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Belmont Bulldogs point guard Perry Panganiban, left, and Dover Bay Dolphins opponent Brayden Turnbull grapple for a loose ball during last week’s Belmont Invitational senior boys basketball final. The Bulldogs led most of the game but lost 64-63 on a buzzer-beating threepointer. See story, page A25. Don Descoteau/News Gazette staff
Coast Collective transforming in Colwood From the seaside to the cityside, art centre opens at Westridge Landing Arnold Lim News Gazette staff
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even the walls themselves spearhead the Coast Collective Art Centre’s transition from the seaside to the cityside, with the first show at their new home in the Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Colwood. “Going into the new place is rather overwhelming,” said the centre’s executive director, Cindy Moyer. “I don’t think I have ever seen all the infrastructure and inventory together in one space where
it isn’t properly distributed … It’s piled up everywhere.” That said, she’s excited about the possibilities. “As (the inventory) starts to settle and move into its proper areas, you start to really see how magnificent the space is going to work. It’s a whole other world for us.” Advantages of moving to the centrally located development on Wale Road include more opportunity to host classes at all times of
day, Moyer said, and the ability for artists to see their work be exhibited in the hotel. A rotation of purchasable artwork done by Coast Collective members will eventually hang on the foyer walls in Colwood’s first hotel. Even with these positives, Moyer said leaving the “mansion by the sea” wasn’t easy. “It’s certainly bittersweet. I remember when the (Pendray)
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house was last empty and it has a very different feeling when the art and the humanity that created it is no longer present,” she said of the historic building. “It’s waiting for its new treatment, whatever that’ll be … and it’ll be a great opportunity for (the) Pacific Landing (developers) to transform it again.”
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