Take the timeless Dickens' tale of "A Christmas Carol", and present it from the viewpoint of the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's departed partner..add in a bunch of favorite Christmas carols and you have TKS's Christmas Show, "Scrooge & Marley".  Director Brian Haigh has taken traditional "Christmas Carol" scenes and added snippets from the text of Dickens' original story to create a new approach to one of the classic Christmas stories of all time.  Featuring Charlie Fleming as Scrooge and Jeff Samin as Marley with Choral direction by Robin Jarmin, this production is suitable for all ages.

Theatre Kelowna Society, born in 1949 as "Kelowna Little Theatre" is in their 60th year of community theatre in Kelowna.  Come help celebrate with "Scrooge & Marley"!  Opening Night Birthday Party!

Kelowna Community Theatre

Nov. 27-Dec. 6
evenings 7:30; weekend matinees 2PM
www.selectyourtickets.com  250-762-5050

Box office at Prospera Place
$20 adult; $15 student/senior; $10 kids 12 & under; Family of 4 $40.

info. at Theatre Kelowna  250-862-8673  www.theatrekelowna.org

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12 Nov 2009

Utopia / Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
October 31, 2009 to January 10, 2010

The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to host Utopia / Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James. This is a large exhibition of mostly gelatin silver photographs by this internationally recognized Canadian artist, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. The themes and subjects are wide ranging, and include works from the artist’s 1970s panoramic-format photographs of European gardens series, his work on the asbestos mines in Quebec from 1993, some examples of his Running Fence series on the border fence between Mexico and California, from 1999, and work since the turn of the century, including photographs made in Paris in the year 2000, and his Toronto-based works from 1999 onwards. James is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and has been the focus of many important exhibitions and publications. This exhibition is accompanied by a major publication. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada and is sponsored by Meiklejohn Architects.

Bryan Ryley: Sum of Destructions
November 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010

Okanagan-based artist Bryan Ryley has installed a suite of ten colourful works on paper with an attendant painting on canvas, produced in 2004 and all based on a single small drawing by Pablo Picasso. The drawing was a small preparatory sketch for Picasso’s famous 1937 painting, Guernica, and features a clasped fist gripping a broken sword. Ryley moves from one meditation to another in the works on paper, considering violence and war from various points of view.

Dysfunctional Chairs Series: Lori Mairs: Ellispes
November 7, 2009 to May 9, 2010

Lori Mairs’s Ellipses is the fourth in an ongoing series of commissions of contemporary art at the Kelowna Art Gallery for our outdoor Rotary Courtyard space. Kelowna-based artist Lori Mairs responded to the challenge of creating a dysfunctional chair-themed work by creating a deconstructed chair, that is an arrangement or conglomeration of chair-ish elements, utilizing the whole courtyard space. Mairs has used her hallmark materials of steel flatbar framing in shapes whose planar edges are formed by coating mulberry paper with beeswax. Intriguing on many levels, the work in this show will also be re-arranged and positioned by the artist during its run.

The Kelowna Art Gallery, located at 1315 Water Street is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday until 9 pm, Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm, closed Mondays.

Admission to the gallery is $5 for individuals, $4 for students and seniors and $10 for a family. FREE admission on Thursdays from 3 – 9 pm.

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09 Nov 2009

Guest Curated by Sara Lige
November 28, 2009 – March 21, 2010

Opening reception is on November 27 at 7:00 pm
The reception is open to the general public
This project is a partnership between the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Cool Arts Society.

We Are Artists is an exhibition that will showcase the artistic efforts of local artists who have developmental disabilities.This will be the first exhibition of its kind at the Kelowna Art Gallery and will be an invaluable opportunity to both connect this population that typically experiences minimal access to the arts, and to challenge dominant perceptions about people with developmental disabilities.
Traditionally, people with developmental disabilities have not enjoyed the same access to the arts as non-disabled people; therefore the We Are Artists exhibition is an important show that promotes diversity, accessibility and equality in the arts.

Sara Lige, a local artist and founder of Cool Arts, is the guest curator of the exhibition. Since its inception in Kelowna in 2003, Cool Arts has offered arts instruction and art-making opportunities to local adults with developmental disabilities in the Central Okanagan.

We would like to thank the Province of British Columbia and 2010 Legacies Now for their support of We Are Artists. We would also like to recognize our other community partners, the Central Okanagan Foundation, Arts Council of theCentral Okanagan, Kelowna Sunrise Rotary, United Way, Kiwanis Kelowna Summit Club, and Kickstart.

Panel Discussion on Disability Arts
Saturday, November 28 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm

The panel is hosted by the Kelowna Art Gallery, and will be moderated by UBC-O professor Stephen Foster, will include guest curator and Cool Arts founder, Sara Lige, Carolyn MacHardy UBC-O professor of Art History, Rachelle Hole, UBCO Professor of Disability Studies, Geoff McMurchy, Founder and Creative Director of Kickstart, Vancouver, and Cool Arts artist Scott Gould.

