West Kootenay Regional Arts Council

Lucas Myers in CROMOLI!
2024-01-20 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vallican Whole Community Centre, 3762 Little Slocan South Road, Vallican, British Columbia, V0G2J0, Canada
The Vallican Whole Community Centre and the Amazing and Impermeable Cromoli Brothers Present: The “Back in The Saddle” Cromoli World Tour!

After a pandemic induced hiatus, the Cromoli Brothers are back and hitting the road! They are delighted to continue their multi-year, We’ll See How Far We Actually Get (Could Just Be Creston, Who Knows?) World Tour at the Vallican Whole Community Centre on January 20 at 7:30 PM.
The show will feature a selection of Cromoli Classics including The Rich, Dear Mary I’m in a Gang Now, Pilot Talk, Cover Song, Shot in the Dark, and Nude Beach with a sprinkling of new material, all chosen by you, the audience. No two shows are the same! A creation of local performer and playwright Lucas Myers, The Cromoli Brothers Experience inhabits the realm between the poignant, the political and the absurd, with original tunes on harmonium, glockenspiel and ukulele. If you know, you know, and if you don’t know, come to the show, and then you’ll know.

Indigenous Reads Book Club
2024-01-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Public Library, 602 Stanley St, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 1N4, Canada
Embark on a learning journey with us! We will be reading books exploring the truth of Indigenous history and stories. Come to one or come to all and learn the richness of Indigenous culture. New learners welcome, at the Nelson Public Library.
MMIWG2S (Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit) – Surviving the City by Tasha Spillet – January 24
Residential Schools – Five Little Indians by Michelle Good – February 21
Indigenous History – This Place: 150 Years Retold – March 20
Indigiqueer – Johnny Appleseed by joshua whitehead – April 17
Indigenous Humour – Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont – May 22

Weekly Tango Mini Lesson & Practice
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-01-31 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver) | Christie Lee’s Hall, 807-703 Radio Ave, Nelson, BC, V1L3L3, Canada
Want to learn and practice dancing Argentine Tango?

We host a weekly mini-lesson and practica at Christie Lee’s Hall in Fairview.

The guided portion from 7:30-8:15 has a different host and topic each week (check our Facebook page for host and topic announcements). We have an open practice after the lesson until 9:30pm.

Dancers of all levels are welcome! Material is beginner-friendly.

Tango is an improvised partner dance originating in Argentina and Uruguay; you don’t need a partner to attend tango practices or events and it can be danced by anyone and everyone.

Please bring your dancing shoes and a water bottle.

5$ donation

Where to find us: Christies Lees Hall is on Radio Ave., in lower Fairview. You can access Radio from 4th or 7th Streets. The Hall’s part of the Kiwanis Villa complex. On Radio Ave. look for “701” on the deck post near the sidewalk leading to the front doors. Also, look for the sandwich board near the sidewalk.

Google map link: https://goo.gl/maps/zFraPXNpJ6aBBJtv6
Maps will tell you that it’s “temporarily closed” but don’t believe it!

Robbie Burns Night
2024-01-25 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Taghum Hall, 5915 Taghum Hall Rd, Nelson, V1L 6Y4
Taghum Hall’s perennially-popular Robbie Burns Night celebrates the Bard with bagpipes, haggis and fun for auld folk and bairns and everyone in between. This free event requires only the contribution of a bit-o-scran—a potluck dish—and yer fine auld selves.

Artist Talk with Carol Wallace
2024-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Join Carol Wallace for the launch of the Give or Take a Few Million Years exhibition catalogue, and for an artist talk. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
Give or Take a Few Million Years invites the viewer to experience a visual anthology of stories found in the rocks. Geologic imagery is stitched and inked on layers of silk organza, magnified minerals of local bedrock are projected onto the gallery wall, biomorphic shapes are sculpted onto fractured rock, and ink drawings remind us that a rock is much more than its exterior surface.

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2023
2024-01-26 19:00 - 2024-01-27 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Capitol Theatre, 421 Victoria Street, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 5R2, Canada
3-DAY PASS – LIMITED AVAILABILITY – CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT (250)352-6363 TO BOOK – $63. Single Night Ticket – $26
Online ticket sales commence Nov. 1 at 9:00am
The Capitol Theatre, Nelson B.C
7:00 PM each day

Family Literacy Day at the Nelson Museum
2024-01-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Ginia Jmieff will be visiting the Museum and reading her latest book ‘Follow Me to the Golden Tree’ and other great children’s titles for Family Literacy Day! This event is FREE and open to the public, no registration is required.

