Sketchy Thursdays

Sketchy Thursdays Sketchy Thursdays was started in January of 2014 just after Kristofer Parley and Nathan Nazo Davis moved to Chinatown in Downtown Victoria, BC.

Sketchy Thursdays is a free drop-in drawing night that's open to everyone of all ages and skill levels and is every Thursday from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the Greater Victoria Public Library on Broughton St in downtown Victoria, BC. Inspired to create art in a city new to them and with only a few friends Nathan put a post on Instagram that said he would be sketching at a certain place at a certain time and anyone who wanted to sit down and do some doodles with him was welcome. What started as Kristofer, Nathan and their friend Andrew doing some doodles together started turning into a weekly night where they would see a few new faces every other week join them in creating art. Two rules were set from the beginning... respect each other and respect the business. As long as these two rules were followed anyone was welcome to sit down with the group. Inspiring each other to create art and helping each other learn new styles, techniques and mediums in a non-judgmental environment has been the focus behind Sketchy Thursdays. Art should be accessible to everyone and can be a very therapeutic, positive outlet so Kristofer and Nathan started bringing extra sketchbooks and markers to share incase someone showed up with no supplies. Organically this group has grown and formed a chill, fun little community of diverse artists from all walks of life who are all helping each other be better artists and humans, focusing on positivity. And again, everyone is welcome regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, political views, etc etc. Sketchy Thursdays is about creating art and you are in a safe space to do so.

It’s been awhile! We finally have a little update on Sketchy Thursdays… when the library reopens their programming we a...
12/13/2021

It’s been awhile! We finally have a little update on Sketchy Thursdays… when the library reopens their programming we are at the top of the list to get back and this time there will be 2 locations, one downtown at the Central branch that will be lead by one of the youths who came regularly and a new one at the library in Brentwood Bay!

Once we get some more details we will share them right away but for now at least this is something to look forward to.

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04/03/2020

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Time: Apr 2, 2020 06:00 PM Vancouver

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03/18/2020

Sketchy Thursdays will be on hold until further notice. The library is currently closed as well. Hope everyone stays healthy and safe ❤️

03/12/2020

See you tonight at the Greater Victoria Public Library (735 Broughton St) 6:30-8:30pm.

02/13/2020

It’s that time of week again, Sketchy Thursday’s tonight 6:30-8:30pm at the Greater Victoria Public Library 735 Broughton St.

If you don’t have supplies we have extra sketchbooks, pencils, pencil crayons etc.

02/06/2020

See you tonight 6:30-8:30pm!

Throwback to one of the first pictures of Sketchy Thursday’s, taken back in early 2014. At this time we had a second na...
01/23/2020

Throwback to one of the first pictures of Sketchy Thursday’s, taken back in early 2014. At this time we had a second name for sketch night which was Noodle Doodles as the first location we did this at was an awesome noodle spot here in Chinatown called I Kyu. I knew the owner and when I was talking to him about looking for a space to draw at he said we could come here.
Sketchy Thursday’s wouldn’t have grown to what it has become over the last 6 years without him letting us initially meet and draw at his business. Can’t thank him enough!

See you tonight!
01/16/2020

See you tonight!

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