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Articulate_AD april04.qxd 4/26/04 2:41 PM Page 1 The first word on arts, culture, and heritage in the Columbia Basin Angela Morgan and success Terry Macham and his muse Chris Luke and Drags Grizzly Langham, Pynelogs, and longevity Virtual museums and other cybertrips Stages, studios, stories, and songs SUMMER EVENTS lots of Community Heart Summer 2004 & FREE Articulate_AD april04.qxd 4/26/04 2:41 PM Page 2 The 5th Columbia Basin WEST KOOTENAY ARTS COUNCILS Cultural Conference Arrow Lakes Revelstoke Arts Council will be an opportunity to showcase and share Arts Council Margaret Pacaud information on projects that have been funded by Mimi George Box 1931, Revelstoke, B.C. the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance as well as Box 895, Nakusp, B.C. V0E 2S0 Tel: 250-837-5345 to network with artists and cultural workers from V0G 1R0 Tel: 250-265-3515 E-mail: mpacaud@revel- around the Columbia Basin. E-mail:alacnak stoke.net @columbiacable.net The conference will include workshops of benefit Rossland Council for to individual artists, arts, culture and heritage Castlegar & District Arts & Culture workers and organizations. Arts Council Renate Fleming, President Jacquie Hamilton Box 405, Rossland, B.C. October 15 – 17, 2004, Kimberley, BC Box 3501, Castlegar, B.C. V0G 1Y0 V1N 3W3 Tel: 250-362-7217 The 2004 Conference is hosted by the Kimberley Arts Council Tel: 250-365-8026 E-mail: [email protected] and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. E-mail: [email protected] Salmo Arts Council For further information, please contact the CKCA at Janine Strand 250-505-5505 Creston Community Box 198, Salmo, B.C. V0G 1Z0 or toll free 1-877-505-7355 Arts Council Tel: 250-357-2180 E-mail: Karin Topnik e-mail [email protected] Frank Goodsir, President Box464, Creston, B.C. V0B ([email protected]) 1G0 Slocan Lake Gallery Tel: 250-428-5082 E-mail: Society [email protected] EllyScheepens Box 123, NewDenver, B.C. Grand Forks Area V0G 1S0 Arts Council Tel: 250-358-2689 John Vere E-mail: Box 806,Grand Forks, B.C. [email protected] the FINEST V0H 1H0 Slocan Valley GIFT GALLERY North Kootenay Lake Arts Council in the KOOTENAYS Arts & Heritage Council Peter Vogelaar Deb Borsos Box 84, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 Box 1045, Kaslo, B.C. V0G 1M0 E-mail: Tel: 250-366-4325 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Trail & District Nelson & District Arts Council Arts Council Tracee Jones, Coordinator Kathi Rose, Administrator Box1 - 1501 Cedar Box 422, Nelson, B.C. V1L 5R2 Avenue, Trail, B.C. Tel: 250-352-2402 V1R 4B7 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 250-364-3003 E-mail: [email protected] REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS West Kootenay Cultural Network of the Regional Arts Council Rockies (East Kootenay) CRAFT Box 103, Nelson, B.C. c/o Centre 64 C CONNECTION V1L 5P7 64 Deer Park Avenue, CC co-operative Tel: 352-2421 Kimberley, B.C. V1A 2J2 E-mail: Krista Patterson Tel: 250-427-3599 441 Baker Street, NELSON, BC Canada V1L 4H7 [email protected] E-mail: Mike Redfern Telephone 250-352-3006 ([email protected]) the first word spring/summer 2004 Success stories contents This issue’s cover story is about a talented visual artist. Inadvertently, it is also about suc- cess. Fernie artist Angela Morgan is where heads up art news 4 many of us dream of being: doing what she wants to do, pleased that each successive grand opening rail museum 5 painting shows personal artistic growth, and milestones Langham & Pynelogs 7 secure that her work makes the grade in the The Langham, art buyers’ world. That’s pretty cool. page 7 cover story Angela Morgan 9 Anne DeGrace In my mind, there are three parts to the equation for personal artistic success. They include artistic festival feature storytelling 11 development (working to the best of your ability and pushing your limits), peer recognition, and the open wallets of an tipi tales 12 appreciative public. For me, it’s definitely not time to quit the ARTicuate events calendar 13-18 day job. I’m not alone. My Roget’s thesaurus offers a raft of synonyms for the S- profile Terry Macham 19 word. Achievement, accomplishment, and fulfilment in the first list are joined in the second by prestige, fame, and pros- open house studio tours 21 perity. And while one or two of us might sneer at the notion of prestige, most of us would happily tie our sense of per- summer of learning 22 sonal fulfilment to a little prosperity, and frankly, fame would Kimberley virtual history 23 be okay, too. But if the list of synonyms is long, the list of Summer Theatre, ways in which we experience success is longer. page 