Programs

Arts Denman strives to bring quality Arts programming to the Denman Island community and the surrounding areas.

Concerts Denman

This popular concert series is now heading into its 19th season.  Concerts are held at the Denman Island Community Hall and present music, dance and theatre performances by national and international touring artists.

To see our details of the current season, click here.

The Readers' and Writers Festival, 2009

The 7th Annual Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival moved on from an incredibly successful event in 2008 to an even better 2009. 

Once again the festival featured a line-up of wonderful writers and a non-stop weekend of literary delights, including solo sessions, themed readings and main-stage events going every day. For those who wanted to improve their own skills the festival offered a wide variety of workshops offered by renowned teachers. 

2009 Visiting Writers were:

  • Deborah Campbell
  • Afua Cooper
  • William Deverell
  • Sarah Dunant
  • Steven Galloway
  • Heidi Greco
  • Jack Hodgins
  • Gabor Maté
  • Mary Novik
  • Matt Rader
  • Harold Rhenisch
  • Eden Robinson
  • Ronald Wright

And Host Mark Forsythe

Local writers had a chance to flaunt their stuff, too.

Check the website in the spring of 2010 to see the full details about next year's event and include Denman Island in your plans for next summer.

www.denmanislandwritersfestival.com

Arts Denman Annual Studio Tour

Arts Denman hosts an annual Summer Studio Tour. This unique tour features local artists making functional, non-functional and decorative works of art. Free to the public, the Studio Tour is a wonderful opportunity to watch artists at work in their own studios, or to purchase original and limited edition works of art.

Artists' studios are frequently open to the public, however, so make sure to keep an eye out for Studio signs when visiting on Denman.

Islands of British Columbia, 2004

Cover, Islands of BCThe proceedings from this weekend conference, held in August 2004, have been edited by Graham Brazier and Nick Doe and published in in book form.

Copies are available at the following locations:

Denman Island (Abraxas Books)
Gabriola Island (Pages Books)
Mayne Island (Miners Bay Books)
Duncan (Volume 1)
Salt Spring Island (Salt Spring Books)
Courtenay (Laughing Oyster Books)
Sidney (Tanners Books)

or from Arts Denman by mail order at a retail price of $25 + $3 shipping and postage.