The True Story of Jumbo -- Wild!
Come on Sunday March 6, at 7:00 pm to the Rossland Miners Union Hall and see Patagonia’s Jumbo Wild – a gripping, hour-long documentary film by Sweetgrass Productions that tells the true story of the decades-long (and on-going) battle over the future of British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley. The Jumbo Valley, located...
No Boundaries Film Club presents the 2016 Travelling World Community Film Festival
Friday, February 26th – 7 to 9:30 pm Saturday, February 27th – 9 am to 9:30 pm Sunday, February 28th – 9 am to 5:00 pm Grand Forks Secondary School Auditorium Welcome to the 11th annual Grand Forks screening of the Traveling World Community Film Festival. The World Community Development Education Society, based in Courtenay,...
Rising From the Ashes - Ponderosa Festival Returns in 2016
Festival founders Kris Hargrave and Kia Zahrabi confirmed today that while BC’s largest interface fire of 2015 caused the cancellation of their third installment, Ponderosa Arts & Music Festival will return in 2016, August 19 to 21, in Rock Creek, BC. The festival, called off due to safety concerns just two days before ...
SPOTLIGHT FILMS: Trumbo
It was a dark period in the forging of the United States, one of many for a nation aspiring to greatness. The fostering of paranoia in order to expunge enemies, imagined or real, is an unfortunate device employed by those with distorted dreams. The victims, in this case, included folk musician Pete Seeger, writer Dashiell...
What's Going On With the Miners Union Hall? A Fund-Matching Campaign -- a $25,000 "pot of gold"
For almost 120 years the Rossland Miners Union Hall has been the heartbeat of our community. It’s here that we’ve gathered to dance, to sing, to marry, to celebrate, and to say goodbye. Now the grand old girl is entering an exciting new phase in her life and the life of our community. And she needs your help! The City will...
ARTISTS AND POWER
“For every noble lord, bishop, gentleman or priest enjoying his life of cultured leisure, there exist thousands of impoverished men, women, and children living in desperation. Noble wealth is the blood of The People… [T]he substance of The People is devoured by this class of voracious parasites. The aristocracy’s ‘culture’ ...
Stretch Your Mind with TED Talks -- at the Rossland Library
The Rossland Public Library will be live-streaming one day of the TED Talks conference taking place in Vancouver on Thursday, February 18. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). A conference has been held each...
Selkirk Pro-Musica Concert series presents The Clinton Swanson Quartet
For its third concert of the season, the Selkirk Pro-Musica Concert Series is proud to present the Clinton Swanson Quartet. “Nelson’s hardest working musician” teams up with some of the region’s finest to present an evening of intricately arranged chamber jazz. Inspired by ensembles like the Modern Jazz Quartet, the group will present original music […]
R.C. Sherriff’s classic World War One drama Journey's End Friday in Nelson
TNT in Nelson presents an epic reading of R.C. Sherriff’s classic World War One dram, Journey's End, Friday at the former Nelson Daily News building on Baker Street. Journey's End is performace by Quinn Baron, Eden Chisholm, Geoff Burns, Rob Andrew, Stephen Fowler, Don Thompson, Brian Deon, Cloud Edwards, Michael Calladine ...
'Legendary Performance' coming to the Miners Hall -- January 22
The musical sounds of jazz legend Dave Brubeck will be brought to life by the Remi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble on January 22, in the final installment of the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture’s 2015/16 Performance Series. Remi Bolduc, one of Canada’s best Jazz saxophonists, lives in Montreal, where he is a professor and Area...
