Loves,
Happy Beltane! I’m off on an adventure to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
What is Beltane?
Beltane is a Celtic fire festival (insert fire emojis here) acknowledging spring at its pinnacle and melding into summer. We celebrate growth! Behold the flowering trees, the busy bees, the bulbs bursting fourth, the planting of seeds – physically and spiritually. Everything is waking up and alive with energy. We are in the season of love and connection and passsion and creativity.
Vancouver Art Gallery
Hey, did you know that the Vancouver Art Gallery opens its doors for free every first Friday of the month from four o’clock until closing? Isn’t that so cool?! They are making art accessible to everyone. As a vow to our creative souls, my wife and I have been going every month this year.
We have seen the great Otani Workshop and his soulful monster pottery, Emil Carr’s fantastical forest paintings, Jim Lambie’s color-chrome stairwell, John David Lawrence’s clay collection (it was epic), and the VAG’s Indigenous Art Collection of masks and carvings.
Everytime I go to the Vancouver Art Gallery, I leave full of ideas and inspiration. I’m so grateful to all of the creatives who fire me up with their passion and persistence to fulfill their artistic desires. Long live artists!
The Adventure
My wife and I live in a small, quiet town in the Fraser Valley. We are an hour and a half away from Vancouver. Does that stop us from travelling? Hell no! We make an adventure out of it. Today we’ll drive our car to East Van, park it, and hop on the Sky Train to downtown.
Boom! We’re in a different reality with cars and people, and shops and cafes, and restaurants and vendors and buskers. Oh the glorious noise of it all. We’ll eat something yummy, cruise through the many awe-inspiring art exhibits, then have a cafe treat for the ride home, where we’ll gush about all that we saw and all that we want to create in our own lives.
What do you do to keep your creative fires burning bright?
-In creative solidarity,
