Those wacky minions are at it again, this time aiding a pre-teen Gru achieve his budding dreams of supervillainy in Minions: The Rise of Gru, on-screen this Friday! Beat the heat with our refreshing AC and come see how Gru and the minions got their villainous start in this hilarious prequel to Despicable Me.
Have a great long weekend!
not sure how to even begin this post… I guess, I first want to give a shout out to the two lovely women that gave me a hand yesterday as I got a little turned around walking with my service dog. given the winter conditions I do not get out independently as a blind person for several months through the winter and sometimes my sweet girl and I get a little sloppy when we’re back to our independent travel! so that’s said, I’m sure some of you have seen me around navigating my way with my guide dog for the blind. I am currently the only guy dog user in Nelson and I have zero vision due to a degenerative eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. when spring arrives I’d love to be able to find my independent travel again but travelling with no vision with a guide dog can come with many challenges! some of these are crossing streets and understanding the flow of traffic and making my way across sidewalks that the city has made more aesthetically pleasing! Not to mention the sidewalks with bumps and stairs and no sidewalks at all! I tend to keep to the routes that are the safest for me but, sometimes we can get a little distracted and disoriented as we did yesterday! so if on the off chance you see me out in the world looking a little stressed or trying to listen for traffic and cross the street, please don’t hesitate to communicate with me! Community support can really help my sense of confidence! This does not mean grab my arm and drag me across the street or tell me that it’s safe to cross when there’s only two seconds left on the green light! this means compassionately advising me as to what might be happening in my surroundings and perhaps asking if I need any assistance! Gratitude in advance! also, for those that are dog owners, there is nothing more difficult than the distraction of a dog in my path that my dog wants to visit. So many times people say “oh they’re just saying hello!“. I may not see you have a dog and my dog, being a dog, may get distracted by your dog if you are not handling your dog in a controlled manner! Whenever my dog may be distracted by people or food or other dogs, this places my safety in jeopardy! if you have a dog and you see me coming, please keep your dog out of my path and under control so I can have safe passage without distraction! lastly, but probably not least… If you are a home owner or can encourage your landlords to maintain tree branches and hedges on the sidewalks that are overgrown, this saves my face from possible injury or, like yesterday, a very wet face full of water from a heavy hanging branch or three! if you have elderly neighbours or know that your neighbours have a difficult time trimming the trees and hedges, maybe lend a hand? my head thanks you! these little things can make the world of difference for a blind person in your community just trying to live a happy and joyful and independent life just like you!
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 10th to the 23rd 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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