Spinning Green
What is the story of your food?: Spinning Green tells the story of a young urban farmer and food activist, Curtis Stone, who is transforming his community by growing edible gardens in Kelowna, BC. Curtis converts backyards into market garden plots and delivers all his produce by bicycle. Spinning Green examines a potential alternative to our traditional food system....
Dig Your Neighbourhood
Dig Your Neighbourhood Community Launch: Base of Knox Mountain, Saturday April 20 1 - 4 PM. Twelve UBC students from Creative Writing and Visual Art have created a package of art for Kelowna's North End neighbourhood. Come enjoy music, street food, and a taste of the North End as revealed in the bag of cool stuff! The package contains...
Bee Lined
Experimental Digital Short: This short film takes a loving look at this insect as an important entity within the miraculously interdependent world we live in. Women of all ages are invited to do an interpretation of the bee dance in honor of our important relationship with this busy little pollinator. Shot entirely in the Okanagan Valley, known for its fruit and wine production...
Social Potluck
A Celebration of the Oral Tradition: A Social Potluck combines theatre, storytelling, community-building, community art and community food action in one performance project. As an established performer, storyteller, theatre creator, farmer, gourmand and active community resident, Gabriel Newman set out to find a new way to practice performance in...
Poets in Their Places
A Film Featuring Okanagan Poets: A short film in the making, created from interviews with six Okanagan poets. Third year creative writing students interviewed the poets in early 2012, and now Lori Mairs and Nancy Holmes are editing the final cut. The poets talk about walking and travelling, poetry and living in the Okanagan, memory, time, nature and home. Their wit and wisdom will dazzle you....
Vivarium 1
Eco Art Displays on Knox Mountain: In June 2012, fifteen artists came together for Vivarium 1, a four-day project of The University of British Columbia's Eco Art Incubator. Artists worked in small groups and created a cluster of eco art displays and events on Knox Mountain. 15 local artists were selected for their long-term commitment...