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Please Note: There will be no Express on July 2.
We’ll be back on July 9. Happy Canada, eh!
Catch the Swing!
THE NEW DANCE SENSATIONS
» Thursday 9 July 2009 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas
and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as Warren Eaton, Rose Sexsmith, Tanya Bakala and Natalie Bickert showcase the shakes, spins and shimmies that are stirring up dancers - and dancefloors - in the Okanagan.
» More information will be available here next week.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited - please reserve yours HERE
Coming Presentations (More information forthcoming.)
» July 16: Book Arts Calligraphy, Letterpress and Bookbinding
» July 23: Pride and Prejudice Challenging Attitudes
» July 30: The Future Perfect and Other Optimisms
 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
 The extraordinary Spirit of Kelowna medallion project brought a diverse cross section of the community together. They merged in a spirit of learning and sharing to create an impression of what was in their hearts. Their vision of Kelowna's community spirit is powerfully expressed through the diversity and uniqueness of the medallions that were created under the supervision of artists Geert and Elly Maas. Now they have been brought together in a harmonious whole in the pages of this unique and beautiful book - the perfect legacy of a great community event. » For more information and to order, click HERE
128 page paperback | 8 x 10 inches | Full colour throughout | $20
OKANAGAN CHAPBOOKS are occasional compilations, short texts, tracts and pictorial materials of special interest to the principals of the Okanagan Institute - literary works of merit and distinction, history and heritage, the arts and crafts, leisure pastimes and fugitive enthusiasms - by Okanagan writers, and on topics of appeal to Okanagan readers.
Creator Glimpsed Serving Tea: Poetic Journeys
Derek Evans
»» Limited edition of 200 signed copies | $5
Most of us, most of the time, seem to rush through our lives in a blur of plans and preoccupations, of schedules and fears. We press our way and spend our time in weighty chunks - of months and years, of decades and careers. Every now and then something may happen that allows us to step outside of our usual patterns, and to notice for a fleeting moment the power and beauty of the ordinary. Thus begins Creator Glimpsed Serving Tea by Derek Evans, in a work deeply informed by his career in peace and human rights spanning three decades and five continents.
The Zeppo Chair
Jarrod Thalheimer
»» Limited edition of 200 signed copies | $5
Tristan slid onto the worn leather of the chair and remembered it, even through his jeans. He found his comfort just as the bonds began to tighten. He strained against them, but kept his neck and head as still as possible. The red panic button was just under his left palm. He lifted his hand safely away from it. Thus begins The Zeppo Chair by Jerrod Thalheimer, the first chapbook in the series from the Okanagan Institute. In a haunting exploration of the nature of pain and how we handle it in our lives - and in our society - Thalheimer demonstrates his gift for storytelling.
» For more information and to order click HERE.
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