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Celebrate the opening of the brand new Cedar Hill Arts Centre this weekend, followed by the Carnival of the Arts, a chance to explore some of the many local arts opportunities available.

While the community has been able to enjoy the Arts Centre’s new gallery space for a few weeks already, at 10:45 a.m. this Saturday, Sept. 10, Saanich will officially throw open the doors to the new facility.

The residents of Saanich – and artists from throughout the region – have a brand new space to call their own.

Featuring approximately 670 square metres of new construction and approximately 420 square metres of renovated space, the new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill “is the first purpose-built, municipally run art space in the region,” notes Cedar Hill Recreation Centre manager Carole Ireland.

The project emerged from the 2009 Community Arts Strategy, which asked residents what they would like to see in their municipality.

“Through the Community Arts Strategy, the community asked to have places both to create art and to

exhibit their work,” notes Diane Thorpe, Saanich’s Community Arts Specialist.

The new Arts Centre meets both those needs – beautifully.

“The new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill brings with it new opportunities for enhanced, hands-on arts experiences for our community,” notes Saanich’s Director of Parks and Recreation Doug Henderson. “The gallery space increases

the ability of local artists to gain exposure for their work. The new arts-based preschool program is unique to the region and creates foundations in

the arts for children that have not been available previously. Improvements to the existing auditorium and dance studio have made these spaces more user-friendly and attractive.”

In addition to the existing gallery in the café at the front of the centre, the project has created a brand new gallery – light and bright and

designed specifically to showcase artists’ work. Along the rear hallway, a series of smaller display cases will be available for artists to rent or to host other exhibits, Ireland notes. There’s also a series of

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“ I don’t think we have any idea what is going to transpire once the door opens. We’re just waiting for people to flood in and see how they use the space.”

– Carole Ireland

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what has been months in the making: a bright new addition to the Cedar Hill rec centre designed to engage residents and the local art community in a whole new way.

Residents and art enthusiasts are invited to join Mayor Frank Leonard and other officials for the opening ceremony, plus the public unveiling of Rick Silas’ beautiful etched glass mural, Forest Edge.

“We are proud to open our community arts centre and grateful for the financial contributions from the federal and provincial governments

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and the support of Saanich taxpayers,” Leonard says. “This is quickly becoming a regional asset that includes public art which has won acclaim. Come and enjoy; come and participate!”

Following the grand opening, families can enjoy free games, crafts, entertainment and more at the Carnival of the Arts, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sponsored by the Saanich Arts, Culture and Heritage Advisory Committee and supported by Saanich Recreation and Heritage Canada, the event is an opportunity to take in a wide variety of hands-on arts and craft activities and explore the world

of visual and performing arts.Learn about ArtsCalibre Academy, the

preschool that will be running out of the new centre, along with organizations such as the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Royal BC Museum, 4Cats Art Studio, Music for Young Children and the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, which has partnered with Saanich to run the galleries in the new facility.

“ This is quickly becoming a regional asset that includes public art which has won acclaim. Come and enjoy; come and participate!”

– SaanICh Mayor Frank leonard

Try a trumpet at the Victoria Symphony Petting Zoo or groove to the beat of Jordon Hansen’s Hand Drum Rhythms; explore Mask Making with Carron Berkes, Felting & Fibre Art with Claudia Lorenz, Art Stars Comic Susan Abrill-Russek and Print-Making with the Ground Zero Printers Society, along with Clay Play, Collage Art, Mosaics, Tim Gosley’s Puppets and Mr. Erwin’s Artful Variety Act – definitely something for just about everyone in the family!

And don’t forget to visit the Saanich Legacy Foundation table where you can enter to win one of three grand prizes in its raffle, in support of arts programs in Saanich.

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Saanich residents and other supporters of the arts are encouraged to help celebrate the grand opening of the new Arts Centre with a special draw hosted by the Saanich Legacy Foundation and the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria.

The Arts Centre raffle will feature three significant prizes, notes the foundation’s president, Paul McKivett.

Rick Silas, the artist creating the centre’s etched glass mural, has donated the model he created for the public art competition in his bid for the project. Included will be three panes of etched glass, approximately 3’ x 3’ which can create a 3D effect of a forest when in line with each other.

Also up for grabs will be a sculpture donated by the family foundation of Herbert Plasterer, McKivett says. A Saanich sculptor for many years, Plasterer’s legacy continues to support local arts programs – see more of his work at Highland Pacific Golf Course.

The third sought-after prize in the Saanich Legacy Foundation raffle will be a Bear Mountain Golf Resort Package, including an overnight stay, golf, and a meal and spa package for two.

Proceeds from the raffle will go toward an Artists in Residence Program

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and youth arts.“It really was to try to assist in

encouraging access for youth arts – that’s a big thing for the Legacy Foundation,” McKivett says. “We just saw this as an opportunity to be involved in a very exciting thing for Saanich.”

