Kickstart invites you to join us for our 2022 Annual General All current and potential members welcome! Our AGM is an opportunity for members to have a voice; to learn more about the work Kickstart has done over the past year and to hear what we have coming up! This is also your opportunity to […]
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Jasmine Sanchez-Ziller
I am 26 years old and for the past seven years I have been mostly housebound/bedridden with a complex chronic illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka M.E./CFS (you can find the rest of my bio at my website)
Natalia Bogolepova
I started artist’s biography with a drawing-book in the school. Later I tried to paint by watercolors and oil in several studios in different periods of my life where there was very creative atmosphere but significant part of my life I devoted to medicine as a science. In the after 50 age I immigrated to […]
Erella Ganon
Erella Ganon is an artist who has been illustrating her experiences in journals for the majority of her life. She has plied her trade as a reviewer and journalist for NOW Magazine, CKLN-FM, CFNY-FM, and CBC radio and CBC TV. In 1998, she was diagnosed with the first of several brain tumours and contracted a […]
L.J. Throstle
L.J. Throstle is a Vancouver based artist working predominantly with spray paint and stencils to create one of a kind spray paint and mixed media pieces. L.J.’s works include animals, people, surreal landscapes and still life. She currently works out of The Beaumont Studios on West 5th Avenue, and has won awards with the Federation […]
Karen Colville
Born in small town rural Ontario, Karen Colville obtained her BFA at OCAD. Since graduation, she has facilitated workshops, group and solo exhibits in North America and internationally. Intrigued with the natural and super-natural spiritual energies of the West Coast, she calls Vancouver her home and creative hub. She has returned to creating her visual […]
Adam Grant Warren
Adam has appeared in stage productions including Frank Theatre’s All In and Touchstone’s Scene/Change. He frequently collaborates with the All Bodies Dance Project, and he was the director and librettist behind Pipedream’s Fringe Festival hit, CAPS LOCK!: The Musical! His latest show, Last Train In, was recently developed with the Playwrights Theatre Centre’s National Writers’ […]
Natalia Bogolepova
I started my artistic career with a drawing-book in school. Later I tried to paint by watercolors and oil in several studios in different periods of my life where there were very creative atmospheres but a significant part of my life I devoted to medicine as a science. After age fifty I immigrated to Canada, […]
Olga Kalamkarova
An unsuccessful operation to remove a benign tumour left me quadriplegic. Art helps me to live by the simple principle that you are not just a body, and suffering is weakness. My artistic medium is my digital photography and Adobe Photoshop. I create a new and different world using photographic details to tell the story. […]
Doug Heal
Born in Vancouver and raised on the majestic slopes of its north shore, Doug Heal is a multidisciplinary artist and poet living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3. A lifelong student, Doug has studied at Emily Carr University and has degrees from Capilano and Simon Fraser University. His work is inspired by the natural wonder […]