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We are a hub of creative activity on the Sunshine Coast. Wed - Sun: 12 - 4pm

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council operates the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre located in Sechelt, British Columbia. The SCAC is a volunteer-based non for profit society founded February 22, 1966 to raise the profile of local artists and artisans and to broaden the opportunities for the Sunshine Coast community to enjoy and to participate in cultural activities.

05/30/2026

✨Want to talk about drug use and drug toxicity on the Sunshine Coast? Come visit Jackie Dives exhibition "Of Course This Hurts", get Naloxone trained, and then bring your questions and curiosity to an "ask us anything" community panel.

💫Community Training and Peer Led Panel Discussion
📅 Wednesday, June 10, 330 - 530PM
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

✨Huge thanks to the Community Action Team for facilitating this offering. Immense gratitude to Jackie Dives and her photography practice. We are so thrilled to be supporting this work!

05/27/2026

✨Too many art supplies? Bring your extras to Stash Swap!
Reduce Waste – Make Space for New Creativity – Build Community

💫Stash Swap!
📅 Shoppers welcome: Wednesday, June 17, 430PM - 6PM
🎟️ Free - Drop In
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Reserve a table to swap - link in bio

✨If you're a maker, you've got art supply Stash! Bring that Stash you'll never use, and give it a new life. Discover new-to-you Stash for free or affordable prices. Make space in your studio. Foster a circular economy and our creative community

✨All are welcome to attend. Please register to reserve table space for your Stash. Swappers set up tables at 4PM!

05/21/2026

✨Come experience Jackie Dives "Of Course This Hurts" a photography project that tenderly documents the toxic drug supply crisis through the lives of people who are being impacted by this public health emergency.

💫Of Course This Hurts by Jackie Dives
📅 May 8th - June 13th
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨ Image 3: A stack of posters features 84 people who have died from overdose, which represents the number of people who die from overdose every two weeks in British Columbia.

✨Jackie Dives is a multi-disciplinary artist working within photography, video, performance, and installation. She uses both auto-ethnography and collaborative storytelling to address themes of social justice, trauma, grief, identity and community.

✨ This conversation is one of grief, healing, love, and activism.

05/14/2026

✨Please join the Sunshine Coast Arts Council to celebrate the launch of the Sunshine Coast’s newest fibre arts and culture hub: Fibre Farm an Indigenous-led, disability justice centered, growing and gathering space!

💫Fibre Farm Celebratory Launch
📅 Sunday, May 24th at 2PM
📍 Persephone beer farm • 1053 Stewart Road, Gibsons, BC
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨Art and fibre demos, storytelling, music, and a chance to participate in invasive species removal as you check-out the new accessible pathways, garden bed, fire pit, art studio, and deck.

✨Fibre Farm began with the dreamwork to use art as a pathway to increase relation to the land. It is committed to Skwxwu7mesh knowledge and practices and is honoured to bring T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss on as Lead Artist for the design of the garden, remediation of the on-site pond, and storytelling of the project working closely with Jaz Whitford. To uphold the value of access, Megan Dewar, a physically disabled wheelchair user and artist, has been coordinating the creation of accessible infrastructure on this project. Fibre Farm is excited to welcome you into a season of arts workshops involving growing, harvesting, dying, weaving, and everything related to learning how to appreciate and process fibre art!

05/11/2026

💫Print • Dye • Transform: Botanical Textile Teen Art Intensive. Join textile artist and educator Natalie Grambow for an inspiring weekend of colour, creativity, and sustainable fashion exploration. Using plants, natural dyes, and upcycled textiles, teens will experiment with printmaking, surface design, and wearable art techniques to create unique fabric pieces and transformed clothing.

📅 July 11 - 12 2026, 10AM - 4PM
🎟️ $230/$280 (MEM/NON)
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨Teens will explore botanical printing, shibori-inspired resist dyeing, and creative textile processes while learning how art and sustainability can work together. Through guided projects and playful experimentation, teens will build creative intuition, develop new artistic skills, and explore further connections with nature, patterns, colour, sustainability and fashion

✨Discover connections between sustainability, fashion, art, and nature.
No experience needed! This camp is all about being creative, exploring new things, and having fun while making and learning!

05/07/2026

✨Hackett Park Artisan Fair extended deadline! We have heard from many of you that more time with vendor applications is needed. Please submit your applications by May 19th!

