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Threads of Resilience
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaThreads of Resilience - Workshop with Artist Evan Matchett-Wong - VDICSS Youth Group (age 13-19)
Featuring Evan Matchett-Wong, a Two-Spirit textile artist, this workshop will let local youth explore identities, discuss oppression, and embrace heritage through embroidery and textiles, promoting healing and celebration.
Evan Matchett-Wong is a textile artist hails from Treaty 6 Territory, with a strong focus on intersectional artistic practices, reflecting their mixed Chinese-Dene heritage and queerness. They will use Indigenous practices to facilitate conversation and ideas and create an open and safe space for participants. This embroidery/textile based workshop will give the opportunity for local youth to explore not only their unique identities and talk about their experiences of oppression but also give them the time to heal and celebrate their heritage.
Threads of Resilience
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaThreads of Resilience - Workshop with Artist Evan Matchett-Wong - VDICSS Youth Group (age 13-19)
Featuring Evan Matchett-Wong, a Two-Spirit textile artist, this workshop will let local youth explore identities, discuss oppression, and embrace heritage through embroidery and textiles, promoting healing and celebration.
Evan Matchett-Wong is a textile artist hails from Treaty 6 Territory, with a strong focus on intersectional artistic practices, reflecting their mixed Chinese-Dene heritage and queerness. They will use Indigenous practices to facilitate conversation and ideas and create an open and safe space for participants. This embroidery/textile based workshop will give the opportunity for local youth to explore not only their unique identities and talk about their experiences of oppression but also give them the time to heal and celebrate their heritage.
Threads of Resilience
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaThreads of Resilience - Workshop with Artist Evan Matchett-Wong - VDICSS Youth Group (age 13-19)
Featuring Evan Matchett-Wong, a Two-Spirit textile artist, this workshop will let local youth explore identities, discuss oppression, and embrace heritage through embroidery and textiles, promoting healing and celebration.
Evan Matchett-Wong is a textile artist hails from Treaty 6 Territory, with a strong focus on intersectional artistic practices, reflecting their mixed Chinese-Dene heritage and queerness. They will use Indigenous practices to facilitate conversation and ideas and create an open and safe space for participants. This embroidery/textile based workshop will give the opportunity for local youth to explore not only their unique identities and talk about their experiences of oppression but also give them the time to heal and celebrate their heritage.
Threads of Resilience
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaThreads of Resilience - Workshop with Artist Evan Matchett-Wong - VDICSS Youth Group (age 13-19)
Featuring Evan Matchett-Wong, a Two-Spirit textile artist, this workshop will let local youth explore identities, discuss oppression, and embrace heritage through embroidery and textiles, promoting healing and celebration.
Evan Matchett-Wong is a textile artist hails from Treaty 6 Territory, with a strong focus on intersectional artistic practices, reflecting their mixed Chinese-Dene heritage and queerness. They will use Indigenous practices to facilitate conversation and ideas and create an open and safe space for participants. This embroidery/textile based workshop will give the opportunity for local youth to explore not only their unique identities and talk about their experiences of oppression but also give them the time to heal and celebrate their heritage.
A Winter’s Night Painting Party
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaCome out of the cold during Carnival and explore your creative side at the Caetani Centre’s winter-themed Painting Party. Join artist Destanne Norris to create your own work of art that celebrates Carnival and Silver Star. Enjoy wine (and other beverages), nibbles, socializing, and best of all, you get to keep the painting you create to take home and frame. All materials, food and beverage, and facilitation by our professional artist are included in your ticket.
A Winter’s Night Painting Party
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaCome out of the cold during Carnival and explore your creative side at the Caetani Centre’s winter-themed Painting Party. Join artist Destanne Norris to create your own work of art that celebrates Carnival and Silver Star. Enjoy wine (and other beverages), nibbles, socializing, and best of all, you get to keep the painting you create to take home and frame. All materials, food and beverage, and facilitation by our professional artist are included in your ticket.
Creatrix Rising Art Exhibition
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaArchway Society for Domestic Peace hosts the Creatrix Rising art exhibition resulting from a series of art workshops for women survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Participants have expressed themselves through various art forms – clay, acrylic, poetry, watercolour, voice expression – to heal and explore their stories through art.
Creatrix Rising Art Exhibition
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaArchway Society for Domestic Peace hosts the Creatrix Rising art exhibition resulting from a series of art workshops for women survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Participants have expressed themselves through various art forms – clay, acrylic, poetry, watercolour, voice expression – to heal and explore their stories through art.
Sveva Caetani Recapitulation Talk by Art Historian Adriana Davies
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaJoin Adriana A. Davies, PhD, for an artist’s talk about artist Sveva Caetani and her Recapitulation Series, June 6 in the Caetani Centre Gallery. The topic will be Re-evaluating Sveva Caetani’s Masterwork the Recapitulation Series: From Medieval Mysticism to the Space Age. In her talk, Davies will discuss Sveva’s personal and artistic journey and re-appraise […]
Caetani Centre – Guided Tours
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaJoin our interpreters at our 129-year-old heritage house museum near downtown Vernon for Guided Tours. Discover the intriguing story and legacy of the Caetani family, descendants of Italian royalty. Learn why Leone Caetani, an Italian prince and duke, left his royal titles and family fortune behind to move to Vernon with his beautiful, young mistress […]
Caetani Summer Music Festival
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaMark your calendars for the annual Caetani Summer Music Festival. The event is back bigger and better than ever, with two days of live music, food and fun, July 19th and 20th. July 19th will be a Friday Night Dance Party with Okanagan favourite, Cod Gone Wild, in one of their last live performances, and Vancouver […]
Conjure the Spirits: A Victorian Halloween at the Caetani Centre
Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia, CanadaOn Oct. 25 & 26 join spiritualists as they channel the Caetani family for a Victorian-era event in the Caetani Centre's 130-year-old mansion! Conjure the Spirits - A Victorian Halloween will take you back to when lavish Halloween parties included socializing and the occasional commune with the beyond. Join the Centre as they re-enact some […]