Archive for the ‘Cabaret’ Category

  • Cabaret: Aliens with Benefits

    The 10th Anniversary Oxygen Art Centre Cabaret fundraiser! Aliens with Benefits: A Cabaret for the (Pre existing) Human Condition Thursday and Friday, June 22 and 23 The Capitol Theatre 8 PM Tickets $20 advance / $25 at door (available at Capitol box office or online http://capitoltheatre.bc.ca/) The Oxygen Art Centre welcomes back Nicola Harwood to create one of her classic Oxygen Art Centre Cabaret extravaganzas featuring none other then the inimitable Ilse and a cast of unforgettable characters from Cabarets past including: Brahm Taylor as the long suffering Eurotrash Ilse

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  • Youth Arts Festival 2017

    Youth Arts Festival program and Talent Slam line up announced! Oxygen Art Centre’s 3rd annual Youth Arts Festival opens on Thursday, February 23rd from 7-10pm with in flux, an art exhibition by Kootenay artists Hannah DeBoer-Smith, Maya Kacsmar-Mayoh, Olivia Mansveld, Teyana Neufeld and Tyler Wright.  This exhibition will then be up at Oxygen until March 11th and gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm.  Admission is free and everyone is welcome!   On Friday, February 24th at 7pm Hip Hop group Project Soul perform ‘Back to Basics’ at the

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  • Memory Palaces exhibition

    Memory Palaces exhibition dates: January 6 – 28, 2017. Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm. Exhibition opening: Thursday, January 5th from 7-10 pm Founders talk: Saturday, January 21 at 4pm.   New exhibition celebrates over a decade of arts programming at Oxygen Art Centre! Throughout 2017 Oxygen Art Centre will stage many events that reflect the work of the centre over the past 14 years.  Oxygen Art Centre was founded as the Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society in May 2002.  On January 5th, 2005 the Society opened its doors

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  • Talent Slam auditions – 2nd annual Youth Arts Festival

    Try out for the 2nd Annual Youth Arts Festival Talent Slam! In the spirit of encouraging young artists in our community, Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to announce the 2nd Annual Youth Arts Festival!  If you’re between the ages of 15 and 29, come try out for the festival’s premiere event and showcase your gifts at the Talent Slam! Singing, dancing, music, acting, comedy, performance art, poetry and spoken word… even short film and animations can be submitted for selection!   Auditions for the Talent Slam will take place at

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  • Cabaret – Barbaric Cultural Practices

    Oxygen Art Centre Fundraiser BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICES CABARET! Friday and Saturday, November 27 and 28 8 PM tix $20 ITS BACK! The Oxygen Art Centre Fundraiser Cabaret has returned, with a theme to celebrate our new regime! Now that the Harper Government has been defeated, we can indulge in all the Barbaric Cultural Practices, (ie ART) that we want! Hosted by the inimitable Steven the Art Star (aka Lucas Myers) this fundraiser will feature the talents of Nelson’s finest purveyors of culture including a healthy dose of a new generation

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  • Cabaret: ALL OR NOTHING

    Oxygen Art Centre fundraiser Cabaret is back!  ALL OR NOTHING is the next installment in a long and infamous line up of Oxygen Art Centre FUNdraiser Cabarets.  On November 21st and 22nd at 8pm, Stephen the Art Star (aka Lucas Myers,) will host a variety show with a plethora of acts by local artists, in support of Oxygen Art Centre.  Get your tickets early so you don’t miss out on your chance to catch the likes of Bessie Wapp, Lisa Menna, Lisel Forst, Sydney Black, Krista Lynch, Thomas Loh, Brian Kalbfleisch,

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  • Cabaret – End of Times / New Beginnings

    OXYGEN ART CENTRE CABARET END OF TIMES NEW BEGINNINGS! FRIDAY & SATURDAY APRIL 20 & 21 8 PM TICKETS $15 – $20 (SLIDING SCALE) AT DOOR OR AT EDDY’S MUSIC HOSTED BY LUCAS MYERS AS STEVEN THE ARTS STAR BESSIE WAPP, KRISTA LYNCH, LISEL FORST, LISA MENNA, JOEL COTTINGHAM, GEORDI CAMPO, JULIE JOHNSTON-MURRAY, SLAVA OCEAN, JASON ASBELL & SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY NICOLA HARWOOD AND BRAHN TAYLOR AS ILSA AND KLAUS! AN OXYGEN ART CENTRE CABARET AND FUNDRAISER #3-320 VERNON ST (ALLEY ENTRANCE)

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  • Cabaret: Eurotrash Pleasure Centre

                Comedians took audiences to the far reaches of post-communist Eastern Europe, and places around the local neighbourhood (like Salmo). This cabaret marked the debut of Oxygen Orkestar (a loud and deep-feeling Balkan Brass Band), and featured Displaced European Communist Party Persons, and BC Bush Party Persons.  Managing to both thrill and offend, the cabaret starred Nelson comedians Joel Cottingham, Nicola Harwood, Brahm Taylor, Geoff Ferguson, Bessie Wapp and Lisel Forst performing all new, all original material.  Also featured: Master magician Lisa Menna, burlesque dancer Flora

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  • Cabaret – Road To Salmo

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  • Cabaret: Bedtime Stories For Bad People

                    Imagine yourself surrounded by red velvet, submerged in ambient muzak. A handsome man holds a razor to your throat. Are you getting a haircut or are you at the Oxygen Art Centre’s Cabaret, “Bedtime Stories for Bad People? (Oct 30/31, 2009)”  Performing is scary business. Various characters haunt the psyches of our local comedians. “Stephen the Art Star” (Lucas Myers) and “Dermitt MacDonald, the Sex with Shoes On Salesman” (Nicola Harwood) will be among the alter-egos possessing our hapless performers at the

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