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6 events,
How Turtle Set the Animals Free
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.
How Turtle Set the Animals Free
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
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
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.
Gallery Vertigo December Featured Artist
Anastasia Anikeychik's training in minimalist architecture at Moscow College of Architecture and Building Arts has informed her artistic practice, which has taken on new meaning since the birth of her son. Since moving to Vernon, she has dedicated time to painting watercolor portraits of people close to her.
Inspired by watercolour's unique spontaneity and endless possibility she aims to capture "not only physical appearance but to study the essential truths about a person within."
While her commissioned work is mainly realistic, she also enjoys experimenting with abstraction in her art practice – "To challenge myself, I try different pigments, techniques, and surfaces, such as Aquaboard, watercolor grounds, Yupo paper, etc. These investigations into abstraction inspire my capacity to follow the material flow and formal possibilities.“
Gallery Vertigo December Featured Artist
Anastasia Anikeychik's training in minimalist architecture at Moscow College of Architecture and Building Arts has informed her artistic practice, which has taken on new meaning since the birth of her son. Since moving to Vernon, she has dedicated time to painting watercolor portraits of people close to her.
Inspired by watercolour's unique spontaneity and endless possibility she aims to capture "not only physical appearance but to study the essential truths about a person within."
While her commissioned work is mainly realistic, she also enjoys experimenting with abstraction in her art practice – "To challenge myself, I try different pigments, techniques, and surfaces, such as Aquaboard, watercolor grounds, Yupo paper, etc. These investigations into abstraction inspire my capacity to follow the material flow and formal possibilities.“
8 events,
Sherman Doucette’s Blues Quartet: New Year’s Eve
Sherman Doucette’s Blues Quartet: New Year’s Eve
The Vernon Jazz Club is ready to ring in the New Year, once again, with blues musician, Sherman Doucette. There is only one Tank in the blues world – the real deal and has the scars and badges to prove it. A former thirty year veteran of the Vancouver music scene – Yale Hotel host & house band for several years a very colorful past sharing the stage with blues legends such as John Lee Hooker / Albert Collins / Long John Baldry & many more. A soulful singer – harmonica virtuoso – with a hot new band and a tank full of energy mixing blues classics and original songs with the passion and conviction few can deliver – any one who has seen him perform will agree he puts on an unforgettable show.
Sherman Doucette’s Blues Quartet: New Year’s Eve
Sherman Doucette’s Blues Quartet: New Year’s Eve
The Vernon Jazz Club is ready to ring in the New Year, once again, with blues musician, Sherman Doucette. There is only one Tank in the blues world – the real deal and has the scars and badges to prove it. A former thirty year veteran of the Vancouver music scene – Yale Hotel host & house band for several years a very colorful past sharing the stage with blues legends such as John Lee Hooker / Albert Collins / Long John Baldry & many more. A soulful singer – harmonica virtuoso – with a hot new band and a tank full of energy mixing blues classics and original songs with the passion and conviction few can deliver – any one who has seen him perform will agree he puts on an unforgettable show.
8 events,
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids!
Celebrate the season with your friends and have some fun painting apres skiing!
Join Destanne Norris Artist, for an evening of painting in the style of beloved Canadian artist Ted Harrison. All instruction, painting supplies, canvas panel and a sweet treat at the end are included.
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party for Kids!
Celebrate the season with your friends and have some fun painting apres skiing!
Join Destanne Norris Artist, for an evening of painting in the style of beloved Canadian artist Ted Harrison. All instruction, painting supplies, canvas panel and a sweet treat at the end are included.
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party
SilverStar Holiday Paint Party!
Celebrate the season with your friends and have some fun painting apres skiing!
Join Destanne Norris Artist, for an evening of painting in the style of beloved Canadian artist Ted Harrison. All instruction, painting supplies, canvas panel and a specialty beverage are included.
