Join popular CBC host Grant Lawrence for a reading and slide show about his award-winning book, Adventures In Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing, $26.95), at venues across the Kootenays.
There is chaos in the literary community! The Kootenay Literary Competition is now open and the theme this year for the adult competition is “Chaos” in all its forms.
This popular annual writing event is open to all writers in the entire Kootenay region. This year there will two distinct competitions: one for adults and another just for youth.
Guest blogger Moe Lyons reports from Vallican… On Friday, August 26 at 7:30pm at the Vallican Whole Community Centre, an exciting cultural icon will be brought back to life for the last time. The evening starts at 6pm with wine and cheese, priming the crowd for Cafe Voltaire. This is the opening event of the Whole’s [...]
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes was the only writer among the 86 artists on the route of the recent Columbia Basin Cultural Tour. The event provides a map and a self-guided tour for visitors to drop in to the workspaces of painters, sculptors, potters, and other artists. Here are Eileen’s thoughts on the experience of welcoming visitors to her [...]
LVR drama teacher Robyn Sheppard and her students and mentors have been working on their feature film, Project Turquoise Snowflake, all year. The shooting schedule took them well into July. They have taken the rest of the summer off, and there will be more shooting and production in the fall. InTheKoots’ Riley McNally recently took [...]
Community forums around the province this month will hear public opinion on gaming grants to community groups. Premier Christy Clark recently announced the Community Gaming Grant Review, to look at how much money community groups should get and how the allocation process should work. This followed Premier Campbell’s cuts to community gaming grants in 2009. [...]
Recently I wrote an article about Thomas Loh for ARTiculate magazine. I tried, in one short article, to at least hint at the breadth of the extraordinary things this architect, dancer, choreographer, visual artist and innovator does. From the article: Some of his creations are big and relatively permanent (buildings), while others are fragile and [...]
The critics are saying that Mark Nykanen’s fiction grapples with some of the most sinister aspects of human nature. So to explain his offering of two new novels at once, Mark says, ”I thought I’d take the Oso Negro approach and offer fans dark — or darker!” Otter Books will host Mark Nykanen for a double [...]
Fred Wah spent his childhood and youth in (and passing through) a doorway. On one side they spoke Chinese and on the other, English. The door swung between the dining area of the Diamond Grill and the kitchen. Fred Wah is part Chinese. His Chinese father ran the Diamond Grill on Baker Street in the [...]
For the appetizers, there was a food menu and a poetry menu. Your formally-dressed server was the author of the poetry. She or he took your order, then read a poem to you and your table-mates. It was the same for the main course and dessert—the server/poets moved to a different one of the six [...]