Energy is the theme of this year’s Earth Day Celebration, April 23 at Maple Ridge Memorial Peace Park, and my fellow Artist-in-Residence Robi Smith and I, working with CEED Centre, are planning an interactive art piece highlighting creative energy. How do we switch on our creativity? How can we recharge? These questions will be the focus of a Mobilizing Our Creativity dialogue we are offering on April 19 at the Maple Ridge Library at 7pm. Creative energy manifests in the fi

Well, this is going to be an exciting and busy week preparing for the Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour coming up this week-end May 9 & 10. Painting up a storm, but not quite what you might think - finally creating my House of Blues! Literally - this week I am painting the Artist in Residency house blue and white, the colours of the Finnish Flag. When you come to my studio on the tour I'll sing you a Finnish folk song and tell you more about the flag and my deep

Over the last month over a dozen folks have been working and playing with me developing and rehearsing WaterBody, and our debut draws near! We have a whole day of fun free activities planned for World Water Day on March 22 celebrating our ever refreshing, miraculous, life-giving local WaterBodies! From 10am to Noon join Lina Azeez of Watershed Watch Salmon Society, for a tour of Katzie Slough. From Noon to 3pm, at South Bonson Community Centre in Osprey Village, Pitt Meado

Leading up to World Water Day on March 22nd and Earth Day on April 18th Watershed Watch Salmon Society is teaming up with me and community members to bring the conversation about our home waters to the forefront. Through a series of dialogues and a water-inspired performance piece – one in Pitt Meadows on World Water Day March 22 and the other at the Earth Day celebrations in Maple Ridge April 18 – we hope to inspire an alternative perspective on how we view our home wate