Connection Salon - an Outsider Arts Collective

07/09/2026

Thank you for joining us at our Indigenous themed Mad Arts Coffee House! See you all at our next event.

Photo credits: Wanda John-Kehewin

07/07/2026

06/26/2026

https://youtu.be/HKT988uX25E

A video featuring Karen Vanon a member of the Connection Salon shar...

06/19/2026

Hello artists

Curator Kagan Goh is sending you a link to submit 2-D artwork to the annual GIFTS OF MADNESS art exhibition deadline for submissions is today Friday 19th June.

04/01/2026

Barbara Kmiec is one of the featured artists at the Mad Arts Coffee House at the Connection Salon at the Gathering Place at 609 Helmcken Street on Thursday 2nd April between 5 PM to & PM.

Barbara Kmiec is a grad of SFU's The Writer's Studio, she participated in the Sage Hill writing program in Saskatchewan, and she has been mentored by poets George Murray, Jeannette Lyons, Jen Currin, Shauna Paull, Betsy Warland, and many others in one forum or another. Her poem "Horizon" was recently published in New Westminster's SAPP poetry and art zine, and "Hibiscus Man" was long-listed for Pulp Literature's Kingfisher Poetry Prize Contest in December 2024. She is currently working on a series of interconnected pieces (including both poetry and prose) about the journey with her elderly mom, Frances, who came to Canada from Poland in 1961, and who has now lived with Alzheimer's dementia for over twenty years. How we care for our beautiful planet and for our seniors and other loved ones in our midst is top of mind for Barb these days, in the mix of so many other concerns, locally, across our southern border, in the Middle East, and around the globe.

04/01/2026

Emily Taylor is one of the featured artists at the Mad Arts Coffee House at the Connection Salon at the Gathering Place at 609 Helmcken Street on Thursday 2nd April between 5 PM to & PM.

Emily (they/she) is a spoken-word-poet and emerging singer-songwriter based on the traditional and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her songs invite listeners into her experiences of q***r love and are grounded in a stripped-back, folk-inspired sound. A 2025 alum of the Amplify: Spoken Word Workshop, Emily has performed at Verses Spoken Word Festival, the East Van Abbey Cabaret, and various open-mics in the lower-mainland. She looks forward to releasing music in the near future, and is grateful to be featured among other fantastic artists at the Connection Salon!

04/01/2026

JAMIE Greenberg is one of the featured artists at the Mad Arts Coffee House at the Connection Salon at the Gathering Place at 609 Helmcken Street on Thursday 2nd April between 5 PM to & PM.