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Meet award-winning author Ellen Schwartz at Otter Books and get a signed copy of her new book, “Galena Bay Odyssey: Reflections of a Hippie Homesteader” (Heritage House, 2023). In her memoir, Ellen reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s. https://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/galena-bay-odyssey/
LEVITY Micro Gallery and Nelson and District Arts Council are pairing up to present a group show of artwork from previous muralists of Nelson’s annual Mural Festival. Visit Levity Micro Gallery at 566 Baker Street between June 7-28 to view the show and join us at the show opening on June 8th from 7-10pm for […]
On National Indigenous Day, June 21st, from 1 to 4 pm, the Autonomous Sinixt invites you to a family-friendly bbq and public reveal of the White Grizzly mural and supporting educational panels illustrating the interconnectedness of the old-growth forest. Opening prayer by Matriarch Marilyn James at 2pm and presence of the artist Coleman Webb. Located […]
Brain Scans/Neurotransmitting Ruth and Theo Jean Cuthand June 24 to October October 21, 2023 Opening Friday, June 23 @ 7pm Ruth and Theo Cuthand’s exhibition Brain Scans / Neurotransmitting, opening at the Nelson Museum on Friday, June 23, seeks to explore the difficulty of facing mental health challenges, and how families unite in support of […]
Meet Molly Lynch, author of ‘The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman’, At The Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery in Nelson. We will discuss the book and you can get your signed copy! Molly grew up in Kaslo and lived in Ireland as a teenager. She worked in Dublin, Cork, Manchester and Malaga before moving […]
The Nelson Museum offers FREE admission every Thursday between 4-8 pm. Check out the two gallery exhibitions, explore local history in the 2nd floor museum, and check out the work of over 100 local artists in the gift shop.
Join us for our Gallery Opening at The Langham in Kaslo on July 28th from 7-9 pm for two new shows in our 2023 Gallery Season with exhbit “Smoked” by Sarah Lawless and “Untangling the Knot: The Art of Honoring Ancestors” by Carol Laddas Gaskin. These exhibits run from July 28th through October 6th. Gallery […]
Kootenay Lake has long been a hub of activity, from the earliest sturgeon-nosed canoes to modern day sporting activities such as paddleboarding and kitesurfing. Through artifacts, photographs, and archival film from the Museum collection, Making Waves examines the diverse nature of this history and the role that the West Arm has in the community today. […]
The “When pigs fly” idiom is a type of adynaton and soon to be an art show, too! We’ll get to the art show part in a second. But first, let’s talk about adynatons. An adynaton is not only a super cool word, it’s also a figure of speech involving the use of a phrase that represents something impossible. So when […]
NEW DATE! Part memoir, part art instructional, part art history book, Luminous: An Artist’s Story as a Guide to Radical Creativity, a gorgeous new book by Canadian artist Linda Dayan Frimer, would be equally at home on a coffee table or in an art classroom. Frimer is currently touring Luminous and will be at the […]
Elephant Mountain Lit Fest is proud to present some of Western Canada’s most riveting storytellers and writers in a reading together on Friday, September 15th at 7:00pm at The Capitol Theatre in Nelson. Join Ivan Coyote, John Vaillant, Sonnet L’Abbé, and Deryn Collier in a celebration of dynamic, important stories, and writers and wordsmiths who […]
Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture. At the end of each September, millions of people attend thousands of free participatory arts and culture events across the country both in-person and online. Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture in […]