Sustainable art is popping up around Kelowna and it is getting people talking.

The displays are part of the 2022 initiatives organized by Global Citizen Events. The exhibits are open to the public from Feb. 10 to March 10, at the Orchard Park Mall, the Okanagan Regional Libraries, Metro Community and Habitat for Humanity ReStore. To learn more about the Arts for Social Change Campaign visit .

The exhibits feature unique pieces crafted by local students and professional artists. Each work of art was inspired by one of the , set out by the United Nations.

Joyce Brinkerhoff, a member of Global Citizen Events says that the goal of the exhibits is to integrate art into the community and to entertain, educate and inspire people to action.

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Local artist Alison Beaumont contributed her piece 91裸聊视频楾he Feels91裸聊视频� which she says was inspired by the concept of Ecological Sorrow.

Beaumont describes Ecological Sorrow as the necessity and urgency people feel about environmentalism, coupled with a paralyzing sensation of sadness and hopelessness. She says that when thinking about the environment people feel hopeful and inspired to take sustainable action but are sabotaged by feelings of insignificance.

Beaumont has captured the sounds of Ecological Sorrow in an iridescent box. The noises are motion activated and play in a unique combination each time they are triggered, similar to an individual91裸聊视频檚 experience with environmentalism.

To read more about her art visit

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Jacqueline.Gelineau@kelownacapnews.com
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