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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Britannia Beach, BC (August 24, 2021) – The Britannia Mine Museum’s annual
<b>Copper & Fire Arts</b> community event is returning <b>Saturday, September 18<sup>th</sup> from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.</b> featuring talented local BC artists and their unique metal and earthen crafts. Copper & Fire is the museum’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">The family-friendly Copper & Fire Arts Event features earth-inspired jewellery, sculpture, copper work, gemstone art, pottery and painting, all inspired by the landscape,
 plant life and forests of the Pacific Northwest. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">“The Copper & Fire Arts Event is our annual community event where we celebrate the arts and where visitors can come experience and see for themselves the unique and
 creative ways minerals from the Earth can be showcased through art,” says <b>
Elena Whitman, Manager of Guest Services at the Britannia Mine Museum</b>. “It is inspiring to see how these gifted artists can transform and create such beautiful and compelling art pieces, and it’s a special way to see how we are all connected to mining.”
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</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Ailsa Brown | Canvas & Clay</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> – Delta-based artist Ailsa Brown is known for
 her mixed media paintings and wheel thrown “clay art” </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">that are expressions of our intimate relationship with nature and the oneness of all living things.
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">classically trained portrait and landscape artist, who is best known for
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">painting natural forms and the effects of light like mountain landscapes, nature, animals on copper.
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 textures, shapes, shiny, rough, ancient, organic and sometimes not-so-perfect materials to create pieces that are "perfection in imperfections". Her custom handmade pieces showcase her passion for South Coast jewellery, North Coast carvings and engraved silver,
 and ancient Tibertan Turquoise and coral adornment pieces. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Jim Unger | Copper</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> – Abbotsford-based metal artist and former cabinet maker,
 Jim Unger operates Clayburn Copperworks where his custom hand-hammered metal works have evolved over the years from simple garden objects to large sculptures and contemporary works of art.
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</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Martin Vseticka | Silver & Gold</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> – Sea-to-Sky-based Martin Vseticka is
 an award-winning jewellery designer who brings his love of nature into goldsmithing through unique design and environmental ethics. He specializes in the form and forge method for gold and silver work and is best known for his trademark halibut hook design.
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 like the <b>underground mine train, gold panning, </b>the <b>historic 20-storey concentrator Mill building
</b>and its<b> BOOM! special effects show</b>, the <b>Terralab STEAM learning space,</b> the
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 is open seven days a week with appropriate COVID-19 safety measures and procedures in place. This includes enhanced staff training, smaller bubble tour sizes, advanced ticketing and reservation required, accommodating appropriate physical distancing, and implementing
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 in the online booking system. For those who prefer the full Museum experience including the event, regular admissions are also available for purchase online at
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.britannia/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.BritanniaMineMuseum.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">. Check the Museum’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">The Britannia Mine Museum is a mining legacy site and a vibrant, internationally recognized education and
 tourist destination located between Vancouver and Whistler on the Sea-to-Sky highway. It is a National Historic Site and a non-profit organization encouraging mining awareness through entertaining, experiential education programs and exhibits, important historic
 collection preservation and insightful public engagement that allows guests to leave with a better understanding of mining in BC; past, present and future.
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<i>Britannia Mine Museum is a registered charity and self-supporting in its ability to earn revenues to maintain operations, research, exhibits and programs. Each admission, gift shop purchase, membership and donation helps preserve Canadian heritage
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