Own work from the next generation of cultural icons at the 2006 Emily Carr Institute (ECI) Grad Class Art Auction. Proceeds from the auction will support 2006 Graduation class activities. Admission is free and absentee bids will be accepted during preiew hours, held Wednesday March 22nd to Friday March 24th from 10:00am-6:00pm and Saturday March 25th from 10:00am-3:00pm. The auction will take place Saturday at 7:00pm in the Concourse Gallery of ECI, located at 1399 Johnston Street on Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. For details call Moira McDermott at 604-844-3860.

Artists in our Midst and SFU will host free, open discussions on the arts at the West Point Grey Community Centre, located at 4394 West 2nd Ave. in Vancouver BC from 7:30pm-9:30pm. Wednesday March 15th's topic is "Modernism or Postmodernism" (focus on 20th century art history) and Wednesday March 22nd's topic "Beauty or Ugliness?" (Focus on the aesthetic). For details call 604-224-6795.

This year is the 97th anniversary of the Victoria Sketch Club's Annual Show. It opens on Tuesday, March 14th at 7:00pm at Glen Lyon School, located at 1701 Beach Drive (Oak Bay) in Victoria, BC. Continuing daily from 10:00am-7:00pm, the show closes on Sunday, March 19th. Admission is free. For details, call Victor Lotto at 250-592-3585.

Surrey's Artswest Society invites you to their How-To Artist demonstrations held the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:45pm at the Bear Creek Pavilion in Bear Creek Park, Surrey located off King George Highway and 88th Ave. The non-member fee is $3 and new members are always welcome. This month's demonstration will take place on Monday March 20th and will be an oil painting demonstration by Bob McMurray. For details call Shirley at 604-589-2891.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council is holding a Jury for two upcoming craft fairs: Folkfest Craft Fair held Thursday June 22nd to Sunday June 25th 2006 and the Canada Day Craft Fair to be held Saturday July 1st 2006. Jurying will take place Wednesday March 15th and Thursday March 16th at CityScape Community Art Space located at 335 Lonsdale Ave in North Vancouver. All exhibitors must be members of the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. A $10 jury fee will be charged and will be applicable for one or both fairs. Only handmade arts and crafts accepted by the jury may be sold or exhibited. Jury spaces are on a first come first served basis.For details call 604-988-6844.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council is seeking 3D artists for upcoming exhibits to be held at the North Vancouver District Hall located at 355 Queens Rd West, as part of North Vancouver's Art in Public Places program. Interested artists should submit an artist statement and contact information, a CV or a biography. 10-20 photographs or slides of your art work that represent your collection, medium of your art, dimensions and a price list. Dimensions of submissions should not exceed D 3' x W3' x H3' 6". Deadline for submissions is Friday March 10th at 4:00pm. Send submissions to 335 Lonsdale Ave in North Vancouver, BC V7M 2G3. For details call 604-988-6844.

The Fraser Valley Watercolour Society (FVWS) will host their annual Spring 2006 Art Show at the Clearbrook Library located at 32320 George Fergusen Way in Abbotsford, BC from Saturday March 25th to Thursday April 6th, 2006. The show will be open to the public during library hours and the artist will be present at a reception on Saturday March 25th from 2:00pm-4:30pm. There will be a free draw for an original watercolour painted by one of the FVWS members. For library hours, call 604-859-7814.

Artist and artisans are invited to participate in the 2006 Art in the Garden Tour. This 2 day event takes place Saturday May 27th and Sunday May 28th 2006 and is a great opportunity for visual artist to market their work in a unique setting. Interested artists must complete and submit an application form with 10 slides or photos of their work, a CV or bio and an artist statement. Submmissions must be accompanied by a $15 jury fee and all accepted artist must be members of the North Vancovuer Community Arts Council. Deadline for submission is Saturday March 18th and can be sent to 335 Lonsdale Ave in North Vancouver, BC V7M 2G3. For details and to obtain an application form call 604-988-6844.

Post Modernism and "Deconstruction" is the title of the latest presentation and discussion hosted by Gallery Vertigo located at 1-3001 31st Street Vernon, BC. Artist and Academic Michael Griffin will present this seminar that will lead participants through the multiple universes of meaning that have affected the worlds contemporary art for the last 50 years. This seminar will take place Wednesday March 8th at Gallery Vertigo. The lecture has a $12 registration fee. For details or to register call 250-503-2297.

The Burnaby Artists Guild will hold an original Art Sale titled Show of Art at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts located a 6450 Deer Lake Ave in Burnaby, BC. The show will be held from Friday March 31st to Sunday April 2nd 2006. The official opening will be held on Friday from 7:00pm-10:00pm. Hours on Saturday are from 10:00am to 6:00pm and Sunday From 10:00am-5:00pm. Admission is free with parking and bus access. For details call 604-291-6864.

The opening reception for Stan Brakhage's About Time: Four Late Brakhage Films and Carolee Schneemann's Devour will take place on Saturday March 11th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. This is a rare opportunity to see four Stan Brakhage sound films created late in his life. Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and his engagement with cinema resulted in a reinvention of the medium, especially regarding the relations between abstraction, photography, painting and his resurrection of overlooked subject areas, such as the realities of the family. Since the 1960s Schneemann's art has been operating at the interface between performance and painting, filmmaking and photography, the body and the theatre. Her new work, Devour is a passionate, characteristically probing video that combines many of her past formal strategies with images of current political events and abuses. The pairing of Schneemann and Brakhage is a homage to their working relationship and an opportunity to see some of the cross-influences operating in their later works. For details call Presentation House Gallery at 604-986-1351.