Apres FREE! Thursday evenings
2025-01-23 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-01-30 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-06 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-13 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-20 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-27 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
The days are shorter but the Nelson Museum is open longer! Thursdays from 4-8pm is FREE admission to the galleries, museum and Shop, where you can explore the newest exhibitions, learn about local history, and shop over 100 local artists!

Guided Cold War Bunker tours
2025-01-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-15 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.
Email info@nelsonmuseum.ca to register. Adult admission required – children under 18 are always free!

Artist Trading Cards Workshop
2025-01-30 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
The Nelson Museum is launching a monthly drop-in workshop for artists of all ages and skill levels to create and trade art cards! Artist trading cards are miniature works of art specifically made to be freely traded. Created on 2.5 x 3.5-inch card stock using any medium, ATCs encourage artistic experimentation, creativity, and community building rather than consumption.

Blank cards, art making materials, and collage supplies will be available but feel free to bring your own. This FREE program is an all ages drop-in program that will be offered the last Thursday of the month. You can join one, two, or all three programs!

Fall into Fall FREE Thursday evenings
2025-01-30 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-06 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-13 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
The Nelson Museum is open late on Thursdays and admission is FREE from 4-8pm. Explore the new gallery exhibitions — A Crack in the Mirror in Gallery A and Within This Earthen Vessel in Gallery B — discover the region’s history in the 2nd Floor Museum Exhibit, and shop work from over 120 local artists in the Gift Shop.

Winter Carnival
2025-02-01 01:00 - 2025-02-02 01:00 (America/Vancouver) | Expo Park, Slocan
3rd annual Winter CarnivalCelebrating the Slocan Valley
A non-profit community eventA family friendly gatheringNo alcohol served
By donation and everyone welcome!$0-$50 sliding scale (pay-what-you-can/ pay-it-forward)

Live Performances All Day:
1:00 Heather Rose2:00 Mitch Robillard3:00 Kosmic T and the Whole School3:30 Puppets on The Move4:00 Spin the Wheel4:30 Soul Potion6:00 DJ Wax Headroom7:30 Boreas Ignites Fire Dance with Flowantix8:00 TruckVanCar

Afterparty @ The Legion 10pmWith Dubconscious, Daily Basis and Luminesce

SlideFree kids crafts & Lantern Making workshopFree Snow conesFood & Artisan VendorsTea and Soup LoungeFire Pits & ArtCarnival games and prizes hosted by Slocan Valley Youth NetworkRaffle prizes and 50/50 draw

Food Vendors including:FOMOTasty Times Vegan EateryOh My Lard

Bring games to share!

If you have an idea for a workshop, let us know!

We are looking for volunteers to make this community event a success!Fundraising and promotionSet up, tear down and clean upGarbage and RecyclingVolunteer CoordinatorSecurityRaffle prize and merchandize tableCollecting donationsShow up, PM or email treehuggersocietybc@outlook.com to let us know you want to help.

Winter Carnival is hosted by non-profit Treehugger Retreats and Events Society and produced by Live Harmonics Sound Science.

Break it to Make it | Youth Workshop
2025-02-09 10:30 - 14:30 (America/Vancouver) | 320 Wilson St., Revelstoke
Calling all creative and curious youth ages 12–17—are you ready to dive into the world of messy, hands-on, experimental art? Forget about perfection and polished masterpieces; these half-day classes are all about the experience of making art! This class is perfect for those who feel unsure of what to make, those that struggle with perfection, and those who just want to have fun.
These classes take an unconventional approach to creativity, championing exploration and curiosity. You’ll explore strange, messy, and playful activities that go beyond just paint and composition. From experimental techniques to playful destruction, this is your chance to embrace the chaos and make some bad art. Come hang out, we have snacks.
“Break it to Make it” – February 9
– OR –
“The Bad Art Bonanza” – February 16
– Sunday, 10:30am – 2:30pm
– $40 per session, all materials provided
– Students can choose to take one, or both sessions
– Ages 12 – 17
– Some snacks will be provided (Courtesy of Save On), however students will still need a packed lunch
– RVAC Jailhouse Studios, 320 Wilson st.

The Baby Tyler Show
2025-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Capitol Theatre, 421 Victoria Street, Nelson, British Columbia, V1L 5R2, Canada
A mind-bending puppet show by Fraggle Rock/Sesame/Henson puppeteer. “Hansen turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny. A MUST-SEE!” – FringeReviews.com
Watch as Ingrid performs a live puppet film before your very eyes, using only household objects, a camera, and her bare hands.
“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny. ★★★★★” – Free Press.
“Both live and magnified on screen, in cunningly angled cameras and mirrors, we see Hansen create characters from her own hands, fingers, face. NUTTY, INGENIOUS, MESMERIZING.”
-12th Night.
“GENIUS PHYSICAL COMEDY!” – Entertainment World.
“Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and surprising…Her physicality is impeccable.”
– The Star Phoenix
“Unbelievably funny.” – PLANK Magazine
“Unbelievably charismatic.” – The Charlebois Post
Danish-Canadian puppeteer Ingrid Hansen also performs on television with the Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock and Sesame Workshop’s Emmy-Award-Winning series Helpsters.
Age 5+
Adult: $15; Senior: $13.50; Under 30: $10
The Capitol Theatre

The Bad Art Bonanza | Youth Workshop
2025-02-16 10:30 - 14:30 (America/Vancouver) | 320 Wilson St., Revelstoke

Starbelly Jam Presents: L’Omelette & Honeydripper Live at Gray Creek Hall
2025-02-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver) | Gray Creek Hall, 15047 Hwy 3A,, Gray Creek BC, V0B 1S0
Starbelly Jam Music Festival presents Calgary’s favourite art rockers, L’Omelette, alongside resident beat man and deep house connoisseur, Honeydripper, for an epic night of dancing and mini Starbelly magic.

