WEEK 1 (July 21-25): FASHION CAMP with Natalie Purschwitz July 21-25, 2014 9am – noon Ages 9-12 – CAMP IS FULL! 2pm-5pm Ages 13-16 – CAMP IS FULL! To be added to the wait list please email info@oxygenartcentre.org Cost $150 (Scholarships available for ages 12+) REGISTER ONLINE for SUMMER ART CAMP 2014! (Click here) OR CALL TO REGISTER: 250 352 6322 OR EMAIL: info@oxygenartcentre.org Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a fashion designer? Join us for a 5-day camp where you will explore the basic
Read More »NELSON’S ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN LITERARY FESTIVAL OPENING SOCIAL JULY 10 TO FEATURE WORDS AND WINE, BARDS AND BEER Words and wine, beer and bards will be featured in the just-announced lineup for the July 10 opening night social event for Nelson B.C.’s third annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival. “We’ve been putting the finishing touches on the evening,” said Festival director Lynn Krauss. “We’re excited to be presenting brief readings by three local authors, including former Canadian poet laureate Fred Wah, and two performances by writers from away, including songs and prose
Read More »An artist and community collaboration, High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, is an interactive exhibition that explores some of the experiences of Chinese Canadians immigrating to Canada and to Nelson. The exhibition opens July 4th at 5pm. The exhibition was created by a team of Nelson and Vancouver artists including Nicola Harwood, former director of Oxygen Art Centre, Fred Wah, former Poet Laureate of Canada, artist / performers Bessie Wapp and Thomas Loh and composer Jin Zhang. Significant artistic contributions also came from Nelson performer, Hiromoto Ida, visual artist,
Read More »A Bold New Stories presentation Dark Night, Bright Light Camilla Hannan: Sound Matine Corompt, Van Sowerwine: Vision Journey into the night, where sound overtakes and images are glimpsed. Meanings are mixed and metaphors dominate. Cacophony, silence, disruption and crescendo. Camilla Hannan’s sound work sits upfront and centre, taking you to places that are simultaneously familiar and alien. In collaboration with visual artists and animators Martine Corompt and Van Sowerwine. Dark Night, Bright Light inhabits and transcends Bios: Camilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who works exclusively with field recordings
Read More »Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to present Bold New Stories, a new performance and artist presentation series concerned with cross-platform and non-linear story telling. Please join us on Wednesday July 2nd at 7pm for Dark Night, Bright Light, an Audio/Visual performance by Australian new media artists Camilla Hannan and Van Sowerwine. Then on Saturday July 5th at 1pm for a presentation by members of the High Muck a Muck Collective as they discuss their new project and exhibition at Oxygen Art Centre. Events are free and everyone is welcome! We
Read More »Proposed UFOs – Natalie Purschwitz Exhibition: May 31 – June 21, 2014 Gallery hour: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm Opening Night: Friday May 30 from 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday May 31 at 4pm The Oxygen Art Centre is bringing the acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Natalie Purschwitz to Nelson this Spring. Purschwitz who is based in Vancouver will arrive in Nelson on May 28th to install a show of new work that she is calling Proposed UFOs. Purschwitz says of the project, Proposed UFOs that the work acts as an entry
Read More »The 4th Annual Oxygen Art Market will take place on May 23, 24, 25, 2014 Hours: Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am – 5pm 320 Vernon Street (back alley entrance) in Nelson Every year, the Oxygen Art Market attracts hundreds of art-lovers to the Oxygen Art Centre. And it’s no wonder! Over 40 established and emerging Kootenay artists submit their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and other 2D work for this weekend-long event. The work is hung “Salon” style, in the manner of the Académie des Beaux–Arts exhibitions in Paris at
Read More »Local author launches second Bern Fortin mystery In 2012, readers were introduced to Bern Fortin in Deryn Collier’s breakout novel, CONFINED SPACE, which was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and was the One Book One Kootenay selection for 2013. The second in the series, OPEN SECRET, hits bookstore shelves next week, and to celebrate Bern’s return, fans can attend several events planned in both Nelson and Creston. Two events are planned for Nelson on Friday, April 11. Deryn Collier will be signing copies of OPEN SECRET at Otter Books, from
Read More »NATIONAL POETRY MONTH TRIPLE-HEADER BOOK LAUNCH AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE FEATURES SASKATCHEWAN, SLOCAN VALLEY POETS, APRIL 25, 7:30 PM Regina poet Bruce Rice and Winlaw poet Tom Wayman will launch three books between them as Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre marks National Poetry Month on Friday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. Rice will be launching The Trouble With Beauty, just out from Coteau Books, which responds to the landscapes of western Saskatchewan. The book features photos of the province’s prairies and hills by Dennis Evans, an art instructor at the
Read More »Writing Master Class with Sioux Browning: Action! Page-turning plot construction — Saturday May 10 and Sunday, May 11 UBC MFA Professor and professional screenwriter Sioux Browning comes to Nelson to teach two full-days of intensive writing, with a focus on refining action, character, dialogue and structure in your fiction. Sioux teaches screenwriting for the optional-residency MFA program at UBC. Based in Cranbrook, Sioux works as a screenwriter for television, as a writer for hire for many genres and writes poetry in her spare time. The Master Class will
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