Shawn Pigott
Shawn Pigott is the creator of the 52 Weeks Project, where he writes, directs, scores and edits a new short film each week for a year. Now at Week 33, he’ll be sharing some of his films at Elevate the Arts and talking about how it’s changed his life.… More » »
Island Hula Hoopla
“MOVE, PLAY, DANCE, SPIN, BREATHE” with Island Hula Hoopla! You’ll discover the infinite potential of this simple circular toy through our performances and lessons for kids, adults and hoopdancers.… More » »
Lee White
Lee White is a modern mountain mystic. Raised between the Yukon and Vancouver Island, interacting with the landscape is a vocation for Lee as a guide and is also kind to his poetic sensitivity.… More » »
Derek Hanebury
Derek Hanebury is a Vancouver Island author who writes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. His stories and poems have been published in many magazines and broadcasted on CBC radio; and his first novel, Ginger Goodwin: Beyond the ForbiddenPlateau, went to a second printing.… More » »
Harold Macy
Harold Macy has lived in Merville, halfway up the east side of Vancouver Island BC for more than thirty years. During that time he has worked for the BC Forest Service Research Branch, been a silviculture contractor for a local forestry company, fought wildfires, had rain in his lunchpail heli-logging up in the mid-coast inlets, and for many years was the forester at the UBC Oyster River Research Farm, where he wrote and delivered on-line and weekend courses in small scale forestry and agro forestry .… More » »
Al MacLachlan
Al MacLachlan has worked as a television cameraman and director, as a documentary writer/director, as a professional photographer and as a journalist. He has written for The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, several magazines and newspapers.… More » »
Kirsty Elliot
Kirsty lives on a Lasqueti Island homestead with her husband and two little children. Her first book of poems True (Leaf Press, 2011) has been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award.… More » »
K. Bannerman
K. Bannerman is the author of ‘Bucket of Blood’, a gothic murder mystery set in the coalfields of Cumberland, BC. She has written four novels and her short stories have appeared in publications across Europe, Australia, and North America, including Herizons Magazine and Omnidawn Publishing’s ground-breaking “Paraspheres Anthology”. She often wanders the beaches of Vancouver Island, looking for sea monsters.… More » »
Writers, readers, watchers, listeners… come explore the museum in a whole new light. A “Elevate Writers Festival” is flanked on both sides by film projects that will inspire and entice. Come and get your literary juices flowing and hear original thoughts, poetry, prose and stories from local and regional writers
