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This bi-weekly club encourages creative growth and exploration, with a supportive environment and monthly topics to investigate and ask questions about. Participants will be tasked with finding their own style, experimenting with materials, and starting to develop their own art-making process. When: Thursdays (bi-weekly) 3:30pm-4:30pm Duration: Fall session: Sept 14-Dec 7 Winter session: Jan 18-May […]
Hey Viola!, a musical exploration of Canadian Civil Rights hero, Viola Desmond. But who is Viola Desmond…? other than the newest face on Canada’s ten-dollar bill. She is best known for her courage in refusing to leave the whites-only section of Nova Scotia’s Roseland cinema in 1946, a decision that made history, but she was […]
The Trail & District Arts Council presents classical masters Trio Fibonacci performing in The Griff at The Bailey Theatre on Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 pm as part of our Classical series. Discover a captivating body of works as Trio Fibonacci perform pieces that go straight to the heart of melody in The Giants of […]
Written in the midst of deep personal tragedy and dramatic emotional upheaval, Altameda’s stunning new album, Born Losers, is a meditation on change, loss, and growth, but more than that, it’s a reckoning with mortality, a call to live while we’re still alive. Launched in Edmonton, Altameda first found their stride as a hard – […]
As Brain Scans / Neurotransmitting nears its end, we are coming together for a series of beading workshops with Nelson Museum Educator Lesley Garlow. Youth workshops are Fridays, October 13 & 20, from 4-5:30pm. These workshops are FREE and all materials are supplied.
The Write Off the Bat! marathon that happened at Taghum Hall on September 23 and 24 brought together a courageous and possibly masochistic group of writers who wrote for Two Whole Days. The challenge? Respond to one of two assigned themes through fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry series. How did they do? There’s one way […]
The Trail & District Arts Council presents Hey Viola! a musical exploration of Canadian Civil Rights hero, Viola Desmond, on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 pm in The Bailey Theatre in Trail. In Hey Viola! Vancouver songstress and actor Krystle Dos Santos, whose extraordinary commanding, powerful and rich voice, brings to life Viola Desmond by […]
White Lightning Blues, Rock and Boogie Band returns to Finley’s Bar and Grill, voted Best Pub in Nelson 2023, promising another night of great dance music- classics from Little Walter to Chuck Berry and The Beatles, plus an ever-increasing collection of Kootenay themed originals. Suggested Cover $10.
Heading back to where it all began, the Cromoli Brothers will be appearing for 3 NIGHTS ONLY! Written and performed by Lucas Myers and featuring all new material as well as Cromoli Classics like Dear Mary, I’m in a Gang Now, Nude Beach and Heaven’s Gate Webcam, the Cromoli Brothers walk that fine line […]
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 […]
A woman frees herself from centuries of colonisation and displacement. A personal story revealed through poetic movement and storytelling. This is a story of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, whilst navigating a terrain foreign to her ancestors. This is how she frees herself from centuries of […]
Hear local 8 local classical guitarists performing together! This event is free to attend! Sponsored by a Neighbourhood Small Grant and Nelson United Church.
