Design
Public Art

Design something big. Pitch it in November.

Pick a stream

Festival installation

  • A big installation for a BC festival
  • Pitch it Nov 24
  • Can be built in Create Public Art

Bass Coast · Otherworld · Squamish Arts Festival

Public bench

  • Design one bench for Create Makerspace
  • Pitch it Nov 24
  • The winner gets built in Create Public Bench

Design competition

Same nights for both. No need to choose yet.

How it works

  1. Start

    Opening Night

    Tue Oct 13 · 7–9pm

    Create Makerspace

    Workbenches in the Create Makerspace studio, potters wheels and tools with finished pieces drying

  2. Make

    Drop-in nights

    Tuesdays · 7–9pm

    • Oct 20
    • Oct 27
    • Nov 10
    • Nov 17

    Create Makerspace · no Nov 3

    Bring your idea. Stay an hour or all night.

    Two people at Create Makerspace looking closely at a laser-cut wooden panel, with shelves of materials behind them

  3. See

    Field trip: Prosthesis

    Sun Oct 25 · 1–3pm

    Squamish Valley · meeting point by email

    A 4,000kg mech suit. Yes, really.

    Prosthesis, a huge white four-legged mech, standing in desert scrub at sunset with its pilot in a red suit beneath it for scale

  4. Pitch

    Pitch Night

    Tue Nov 24 · 7–9pm

    Brackendale Art Gallery

    Funders in the room. Pitch, or just watch.

    The Brackendale Art Gallery sign and timber building, where Pitch Night is held
Where
Create Makerspace
#1–39449 Queens Way
Pitch Night
Brackendale Art Gallery
41950 Government Rd
Cost
Free
come to one or all

Built in Squamish

Deep Union, a lit ceremonial arch at night with people gathered underneath at Bass Coast festival
Deep Union · Bass Coast
The Orcar, an orca sculpture built from a decommissioned car
Orcar
The Noodle Box installation, a lit box structure hung with pool noodles
Wild Noods
A glowing jellyfish-shaped canopy hung inside a tent, trailing strings of lights down over a crowd
Rest Day

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