After more than a decade of service, the Oyster Bay schoolhouse was barged over to Whaletown in 1950. There it opened its doors to the children of a new community.
Brigid Weiler started attending the Whaletown School in 1959.
Her earliest memories are in that area.
Continue reading Memories of the old Whaletown Schoolhouse
It is usual to look at one artist’s work hanging in a gallery. It may be more complicated to look at 20 artists displaying more than 30 pieces on the walls in almost every media used to create art.
Here are some ways I enjoy looking at art in a group show.
Continue reading Looking at Art in a group showIt has been about seven months since operations at Klahoose Gorge Harbour were scaled back due to a need for extensive renovations. While much of it is not visible to the public, QXMC, the Klahoose First Nation‘s development corporation, has been very busy since then.
On Wednesday Ron Buchhorn, Chairman of the Board of QXMC, and Marco Bedetti, who has been Resort Manager since April, gave Cortes Currents an overview of what they are doing.
Continue reading What’s been happening with the renovations at Gorge Harbour
Christann Kennedy’s exhibition, continuing at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery, demonstrates that good art never stops revealing itself. Christann states that she thinks “about the interactions that occur along the borderlines between colours…when colours appear to activate and enliven each other, push each other forward or back, conflict with each other, or blend and harmonize like the notes of a musical cord.” Here are some ways to travel in these colour borderlands.
Continue reading Art review for Chroma, A journey into colourImage credit: Kim Pauley singing ‘The Book of Right On’ during Wiley Ferguson’s performance – Igor Backmann photo
(The podcast of this program opens with a clip of saxophone player Dave Blinzinger’s version of the blues classic ‘Route 66,’ in which he added lyrics like ‘Get your kicks right here on Cortes Island’ and ‘When you take that Linnea Farm trip, get your kicks on Route 66.’)
I can’t take too much heat anymore and had to pack it in by 4:30, but it was already apparent that this year’s Lovefest was another success.
Continue reading Why is Lovefest such an ongoing success?
