Create Public Art

building community (and big art)

A program for building community through the design, creation and presentation of public art. Participants form teams, learn new skills and create big, interactive art for festivals and public spaces.

Coming up

Two people at Create Makerspace looking closely at a laser-cut wooden panel, with shelves of materials behind them

Thursdays · Oct 29, Nov 5, 12 & 19 · 7–9pm

Design Public Art drop-in sessions

Create Makerspace event space · #1–39449 Queens Way

Free, by donation · come to one or all, no need to sign up

The Brackendale Art Gallery sign and timber building

Sun Nov 22 · 6–9pm

Pitch Night

Brackendale Art Gallery · Brackendale, Squamish

The fall's ideas, pitched to makers and funders. Pitch, or just come and watch.

Get tickets on Eventbrite
The Orcar, a community-built orca sculpture, outlined in purple lights above a festival crowd at night

February – June 2027

Create Public Art spring program

Create Makerspace · Squamish

Form a team, learn to fabricate, and build big art for BC festivals. Details coming this winter.

New fall series

Design Public Art

What’s your BIG idea? From sketch to pitch.

Ideate · Iterate · Model · Budget · Present

Pick a stream

Festival installation

  • A big installation for a BC festival
  • Pitch it in late November
  • Can be built in Create Public Art

Bass Coast · Otherworld · Squamish Arts Festival

Public bench

  • Design one bench for Create Makerspace
  • Pitch it in late November
  • Create hopes to build the chosen design in Create Public Art 2027

A design brief from Create Makerspace

Same nights for both. No need to choose yet.

How it works

  1. Start

    Kickoff & Info Night

    Thu Oct 22 · 7–9pm

    Create Makerspace · event space

    RSVP on Eventbrite

    The Create Makerspace sign, white letters on a timber facade

  2. Get inspired

    Party: Orcar

    Sat Oct 24 · 7pm till late

    Secret Squamish warehouse · by donation, min $20

    Get tickets on Eventbrite

    Field trip: Prosthesis

    Sun Oct 25 · 12–3pm

    Squamish Valley · meeting point by email

    A 4,000kg mech suit. Yes, really. RSVP on Eventbrite

    Prosthesis, a huge white four-legged mech, standing in desert scrub at sunset with its pilot in a red suit beneath it for scale

  3. Design

    Weekly meetups

    Thursdays · 7–9pm

    • Oct 29
    • Nov 5
    • Nov 12
    • Nov 19

    Create Makerspace · event space

    Bring your idea and a sketchbook. Talk, draw, plan. No tools needed. Drop-ins welcome.

    Two people at Create Makerspace looking closely at a laser-cut wooden panel, with shelves of materials behind them

  4. Pitch

    Pitch Night

    Sun Nov 22 · 6–9pm

    Brackendale Art Gallery

    Pitch your idea to makers and funders. Pitch, or just watch. Get tickets on Eventbrite

    The Brackendale Art Gallery sign and timber building
Where
Create Makerspace
#1–39449 Queens Way
When
Thursdays, 7–9pm
Oct 22 to Nov 19 · come to one or all
Cost
Free, by donation
to Create Makerspace Society

Our first season

“There was a gap in the arts community and this filled it.”2026 participant

Seen at Bass Coast, Otherworld, What If Festival, the Feather Shakedown, Canada Day and Cap U Mountain Fest. More on the 2026 program.

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