Rossland Winter Carnival at the Museum
2024-01-27 10:00 - 2024-01-28 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre, 1100 Hwy 3B | Junction of Hwys 3B & 22, Rossland, BC, V0G 1Y0, Canada
We’re celebrating Rossland Winter Carnival with outdoor, family-friendly activities all weekend!
Drop by the museum between 10 am and 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday, January 27-28th to get lost in our snow maze, enter our annual snowman-building competition, test your daring on our toboggan run, sip a hot drink, savour some maple taffy, and soak up the warmth of our campfire!
Entry by donation all weekend.

More info and full schedule: www.rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2024/carnival

The Royal Art Throwdown – Round 3
2024-01-27 19:30 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada
We’re back for Round 3 of ‘The Royal Art Throwdown’!!!
For our first event in 2024 we will have 6 new local artists up on stage doing their thing!
If you haven’t caught a Throwdown before this is how it plays out.
Two heats of three artists will take to the stage throughout the night and will have one hour to create their masterpiece. They will have the options of using a canvas provided but really its pretty open forum for whatever they want to create. After the hour is up, you (the crowd) will judge your favorite and the winner will go through to the grand final in March for some major prizes.
Raffle tickets will be available for purchase with your chance to win the art pieces created on the night with all money raised going STRAIGHT TO THE ARTISTS!!!!
There will also be some interactive fun and your favorite DJ – Mr Paradise spinning some phat beats.
It’s fun, it’s silly and it’s out right incredible watching the artists do their thing so get around it. No table bookings so if you want a seat get there early. It will be busy.
Our artists for Round 2 will be………
Erin Shuttleworth
Alden Bothamley
Pippa Kane
Kat Wright
LAra De GArie
Hannah Leslie
Thanks to our sponsors and donors
Paradise Painters
The Royal
Oso Negro
Beauties
Ripping Giraffe
Urban Legends
Buddys Place
Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism
Nelson District Arts Council
Whitewater Ski Resort
Mallards Sports
Nelson Farmers Supply
Kootenay Co-Op
Big ups Nelly
Catcha at the Throwdown.
xx Mr Paradise

Tamar Ilana & Ventanas
2024-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Langham, 447 A Avenue, Kaslo, BC, V0G 1M0, Canada
Live at The Langham! Join us on Sunday January 28th at 7:00 pm for a night of live music with Tamar Ilana & Ventanas fresh off their international tour. Tickets $25 at Sunnyside or Willow or email langham@netidea.com to reserve.

Tamar Ilana and Ventanas concert
2024-01-31 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver) | Taghum Hall, 5915 Taghum Hall Rd, Nelson, V1L 6Y4
Taghum Hall presents the six-piece Toronto-based world music ensemble Tamar Ilana and Ventanas. These four-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominees perform in more than 20 languages as they interweave flamenco, Sephardic and Balkan music, and their own original compositions. For more information or for tickets go to taghumhall.ca or at Eddy Music or taghum Shell.

