21st Annual Salmon Arm Roots & Blues
The Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival is the largest and most musically diverse festival in the BC Interior. The event began in 1992 as a small indoor festival, a result of the grassroots Shuswap Coffee House collective of the 1970s and 80s, which by 1991 had coalesced into the not-for-profit Salmon Arm Folk Music Society. The society’s aims to encourage and promote performers... Read More
Fore! Juvenile Diabetes: July 28
The Kelowna Golf and Country Club is inviting members and non-members to a ladies golf tournament on July 28, 2011, to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Eileen Sallis, grandmother of two children with Type 1 diabetes, is once again organizing the biennial charity event. “I believe we’re close to finding a cure for this disease,” she says. With Type 1 diabetes... Read More
Choice Happenings in the Okanagan
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Kelowna Secondary School Class of ’81 Reunion Jul. 23/11
Kelowna Secondary School’s grad class of 1981 (WOW! – can that be 30 years already?) is gearing up for its big reunion on July 23. For more info, call Darcy at 403.932.7273 or email groovy.chik@shaw.ca. Read More
Powder Hounds Adaptive Ski
Kelowna & District Society for People In Motion's PowderHounds Adaptive Ski Progam Winter isn’t over yet and there’s still lots of fun for anyone interested in the PowderHounds adaptive ski program. Founded by the Kelowna & District Society for People In Motion, the program offers people aged five to 75, that have a physical and/or sensory disability,... Read More
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Short-listed Authors Read in Penticton Feb. 24
Okanagan writers Adam Lewis Schroeder and Darcie Friesen Hossack will read from their books, short-listed for Commonwealth Writers’ prizes, at Hooked on Books in Penticton, Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 pm. Darcie has been short-listed for the Canada and Caribbean Best First Book for Mennonites Don’t Dance. Adam Lewis Schroeder has been short-listed for the Canada and Caribbean... Read More
OSO Music of the Mountains: Mar 5-6
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra Internationally acclaimed alphornist, William Hopson, joins the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra performing Daetwyler’s Concerto for Alphorn. Brahms’ towering First Symphony completes this tribute to the Alps. Performance in Kelowna March 5 and Vernon March 6 (www.ticketseller.ca or (Kelowna 250.860.1470; Vernon 250.549.7469). For more info visit www.okanagansymphony.com. Read More
Pink Shirt Day: Feb. 23
The Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs are once again joining the Provincial and National movement to celebrate Pink Shirt Day – Bullying Stops Here, on Wednesday February 23, 2011. We are encouraging the Okanagan community to wear pink on that day to show that bullying will no longer be tolerated. Boys and Girls Clubs across the Okanagan will be participating in planned activities... Read More
The Book as Art and Commerce: Feb 17
A Spirit Festival Presentation Successful independent publishers Laurie Carter, Stephen Joyce and Richard Fogarty discuss their publishing process and adventures. Thursday 17 February 2011, 5 pm at the Bohemian Cafe, 524 Bernard Avenue, Kelowna $2 at the door. Refreshments are available. Seating is limited, please reserve in advance. For information and to reserve your seat: http://www.okanaganinstitute.com Independent... Read More
Vernon Winter Carnival: Feb 4–13
Vernon Winter Carnival The fun kicks off with a parade downtown. Eat, dance, snowshoe, lantern ski…the list of activities is long on fun. Take in the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta or head up to Silver Star to see the carvers create works of art during the Snow Sculpture championships. There are plenty of sports events like a 10K run, curling and cross-country skiing. Or just relax... Read More
