Swan Lake ballet comes to Capitol Theatre later this month
Swan Lake, one of the most magical, beloved ballets, is coming to the Capitol Theatre Thursday, January 31. Ballet Jörgen Canada celebrates its 25th anniversary season with the world’s most renowned Classical Ballet but bringing Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to the Heritage City. Bengt Jörgen, one of Canada’s most distinguished...
Bellydance classes great New Year resolution
Soul Fire Dance is back bringing the art of dance to the public with its winter program. Monday nights will be full of great dance conditioning and bellydance fundamentals, followed by a fun, folkloric style cane dance. The winter sessions runs Mondays beginning January 7 until March 4. The Thrills and Drills class runs...
COMMENT: 2013—Thirteen Baktun and the Ya Basta Crux
Historians, archaeologists, and palaeontologists focus on pivotal moments around which separate eras seem to hinge. It is no different in other disciplines as ecologists define community edges and philosophers erect words around meaning. Meanwhile, down on Planet Earth, climbers, bikers, skiers, and boaters flow over their ...
2012 Kootenay Contraption Contest sets record for entries, solves looming energy crisis
How will we use less energy in the year 2050? That answer just became a little clearer courtesy the hopes, dreams, imagination and creativity of 143 Kootenay Boundary students. The annual Kootenay Contraption Contest put on by the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST), GLOWS (Growing Learning Opportunities ...
Movies for chilly days: I could watch this a million times...
At this time of year when the snow is deep and we take time to relax with family, what could be better than turning up the heat, and snuggling in with a blanket and popcorn to watch your all time favourite movie. The Lone Sheep family thought it might be nice to share the movies that we can watch - not just once, but again,...
UPCOMING Events at the Capitol Theatre
Here's what's on the horizon at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson. FLIKS.ca presents Boy on Wednesday, January 9 at 7:30pm Allegro Dance Theatre presents a performance of music, song and dance celebrating the art of Impressionist Painter Edgar Degas on Saturday, January 19 at 2:00pm The Nelson Overture Concerts Society presents...
The era of the spirit
The Scriptures of the Christian Church tell us that the birth of the baby in the manger at Bethlehem came at the end of one era, and the beginning of another. In Luke's Gospel, the Angel Gabriel visits first not Mary, nor Joseph, but one Zechariah, a priest of the temple of Yahweh, and his wife, Elizabeth, a descendant of...
From consumption to gentleness
John the Baptist--by all accounts a wild eyed, camel-haired, fire-breathing, proclaimer of the word--is most well known for the words he reserves to those who came to hear him preach. Coming to cleanse themselves in the waters once crossed by their ancestors, on the completion of the journey from Egypt through wilderness....
From VHS to X-Dance Film Festival awards, Nelson's Jeremy Grant has come a long way
It seemed like only yesterday Jeremy Grant was walking the halls of L.V. Rogers encouraging friends to take to the trails so he could film them using his parents VHS camera. Grant obviously has now graduated to the big time after capturing Best Director as part of the Red Bull Media House and Freeride Entertainment’s Where ...
School Christmas concert series starting to heat up
The Christmas Concert series is in full swing at most elementary schools in Kootenay Lake School District 8. Highlighting the festivities is the first annual Hume School Family Fun and Craft night Friday (December 14) at the Fairview school on Nelson Avenue. There will be a full night of entertainment along with numerous...
