West Kootenay Regional Arts Council

Tea & Textiles
2025-06-04 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver) | J.B. Fletcher Store Museum, 3602 Sutton Street, Ainsworth, BC, V0G 1A0, Canada
The J.B. Fletcher Museum in Ainsworth will be hosting gatherings for fibre enthusiasts and tea lovers to come and work on their knitting, crochet, embroidery, and spinning projects while connecting with fellow crafters. These gatherings will occur the first Wednesday of every month from 9-12. Drop ins welcome.

“Uno” by Raul Pous Facha
2025-06-04 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-05 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-06 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-09 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | VISAC Gallery, 1501 Cedar Avenue, Trail, V1R 2J5
Meet Raul: Architect, Artist, and Digital Fabrication Visionary

“I’m Raul, an architect and artist of Mexican origin, now based in Canada since 2022. My lifelong fascination with materials and manufacturing techniques has deeply influenced my approach to design. While I’ve always appreciated the artistry and individuality of handmade products, I’ve also recognized the challenges they face in achieving precision and consistent quality.

This curiosity led me to digital fabrication, where I discovered the power to translate complex designs into reality with precision and control. Through the fusion of technology and craftsmanship, I am able to create pieces that retain the unique essence of handmade work while elevating their quality and accuracy.”

Exhibition Dates: March 10 – 20, 2025

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 13 from 4:00pm-5:30pm

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12pm-4pm

To learn more, visit us at: https://visacgallery.com/exhibitions/#unoraulpousfacha

Wednesday Bunker Tours
2025-06-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
During the height of the Cold War, in the 1950s and 1960s, nearly 50 bunkers were constructed across Canada. In 2017, the Nelson Museum began work on restoring the space and opening it to the public. You can join a tour of one of the Museumʼs best-loved spaces!

From iodine pills and Geiger counters to board games and ashtrays, visitors get a glimpse of the vast measures taken to create normalcy in an extraordinary time.

Wednesday Bunker tours run seasonally from June to September. Saturday Bunker tours are offered year-round. Click on the link to register. Adult admission required – children under 19 are always free!

Still Life painting workshop w/ Cath McIntosh
2025-06-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-05 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Catherine McIntosh is your instructor for this 2-part still life painting workshop at the Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery. Bring your own objects to paint or use the items on hand. Learn tips and techniques for using light and shadow, perspective, and more.

Pre-registration is required and is $50+GST for non-members and $40+GST for Museum members, all painting materials are provided. Space is limited so register early!

Beginner / Intermediate Wheel Throwing with Sarah Zanussi
2025-06-04 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | VISAC Gallery, 1501 Cedar Avenue, Trail, V1R 2J5
Join instructor Sarah Zanussi for 6 weeks of clay exploration. Sarah teaches a mix of hand building and wheel throwing techniques in her workshops, so this is an excellent class for those who aren’t sure which style of making is their preference yet. Take this opportunity to begin, or further develop, your skills in the pottery studio. Participants will learn wedging, centering, pulling, trimming, making handles, as well as some hand building techniques.
When: Wednesdays, 6:00pm-8:30pm
Duration: 6 weeks (May 21 – June 25, 2025)
Class Fee: $270 for VISAC members (or $300 for non-members)
Supply Fee: $20 for clay, to be paid by cash or e-transfer on the first day of class.
Minimum 4 students, with a maximum of 5.
Youth ages 16-18 are welcome to participate, with parental consent.
Where: VISAC Gallery – Under the red gallery awning
1501 Cedar Ave, Trail
Lower Level of Selkirk Building
About Sarah Zanussi of Pisces Pottery:
Creating nature inspired, whimsical collections of functional pottery from her home studio. To learn more, check out her work on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pisces_pottery/
If you have any questions, please reach out to info@visacgallery.com

Open Mic Night at The Angry Hen
2025-06-04 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Angry Hen Brewing, 343 Front St, Kaslo, V0G1M0
Open mic night at The Angry Hen in Kaslo.
The first Wednesday of every month. All live music is presented in conjunction with Propel Studios, a full-production recording studio with accommodation directly across the street from The Angry Hen.

All the Way Back to Now – four storytellers!
2025-06-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Taghum Hall, 5915 Taghum Hall Rd, Nelson, V1L 6Y4
All the Way Back to Now: Storytelling Our Way Home features a stellar group of tale-spinners on the Taghum Hall stage Wednesday, June 4 at 7pm. The event title, All the Way Back to Now, refers to the time-honoured tradition of finding direction during interesting times by returning to our oldest stories, the group explains. The evening features four storytellers: Vancouver-based Naomi Steinberg is joined by beloved Kootenay locals Barry Gray, Shayna Jones, and Ray Stothers. Tickets are available at taghumhall.ca and at the door.

Summer Lovin’ FREE Thursdays
2025-06-05 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, 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.

Pride at the Railway Museum
2025-06-05 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Revelstoke Railway Museum, 719 Track St W, Revelstoke, V0E 2S0
GAMES – ART – CRAFTS
Come Dress the Museum in Our Colours

Earth Daughters Festival
2025-06-06 | Golden, BC
A 4 day wellness gathering for Wild Hearted Women.
100+ workshops to curate your own journey.
Professional music & performances each day.
Market Place featuring Vendors Village & Healers Grove
Catered Meal & Food Vendors
‘Where we are restoring our true brilliance,
attuning to our innate intelligence and
forging a way forward for the generations to come
that resides within deep reverence toward life.’

Castlegar Art Walk
2025-06-06 - 2025-09-20 | Castlegar, Castlegar, BC
Opening night kicks off June 6th with live music, refreshments and art! This free, self guided community event runs from June 6th – Sep 20th which sees 19 artists featured at 11 local businesses.

