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Call for cat video submissions
Monday, June 2 at noon On Youtube you can see cats in boxes, chasing dogs, dancing, singing, and even sitting around looking grumpy. Our local cats can do better than that! Send your own videos of local cats in for the Nelson “Just For Cats: Internet Cat Video Festival”, an SPCA fundraiser which will run Thursday, June 12 at the Nelson Civic Theatre. entry instructions at: www.civictheatre.ca
Up-cycle Artist workshop now registering for Saturday, June 21 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Nelson and District Community Complex Karin Schmidt and Barbara Lees, Danish artists, teachers, and pioneers in their fields, will be giving a oneday workshop in Nelson teaching techniques for up-cycling rubber and colour-morphing plastic, turning used rubber inner tubes into beautiful jewellery and accessories Cost is $65 for adults, $20 for under 12 with an adult. Fee includes most supplies. For more information and to register contact Alison Graeme at alisongraeme@telus.net, or 250-352-2252. for more info on the artists: www.allrubbish.dk http://lees.dk/welcome Submit your Press Release at
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Outdoor Guy in Castlegar
Robin Hood, the musical
Saturday, June 7, 8 p.m. at the Old Castlegar Theatre- 185 Columbia Ave. In celebration of 50 years of mountaineering, hiking, climbing, back country skiing, snowshoeing and all things ‘mountain’ the Kootenay Mountaineering Club is hosting an exciting and informative presentation, The Long Uptrack: Skiing Through Kootenay Conservation Issues, by Dave Quinn. Folks will recognize Dave as CBC Radio West’s Outdoor Guy. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free for KMC and FMCBC members, $5 for non-members. for more info: p.nina@shaw.ca 250-352-9547
Wednesday, June 4, 1 and 4 p.m. at the South Nelson School gymnasium (enter off of Hendryx Street) A fast moving, action packed children’s musical, set in a classic struggle of good versus evil, provides a captivating journey through the time-honoured legend as Robin Hood and his band of merry outlaws fight for good against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and his wicked right-hand man, Guy of Gisborne. The Homelinks actors, aged 5 to 15, and directors Miriam Mason Martineau and Allison Girvan have been working together with great passion and heart to present this highly entertaining show to local audiences. Proposed UFO’s lands Music, humorous dialogue, fantasOpening: Friday, May 30, 7-9 p.m. tic set, costumes and props will be Talk: Saturday May 31, 4 p.m. at the sure to delight audiences both young Oxygen Art Centre and young-at- heart! Admission is by The Oxygen Art Centre is bring- donation. submitted by Homelinks ing the acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Natalie Purschwitz to Nelson Corazón to give four concerts for a show of new work that she is calling Proposed UFOs. Purschwitz Saturday, May 31, 2, 6 and 8 p.m. and says of the project, Proposed UFOs Tuesday, June 3, 7 p.m. at the Nelson that the work acts as an entry point to United Church, 602 Silica Street Nelson’s celebrated Corazón youth a fictional landscape, both surreal and familiar at the same time. The outfits choir will be performing four concerts. and prints in the show will encourage The June 3 concert will also include a the viewer to envision a proposal for performance by Lalin, a group of 18 young adult singers most of whom are an unlikely event. The exhibition runs from May 31 also members of Corazón. Although the concert is at the church, tickets are thru to June 21. being sold at the Capitol Theatre. for more info: www.capitoltheatre.bc.ca www.oxygenartcentre.org
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