Credit: Photo by Pardeep Singh
Imagining our Futures at Family Art Party
Surrey Art Gallery invites families to engage in a creative afternoon of artmaking and interactive performances on Sunday, March 9 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. inspired by the winter exhibition Rajni Perera: Futures running until March 16.
Surrey, BC – Surrey Art Gallery invites families to engage in a creative afternoon of artmaking and interactive performances on Sunday, March 9 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. inspired by the winter exhibition Rajni Perera: Futures running until March 16. All are welcome at this free drop-in event—children must be accompanied by an adult.
Rajni Perera: Futures features colourful, sci-fi informed paintings and sculptures that grapple with a changing climate and how humanity could adapt to this environment through strength and resilience. Visitors are invited to playfully explore the exhibition and try looking games and activities in the Art Monster Booklet guided by the Gallery’s Youth Docents.
In response to Perera’s work, visitors will create their own climate hero avatar, invoking their own inner climate activist. They will also invent a wearable climate change adaptation gadget with buttons, switches, and dials riffing off the inventive devices imagined in Futures. Finally, participants can design a sci-fi-inspired mask, reflecting on Perera’s adaptive wearable works such as Drought Mask.
The Gallery will host musical performances by Juno-nominated Ruby Singh who delivers highly engaging, interactive experiences using vocal percussion, rhythmic rhymes, live looping and an arsenal of eclectic instruments from around the world. Pick up free tickets on arrival for shows in the Studio Theatre at 1:30 p.m. or 3:00 p.m.
A dedicated sensory-friendly space supports quieter creativity with an accessible artmaking activity, resources like noise-cancelling headphones, soft seats, and sensory toys, in a comfortable, relaxed setting. Please contact us with any access needs or concerns you might have at artgallery@surrey.ca.
About Surrey Art Gallery
Founded in 1975, Surrey Art Gallery presents contemporary art by local, national, and international artists, including digital and audio art. Recognized for its award-winning programs, the Gallery engages children through to adults in ongoing conversations that affect our lives and provides opportunities to interact with artists and the artistic process. The Gallery is located at 13750 88 Avenue in Surrey on the unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, including the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), and Semiahma (Semiahmoo) nations. Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges operating funding from the City of Surrey, Province of BC through BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Surrey Art Gallery Association.