ROCKIN’ THE BANQUET ROOM AT DUFFERS

Don Burnett-Jim Wilson-Bill Campbell-Gerry Deshayes
With special guests- Charlie Faulkner and Ray Volk

This Kelowna band formed in 1966 and had a seven year life on the road ending with a two year engagement at the Ace of Clubs in Bermuda

Saturday August 2nd
Come and have dinner at the bar and then party the night away upstairs
$10.00 cover-charge at the door
(doors open at 7pm)
 

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15 Jul 2008

July 19 - August 5, 2008

Opening Reception:  6:00 - 9:00 PM, Saturday, July 19, 2008

Ashpa Naira Gallery & Studio, along with Headbones Gallery, Toronto, is pleased to present Headbones, The Drawers, featuring works on paper by over fifty artists and featuring new sculpture by Okanagan artist, Stephan Bircher.

Headbones Gallery was located in Vernon from 1994 to 2001 at which time the owner/artist Julie Oakes, moved first to New York City and later to Toronto.  Since  that time Julie Oakes and her partner, gallery director Richard Fogarty, have  used their summer visits to the Okanagon Valley to present works from Headbones, The Drawers.

Headbones Gallery, The Drawers specializes in contemporary drawings and works on paper. The exhibition includes  Okanagan artists (drawing from the original slate of Headbones' artists) as well, other Canadian and international artists with a potent selection from New York City. As a result, the selection of works presented is diverse, ranging from pop to realism to abstract and includes both emerging and mature artists. There will be a  psecial presentation of a thirty foot high drawing in charcoal and coffee by Srdjan Segan. With two anthologies published by Rich Fog Publishing, Headbones 2006 and 2007 and individual catalogues for all of the artists included within the flat files, this exhibition promises to be of a high calibre including art from  distant locations not usually as readily accessible.

Torontonians have received the work of Stephan Bircher with enthusiasm at Headbones Gallery in Toronto and was featured in the Toronto International Art Fair in 2007. The dancing death imagery from found carcasses, road kill, jewellery and various objects are often  lit as if on the stage of life far after the aloted term.  Originally from Switzerland, Stephan Bircher has worked as a lighting designer for many theatrical companies including The Caravan Stage Company. He now brings his expertise to Fine Arts, with a discipline over which he has absolute control, from script, to  set design, costuming, lighting and the the grand finale of an amazing macabre moment.

Ashpa Naira Gallery will also be presenting works by Julie Oakes opening August 9 titled The Life Screen. The exhibition will include eight, large scale, four color, silk screen prints accomplished with the master print maker Briar Craig and including the guoache sketches and attendant paper works that led up to the series. The opening Reception will be Saturday, August 9 - 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM

Other artists whose work is on display at Ashpa Naira Gallery include Angelika Jaeger, Leonard Epp, Bev Bennett,  Barry Rafuse, Lubos Culen,  Frances Hatfield, Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante among others.

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15 Jul 2008

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Hot Type

WRITING THAT MOVES, MOTIVATES & INSPIRES
» Thursday 17 July 2008 | 4:30 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Arts. Join us as writers Mike Harwood, Maggie Reigh, Devon Muhlert and writer and editor Jim Taylor provide insights into the wonderful world of publishing.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE

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Writers Open the Books on Publishing

New fiction titles might grab the big buck awards and the headlines, but it's non-fiction that continues to make the publishing world go round. According to the latest figures available from Bowker, the industry expert, there were 276,000 new titles published last year in the U.S. alone and nearly 80 per cent of those were non-fiction.

This week writers and readers can learn more about how the non-fiction world works when the Okanagan Institute Express series hosts Hot Type: Writing That Moves, Motivates & Inspires on Thursday, July 17 at 4:30 pm at the Bohemian Café. Publisher, editor and writer Jim Taylor, and three top writers, offer different perspectives on how to approach this lucrative field - including getting good money for your work.

Jim Taylor is known in publishing circles as the editor's editor. Author of 17 books, he's the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the publishing house Wood Lake Books. Recently he was honoured with a lifetime membership to the Editors' Association of Canada for his achievements and development of the program Eight-Step Editing, which helps writers and editors identify and fix the most common obstacles to readership. He has been the managing editor of the United Church of Canada's national magazine and the founding editor of a professional clergy journal.

Mike Harwood has been a profession writer for more than 10 years. Author of 14 books, including the bestseller Computer Networking, he focuses on technical writing, Harwood's career truly got underway when he published IT Careers Guide in 1999. In his spare time, he writes humour columns and is currently crafting the pilot for Citizen Jane, which will launch on CBC Radio this September.

Maggie Reigh is a parenting expert and author of 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child, and the family educational kit Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrum, plus several CD recordings. For many years, Maggie appeared weekly as a parenting consultant on both radio and television, and is a popular guest on radio and television today.

