The REEL Youth Film Festival features some of the best in international youth film-making, along with submissions from the talented youth of the West and Central Kootenays (youth under 19 must submit films by November 4, 2011 – visit www.rosslandcac.com for submission guidelines and prize information).
It’s that time of year again – the 12th annual Rossland Mountain Film Festival!
There are some changes this year with the format. Typically having Friday and Saturday late night events, we’ve condensed our films and entertainment and will be having one exciting show on Saturday, November 26th being held at Rossland Secondary School.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Fred Rosenberg was one of several speakers at a TEDx event sponsored by Self-Design High at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson on April 23, 2011. He had many mysterious and engaging things to say, such as: “What I get from this is the direct experience of essential beauty, a beauty that is independent of object, [...]
Fred Rosenberg has taken thousands of photographs in Nelson B.C. over the past 25 years. His photos are always of people, and are mostly not portraits— they are candid shots and street photography. Fred has always worked in black and white, and always with film— he has never gone digital. A gallery exhibit and a [...]
This year 28 of the best films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival will travel across Canada, the United States, and internationally from Scotland to South Africa to China, Japan, New Zealand, Antarctica, and points in between including Golden, where four of the winners will be shown on December 11. The Golden festival line-up is [...]
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 [...]