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Tunnel Book workshop w/ Anna Purcell

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Explore the fundamentals of creating tunnel books with Anna Purcell. Tunnel books are a fun sweet way to play with perspective and layering with paper. Come and play with the principals of still life: perspective, light and shadow, balance and composition, themes, and symbols. REGISTER HERE Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Fees for […]

$5 – $10

Revival – Art Show & Live Performance at SOMA

Soma 444 Baker Street 444 Baker Street, Nelson, Canada

Saturday April 5th Doors Open 1:30pm Artist Talk/Show 2:00pm – 3:30pm Live-Music Performance 5:00 – 7:00pm Door Price $10-15 The project known as ‘Revival’ is a creative outpouring by folk artist Ru Rose. Revival showcases a deeply sincere full length conceptual debut album of 12 original sacred folk songs recorded Live-Off-The-Forest-Floor in the mountains of […]

$10 – $15

Black Bear Review Magazine Launch

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Selkirk College returns to the Nelson Museum this spring for the launch of the 9th print edition of Black Bear Review! This event features readings from the talented students and community members showcased in the magazine. Refreshments will be served, admission by donation.

by-donation

Spring Fling FREE Thursdays

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Come on down to the Nelson Museum on Thursday evenings, where you can visit the galleries, museum, and shop for FREE. 4-8pm every Thursday.

Free

Selkirk College Digital Arts, Fabrication, and Design Year-End Show

Mary Hall – Selkirk College Tenth Street Campus 820 Tenth Street, Nelson, Canada

Join us in Mary Hall at Tenth St. Campus for the annual Digital Art and Digital Fabrication and Design Year End Show!  WHEN: April 11, 6-9pm | April 12, 10-1pm WHERE: Mary Hall at Selkirk College Tenth St. Campus, Nelson BC Entry by Donation Art Sale | Cash only Join us at the Digital Arts and Digital Fabrication […]

Selkirk College Digital Arts, Fabrication, and Design Year-End Show

Mary Hall – Selkirk College Tenth Street Campus 820 Tenth Street, Nelson, Canada

Join us in Mary Hall at Tenth St. Campus for the annual Digital Art and Digital Fabrication and Design Year End Show!  WHEN: April 11, 6-9pm | April 12, 10-1pm WHERE: Mary Hall at Selkirk College Tenth St. Campus, Nelson BC Entry by Donation Art Sale | Cash only Join us at the Digital Arts and Digital Fabrication […]

‘I Had Visitors Last Night’ book launch

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Local author and historian Rita Moir launches her latest book I Had Visitors Last Night, the Storied Life of Lydia Kania. Published in Nelson by Linda Crosfield, (Nose in Book Publishing) these are beautiful hand-bound limited edition books about Slocan Valley (now Nelson) resident Lydia Kania, who turned 100 this year. Rita will be reading from […]

Free

Spring Fling FREE Thursdays

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Come on down to the Nelson Museum on Thursday evenings, where you can visit the galleries, museum, and shop for FREE. 4-8pm every Thursday.

Free

NIGHT CITY w/ DOSE., EMERENCZ, & JAKOB

Oxygen Art Centre 320 Vernon St Unit-3, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Join DOSE., EMERENCZ, and JAKOB for NIGHT CITY Saturday April 19th at the Oxygen Art Centre. This dance event takes its name from the neon-soaked urban sprawl featured in William Gibson’s seminal novel Neuromancer. Night City is a chaotic, hyper-commercialized metropolis where shadowy corporations dominate, technology permeates every aspect of life, and the streets pulse […]

$20 – $25

Spring Fling FREE Thursdays

Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, Canada

Come on down to the Nelson Museum on Thursday evenings, where you can visit the galleries, museum, and shop for FREE. 4-8pm every Thursday.

Free

Nature celebrated in Poetry Reading

Nelson Public Library 602 Stanley St, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Elizabeth Cunningham presents her poetry collection Look to this Day, Poems for Doris McCarthy in this reading, which is accompanied by a digital presentation of many of the beautiful images reproduced in the book: the paintings of celebrated Canadian landscape painter Doris McCarthy, which served to inspire Elizabeth’s poems, as has the life of McCarthy […]

Free