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After four years of running the Cortes Island Museum and Archives as managing director, Jane Newman is currently training her successor, Melanie Boyle.
Continue reading Managing director transition at Cortes MuseumCKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society is planning for their first in-person annual general meeting in two years, which will feature a presentation by fine art photographer David Ellingsen.
The AGM will be held at Manson’s Hall on Sunday, March 27th, with doors opening at 12:30 pm. There is no cost to attend but donations are gratefully appreciated for the event and towards memberships.
Continue reading Cortes Museum’s upcoming AGM to be a special event
The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery has been holding exhibitions every summer for close to 25 years. Around 800 visitors come every season, and surprisingly enough, most of them are Cortes residents. Up until last fall, the gallery has operated under the auspices of the Whaletown Community Club, now it has become a non-profit.
“We finally decided that in order to qualify for student grants for summer work programs, we needed to be a non-profit,” explained board member Kristen Schofield-Sweet. “That created, of course, a situation where now we need to have an AGM and we have to elect a board.”
The gallery is also hiring a manager, who they hope to introduce at the AGM on Saturday, June 5, 2022.
Continue reading The 2022 season for Cortes Island’s new non-profit: the Old Schoolhouse Art GalleryCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A month into BC’s phase 3 of re-opening, locals and visitors to Cortes Island are able to enjoy well-loved perennial as well as brand new reasons to gather.
Continue reading Public events on the menuThe Old Schoolhouse Gallery reopening, on Cortes Island, will be next month
“Right now we’re just trying to put together a small, but potent and exciting, art experience for the rest of the summer. Everything I am going to tell you is tentative, we’ve only started with the planning, trying to get things going again. So we are anticipating a members show in late July, beginning on (Thursday) July 22nd, said Kristen Schofield Sweet, one of the gallery’s directors.
Continue reading Old Schoolhouse Gallery reopening next month
