Local Arts

One of the perks of having an arts column is the ability to occasionally share the news about your own work. Recently, Haley Bassett created an installation out of blackberry cane titled Snare for the Burrard Art Foundation in Vancouver.

For this week’s article, I spoke with renowned Canadian filmmaker Charles Wilkinson about his latest project, investigating the relationship between post-secondary education and the oil and gas industry in the Dawson Creek area.

After 35 years, The Exploring Art Group in Dawson Creek is going strong, with members meeting every week to paint and socialize.

Nettie Wild is one of Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers. She said it was the people that were the genesis of Round-Up = a new National Film Board short film.

For this week’s edition I had a chat with local writer Mina Ambrose, author of the Shadows of the Sun series, the first volume of which, Moonchild Rising , is available now on Amazon and the Full Quiver Publishing website.

Kids and youth under 16, have a colour of Safety Sally and walk it into the Mirror office, or email us at editor@dcdn.ca to be featured in the paper, and pick up a cool prize for our favorite work!

For fifty years, Gilles Goddard has traveled the highways of North America, spanning the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

Tenet firmly establishes Christopher Nolan in the pantheon of the best of the here and now; directors that are juggernauts.

For this week’s edition, I was able to speak with celebrated local writer Donna Kane, author of two poetry collections, Somewhere, a Fire and Erratic , as well as the memoir Summer of the Horse .

Going back in time. Author brings Rolla and the Peace region to front and centre.