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Arts for All Ages
IGNITING THE CREATIVE SPARK
» Thursday 11 March 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 teachers Katie Brennan, Karen Close and Beverly Rein explore the meaning of creativity and how arts teaching can be a transformative force across generations.
» 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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March 18: Home, Food and Hope: Okanagan Solutions
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March 25: Revisiting Ryga
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April 1: The Creative Child
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April 8: Come from Afar: The Immigrant Experience
 On Apples
An Essay by Colin Snowsell
The most commonly used apple metaphor - any derivation of the term "rotten apple" - is almost always presently misapplied. "A rotten apple ruins the barrel" is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms a tightening up of the 14th century Latin expression "The rotten apple injures its neighbours." The phrase in current political discourse is customarily offered as systemic exculpation premised on the identification and offering of a scapegoat.
Thus begins the essay On Apples by Colin Snowsell, a chapbook from the Okanagan Institute. Colin Snowsell is a writer and a communications professor at Okanagan College.
Published in a limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
24 pages | paperback | 5 x8.5 inches | Price: $5
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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.
  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."
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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
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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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