The Christina Living Arts Centre

Located in the heart of Christina Lake in the community park, the Christina Living Arts Centre celebrates its official Grand Opening on August 6, 2010. The focus of ten years work to create a Welcome centre for the region, it will serve as an interpretive centre and as a tourist attraction that will showcase the region’s vibrant arts and cultural life, as well as its commitment to environmental sustainability. A gallery will display arts and crafts created by artists and artisans from throughout the entire Boundary region. The Centre will also offer a “Taste of the Kettle Valley” section for local food producers to display and serve their products. A retail shop, including on-line sales capability, will offer locally produced items, as well as a variety of other tourist-related products for sale to visitors.

The facility will also serve as a learning centre offering a variety of evening, weekend, and summer courses in art, craft and ecological design that will be open to the community. In addition to its arts and crafts component, the Christina Living Arts Centre will focus on the promotion of environmentally and socially responsible practices through a variety of demonstration projects, programs that raise awareness and educate, as well as provide direct services to the public. An interpretive centre will demonstrate the work of the Christina Lake Stewardship Society in protecting our fragile ecosystems.

An Eco Machine will be treating all of the wastewater from the Centre, R.V.’s and the proposed Seniors Housing Project. The Eco Machine will be an incredible teaching tool about our ecosystems, showing how nature works to break down waste through microbes, fish, snails and aquatic plants, and produces clean water without the use of chemicals or other compounds harmful to our environment. It will be housed in a greenhouse, where visitors and classes can come and see the process at work. There are no objectionable odours, only the fragrance of growing plants and flowers in the greenhouse.

The next phase of this project will include a Studio Centre for artisans and an outside amphitheatre for summer music and performances.

For more info visit our website at www.kettleriverarts.com

The Grand Forks Art Gallery was established in 1984. The Grand Forks Art Gallery Society celebrates Art as an essential part of the human experience. The gallery presents a balanced exhibition and educational program representing historical and contemporary works by established and emerging regional, national and international artists.

2009 Exhibition schedule

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