Local Arts

Ian Kinnear’s path to playing in Flin Flon was a long and winding one. Local luthier Alistair Callegari has roots in the same small village where Kinnear is from - Edzell, Scotland.

Wild and water – that’s what a pair of Flin Flon artists hope to share with the world about the region they call home.

We all know that Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach are all about Culture Days, but this year is special. Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture held annually on the last weekend of September.

We begin this column with some sadness as we report that Mitch Podolak, the creator of so many folk/roots institutions in Manitoba and across Canada, died August 25.

The NorVA Centre’s walls will soon be filled with art from 50 different artists, but there is still time to get your piece in. The Centre’s annual Square Foot Gallery is returning for another year and is currently accepting submissions.

My, how time flies when you’re having fun! Summer is almost over, kids will head back to school next week and the new arts and culture season is getting underway.

Holly Rees is slowly becoming Canadian. The artist, originally from Newcastle, U.K., is on a Canada-wide tour and made the trip to Flin Flon to play at the Blueberry Jam Music Gathering.

The NorVA Centre welcomed two out-of-town artists for their latest exhibition to display not only their work, but the finished product of renovations to the centre.

This column is our last chance to share the wonder that is going to be, as it was last year, Blueberry Jam Music Gathering. Anyone who was there in 2018 (and there were lots, over 1,000 attendees by some estimations) knows how much fun it was.

Bob O’Connell doesn’t know how he got the nickname ‘Superbob.’ “ People still call me that,” he said sipping a coffee, speaking with a gravel in his voice.