CREATE! Arts and Craft Festival
ArtZone, Tourism Sun Peaks, Sun Peaks Resort and local businesses collaborate to bring CREATE! Arts Festival to Sun Peaks. Come and stay the weekend! (stay two nights or more and get 25% off using the promocode SUMMER23)
Friday Events will include First Friday! and more:
4:00pm - 7:00pm Artisan Market Village Stroll including
4:00pm - 7:00pm Entertainment: Toy Box Circus, roving performers by Kinshira Entertainment Village Stroll
5:30 - 6:30 - Piano Concert with Ezzra Cage - pay what you can. Ezzra Cage is a singer-songwriter, composer and pianist He is currently studying piano and music theory at Kamloops Symphony Music School and aspires to compose for orchestra This nights performance will be focusing on solo piano music across a range of different time periods, from baroque, to classical, romantic, and contemporary, including compositions of his own
6:00 - 8:00 - Sign up for the various workshops this weekend at the Info Booth and take time to enjoy a few short films by Indigenous filmmakers from the National Film Board of Canada - Sun Peaks Centre - Room A/B
8:00pm - 9:30pm Live Music: The Yellow Brick Road Experience featuring Andrew JohnsCentre Stage, located at the Sun Peaks Centre
Saturday Events:
10:00 - 12:00 - Join Janet Scruggs on the patio at Capone’s. Printing with Fruits and Vegetables - create your own reusable market bag in this pop-up event. Pre-registration is required.
11:00 - 11:30 - Family Yoga by Kayla, Sun Peaks Yoga - Join together for this playful family yoga session. Practice skills like breathwork and mindfulness through a few games and challenges and silliness. Finish off with a story time.
1:00 - Stretch your stresses away with Yoga with Kayla, from Sun Peaks Yoga, Sotheby’s Stage (Upper Village)
1:00 - Join Janet Scruggs on the patio at Capone’s. Printing with Fruits and Vegetables - create your own tea towel in this pop-up event. Pre-registration is required.
1:00 - 3:00 - Children’s Painting Workshop with Lorel Sternig - Sun Peaks Centre. Limitied registrations - Pre-registration is required.
1:30 - Ever wanted to write a book? Sit in with Author, Derek Strokon who will inspire you and get you started on that dream. - Sotheby’s IRE Stage (Upper) Join us on August 5th for an insightful talk with Derek Strokon, local author, business coach, TEDx speaker, and entrepreneur. Derek is the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of two influential books, "Stop Stalling Start Selling" and "Human Being Human."
1:30 - Swing Sisters will take over the Dearborn Stage (Clocktower) and make you tap your toes! - keyboard, guitar and ukulele, swing guitar and bass, playing jazz standards and popular fabourites.
2:00 - Author Alex Morrissey book reading of “Garbage Guts Gets Adopted” - Sotheby’s IRE Stage (Upper)
2:00 - 4:00 - Vertical Cafe - Live Music with Danny Floyd Cole.
3:00 - Confessions from a Yoga Teacher - with Kayla, Sun Peaks Yoga - What your yoga teacher doesn’t say but wants to. - Dearborn Stage (clocktower)
5:30 - 6:30 - Musical performance with Cherryl Rice - Come listen and chat music with Cherryl Rice as she plays the street piano “Tickle Me Please” … a variety of jazz and theme tunes…instrumental and vocal. - Pay what you can - Dearborn Stage (clocktower)
Sunday Events:
9:30 - 1:30 - Sun Peaks Sunday Market - Village Walk
10:30 - 1:00 - Silk Scarf Marbling Workshop - Capone’s Patio - Pre-registration is required. Join Colour Drop Design for a magical experience creating a silk scarf at Sun Peaks. You will choose your colours, float the paint, create your design, and print it onto your silk scarf. If you can sprinkle cheese on a pizza you can make magic with this artform. Come create with the magical art of water marbling.
1:30 - 4:00 - Silk Scarf Marbling Workshop - Capone’s Patio - Pre-registration is required. Join Colour Drop Design for a magical experience creating a silk scarf at Sun Peaks. You will choose your colours, float the paint, create your design, and print it onto your silk scarf. If you can sprinkle cheese on a pizza you can make magic with this artform. Come create with the magical art of water marbling.
2:00 - 4:00 - Along with the workshop on Capone’s Patio, Shuswap Cider Co. will be offering tastings of their amazing cider. This is open to the public. Stop by after the market for some lunch and summer sips!
1:30 - 2:00 - Flower Arranging Demonstration - with Mary of Honeyberry Farm - on the other side of the covered bridge.
2:00 - 4:30 - Still Life Painting demonstration, painting the flower arrangement - with local artists - on the other side of the covered bridge (artists bring your own supplies, easel, stool and hat)
5:30 - 6:00 - Piano Concert - Dearborn Stage (clocktower) - Matt Arnott, ArtZone’s Piano Whisperer!!
