Kelowna residents will be able to experience a unique night of creative and urban art at the Nuit Blanche festival on Saturday, Oct. 3.
Festival-goers will be able to enjoy a night of multidisciplinary art including showcases of artistic installations, live performances, workshops, music shows, exhibitions and more.
The programming offers a little of everything for everyone, whether you’re a foodie, an art lover or just someone who likes to have a good time.
All activities are free and the event runs from 5 to 10 p.m.
Where: Friends of Dorothy Lounge, 315 Lawrence Ave
IMPASSE
The world has been challenged and the community has reacted. Enter a place where chaos almost took over, a place where peace has been disrupted.
Artist – Geneviève Haag (cello)
When: 6 to 10 p.m.
Where: Centre Culturel Francophone – Main Hall, 702 Bernard Ave
BARE
Immerse yourself in this juicy, soft, wet, and disruptive art installation.
Bonus – be part of a mask painting workshop (limited supply)
When: 6 to 10 p.m.
Where: Centre Culturel Francophone – Basement, 702 Bernard Ave
WRITHE
WRITHE. verb. [definition: make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body.]
We are out there socializing at a distance, trying to establish the ‘‘new normal’’, but for some, it’s still uncomfortable. This art installation is about this discomfort we can feel, even in front of supernormal and natural things.
When: 6 to 10 p.m.
Where: Kelowna Community Theatre, 1375 Water St
HELL? – Short Film Screening
Hell? Is an animation project by Kelowna-based artist Dylan Ranney completed in 2016. The video is a rotoscoped animation comprised of more than 2,500 hand-drawn frames. It is composed to the music of Kelowna-based musician Andrew Judah from his 2017 album Metanoia.
The narrative follows an amorphous character from Plato’s cave through the wilderness of his own mind. This is the first offline showing of this animation, and Ranney feels it holds significance in 2020 due to its themes of mental health, spiritual disconnection, and the confronting of fears.
When: 6 to 10 p.m.
Where: Kelowna Community Theatre – Outside, 1375 Water St
SWAMP HONEY – Concert
We know there is a pandemic, but now is your chance to attend a great (in the flesh, no kidding!) concert. Come enjoy a super intimate concert with the cello-backed funk and blues local band Swamp Honey.
Swamp Honey is a local band featuring Graham Ord, Nils Loewen and Dylan Ranney.
6 selfie stations have been set up at Nuit Blanche official locations. Enter the contest by taking a selfie in front of them, post your picture on Instagram (post or story), and tag us @nuitblanchekelowna in it. The best pictures will be rewarded (top 3)
When: 5 p.m. till late (before 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4)
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
