Honouring 2SLGBTQIA+ identities

Please join us for our Artist pARTy!

Saturday June 6th from 6 to 8 pm

The Hearth Gallery (Bowen Island Arts Council), partnering with Bowen Pride Society, is planning Bowen Pride Festival (2026), a community-based and multidisciplinary festival featuring a dynamic mix of art exhibitions and cultural events to celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities and lives as well as the coming-together of the community that we all belong to.

The title of this queer arts show at the Hearth gallery is “Hello, My Name is…” an open-ended introduction that is meant to raise critical questions about the relationship among identity, art, and community.

If name-calling and coded names historically suggest acts of exclusion or even violence for 2SLBGTQIA+ people, we want to reclaim the myriad meanings of names, just as how we have reclaimed the very meaning of the word “queer”. Through this process of renaming and reclamation, we transform ways of othering into possibilities of belonging— convergent moments and processes of self-acknowledgement by the very simple phrase, “Hello, my name is…”

This group show includes visual, the performative, the literary, and the installational. All works are curated and exhibited within the Hearth gallery and outside in the common space by the gallery entrance in June 2026 during the Bowen Island Pride Festival.

Show will be open June 3rd to 15th, 2026.

Participating Artists:

Jeremy and Joshua Keyzer - Ladies Who Branch

Mads Woodfield

Winter Woodfield

Nic Peerson

Willi O

Lynne Hubert

Lilla Mihalik

Hannah Michelle

Jasper Berehulke

Shel Stefan