Tickets – $5 each or three for $10 – will be on sale at various public events and locations until the Oct. 7 draw, or people can email slf@saanich.ca or call Paul at 250-477-3806 for tickets.

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“The potential is what excites me,” Ireland says. “I don’t think we have any idea what is going to transpire once the door opens. We’re just waiting for people to flood in and see how they use the space.

“We know there’s a huge amount of interest – we’ve had tonnes and tonnes of calls – the energy is so positive!”

The project aimed to bring together several different user groups in the arts community into one open, inviting location that was full of natural light, explains architect Adam Fawkes, from Hughes Condon Marler Architects.

It was also important to have “visual and physical connections between spaces to create an inviting area that promotes the sharing of ideas (and) a space that functions both as individual rooms for creating art and that can be transformed to one interconnected space for the annual festival of arts and other events,” essentially to become a large gallery.

The rear wing has been widened and extended to make room for bright, expanded art and pottery studios, plus a refurbished space for the arts-based preschool, ArtsCalibre, which also enjoys a new outside playground area.

“The most important design decision was to realign the corridor for the arts wing so that it is visible from entering at the main lobby,” Fawkes notes. “This provides the visual connections between the arts centre and the remainder of the recreation centre.”

A unique challenge to the project involved working with the existing building form, which had created an interior that was quite dark and closed off between spaces, Fawkes notes.

From the exterior, the new roof line of the addition picks up on the iconic roof slopes of the original centre, while inside, the extensive use of glass has brightened the interior.

Strolling down the corridor, visitors

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are struck immediately by the brightness of the space, and the ample use of glass to encourage light and connect the interior spaces with the outdoors.

Large sliding glass doors between the corridor and arts studios provide for transformation of the space while overhead garage doors open studios to outside patios, Fawkes notes.

Added design elements come from circular clear skylights along the corridor, providing bright spots that invite people to enter the arts centre, while bright accent colours on rim of skylights, overhead garage doors and interior glazing offer added interest.

Specialty features of the arts spaces include canvas storage, state-of-the-art ventilation, large sinks and other practical “tools of the trade.”

A variety of programming is in place for the new space this fall, but centre staff look forward to the community’s ideas.

“We’re really open to working with individuals and groups as to how they would like to be part of the space,” Ireland says.

And Thorpe encourages local youth to also come explore the many possibilities awaiting at the new Arts Centre: “There’s going to be a place for you here!”

By THe NuMBeRS:• The new Arts Centre at

Cedar hill recreation Centre features approximately 670 square metres of new construction and approximately 420 square metres of renovated space.

• The expanded Ceramics studio triples the space of the existing pottery studio, original to the building in 1973!

• The Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, moving into the new arts Centre, boasts more than 300 members and has supported the local arts for 42 years.

• Among the new features of the Ceramics studio will be 12 electric pottery wheels.

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By the numerous art studio tours and gallery events held in Saanich each year, the burgeoning gallery scene and the enthusiastic response to Saanich Parks and Recreation’s many community art classes, it’s clear the arts are vital to local residents.

Today, in answer to their request both for more display spaces and for more places to create art, the new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre offers a place to create, to exhibit, and to engage with other artists.

Among the highlights of the new space will be two art studios and a state-of-the-art pottery facility – triple the size of the previous pottery studio, and the only one of its kind on Vancouver Island.

Back when the centre opened in 1973, the pottery studio as it was then was the only one in the region. Since

opening its doors – and kiln – to the public more than three decades ago, it has introduced many, many people to the possibilities of ceramics.

It was a very small group in the beginning, but as with today’s expansion of the studio, it was formed because of a public interest in ceramics and the need to have somewhere to experiment and explore.

“In many ways it’s like a gateway art,” says Cedar Hill Arts Programmer Tom Severson. “There’s something very primal about working in clay...Plus, there’s

utility in it – you don’t have to explain to someone what it is.”

Meira Mathison was one of those early users at the pottery studio, and from someone who had never worked in

clay before, she has made ceramics her career, both as a professional artist and an international instructor.

“It was a love affair from Day 1,” she reflects.

However, without the Cedar Hill pottery studio, it may never have happened.

“At that point and for many years it was the only pottery facility in Victoria,” Mathison says. “It really was the start of something that was a hobby to begin with and then became my livelihood.

“It’s so important for people to get a chance to experience some of the different arts – because you’re never too old!”

Now, there will be more opportunities than ever.

The increased floorspace allows the centre to increase both the class size for art and pottery classes and kiln capacity, to better meet the demand.

