Arts and Culture
By Contributor On on Tuesday Sep 15 2020
The Trail and District Arts Council is extremely grateful for the continued support of Kootenay Savings Credit Union.
A long running supporter of our Music in the Park series KSCU provided funding to enable the Arts Council to purchase new sound and lighting equipment for the outdoor concert series. The sound equipment is much lighter and user friendly for ease of set up, eliminating...
By KAST On on Wednesday Sep 09 2020
For Science Week 2020, GLOWS will highlight Kootenay Biodiversity with unique multimedia educational programming
The GLOWS (Growing & Learning Opportunities with STEAM) youth program, run by KAST (Kootenay Association for Science and Technology) is launching its first ever bilingual program, BiodiversiTV Multimedia Learning/BiodiversiTV, une...
By RCAC On on Friday Sep 04 2020
Rossland’s first Wood Carving Symposium is September 11-13. This unique event brings three local artists to downtown Rossland where three new wooden sculptures will be created for Centennial Trail. The sculptures will be carved live so the community can witness the process, from concept through to fruition. The artists will be working in the open air, in the...
By CBT On on Saturday Jul 25 2020
The twelfth annual Columbia Basin Culture Tour is a fun weekend that combines a road trip with a customized cultural experience like no other. Visit artists’ studios, museums, art galleries and heritage sites at your own pace. With venues, exhibitions, artwork and performances changing every year, there is always something new to experience.
Visit the Rossland Museum & Discovery...
By Charles Jeanes On on Wednesday Jul 22 2020
“... Thinking your mind was my own, in a dream --
What would you wonder and how would it seem?
Living in castles a bit at a time, the King started laughing and talking in rhyme.
Singing words, words... between the lines of age.” Neil Young, “Words,” Harvest
“Though it all may be One / in the Higher...
By Nelson Daily Staff On on Monday Jul 20 2020
The Shambhala Electronic Music Festival was forced to cancel its 2020 event at its wilderness location outside Salmo due to the novel coronavirus — COVID-19.
Now the popular festival has hit the pause button on its 2020 virtual event, set for July 23-25 after several women recently came forward on social media to make sexual assault allegations against one of its artists.
... By David Suzuki On on Wednesday Jul 15 2020
Diversity is strength. That’s true in nature and human affairs.
But recent painful events have shown society has yet to grasp this. The appalling deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Toronto’s Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Chantel Moore from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and many others — all at the hands of those tasked to serve and protect — have ignited awareness of the...
By The Conversation On on Wednesday Jul 08 2020
By Ian Lowe, from The Conversation
Documentary maker Michael Moore’s latest offering, Planet of the Humans, rightly argues that infinite growth on a finite planet is “suicide”. But...
By Contributor On on Monday Jun 29 2020
Bouldering, a popular form of rock climbing, is trending in the West Kootenays like never before, partly thanks to the release of the area’s first Bouldering Guidebook.
Rossland-born and raised filmmaker Liam Barnes films Nelson rock climbers Tosh and Tula Sherkat as they navigate the area’s biggest and most difficult climbs, including several historic first ascents,...
By Contributor On on Monday Jun 29 2020
Many of my friends consider me a cosmopolitan guy, a world traveler, a literary connoisseur.
They’re very misguided.
I’ll admit that during our collective self-isolation I am enjoying a few classic books but I think their perception is based on the fact that I also enjoy critically acclaimed, international, and, yes, even Canadian film. Hardly proof of sophistication. I’m...
