EAST SHORE AUTHOR ALANDA GREENE’S DEBUT NOVEL TO BE LAUNCHED AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE, NOV. 9, 7:30 PM From the mountains of Kootenay Lake’s East Shore in the 21st Century to the prairies east of the Rockies in the mid-1800s may seem a huge distance. But Kootenay Bay author Alanda Greene ably transports readers through space and time in her debut novel Napi’s Dance, to be launched at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance), on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The event, part of Oxygen
Read More »SFU AUTHOR/CRITIC CLINT BURNHAM BRINGS HIS HISTORY OF THE KOOTENAY SCHOOL OF WRITING TO NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE, OCT. 27, 7:30 PM Simon Fraser University English professor Clint Burnham, author of a 2011 history of the Vancouver centre of the Kootenay School of Writing, will read from his new book as well as from his own poetry and fiction at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance), on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. The event, part of Oxygen Art Centre’s Presentation Series, is free and open
Read More »Vernon author, educator and musician John Lent, an instructor at Nelson’s former Notre Dame University, will launch his new novel, The Path to Ardroe, at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance), on Friday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m. The launch, part of Oxygen Art Centre’s Presentation Series, is free and open to the public. The novel follows four characters who grew up in, or who were influenced by, post-World War II Edmonton, and at the time of the story are variously living in Scotland, France and the
Read More »THE AFGHAN WAR’S IMPACT ON CANADIANS’ DAILY LIVES THE THEME OF A NEW POETRY COLLECTION BY TOM WAYMAN, TO BE LAUNCHED APRIL 27 AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE How the Afghan War has impacted daily life in Canada is the focus of West Kootenay author Tom Wayman’s newest collection of poems, Dirty Snow, which will be launched April 27 at the Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance), Nelson. The launch, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. “The core of Dirty Snow is the Afghan
Read More »THREE AUTHORS READ IN NELSON OCT. 8 TO CELEBRATE WEST KOOTENAY CREATIVE WRITING EDUCATION Three authors on Thursday, Oct. 8 will celebrate nearly 50 years of creative writing education in the West Kootenay. Reading at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Presentation Series of Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre will be local pioneer creative writing teacher Fred Wah and Nelson’s two newest writing instructors, Sonnet L’Abbe and Leesa Dean. The event is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public. The Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon
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