Aug 30th, 2025

6:00 pm

$20 Tickets at the door

526C Cumberland Road, Courtenay BC

Josh Klassen & Nate Schmold are lifelong creators whose work spans walls, waves, pixels, and emotional wavelengths. Josh brings a grassroots spirit—cutting his teeth on boxcars and murals, community projects and café shows—balancing fine art and poetry with hip-hop and hands-on hustle. Nate channels his energy through illustration, painting, music, video games, and live theatre, often orbiting themes of absurdity, inner states, and the weirdness of being alive.

Joined by a mutual love and respect for the same artforms, Josh and Nate have begun to create work in unison. Through their music project CIRCLE COMPLEX, they bend soundwaves through live improvisation into rhythmic, hyperdimensional transmissions; and their collaborative mural paintings combine organically mutating shapes with a crisp cartoon-pop street art style.

Together, their individual practices reflect a shared belief in art as a tool for abstract expression, community connection, and personal transformation—whether it’s spray paint on a door or a glitchy naked spaceman in a digital dream.

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For their show “The Forgotten Dreams”, Nate & Josh bare their souls in an evening of live art-making and sound. The walls are lined with fragments from each artist’s past—paintings, drawings, and moments that spiral toward a shared portal-like center: a large blank canvas, waiting to be activated.

As the night begins, they take turns—one painting live, the other performing a solo music set—trading roles and building something layered, strange, and alive. By the end, the canvas becomes a shared artifact: a new piece grown from both of their histories.

To close the night, they join forces as CIRCLE COMPLEX, performing a final live music set to pull it all together. It’s a night of color, rhythm, improvisation, and deep creative trust. Hypnotic, a little chaotic, and very human