Besides being our Member of Parliament, Richard Cannings is a biologist and a birder – and he’ll be talking about birds at the Museum on April 17th, at 6:30.  Here’s what the notice from the good people at the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre says: Join us to hear Richard Cannings, our South Okanagan-West Kootenay MP,...

West Kootenay youth Stanley Humphries, Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre (both Trail and Castlegar) and Rossland Summit School are featuring their art in the annual Young Visions 2019 exhibition.  It opens Thursday, April 18 at 7 pm at the Kootenay Gallery of Art in Castlegar. Everyone is welcome to attend the free opening ...

Learning never stops. Whether you’re looking for college-level, professional development, or personal enrichment courses, Rossland Public Library now offers hundreds of online courses through Gale Courses. “We’re excited to be able to offer Gale Courses to the residents of Rossland,” said Library Director, Beverley Rintoul....

Preparations are in full force for the May opening of Castlegar Sculpturewalk 2019, and it’s going to be another great year in The Sculpture Capital of Canada™! Join our team and support this much-loved community event through our popular sculpture sponsorship program, supported by over thirty local businesses, organization...

Part Three In the two previous editions of the Arc, I have been writing about the recent history of Western global dominance, about reactions to that past, and what it reveals about human consciousness expressed in culture. Two main authors are my resource for conversation about culture and consciousness in evolution: Robert...

La Cafamore moves into its 11th season with a concert featuring works for string trio. Violinist and co-founder of the group, Carolyn Cameron explains,  “our initial group was a string quartet which we would sometimes expand to include piano or clarinet. Our current situation is a pool of five musicians.  What arrangement we...

 Call for entry: registration is now open for artists/venues in the Columbia Basin to participate in the Columbia Basin Culture Tour (CBCT), a celebration of culture taking place August 10 & 11, 2019, from 10 am to 5 pm. Help us make the 11th anniversary tour the best yet! The CBCT is a self-guided tour showcasing local...

Finn Adamson won the Rossland Winter Carnival Poster Contest and the $100 prize.  Congratulations, Finn!  Wisely, he plans to save that money toward his university education; he is now 10 years old and in Grade Four.  Those years before he is ready for university will pass in a flash. Rossland’s Winter Carnival, like so many...

Which of Castlegar’s downtown sculptures has caught your eye? In just over a month Castlegar Sculpturewalk’s 2018 sculptures will be taken down, so now is the time to purchase or lease one of these beautiful works of art and keep it in the Kootenays!                          “2018 was our biggest year yet, and there are so ...

In the most-recent column, I opened questions of the history of the West, its historic global dominance, non-westerners reactions to that past, and the present geopolitical world of Western, First-World primacy. I also delved into the meaning of our history in terms of human cognitive and cultural evolution. My expertise is...