The Grand Forks and District Art and Heritage Centre has been alive with activity this week. The upstairs art gallery has seen hundreds of school children through the halls as part of the BC Arts and Culture Week. Art week has been celebrated in a variety of venues over the past eight years, according to Erna Gobbett, who...

Winners of the Giller Prize, Governor-General's Literary Award, Trillium Book Award, Canada Reads, and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor are among the lineup of presenters at Nelson's second annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, July 11 to 14.      And along with the roster of nationally-known and local authors and ...

Pomp, melodrama, tragedy, rampant idealism, and illicit love headline the next Spotlight Film presentation, A Royal Affair, showing April 23 at the Gem Theatre. Now, after the hook... the synopsis. In 1767, the British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe ...

The Boundary District Arts Council (BDAC), Grand Forks’ gallery 2 and the Grand Forks and District Public Library are joining forces to promote the 14th BC Arts & Culture Week in the Boundary. Our theme, “Art In Action,” portrays what Arts Week will be from April 21 to 27 with displays continuing until May 4. The groups...

Selkirk College’s second year Creative Writing students are hosting a Gala for the launch of their book “Mouths of Many” on April 19th from 7:00 to 10:00 pm upstairs at The Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson. Students will be reading excerpts from their self-published anthology, while promoting sales and awareness for the...

“Don’t plant until the snow is off Galena” is what I was told when I moved to Grand Forks. This is considered local folklore but can also be considered phenology. Phenology is “the science of appearances”. It is the study of how changes in one species can be used to predict changes in another. Usual predictors are lilacs,...

Grand Fork’s own singer/songwriter Amanda Thate keeps on moving up in the music world. Her latest achievement is winning the “Emerging Artist Showdown” hosted by Country 103 – a Kamloop’s based radio station. The contest was driven by fan votes, which Thate dominated earning 41 percent of the votes for her song “A Dream.”...

Hi Folks! Spring is in the air – there’s no two ways about it. We’ve got rising rivers, blossoming buttercups, and plenty of sunshine. Most of all, there’s a lot less white and a lot more green. This is my roundabout way of getting to what I really want to talk about today, which is the “green” movement. These days, of course,...

With the recent warm weather and the coming spring rains, the second annual Gilpin Boothman’s Oxbow Amphibian Crossing Project is poised to take off. On Wednesday, April 3 more than 40 people gathered in the basement of the Boundary Museum to see a presentation by biologist and project coordinator Jenny Coleshill. Coleshill,...

Decked out in her finest bunny tail in ears, Dee, was all excited to experience her very first Easter egg hunt. Dee, a Kindergarten student at Christina Lake Elementary School, just moved here from Thailand. The Easter Bunny doesn't visit Thailand, so Dee was especially excited about this new holiday. And it didn't take her...