This exhibition runs from November 28, 2009 – March 21, 2010, and is on display in the Kelowna Art Gallery’s Front Project Space. The Kelowna Art Gallery, located at 1315 Water Street is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday until 9 pm, Sundays from 1 pm to 4 pm, closed Mondays. Admission to the gallery is $5 for individuals, $4 for students and seniors or $10 for a family. FREE admission on Thursdays from 3 – 9 pm.

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09 Nov 2009

Rodney DeCroo and Dave Lang bring the Our Money Your Feelings Tour to the Penticton Art Gallery on Sunday, November 22. Doors open at 7 pm.

Smart words, smart chords, smart clothes ц Dave Lang has had a fondness for smartness since someone told him he had a smart mouth. Inspired by Cole Porter, Bob Wills, Randy Newman and Lenny Bruce, Lang writes smart songs that make you smile. гEven the love songs are biting and satirical,д  says Geoff Berner.

Dave Lang is currently the ќmusician in residenceв at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He tours regularly with like-minded performers and is currently on a marathon three month tour of Canada. He has appeared on record alongside musicians such as Neko Case, Corb Lund, Geoff Berner and Carolyn Mark. He has written music for film and television and received glowing reviews online and in print magazines such as The Georgia Straight and Spin.

Rodney Decroo, as one music writer put it, is a true original. Rodneyвs songs and performances are known for their authenticity ц he has lived what he sings and writes about. He delivers his songs like a scrap metal freight train blasting through mountains and valleys or with the sensitivity of a mother lion lulling her cubs to sleep. There are few hearts he can not touch.

Rodney established himself at the Railway Club in downtown Vancouver; running the stage once a month for 3 years hosting his Folk You shows. Ridley Bent, Carolyn Mark,The Brakemen, Ida Nilsen and Sam Parton are just a few of the artists who performed on his stage. Heвs also shared stages across Canada with Elliot Brood, Cuff the Duke, Corb Lund, Herald Nix, Rae Spoon, Utah Phillips, Poв Girl, Cam Penner, and many other artists.

DeCroo has five critically acclaimed CDs available.

Tickets for the November 22nd Rodney DeCroo and Dave Lang concert are available at the Penticton Art Gallery; $10 for Gallery members and students, or $15 for non-members. This event will be held in the intimate concert setting of the Tea Room with seating limited to 50, so please reserve yours in advance. To arrange a media interview, reserve tickets, or for more information, please contact Paul Crawford at the Penticton Art Gallery; (250) 493-2928.

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09 Nov 2009

In November, the Okanagan Symphony celebrates two of the great compositional masters, Mozart and Schubert.

Kelowna Community Theatre, Saturday, November 21, 8:00 p.m.
Vernon Performing Arts Centre, Sunday November 22, 7:00 p.m.

Program: The Schubert Birds, Michael Colgrass;
Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, K. 299, W. A. Mozart;
Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200, Franz Schubert

Guest Artists: Heidi Krutzen, harp and Lorna McGhee, flute

**The Okanagan Symphony and the Rotary Centre for the Arts invite you to spend a uniquely entertaining evening combining the November 21, 2009 Symphony concert "Masters of Melody" with the classic EVERGREEN fundraiser, all in support of the arts.  See www.okanagansymphony.com

"Twittering" takes on new meaning in composer Colgrass' fancifully titled work: a "little concerto" (in 41 variations) for orchestra based on Franz Schubert's Kupelwieser Waltz. Colgrass portrays Schubert as a bird who spent his life singing, surrounded by a circle of others who were attracted by his lyricism and sang with him. The rich tableau of sustained musical discourse involves instrumentation which takes on roles similar to those of characters in a play. Pulitzer prize-winner Colgrass is a jazz percussionist and composer who lived and worked in Chicago and New York, and now makes his home in Toronto.

Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, K. 299 is one of only two true double concertos that Mozart wrote, as well as his only piece containing harp. One of the most popular such concerti in the repertoire, it was written in 1778 in Paris for the Court of Guinness, at a time when harp and flute was considered an extremely unusual combination. Today, the concerto is often played in chamber ensembles, regarded as technically challenging for both instrumentalists.

Heidi Krutzen is Principal Harpist with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and is a member of Trio Verlaine, along with Lorna McGhee. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Krutzen is on the faculty of UBC and has performed widely around the world. Scottish-born Lorna McGhee was co-principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra before immigrating to Canada in 1998. She has performed as guest principal with many orchestras, including the London Symphony, Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, and Pittsburgh Symphony. As a soloist, she has performed internationally. Currently, she teaches at UBC.

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200 was written between 24 May and 19 July 1815, a few months after his eighteenth birthday. The four movements cover forms which range from slow and dramatic, to the lyrical charm and interplay of solo clarinet with syncopated strings. The symphony is breathtaking, full of grace and humour, with high spirits and dynamic contrast throughout.

OPEN DRESS REHEARSAL...
Kelowna Community Theatre, from 2-4:30 pm on Saturday November 21. Admission is free.
PRE-CONCERT TALKS...
One hour before each mainstage concert Music Director and Conductor Rosemary Thomson will greet ticket holders with an in-depth discussion and Q&A session on each mainstage concert.
AFTERTHOUGHTS...
Rosemary joins her guests and selct musicians onstage post-concert to share questions and thoughts with the audience.

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09 Nov 2009