Yes, Salt Spring is famed as an arts based community...enjoy the Spring/Easter events. Easter Art Show at Mahon Hall, plus home studios open...pick up the tour map at the Hall. Salt Spring Painters Guild show at ArtSpring gallery & lobby gallery. Amazing local Ganges galleries are open: Gallery 8 and Steffich Fine Art Gallery, both in Grace Point Square, plus Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Art on McPhillips Avenue, plus Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art on Mouat's Boardwalk. Coffee storefronts presenting artists: Cafe Talia, Barb's Bakery, Harbour House Hotel, Penny's Pantry, TJ Beans...be inspired. Many styles of artistic expression on Salt Spring: painters, potters, fabric artists, writers, actors, film makers, musicians, sculptors, dancers...creative expression is encouraged, welcomed, nurtured...and how fortunate it is for the other half of the artistic moment...well yes, of course, it's the audience, the inspired recipient of the artistic voice. Lucky islanders!