"Kootenay Creatures" - Open Adjudicated Art Exhibition
2024-02-01 - 2024-02-25 | 167 Deer Park Avenue, Kimberley, BC, V1A 2J5, 167 Deer Park Avenue, Kimberley, V1A 2J5
Coming up in February 2024: Open Adjudicated Art Exhibition celebrating visual art and “Kootenay Creatures” | February 1 – 25, 2024As Kimberley | k̓ukamaʔnam is within Ktunaxa ?amak?is, the traditional homelands of the Ktunaxa Nation, we would like to encourage all curious souls to read about and/or listen to the captivating Creation Story of the Ktunaxa Nation in the hope that it will inspire you! Anyone can enter up to 3 artworks in any mediumEntry fees are as follows: 1 artwork $45, 2 artworks $70, 3 artworks $90Find more information and the entry form here: artgallerykimberley.com/blog. Deadline for entry and artworks: Sunday, January 21, 2024What’s in it for YOU?1. The awesome experience of being part of this celebration of “Kootenay Creatures” with other artists and art collectors.2. A guaranteed spot for your artwork(s) in the online gallery for a month.3. A guaranteed spot for your artwork(s) in the web shop for a month.4. Exposure on our website, in our newsletter, on social media, on the radio, in local newspapers, at the opening reception, and in the art gallery for a month.5. A chance at winning the $100 (minimum) Inspiration Award (selected by draw from not-shortlisted artworks).6. A chance at having your artwork(s) selected to be showcased at Art Gallery Kimberley in a high traffic location in Kimberley’s Platzl for a month.7. A chance at having your artwork(s) short-listed for the Kootenay Art Prize.8. A chance at winning the $500 (minimum) Kootenay Art Prize (selected by draw from shortlist).9. Added value to your CV.10. An invitation to the opening reception. Number of artworks selected to be showcased in the art gallery: 20-25 depending on dimensions. Minimum number of entries: 20. Number of artworks to be shortlisted: 10. Kootenay Art Prize min. $500, Inspiration Award min. $100.All entry fees are non-refundable.

Fernie Art Streak Gallery Show and Celebration
2024-02-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Edmonton) | 601 1st Ave, Fernie BC
Join us to celebrate another year of #FERNIEARTSTREAK! Fernie Art Streak is an annual project where artists are invited to draw, paint or create inspired by daily prompts in January. Our gallery will be completely full of new works inspired by the prompts! Many of the pieces will be for sale. Show up to support your community & the local arts scene!

Here on the Flight Path
2024-02-02 19:30 - 2024-02-17 22:30 (America/Edmonton) | The Studio Stage Door, 11 11th Ave. S., Cranbrook
Cranbrook Community Theatre presents ‘Here on the Flight Path’ by Norm Foster, directed by Peter Schalk.‘Here on the Flight Path’ is about Laughter, Love, Loss, and Life.February 2, 3, 8-11*, 14-17, 2024Tickets $25 eachMembers & Students $20Students use code: STU-5 at the check out pageWhat is believed to be the playwright’s most brilliant comedy has inspired Director/Producer Peter Schalk to take on the only male role, ‘John Cummings’, a writer who has a regular column in the local paper entitled “Cummings and Goings” which he finds particularly clever. A recently divorced Cummings has his interest, and perhaps also his desire, piqued by three successive female neighbours. ‘Fay’, a high-end call girl, who is more fit, mentally astute, and determined than Cummings could ever hope to be; ‘Angel’, a young woman pursuing her dream of breaking into musicals; and ‘Gwen’, a driving instructor from Vancouver who has left her husband. All three female characters are portrayed by Elena Hark, making each performance an incredible and memorable live theatre experience!Audiences will howl with laughter as the story reveals many humorous layers such as the uniformity in Cummings’ approach as he encounters each of his new neighbours and his attempts to adjust his approach to suit the personality of each woman. The contrast of the three women is also comedic – the worldly-wise Fay versus the naive Angel versus the emotional and confused Gwen
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Lantern-making workshop
2024-02-03 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver) | Taghum Hall, 5915 Taghum Hall Rd, Nelson, V1L 6Y4
This lantern-making workshop with artist Lily Mayall is in anticipation of the annual Polka Dot Lantern Festival, which takes place February 9 & 10. Get creative–and get ready to light up the night! Cost includes most materials. Proceeds benefit Taghum Hall’s kitchen reno project.

Winter Carnival
2024-02-03 12:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver) | Expo Park, Slocan
A community not-for-profit event!
Family friendly and no alcohol served.
By donation $0 – $50 sliding scale.
Pay-what-you-can/ Pay-it-forward.
All day local Kootenay performers!
12:00 Jasmine Wiley Lu
12:30 Merlin with Harlow Rose
1:00 Mike Meaney
1:30 Kate Smyles
2:30 Barnharmonics
3:00 Puppets on the Move
3:30 Beaten Brass
4:00 Amy Heasman
4:30 Avery Florence with Kevin Welch
5:30 DJ Dubconcious
6:30 The Weavertons
7:30 Chancla Mojada
8:30 Dragon Slayer Fire Dance
9:00 The Gravy Train
And so much more!
*Ice Slide
*Snow sculptures
*Tea Lounge
*Local art
*Fire pits
*Carnival games with prizes hosted by Slocan Valley Youth Network including snow mini golf, rally race, free maple syrup on snow and snow cones, and many more games!
*Raffle prizes including a 2-night gift package for a stay at Halcyon Hotsprings!

