Adventurer Jon Turk has written an astounding book about his travels in Siberia and his experience with a shaman there. He will be at the Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, March 4 with a multi-media presentation. Jon Turk is an American who lives part-time in Fernie. Our guest blogger Eileen Delehanty Pearkes takes up the [...]
The Spokane writer and naturalist Jack Nisbet was in town last week and presented talks in Castlegar and at Touchstones Nelson about David Douglas, a pioneer botanist who travelled our part of the world two centuries ago when the only Europeans here were fur traders. Nisbet is the author of The Collector: David Douglas and [...]
Anne DeGrace has been named Nelson’s Cultural Ambassador for 2011. This won’t be a big change for her, since she already unofficially acts in that role. Andrea Klassen wrote about Anne’s award in the Nelson Star: “She was an extremely popular choice, which really wasn’t a surprise,” says Nelson cultural development officer Joy Barrett. “She’s [...]
Opportunities to see a performance by the intensely creative and skilled dancer, choreographer and actor Hiromoto Ida don’t come often enough in Nelson. But there is an opportunity to enjoy this under-the-radar artist this weekend. I called him this morning and asked him to summarize his Seven Stories, running tonight and tomorrow night, December 10 [...]
Horsefly Magazine will be hosting a reading and launch of its new issue at the SelfDesign High Commons on Friday, Dec. 10 Here’s a press release Horsefly editor Colin Payne sent us, with a few photos added… ____________________________________________________________________ Formerly known as Horsefly Literary Magazine, the publication launched its seventh edition in January of 2010, after [...]
Just for telling your great mountain story (like Randy in the video) you could win a 5 night ski vacation holiday at Brambleski Lodge in Golden B.C. and 4 days of skiing at Kicking Horse, sponsored by Powder in the Koots and Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine. Here are the rules: Prepare a 1 sentence pitch [...]
Ed Leonard was kidnapped by Colombian guerillas for 105 days in 1998 while he was working there as a diamond driller. Creston writer Tanna Patterson-Z knew him and decided to write a fictionalized account of his experience. Here’s a press release submitted by Anne DeGrace of the Nelson Municipal Library: Colombian kidnapping novel has Creston [...]
Sean Arthur (Art) Joyce will read from his novel-in-progress Signs and Wonders at a coffeehouse at the Silverton Gallery on Saturday, November 20. He will share the stage with several actors who will dramatize his work, and with the singer songwriter Dominique Fraissard. Joyce is a journalist and poet who writes for the The Valley [...]
Nelson writer Cyndi Sand-Eveland‘s novel Dear Toni (Tundra Books 2009) has been: nominated for the 2011 Hackmatack Award, an Atlantic Canada children’s book prize selected for the Banks Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year – 2009 nominated for the Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Award) selected by the Canadian [...]
Angie Abdou’s The Bone Cage is one of ten Canadian novels chosen for this year’s Canada Reads competition at the CBC. From that list, a “celebrity panel” chaired by Jian Ghomeshi will chose five and then battle it out on a series of CBC radio shows on which one novel gets eliminated each week. How [...]