Spotlight Featured Artist: Catherine Fraser

Shawnigan Lake Community Centre - 2804 Shawnigan Lake Road

Catherine has painted professionally since 1983 with art studios in Victoria and the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, BC Canada. She works in oils, acrylic, watercolour, graphite and pastels, photography and mixed media and is constantly exploring and experimenting with new artistic responses to the world around her. Catherine has a love of nature, and plein air painting and travel. Drawing and expanding drawing has been a strong interest and practice. Capturing moments in time while attending symphony provides inspiration.

Spotlight Series: Elise Boulanger

Shawnigan Lake Community Centre - 2804 Shawnigan Lake Road

Elise Boulanger with bassist Brock Meades delivers a captivating, ethereal live performance. Anchored by rich bass and driven by artistic percussion, ukulele, and autoharp, her music creates an immersive and cinematic soundscape. Trained operatically, Boulanger possesses an angelic voice that reaches rare heights, drawing audiences into a profound and emotionally resonant experience. Her performances explore themes of environmental care, uplifting Indigenous communities, and collective kindness, inviting connection through audience yodeling and storm-like soundscapes in a dreamily decorated world.