8 events,
Boom X: The Music, Politics, and Culture of Generation X
Boom X: The Music, Politics, and Culture of Generation X
He’s back! BOOM X is the second of Rick Miller’s trilogy of solo multimedia performances that capture history and pop culture through stunning visuals and mind-blowing impersonations. The 70s, 80s, and 90s boom to life on stage with Miller playing over 100 characters from the days of disco, the oil crisis, Watergate, the cold war, video games, punk rock, and more.
“STUNNING… A marvellous mashup of media, verbatim theatre, jukebox musical and autobiographical confession” (Globe & Mail)
Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $45 Adult | $40 Senior | $42 Student | Available at www.ticketseller.ca
Boom X: The Music, Politics, and Culture of Generation X
Boom X: The Music, Politics, and Culture of Generation X
He’s back! BOOM X is the second of Rick Miller’s trilogy of solo multimedia performances that capture history and pop culture through stunning visuals and mind-blowing impersonations. The 70s, 80s, and 90s boom to life on stage with Miller playing over 100 characters from the days of disco, the oil crisis, Watergate, the cold war, video games, punk rock, and more.
“STUNNING… A marvellous mashup of media, verbatim theatre, jukebox musical and autobiographical confession” (Globe & Mail)
Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $45 Adult | $40 Senior | $42 Student | Available at www.ticketseller.ca
Karen Wiseman Quintet
Karen Wiseman Quintet
Vernon based jazz vocalist, Karen Wiseman is known for her velvety tones, attention to phrasing, and an inordinate love of the old standards.
From a choral tradition to jazz ensembles and a solo career, Karen draws influences from greats like Peggy Lee and Julie London. Expect old swing classics, soulful ballads, Latin jazz, re-imagined Broadway / pop tunes and some of the lesser-known gems of the jazz tradition
For this performance at the Vernon Jazz Club, Karen is joined by Chris Harwood-Jones on bass, Greg Baturin on drums, Neville Bowman on piano, and Sean Bray on guitar.
6 events,
Canadian Federation Of University Women Vernon Monthly Meeting
Canadian Federation Of University Women Vernon Monthly Meeting
Keli Westgate of Salmon Arm will speak about eco-friendly landscapes and permaculture design. After the presentation, the club will hold its business meeting.
The FCUW hold monthly general meetings on the third Monday of every month from 10:30 am until noon unless the date is a statutory holiday. In this case, the meeting will be re-scheduled
monthly meetings provide an opportunity for members to socialize with other members, further their own learning through informative speakers, and participate in club business. A simple buffet lunch is served at the end of the meeting for a reasonable fee.
Canadian Federation Of University Women Vernon Monthly Meeting
Canadian Federation Of University Women Vernon Monthly Meeting
Keli Westgate of Salmon Arm will speak about eco-friendly landscapes and permaculture design. After the presentation, the club will hold its business meeting.
The FCUW hold monthly general meetings on the third Monday of every month from 10:30 am until noon unless the date is a statutory holiday. In this case, the meeting will be re-scheduled
monthly meetings provide an opportunity for members to socialize with other members, further their own learning through informative speakers, and participate in club business. A simple buffet lunch is served at the end of the meeting for a reasonable fee.
6 events,
Rob Dinwoodie and Friends
Rob Dinwoodie and Friends
Rob Dinwoodie is known for his ability to capture a historical event or character of the west in a song. For the last six years, he has produced the Cowboy Dinner Show at O’Keefe Ranch, which promotes the B.C. West and its history. Rob Dinwoodie is known for his love of the cowboy lifestyle, and that spills over into his song writing, music and entertaining.
Blu & Kelly Hopkins are an award winning, songwriting, multi instrumentalist acoustic duo. The couple are a bona fide channel for Classic and Contemporary Folk/Roots music. Focusing on original material their extensive repertoire lets them blend traditional and contemporary tunes into their show, with a dash of humour, to achieve an entertaining, exciting yet mellow brew of good times, good tunes. Kelly’s warm harmonies combine nicely with Blu’s smoky baritone voice for a wonderful relaxed sound.
