Shavasana Gallery & Café will be open this weekend: Friday April 3 – Monday April 6

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Very much looking forward to the 2026 Spring Studio Tour which is being put on by Lorie Brown (Gardenia) and Lucie Walker (artist/musician) this year. Always a fun event with people coming far and wide to explore Mayne Island’s creative talents – and have a chance to look inside artist’s studios which are usually closed to the public.

It’s also a good opportunity for artist’s to show their stuff, and who knows? maybe even sell a piece of art or two.🙏

Shavasana Gallery will be open to participate again – as we have done now for the past 13 years – and, give those on tour a chance to see a variety of local works, and maybe even stop for a coffee or tea and a baked goodie.

So, please drop in! Check out local art & hang out in one of the sweetest little café galleries that the Gulf Islands has to offer!

Cheers!

George

(ps. the Aliens came and enjoyed themselves on their earthly stop-over last time I was here, and left a few apples which they are now selling at the Tru Value….they’re called “Cosmic Crisp” (for good reason) and – despite their genetic manipulation, and mass production on a factory on Mars (which explains their very red colouring) – are some of the largest, sweetest, crispest apples I’ve ever encountered…try one next time they are in stock🍎🍎👍)

Aliens Come to Visit Shavasana Gallery & Café

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I was coming over to Mayne Island recently on the ferry when I noticed this flotilla of alien craft arriving from afar, enroute to Shavasana Gallery & Café.

When I arrived at Shavasana, there they were, politely waiting for me to open up. It was a bit of a challenge to understand them – given their very thick accents – but they did make it quite clear that their scouting party had come back recently with stories of a very comfortable little place on a charming island, with yummy baked goods, a delicious dark hot beverage, intriguing aural noises emanating from a small black device, and examples of primitive art.

Of course, I invited them in and made sure there was enough coffee and baked goodies to go around. Seating was pretty tight, although luckily they were quite thin and could sit two to a chair. They even bought a few works of art before they took off, including a piece by Famous Empty Sky as they’d “never seen collage before” and were hoping to donate it to their intergalactic museum as representative of the local culture.

As they wrapped up and prepared to board their vessels for the four-and-a-half light year trip home, I thanked them for coming and told them to please drop in if they were ever back in this quadrant of our galaxy. They assured me that they would, asking when exactly I too would be back on Mayne Island, so they could make plans to return.

Of course I told them Anita’s weekly schedule – Sunday/Monday & Tuesday, most weekends, and that I would be back the following days:

Saturday March 14, Sunday March 15 and Monday the 16th – roughly 9am to 4pm, except Sunday where doors open around 10:15.

They smiled (I think) and waved goodbye, and promised to return.

🛸👽👽👽🚀