This fall Selkirk College’s second year Studies in Writing courses will be offered on multiple campuses (Nelson and Castlegar) and in a hybridized format that combines face-to-face sessions with online work. Beyond that, the courses will offer a new ‘project mentoring’ focus designed to support writers who aspire to complete...

A good friend of mine just had her 40th birthday. Her birthday request – for a small group of friends to go on a three-day hiking excursion up Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. The kind of adventure where you pack EVERYTHING you will need to survive in the wilderness for several days into a ginormous 30-pound backpack and...

Michael Graham has recruited a cross-section of people from the Nelson community—including some lawyers and politicians—to take part in a theatrical reading by the Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. They will be producing 8, a play based on court testimony from Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, a recent successful...

Recent comments by Coun. Cary Fisher and Coun. Jill Spearn—regarding Brenda Trenholme's appeal to subdivide her Happy Valley property—taste like a slice of logical swiss cheese on a slab of imagination tofu. And you'll need a pinch of salt for the cracker too. Sure, sure, everyone's in favour of local agriculture. Just not ...

Dylan Humphreys graduated from LV Rogers in Nelson and then immediately went Capilano College and then to the Emily Carr College of Art, where he just completed his third year of study. While he was still in high school he was well known as a driven, focused artist, with a self-confidence seemingly beyond his years. His...

Adriana Bogaard is directing 26 characters in Alphonse, coming up at the TNT Playhouse. But she’s only got one actor. She doesn’t think this is a problem. “The key to one-man plays,” she says, “is choosing a script that really showcases that person’s talents, and in this play there are so many great moments about childhood ...

The Royal is proud to present An Evening with Sloan.  Sloan will be taking Twice Removed on the road again, playing the album in its entirety, front-to-back before delving into the rest of their catalogue of hits and favourites. Twice Removed is Sloan's second album, originally released in 1994, and about to be re-issued in...

One of the most important reasons Nelson is an arts town is the quality of mentorship provided to youth by adult visual artists and performers. The opening of Origin: An Art Show on July 27 will give Nelson residents an example of this.  Young artists in Self-Design High’s Summer Art Intensive get to spend several weeks...

The Keep the Beat music festival once again packed the crowds in at Lakeside Park to raise money for War Child Canada. From noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday at Lakeside Park bands played for the many people attending. Organized without adults, and with almost no overhead, the event has raised more than $12,000 the past few years. ...

Juno Award winning singer-songwriter Bill Bourne (formerly of Bourne & McLeod) will be returning to the Kootenays Saturday to play a show with local songwriter and performer Alan Kirk. The two played a series of shows in the Kootenays, in the Spring of 2010. The concert is set for Kaslo's Langham Cultural Centre beginning...