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Spring Into Spring
BRAVE NEW GARDENS
» Thursday 11 February 2010 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas
and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as experts and enthusiasts Don Burnett, Gwen Steele and Lisa Masini explore the principles and pleasures of sustainable gardening in the Okanagan, and share their insider insights.
» For more information, click HERE.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited - please reserve yours HERE
Coming Presentations (More information forthcoming.)
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February 18: Local Logical: Made in the Okanagan
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February 25: Writing for Laughs: Why the Joke's On Us
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March 4: Read Redux: Prose, Poetry and Provocations
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March 11: The Circle of Creativity
A Program of ArtsCare in association with the Okanagan Institute. At the Rotary Centre for the Arts. Sponsored by The Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Programs. To register or for more information: www.sage-ing.com Take this unique opportunity to explore your creative urges.
The Habitat/Hospice Art Auction Fundraiser event, a Comedy/drama play called ART followed by art auction takes place Saturday February 6th at Habitat, 248 Leon Avenue, Kelowna. Doors open at 6 pm for art viewing, live play at 7 pm,auction at 8:30 pm. Cash bar and kitchen open until midnight. Tickets $20 available at www.hospicecoha.org or by calling the Hospice office at 250.763.5511.
  What starts out as a simple newspaper report on a decaying farmstead and the family that once lived there, turns into a tour de force of writing at the hands of Colin Snowsell. "I found it impossible to regard the Frollett Homestead and not hear the chants of the ghosts of children, children who play there no longer. Children grown old. Children passed on. The day I visited the Frollett homestead I kept looking at my octogenarian host, only to see beside me a boy not yet eight."
» For more information and to order, click HERE
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author.
64 page paperback | 8 x 10 inches | Photographs throughout | $20
 Up Chute Creek is a portrait of Okanagan landscape and people like no other. It is alternately passionate, joyful, heartbreaking, lyrical, quirky, and always wise, and always human, in the best sense. This is a book for the people of the Okanagan, both new and old, to treasure and to share. "A wise, funny, heartfelt, smart, poetic memoir of a love affair with a
wild, granite farm at the end of the road in Naramata. If you didn't love the Okanagan before you read this book, you will by the time you're done." - Harold Rhenisch, author of Out of the Interior and The Wolves at Evelyn
» For more information and to order, click HERE
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
224 page paperback | 6 x 9 inches | Photographs throughout | $20
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