Documentary Film Script Workshop in Nelson Having a great idea for a documentary film is one thing; figuring out what comes next can be the challenge. A documentary film script development workshop with Vancouver filmmaker and teacher Colin Browne on Saturday, May 30 is an opportunity to find that next step and ramp up the skills necessary to move from concept to successful documentary film. Browne is a co-founder of Simon Fraser University’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and the Art of Documentary Workshops. He taught filmmaking at SFU’s School
Read More »Acclaimed poet Colin Browne launches new collection in Nelson Author and filmmaker Colin Browne has earned critical acclaim on both artistic fronts, with nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award for his poetry as well as a Genie nomination for documentary film. Browne launches his newest book of poetry, The Hatch, on Friday, May 29 at 7:30pm at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson. In The Hatch “myth, history, and the present are contemporaneous in these poems; nothing is ever one
Read More »The 5th Annual Oxygen Art Market will take place on May 22, 23, 24, 2015 Hours: Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am – 5pm 320 Vernon Street (back alley entrance) in Nelson Every year, the Oxygen Art Market attracts hundreds of art-lovers to the Oxygen Art Centre. And it’s no wonder! Over 40 established and emerging Kootenay artists submit their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and other 2D work for this weekend-long event. The work is hung “Salon” style, in the manner of the Académie des Beaux–Arts exhibitions in Paris at
Read More »Oxygen Art Centre’s Continuing Arts Education Programming for Winter/Spring: TO REGISTER: – ONLINE REGISTRATION (click here!) OR by Phone: 250-352-6322 OR drop by: Oxygen Art Centre – 320 Vernon St (back alley entrance) New office hours! Wednesdays from 1-5 pm (between January 7th – March 11th, 2015) For more information about classes please contact Oxygen Art Centre at: P: 250 352 6322 E: info@oxygenartcentre.org Winter/Spring 2015 Semester schedule: Fine Art Shadow Boxes (after Joseph Cornell) with Natasha Smith 4 classes: February 16 – March 9,6pm – 9pm Mondays Course
Read More »Calling on the arts community to join in the conversation! Please joins us on Wednesday May 13th at 7pm at Oxygen Art Centre. Nelson at its Best Join in the Conversation for a Healthy, Poverty-Free Nelson! Nelson is a great place, but for some, it’s an expensive place to live. Poverty forces some residents of Nelson to make hard choices — between rent and medicine, food and transportation, childcare and employment opportunities; between moving towards a self-sufficient future or just getting through the day. Thirteen diverse Nelson organizations have undertaken
Read More »Spring Scribble is a weekend youth writing workshop open to ages 13-18. Roz Nay, an experienced teacher and writer from Nelson, will lead the workshop along with guest speakers from different facets of the professional writing world who will share their experiences with the group. Spring Scribble is an inspiring and intense event that will allow young writers to explore their work in new ways. The workshop runs May 8th to 10th, 2015 at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson with a public reading of work composed at the workshop at
Read More »Kevin Spenst arrives in Nelson on a 50 stop reading tour around BC! Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to present the latest work by Vancouver based poet Kevin Spenst, whom has embarked on a 50-reading tour of BC in support of small poetry presses. Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press 2015,) is Spenst’s much-anticipated debut collection of poetry. The work opens as a coming-of-age narrative of lower-middle class life in Vancouver’s suburb of Surrey, embroidered within a myriad of pop-culture and “post-Mennonite.” Slocan based poet Barbara Curry Mulcahy will join
Read More »Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to present the work of grade 3 and 4 elementary students working through the Artist In the Classroom program. Students from two local elementary schools have been working with local artist, Jennifer McAuley to create a series of one of a kind, handmade, Art Cards to trade, exhibit and collect. Each week for the last few months the students have taken part in a workshop session series that introduces young artists to unique forms of visual expression. Each student has created a series of art
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