Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College (KSA) has unveiled a unique display of Bernard Leach Pottery thanks to the generosity of the late Carol Proudfoot Couch.   It is recognized world-wide that Bernard Leach was a famous British potter and is thought of as the “founder of studio ceramics in our time”. One of the...

 Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace Lecture Series invites you to explore the foundation for peace on the planet with Vancouver-based Emotional Intelligence Specialist David Cory.   As a specialist in the Emotional Intelligence field for the past 12 years, David Cory will share stories and review humankind’s ability to ...

Anne DeGrace’s first novel, Treading Water, a series of linked stories based on the flooding of Renata in the 1960s, has been chosen for the second annual One Book One Kootenay (OBOK) selection. One Book One Kootenay covers the East and West Kootenays and Boundary, and each year chooses one book written by an author […]

If you enjoy art, culture and history then visit the 60 Tibetan Pearls exhibit at Gallery 2 in Grand Forks between Nov. 5 and Dec. 24. This is a unique collection of paintings by a Tibetan monk that reflects on over thirty years of his life.  This exhibit displays artist Choegyal Rinpoche’s painted memories of Tibet during […]

Kristopher Ede from Invermere takes the prize for the SCRATCH Writing Challenge Readers’ Choice Award. The 18-year-old won this portion of the creative writing challenge, put on by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), with his short story “the girl with the plastic pirate hat and the boy who loved her so.” Ede’s story earned 29 per […]

 Castlegar SculptureWalk is enjoying increased public support, as city council agreed to an extra $10,000/per year in funding for the program for the next three years. At its regular meeting Tuesday night, council gave the green light to $25,000 per year for SculptureWalk, largely due to the project's phenomenal success in ...

 If you haven't yet got plans for tonight – or even if you do – you won't want to miss out on the big happenings downtown, for a good time AND a good cause. How about a community barbecue starting at 7 p.m., followed by a movie showing on a 10-foot, outdoor screen, with all proceeds going to the Community Harvest Food Bank?...

It’s a rare thing to gain exclusive, invite-only access to the world premiere of a film. Almost as rare for this writer is an impromptu trip through Vancouver and the Sea to Sky Corridor to bear witness to such an event: I don’t like leaving my house. Even more rare (and now we’re talking almost […]

 A delegation from Castlegar’s Sister City, Embetsu, Japan will be reunited with their host students from Castlegar on Aug.10. In the summer of 2008, eight Castlegar students, from Grades 7 and 8, travelled with Curt and Yuri Kutschera to Japan,  where they experienced Japanese culture and generosity in person.  Now these...

Vancouver seems an unlikely place to nurture such a rustic troubadour as Dustin Bentall, but Canada seemed like an unlikely country to be the birthplace of artists like Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel or Neil Young. If you look you’ll find as deep a frontier spirit and hard luck charm as any...