Grape beginnings: BC Wine Museum remastered
Kelowna, a hundred years ago: After a day working in the orchards, you sit down on a dusty porch,...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Oct 22, 2016 | Culture, Wine & Food
Kelowna, a hundred years ago: After a day working in the orchards, you sit down on a dusty porch,...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Jun 24, 2016 | Culture
Kelowna Airport abstraction If you need to go through the Kelowna airport in the next few months,...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Jun 3, 2016 | Culture
En'owkin Centre provides vital support for Syilx traditions “Swit t? t?twit i kwu acmikstms?”...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Dec 12, 2015 | Culture
Okanagan club takes laughter very seriously. When I was a kid, it was Mary Poppins who first...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Feb 15, 2015 | Artists of the Okanagan, Culture
In every home there is a corner, a nook, some sacred space that attracts us to sit and read, or...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Jan 22, 2015 | Artists of the Okanagan, Culture
Sometimes a painting is so powerful it feels like it’s levitating right off the canvas. Sometimes...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Oct 17, 2014 | Culture
An exciting live soap opera, brought to the Okanagan by Bonnie Gratz; a local playwright, director, actress and the artistic director New Vintage Theatre.
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | May 22, 2014 | Culture, Music
One of the most rewarding moments I’ve ever had in my writing career was when a friend preformed...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | May 22, 2014 | Music
Songwriters Stewdio takes place on the first and third Monday of every month. All of the songs were put together and recorded live off the floor at Music City Studio in under an hour. Proceeds from Live Vol.1 go directly to #Kelowna Food Bank.
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Mar 27, 2014 | Culture, Events
From the sugar shacks of Quebec to a warm Kelowna kitchen, dining on maple syrup is about as...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Mar 26, 2013 | Culture
The master at work. Wielding wet earth between cracks of stone. The artist, deep in thought,...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Jan 18, 2013 | Culture, Travel
I’m deep in the woods, in the dark, with my three young children trudging through huge drifts of...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Nov 26, 2012 | Culture
Darn. We’re late again. I race along the walkway to the Rotary Centre for the Arts with my children. Somewhere inside the building a patient friend sits waiting for our coffee date. I’m about to run through the door when something catches my eye—a tree wearing a sweater.
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Sep 17, 2012 | Culture
Thick dark blood is about to drip into my eye. I’m in the back yard of a little house near Knox...
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | Jun 15, 2012 | Culture
Rawle James ends his poem with a loving smile. The audience breaks into applause. I’m at the Landmark Bean Scene Coffeehouse in Kelowna. It’s packed with people jacked up on cups of joe and thirsty for the inspiring words being shared tonight. It’s all part of a monthly gathering …
Read MorePosted by Gillianne Richards | May 15, 2012 | Culture
A giant metal hand sits on a track that runs along the ceiling. A hard push sends it lumbering across the room, the forged knuckles almost dragging across the cement floor. Down the hall, bushels of hair, severed and splayed, fill a darkened room. Around the corner sits a huge pile…
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