Sneek Peek for the week of MAY 27 - JUN 2. Subscribe for full listings.

OKANAGAN LISTINGS
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1. Vernon Public Art Gallery I OPENING: 4 Shows! I MAY 27
2. Gallery Vertigo I OPENING: Katie Belcher & Joanne Pringle I MAY 27
3. Kelowna Art Gallery I NEW EXHIBITION: REEL ROOTs 2010 I MAY 27
4. Okanagan Institute: EXPRESS I Panel: Celluloid Dreams I MAY 27
5. Ricardo’s I MUSIC: James & the Country Gentleman I MAY 27
6. Shuswap Lake 2010 International Writers Festival I MAY 28, 29, 30
7. Streaming Cafe I MUSIC: KID ON THE PAVEMENT I MAY 29
8. Vernon Public Art Gallery I ARIST TALK: Katie Belcher I MAY 29
9. Vernon Public Art Gallery I Artist Trading Cards I MAY 29
10. Fandango Farms I IRIDIUM ~ Adham Shaikh CD Release Party I MAY 29
11. Shuswap Film Society I SCREENING: Ghost Writer I MAY 29
12. Lorenzo’s Cafe I MUSIC: SHARI ULRICH I MAY 29
13. Gallery Vertigo I Smarties Family Art Fun: Marbelling I MAY 30
14. Vernon and District Performing Arts Center I Le Vent du Nord I MAY 31
15. Vernon Film Society I SCREENING: Chloe I MAY 31
16. Habitat I MUSIC: The Sadies w/ The Pack A.D. I JUN 2

UPCOMING & ONGOING
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1. Junction Cafe (Armstrong) I UFV Alumni Exhibtion I Until MAY 31
2. Okanagan Regional Library I Announces Mascot Name Winner
3. BCD 2011 CENTENNIAL Mural Project I CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
4. Penticton Art Gallery I MUSIC: Morlove I JUN 3
5. Lake Country Art Gallery I OPENING:  Bruce Taiji & David Montpetit I JUN 3
6. Minstrel Cafe I Suzan Wood-Young I JUN 3
7. SOPA Fine Arts I OPENING: Aleksandra Rdest, Scott Plear & Alan Boileau I JUN 3
8. Salmon Art Gallery I OPENING: Bern Smith I JUN 4
9. Kelowna Art Gallery I Call for Participants: Sound Project with Nobuo Kubota I JUNE 5 & 6
10. Monica Shore Quartet performs at The Snoring Sasquatch I JUN 5
11. Streaming Cafe I MUSIC: Prairie Dance Club I JUN 5
12. Vernon Art Gallery I OPENING: Triple aR TISTs, Reduce Reuse Recycle I JUN 5
13. mBODY Living Arts Centre I MUSIC WORKSHOP I JUN 10
14. mBODY Living Arts Centre I PERFORMANCE & Drumming on the Beach I JUN 11
15. Grasslands Celebration: Festival in the Grass I Lac du Bois I JUN 12
16. Streaming Cafe I MUSIC: Zachary Lucky I JUN 12
17. Okanagan International Film Festival (OIFF) I VIP Gala Fundraiser I JUN 16

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OKnow got a mention on CBC - just in case you missed it.

On May 6th 2010 (this is a little late, I know), OKnow was mentioned on Daybreak with Marion Barschel. Here's the link to prove it:

http://www.cbc.ca/daybreaksouth/links.html

Thanks to Michael V. Smith for helping to spread the word!

What was on last week's list you may ask? Here's a sneek peek.

What was on last week's list you may ask? Here's a sneek peek:


1. Centre culturel français de l'Okanagan I RAW FOOD WORKSHOP in French I Register     NOW

2. Okanagan School of the Arts 50th Annual Summer Session in July and August I Register NOW

3. Acrylic studio class: every Thursday at OPUS

4. s2sARTWORKS.com online magazine I First Issue Available NOW

5. Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment I ONLINE AUCTION I Bid NOW

6. Habitat I MUSIC : Current Swell w/ special guests I MAY 20

7. Flora Ware I May Long Weekend Tour: Salmon Arm, Kamloops & Enderby I MAY 20, 21 & 22

8. Habitat I MUSIC : Hannah Georgas w/ Colleen Brown and David Vertesi I MAY 21

9. 96th Anniversary launch of S.S. Sicamous & S.S. Naramata I Okanagan Landing Penticton I MAY 21, 22 & 23

