West Kootenay Regional Arts Council

The Winter Group Show
2022-11-11 11:00 - 2023-01-28 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Studio Connexion Art Gallery, 203 Fifth Ave. NW., Nakusp
The << Winter Group Show >> is an exhibition & sale of fine artworks by artists represented at Studio Connexion Art Gallery in Nakusp. More than 25 artists from the region and across Canada are represented at the quaint gallery. Landscapes are favoured by the curator but some wildlife and abstract are displayed and available as well. The Winter Group Show is already under way and runs through January 28. Studio Connexion Art Gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 4pm. Private appointments can be arranged as well.

Objects in the Landscape
2022-12-29 - 2023-01-22 | The Arts Station, Fernie
This show of paintings, collage and photos is a play on object-oriented programming. It (0) models the real world by defining objects, then (1) makes the objects interact to create a response. You, the viewer, are invited to run the “program”. Approach the canvas as browser window, decide if the interaction of human and natural objects in the landscape models the “real” world.
The artist, Beth Gallup, is fascinated by the way we train ourselves to ignore functional, utilitarian objects in the world around us. Look past them to magnify whatever natural beauty we can find beyond, above or around.
Objects in the Landscape opens December 29, 2022 at The Art Station in Fernie, BC. It runs through January 23, 2023.

Neal Panton: Sense of Place
2023-01-03 - 2023-01-28 | Centre 64, Kimberley
How do we experience and make meaning of a particular place? For me I use my camera lens to create connections to a place.
Photography nurtures my feeling of belonging in this world. It is this deeper emotional connection that makes these places worth caring about, and that encourages my ongoing stewardship to my natural surroundings.
This collection represents my own sense of place.
Neal Panton is a fine art photographer who specializes primarily in landscapes. He favours large-format prints and panoramas. Neal has been photographing since 1984 exhibiting since 1992 and is primarily self-taught. He has won or been nominated for over a dozen awards, some in the Columbia Basin region, others from Europe and the USA.He has worked as a photojournalist for Reuters, taught photography and visual literacy, been published in over 25 countries, had 16 solo exhibits and 59 group exhibits in Canada, Europe, the United States, and South America, and self-published eight books showcasing his images. Neal is represented by Turning Art and Glasshouse Images in the USA. In Canada Neal is represented by Art Gallery Kimberley at The Laundromat.

Cabaret
2023-01-13 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Edmonton) | Key City Theatre, 20 14th Avenue North, Cranbrook, BC, V1C 6H4, Canada
Nothing feels quite so good as the return of the January musical production to Key City Theatre. Featuring the best of the best of our homegrown talent, the January musicals have become a core, beloved part of our season. This year will take things to a whole new level, with the production of Cabaret.Daring, provocative and exuberantly entertaining, Cabaret explores the dark and heady life of Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.Featuring a timeless musical score with songs such as Wilkommen, Don’t Tell Mama and of course, Cabaret, audiences will enjoy a multi layered story packed full of allure, seduction, romance, hope and heartbreak as the characters come together in the last golden hours before the devastating dawn of a new world war.Ring in the New year with the Cast and Crew of Cabaret during our New Year’s Eve Gala on December 31st at 7:30 PM with a catered reception and lots of fun activities and door prizes!
Regular show dates: January 13, 14, 19-21 at 7:30 PM MST, Matinee show on January 15 at 3:00 pm MST.
