POSTPONED DUE TO BAD WEATHER, STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATE. Lucas Myers, Krista Lynch, Brahm Taylor, Nicola Harwood, Bessie Wapp, Michael Graham, and Donna MacDonald star in THE 1325 KEY TO PEACE, a satirical take on peace negotiations Thursday, January 13, at the Mir Centre for Peace in Castlegar as part of its Peace Cafe series. [...]
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 [...]
Kootenay opera lovers have been flocking to Trail for the past year, ever since Lisa and Jason McGrail, the new owners of the Royal Theatre, decided to install a full satellite system and a state of the art digital projector and bring in live high definition broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. On December 11, a [...]
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 [...]
One of the best things about the annual Christmas Pantomime at the Capitol Theatre is the family part: there are lots of kids in the huge (more than 50 this year) casts, but under a certain age you can’t be in the production unless you have an adult (your parent) with you. So parents join up [...]
Slava Doval and her FolkFusion student dance group will perform at the Fair Trade for Peace Markets at SelfDesign High in Nelson on December 4. Here’s the press release Slava sent us, with my photo added from a FolkFusion performance with Adham Shaikh last summer _________________________________________ Hello All, SelfDesign High is excited to announce the [...]
On my first glimpse of the choir in The Armed Man I felt proud, because I could see many Corazon members up there. They made up a fifth of the 55-voice choir specially auditioned for this performance. (Any past or present parent of a Corazon member will understand what I mean by pride– our kids’ [...]
Director Allison Girvan is taking an innovative approach to The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, and it was already a unique work. She is taking away the live orchestra and replacing it with a computer-sampled score but keeping two solo trumpets and a solo cello. She’s adding a dancer (Thomas Loh), and directing the [...]
A class at L.V. Rogers Secondary School in Nelson will spend the entire school year producing a full-length feature film. They will be taught and directed by drama teacher Robyn Sheppard, who wrote the screenplay for Project Turquoise Snowflake. Robyn won’t be he only teacher – she has recruited professional mentors from the community and [...]
A man named Yakov, who claims to have something to do with the Oxygen Art Centre, has asked me to post this message. I told him we could ask people to respond in the comments section, to help him adjust to life in Canada, and he agreed that this would be a great idea. I [...]