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  • Urban Sketch Club: Silver Meadows Farm

    Silver Meadows Farm 1019 Errington Road, Parksville, BC, Canada

    A free meetup organized by Peggy of the Nanaimo Sketch Club focused on Urban Sketching. Beginner scribblers, seasoned professional artists, everyone in-between! We’ll meet at Silver Meadows Farm Market in the parking lot near the market for a non-guided sketching and chit-chat session, Saturday June 27th, at 10am for about two hours. I haven’t been, but I trust everyone who’s been recommending this place, so let’s do it! We’ll try to get back together around noon to take a group snap of our sketches - but if you feel you don't want to participate in that, that's totally fine. Bring: Your sketchbook, your favourite drawing / painting implements, and a portable chair. See you soon!

  • Collage Club

    Drop Zone Games 2520 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, BC, Canada

    Collage Club is a free creative gathering of anyone who is interested in making art and meeting other creatives. The focus is on collage because it is a low barrier and accessible way for everyone to get creative - but any creative project is welcome. This meetup will have a project for you to get started with if you’re feeling stuck or want to learn. The main goal is to meet and build our community and create a safe space to express being a human. Looking forward to having you join us at this event!

  • Eleanor The Great

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Eleanor the Great (2025) is a comedy-drama directed by Scarlett Johansson that follows 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein (June Squibb), who moves to New York from Florida after the death of her best friend. While grieving, she misrepresents herself to join a Jewish seniors group, pretending to be a Holocaust survivor to find companionship, leading to complex consequences. Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard award nominee.

    $15

  • Mr Nobody Against Putin

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) is an Oscar-winning documentary following Pavel "Pasha" Talankin, a Russian schoolteacher and videographer in the Ural Mountains who secretly records the militarization of his school following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The film, directed by David Borenstein and Talankin, exposes how Putin's "patriotic education" forces teachers to indoctrinate children with pro-war propaganda.

    $15

  • Eleanor The Great

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Eleanor the Great (2025) is a comedy-drama directed by Scarlett Johansson that follows 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein (June Squibb), who moves to New York from Florida after the death of her best friend. While grieving, she misrepresents herself to join a Jewish seniors group, pretending to be a Holocaust survivor to find companionship, leading to complex consequences. Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard award nominee.

    $15

  • Green Revolt

    Oliver Woods Community Centre 6000 Oliver Rd, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Interested in being a part of discussions to bring positive environmental change to Nanaimo? Join the launch of Green Revolt Action Group. The first session’s topic is on composting in Nanaimo.  

    Free

  • Foragers & Wild Relatives

    Nanaimo Art Gallery 150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Join us for two screenings of films by Jumana Manna, that trace connections between people and plants in conflict zones. The two distinct events are presented alongside the exhibition Biophilia, at Nanaimo Art Gallery. Doors 6:45pm, film 7pm. See website for locations, registration and more info.

  • A Not So Still Life

    Gabriola Arts and Heritage Centre 476 South Rd, Gabriola, British Columbia, Canada

    Sheila Norgate announces her 40 year Retrospective art show and sale on Gabriola at the Gabriola Arts and Heritage Centre (476 South Rd) on Saturday/Sunday October 3/4, 11-5pm each day with an artist talk at 2pm on Sunday. All events free.

    Free

  • It Was Just an Accident

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    It Was Just an Accident (2025) is a political thriller directed by Jafar Panahi about a former Iranian political prisoner, Vahid, who believes he has found his former torturer. Vahid kidnaps the man, leading to a tense, moral road trip to confirm the man's identity, exploring themes of vengeance, trauma, and justice in Iran. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film​ Festival.

    $15

  • Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse)

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Peak Everything (also titled Amour Apocalypse) is a 2025 Quebecois romantic comedy directed by Anne Émond that explores falling in love amidst the existential dread of climate change. Quebec Cinema Awards Best Visual Effects

    $15

  • It Was Just an Accident

    Vancouver Island Conference Centre 80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    It Was Just an Accident (2025) is a political thriller directed by Jafar Panahi about a former Iranian political prisoner, Vahid, who believes he has found his former torturer. Vahid kidnaps the man, leading to a tense, moral road trip to confirm the man's identity, exploring themes of vengeance, trauma, and justice in Iran. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film​ Festival.

    $15

  • 2026/27 Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet Readings and Lecture Series

    Vancouver Island University 900 Fifth St, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Renowned poet Stephen Collis is Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet for 2026/27. Collis’s lecture is October 22nd from 7 to 8:30 pm on the Nanaimo campus in Building 355, Room 203. It is free to attend and will be followed by a catered reception, cash bar, and book signing in Room 211. Collis will also perform two poetry readings. First, there will be a reading and Q&A for students on October 21st from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm in Building 310, The Malaspina Theatre lobby. Second, there will be a community reading that night (October 21st) at Windowseat Books (321 Wesley St) from 7-8 pm; student poet Lee Groen will open for Collis, and there will be music. *** Collis’s lecture on October 22nd, “Small Craft Warning,” will trace and explore the recurrence of small boats as both images in and an image of his work in poetry. In his abstract for the lecture, Collis writes the following: In a small craft one cannot buy into the lie of mastery, but must come to the elemental world asking, in respect, seeking nothing more than fluid intra-relation, slipping over the surface of powerful forces and Big Things Beyond […]