November Jury

Holly Bright

Holly Bright is a performer and dance educator.  She founded Crimson Coast Dance Society (Nanaimo, 1998), an organization that supports creation and presentation of professional dance programming.

In 2010, Holly was awarded The City Of Nanaimo’s Honour In Culture Award for her contributions to the cultural fabric of the arts in Nanaimo.  Her youth program, Body Talk, was nominated for a 2015 Business Achievement Award for Cultural Vitality. In 2016 Holly was selected for one of two John Hobday Awards acknowledging her work as an arts manager and to support her desire to cultivate cultural knowledge of Indigenous people, protocols, and their arts and artists — especially those of Snuneymuxw First Nation.

Lynn Falconer

Lynn Falconer is guided by a desire to express motion, emotion and levity through the still heaviness of bronze and other metals. Her body of work ranges from hand-held miniatures to mid-size pieces, and is growing to include larger and life-size figures. 

Water is a strong theme, from dipping a toe at the edge of a pool, to being fully submerged. The relationship between bodies and water repeats itself, even when unintentional, and speaks of a cool quieting of the mind and body. 

Lynn works from her Studio/Gallery at 1350 Railspur Alley on Granville Island. Her sculptures are on display private collections and galleries in Vancouver, BC, across North America and in Europe.

Serge Bennethan

Serge Ben Nathan is a painter, writer, and one of Canada’s most celebrated choreographers.

He has written and illustrated four books: Julius le piano voyageur, The Other Moon of Mr. Figlio, A Few Thousand Miles, and Not-a-fear/Peurderien. 

Recently he created a web plat-form, Paintings for the Soul, at sergebennathan.com 

His paintings reflect the poetry of the human soul; its dreams, imagination and humour.

Exhibitions of his paintings took place in Vancouver, Montréal and Matsumoto.