Archive for 'Culture & Events'
Adventurous spirit: Tabitha Kroeker searches the globe for authentic cultural experiences
By Chris Marchand You’re not likely to find Tabitha Kroeker in a seaside resort compound sipping cocktails by the pool. When this 27 year-old world traveler sets off, escape usually isn’t on the agenda. Instead, Kroeker [...]
Loud As Rock release CD
It was a big night for local music, Feb. 10 as hundreds of friends, family and fans crowded into the Legion Hall in Dryden for a night of rock and roll. After sets from Hollywood Hates [...]
Ryder a season highlight
By Chris Marchand The simplicity of a woman and her guitar were more than enough to satisfy a room packed to the rafters for the highest profile show of the 2011-12 Dryden Entertainment Series. Abstaining from [...]
Art Beat kids host exhibit
By Ally Dunham Art students at the Art Beat program taught by Morgan Shepherd gathered on Feb. 3 to display what they’ve learned and created during session one. “We’ve used all different mediums, like paint and [...]
Aitkens, Grymaloski exhibit at The Centre atrium
By Dryden Observer Staff The Union Jack serves as a motif in a recent collaborative exhibition between mother daughter team June and Margaret Aitken and local photographer Helen Grymaloski in the atrium space of The Centre, [...]
Filmmaker Derosier offers a voice for the North
It’s been an important year for Eagle Lake export Michelle Derosier, one half of award-winning Thunder Bay-based filmmakers, Thunderstone Pictures. A career social worker turned filmmaker, Derosier has recently found herself on the leading edge of [...]
Music community mourns loss of Craig Fotheringham
By Chris Marchand Members of Dryden’s close-knit music community mourned the loss of a friend and one of the community’s most celebrated musical exports this past week. Craig Fotheringham passed away in Winnipeg, Jan. 8 following [...]
DVD Review: Contagion, a cautionary tale
By Chris Marchand In times like these, more and more of us are looking to the cinema to provide escape into laughter, wonder and fantastical settings — into lives more interesting than our own. It gets [...]
Classic consoles: Dryden District Museum exhibit explores history of video games
By Chris Marchand Go ahead, laugh all you want. There once was a time when it may have been reasonable to claim that video games were kids’ stuff. It is not a particularly extreme point of [...]
Paquin proud of new gallery space
By Chris Marchand Just prior to Christmas, local artist Linda Paquin opened a new home for her growing body of work — a space to call her own. The welder/sculptor unveiled her new gallery space, Steel [...]
First Nations relations important theme at KDMA meeting: http://t.co/ogm4hZEY2 weeks ago from Observer Post
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