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FrancoFête 2025: catapult, bocce and guinguette!

Lakeside Park Nelson, Canada

Get ready for Francofête 2025! Join us on June 22nd from 12 to 7 pm at Lakeside Park for a day packed with French culture and community spirit. Dive into a bocce tournament, join an epic poutine-eating contest, sip on delicious drinks from our guinguette-style bar, and enjoy a slam poetry performance. It’s a family-friendly […]

Incandescence

The Capitol Theatre 421 Victoria Street, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Incandescence, a National Film Board of Canada production, is an immersive cinematic experience that weaves together on-the-ground footage with extraordinary stories of survival and adaptation that transform our understanding of wildfire. Wildfires are burning with increasing intensity around the world. Following the rhythms of the seasons, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s Incandescence is an immersive […]

Free

Summer Lovin’ 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

Summer Lovin’ 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

Summer Lovin’ 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

Summer Lovin’ 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

Starbelly Jam Music Festival

Crawford Bay

NOT TOO BIG, NOT TOO SMALL… Starbelly Jam is a special festival; great entertainment, great food, great people, lots of happy kids and room to play — we’ve deliberately steered the festival away from getting too big or becoming too crowded; this festival’s success is all about the celebration of life through music, friendship and […]

Opening Reception: kt̓kmin uɬ c̓ik̓ʷm (mark and make light)

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

Join us at our Opening Reception for kt̓kmin uɬ c̓ik̓ʷm (mark and make light), an exhibition by artists Manuel Axel-Strain and Kalli Van Stone, on Friday, July 18, 2025, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at Oxygen Art Centre.   The artists, Manny + Kalli, will be in attendance and we’re very excited to share the new body of work they develop […]

Free

Summer Lovin’ 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

InSight: Creative Soma Studio

Sanctuary Art Therapy 406 Josephine St #203, Nelson

Join in on a gentle journey inward through somatic inquiry and art therapy.  Using focusing oriented art therapy techniques we’ll explore a felt sense to experience the body’s innate wisdom to guide us towards new insight and self awareness.

$50

Summer Lovin’ 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

Summer Lovin’ 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