Ben Nixon is the 22-year-old bassist/engineer/poet of formerly Nelson-based band Locomotive Ghost. The folk-rock group will be performing with special guests in Nelson at Cottonwood Market and The Royal on Saturday, September 17th. As our guest blogger today, Ben has written this poignant tribute to Nelson’s arts scene as the birthplace of his adult artistic [...]

The Events Calendar on this site has returned and it is better than ever! Your events will reach more people and can provide more information to them. The new calendar puts your events on all sites on InTheKoots network (News in the Koots, the Nelson Post, and so on) and will also link to your [...]

The Slocan Valley writer Rita Moir has just published The Third Crop, a photographic history of the early days of the Slocan Valley, reports Linda Crosfield in her blog Purple Mountain Poetry: And what a book it is! It chronicles the people who lived and worked in the Slocan Valley until the 1940s in a winning combination of [...]

One doesn’t often think inventions when it comes to felting but Deborah Loxam-Kohl is in fact just that. She’s inventor of a technique and machine to felt three-dimensional objects in-the-round and a sculpture artist. Her work  has been exhibited around the globe and she recently finished a residency at Oxygen Art Centre , ‘The Sound [...]