CONTRIBUTORS BRAD COLLINS is a painter, writer, and musician home-grown in Powell River. With a background in the video game industry, Brad makes all sorts of things out of words and pictures while adventuring around the forests of the Sunshine Coast.
Hitched at the Beach Hut! P. 13 Powell River Living is a member of:
CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2017 60 years on ice
Powell River Skating Club This magazine is supported entirely by our advertisers. We encourage you to choose the businesses that you see in these pages. We do.
I Made the Move
Lund concert promoter
Wedding Section
Kimberley and Bruce
Publisher & Managing Editor
Isabelle Southcott isabelle@prliving.ca
5 things to know
Before you say ‘I do’
High tech inspiration For weddings
Associate Publisher & Sales Manager
Sean Percy sean@prliving.ca
Ode to Bob
Love for guitars is real
Star signs shine
Artist paints the horoscope Editor & Graphics
Pieta Woolley pieta@prliving.ca
Shift Happens
Calendar creations
My Canada! My BC! Heritage week
Sales & Marketing
Suzi Wiebe suzi@prliving.ca Accounts Receivable
Lauri Percy lauri@prliving.ca
What’s Up
Dolphins and foster kids
Business Connections
And CAMRA
Event Section
Show your love this month
Plan your February
Coldest Night of the Year
10 years for Film School ON THE COVER Memory Attic Media shared this photo of skaters on Cranberry Lake, snapped January 8, then used some other artistic skills and technology to create this digital painting.
ANd PR Film Fest is coming!
Activist Architect
Wants you to know buildings
Daniel Chow, then & now
Concert pianist
Take a Break
Tarot and testing your PR knowledge
Last Word
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ARCHITECT KEITH DONALD
and his wife Michelle are the creatives behind Keith Sullivan Donald Architecture, a studio firm specializing in public buildings and churches. Besides architecture, Keith is a visual artist, writer and an ex-olympic rower. Michelle’s passions include dance and knitting (not necessarily in that order). Whenever possible you will find them roaming around Italy in search of la dolce vita.
ANN NELSON runs the Patricia Theatre and is passionate about sharing the history of Townsite and preserving its heritage. She’s also active in many interrelated community organizations such as the Arts Council; Tourism Powell River; Townsite Heritage Society; Far Off Broadway Theatre Co., as well as being an enthusiastic gardener.
GARY SHILLING enjoys creative processes and mixing words with pictures to tell stories. In addition to engaging in a bustle of marketing and communications activities for local non-profits, including the Film Festival which he writes about in this issue – he gets tactile with ink, paper, and blocks of wood and metal precisely 0.918” high.
WILLIAM STURGEON is a sailor, farrier, writer, and poet, with a weakness for horses, dogs, wooden boats and acoustic guitars...and the longsuffering patient Wife, of course.
IONI WAIS is an educator and media producer living in Powel River, with an interest in people, plants and place. Trained in botany and anthropology, his wide range of interests and skills have led to collaborations with diverse groups and organizations. He is the mustard-mind behind Vegetation Station and the founder of the Powell River Mushrooms & Mycology Facebook page. For more information, visit vegetationstation.ca or email ionatan.ws@gmail.com