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This Friday, the Civic Theatre is excited for the opportunity to work with Vancouver International Film Festival once more as part of the VIFF Pop-Up Festival! The Nelson VIFF Pop-Up program features six diverse Canadian films from the 2021 festival. On opening night, May 27th, Kicking Blood, an idiosyncratic genre offering from Vancouver tells the story of Anna, a centuries old vampire, who watches Robbie, a charming but reckless young man, recover from his alcoholism, inspiring her to quit blood and restore her humanity. On Saturday, The timely documentary, The Last Tourist by Tyson Sadler puts the role of modern tourism on trial and reveals the real conditions and consequences of one of the largest industries in the world. Also on Saturday, Michael McGowan’s All My Puny Sorrows, Based on the 2014 international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, is the poignant story of two sisters, one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, and the other a writer who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself. On Sunday, Haya Waseem’s Quickening, centers on a Pakistani-Canadian university student having fallen in love for the first time, with her classmate Eden. Sheila desires a freedom that her mother and father are unwilling to offer. After Sheila has sex for the first time with Eden, he abruptly breaks up with her, and her sense of reality begins to unravel, further alienating her from her friends, family, and community. Later on Sunday, Kaveh Nabatian’s Sin La Habana from Quebec, winner of the Best Canadian Film Award at VIFF 2021, which tracks Leonardo and Sara, a young Afro-Cuban couple who are desperate to leave the island. They decide that the best way to emigrate is for Leonardo to seduce a foreign woman, get legal status in another country, and then send for Sara. The woman they choose is Nasim, an Iranian-Canadian divorcée who is running from an oppressive past and yearning to have fun for the first time in her life.When Leonardo convinces Nasim to marry him, he is able to move to Montreal, but his plan derails when real emotions get in the way. And closing the festival on Tuesday, May 31st, winner of the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at VIFF 2021, Trevor Mack’s comedy-drama Portraits From a Fire, is a coming-of-age film that follows Tyler, an eccentric and lonely teenager who spends his days filmmaking, vlogging his Indigenous community, until he meets Aaron, a mysterious, charismatic, and influential figure who encourages Tyler to showcase his most personal film about his mother’s disappearance to the community, leading to a reckoning between past and future, life and death, and father and son.

Wishing all Mothers a safe and happy Mother’s day!

EAT IT UP! EXHIBITION OPENS AT OXYGEN ART CENTRE ON MAY 04

Oxygen Art Centre hosted artists Angela Glanzmann and Stephanie Yee as Artists-in-Residence from April 10^th to the 23^rd to create an installation for their exhibition entitled EAT IT UP!, which opens to the public on Wednesday, May 4 from 1:00 – 5:00 PM.

Glanzmann (Toronto) and Yee (Halifax) invite viewers behind the scenes into the weird and obscure world of competitive cooking reality TV. The exhibition explores cooking through an immersive and playful installation that expands on their own histories, ethnicities, and social positions.

Their installation takes place on the set of a fictional show EAT IT UP, complete with a presentation table, competitor’s kitchen stations, and pantry/food storage. Constructed out of common household supplies and cardboard, food sculptures speak to the culinary resourcefulness and resilience of their ancestors as they had to adapt to new cultures and customs.

Oxygen Art Centre is an artist-run centre located at #3-320 Vernon Street, Nelson, BC via alleyway entrance. The exhibition will be open to the public Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 – 5:00 PM. Prior to your visit please review Oxygen’s COVID-19 prevention protocols on our website.

The exhibition, EAT IT UP! will be on view from Wednesday, May 4, 2022, until Saturday, May 28, 2022. The public are invited to visit the exhibition during the run Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 – 5:00 PM. Admission is free.

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Image Credit: EAT IT UP!, Video still – B roll, Angela Glanzmann and Stephanie Yee, 2022, Courtesy the artists

Artist Bios:

Angela Glanzmann is an artist, cultural worker and professional beekeeper currently based in her birth place of Tkaronto (Toronto). Her institutional education includes a BFA from NSCAD University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her artistic and writing projects address settler relationships to land, queer possibilities, jokes about critical theory and the connection between violence and cuteness. Glanzmann’s work has appeared in galleries, publications and artist-run centres both nationally and internationally. She is currently reading lots about pollinators in preparation for spring. 

Stephanie Yee is a second-generation Chinese Canadian artist and cultural worker based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), the unceded territory of the Mi’kma’ki. Her education includes a BFA in Intermedia from NSCAD University where she began her exploration into community and identity. With a practice rooted in storytelling, her work manifests as gatherings, performance, writing, installation, video and playing with food. Often beginning with familiar imagery, processes, and materials, Yee playfully interjects as a means of exploring and questioning preconceived notions. She has participated as an artist, facilitator and curator in artist-run centers, festivals, residencies and galleries both locally and internationally.
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Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sinixt Arrow Lakes, Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.
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Why 22 April is celebrated as Earth Day?History of Earth Day:

Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970. This was when the peace activist John Mc Connell proposed to honour Mother Earth and the concept of peace during a UNESCO conference in San Francisco.

It is the Queen’s 96th birthday today! Her Majesty has been monarch of the United Kingdom for 70 years as well this year, celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. The first picture is of her when she turned 2, and the other is her with her two ponies.