Charismatic, engaging and humorous, Blu & Kelly Hopkins and their brand of “Organic Acoustic Music” are winning new fans and charming audiences wherever they play.
Rob Dinwoodie and Friends
Rob Dinwoodie and Friends
Rob Dinwoodie is known for his ability to capture a historical event or character of the west in a song. For the last six years, he has produced the Cowboy Dinner Show at O’Keefe Ranch, which promotes the B.C. West and its history. Rob Dinwoodie is known for his love of the cowboy lifestyle, and that spills over into his song writing, music and entertaining.
Blu & Kelly Hopkins are an award winning, songwriting, multi instrumentalist acoustic duo. The couple are a bona fide channel for Classic and Contemporary Folk/Roots music. Focusing on original material their extensive repertoire lets them blend traditional and contemporary tunes into their show, with a dash of humour, to achieve an entertaining, exciting yet mellow brew of good times, good tunes. Kelly’s warm harmonies combine nicely with Blu’s smoky baritone voice for a wonderful relaxed sound.
Charismatic, engaging and humorous, Blu & Kelly Hopkins and their brand of “Organic Acoustic Music” are winning new fans and charming audiences wherever they play.
6 events,
Round Dance
Round Dance
Juno-nominated Cris Derksen is an internationally respected Indigenous cellist and composer. Hailing from a line of chiefs from North Tall Cree Reserve on her father’s side and a line of strong Mennonite homesteaders on her mother’s, Dersken braids the traditional and contemporary, weaving her classical background and her Indigenous ancestry together with new school electronics to create genre-defying music.
Round Dance
Round Dance
Juno-nominated Cris Derksen is an internationally respected Indigenous cellist and composer. Hailing from a line of chiefs from North Tall Cree Reserve on her father’s side and a line of strong Mennonite homesteaders on her mother’s, Dersken braids the traditional and contemporary, weaving her classical background and her Indigenous ancestry together with new school electronics to create genre-defying music.
6 events,
Melody Diachun
Melody Diachun
MELODY DIACHUN is a vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and a warm performer praised for her “soulful confidence, exquisite intonation, phrasing, and sense of time.”-All About Jazz. With five albums as leader, Melody is an increasingly significant artist with her own sound, style, and approach to creating new music. Notable recordings include “EQ” and “Metaphora” with Altered Laws. The latter won ‘Outstanding Jazz Record of The Year’ at the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards and was nominated for a JUNO. A year later, Melody was nominated for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the National Jazz Awards. “She is – and will always be – a force to reckon with in contemporary vocal music.”-Toronto Music Report
Melody Diachun
Melody Diachun
MELODY DIACHUN is a vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and a warm performer praised for her “soulful confidence, exquisite intonation, phrasing, and sense of time.”-All About Jazz. With five albums as leader, Melody is an increasingly significant artist with her own sound, style, and approach to creating new music. Notable recordings include “EQ” and “Metaphora” with Altered Laws. The latter won ‘Outstanding Jazz Record of The Year’ at the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards and was nominated for a JUNO. A year later, Melody was nominated for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the National Jazz Awards. “She is – and will always be – a force to reckon with in contemporary vocal music.”-Toronto Music Report
6 events,
Body Positive Bollywood Dance Show
Body Positive Bollywood Dance Show
Karima’s Bollywood workshop-style dance show infuses music, breathing, and ideologies from ancient scholars from the Middle East and South Asia. Students of all shapes and sizes will leave inspired to love themselves inside and out, on and off the dance floor!
Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 11:00am
ALL AGES: Tickets $12: www.ticketseller.ca
Body Positive Bollywood Dance Show
Body Positive Bollywood Dance Show
Karima’s Bollywood workshop-style dance show infuses music, breathing, and ideologies from ancient scholars from the Middle East and South Asia. Students of all shapes and sizes will leave inspired to love themselves inside and out, on and off the dance floor!
Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 11:00am
ALL AGES: Tickets $12: www.ticketseller.ca