L’omelette weaves soul, jazz and punk into colourful, honest, genre-fluid tapestries. The Calgary art-rockers dart between prog and new-wave rock rhythms and synth-led dance pop, tethered by commanding melodies and current concepts
Meg Benedict’s vocal, sax and synth stylings are underpinned by guitarist Alex Klipper’s thoughtful and driving riffs; Matthew Lowe’s infectiously melodic bass lines; and Peter Cormier’s diamond-cut drumming and backup vocals. With them, there’s always something vivacious, heady, danceable and thought-provoking to chew on.

Steven Gevenich, better known as Honeydripper, is an old hand at new tricks. As a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ, he has been blazing the frontier of Canada’s burgeoning deep house scene. Profoundly influenced by Chicago house music, Honeydripper draws elements of jazz, funk, and soul into a mature catalogue, that focuses more on subtly and feeling than reaction.

Artist Trading Cards Maker Space
2025-02-27 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Artist trading cards are miniature works of art specifically made to be freely traded. Created on 2.5 x 3.5-inch card stock using any medium, ATCs encourage artistic experimentation, creativity, and community building rather than consumption.

Drop in to the Nelson Museum to create and trade your own miniature works of art. Blank cards, art making materials and collage supplies will be available but feel free to bring your own. No registration required. All ages.

Spring Fling FREE Thursdays
2025-03-06 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-13 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.

Project Wild One Book Signing
2025-03-08 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | Otter Books, 398 Baker St, Nelson, V1L 4H5
Otter Books is hosting a book signing for Rossland author Louise Sidley’s debut novel, PROJECT WILD ONE. The book is for readers 7 and up, published by Red Deer Press, and distributed by Firefly Books.

It is available for pre-order from Otter Books, Indigo, and Amazon.

The event is on Saturday, March 8th, from 1-3 at Otter Books.

Museum Mash!
2025-03-09 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, 502 Vernon Street, Nelson, V1L 4E7, Canada
Lucas Myers & Krista Lynch, Lance Ledger, and the Nelson Writing Salon return to the Nelson Museum for everyone’s favourite FREE children’s program–Museum Mash! Explore the building, get crafty with puppet-making, sing and dance, and have a blast! There’s lots of room to run and play, and no shushing here!

Beats and Brushes: Kid’s HIP-HOP and VISUAL ARTS Workshop
2025-03-17 - 2025-03-20 | TBA
Join us this MARCH BREAK for four days of music, storytelling, art, and creativity! Kids will collaborate with conscious hip-hop artist Kosmic T to write, produce, and record an original hip-hop song. From writing catchy hooks to exploring beats and rhythms—no experience needed, just enthusiasm! Animator and Artist Angela Meilleur (owner of Acorns and Aprons) will guide young artists in crafting colourful spirit animal masks, using templates to help build confidence while painting. Plus, enjoy other engaging visual arts projects, hands-on activities, and outdoor play in a beautiful natural setting.
Make a Song, Make Art, Make New Friends and Make Memories!
Dates: March 17-20, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Mon-Thurs)
Where: Acorns and Aprons studio
Ages: 7-12
Capacity: 12 kids
2 specialized instructors
This workshop fosters self-expression, teamwork, and creativity—an unforgettable experience in music and art!
Registration form and Learn more here: https://www.acornsandaprons.com/workshops

Spring Break Photography Camp with Charlotte Truant (Ages 9-13)
2025-03-17 09:00 - 2025-03-21 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | VISAC Gallery, 1501 Cedar Avenue, Trail, V1R 2J5
Join instructor Charlotte Truant for a week of photography exploration. Participants will be provided with DSLR cameras, learning to take photos both indoors and outdoors. Each day will begin and end at the VISAC Gallery. Depending on weather, they may take excursions around Trail to capture photos outdoors, or in other buildings. Kids will be provided with a scrap book and tools to create and display their beautiful photo creations, as well as access to a printer to print out their photos.
When: March 17 – 21, 2025 @ 9:00am-12:00pm
Duration: 5 days
Ages: 9-13
Class Fee: $300
About Charlotte Truant: Located in the beautiful West Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. I actually went to school for dental assisting and I’m a self taught photographer. I had my first little and knew I didn’t want to go back to work. During my maternity leave, I started a Social media marketing business where I purchased my first camera (Canon Rebel t5i) so that I could take better photos for the businesses that I was running social media for. I ended up loving the photo taking part so much more than the social media part so quickly switched over to only photography.
If you have any questions, reach out to info@visacgallery.com
Register here: https://revenue-can.keela.co/youth-photography-workshop
