10-year Gala Highlights and Thanks

Thank you to all who celebrated with us for our 10-year gala.

 Thank you board director Shauna Oddleifson for your time in compiling our Anthology. Did you get your copy?

Thank you Joanne Gervais for the expert editing work on our mini-documentary. 

Thank you Sara Lige for planting a seed that grew into something very big! Thank you to our Board of Directors for your time and vision. 

Thank you artists for your creativity and positive spark. 

Thank you intructors, volunteers, caregivers and family members for your continued energy and support.

 Thank you to our friends at SHAW TV for coming out and featuring our gala on GO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvurTZsBhI#t=81

We would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development for their generous support for this event. 

Thank you also the Community Living British Columbia, (CLBC) for providing the refreshments for our gala.

COOL ARTS TURNS 10 !

Please join us as we celebrate 10 years of diversability arts. 

RSVP by October 18th as space is limited.

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Check out our COOL mini-documentary. Thank you Joanne Gervais for your fine editing work.

Wetlands Project Opening Reception

You're invited......

Hot Night Volunteer Spotlight

 Thank you Ken, Graham, Lally and Rachima for your tireless effort

 Thanks you Lynne, Larkin and Lally, (who baked the yummy pies) for sweet treats served with a smile

 Thank you Larkin, Rachima, Donna and Lally who prepared all the delicious food

 Thank you Simon and Ken for flippin' burgers and Boyd's Autobody for donating the "Car-B-Que"

 Thank you Shauna for securing donors and serving up refreshment

 Thank you Sarah for securing donors for our silent auction

Thank you Lucie, Tommy, Sara, Joanne and Ginny for helping with setup of our silent auction table

COOL ARTS THANKS YOU

A very special 
THANK YOU 
to all our DONORS and VOLUNTEERS
HOT NIGHT FOR A COOL CAUSE 
was a success because of 
YOU!

Angela Bonten * Actor's Studio * Annegret's * Chocolates * Ballet Kelowna * Behind the Fly * Bike Shop Cafe' * Blossoms * Bordello's and Sturgeon Hall  * Canadian Tire * Chatters Salon * Community Living British Columbia * Crystal Mountain Resorts * Dawn Emerson * Disabled Sailing Association of Kelowna * Delta Grand * Dominoes Pizza * Donna Lee * Doppelmayer * Ear Gear Enterprises * Dawn Boys * FUNKTIONAL * Graham Stonebridge * Grateful Fed * High Browse Books * Hollywood Shoes * H2O Adventure and Fitness Centre * Illichman's Gourmet Foods, * Jigsaw Trading Company * Inside Out Leadership Development * Jane Ritchie * Joanne Mayer * Kelowna Art Gallery * Ken Stewart * Kathy Neufeld * Lally Stonebridge * Larkin Dunn Warren * Lynden Beesley * Midland Appliances * Little Creek Gardens * Lucie Parent * Lynne Turner * Madelyn Hamilton * Margo Yacheshyn * Nature's Fare * New Moon Gallery * Paragon Countertops * OPUS Art Supplies * Quail's Gate Winery * Pathways Abilities Society * Rachima Kemp * Rose's Pub * Sara Lige * Sarah Parsons * Shapers Salon Bernard * Shauna Oddleifson * Simon Howard * Sugarsweet Cupcakes * Streaming Cafe * Summerhill Winery * Tantalus Winery * Terry Lige * The Groove Garden * The View Winery  * Tommy *Touchstone Law Group * Tree Brewing Co. * Trina Ganson * Urban Harvest * Wanda Lock *

....and most of all THANK YOU to Wulf and Joan Gerhardt for their generous donations and for hosting our event!!  

Painting for Hot Night Fundraiser

Our artists are getting revved up for our annual HOT NIGHT FOR A COOL CAUSE FUNDRAISER. Guest artists Wanda Lock and Rosanne Bennett filled our studio with fresh flowers; inspiration for this year's paintings that will be up for auction. Mark your calendars because July 27th is going to be a FUN, FUN Fundraiser. For more information write to info@coolarts.ca or get your tickets at the Alternator Studio 111 in the Rotary Centre for the Arts. $35

Wanda Lock and Katarina

Mitchell's preliminary sketch

Rosanne Bennett and Emma

Melanie

Spring is Here!

Lamb to Loom Project ~ Part One & Two

Baby Lambs only two hours old

Sheep farmer and fibre artist Sue Haley

washing wool

Lamb to Loom is an initiative where artists have the opportunity to work in fibre arts from the farm to finished product. Cool Arts is working in partnership with sheep farmer and fibre artist Sue Haley, the Ponderosa Weavers and Spinners Guild, and Kelowna Museums. Cool Arts graciously acknowledges funding from the City of Kelowna for this project.  Stay tuned for updates!

Sue stirring the cochineal dyepot