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The AFC 2012 Festival will return to Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver from October 13 through October 21st. AFC Gala Fundraiser and VIP Preview will be October 12, 2012. Save the dates. Details to follow shortly!

The Artists for Conservation Festival is a signature cultural event featuring 10 days of art and environmental education, and connecting people to nature through a world-class international art exhibit, lectures, workshops, live artist demos, First Nations performances and film. The Festival features an extraordinary educational program of nature in art involving some of the leading nature and wildlife artists and naturalists from around the world, as well as youth nature-and-art workshops (gr 3-10) in the most inspiring of settings.

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2011 AFC Festival Highlights

Thank you for joining us on November 5 to 13, 2011 at the first international Artists For Conservation Festival for 10 extraordinary days of art and environmental education, including lectures, film, live painting demos, youth workshops (for school groups), and a world-class art exhibit, featuring the leading nature and wildlife artists and naturalists from around the world - at Grouse Mountain, the Peak of Vancouver!  

New Blog article: AFC Record Breaking Tour & 2011 Festival Recap

AFC's touring exhibit “The Art of Conservation” is now at Arizona-Sonara Desert Museum in Tucson. The exhibit comprises most of the artwork from the live exhibit at Grouse Mountain this past November. The tour opens on - Jan 14 – March 11, 2012. The opening reception and exhibit book signing is on Jan 14 at 2:00PM with Jeff Whiting, President of AFC. Find out more.

Order your very own Robert Bateman Print - You still have a chance to acquire a special "Conservation Edition" print by Robert Bateman. 100% of the proceeds from the sale go to Artists for Conservation. They are available for $225 plus tax each. Find out more and order yours now.

 

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Thank you for providing your feedback. We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to share, please email us at festivalinfo@artistsforconservation.org.

Here are some comments we've received so far:

"I want to give a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to everyone in the inner workings of AFC for putting on and pulling off the first annual nature art festival. We had so much fun, met fantastic people, and I was revitalized to do more art and conservation. Thank you AFC." - Kim Middleton, AFC Artist

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AFC's Annual Exhibit - The Art of Conservation - has become one of the most highly anticipated events among the nature-inspired art genres.

With the close of the 2011 AFC Festival and live exhibit last Sunday, November 13, at Grouse Mountain, Vancouver, the entire collection of artwork is now available for viewing online in order to provide global access to some of the best works the nature-inspired art genre has to offer.

This afternoon (Nov 11), the Festival will open to the public again at 2:00 pm with live art demos, gallery viewings, film screenings and two lectures presented by AFC artists Kim Middleton and David Kitler at 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm respectively. Kim will speak on "Birds in a Different Light" and David will share on the topic of "Observing & Portraying the Endangered Harpy Eagle & its Habitat"

All week long we've had students from across the Lower Mainland take part in the colourful art and environmental learning activities at the Artists For Conservation Festival. Today alone, we are excited to have over 100 youth from Kids Up Front participating.

The kids so far have been enthralled with watching the artists work, have been asking really good questions after the movie How an Artist saved the Mountain Gorilla, and are taken by Tyto the resident barn owl!

While the Festival is in full swing this week, we'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the volunteers, sponsors, supporters, friends of AFC, musicians, and most importantly AFC member artists without whom this Festival would not be possible.