Rossland Art Council introduces Resilience Award
The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce a one-time Resilience Award fund for local artists and art organizations residing in Rossland, Warfield and Area B. The purpose of these awards is to lessen the impacts of the pandemic on the local arts community by giving back to artists and art organizations....
Board refresh takes Kootenay Film Society forward
The Kootenay Film Society took a major step forward May 31, with four important artists and filmmakers joining as directors of the Board. The KFS welcomes Gary Deatherage, Alison Masters, Sarah Kapoor and Marty Agabob, replacing departing board members Rick Brown and Perry Ditzler, and joining remaining board members --...
Column: What lasts? Part Three
Artists and Revolutionaries Allow me a brief tangent about rock music and the Revolution; I am a 1960’s kid and I cannot forget a childhood illusion that my Woodstock Nation would transform our world. Music, love, peace, revolution, all were One, right? As the Eagles put it lyrically, “we thought we could change the world...
Trail Arts Council and The Royal Theatre launch Silver Screen Drive-In
The Trail & District Arts Council and The Royal Theatre have joined forces toimagine your new, favourite summer experience, the Silver Screen Drive-in. Running from June 18 to Sept. 25, filmswill screen Thursday through Saturday at duskin the Waneta Plaza upper parking lot. Building on the history of the Auto-Vue Drive-in,...
Rossland Arts Community aims for home in historic Drill Hall
Artists and supporters of the arts will soon have a new collective space for the community to learn, connect, and create art together in Rossland. The Rossland Arts Centre Society has submitted an application to lease the historic Drill Hall building on the corner of Monte Christo Street and 1st Avenue. The application is now...
COLUMN: What lasts?
What Lasts? A holy Book-- and an unholy $ystem “... This I know, for the Bible tells me so.” -- child’s hymn, Jesus loves me “I am an anti-Christ / I am an anarchist I don’t know what I want / but I know how to get it I want to destroy passersby . . . . . . Your future dream is a shopping scheme.” -- Sex...
Rossland Golden City Days and Fall Fair cancelled for 2021
It is with great sadness that we must announce the Cancellation of Rossland Golden City Days and the Rossland Fall Fair The Golden City Days Committee and the Rossland Fall Fair committee have made the difficult decision to cancel this year's event due to Covid-19. After discussing the current circumstances surrounding...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, April 19, 2021
Tax rates and Five Year Plan; moving a garden; new art; Mid-town Transition Project tender awarded; pool times; more Disc Golf; juggling ice time; please don’t poison the bees; and the full RDKB report Present for both meetings: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Chris Bowman,...
Join online rally to support three local authors as they Fear Less
Ed. Note: Transparency demands I acknowledge that I, the editor of The Source, count two of these authors among my best friends. I find them to be relentlessly kind, thoughtful, generous, and driven to be the best versions of themselves they can possibly be. I highly recommend this book as the product of beautiful minds and...
Here's what's happening at Rossland Public Library
Books of My Life Q and A with Stacey Boden, who we are pleased to announce is Rossland’s new Library Director. Many patrons will remember Stacey from her time as Interim Director just over a year ago. Stacey comes to us with an impressive resume of library - related experience, most recently at the Trail Public Library....
