Join us this weekend for Lumby Days
The Monashee Arts Council is excited to return to Lumby Days with Raku, as well as the Photography Contest and Art show. Be sure to also check out the demonstrators and youth Art corner! Be sure to vote for Peoples Choice!
‘Found! Upcycled Art
“The act of taking something no longer in use and giving it a second life and new function. In doing so, the finished product often becomes more practical, valuable and beautiful than it previously was.”
Upcycling has been part of our lives for years. From giving an old scuffed-up cabinet a paint job, to creating beautiful quilts from damaged or outgrown clothes. After all who hasn’t turned a cardboard box into a treasure chest, or a fort to defend?
Come check out what our Artists have created with items that at another time may have been thrown away in our increasingly disposable society, from unusual canvases to materials given new life.
The show will run from June 9th through July 5th at the Village Gallery
Busking comes to Lumby
Did you know that the Village of Lumby is doing a one-year trial of welcoming Busking to the sidewalks of Vernon Street and Shuswap Avenue for 2024.
Performers can include acoustic musicians, dancers, jugglers, singers and many other performance artists to perform for the public and earn some money in their hats or guitar cases.
Permits are required
Contact the Village of Lumby for more information. Permits are available at the Village Office
Call for Artists – Flower Power
“Let a hundred flowers bloom (, let a hundred schools of thought contend?)” – Mao Tse-Tung
‘Flower Power’ has been the slogan of the anti-war movement in the USA. While the poem by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae “In Flander’s fields the poppies blow” commemorates those who have fallen, and every year reminds us of the terrible sacrifices made during the war. The crimson red flowers are now offered by grieving people at funerals or the sites of tragedies.
The Cempasuchil (marigolds) decorate the statues on Dia de los Muertos in Mexico. Flowers are symbols of resistance and solidarity in Chile and in Hong Kong; and of religious belief in India.
The images and use of flowers are a powerful expression of human longing for renewal, a transient beauty immortalized, expressing powerful emotions about our own human condition.
The Art Show at the Village Gallery this July is all about ‘Flower Power’. We want your inspiration and interpretation of the topic of the power of a flower.