Deep Roots exhibition opening
2025-06-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Deep Roots is the latest art/history exhibition at the Nelson Museum, which aims to explore the history of West Kootenay forestry industry, the attitudes and actions of our community to forest resources and the continuing importance of forest management to people, the environment and the economy. The exhibition examines our community’s relationship to the forest environment-both past and present, told through archival images, items from the collection, contemporary art and photography, film, and published articles.
This event is FREE and open to the public.

B.A. JOHNSTON, AK-747’S, MR. AWESOME
2025-06-06 20:30 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada

Painted floor cloth workshop
2025-06-07 10:00 - 14:30 (America/Vancouver) | Taghum Hall, 5915 Taghum Hall Rd, Nelson, V1L 6Y4
A two-part workshop teaches participants to create their own painted floorcloth: decorative mats for home and hearth. Instructor Lily Mayall’s own beautiful floorcloths embrace playful narratives, but workshop-goers are free tell their own tales. All materials are provided; more information and registration at taghumhall.ca for this workshop—a Taghum Hall kitchen renovation benefit—which runs Saturday, May 24 and Saturday, June 7, from 10am – 2:30pm.

Saturday Bunker tours
2025-06-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
During the height of the Cold War, in the 1950s and 1960s, nearly 50 bunkers were constructed across Canada. In 2017, the Nelson Museum began work on restoring the space and opening it to the public. You can join a tour of one of the Museumʼs best-loved spaces!

From iodine pills and Geiger counters to board games and ashtrays, visitors get a glimpse of the vast measures taken to create normalcy in an extraordinary time.

Click on the link to register. Adult admission required – children under 19 are always free! (https://form-can.keela.co/bunker-tours)

Lalin Vocal Ensemble: Just Like a Seed
2025-06-07 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-06-07 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-06-07 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson United Church, 602 Silica Street, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4N1, Canada
at the United Church
Balcony $20
Main Floor $25

Molly Gray | Printmaking Demo
2025-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre, 320 Wilson Street, Revelstoke, V0E 2S0
Molly Gray | Printmaking Demo
Reduced Rate!
Join us for a printmaking demo with artist Molly Gray! Watch as she shares her process, techniques, & tips while creating original prints.
Saturday, June 7th
4 pm – 6pm
Reduced Rate $5
RVAC Printmaking Studio, 320 Wilson st
Entrance via the front door
Register here: https://revelstokeartgallery.ca/education/
Accessibility Note: Please note that this demo will take place in our downstairs studio, which is currently not wheelchair accessible. We recognize this as a barrier and are happy to provide photos or video documentation of the event upon request.

The Red Thread - and Other Mingled Yarns
2025-06-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | Silverton Gallery, Lake Avenue, Silverton, V0G 1S0
The Slocan Lake Arts Council is hosting an intimate night of theatre at the Silverton Gallery with Ellie Reynolds on June 7th at 7pm.
The Red Thread – and Other Mingled Yarns – is part myth, part funny memoir, and all heart.
$20 tickets are available at the door.

Tongue in Cheeks Drag Show
2025-06-07 20:30 - 2025-06-08 01:00 (America/Edmonton) | Eagles Hall Cranbrook, 715 Kootenay St, Cranbrook, BC
Get ready Cranbrook for Tongue in Cheeks Drag Show at the Eagles Hall!
This night of sass and sparkle will have proformances by our MC and queen supreme, April Strom. plus fierce Nuff, Nada Nuff, The Marvelous Mo, and local drag creator Glitter Beast.
Get ready to laugh, cheer, and live your boldest life – this is one show you won’t want to miss.
This event will be 19+ and to pieces of valid ID will be required with one of them being facial ID.

FLOWSHINE w/ SMOKIN’ YOGIS
2025-06-07 21:00 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada

A Sunday Flea Market
2025-06-08 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada
Flea Inspired Market: A Curated Celebration of Vintage and Artisan Treasures!
We’ve got something special for everyone: Vintage – Timeless charm of clothing and decor Artisan Creations – Beautiful handcrafted work by local makersGood Vibes – Enjoy amazing food and drinks at The Royal and support local
Date: Sunday June 8th Time: 12pm-4pm Location: The Royal (330 Baker St)

AT MOUTH OF RIVER: WHAT STONE REMEMBERS
2025-06-08 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Langham, 447 A Avenue, Kaslo, BC, V0G 1M0, Canada
Tsuneko Kokubo’s enigmatic artistic and creative practice spans over 70 years of painting, dance performance, costume design, and theatre. Born in 1937 in Steveston, B.C. and raised in Japan, Kokubo brings a dynamism of life’s complex beauty by being in-between states of time, memory, and place. She is revered as an artist with deep symbolic interconnectedness to her lived surroundings which often includes the trees, rivers, oceans to the plants in her garden. Her visionary art-making brings to the surface the life forms and energies caught in the folds of insightful observation and play.
In conversation with interdisciplinary artist, Cindy Mochizuki, Kokubo will discuss what has influenced and carried her as one of the early and pioneer Japanese Canadian artists of her time to ‘here’. Speaking through select artworks and processes, stories, and events, Kokubo’s talk will weave together estuaries and rivers of concepts, abstractions, symbols that have marked her multifaceted career. The event is hosted by the Langham Cultural Society and co-organized with the Asian Canadian Studies Society with funding from the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society.

Newkeys Place presents, Blues in The Afternoon with Sam Hurrie
2025-06-08 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Vancouver) | New Key’s Pub, 16070 BC-3A, Crawford Bay, BC, V0B 1E0, Canada
Newkeys Place in Crawforbay presents, Blues in The Afternoon with Sam Hurrie, Like with friends.
Sundays 4-7
