Vernon Museum and Archives presents "How Turtle Set the Animals"

MAV’s large foyer display case features original costumes and set-pieces from Sen’Klip Native Theatre Company’s production of How Turtle Set the Animals Free. The costumes were designed by syilx artist and knowledge keeper, Barbara Marchand, and made by members of Sen’Klip Theatre using traditional syilx methods.

Sen’klip Native Theatre Company led the way in Indigenous theatre in Western Canada from 1988 to 2001. MAV is entering into a partnership with the company to display some of the costumes, masks, set pieces and backdrops used in their touring theatre productions.

Costumes, masks, and set-pieces representing traditional syilx captikʷł will be on rotating display through 2022 and 2023.

Vernon Museum and Archives presents "How Turtle Set the Animals"

MAV’s large foyer display case features original costumes and set-pieces from Sen’Klip Native Theatre Company’s production of How Turtle Set the Animals Free. The costumes were designed by syilx artist and knowledge keeper, Barbara Marchand, and made by members of Sen’Klip Theatre using traditional syilx methods.

Sen’klip Native Theatre Company led the way in Indigenous theatre in Western Canada from 1988 to 2001. MAV is entering into a partnership with the company to display some of the costumes, masks, set pieces and backdrops used in their touring theatre productions.

Costumes, masks, and set-pieces representing traditional syilx captikʷł will be on rotating display through 2022 and 2023.

Not The Indian Princess You Expected exhibits parts of interdisciplinary artist, Mariel Belanger’s private collection of original artwork and display items.

Belanger is a syilx interdisciplinary performance artist who has devised a life “of the land” with self-directed digital performance art as a way to revise history. A 2022 SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, Belanger’s lived experience impacts her studies as a student at Queen’s University. Following in her syilx grandmother’s footprints, Belanger weaves community-driven, land-based artistic knowledge and practice into projects and stories of caring for the land and maintaining matrilineal relationships.

The Gallery exhibit will shift and change with the seasons throughout 2022 and 2023. 

Not The Indian Princess You Expected exhibits parts of interdisciplinary artist, Mariel Belanger’s private collection of original artwork and display items.

Belanger is a syilx interdisciplinary performance artist who has devised a life “of the land” with self-directed digital performance art as a way to revise history. A 2022 SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, Belanger’s lived experience impacts her studies as a student at Queen’s University. Following in her syilx grandmother’s footprints, Belanger weaves community-driven, land-based artistic knowledge and practice into projects and stories of caring for the land and maintaining matrilineal relationships.

The Gallery exhibit will shift and change with the seasons throughout 2022 and 2023. 

Local songstress Judy Rose most recently delighted Okanagan symphony audiences last March with a tribute to her lifelong idol Edith Piaf. She is delighted to reprise that repertoire and add even more nuance and layers in “E to the Power of Three” with songs of Edith, Ella and Etta with the Killer B’s to celebrate Valentine’s.

The lovingly assembled Killer B’s include the Valley’s finest musicians: the inimitable Neville Bowman on keys, the gifted Stefan Bienz on bass, the master Loni Moger on guitar and the one and only Scott Gamble on drums.

Local songstress Judy Rose most recently delighted Okanagan symphony audiences last March with a tribute to her lifelong idol Edith Piaf. She is delighted to reprise that repertoire and add even more nuance and layers in “E to the Power of Three” with songs of Edith, Ella and Etta with the Killer B’s to celebrate Valentine’s.

The lovingly assembled Killer B’s include the Valley’s finest musicians: the inimitable Neville Bowman on keys, the gifted Stefan Bienz on bass, the master Loni Moger on guitar and the one and only Scott Gamble on drums.

With a prodigious talent that is equal to the demands of Rachmaninoff’s towering Third Piano Concerto, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko — fresh off wins at no less than five international piano competitions — makes his first appearance with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra since he performed in 2019 for our CD, Canadian Soundscapes. 

The Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra joins the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra onstage for their annual Side-by-Side performance in Wagner’s majestic Die Meistersinger to close this blockbuster show. 

With a prodigious talent that is equal to the demands of Rachmaninoff’s towering Third Piano Concerto, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko — fresh off wins at no less than five international piano competitions — makes his first appearance with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra since he performed in 2019 for our CD, Canadian Soundscapes. 

The Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra joins the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra onstage for their annual Side-by-Side performance in Wagner’s majestic Die Meistersinger to close this blockbuster show. 

The Marc Atkinson Trio will be appearing with Cam Wilson (Joe Trio, Van Django) at the Trinity United Church on Friday, February 17, 2023, for a different kind of evening for NOCCA. Marc is a Juno nominated performer, an award winning composer and one extremely talented guitarist in any genre.

Brett Martens plays rhythm guitar and Scott White is on stand-up bass presenting solid back-up and solo performances as well.

Cam Wilson, who performed here in Vernon in May 2022 with Joe Trio, rounds out this quartet with his contribution of virtuosic violin and compositions that have been heard throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

If you enjoy being entertained, this is one show not to be missed.

The Marc Atkinson Trio will be appearing with Cam Wilson (Joe Trio, Van Django) at the Trinity United Church on Friday, February 17, 2023, for a different kind of evening for NOCCA. Marc is a Juno nominated performer, an award winning composer and one extremely talented guitarist in any genre.

Brett Martens plays rhythm guitar and Scott White is on stand-up bass presenting solid back-up and solo performances as well.

Cam Wilson, who performed here in Vernon in May 2022 with Joe Trio, rounds out this quartet with his contribution of virtuosic violin and compositions that have been heard throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

If you enjoy being entertained, this is one show not to be missed.