Come down to the Gallery Gachet for Jay Peachy’s Social Media workshops! Twitter workshop will be held November 30th, 2011 at 4pm – 5pm NOTE: Twitter Workshop to be Re-Scheduled for a later date. Social media is a part of Jay’s creative output which he combines with his activism and art. For more information please visit: http://jpeachygallery.com/2011/02/18/community-arts-and-social-media-workshop/
Salmon in British Columbia is not only keystone species to our ECO System, but one that links us economically and culturally. It is part of our West Coast identity. Now imagine the real possibility of that species not being part of our communities. Through almost the past 20 years the Wild Salmon stocks on BC’s West Coast have been in steady decline. In 2009 a massive collapse of the Fraser River Sockeye catalyzed a federal inquiry (
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- Calling all outsider artists, mad activists, and allies! http://t.co/vJOkjBJW
- Gallery Gachet May E-Letter http://t.co/9T7P5YWK
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A Chip Off the Old Blog
Let us begin -by addressing the theme. The idea that madness and wisdom is close together is nothing new. I think it could be argued that the artistic process is an altered state -perhaps even a trance of some kind -that appears to be insanity. Some people think that art is impractical or even degenerate. In Plato’s Republic there was no room for an art that is contrary to the will of the state. Read More »