The Chorus is Speaking: Experiencing Identities of Blackness in Canada

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Campbell River Art Gallery, "The Chorus is Speaking," 2022

Join us on June 11th, 5-7pm to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition The Chorus is Speaking 

Super Saturday: Assemblage Art

Join us at the gallery on August 13th at 12:00 pm for the CRAG’s Super Saturday! We will be making assemblage art inspired by the exhibiting artist in The Chorus is Speaking, Jan Wade! Jan’s memory jugs are created using items she has collected and found throughout her life, once assembled they come alive as a visual representation of the artist’s life, history, experiences and thoughts. Bring your own items to add to pieces!

Sunday Screening 3rd and Final Session

For our final session of Sunday Screenings we will be watching "Tesfaye", an experimental documentary. "Tesfaye" is structured as, and intended to be watched in conjunction with, a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. The CRAG is honoured to have director Daniel D Negatu coming to the Gallery to facilitate the coffee ceremony and screening LIVE in the main gallery!

This is a free event, however we have a limited capacity - Make sure to Register!

The Chorus is Speaking features 8 artists of incredible insight and inventiveness: Ojo Agi - Christina Battle - Charles Campbell - Chantal Gibson - Dana Inkster - Karin Jones - Jane Wade - Syrus Marcus Ware; who are brought together in an exploration of facets of the Black experience on Turtle Island through sculpture, drawing and painting, installation, film, and poetry. This exhibition is an opening, a start to a necessary conversation and a welcoming for new dialogues and voices to be heard on Ligwiłda’xw territory.