Sea to Sky Arts
Ticketmaster no more in Whistler, MY Millennium Place opts to replace ticketing system, institute smaller Theatre Improvement Fund fee
Whistler residents may have noticed that ticket prices for arts and cultural events held at Maurice Young Millennium Place (MY Place) have been a bit more reasonable lately. That’s because the Whistler Arts Council has decided not to renew their contract with Ticketmaster, instead ticketing local events in-house. Doti Niedermayer is the executive director of [...]
Whistler: Another Games legacy takes shape
If construction wraps up at Whistler Olympic Plaza (also known under the Games-time moniker of Celebration Plaza) in the spring, the community will have a new arts and cultural hub at its disposal next summer. Doti Niedermayer, executive director of the Whistler Arts Council (WAC), envisions the new site opening up a “whole new world [...]
Britannia Beach: BC Museum of Mining Rebrands As Britannia Mine Museum
The BC Museum of Mining, a prominent historical destination located south of Squamish on the Sea-to-Sky highway, has been rebranded with a new name, Britannia Mine Museum. Along with the new name, the Britannia Mine Museum has also launched a new logo and a refreshed visual identity designed to reflect the museum‘s soon to be [...]
Whistler: Writers fest returns by popular demand, Partnership with Vancouver International Writers Festival helps bottom line, sees fest moved to October
Fans spoke and the folks behind the Whistler Writers Festival listened — despite an announcement late last year that the 2010 fest was cancelled, the troops rallied and the literary event is, in fact, returning Oct. 14 to 16. True to form, the ninth annual festival lineup includes interesting workshops, innovative events and a roster [...]
Crawl through culture in August, Squamish one of 70 communities on annual BC Cultural Crawl
Squamish may have the words Recreation Capital of Canada written on a sign welcoming visitors to town, but it could just as well say Cultural Capital of Canada for all the musicians, artists and artisans that call the area home. During the entire month of August, Squamish shows off that vibrant and unique arts and [...]
Whistler writers festival wins reprieve, Teaming with Vancouver International Writers Festival allowed ninth annual Whistler festival
At the tail end of 2009, organizers of the annual Whistler Readers & Writers Festival announced that despite growing attendance rates they would be canceling the event. Not only was it not making money, it wasn’t breaking even. “I always thought that there would be a magic number that we could sustain ourselves at without [...]
Exploring Whistler’s artistic underworld
The traditional art galleries in the village may be the obvious places for inspiration, but Whistler’s industrial park, Function Junction, offers up an unexpected wealth of hidden artistic treasures: it’s home to the Blind Mute crew, Chili Thom’s art studios, Orkidz arts and crafts workshops, the newly-reopened Art Junction Gallery, Justin Ormiston’s tattoo studio and [...]
Whistler: West Coast music hits online airways
Forget iTunes, music lovers will soon be able to get their tracks from a far more local source: a brand new public Internet radio station, www.wmn.fm. The online radio station is actually just the first part of the Whistler Media Network – or the WMN – project, a new company created by a group of [...]
Cultural tourism plan under development: success is in marketing Whistler’s story, not specific events or attractions, expert says
Instead of marketing specific cultural events or offerings such as the World Ski and Snowboard Festival or Cornucopia, they key to Whistler’s success in cultural tourism is to capitalize on what distinguishes it from every other mountain resort. That was the message this week from Steven Thorne, a cultural tourism expert who has been hired [...]
Squamish set to go LIVE
The Sea to Sky region has seen its share of failed music festivals over the past few years: Pemberton Festival, Music in the Mountains and the Whistler Music Festival are just a few of the one-hit wonders that have rolled in and out of town recently. But now, there’s a new company interested in bringing [...]
Whistler: 2010 Art Workshops at the Lake fill up
Whistler Arts Council’s annual Art Workshops at the Lake are proving to be a popular event again this year. As of late last week, before the series had even begun, three of the workshops were already sold out: Suzanne Northcott’s four-day Life Drawing and Painting and Acrylics courses are booked solid, and David Langevin’s session [...]
Squamish: Artists converge to spread creativity
Five artists sharing a new downtown loft studio are attempting to capture the hearts and minds of residents with a variety of programs, initiatives and endeavours. Local artist Stan Matwychuk is taking the lead in organizing initiatives, which would include life drawing classes, art history lessons, summer markets, mural festivals and outdoor film screenings. “It’s [...]
Ross Beaty, Lukas Lundin give B.C. Museum of Mining $3.72 million
The BC Museum of Mining at Britannia Beach has received a total of $3.72 million from industry leaders Ross Beaty and Lukas Lundin. This includes personal donations from Beaty of $2 million and Lundin of $1 million and a corporate donation of $722,000 from Red Back Mining, where Lukas serves as chairman. The gift will support a [...]
Britannia Beach: B.C. Museum of Mining goes digital
Architects, designers and planners have been busy transforming the British Columbia Museum of Mining’s physical digs at Britannia Beach, and now the national historic site is jumping headfirst into the digital age. They’ve taken historical film footage from the ’20s and ’30s, which offers a unique glimpse back in time to life at Britannia Beach [...]
