The Gambier Community Centre Society is proud to present the Arts and Ideas Series at the Gambier Community Centre, beginning March 6, 2010 and continuing until September 18, 2010. Inspired and orchestrated by Gambier’s Geoffrey Smedley, the Arts and Ideas Series promises to bring something to everyone. Participating in this exciting series are artists well known and respected not only in Vancouver but internationally as well. Each event in the series will focus on a particular art form – there’ll be a sculptor and photographer, a composer, a poet, a sculptor and architect, a painter and print maker and a photographer. Don’t miss this once-in-a-life-time opportunity to meet these accomplished individuals face-to-face.

The events will be held on Saturday afternoons. Doors open at 12:30 pm with refreshments served at 1 pm. The presentation and following social begins at 1:30 pm until 4:00pm.

Our last event has been postponed until September 18th when Robert Keziere, photographer, presents "A Pox on Pixels, Some Found and Built Photographs: Hooray for Film" and a Brief Look at Personal Work and Professional Pictures About Art, 1980-2010.

Since the 1970s Robert Keziere has been one of Vancouver’s important, yet under-recognized, photographers. His striking portraiture was featured in The Days of Augusta published in 1971 and his documentary images taken during a 1971 Greenpeace expedition has been recently published in Robert Hunter’s The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey. His exhibitions and publications Requiem at the Charles Scott Gallery in 1985 and On Reason at the Contemporary Art Gallery in 1989 established Keziere as masterful photographer working with a large-format camera. He was the chief photographer at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Many thanks to the Sunshine Coast Regional District for their financial support of these events.