💫 Hackett Park Vendor Applications
📅 Extended Deadline: May 19th
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio

We are seeing many talented artists, artisans, and food vendor applications this year! Keep them coming!

05/04/2026

✨ New exhibition coming this week! Claudia Medina "NAGUALA (An Offering)" with soundscape by Sophia Sanford

💫 "NAGUALA (An Offering)" by Claudia Medina
📅 Opening Reception + Artist Talk Friday, May 8 at 5PM
📅 Exhibition, May 8th - June 13th
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨ Naguala is an immersive video and sound installation that explores the rich Mexican tradition of nagualismo—a spiritual and cultural worldview rooted in communication, transformation, and interconnection. The installation reimagines the boundaries between the human and non-human, inviting viewers into the realm of the Naguala, where animals, plants, earth, cosmos, and ancestral spirits intertwine.

✨Claudia’s work seeks to untangle tradition and culture, and how this connects to the non-human world, and intergenerational relationships. At the heart of Naguala is a desire to decentre the human and re-story our existence beyond hierarchical frameworks. Claudia has been drawn to deepen her understanding of Nahua knowledge—not as folklore or mysticism—but as a relevant and vital worldview rooted in connection, reciprocity, and transformation.

05/03/2026

✨ New exhibition coming this week! Jackie Dives "Of Course This Hurts" is a photography project that intimately documents the toxic drug supply crisis through the lives of people who are being impacted by this public health emergency.

💫 "Of Course This Hurts" by Jackie Dives
📅 Opening Reception + Artist Talk Friday, May 8 at 5PM
📅 Exhibition, May 8th - June 13th
📍 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨ The images explore love, grief, bodily autonomy, trauma, and healing, as experienced by drug policy activists, frontline workers, people who use drugs, and their family members in British Columbia, where overdose is the leading cause of death for people aged 10-59.

✨Jackie Dives is a multi-disciplinary artist working within photography, video, performance, and installation. She uses both auto-ethnography and collaborative storytelling to address themes of social justice, trauma, grief, identity and community. Her work has been recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts, the B.C. Arts Council, and the Digital Publishing Awards, and has been exhibited and screened internationally including in venues such as the Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver), Gallery Gachet (Vancouver), and the Maysles Documentary Center (New York). Her clients include The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, among others.

05/02/2026

✨NOW OPEN: Exhibition Submissions for 2027! We welcome proposals each year for exhibitions at the Arts Centre in Sechelt!

💫Exhibition Submissions for 2027!
⏰ Deadline to apply: June 28th, 2026 @ 4PM
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨We are looking for submissions from the greatest range of art mediums and forms (analog and digital). Reflecting our program priorities for the coming year, we are highlighting three areas of interest that we strongly encourage proposals for: Art and Ecology, Disability Justice and Access Intimacy, and Printmaking. We will also accept proposals for exhibitions and artwork beyond these themes - please check out our website for more information!

✨Do you have questions about the submissions process? Join us in our live Q+A Zoom sessions!

🗓Saturday, June 3rd | 4PM-5PM
and
🗓Saturday, June 10th | 6PM-7PM
🔗 Link in bio to register!

Registration links at the bottom of the web page!

05/01/2026

✨Artist Call! Kiosk: A Tiny Studio Artist Residency. We invite artists and artisans from the Lower Coast to express their interest in being part of a growing artist residency hosted by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council at the Persephone Beer Farm on the traditional lands of the Squamish Nation (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw).

💫 A Tiny Studio Artist Residency Call
⏰ Deadline to apply: May 31st, 2026 @ 4PM
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt
🔗 Link in bio for more info

✨Through an Open Call process, beginning in Summer 2026, artists will be provided a two-week residency at no cost, and encouraged (but not required), to engage in public engagement activities ranging from open studios, demo workshops, marketplaces, readings, screenings, and more.

✨KIOSK provides artists access to 100sqft of space, generously donated by CLICK! Homes, and now sited on the scenic Persephone Beer Farm in Gibsons.

Address

5714 Medusa Street , P. O. Box 1565
Sechelt, BC
V0N3A0

Opening Hours

Wednesday	12pm - 4pm
Thursday	12pm - 4pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+16048855412

Website

http://sunshinecoastartscouncil.com/

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