The Eastside Arts Society is hosting their 9th Annual Art! Bike! Beer! Crawl on Saturday, July 29th. This event is part of the CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival and takes art lovers on a cycling and/or walking tour of 3 breweries. For the price of a ticket, you will tour 3 of 10 participating breweries, see some great art, receive 4 pints/tastings. The tours kick off at 1:00 pm and once your tour is completed, you will have access to the Create! Festival Art Zone in Strathcona Park. You will also have the opportunity to win some great raffle prizes. Tickets are $55 + GST and processing fee. To purchase your ticket(s), visit Eventbrite.
Eastside Arts Societywill be hosting a fun summer art-making event CREATE! Arts Festivalon July 22nd and July 23rd. This 2 day festival will take place in Strathcona Park on Saturday, July 22nd and in various locations on the East Side on Sunday, July 23, 2023.
You are invited to explore, learn, and create art at a wide variety of visual and performing arts workshops taught by more than 15 local artists. Adults and youth are invited to learn about watercolour painting, needle felting, indigo dying, pottery, glass fusing, photography, ukulele, Salish singing, storytelling, and much more. General admission is also available for the CREATE! Art Zone, which will feature public participation art, art demos, Festival Art Shop, food trucks, beer + wine, and so much more. In addition to a variety of art workshops, demonstrations, and public participation art installations, they are introducing a Festival Art Shop which will feature a curated selection of arts and crafts made by local artists. There will lots to see and do over the course of the 2 day arts festival. For more information on all the events happening, visit www.createartsfestival.ca.
The Eastside Arts Society is hosting their 8th Annual Art! Bike! Beer! Crawl on Saturday, July 22nd. This is a biking tour, or walking tour if you prefer, to a variety of great East Van breweries. For the price of a ticket, you will tour 3 of 8 participating breweries, see some great art, receive a tasting flight or pint at 4 stops, plus receive food. You will also have the opportunity to win prizes as well as access to the Create! Arts Festival Art Zone which will be taking place in Strathcona Park on the same day. Tickets are $60 plus GST. To purchase your ticket, visit Eventbrite.
The producers of the Eastside Culture Crawl Festival are bringing you a new innovative event, that being the CREATE! Arts Festival. The CREATE! Arts Festival is a new community initiative of the Eastside Arts Society which brings together over 40 local artists for art making. They will help you explore, learn and create art together through a series of affordable and accessible art workshops.
This is an all ages event in which you can learn felt making, ceramics, glass blowing, painting, printmaking, jewellery making and the list goes on. Most of the events will take place outdoors in Woodland Park Saturday August 21st and Sunday, August 22nd with a few workshops taking place in some Eastside studios. Workshops are $25 per person ($10 for kids workshops). For more information or to register for workshops, visit CREATE! Arts Festival.
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