Marcia Braundy has been keeping an archive of photos of the Vallican Whole– the building and the people in and around it– since 1973. She and curator Helen Sibelius have drawn from Marcia’s 900 slides to create Building the Building–Building Community, a photo exhibition at the Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar until September 10. Marcia Braundy joins [...]
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 [...]
The Nelson Star reports that Nelson’s largest performing arts event (except for Shambhala) is thinking of calling it quits after 26 years. Every year for a weekend in April our city’s population increases by 25%, and those new temporary residents are all teenagers. Our Own Unique Festival They come for Festival Nelson, our own unique international [...]
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. [...]
The Columbia Basin Culture Tour takes place in 89 venues throughout the Columbia Basin on August 13 and 14. Explore artists’ studios, museums, art galleries and heritage sites during this free, self-guided event. Travel to studios and archives that aren’t normally open, see demonstrations, new exhibitions and collections or meet people behind the scenes. To [...]
This year’s Keep the Beat will feature live music in Lakeside Park from noon until 10pm on Wednesday, July 27. In each of the past few years Keep the Beat has raised more than $12,000 in a one-day event that has no tickets, no overhead, and very little publicity. They just take advantage of crowds [...]
The annual Capitol Theatre Summer Youth production is a tradition loved in Nelson by adoring audiences and young performers alike. It’s a stimulating training ground for young actors and singers because of the professional calibre of the directors– over the years the musicals have been created by the likes of Allison Girvan, Geoff Burns, Laurie [...]
“Rossland has had its creative juices stirred by this. It gives the dancers a place to dance, it gives the poets and story tellers a place to do their thing, and of course singers and songwriters too. It has provided a motivating and friendly place that is unlike any other.” That’s Michael Gifford talking about [...]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will arrive on the Capitol Theatre stage on June 2 for three nights, created by 37 local student actors and singers along with a professional-level 20-piece orchestra. Life-Size Forks And Knives “It is magical show, it is not about realism,” says co-director Heather Shippit. “The cast members have to be [...]
“It’s going to attack all of your senses. We are going to have arts and food vendors and music. We are encouraging the arts vendors to be interactive, so it is not just people standing showing people the product, it is showing them how they make the product, getting interactive—there will be lots of energy [...]