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Temporary Utopia is an assortment of arts and culture related projects and experiments, including a small physical s p a c e in the heart of xwesam (Roberts Creek) on the Sunshine Coast of Canada — the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) nations.

Since its inception in 2019 we have hosted and facilated a variety of events including art shows and residencies. (Take a look below for examples of past programming!) Through our work at Temporary Utopia we aim to help connect our tiny rural town to a broader arts and culture community. If you have a fun idea for a project get in touch!

Also, coming back for summer 2022 we have the




The Flowershop is mostly a collaboration between Tiny Moon Flower Farm and Strathcona Stockings.
For now, you can check out some bits and bobs online now:
www.strathconastockings.com/flowershop
But come visit us irl Sundays through the summer!





ABOUT THE SPACE:
The physical manifestation of Temporary Utopia is located in the little greenhouse between the Gumboot Restaurant and the Cafe.
(Behind the parking lot between 1041 and 1053 Roberts Creek Rd, Roberts Creek, BC V0N 2W0)




HOURS:
Shows and installations are viewable everyday through the windows! And during inconsistent hours (ie whenever we are around), and/or by contacting us to arrange a visit.
The Flowershop will be open on Sundays through the summer!

CONTACT:
greenhouserobertscreek@gmail.com
I rarely check this, so maybe... hmm I don't know. I guess be patient.

We are sort of on social media here.


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CURRENT

Back again for summer 2022! With art, flowers, knick-knacks, clothing, textiles, etc.
www.strathconastockings.com/flowershop






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PAST EXHIBITS

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Saturday July 23rd Temporary Utopia hosted

Featuring a video and sound installation by Michelle Helene Mackenzie and Ryley O'Byrne
and a live musical performance by Justin Patterson and John Brennan.


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FLOWERSHOP
Summer 2021



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BOOBY TRAP
An unfinished installation
July 2020

Sometimes all your plans are dashed and you just have to dash out the door.

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OCEAN EPILOGUES:
An Art Writing Residency
Dec 5th - 8th 2019




The Greenhouse is hosting OCEAN EPILOGUES, a short term re-residency that engages with Critical Art Writing -- in the form of criticism, experimental writing, and text as art. Participants include: Tao Fei, Daniella Sanader, Erik Benjamins, Catherine de Montreuil, Ginger Carlson, Maeve Hanna, and Ryley O'Byrne.

There will be a public writing/reading event the weekend of December 6th.

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Maya Beaudry
The Rooms of Time
July 27th - August 27th 2019




"The greatest hospitality is the one we extend towards our own impressions."
So we wonder to what extent we remain occupied by the spaces we have occupied; the extent to which we have that which has had us.
Mnemonic-being! All-marrow, and all-selecting. Formed like a lattice of what is considered necessary.
And yet, whose ulterior pursuit is to remain porous to all that isn't necessary, at all...
Mnemonic-being: of ambiguous interest; an undiscriminating capacity. Encompassing, embalming, antiseptic: like Myrrh.
Observe the Euclidian conduct of neuronal folds, extending into space by way of condensing rather than stretching!
Recall that "to contain" is not "to present."
Mnemonic-being: also, as hospitable as it is without.

How tightly they are bound before we would think to call them petals.
The bare tree says: for anything I've shown, my lessening of it is just as much my own.
We imagine a time when fecundity is no longer an antithesis of resolution.

Exhibition text by Hannah Acton

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Maya Beaudry uses sculpture, painting, installation, textile and video to build a language of accumulated interior space. Her work explores memory, architecture, dream time, growth, trip space, entropy and loss. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017 and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2013.


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