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 [...]
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 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 [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Twenty-five years ago the curtains rose on the first Gold Fever Follies production, an exploration of Rossland’s gold-mining past that mixed music, theatre and history into what’s become a popular annual attraction for the region. Organizers are celebrating that quarter century with a reunion and cabaret along with this year’s brand new production [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rossland’s Iron Mountain Theatre will travel to Fernie, Nelson, and Whistler in the upcoming weeks with Ski Bum: The Musical. “The energy from the crowd–it’s unbelievable to have people belly-laughing, like laughing out loud,” says Mark Pollard after successful performances in Rossland, Revelstoke, and Trail. Pollard is one of the four-person cast of Ski Bum, [...]
Kimberley, Fernie, Revelstoke and Rossland will host Lucas Myers’ hilarious HELLO BABY in the next few weeks. See the bottom of this post for locations and times. Lucas Myers is touring the Columbia Basin with his show HELLO BABY: An “Instructional Lecture” By a First Time, Semi Competent Father. A one man comedy examining the [...]
The memorable 100-year-old clown returns to a Nelson stage. This is a re-post of Chris Shepherd’s article about Scaramouche Jones in the Nelson Post. Click here to watch a video of a short scene from the play. What: Theatre – Scaramouche Jones When: Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, 8 p.m., starting on Thursday, Feb. 3 Where: Grid Art [...]