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Below are the latest news items included on this website in all categories. If you are interested in a particular category, click on the menu items at the top.Rock the Corral on Sept 14th!
Kick up your heelsí with the professional dancers of Ballet Kelowna as they host "Rock the Corralí"at the OK Corral!! Come and join the fun-filled evening of dancing, lots of entertainment and many wonderful prizes - Line dance and "Two-step for tutus". All proceeds go to the Ballet Kelowna Fall Season
Rock the Corral - Friday Sept 14th at the OK Corral from 9:00 pm on (and on)
Tickets $25.00/ea. until end of August, then $30.00
Tickets available at: Mosaic Books, The Laughing Moon Gift Gallery, Total E-Clips Salon & Day Spa, Diamond H Tack, & FACES at Orchard Park Mall.
For questions contact: Christine Wolter 317-1782
Photo credit: Glenna Turnbull
17 Aug 2007
Speaking of Words
According to Global Language Monitor, the average native English speaker has a vocabulary of 14,000 words, a bleak number considering the English language lacks just 5,742 neologisms before it reaches the million-word mark. With so many options, it seems we would have a name for each nuance of our existence, each peculiar food combination, every shading of emotion, each time we seek extreme social withdrawal through isolation and confinement due to various personal social factors in our life (the Japanese term hikikomori).
If you’ve studied a foreign language, you probably remember how once you got beyond banal phrases like “I live in a house,” “I eat vegetables,” and “It is windy today,” the language began to unfold. You began to get glimpses into another culture without stepping on a plane. The more vocabulary your learned, the more insight you had into a different way of looking at the world. Perhpas you even came across a framework to help interpret and pinpoint your own view of the world and your place in it (the German term Weltanschauung).
As our world expands, its languages grow, continuously adopting new concepts and phrases. English has borrowed and appropriated a slew of words that slipped into the vernacular faster than you can say “attaccabottone” (Italian for someone who buttonholes, or traps you in a corner while they blather on and on). For example, who among us hasn’t used the term macho to describe a chauvinist, unsubtle alpha male (and in doing so reversed the Spanish sense of the word with more positive connotations “courageous” and “valorous”)? And what soul-searching, angsty teen (an English term adopted by cultures around the world) hasn’t privately declared himself a nihilist, a concept first introduced to English speakers in a translation of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. And we all experience a bit of Schadenfreude (German, gratification obtained from the troubles of others) when some self-righteous, hypocritical politician finally gets his comeuppance.
Mining foreign languages for their untranslatable words can not only help advance global understanding. Take for example Poshlost (Russian): Vulgarity, triteness, commonplace. Vladimir Nabokov in a 1967 Paris Review interview defined this term as “corny trash, vulgar clichés, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic and dishonest pseudo-literature, these are obvious examples.”
Global Language Monitor http://www.languagemonitor.com
If you’ve studied a foreign language, you probably remember how once you got beyond banal phrases like “I live in a house,” “I eat vegetables,” and “It is windy today,” the language began to unfold. You began to get glimpses into another culture without stepping on a plane. The more vocabulary your learned, the more insight you had into a different way of looking at the world. Perhpas you even came across a framework to help interpret and pinpoint your own view of the world and your place in it (the German term Weltanschauung).
As our world expands, its languages grow, continuously adopting new concepts and phrases. English has borrowed and appropriated a slew of words that slipped into the vernacular faster than you can say “attaccabottone” (Italian for someone who buttonholes, or traps you in a corner while they blather on and on). For example, who among us hasn’t used the term macho to describe a chauvinist, unsubtle alpha male (and in doing so reversed the Spanish sense of the word with more positive connotations “courageous” and “valorous”)? And what soul-searching, angsty teen (an English term adopted by cultures around the world) hasn’t privately declared himself a nihilist, a concept first introduced to English speakers in a translation of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. And we all experience a bit of Schadenfreude (German, gratification obtained from the troubles of others) when some self-righteous, hypocritical politician finally gets his comeuppance.
Mining foreign languages for their untranslatable words can not only help advance global understanding. Take for example Poshlost (Russian): Vulgarity, triteness, commonplace. Vladimir Nabokov in a 1967 Paris Review interview defined this term as “corny trash, vulgar clichés, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic and dishonest pseudo-literature, these are obvious examples.”
Global Language Monitor http://www.languagemonitor.com
16 Aug 2007
SPARC Canadian Author Addendum
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) have release of the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum, a new tool for authors in Canada to retain key rights to the journal articles they publish.
Traditional publishing agreements often require that authors grant exclusive rights to the publisher. The new SPARC Canadian Author Addendum enables authors to secure a more balanced agreement by retaining select rights, such as the rights to reproduce, reuse, and publicly present the articles they publish for non-commercial purposes. It will help Canadian researchers to comply with granting council public access policies, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Policy on Access to Research Outputs. The Canadian Addendum reflects Canadian copyright law and is an adaptation of the original U.S. version of the SPARC Author Addendum.
An explanatory brochure complements the Addendum. Both the brochure and addendum are available in French and English on the CARL and SPARC Web sites and will be widely distributed. SPARC, in conjunction with ARL and ACRL, has also introduced a free Web cast on Understanding Author Rights.
