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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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 2012. Included is a summer camp program for 8-12 year olds on the Sunshine Coast designed to immerse the children in the creative possibilities of the rainforest, a one-week art+nature intensive for 9 - 13 year-olds in partnership with Evergreen BC in their...

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The REACH Initiative

REACH or “Re-integrating Existing Assets into Community Hubs” aims to bring sector leaders in tourism, arts, local food, social enteprise (for-profit business for non-profit causes), intelligence services (consultancy, education, finances) and green building/design together with local governments and private sector visionaries to plan, design and build a shared work space that builds capacity for the biggest collective growth sector on the Sunshine Coast: creative and social entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs...

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The PLAYground Project

The PLAYground Project takes a unique arts-based approach to a traditional community-driven project. Langdale Elementary – a small school based on the Sunshine Coast has a school yard playground in desperate need of replacement. Since budgets are tight, it’s been left up to the local community to come together, form a committee, raise funds, and purchase a new one. The PLAYground Project, however, replaces this more traditional approach with an arts-based process so that the stages of designing the new...

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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, offering them an opportunity to cross-pollinate their...

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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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