Local Arts

For the NorVA Centre’s latest event, everything is big – except the canvases. The centre is kicking off one of its biggest gallery events of the year, the One Square Foot Exhibition and Auction.

As Flin Flon and area gears up for Culture Days, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, take time out to begin the celebration of Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous 10th Anniversary Season.

The fall season is beginning, with incredible cultural achievements to come! First up is a presentation from Ore Samples, our local literary series. Wendy McGrath is an author currently living and working in Edmonton.

The Flin Flon Arts Council is in planning mode for Culture Days 2016, which will be Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2.

This is not really news as the Flin Flon Arts Council has begun its new season already, having changed their performance year to conform with provincial and national arts organizations and granting agency calendars.

It’s only natural that Ashley and Scott McLean’s art is part of their marriage. A similar environmentalist influence can be seen in the couple’s respective crafts: jewellery design for Ashley, and furniture-making for Scott.

Visiting musician Kevin Roy recently lit up the stage at Johnny’s Social Club, where he performed a mix of country, folk and blues alongside Logan McKillop. The two musicians stopped in Flin Flon as part of a tour of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

It’s been an amazing summer so far for the arts and culture in Flin Flon and area, even if the weather has not always cooperated.

The Denareplex has been transformed into a hotbed of creativity this week as the NorVA Centre launched its annual artists’ retreat.

Genevieve Watt holds up a mirror-image print of a piece of art she created at the NorVA Centre’s recent collagraph printmaking class.