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Up In Smoke
THE MEANING OF FIRE
» Thursday 10 July 2008 | 4:30 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Home. Join us as as we examine, with writer and ecologist Don Gayton, the difficult choices we have to make in order to protect our communities and manage our ecosystems.
» For more information, click HERE.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Okanagan Insitute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home.
Coming Presentations (More information will be posted here as available.)
» July 17: Instruction, Production, Deduction Writing to Move, Motivate and Inspire
» July 24: Design for Density Planning Community Futures
» July 31: Inventing the Arts The Past as Prologue
» August 7: Farm Forward The Food Chain in Transition
» August 14: Aboriginality The Culture of Okanagan Nation
 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.Click here for more information and to order.
128 page paperback | 8 x 10 inches | Full colour throughout
Publication date: July 2008 | Price: $20 | Copies are available at a pre-publication discount price of $15.
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.
The Saturday Salon series is suspended. To receive an announcement when we resume, please click here.
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