Devon Muhlert is an award-winning photojournalist and arts writer who has been published around the globe, including The International Choral Bulletin, a magazine of the global society for choral music. Recently she has been researching the growing non-fiction movement in the North Okanagan, including the rise of the Kalamalka Press.

Hot Type: Writing That Moves, Motivates & Inspires is a free event, and takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 49th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007. Since that time, the series has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, architect Jim Meiklejohn, and others from a variety of creative fields.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE


Okanagan Institute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home. Express is sponsored in part by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Publishing, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna.

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13 Jul 2008

Minstrel Cafe & Bar
		Summer time and the livin' is easy at the Minstrel Cafe & Bar! We have some splendid food and entertainment this month, so please come out and join us.  Reservations are recommended by calling: 250-764-2301 Upcoming Entertainment Thursday, July 10th at 8pm: The Blue Voodoo Blues Band Friday, June 11th at 8pm: Acoustic Groove Monday, July 14th at 8pm: Open Mic with Dustin Childs Wednesday, July 16th at 8pm: Kobotown Thursday, July 17th at 8pm: Jimi Maze Friday, July 18th at 8pm: John Lee Sanders THE BLUE VOODOO BLUES BAND   Thursday, July 10th 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM " Premiere Vancouver roots, blues and rock act" $5 entertianment charge         http://www.thebluevoodoo.com/ ACOUSTIC GROOVE  Friday, July 11th at 8pm " Exotic mix of pop, soul and R&B music " $5 entertainment charge   MONDAY NIGHT STAGE FRIGHT Monday, July 14th at 8pm  Open Mic at the Minstrel Cafe & Bar with your host Dustin Childs.   KOBOTOWN   Wednesday, July 16th at 8pm   " Calypso reggae band from Toronto " $10 entertainment charge       http://www.myspace.com/kobotown JIMI MAZE   Thursday, July 17th at 8pm American Folk / Hip Hop " White boy rapper with an acoustic guitar "  Jimi Maze on Myspace

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13 Jul 2008

The Penticton Art Gallery, in partnership with the Naramata Bench Winery Association, is proud to present Students Collect: University of British Columbia Alma Mater Society Student Art Collection, featuring 32 works by artists from across Canada between 1948 and 1968. The original intent was to create a collection which exposed the students to the visual arts and in doing so, provided a more aesthetic and pleasing educational environment.

The exhibition at Penticton Art Gallery opens with a reception this Friday, July 11th, from 7 pm ˆ 10 pm

What makes this collection unique is the fact that the works were chosen by the students for the students, and document the interests and concerns of the student body during a pivotal period of radical social and societal change. Collectively, these works trace the evolution of the UBC student body, creating an invaluable social record. The original intent of making the art collection accessible to all has been overshadowed by the increasing value of the individual works and the security concerns this presents. The works are now kept in a secured storage area and are only exhibited briefly each year.

Over the years, the students‚ interest in further developing the collection has ebbed and flowed, and is best reflected in the number of works purchased and the eras they cover. The greatest period of collecting activity occurred over the first 20 years of the collection, with the least activity during the 1970s and ‚80s. Presently the collection consists of sixty-seven pieces with the most recent purchases featuring the photo-conceptual artwork of Roy Arden and Adam Harrison.

If you have ever been a student at UBC, you have contributed directly to the purchase of these works though your student fees. During my selection of the works for this exhibition, I was surprised at the breadth of the collection and the artists whose works are represented. While regional in its focus, the collection does represent artists from across the county and traces Canada‚s regional differences and nuances. The collection is a fair illustration of the development of Canada‚s art history over these two important decades. Some of the artists whose work is included in this exhibit are: Lawren Harris, E. J. Hughes, Molly Lamb Bobak, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Joe Plaskett, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Takao Tanabe, Harold Town, A.Y. Jackson, Art McKay, Greg Curnoe, Roy Kiyooka, William Ronald, Iain Baxter, Yves Gaucher and Claude Breeze.

This is the first time this collection has been seen as a collection outside of the UBC Vancouver Campus, and presents a rare opportunity to see these works displayed together. Not only does this collection trace the development of abstraction in British Columbia and the formation of our own aesthetic fingerprint, it draws works from across the country showing the parallel development of regional schools in Regina, Southern Ontario and Quebec. It‚s not surprising that regionalism exists, but it is fascinating to see the contrasts and comparisons between regions, and the exchange of ideas which occurred as artists moved across the country. These two decades were the beginning of a major social revolution which transformed our nation forever.

For more information about this exhibition, please contact the Penticton Art Gallery at (250) 493-2928.

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10 Jul 2008