Photographer: Ingrid Love

Bigby Place Arts Initiative at Kootenay Society for Community Living

Fostering Community

The Bigby Place Arts Initiative at Kootenay Society for Community Living is a free monthly class delivered by multidisciplinary educators and artists to provide community access to the arts.

In 2017 NDAC partnered with the Kootenay Society for Community Living and Bigby Place to provide a monthly class geared towards people with disabilities in the community. The classes proved a success and have continued each year since their inception.

Sharing Art

Fostering Community

Arts educators and artists from all different disciplines were brought in to engage the members of Bigby Place at Kootenay Society for Community Living creatively and free of charge, creating barrier-free art experiences.

If you are interested in being an educator at this year’s sessions, please fill out the application form below.

Applications are open until August 1st, 2024.

Past Presenters

Natasha Smith / Visual Arts
Rayya Liebich / Literary Arts
sam / Visual Arts & Interdisciplinary Arts
Bessie Wapp /Music & Theatre Arts
Claire Wensveen / Ceramics
Damian John / Visual Arts
Rosemary Browne / Craft Arts & Fibre Arts
Slava Doval’s DanceFusion / Dance
Elise Timm-Bottos / Theatre Arts
Chrystyna Bykowa / Visual Arts
Constance Dunham / Visual Arts
Wildfire Pro Glass / Glass Arts
Katrina Williamson / Visual Arts
Fabiola Gascon Esqueda / Dance
Shayna Jones / Theatre Arts & Spoken Word
Jane Green / Craft Arts & Visual Arts

Resources

Bigby Place Intake

Applications are now closed. 

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The Nelson and District Arts Council (NDAC) offers arts and culture programming, education, and advocacy to over 15,000 artists and art-lovers in the Nelson area. 

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