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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 […]
As Brain Scans / Neurotransmitting comes to a close on October 21, join artists Ruth and Theo Jean Cuthand for an artist talk on Friday evening at the Nelson Museum. Share in discussion of topics related to mental health, expression through art, the power of family and kinship, and much more. This is a FREE event […]
Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s poignant music and a libretto by Tony and Emmy […]
2024 Men in Tubs & Women on Thrones Show at the Capitol Thre in Nelson The first “Men in Tubs & Women on Thrones Calendar” release party will be a sizzling and light-hearted annual masterpiece that brings together a diverse cast of charming men and women, all sharing one thing in common: they’re not afraid […]
A self-described storyteller, disrupter, activist, and truth seeker comes to the Nelson Public Library on Wednesday, October 25, 7pm. fanny kearse reads from her newly published book Umi’s Prayer: Poetry and Prose from a Year of Living and Loving Queer in an evening that promises to be a reflection on all the forms of love, kearse says […]
Vines Art Society Presents Visions of the Valley A Night of Storytelling, Music and Connection at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson featuring: fanny kearse Kinfolk Nation Leo D.E. Johnson and more… Tickets will be set aside for Indigenous and Black folks.
