Memoirs by Women-in-Trades Kate Braid, West Kootenay’s Vera Maloff featured by Oxygen Art Centre
The authors of two new memoirs — one on the experience of a journeywoman carpenter, and the other on growing up in a Doukhobor activist family — will be featured at the third Zoom reading in the 2020-21 author reading series presented by Nelson, B.C.’s Oxygen Art Centre. Reading from and talking about their work on Wed., Feb....
Honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, ‘The REDress Project’ comes to Nelson
Indigenous women face higher rates of violence than any other cultural group in Canada and the United States. Indigenous families and communities have been advocating for generations to make changes to the colonial system that often treats the perpetrators of the violence with impunity. The REDress Project, a public art...
Nelson comes together for unique opportunity to help provide dementia support at virtual breakfast
This March, people in Nelson and across the Kootenays will take action and change the future for the estimated 70,000 people living with dementia in B.C. at Breakfast to Remember, the Alzheimer Society’s of B.C.’s virtual fundraiser. It features a keynote address and live Q&A with astronaut Chris Hadfield, the first...
Heritage City author Kate Armstrong visits Nelson Air Cadets
Kate Armstrong, the Nelson author of “The Stone Frigate” joined the Nelson Air Cadets for their meeting on February 5th. During the virtual meeting, Kate told the cadets about her time in Air Cadets and the Canadian Armed Forces. Kate joined Air Cadets just as females were officially permitted into the Cadet program in the ...
Living with Loss After an Overdose Death
The Nelson & District Hospice Society is hosting a ZOOM session to assist the public living with the loss from an overdose death. Healing from grief is not the process of forgetting, it is the process of remembering with less pain and more joy. This group will provide healing support for people coping with the potential...
Mealshare, A&W Canada partnering to end youth hunger
Mealshare, a national social enterprise on a mission to help end youth hunger, is thrilled to announce its new ongoing national partnership with A&W Canada, including the restaurant located in Nelson. The two Nelson locations, one in Railtown and the other in the Chalko Mika Mall, will be supporting Kootney Kids Society...
Oxygen Art Centre welcomes Brian Lye
Oxygen Art Centre welcomes Brian Lye as Artist-in-Residence throughout December and January where he created works for the exhibition ABOVE ABOVE BELOW BELOW, on view from 20 February – 20 March 2021. Lye is an internationally renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator who lives and works in Nelson, BC. His practice is focused...
Suzy Hamilton Legacy Fund now accepting nominations
The Suzy Hamilton Legacy Fund honours the work of one self-identified woman environmental activist in the West Kootenay each year through a cash award. The Legacy Fund was established at the Osprey CommunityFoundation in 2016 after the death of well-loved and dedicated West Kootenay environmental activist and journalist Suzy...
HOMECOMING 2020 at Capitol Theatre
Like most performing artists, Hiromoto Ida has been absent from the stage for almost a year. It would appear from the outside that he may have set this part of his persona aside until an easier time to perform but, also like most artists, he has used the solitude and the restrictions on collaboration provided by the pandemic...
NPD Exemplary Service Award winners 2021
The Police Exemplary Service Medal, created on August 12, 1983, recognizes police officers who have served in an exemplary manner, characterized by good conduct, industry and efficiency. Recipients must have completed 20 years of full-time service with one or more recognized Canadian police forces. Due to Covid-19, the Nelson...
