Mindfulness. Materials. Making.

This workshop invites beings to be. With time, space, and energy interconnection is explored in/for being(s). With intention, beings are invited to creatively express with artistic materials.

Venue & reserving seats:

This workshop will take place inside Crescent Beach Community Gallery at 12160 Beecher St, Surrey, BC. Parking around the gallery can be a challenge, so please leave yourself plenty of time to find a spot or use public transit (you can map out your trip using TransLink’s Trip Planner).

We have 10 seats available for workshop attendees and kindly require RSVPs to make sure we don't run out of chairs or supplies. (If the workshop fills up, you'll be prompted to join a waiting list if you'd like to be notified if someone else cancels.)

Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Questions / contact:

Please email ArtAllAlong@gmail.com if you have any questions or accessibility requests.

Meet the facilitator

Anoop Dhaliwal (she/her) is an interdisciplinary visual artist and graphic designer. Dhaliwal’s practice and skills involve photography (analog + digital), printmaking, painting, illustration, video, dynamic media, typography, and editorial layout. Her artistic approach embraces traditional art practices, digital art practices, and their intersections. Her creative expression includes spirituality, the Universe, sacred geometry, nature, mindfulness, and identities. Dhaliwal’s personal, educational, and professional experiences intersect to inform her artistic approach and expression.

Dhaliwal resides in colonially-called British Columbia, Canada. She earned a BA (sociology + psychology) with Distinction from the University of Alberta in 2006. She completed the majority of coursework in the BFA (visual arts + graphic design) at the University of the Fraser Valley. Dhaliwal is the recipient of several art awards including the Evangelos Apostolides Endowment Scholarship in Photography (2021, 2020), the Jim and Patty Michaud Annual Scholarship in the Creative Arts (2020, 2019), and the Black Press Lower Mainland Endowment Scholarship (2019). Her work Save the Earth: Local. Global. Balance. (2020) placed first in UFV’s 6th Bi-annual Poster Competition.

As an active community member, Dhaliwal believes arts engagement enriches personal and community development. She has experience in arts administration, including marketing and communications, event coordination, program development, and human resources. Presently, Dhaliwal serves as President for the Abbotsford Arts Council (AAC) and as Co-Director for ‘It’s Been Art All Along.’ Previously, she was a co-curator for the Abbotsford Art Council’s Simultaneity art show, which was nominated as an Innovative Initiative for the Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Awards (2021). Dhaliwal has been a long-standing committee member for Jam and Jubilee, a concert series and art market.

Anoop is one of six BC-based artists showing work at Crescent Beach Community Gallery from Nov. 21–Dec. 14, 2025, in a free art exhibition and workshop series titled ‘It’s Been Art All Along: Women Making Sense/Cents Through Art in a World on Fire.' You can read more about the show at bit.ly/ArtAllAlong.