Arts and Culture
By Contributor On on Sunday Apr 14 2019
There’s music as well as words in the air at the 8th annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, July 11-14 in Nelson.
This year singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing joins 2019 EMLF writer-in residence Marilyn Bowering, along with literary luminaries William Deverell, JG Toews, Ian Weir, and Iona Whishaw.
“New for 2019 are workshops in songwriting and screenwriting,” said EMLF...
By Contributor On on Tuesday Apr 09 2019
A sure harbinger of spring in Grand Forks is the Boundary Showcase. While the exhibition continues to be non-juried, this year, we have asked Boundary artists to submit work that considers the impact of the spring floods of 2018.
Through guest curator, Nora Curiston’s first-hand experience, Post Diluvian provides an opportunity to reflect on what was lost, celebrate the strength of the...
By Contributor On on Tuesday Mar 19 2019
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 and individuals.
Now offering a variety of...
By Charles Jeanes On on Tuesday Mar 12 2019
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 Bellah and...
By Contributor On on Wednesday Mar 06 2019
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 arts, culture and heritage offered at no charge to...
By Contributor On on Friday Mar 01 2019
The Boundary Showcase is back.
Get ready to enter your best artwork from the past year for this professionally presented, community-sourced exhibition. While the exhibition continues to be non-juried, this year, we are asking boundary artists to submit work that considers the impact of the spring floods of 2018.
The show will be on display from April 20 to May 4, providing an...
By Charles Jeanes On on Wednesday Feb 27 2019
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 history, not neuro-science, I readily admit, so when I discuss...
By Charles Jeanes On on Tuesday Feb 19 2019
A re-visioning of old habits
Today I am trying to explore an old habit of my judgement, with regard to an historical fact I have long attempted to assimilate to a personal sense of justice.
The West has dominated the world for 400 years, and practically ruled it for a century from about 1850 t0 1950. The rest of the world over which the West held sway was subject...
By Rossland Telegraph On on Sunday Feb 17 2019
For the month of December, 2018, ...
By Charles Jeanes On on Wednesday Jan 09 2019
Introduction: last year of our Second twenty-first-century Decade (!)
Year-end and year-start reviews can be an occasion for melancholy or celebration, and yet I personally feel neither. Mostly I feel astounded to find myself 19 years into the twenty-first century, and the third millennium, when it seems not so long ago that the pregnant year 2000 was sprung upon us....