Food and Artisan Vendors including:
Oh My Lard
Foodhini
Tasty Times Vegan Eatery
Free workshops too!
Snow sculpting- PM to register!
Lantern making
Wood snowflake painting
Elemental Journey’s Nature Connection with games, songs and mindfulness

And there’s more…
Afterparty dance at The Slocan Legion!
By donation $0- $20
502 Harold Street, 10pm- 1am
No alcohol served

Satellite events around the Village
TBA

We are currently looking for volunteers <3
Duties may include: Promotion, ice slide monitor, shoveling, security, collecting donations, fire caretaker, garbage clean up, and afterparty dance security, reception and clean up.
Email treehuggersocietybc@outlook.com for more info.

Tea & Textiles
2024-02-07 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.

DIY Valentines Cardmaking
2024-02-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
The Nelson Museum is hosting a free workshop with local papercraft artist, Jenine Lillian, who will teach you fun and simple techniques to create one-of-a-kind artwork to share with your favourite people. Give them out to your barista that always remembers your name, that cashier who always says hi, the trash collectors that brave the elements, your new neighbours and more!
Skills required are suitable for ages 10 and up. Younger participants may need assistance from parents or guardians.

Polka Dot Dragon Lantern Festival
2024-02-09 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Vancouver) | Lakeside Park, Nelson, V1L 5S4, Canada
This year the Polka Dot Dragon Lantern Festival will start with a community lantern parade on Baker Street. Bring a lantern and gather at Hall Street Plaza at 6pm on Friday, February 9th and join with Moving Mosaic Samba Band, the dragon puppet, and other performers for a fun and beautiful procession down Baker Street. On Saturday, February 10th the festival continues with an outdoor gallery at Lakeside Park from 5:00-7:00 pm. Come and enjoy the lantern installations and ambient performances at this beloved community festival. This year’s theme is Deep Sea Dreamscape!

Valentines Kootenay Artisan Fair
2024-02-10 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Prestige Lakeside Resort, 701 Lakeside Dr, Nelson, British Columbia, BC V1L 6G3, Canada
Find 60 + Handmade vendors at the Prestige Lakeside in Nelson.
$2 at the door
12 and under free.
For our full line up vendors visit us at www.kootenayartisanfair.com

Kootenay Artisan Fair Valentine Event
2024-02-10 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Prestige Lakeside Resort, 701 Lakeside Dr, Nelson, British Columbia, BC V1L 6G3, Canada
Over 60 Handmade local vendors at the Prestige in Nelson. Entrance is $2 at the door 12 and under are free. Every thing you need for your sweetheart this Valentine’s. Open Saturday Feb 10th from 10 – 6.

Kootenay Burlesque Marathong @ The Royal
2024-02-10 20:30 - 22:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada
Vesper Valentine presents the 4th annual Kootenay Burlesque Marathong on Saturday, Feb 10th at the Royal. Come cheer on all your favourite performers as they pop their pasties, twirl their tassels, dance in drag and sing in sync in a show that is designed to film each performers BEST act in front of a live audience. Come experience an evening of exciting and enticing entertainment that you won’t soon forget!

Kootenay Burlesque Marathong
2024-02-10 20:30 - 22:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Royal, 330 Baker Street Nelson, BC V1L 4H5, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 4H5, Canada
Get ready for the 5th annual Kootenay Burlesque Marathong happening Saturday, February 10th The Royal – Nelson . Come cheer on all your favorite performers as they twirl their tassels,dance in Drag and sing in sync at a show that is designed to capture their BEST ACTS on video for festival submissions!

Tickets $25 in advance $30 at the door

Nelson Overture Concerts Society presents Duo Concertante
2024-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver) | The Capitol Theatre, 421 Victoria Street, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 5R2, Canada
On Valentine’s Day, partners in life and music, Duo Concertante will perform at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson. Violinist
From Newfoundland, Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built a musical legacy in Canada. They will delight audiences with an evening of music for violin and piano.