Severson doesn’t plan to fill the studios initially with programming, however. “My philosophy is not to overwhelm it but to take it slow,” he says, adding that he wants to allow for plenty of drop-in times as well. For artists who don’t have space for a home studio, “this will offer a place for them to come to, keep their canvasses and only have to bring their tool kit back and forth.”

Features to delight local ceramic artists and newcomers alike include oxidation and reduction kilns contained in their own compound, a 70-square-foot glazing room including a Paasche spray booth, a compounding room and recycled and specialty clay bodies.

Potters will be able to enjoy 12 electric potters wheels, stainless steel trough sinks with multiple faucets, concrete wedging tables and a large work table exclusively for hand-building, plus a 20-inch Brent slab roller and five ware carts to minimize the handling of artists’ work.

Looking ahead to the possibilities the new space will allow, “here you have a bright space that’s so inviting and inspiring. And I think the biggest thing of all is that it will be a gathering place, to share and exchange ideas.”

And for those new to the arts, who don’t have space at home to create or know where to begin, “I’m hoping this will be a place for people who have hesitations about starting,” Severson says. “I often witness people here being so supportive of each other. That, to me, is the best place of all.”

So far, that vision is coming true. “For everyone who comes in, the ‘Wow!’ factor is immediate. It’s just so exciting.”

For more information, contact Tom Severson, Cedar Hill Recreation Centre Arts Programmer at 250-475-7121.

“ For everyone who comes in, the ‘Wow!’ factor is immediate. It’s just so exciting.”

– ToM SeverSon, Cedar hIll arTS CenTre arTS ProGraMMer

Arts studios set to inspireFrom drop-in times for beginners to advanced classes with experienced artists, this will be a welcoming space for all artists

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With the completion of the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria will also enjoy a brand new home.

The Community Arts Council, with a mandate to promote the arts through leadership, partnership and community involvement, and to increase and broaden public awareness and opportunities in artistic and cultural activities, previously had an office and gallery space downtown. Today, at the Cedar Hill Arts Centre, the Arts Council will not only have office space but also a gallery and the opportunity to run arts-related programming and workshops.

“Moving our office and gallery to the new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre will provide our organization with a stable, long- term residence that will allow us to focus upon growing our involvement in the community and in fulfilling our mission into the future,”

CACGV president Bob Williams said in announcing the move.

“When considering potential locations for a new CACGV home, the new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill fit all of the important criteria we required, including artist working spaces, gallery and display space, socialization and reception spaces as well as office space.”

Serving the four core municipalities of Victoria, Saanich, Esquimalt and Oak Bay, Community Arts Council memberships are $30 per year and offer the opportunity to stay up to date with the local arts community, to participate in CAC exhibits, such as the annual “Look” show, and, at the new Arts Centre, enjoy some discounts on programming.

“Part of what we want to do is take art to the people and make it very accessible,” Williams says.

The benefits tied to the public nature of the Arts Centre are two-fold: “It benefits the people coming in to see the artwork and it benefits the artists as well.”

One of the areas this could be most apparent is in the Artist in Residence program the Arts Council is looking to begin in the new year. Artists will be based at Cedar Hill for two or three months at a time, where in addition to working on their own material, they would lead workshops for both new and more advanced artists working in their discipline.

Also significant in the Arts Centre project is the multiple partnerships it has produced, something Williams would like to see more of. “We’re actively looking for more partnerships, so we encourage people to get in touch.”

For more information about the Community Arts Council and its programs, call 250-475-7123 or visit www.cacgv.ca

The region’s artists have a brand new gallery to showcase their creative talents.

Joining the existing gallery space located off the rec centre foyer, the new gallery will provide amateur and professional artists both 2D and 3D exhibition space to show their work – a key request that emerged from Saanich’s 2009 Community Arts Strategy, notes Saanich Parks & Recreation’s Community Arts Specialist, Diane Thorpe.

The Gallery was one of the first spaces opened in the new Arts Centre, officially opening this Saturday. Through August, centre visitors enjoyed the Pieced Together, fabric art by local artist Jill Croft and Susan Turnbull Caton. Currently on exhibit is The

second gallery a centrepiece of new Arts CentrePlace Where We Live: Location, Home Belonging, printmaking with Ground Zero, while in the Gallery Café is the Society of Landscape Architects’ Drawing on the Land: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in BC. Both exhibits continue through Sept. 25 (see below for the full exhbition schedule through 2011).

Beginning in the new year, the gallery space will be operated by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria.

In addition to the formal and community galleries, the Arts Centre has also incorporated wall display space mounted along the corridor which can be rented by artists to show their work, notes Cedar Hill Rec Centre manager Carole Ireland.

Exhibitions at the Gallery CaféTo Sept. 25 – Drawing on the Land:

Contemporary Landscape Architecture in BC, with the Society of Landscape Architects.

