Cowichan Valley Arts Billboard

It was the Cowichan Valley Arts Billboard that started it all.

About the Cowichan Valley Arts Café

Arts Café, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carving by Laverne Roy (Corky) Baines and © City of Duncan

The Cowichan Valley Arts Cafe was born from interest initially generated by the Cowichan Valley Arts Billboard. In the Cafe, individual and group artists in the Cowichan Valley are invited to post their own pictures and stories about their art, poetry and topics of interest.

You must become a member of the Cowichan Valley Arts Café to publish titled posts.

The most recent post appears above all other posts.

What is an online arts café?

Café Lore, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carving by Oscar Matilpi and © City of Duncan

The Cowichan Valley Arts Café is a common type of web blog that comments on art.

Blogs have taken on 'web 2.0' social networking features. Art web blogs can develop to become a source of information about artists and arts events, a way to share artistic vision and images about community, and provide a virtual meeting ground; as in a café.

Art blog entries cover a wide range of topics, from art reviews and commentary to insider art world gossip, art news, personal essays, portfolios, poetry, interviews, artists' journals, etc. On this blog the most recent entry is at the top of the list of all posts.

Art blogs also serve as a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art whether it's painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography, video art, conceptual art or new media.

We welcome practitioners of different forms of art, collectors, connoisseurs, and critics!

Please see Terms of Use.

Arts Café etiquette

Etiquette, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carving by Oscar Matilpi and © City of Duncan

There are millions of online forums dedicated to social interaction and these are a few guidelines governing the use of the Cowichan Valley Arts Café. These guidelines will allow members and readers to share opinions without being offensive.

• Be polite. You’re not going to agree with every post you read. Allow others their opinion. You shouldn't be less polite on the Web than you would be in person.
  
• Check your facts. Posting incorrect information makes you look like an amateur and can be a libelous offense.
• Don't copy content without permission. Copyright rules apply. Always ask permission to use more than a few lines with a link. Give credit where credit is due.
• Make your entry meaningful. Make the "Title" of your post relevant to its content and make the content easy to read.

Make a post in the Cowichan Valley Arts Café

The Two Sides of Life, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carving by Simon Charlie and © City of Duncan

The Cowichan Valley Arts Café enables individual valley artists to publish information at this shared virtual location.

It is free of charge to post content in the café.

1. You simply email content for your new posts to the moderator of the Café. All necessary assistance is available from Ron Greenaway who is the host & moderator of this site

To post content in the Cowichan Valley Arts Café send an email including what you want it to say and any image you want to include to cowichanvalleyarts@gmail.com.

Cowichan Valley Arts Café host & moderator

Face your fears, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carving © City of Duncan

Ron Greenaway is currently the moderator of the Cowichan Valley Arts Café.

Moderators are users of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralizing spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site to be promoted to moderator for such a task.

Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as respond to specific complaints. Moderators typically lend a helping hand to a user in need.

Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads, locking, renaming, stickying of threads, banning, suspending, unsuspending, unbanning, warning the members, or adding, editing, removing threads.

Send email to the Cowichan Valley Arts Café moderator at cowichanvalleyarts@gmail.com.

You can contact Ron by phoning 250-709-9927.

Cowichan Valley Arts Café Terms of Use

Active Icons, mixed media by Ron Greenaway Carvings by Harold Alfred and Doug Lafortune © City of Duncan

Please read the following Terms of Use for the Cowichan Valley Arts Café.

By accessing this site you agree to these terms and conditions.

All site design, text, graphics, interfaces, and the selection thereof are copyright © of the author and / or artist and all rights are reserved.

Contents, which are derived in whole or in part from material supplied by www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts, Ron Greenaway, its suppliers, and other sources, is protected by copyright and trademark laws.

Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print portions of this site for the sole purpose of placing an order with www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, islandarts.ca or Ron Greenaway or using as a shopping resource and provided that you keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notice. Any other use of materials on this site, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, or republication, without prior written consent from Island Arts, Ron Greenaway, the noted author or artist is strictly prohibited.

The material contained in this site is intended for Canadian residents. All orders received from or for delivery outside Canada may be accepted or denied at the discretion of www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, islandarts.ca and Ron Greenaway.

The information, services, products, and material contained in this site, including, without limitation, text, graphics, and links, are provided on as "AS IS" basis with no warranty. To the maximum extent permitted by law www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, islandarts.ca and Ron Greenaway disclaims all representations and warranties, express or implied, with respect to such information, services, products, and materials, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, freedom from computer virus, and implied warranties arising from the course of dealing or course of performance. In addition, www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, islandarts.ca and Ron Greenaway does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this site is accurate, complete or current.

In no event shall www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts and Ron Greenaway be liable for any direct,indirect, special, punitive, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever, even if www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, and/or islandarts.ca and/or Ron Greenaway has been previously advised of the possibility of such damages, whether in an action under contract, negligence, or any other theory, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use, or performance of the information, services, products, and materials available from this site. These limitations shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of a limited remedy. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitation on how long an implied warranty lasts, of the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts, Ron Greenaway, its suppliers, affiliates or anyone else be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, this site or the materials it contains, even if www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts and Ron Greenaway has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

You agree that use of the material in this site is subject to these terms and conditions, as well as all applicable laws, and such access and use is at your own risk. In no event shall the total liability of www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts or Ron Greenaway to you for damages, losses, and claims exceed the amount you paid to www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, islandarts.ca or Ron Greenaway, if any, for accessing this site.

All portions of this site are subject to change without notice, including but not limited to product pricing, product options, product availability, discounts, rebated, coupons, gift certificates, prizes, free gifts, and this page. Whenever you revisit this site you agree to be bound by any changes in these terms and conditions.

If you are dissatisfied with any portion of this site, or any of these terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to immediately discontinue use of this site and destroy all materials obtained from it. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts and Ron Greenaway harmless from any and all liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, related to any violation of these terms and conditions by you, or in connection with the use of this site.

www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, Island Arts and Ron Greenaway are not responsible or liable for any material submitted, posted, uploaded, input, or any other form of communication (together referred to as "Communications") to this site. www.cowichanvalleyarts.blogspot.com, and/or islandarts.ca and/or Ron Greenaway, in its sole discretion reserves the right to remove, edit, or refuse to post any material submitted by users of this site.

This agreement shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. If any provision of this agreement is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

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