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The Growing Season, with Sunshine Coast Arts Council
In summer 2025, The Only Animal’s artistic director Barbara Adler and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council are collaborating to convene an emergent artist residency that will emphasize accessibility, disability justice and connection with the land. Bringing together local artists and organizations alongside off-Coast guests, they’ll share a series of curated artist workshops, talks and open studios in relation to the growing season at accessible growing sites in Sechelt and Gibsons.
The Growing Season runs May – October and connects the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre and KIOSK, a new tiny mobile studio at Persephone Beer Farm.
Artist Residencies at KIOSK
See what’s growing at the Sunshine Coast’s newest cultural space. KIOSK is a tiny mobile artist studio and natural dye garden at Persephone Beer Farm. From ink and paper-making to drawing, illustration, photography, weaving, dyeing, fibre-processing, writing, sound and film — KIOSK showcases the expansive practices of Sunshine Coast artists working with locally grown, gathered and found materials.
2025 Artists
Mar – May: Nadina Tandy
Jun – Jul: The Only Animal
August: Georgina Brandon and Cambria Logan
Sept – Oct: To be announced
Fibre Farm
A new artist-led textile + fibre garden at the beer farm! This multi-year project will unfold in response to the patterns of seasons and harvests, beginning in 2025.
Lead artist: Tʼuyʼtʼtanat-Cease Wyss
Programming
Access and Disability Justice: Mosaic Mending at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council
Megan Dewar uses mosaic to visibly mend access barriers at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, creating an Access and Disability Justice commitment framework to integrate into programming, projects, and procedures. This project will collaborate with The Only Animal, the Cinder Circle Collective, and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council throughout the summer to activate the relationship between accessibility, and sustainable growing.
The Only Animal’s Slow Social Club
The Only Animal hosts relaxed meet-ups to share methods for slow, process-led art making using seasonal plants and other local materials. Once a month, you’ll meet a guest artist, work with freshly gathered materials and encounter a short reading selected for you by the artist. Meet your neighbours - human, and ‘non-human’ - and enjoy hands-on creativity inspired by the seasonal rhythms of our home.
Dates: June 22, July 6, August 3, September 21*, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: 5714 Medusa St, Sechelt, BC
Cost: Free and by donation
* Sept 21 meetup at KIOSK.
The Only Animal Open Studio at KIOSK
Join The Only Animal and friends at the Beer Farm for Open Studio days where you can pop-in and participate in our summer residency by dyeing, printing, dipping and painting fabrics using locally gathered plants that we harvest and process from growing sites on the farm and in the community.
Date: Most Sundays June 1-July 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Persephone Beer Farm, 1053 Stewart Rd, Gibsons, BC
Cost: Free and by donation
Creative Sundays at KIOSK
Pop-up encounters with Sunshine Coast artists, artisans and makers. The Sunshine Coast is home to a vibrant community of creators working in every discipline, from painting, to illustration, to film, theatre, dance and more. Come see who’s working at the KIOSK on Sundays between May and November, buy some goods and support local creative practice.
Date: Most Sundays August 10 - October 26, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Persephone Beer Farm, 1053 Stewart Rd, Gibsons, BC
Cost: Free and by donation
Collaborators
- Persephone Brewing
- Cinder Circle Collective
- Sunshine Coast Fibreshed
- Persephone Gardening Club
Guest Artists
- Nadina Tandy
- Kerri Flannigan
- Sarita Opal Moodie
- Catherine Nicholls
- Toni-Leah C. Yake
- Art & Fungi
- anana laylay
- Annie Simms
Locations
- Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (Project Space and accessible garden bed)
- KIOSK Mobile Studio and surrounding growing space at Persephone Brewing
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