Sept. 27 to Oct. 23 – What Bodies Say, with Frances Baskerville and Jenny Waelti-Walters.

Oct. 25 to Nov, 27 – Island Illustrators group show

Nov. 29 to Jan. 2, 2012 – 5 Artists: Marion Evamy, Elizabeth Litton, Bonnie Helm-Northover, Carolyn Kowalyk & Lorraine Betts.

Exhibitions at the New Gallery SpaceTo Sept. 25 – The Place Where

We Live: Location, Home Belonging, printmaking with Ground Zero; join the artists for a show opening Sept. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Sept. 27 to Oct. 8 – Monday Magazine Photograph Exhibition

Oct. 12 to 31 – Clearing Path: An artist’s personal war against landmines, with Jan Johnson and Roberto Maralag

Nov. 2 to 28 – Vancouver Island Surface Design Association group show

Nov. 30 to Dec 23 – Fusion sculpture from Carol Sean McMahon and Louise Quinby’s abstract photography Chroma Collection

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From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through this Friday, Sept. 9, Arts Centre visitors can view Silas putting the finishing touches on the project, before its public unveiling at saturday’s 10:45 a.m. grand opening.

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an overall feeling of familiarity with the piece.”

Next, Silas drew on the glass with felt pens, a step that allowed the artist to design the wall in both its open and closed positions. Once pleased with the overall look, Silas was ready to begin etching, a two-week process completed by adding the permanent colour.

“The finished piece will give the viewer the feeling of coming upon the studios at the edge of a forest when the wall is in its fully closed position and look like a three-dimensional forest when the wall panels are open and stacked to one side,” Silas explains.

As he finishes the project, Silas will add details throughout the design specifically with the younger set in mind – woodland rabbits and other surprises to find hidden amongst the trees.

The public process of creating the work is one he enjoys. “It’s like performance art,” he says.

“I enjoy working in front of the public and believe the art will inspire people to look into the studios and see what they might be able to create themselves,” he says.

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Arts Centre takes on ‘green’ hueStrolling through Saanich’s

brand new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, visitors will likely be struck at once by the overall feel of the space – the light-coloured finishes, warm wood accents, and the ample natural light streaming through windows and skylights.

But they may not realize how many of these components are working together to colour the centre green.

Cedar Hill’s Arts Centre project was designed and built to LEED Silver standard, highlighted by features such as the extensive use of natural lighting and low-VOC (volatile organic compound) materials, which can substantially improve indoor air quality.

Reduced energy use was achieved through improved

building envelope design, the careful selection of light fixtures and design of the mechanical system, notes architect Adam Fawkes, from Hughes Condon Marler Architects.

From beneath the polished concrete floors, the space is heated with a highly efficient radiant floor slab, from a rooftop mounted air-to-water heat pump. In addition, heat is also collected from the exhaust of the kiln room in the pottery studio.

One of the key design features visitors will notice is the wood wall treatment and bench seating along the corridor; in addition to visually connecting the inner spaces with the numerous Garry oaks outside, the wood was re-used from the former ceiling in

the centre, connecting past and present as well.

Looking to the sky, the centre’s roof has been planted with sedum and drought-resistant grasses which reduces storm water runoff volume while also cleaning the rain water before it enters the existing swale in the parking lot.

This green roof also reduces the “heat island” effect of typical black asphalt roofing, Fawkes points out. This not only improves the insulation value of the roof but also increases longevity of roofing materials.

Looking ahead, provisions are also roughed in for solar hot water collectors to be mounted on the west-facing roof in the future.

HOuRS & INFORMATION:• Visit Cedar Hill Recreation Centre and the Arts Centre at 3220 Cedar Hill Rd., at the corner of Finlayson/North Dairy.• The facility is open through the fall from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends.

The Gallery Café, near the entrance, is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.• Call 250-475-7121 for more details or visit online at www.saanich.ca/parkrec/recreation/cedar.html• For details about the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, call 250-475-7123 or visit online at www.cacgv.ca

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Rick Silas works on the glass mural in the new Arts Centre. Jennifer Blyth Photo

Staff and visitors to the new Cedar Hill Arts Centre will be inspired daily by a beautiful indoor landscape in glass, thanks to the creative talents of artist Rick Silas and the District of Saanich’s Public Art Program, where one per cent of the budget for municipal building construction over $250,000 is allocated to the commission of public art for the community.

Silas, a renowned local glass artist and owner of Silastial Studios, won the recent public art competition and has created a hand-etched glass mural depicting the natural landscape around the centre.

“The canvas for the project is the retractable glass wall that runs along one side of the new studios,” explains Silas, who through August has etched his design on the studio side of the glass while the public viewed the progress from the other side.

The first step was creating the imagery through drawings and photographs, a process which allowed Silas to “place local trees and natural landmarks in the mural to give the viewer

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