19 how to art and the marketplace 24 When I look at this issue’s stories, I see a great deal of success. A songwriter will some day have written a thousand songs. music David Soroka 25 Meanwhile, he’s happily singing to any audience, be it a room of six, or six hundred. For Dave Soroka (page 25), success is art from the heart 27 found in the waiting ear and the tapping foot. A First Nations excerpt Chris Luke and writer tells the story of his childhood and in doing so, creates a Drags Grizzly 29 bridge of understanding (Chris Luke, page 29). In each reader who sees the world a little differently, there lies success. last word opinion 31 Sometimes success is in what you can give to enable the creativity in others (Terry Macham, page 19). Sometimes it’s in the way art enables healing (Community Heart, page 27). Along the road to success are milestones: in Kaslo, the Community On the cover: Backyard Swing, 34 x 44, Langham Cultural Centre’s 30th Birthday is testimony to vast Heart, page 27 2003, oil on canvas, by Angela Morgan amounts of volunteer hours and dreams that just won’t die. It’s that same tenacity that will see Pynelogs Cultural Centre in Invermere and the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook into bigger digs and a brighter future. Angela Morgan’s story is an inspiration because of her success, while her art itself inspires with its colour, composi- The first word on arts, culture, and heritage in the Columbia Basin tion, and technical achievement. For those of us not quite ready to quit the day job, it’s a nice story to read, because Angela proves that it can be done. SPRING/SUMMER ARTiculate is produced in But while there is personal success, there is also collective 2004 ISSUE #5 Nelson as a project of the West Kootenay Regional Arts success. From the literary coffee house to the four-day music Editor: Anne DeGrace Council: 250-352-2421 or festival, the measure of success is in the marriage of inspira- Editorial Board: 1-800-850-2787; tion, perspiration and celebration. It’s there whether we open Krista Patterson, Nelson fax: 250-352-2420 our studios so people can see how glass is blown or the doors Lorna Obermayr, New Denver email: [email protected] to our history so people can better understand what brought Contributing Writers: ARTiculate acknowledges us here. It’s there in the splash of creativity whether the vehicle Patricia Bartlett support from the Province of is the canvas, the book, the stage, or the World Wide Web. Shelly Battensby Bristish Columbia through the Success is found in the collective rush of cultural energy Anne DeGrace B.C. Arts Council and the West that snowballs into a movement that demands to be noticed. Simone Keiran Kootenay Regional Arts Council. All together, we inspire the world. Greg Nesteroff Mike Redfern That’s worth a fortune, and it’s fame enough. Design: Angela Lockerbie Sales: Kathy Kelly Patricia Bartlett Anne DeGrace The first word on arts, culture, and heritage in the Columbia Basin 3 Articulate_AD april04.qxd 4/26/04 3:19 PM Page 4 arts news Heads up! Kootenay arts and heritage news by Anne DeGrace There are happenings afoot in our region, and they come in many forms. Relocations, renovations, re-openings and Centennial gift: artists Ryan Ackison, Glenda Toffolo and record-breakings are on the list, along with some acquisitions Bob Kirk at the March unveiling of the three-panel bas relief and installations. sculpture at Cranbrook City hall. If accordions pull your heart-strings, Kimberley is the place to be on July 8th. At 4:00 p.m. registrants in the Kimberley Interna- when choirs from every province descend upon Ottawa. Although tional Old Time Accordion Championships will attempt to make the choir, which includes girls from ages 13 to 19, has been asked to the Guiness Book of World Records for the most accordions play- perform in the past, the cost was prohibitive. This year, an Arts ing at the same time. The feat is in celebration of KIOTAC’s 30th Bureau of the Continents grant puts the trip within reach, sending anniversary. The current Guinness record is 566 accordions playing these young songstresses to represent our area in Canada’s capital. for 22 minutes on June 1, 2000 in the Netherlands; the plan is to The historic Bosun Opera House in New Denver is being overthrow the reigning champs with 600 accordions playing for reopened thanks to dedication and a lot of elbow grease on the part half an hour. Luckily, the plan is to all play the same tune. If suc- of the Lucerne Association for Community Education (LACE). The cessful, the Pilsner—if not the Guinness—will no doubt be flowing building, built for the village almost 100 years ago, has played a on the Platzl.