Super Saturdays

Super Saturdays are the Campbell River Art Gallery’s family-friendly guided art activities. These activities are a great opportunity for all ages to have some fun and learn a little bit about art.

NEW! Our drop-in Super Saturday art activities are now available as take-home art kits. Each kit is good for one budding artist. Same fun, now in the comfort of your home!

View all upcoming Super Saturday activities on our Event Calendar.

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2022 Activities

Egg-cellent Craft

Saturday, April 15
11 AM – 2PM | Lobby

Swing by the Campbell River Art Gallery and decorate an egg this Easter weekend !

Explore the Shore

Saturday, April 9
6 PM – 8 PM | Larwood Road

Join us in the intertidal zone at Willow Point Reef to explore organisms normally hidden from view, but always so close to our terrestrial home.

Rock Sculptures

Saturday, March 26
1 PM – 3 PM | Studio

Part of how we connect to nature is through our tactile, physical interaction with it, so in this fun, family-friendly workshop, we’ll get hands-on with some rocks – as visitors to the exhibition will also do as part of the installation – and create something with them.

2021 Activities

Chalk the Square

Saturday, August 21
12 PM – 4 PM | Spirit Square

Use REPRESENTATION, our current exhibition featuring our permanent collection, to inspire a new work made of chalk! We’ll provide the chalk – just bring yourselves.

Cyanotypes

Saturday, July 17
1 PM – 3 PM | Spirit Square / outside CRAG

Come explore cyanotypes with us for the final Super Saturday of the exhibition! Karen Tam has executed an amazing cyanotype installation in her exhibition, Autumn Tigers, and this is your chance to explore the medium alongside us on the sidewalk right outside the Gallery.

Resilience Banners

Saturday, July 3
1 PM – 3 PM | Studio

In Autumn Tigers, Karen Tam examines the resilience and strength of Chinese-Canadians who have thrived even under the pressures of systemic racism, violence, and discrimination. This fun activity aims to create pieces of art that likewise celebrate, inspire and encourage strength, endurance and resolve.

#HopeRocksCR

Ongoing from May to July
Satellite Gallery and Take Home Kit

Take Home Kit: Art in Motion

Saturday, March 6
10 AM – 5 PM | Main Gallery

Pick up your art kit to create a series of sketches celebrating labour and action like Sybil Andrews.

Take Home Kit: Fill Our Gallery!

Saturday, February 6
10 AM – 5 PM | Main Gallery

Pick up your art kit to create five miniature works of art inspired by our 39th Annual Members Show.

2020 Activities

Take Home Kit: Looking Forward

Saturday, December 12
12 PM – 5 PM | Main Gallery

Pick up your art kit to create a snowflake ornament celebrating the winter season and the upcoming new year.

Take Home Kit: Braiding Sweetgrass

Saturday, November 14

Pick up your art kit to create a wind chime inspired by Olivia Whetung’s Sugarbush Shrapnel and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. By donation.

Take Home Kit: Sugarbush Shrapnel

Saturday, October 24

Pick up your art kit to create a woven seed pod inspired by Olivia Whetung’s Sugarbush Shrapnel. By donation.

Take Home Kit: Stand

Saturday, October 3

Pick up your art kit to create a beaded sketch inspired by the our exhibition Sugarbush Shrapnel. By donation.

Take Home Kit: Art+Earth

Saturday, September 12

Pick up your art kit to create a salmon leaf collage inspired by the Art+Earth Festival and our exhibition Sugarbush Shrapnel.

Take Home Kit: Translations

Saturday, August 22

Translations-inspired Super Saturday! Come and pick up an activity kit to create a unique work of art based on the ancient technique of moaragh kari.

Past Activities