Light Up Kelowna

Light Up Kelowna is initiative in collaboration with FCCS and the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan (ARTSCO), with the support of the City of Kelowna. Light Up Kelowna is produced by Kirsteen McCulloch, ARTSCO Executive Director, with support from generous funding from Canada Healthy Communities, the United Way Recovery Fund and the BC Arts Council.

This vibrant installation illuminates the Cultural District, showcasing local artists and engaging the community in a celebration of creativity and connection. The exhibition consists of three elements viewed together – light projections along the Artwalk, an audio installation, and a three-channel video projected on the side of the Kelowna Community Theatre (KCT). Light Up Kelowna is a community project that showcases the work of emerging and established artists from the university and the local community.

Dr. Miles Thorogood and his team at SPIRAL have designed a cutting-edge wireless sound and light system that brings the Artwalk to life. The projections on the urban screen @KCT were created with curatorial oversight and design by Dr. Aleksandra Dulic and Dr. Yujie Gao.

Read more about Light Up Kelowna and ARTSCO

Current Exhibitions

Light Up Kelowna ArtWalk

Celebrating the Return: Gobo lights and sound installation

The ArtWalk exhibition highlights the cultural and ecological significance of restoring Sockeye Salmon and the cultural imperative of restoring Okanagan habitats, riparian systems, and biodiversity. The imagery created for Gobo Lights and Sound Walk celebrates the return of the salmon to the Okanagan. In response to the success of the salmon return to the Okanagan, École Okanagan Mission Secondary student Tara Dunn, under the supervision of Aleksandra Dulic, created the salmon imagery and symmetrical arrangement to mark this incredible initiative. Miles Thorogood and his undergraduate research assistant, Yahvardhan Joshi, created a sound installation that immerses the salmon in a flowing river of sounds.

Light Up Kelowna @ KCT

Vanishing Point

The video projection on the side of the KCT references the effect we have on our environment, and how the way we interact with nature can have consequences. This animation, created by Alison Beaumont, Joanne Gervais and Shauna Oddleifson, With increasing temperatures brought about by climate change, fires in our local area, our natural environment is under threat. This is a narrative work, a collaged landscape of the Okanagan depicting water, trees, animals that comes alive and shows the landscape changing overtime due to possible drought, fires and other consequences of the changing climate, showing the landscape degrading and burning. The elements that make up the narrative piece are hand drawn images, felted and crocheted pieces, digital drawing, along with photographs that are collaged, staged and brought to life through animation.