10. Streaming Cafe I DUNCAN AFRICA GUITAR EVENT I MAY 22

11. Meadowlark Festival Banquet I SPEAKER: Dr. Briony Penn I MAY 22

12. Summerland Singers and Players I CASTING CALL I Penticton I MAY 25

13. Streaming Cafe I MUSIC: KID ON THE PAVEMENT I MAY 29

14. Kelowna Art Gallery I Call for Participants: Sound Project with Nobuo Kubota I JUNE 5 & 6

For full and updated listings (there is WAY more than just this happening this week),
Please email oknow.list@gmail.com with the word "subscribe" in the title to become a weekly subscriber.

Spread the word! Tell your friends.

OKnow mandate

OKnow is a FREE listserv dedicated to bringing you all of the art events happening in the Okanagan Valley. It comes out every Thursday.

Mandate:
The OKnow listserv has been created as a way to address the lack of a contemporary “art scene” in the Okanagan. There are vibrant and active individuals and arts organizations up and down the valley, each pursuing many interesting projects and initiatives. Despite all of this great work, it seems that much of it goes on largely unnoticed, operating in isolated pockets. It’s time for the Okanagan to look to and celebrates its own. We need not look to Vancouver and the lower mainland as the only source for an active contemporary art scene. We have lots of great artists, curators, writers, actors, musicians, film makers, dancers and performers working in our midst who are contributing to art on a local, national and international scale.

The aim of OKnow is to bring the isolated pockets together, to create a community that spans the length and breadth of the valley, across all artistic disciplines. OKnow will do this by providing its subscribers with a FREE weekly listing of all of the events happening each week in and around Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton, as well all other points in BC. It will cover events like openings, lectures, readings, screenings, workshops, performances, opportunities to get involved and calls for submissions. There will be also be a section called “Getting Out There” that will cover the pursuits of Okanagan based individuals whose work has reached locales outside of the Okanagan.

OKnow is just starting out, so please feel free to send along any ideas or suggestions you might have.

List with OKnow

TO LIST WITH OKnow:
 
 If you work in or with one of our great artistic organizations whose mandate is to contribute and support to contemporary art practices and would like to see your organization’s events included in the FREE weekly OKnow listserv, please email your listing to: oknow.list@gmail.com

For Okanagan Listings, the subject of your email should read: OK listing

For BC Listings, the subject line of your email should read: BC listing

The information for your listing should be formatted as follows:
NAME - TITLE OF EVENT -  DATE

-NAME of gallery / institution / organization
-TITLE of exhibition / lecture or workshop / call for submissions
-DATE  of event

This can be followed by:
A detailed description of your event: what is happening, time, location, info about the artist or work being show or presented (300 words maximum).
OKnow will NOT BE ACCEPTING PHOTOS at this time. Please include a link to your online presence for your photos instead.

CONTACT info: email, phone, website, address

*To be included in the OKnow weekly listing, your email must be received before print / send time (every Thursday). Please only send listings that occur within 2 weeks of your email.

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GETTING OUT THERE: OKnow would also like to cover the work of Okanagan based artists, curators, writers, actors, musicians, film makers, dancers and performers whose pursuits has led to their work being shown, published or showcased further afield. Please send OKnow any information you would like shared.

To list with the GETTING OUT THERE section, the subject line of your email should read: getting out there

The information for your shoutout should be formatted as follows:
NAME - LOCATION  - TITLE OF EVENT -  DATE

-NAME of gallery / institution / organization
-LOCATION of event - city and/or country
-TITLE of exhibition / lecture or workshop / call for submissions
-DATE  of event

This can be followed by:
A detailed description of your event: what is happening, time, location, info about the work being shown or presented (300 words maximum).
OKnow will NOT BE ACCEPTING PHOTOS at this time. Please include a link to your online presence for your photos instead.

CONTACT info: email, phone, website, address

*To be included in the OKnow weekly listing, your email must be received before print / send time (every Thursday). Please only send listings that occur within 2 weeks of your email.