts.

“It’s really isa visual feast out there,”
says Payne. “And it makes art (and the

GALLERIES 7T\.

Government of Canada Fine
Arts Gallery (W.V. Memorial
-Library): Emerging from the
Dark, works in pencil. pastels,
and watercolors by artist
Wilfred Alinas, to Aug. 31;

. Lacal Scenes, watercolors and

egg tempera works by Michael
Brouillet. to Aug. 31. Lower
Mainland _ artists who would

- like to apply for an exhibit dur-

ing the 1997 schedule at the
library gallery are invited to
submit works for selection.

Call 925-7410 for details.

Ferry Building Gallery:
Harmony Arts Festival Group
Show, Free. info: 925-7290.
Silk .Purse Arts Centre:

- Harmony Arts Festival Group

Show, to Aug. 18, Uf a.m.-8
p.in. 925-7292.

Seymeur Art Gallery: Male
Time, oil paintings on canvas
by Bruce Perry, shows soulful
portraits of men depicting the
journey of life, Seymour Ait
Gallery lobby, to Aug. 19, My
Ocean, My Coast, watercolors
by West Van artist and sailor
Colin Hempsall,

exhibition.
‘continues to Aug. 18.

Object, an exhibition of fused
and slumped glass objects by
Brock Craig, Aug. 21-Sept. 15;
opening reception, 7-9 p.m.,
Aug. 21, artists talk/slide
show, 7 p.m. Aug. 28. Mer-
amorphosis, Unemed_ intaglio
prints by Biliana Velkova,
Aug. 21-Oct. 13: opening
reception, 7-9 p.m.. Aug. 21.
Info: 924-1378.

North Vancouver District
Hall Gallery: Art Exhibition.
paintings by Bowen Island
artist Bill Hoopes and Barogue
Variations, three-dimensional

_ works, by Vancouver artist

Pau! De Guzman sia, are on

a

arts) friendly,” 7
A complete schedule of

Wednesday, August 14, 1996 - North

i

HEWS photo Paul MeGrath '

JURORS Elizabeth Evans (left) and Bart Head, as well as festi-.
vai image creator Colin Righton, show. their works alongside —
those of the 37 artists they juried for a joint exhibition at the
Ferry Building and Silk Purse galleries through Aug. 25.

Harmony Arts

events ts available for pickup at the Ferry

display until Aug. 29.

West Vancouver Museum

and Archives: West Vancouver
ibition features

-W.Y. schools, photography and

Lawson Family collections
from the Museum and

Archives as well as personal -

collections from W.V. resi-
dents. Last chance to see local
collections of Chinese paper-
cuts, cookbook and biscuit
tins, skulls from Lighhouse
Park, spoons from around the
world and a royal tea cup col-
lection, closes Sept. 1, Tues.
Sun.. 1} a.m.-5 p.m. 925-7295,
North Vancouver Museum

Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave. The
festival wraps Sunday, Aug. 18.

and Archives: Tools, Trades
and. Technological: Change,
exhibition, to Sept. 2. Norgate
and North. Lonsdale Neigh-
borhoods, to Sept. 2. Charles
H. Cates & Sons, to Oct. 1.
North. Lonsdaie & Norgate:
Two NV Communities, to
Sept. 2. Wednesday to Sunday,
noon to 5 p.m, 987-5618.

THEATRE

Presentation House Theatre: '.
NoShtic, North Shore: Theatre’ -

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