Viva Musica Society is announcing that auditions are being held for Viva Vocals.

Viva Vocals is the talented chorus led by music director Roslyn Frantz. This group builds on their repertoire every year. Viva Vocals can be hired for weddings, festivals, concerts, staff parties and anything else where some live entertainment is desired.Ê If you feel you fit with this group please call.

Auditions are being held on March 9th, 2008 between 1 and 2 pm at the Viva Musica offices at 7-368 Industrial Ave., Kelowna, BC. Please bring a copy of your music plus a copy for the pianist.

For more information or to book a time please call our offices at 762-8967

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26 Feb 2008

Chamber Music Kelowna is presenting an special evening at the Laurel Packing House with the TinAlley String Quartet on March 15. The evening features a gala reception with wine, hors d'oeuvres and desserts at 7 pm followed by the concert. In addition, there will be works by several Okanagan artists on display. Proceeds of the event will support Chamber Music Kelowna's Youth Outreach Fund, including master classes and school concerts.
 
TinAlley, a young quartet from Australia, won the Banff International String Quartet Competition last summer. We were part of the resident audience for the competition week and thought they were terrific. You can find more info about them at www.banffcentre.ca/bisqc. They are now doing the winners' tour, on which they appear in Kelowna - as well as in other major musical capitals like Amsterdam, Berlin and San Francisco.
 
Tickets for the event on March 15 are $50 per person ($25 for students) and may be ordered  at 250.764.2728

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23 Feb 2008

Design COLOURS, FLAVOURS AND TEXTURES » Thursday 28 February 2008 | 4:30 pm » BeanScene North, 1289 Ellis Street An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Home. Join us as design expert Douglas MacLeod and publisher and designer Robert MacDonald expore the role of design in business and life through their creative work and research. » This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost. » Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna Experts Proclaim the Need to Embrace Design Everyone loves the iPod, but it's not the technology that shot the media giant into the stratosphere - it was design. So says Douglas MacLeod, newly installed executive director of the Okanagan Science and Technology Council, who will be speaking February 28, at 4:30 p.m. at this week's Okanagan Institute event - Design: Colours, Flavours and Textures held at Bean Scene North in Kelowna. MacLeod says the Conference Board of Canada didn't see the big picture last year when it gave Canada a dismal report card for innovation. He said the council assessed innovation by measures such as the number of times Canadians published articles in scientific journals when it should be looking at what really makes people buy products and services - design. "People don't buy products based on the number of articles in a scientific journal. With both the iPod and the iPhone, there were no radically new technologies involved in either product. The big difference was in their designs." MacLeod has a distinguished history in design, having worked as an architect, and before joining OSTEC was the executive director of the Canadian Design Research Network, a centre of excellence at Simon Fraser University. Robert MacDonald, internationally recognized designer, publisher and entrepreneur, argues that design plays a key role in capturing the public eye, creating and selling products and services, and enhancing the way we live and work. He enjoins us to explore the impact of colour, one of the most powerful tools available to designers in all disciplines. "Likes and dislikes vary from person to person, and are affected by social and economic factors that have nothing to do with us personally, but impact how we react to, and use, colour in our lives and our work," he says. "Colours do not only decorate our homes, our clothes and our style. They are also loaded with meaning. They communicate, they suggest. They evoke associations and therefore create feelings and bring back memories. Each colour has a psychological character entirely of its own. And each colour has a history of association with events, products, eras and styles." MacDonald was the Director of the Publishing Workshops at the University of Toronto and the Banff Centre for fifteen years. He was a founder of the Canadian Periodical Publishers Association and the Graphic Arts in the Public Service Foundation. He is both the publisher and designer of Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home magazines. Design: Colours, Flavours and Textures is a free event, and takes place at BeanScene North. It's presented by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing. Express is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE Okanagan Insitute at BeanScene North 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. Expresss is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at BeanScene North after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.

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22 Feb 2008

March 8 to April 27, 2008

The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased and proud to be one of several stops across Canada for this major exhibition of seventy works by F.H. Varley. This exhibition, F.H. Varley: Portraits into the Light, sets out to change a common impression about this revered Group-of-Seven artist, who was actually known in his lifetime more for his portraits than his work in landscape. Pushed aside by the strength of the mythology around the Group’s engagement with the empty, northern wilderness, Varley’s relationships and interest in people is now intended to come “into the light.”

From the mid 1920s to the mid 1930s, Varley lived in Vancouver where he taught at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (which eventually became today’s Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design). It was here that he fell in love with one of his students, Vera Weatherbie, whose portrait we will see in the exhibition. Varley also was friendly with a woman who later came to live in Kelowna, Erica Leach, daughter of Kelowna artist Grace Willis. Three portraits by Varley of Erica Leach will also be on view.

Curated by Katerina Atanassova from the Varley Gallery in Markham, Ontario, this show is accompanied by a full-scale trade book as the catalogue to the exhibition, and will be for sale at the gallery for $60.

Curator talk with Katerina Atanassova on Saturday March 8 at 1:00 pm. Public tours are included with the cost of admission.

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22 Feb 2008

The North Okanagan Artists Alternative
and Gallery Vertigo Announce:
 
The Sixth Annual NOAA Members Juried Exhibition
 
(For NOAA Members Only, But New Members are Always Welcome!)
 
Deadline for Submissions:   Saturday, March 15, 4pm
 
This exhibition is designed to celebrate the exciting and varied artistic richness of the Okanagan community and as such is not a themed exhibition. We simply want to see what artists, writers and performers consider to be their best and most recent work.
 
All artists, writers, musicians and performers are invited to participate. Those who are not already members of the North Okanagan Artists Alternative are urged to join now in order to be part of the fun. Annual NOAA Memberships are affordable. An individual membership costs just $25 per year and students, seniors and under-employed artists pay just $15 per year.
 
The exhibition promises to bring a deluge of work by the Okanagan's finest and most interesting personalities and art practitioners. Come and celebrate our community's creative spirit in its countless permutations!
 
Visual artists are asked to submit up to two works for the sixth annual juried exhibition. Size is restricted only by the space available. Both two and three-dimensional works will be accepted, as will video and literary works. All work must address the theme. Sorry, no late work will be accepted.
 
Please call Gallery Vertigo for details on how to participate or just come in on March 15th between 11am and 4pm with up to two pieces of your work. Memberships may be purchased at that time.
 
There is a $10. jury fee for one work or $15. for two works. Jurors to be announced soon.
 
Writers, musicians and performers are invited to read or perform at the opening reception on Saturday. March 24 between 7 and 9pm. Please call Judith @ (250)503-2297 in advance if you would like to be part of the entertainment on opening night.
 
Deadline for Submissions: Saturday, March 15, 4pm
 
Exhibition Run: Tuesday, March 18 to Saturday, April 12th
 
Gala Reception:
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29th, 7pm
Enjoy complimentary refreshments and live entertainment.
Meet the artists.
 
"Every artist should be an exhibitionist." (Egbert Oudendag, 1914-1998)

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19 Feb 2008