Join your community at the Pemberton and District Community Centre this Saturday, July 1st to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday! Free family friendly fun for all! SPUD RUN 3k + 10k all ages run When: 8am for registration. Run at 8:30am. Where: Meet at the Pemberton and Distrcit Community Centre Entry by donation This fun, community … Continue reading Canada Day Celebrations at the Pemberton & District Community Centre on Saturday
Free refreshments, crafts and entertainment at the Museum on Friday, 1pm - 4pm, as the Pemberton Museum and the Pemberton Arts Council come together to host the first Children's Art Festival in Pemberton. This celebration of art and history for Canada's 150, takes place Friday from 1-4 PM at the Pemberton Museum and features a … Continue reading Pemberton’s first Children’s Art Festival takes place at the Museum Friday at 1pm
A Throwback Thursday moment, to last weekend's incredible sunset that filed my Facebook and instagram feeds with crowd-shared awe, and that Amie Le Blanc was happily in town for, and able to capture with her lens. Well worth a recap. Here's to the magic hour. And, as the late Chili Thom said, making it good … Continue reading Sailor’s Delight, No Ships in Sight. Amie Le Blanc caught last weekend’s sunset. It was worth throwing back to.
The WFF Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship is a four-day project development program. Indigenous cinema is not simply a niche, special-interest cinema, but a global cinema. Indigenous filmmakers are not only giving voice to their people and communities, but also helping to redefine the cinematic landscape for the twenty first century. ~ N. Bird Runningwater, Director, Native … Continue reading Whistler Film Festival offers Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship for up to 6 emerging film artists with short films, webisode projects or TV pilots
This is a guest post from Kiran Pal-Pross to recap the Pemberton Refugee Resettlement Group's weeklong takeover of our instagram account. I would have liked to send a video to our refugee family, of the week leading up to our Barn Party fundraiser. It would have clips of the planning sessions, the organizations providing cheques, … Continue reading Kiran Pal-Pross reflects on what a refugee family might discover if they were perusing our instagram
On National Aboriginal Day, June 21, CBC news featured the work of a four grade 11 Lílwat Nation filmmakers. Hannah Jones, Chantal Thomas, Mallory Ritchie and Sarah Joe from the Xet̓ólacw Community School produced a short film, "Taken Away", for Cinematheque’s Canada on Screen program. The project encourages youth to define what it is to … Continue reading CBC recognizes short film “Taken Away” produced by local students from Xet̓ólacw School
My spousally acquired health benefits expire when the ski season ends, so in April, I decided to make a last minute, literally down to the wire, effort at addressing a chronically neglected issue and its mysterious new sidekick, by booking a visit to a physiotherapist. Cue several light bulb moments: this Sea to Sky community … Continue reading Trading in Facebook for face time
The seeds of my favourite winter squash were piling up nicely on a piece of paper towel last fall. I was feeling slightly smug that I remembered to save them from my favourite variety and best formed, biggest, strongest looking fruit. As a novice seed saver I was filled with deep contentment as my involvement … Continue reading ISO Seed Saving Guru. With the launch of the Pemberton Seed Library, Dawn Johnson gives herself (and you) permission to learn as you go
Best way to acknowledge the solstice I can possibly imagine. See you at the Library Wednesday night at 7pm, to learn about the launch of the Pemberton Valley Seed Library.
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