Opening Saturday: BITS & PIECES, our biggest group show EVER! 🎉

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NEW CLASS ALERT! Join us at Pigeons in Oils and paint a beautiful, unappreciated bird while exploring oils as a medium! 🕊️

TONIGHT, May 5, 6:00 PM: It's time again for Ballard Sketch Team at Hattie's Hat! Join us in the backroom for chill hang outs, good eats, and casual doodling! 🍻FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, May 6, 6:00 PM: No joke, Stitch n' Bitch is always a great time! Bring your half-finished knitting, cross stitch, and other fiber arts projects and get some time in on them while hanging out with other crafty people! 🧵FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, May 7, 5:00 PM: NEW CLASS ALERT! Pigeons are everywhere, but have you ever looked closely at those regal heads and iridescent feathers? Have you ever looked at some of those fancy pigeon breeds? Learn more about this bird while diving into painting with oils at Pigeons in Oils! 🕊️

Friday, May 8, 5:00 PM: Ground your illustrations in sturdy and immutable lines will filling them in with softer, more ethereal colors -- that's the magic of combining ink and watercolor! Explore the possibilities at Ink & Watercolor Illustration! ✒️

Saturday, May 9, 10:00 AM: One of the easiest ways to understand how Risograph layering works and what makes the medium so interesting and special is to see it all laid out in pieces in front of you. No digital trickery or complicated tools, just paper and analog bits that come together. Learn more at Risograph Design on Paper! 🖨️

Saturday, May 9, 1:00 PM: It's World Collage Day! Celebrate this fun and versatile medium with Marty, collageist extraordinaire! Whether you're new to collaging or are a seasoned magazine horder eager for an excuse to get started on your next piece, join us for a fun afternoon collaging! ✂️FREE MEETUP.

Saturday, May 9, 6:00 PM: And cap off World Collage Day with the opening reception of Bits & Pieces, our group show featuring a huge variety of collage art from artists across the region! We'll have refreshments! 🧩FREE EVENT.

They're available in-store only, but have you picked one up yet? A BETTER WORLD is Riff Raff League's third FREE zine and contains stories and comics about what a better world might look like... what are your neighbours imagining? How can we work together to make these things a reality?

Read their stories and pass the zine on so that others can imagine a better world too. If you're inspired, join us every other Sunday for Riff Raff League!

NEW CLASS ALERT! Perfect for bookbinders and printmakers of all kinds, Paper Marbling introduces several different techniques for making cool paper for all your cool paper needs! 📥

Monday, May 11, 11:00 AM: Sign up early if you're interested in Botanical Sketching! It's hard being a Monday class! The weather's been warm and gorgeous: perfect for sketching outside at the Locks, so let's go get a good start to the week! 🌷

Monday, May 11, 6:00 PM: It's our mid-month Monday edition of QU-ART, our Queer Artists meetup! Bring your sketchbook or whatever you're working on and chill out for a few hours with us! 🏳️‍🌈 FREE MEETUP.

Tuesday, May 12, 6:00 PM: Bring your own drinks and come make some shrinks at Shrinky Dinks & Drinks! Make art, then shrink it down into a little charm, perfect for brooches, pins, magnets, extremely off-the-wall jewelry and more! The perfect crafts night and grown-ups!!🤏

Wednesday, May 13, 10:30 AM: Get a crash course in acrylic painting while capturing a beautiful landscape! Push values to up the drama! Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes is an approachable introduction to painting, great as a refresher or a first-time painter! 🏔️

Wednesday, May 13, 6:00 PM: Everyone can make art, and everyone can use watercolor! Join us at Watercolor for Everyone and either get started with or build up your skills in this amazing medium! 🌊

Thursday, May 14, 5:00 PM: That's right, Acrylic Painting Cats is moving to Thursdays! Come hang out with fellow cat people, share lots of cat photos, and paint an acrylic portrait of one of your fav felines! THREE SPOTS LEFT for May! 🐈

Friday, May 15, 8:00 PM: There's no such thing as too much Live Figure Drawing. Really looking at, observing, and studying what you're drawing is easy to lose sometimes, but knowing how to capture what you see is foundational, and every bit of practice helps! 🧑‍🎨

Saturday, May 16, NOON: There's limited space in this debut Paper Marbling class! It takes a lot of space and can get messy -- perfect for exploring in a space you don't have to clean up yourself! :P

Sunday, May 17, 10:00 AM: Don't miss out! Intro to Alcohol Markers only runs quarterly! Find out why everyone's so crazy about those crazy expensive markers and learn how you can make them work for you! 🍊

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 PM: This Make Your Own Cursed "Lafufu" class is SOLD OUT, but you can sign up for the waitlist or just keep an eye out for when we're able to get more on the schedule! 👹

Sunday, May 17, 7:15 PM: Channel your grief and rage at any of the many terrible things happening into something creative. Meet your neighbours and brainstorm collective action at Riff Raff League! We've been making a lot of zines -- what do you want to make a zine of? What information is important to share? What vision and what resources can inspire others to action too? ✊ FREE MEETUP.

Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes?? on a Wednesday?! We're not sure this will happen again, so if this is a better day for you than Sunday, be sure to join us!