By Brittany GilchristGoing, gone. Tickets for the largest music festival in the West Kootenay region are sold out.The 2011 Shambhala Music Festival has sold out in record time. Online tickets sold out on May 12, with authorized ticket stores selling out over the course of the following 15 days.The last store with tickets...

Upstairs at Wah Lee’s @ Touchstones Nelson, Gallery B, June 4 to Aug. 21 Opening reception: Friday, June 17, 7-9 pmA new exhibit at Touchstones Nelson, Upstairs at Wah Lee’s, creates a remarkable and intimate portrait of life in the small frontier town of Quesnel. Chow Shong (C.S.) Wing was born in Quesnel and became a partner...

Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in the Pacific Northwest@ Otter Books, Saturday, June 4, 1-4 p.m. Book signing by author Mary Kate WoodwardOtter Books on Baker Street is hosting a book-signing event this Saturday as author Mary Kate Woodward will be at the bookstore with her book Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in the...

By Fiona BrownBorn-and-raised Nakusp artist Kate Tupper opens her latest exhibition, Full Metal Basket, at Oxygen Art Centre this Friday (7 p.m.). Kate is a female tradesperson – a welder and fabricator – and a mother who tells her story in the weaving of her metal baskets. “I have built a wall to keep my feminine emotions ...

Beauty and the Beast by Mount Sentinel Drama @ The Capitol Theatre, Thursday, June 2 to Saturday, June 4 Tickets: adult, $12; students and seniors, $10.It’s a classic story done in a classic style. Mount Sentinel Secondary School drama department is hosting a three-day presentation of Beauty and the Beast at the Capitol...

For the last five months students of Slocan Valley schools have been creating blocks.Not just any blocks, mind you, but creations that represent their identity, their family ancestry and what makes their community school and where they live special. On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 1 at the Slocan Park Hall Field, some...

For the Birds, Dirty Grace, Boo Dee, intermission surprise@ Ellison’s, Saturday, May 28, 12-3 p.m. This will be the last show of the season for the Unplugged Sessions. Opening at noon is local Boo Dee, a superb musician. He will be followed by another intermission surprise.Marley Daemon and Betty Supple are Dirty Grace, an ...

By Catherine Hargreaves, Nelson Grans to GransSeven cast-off pews from the Baptist Church are being transformed by local artists while five well-used chairs from Willow point Church are being reinvented by talented teens at the Nelson Youth Centre.The public is invited to vote on the People’s Choice Award for the best pew...

Guitar night: An evening with Don Ross and Brooke Miller @ The Capitol Theatre, Saturday, May 28, 8 p.m. Tickets: all seats $20Don Ross is one of today's true innovators of guitar composition and technique. He has emerged as one of the most respected musicians in Canada and one of the top guitarists in the world. In September...

Brooklyn Earick with DJ Rhapsody @ The Royal on Baker, Friday, May 27, 9:30 p.m. Tickets $5 at the door. Brooklyn Earick is a high energy DJ from Bellefontaine, Ohio.  Starting out with vinyl and turntables, Earick has now progressed to music making by creating his own edits, remixes and original productions. During his live...