Projects

Creating change is an ongoing process and the art farm's projects encompass all the programs, workshops, experiments, residencies and events run by artfarmers at the hub, in the lab, or in their own homes and communities. Interested in participating but not sure how? Check out the Participate in a Project page. Got a project idea? Let us know about it on Propose a Project.  Some projects need you to get them going. Look for them on Projects in Development. And all of our completed projects can be found on Past Projects.

Rainforest Circus
The Rainforest Circus

Imagine children at the circus: the look on their faces, the joy, the wonder, the awe. The Rainforest Circus wants to bring that same joy, wonder and awe outside the big top and under an even bigger top; the jaw-dropping spectacle of the Pacific Northwest rainforest canopy. “Where the circus meets the forest”: thatʼs the theme our group of professional hybrid artists work with. That, and each other, and the forest itself. The Rainforest Circus is an artistic experiment in dialogue with nature that...

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The Synchronicity Festival

The art farm's annual Synchronicity Festival brings together farmers, chefs, artists, artisans, change-makers and social entrepreneurs for a multi-day carnival-like event featuring live music, the art farm's Rainforest Circus, an artisan and farmers market, a children’s tent, and info booths for innovative organizations and businesses. The festival is intended to display the diversity of progressive and innovative people that live and work among us...

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The smart farm project

A quick-start guide to farm-driven co-housing.

All across BC, farmers are selling off their land to make ends meet. At the same time, young families are priced out from getting their hands on land to start farming themselves. The smart farm project wants to bridge this gap.
 
By combining innovative design, progressive planning, non-profit oversight, social investment with some good ol’ farming know how, we want to leverage increased density on land to create affordable housing, boost...

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FUSE Community Work Hub

 

FUSE Community Work Hub is a co-working space for creative and social entrepreneurs on the Sunshine Coast—but it is much more than that. FUSE provides the framework necessary—from space to services to programming—for diverse creative and social enterprise to collectively build a stronger more resilient Sunshine Coast community.

Between January and July of 2012, an initiative entitled REACH (“Re-...

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Art Farm Hub

As one of the major ongoing projects for the art farm, the hub provides artfarmers with a physical gathering space at their disposal through the art farm season for reflection, dialogue and collaboration in the name of change. Along with a gathering space, the hub also doubles as a laboratory (art farm lab), a physical space for artfarmers to explore and develop their own experimental work and ideas.  The long term vision for the hub project aims to fulfill the mission of the art farm organization - that is...

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Pollinate

Pollinate is the title given to the art farm's unique art + nature youth programming. Along with ongoing workshops and on-site field trips, the art farm is teaming up with a number of Sunshine Coast and Vancouver-based organizations to deliver new programming for 2013. Included is a youth-driven landfill sculpture project and continued development of art+nature curriculum in partnership with SD46 and other local education-based organizations.

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