Canadian Author Addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author
Canadian Association of Research Libraries http://www.carl-abrc.ca
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc
Traditional publishing agreements often require that authors grant exclusive rights to the publisher. The new SPARC Canadian Author Addendum enables authors to secure a more balanced agreement by retaining select rights, such as the rights to reproduce, reuse, and publicly present the articles they publish for non-commercial purposes. It will help Canadian researchers to comply with granting council public access policies, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Policy on Access to Research Outputs. The Canadian Addendum reflects Canadian copyright law and is an adaptation of the original U.S. version of the SPARC Author Addendum.
An explanatory brochure complements the Addendum. Both the brochure and addendum are available in French and English on the CARL and SPARC Web sites and will be widely distributed. SPARC, in conjunction with ARL and ACRL, has also introduced a free Web cast on Understanding Author Rights.
Canadian Author Addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author
Canadian Association of Research Libraries http://www.carl-abrc.ca
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc
16 Aug 2007
A Literary Reading with Roo Borson and Kim Maltman
Wednesday, September 12, 7 PM
Downtown Kelowna Branch Public Library, 380 Ellis Street
Free admission.
Borson and Maltman have published, respectively, nine and five solo books of poetry. Borson won both the Governor General's award and the Griffin Award for her collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. Borson and Maltman have also been involved in a number of collaborative works, including The Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by the collaborative writing ensemble Pain Not Bread (with Andy Patton). Under the pen name Baziju, they are currently at work on a new collaborative manuscript. They live in Toronto.
A limited edition broadside of a new Baziju poem will be for sale.
Sponsored by UBC Okanagan, Okanagan Regional Library and the Canada Council for the Arts.
For more information, contact:
Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
University of British Columbia Okanagan
3333 University Way Kelowna BC V1V 1V7
Downtown Kelowna Branch Public Library, 380 Ellis Street
Free admission.
Borson and Maltman have published, respectively, nine and five solo books of poetry. Borson won both the Governor General's award and the Griffin Award for her collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. Borson and Maltman have also been involved in a number of collaborative works, including The Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by the collaborative writing ensemble Pain Not Bread (with Andy Patton). Under the pen name Baziju, they are currently at work on a new collaborative manuscript. They live in Toronto.
A limited edition broadside of a new Baziju poem will be for sale.
Sponsored by UBC Okanagan, Okanagan Regional Library and the Canada Council for the Arts.
For more information, contact:
Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
University of British Columbia Okanagan
3333 University Way Kelowna BC V1V 1V7
16 Aug 2007
OKANAGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HOLDS STRING AUDITIONS
Rosemary Thomson, Music Director, announces auditions for the following Core vacancies:
Section First Violin, Seat 4
Section Viola, Seat 2
Principal Doublebass
National Auditions will be held as follows:
Saturday, September 22, 2007
10:00 am: Section First Violin, Seat 4
3:00 pm: Section Viola, Seat 2
Location: Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre, Vernon, BC
Sunday, September 23, 2007
10:00 am: Principal Doublebass
Location: Rotary Centre for the Arts ñ Mary Irwin Theatre, Kelowna, BC
The 2007-2008 Collective Agreement is in negotiation. Current (2006 ñ 2007) wages and conditions are as follows:
- Services: 54
- Benefits: Group Benefit Plan + 10% AFM-EPW pension
- Compensation - Principal: $119.86 per service + $28.73 per service expense payment + 4% vacation pay
- Compensation - Section: $95.90 per service + $28.73 per service expense payment + 4% vacation pay
The Core musicians of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra are Canadian members of the American Federation of Musicians.
A repertoire list will be distributed upon receipt of an application.
Application deadline: Friday, September 7. Interested applicants should mail or fax or email a resume, including name, address, telephone number, email address, education and relevant orchestral experience, citizenship status and the number of their affiliate local to:
Tim Watson
Orchestra Personnel Manager
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
PO Box 20238
Kelowna, BC V1Y 9H2
Email: trumpetwatson@shaw.ca
Fax: 250-763-3553
Section First Violin, Seat 4
Section Viola, Seat 2
Principal Doublebass
National Auditions will be held as follows:
Saturday, September 22, 2007
10:00 am: Section First Violin, Seat 4
3:00 pm: Section Viola, Seat 2
Location: Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre, Vernon, BC
Sunday, September 23, 2007
10:00 am: Principal Doublebass
Location: Rotary Centre for the Arts ñ Mary Irwin Theatre, Kelowna, BC
The 2007-2008 Collective Agreement is in negotiation. Current (2006 ñ 2007) wages and conditions are as follows:
- Services: 54
- Benefits: Group Benefit Plan + 10% AFM-EPW pension
- Compensation - Principal: $119.86 per service + $28.73 per service expense payment + 4% vacation pay
- Compensation - Section: $95.90 per service + $28.73 per service expense payment + 4% vacation pay
The Core musicians of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra are Canadian members of the American Federation of Musicians.
A repertoire list will be distributed upon receipt of an application.
Application deadline: Friday, September 7. Interested applicants should mail or fax or email a resume, including name, address, telephone number, email address, education and relevant orchestral experience, citizenship status and the number of their affiliate local to:
Tim Watson
Orchestra Personnel Manager
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
PO Box 20238
Kelowna, BC V1Y 9H2
Email: trumpetwatson@shaw.ca
Fax: 250-763-3553
15 Aug 2007
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