What’s On This Week
September 10: Revy Rocks! Everyone knows that… but it has talent too! Come out to the Revy Rocks Talent Show to see who wins the $500 Grand Prize! — Community Centre — 6 pm September 12: Join the Drum Circle for Peace — United Church — 4 pm — Questions? Contact Rev. Ken Jones at 250-837-3198 or e-mail him at revnek@hotmail.com September...
Return of the red fish
One of the rites of autumn in Revelstoke is watching the brave struggle of the red fish as they fight their way upstream to spawn. Here, red fish congregate beneath a cedar at Bridge Creek. Laura Stovel photo Dave Meyers walks his dog, Willow, at Bridge Creek where the red fish are busy spawning. Laura Stovel photo By Chrissi Meyer...
Art shows open with a farewell to Sue Davies
Landscape painter Sue Davies (left) chats with Carol Palladino at the opening of the dual exhibition - The BC Design History Exhibition and the Functional Art Exhibition - at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Davies, who has been active in the Revelstoke arts scene since she arrived 1½ years ago, will return to New Zealand this week. Laura Stovel...
Arts Centre hosts The BC 150 Applied Arts Project opening this Friday
Jackie Pendergast and Peter Blackmore holding one of the banners in the BC 150 exhibition, which opens Friday, September 3 at 6 pm. Chrissi Meyer photo By Chrissi Meyer Over the next three weeks the Art Centre in Revelstoke hosts a travelling exhibition presenting applied arts as they were developed within British Columbia over the last 150 years. 1858...
Sue Davies says goodbye
Oil painter Sue Davies poses with her work, Mt McGill - the way home, which is one of several pieces she is offering for sale during a special exhibition at the Visual Arts Centre, starting this Friday. Chrissi Meyer photo By Chrissi Meyer After two years in Revelstoke Sue Davies and her family are going back to New Zealand. Sue is a painter and she...
Chrissi’s Diary: Dogs, unlocked trucks and Johnny Cash
Chrissi Meyer My first week in Revelstoke, my first week in Canada is over and I realized a few things that work differently here. Back home I made plans of what I want to do here and at what time everything has to be happening and done to keep my schedule working. The first lesson I have learned is that this is not the right way and that you have to...
Junior Naturalists explored our environment from top to bottom
The kids enrolled in the the Friends of Mount Revelstoke & Glacier’s Junior Naturalists Program this year had a blast exploring the environment from top to bottom. Here are some of the kids and some of the places they visited in a summer’s worth of discovery! Dynamic Decomposers – photographed at the Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk, Mount...
Chrissi’s diary: What does a German girl want to do in Revelstoke?
Chrissi Meyer What does a German girl want to do in Revelstoke? That was the first question on my mind when my sister told me that she had moved to a small town in B.C. Now she has already been here for more than a year and there is no way I can convince her to come back to Germany. That´s why I had no choice but to fly across the big blue sea and...
Jason Keerak wins the People’s Choice Award
Jason Keerak's whimsical photo illustration, Matches, is the winner of the People's Choice Award at this year's Kootenay-Boundary Regional Art Exhibition, Things Your Mother Warned You About, which was shown at the Visual Arts Centre all through August. Read More →
Summer Reading Club kids rocked out at the end
Young Kobe B. poses with this year's Summer Reading Club painting donated by David Rooney and Elks Club Lodge 453 President Clancy Boettger after being presented with the painting he predicted he would win. Photo courtesy of the Revelstoke Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library When young Kobe B. saw the Reading Rocks painting donated to the Revelstoke...
