Category Archives: Arts

30 years of Olatunji drumming and dancing celebrated on Cortes Island

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Since 1990, members of Babatunde Olatunji’s Drums of Passion ensemble have been teaching West African drumming and dancing at Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre on Cortes Island.

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Local artist hosting art show depicting Greenland travels and the realities of climate change

By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Iris Steigemann, an artist and painter local to Cortes Island, has been travelling to Greenland over the course of the past decade and has distilled her experiences into a collection of paintings that she will be presenting this weekend.

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Original production Snakeskin Lightning being featured at annual Cortes Day evening celebration

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Snakeskin Lightning is coming to Mansons Landing Community Hall on the evening of July 23 as part of the annual Cortes Island Day celebrations.

It’s the creation of Caresse Nadeau of Cumberland, BC on Vancouver Island. The multimedia production is theatrical and combines live music, dance and animation.

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George Sirk & the Cortes Film Festival

Cortes Island will be holding its very own film festival in Mansons Hall on Sunday, July 17, 2022.  George Sirk produced Cortes Cinema’s films, all but one of which was originally shown at either Mansons or Gorge Halls during the 1970s and early 80’s. The exception is a video of Ann Mortifee’s performance at Manson’s Hall on October 23, 1981. This has not previously been shown in public. Doug McCaffry came up with the idea of holding a film festival, when he was digitalising Sirk’s films for the Cortes Island Museum.  

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