Healing the world, one brushstroke at a time.

Please review our program offerings below. We welcome the chance to connect, answer your questions, and guide you to the right offering. The art helps make it possible, covering the musicians, the spaces, the materials, and the many small things that allow these offerings to remain free.

Three doors, all open

Art exhibitions and workshops

Experience the transformative power of art to connect, heal, and inspire.

At Global Symphony for a United World (GSUW), our art exhibitions and creative workshops invite you to explore art as a pathway to healing, personal growth, and community connection. Each session fosters expression, reflection, and discovery.

When: Not running yet. Dates follow once the facilitators confirm.
What you'll find: Inspiring exhibitions that communicate hope and unity
Inclusive workshops, no experience required
Painting, sculpture, and mixed media, hands-on
Compassionate, skilled instructors
Shared experiences through artistic collaboration
Why people come: To express themselves creatively
To find emotional clarity and calm
To connect with a supportive creative community
To build confidence, mindfulness, and problem-solving skills
Start here: Join an art workshop

Art therapy sessions

A safe haven for emotional exploration

A safe, nurturing environment for self-exploration and healing. Through creativity, participants process emotions, relieve stress, and rediscover inner balance. Sessions are confidential and guided by trained facilitators.

When: Not running yet. Dates follow once the facilitators confirm.
How it works: Confidential sessions with trained facilitators
Live and online sessions
Creative expression through painting, sculpting, and collage
Room to process grief, anxiety, or uncertainty
Reflection and mindful creation
Why people come: Greater self-awareness and emotional resilience
Relief from stress, anxiety, or burnout
Practical tools for ongoing wellbeing
Self-confidence through creative empowerment
Start your journey: Experience the healing potential of art and reconnect with your inner self.Ask about an art session

Yoga and group meditation

Awaken the quiet within

Release stress. Reconnect with yourself. Restore balance. Our yoga and meditation programs blend movement, breath, and awareness to help you release tension, regain focus, and restore balance in daily life. Recorded guided meditations are ready to listen to now, and our events offer yoga as both art and practice.

When: Not running yet. Dates follow once the facilitators confirm.
Why join: Yoga as both art and practice
Live and online access
Mindfulness that reduces stress and restores focus
A compassionate, like-minded community
Why people come: Less physical and emotional stress
Better focus, energy, and resilience
Calm, and company in it
Start your journey: Experience peace and renewal through yoga and meditation at GSUW.Ask about the next event

What runs, and what it runs on

The gatherings

From community concerts at the Brilliant Cultural Centre to intimate evenings at their home in the valley, the gatherings bring people together through music, friendship, food, and shared humanity: a simple invitation to connect.

“We enjoyed ourselves at the home of Chantal and Frantisek. It felt like an enchanted evening. The candlelight glowing, making the room feel so warm and inviting. Delicious appies while the guitarist played softly in the background. It's always so interesting to hear from Frantisek about his work, truly a lost art that he continues to bring to life.”
Dave, Carol and Britini Oglow, guests at a home evening

Since: The society's first year
Who it reaches: All ages across the West Kootenay, seniors to families
What it needs: A hall grant for April, and hands on the day Give the day a pair of hands

Small gatherings

Our small gatherings create an intimate space for connection, friendship, and belonging. Through art, music, conversation, and shared presence, people can slow down, meet one another, and discover what we have in common.

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Annual community concert

Our annual community concert brings people of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures together to celebrate our shared humanity. Through music and the arts, we strengthen community bonds, uplift local voices, and honour the Kootenays' traditions of peace, compassion, and inclusivity.

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The writings

Published monthly since February 2024, their monthly writings in the Nelson Star are collected here in full, alongside the other writings they share throughout the year. They invite us to look within, see differently, and live with greater awareness and compassion.

Since: February 2024
Who it reaches: Newspaper readers across the region, and anyone online
What it needs: Readers. That is all. Read them here

The kindness prints

Small framed prints, each carrying a picture of the artwork and the writing that belongs with it, quietly offered to strangers whose kindness touched them, or to those who seemed to need to be seen. Hundreds have found their way into the hands of others.

Since: Years before the society existed
Who it reaches: Strangers who looked like they needed to be seen
What it needs: Nothing. It asks for nothing. The whole practice, on its own page

Music in the seniors' homes

Musicians and singers bring live music into seniors' residences, creating moments of joy, connection, and shared memories. The founders have been personally covering the cost of these visits and would love to see this simple offering of music and companionship reach more seniors.

Musing by the Candle Light, oil print by Frantisek Strouhal — Musing by the Candle Light

Since: 2025
Who it reaches: Residents of seniors' homes
What it needs: Musicians willing to play, and the money to send them I could play for the residents

“Some of these prints end up in the hands of strangers, in frames made at their own table, with the writing that goes with the picture.”

The kindness practice·in nearly her own words

Come to the next concert

It will return Saturday, April 10, 2027.

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