Arts/Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment
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Quesnel & District Leisure Services will host a series of art demonstrations at the Quesnel Arts & Recreation Centre Artrium on Saturdays from July 23 to Aug. 27. Budding artists may try their hands with a variety of art materials and techniques at the table set up in the Artrium foyer.
Morning demonstrations for children run from 10 a.m. to noon, while adult demonstrations are from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. No registration is required; participants simply pay the centre's drop-in fee. Artist Meriel Barber will demonstrate a variety of media for children to try in the mornings, while the afternoon sessions will have six local artists demonstrating their art form.
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Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of extreme textiles, as Quesnel & District Leisure Services hosts an extraordinary workshop. The Extreme Textiles workshop features Vancouver artist Patricia Chauncey on Saturday and Sunday June 4 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Arts and Recreation Centre. In addition, Chauncey will open her solo show at the Quesnel Art Gallery entitled Evolution - Hive, Rust and Bone on Friday June 3 at 7 p.m. The show runs through to the end of June.
Free art history DVD series begins Sunday, February 6
Quesnel & District Leisure Services will start A History of European Art DVD series, showing at the Arts and Recreation Centre’s Artrium, Sunday February 6 at 1 p.m. Every Sunday the series will survey the great monuments of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II.
The major works by the greatest visual artists of a millennium of Western civilization will be examined, including extensive considerations of such important artists as Giotto, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Monet. These artists and their masterpieces will be placed in the political, religious and social context of their time.
Christian Petersen launches new book All Those Drawn To Me
By Sage Birchwater
Christian Petersen will be one of two authors attending the Quesnel Museum’s Heritage Speakers Series at the annual Christmas sale open house on December 3 at 7 p.m. in the Quesnel Museum.
Petersen released his third book this fall, All Those Drawn To Me, published by Caitlin Press.
All Those Drawn To Me is a collection of nine fictional short stories rooted in the Cariboo where Peterson has lived for 40 years. The stories cover a span of historical fiction from the mid 1800s gold rush in Barkerville to the present day.
The book really puts the Cariboo Chilcotin on the map. Those familiar with the region will recognize such place names as the Williams Lake stampede grounds, the Soda Creek gaol, the Quesnel River, Lakecity Ford, Nazko, the Itcha Mountains.
Book Review - Double or Nothing: The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake
By Sage Birchwater
During the thirty years I worked as a journalist covering the news and happenings in the Chilcotin and Bella Coola Valley, there wasn’t a more colourful character in the region than former Anahim Lake store owner, Darcy Christensen. The front of his general store was emblazoned with a multicoloured mural of galloping horses, and above it were the words: “If we don’t have it; then you don’t need it.” Darcy was known far and wide as the “Flying Fur Buyer”, and if you were feeling lucky you could step inside the store and flip double or nothing with Darcy for anything in the store.
In March, 2010, I got a phone call from Darcy asking for my help. He had long retired from the retail store business after selling out in 2000 to a distant relative, Norm McLean, and was now living in Williams Lake. He told me he was writing his memoirs and asked if I’d help him put it together. It didn’t take much convincing to get Caitlin Press publisher, Vici Johnstone, on side. She immediately recognized the potential for another regional best seller. The rest is history. Double or Nothing: The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake, published by Caitlin Press, hit the book stands in early November.
