Painting pictures with words…
Editor’s Note: I don’t often receive poetry submissions but I am always pleased when I do. This piece is by local resident Anne Keller: Anne Keller Jade Place Lupine; blue/purple/pink, hardy and handy, wild beauty in the spring! Shows her strength best when Selkirk clouds bare their teeth. Green hills and ground, ...
Theatre Company’s Fuel was a hot winner
The Revelstoke Theatre Company’s production of Fuel has won the Best Production Award at the ” Wins Best Production at the 2013 Kootenay Zone Festival in Nakusp last weekend. That’s a pretty good place to start from when the company takes this one-act play to the Theatre BC 2013 Mainstage show in Kamloops this summer. Success is nothing...
Great Art Gallery opening on Friday
Four great new exhibitions opened as the Revelstoke Art Gallery, formerly known as the Visual Arts Centre, on Friday evening. The shows featured new works by Revelstoke Secondary School students, watercolours by the Golden Girls, spectacular fine silver jewellery by Julie James and ceramics by the Revelstoke Potters’ Guild. If you missed the...
Superb works will delight the eye
By David F. Rooney The four art exhibitions that open at the Revelstoke Art Gallery on Friday evening will by turns inspire and excite local art patrons. “We’re showing 142 pieces by 73 artists — 50 of them are from the high school and altogether they account for 71 pieces,” said Jackie Pendergast, executive director of the Art Gallery,...
Gorgeous new work exhibited at ArtFirst!
By David F. Rooney ArtFirst! — the North Columbia Artists’ Cooperative gallery on First Street West, had a terrific opening of new work by members and new artists last weekend. Patrons and artists thronged to the opening and enjoyed delicious appetizers and refreshments. Here are a few images from the opening: Artists Gwen Lips (left) and Nancy...
This weekend marks the 35th Annual Spring Fling… Can you hear the pipes calling you?
The Revelstoke Highlanders’ Pipe Band is hosting the 35th Annual Spring Fling on Saturday, May 4. This day-long event was started in Revelstoke by well-known local piper Archie McConnachie and this is the first time it has been back here in several years. The Spring Fling is drawing pipe bands from across BC, Alberta and beyond. Photo courtesy...
Theatre Company’s new play, Fuel, is a dark and mesmerizing work for adults
Sarah Harper is a mesmerizingly dark angel of addiction who torments an angst-ridden writer played by Denny Kaulback in the Revelstoke Theatre Company’s new play, Fuel, which opens this Thursday in McGregor’s at Powder Springs. This adult play will keep you riveted to your seat. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney The Revelstoke Theatre...
In Pictures: A Taste of India
By David F. Rooney Saturday night’s A Taste of India was a tremendous success! All 400 tickets were sold out at $35 a pop and thousands of additional dollars were raised through the bar, gift sales, the 50/50 draw and a novel and dessert auction. The event raised money for the Gharwali English Medium School (GEMS), an elementary school that provides...
Wanna go to the Taste of India? You better hurry… its almost sold out!
If you wanna go to the Taste of India event at the Community Centre on Saturday, April 20, you had better hustle your buns down to the Community Centre ASAP as there are — as of 4:15 pm — only about 25 tickets left at the Community Centre and Paramjit’s Kitchen. The event features live music provided by Delhi 2 Dublin and fantastic food from...
Origins Exhibition is colourful, playful and fun
By David F. Rooney The Revelstoke Visual Arts Society opened it’s first formal show of the year, Origins, on Friday and it has something for everyone. This exhibition of 72 works by local artists is colourful, playful and fun. You can see the exhibition Tuesday through Saturday from noon until 4 pm until Friday, May 3, at the Revelstoke Visual...
