Arts & Culture Festival - Sept 23-24 2023
Join us on the Museum lawn
as we kick off Culture Days with our Arts & Culture Festival!
September 23 and 24 from 12 to 4 pm all weekend.
The Festival is an opportunity for our region’s local visual and performing artists to showcase their talents to the public as we celebrate the spectacular culture in our area with musical performances, artist demos, cultural presentations, and more. Wander about the museum property to check out Kootenay artisans and vendors and celebrate the beauty and creativity fostered in this region.
Don’t miss our exciting schedule of live performances!
Along with the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture, we’re thrilled to present:
The Golden City Fiddlers will be performing on Sunday, September 24th!
Saturday, September 23rd:
12-12:30 pm: Rossland Glee
12:30-3 pm: Poppy and the Pea
3-4 pm: Alissa Arnason
Sunday, September 24th:
12-1 pm: Sarah Orton
1-2 pm: Golden City Fiddlers
2:10-2:40 pm: Orange Bridge Dance Team
3 - 4 pm: Tenise Marie
We’ll also have an assortment of family-friendly crafts and activities to keep everyone entertained!
Register for a free workshop with Lana Jamieson of Black Earth Ceramics:
Porcelain Whimsical Animal-Inspired candleholders
1:30 -3 pm
Sunday, September 24th
Make beautiful whimsical candle-holders out of clay! We’ll provide the supplies - you just need to bring your ideas, sketches, and inspiration with you! Geared for ages 12 and up.
The workshop is limited to a maximum of ten people. Sign up by email to info@rosslandmuseum.ca or phone 250-362-7722.
Check out these amazing artsts & Vendors who will be joining us for the weekend:
Craft Gremlin
Craft Gremlin is run by Rossland transplant Sara Wright. What started as creative problem-solving for work quickly turned into a love of working with resin. Sara takes her chaotic gremlin energy after a long day of work and funnels it into making quirky little resin pieces! Inspired by the world around her (and maybe a little indecisiveness), Sara offers up a wide variety of handmade resin wares made by your friendly local craft gremlin.
Donnie’s Bistro
In the early months of 2023, Donald Haddad’s Rossberry Hill Bistro found itself with a renewed kitchen team, and a lot of ideas that needed a new direction and thus Donnie’s Bistro was born. Our new menu ticks a lot of boxes that the team here at Donnie’s wanted to accomplish. Fresh, high quality ingredients. Menu items that are approachable and inclusive to our community while still showcasing creativity and novelty. Vegan and gluten free friendly items, as much as possible. Casual, budget friendly price points. A stellar brunch service. A relaxing patio. Tacos. Beer. Cocktails. We are very happy with what Donnie and the team here accomplished, and we are excited to share it all with you, and continue to evolve along with the community that we inhabit. Good times, and great food. See you soon!
Flooflebuttart
FloofflebuttArts is all about cartoony and fun! Your #1 stop for prints, keychains, stickers and more! I like to center around fanart, animals and inclusiveness!
Foundtree Product Design
The healing properties of herbs have always fascinated me. In years past I spent a lot of time wild harvesting native and cultivating medicinal herbs, and finally in 2022 I completed building a small home-based lab to be able to extract and prepare herbal skincare products. Some of my products are natural and medicinal, some cosmetic, and some are herbal and cosmetic. Everything is vegan and made from scratch. I forage the best quality herbs and natural ingredients to make skincare products that nourish and soothe your body and soul.
Mike Sloan Photography
Mike Sloan is a Canadian landscape and architectural photographer who has worked across The Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia for over 30 years. He now resides in Rossland BC where he combines his love of the outdoors with his photographic pursuits.
Rabbit Hole Creations
Scott Forsyth loves to create, MacGyver, fix, and modify just about anything. Rabbit Hole Tops came about while exploring what can be done with a wood lathe. Tops present many interesting areas to explore. Beautiful woods, aesthetic design, long spin times and learning about rotational physics. Each large top is balanced to achieve maximum spin time. Balancing is done by drilling holes in the top. All tops have a ball bearing tip to spin on to increase spin time.
Salmo Village Coffee
I am an artisan coffee roaster using a clean alternative air roasting method for roasting my beans. I use ethically sourced 100% Arabica beans to create small batch - ultra fresh coffee goodness. My products are available at local markets in Salmo, Fruitvale, Trail and Castlegar, as well as through Kootenay Gateway in Rossland.
Wildsafe BC
Each year, the public makes over 25,000 calls to the Conservation Officer Service to report wildlife for a variety of reasons (see our WARP section). Some of these calls are in regards to wildlife that are in conflict. The results of these conflicts may be property damage, pets/livestock injured or killed, human safety put at risk, and wild animals being displaced, injured or killed. These conflicts are often preventable with increased knowledge of their causes followed by actions to address and mitigate them. The role of the WildSafeBC Program is prevent conflict with wildlife through collaboration, education and community solutions.
And more!
We’re looking for vendors!
Are you a visual or performing artist? Do you run a coffee stand or food truck? Are you looking to showcase your art (e.g. visual, musical, or culinary) with other local talent? This Festival is designed for artists to set up as vendors, accompanied by live demonstrations and performances by local artists - and of course, food!
To sign up, please get in touch with Fiona at admin@rosslandmuseum.ca or fill out our online booking form:
Explore the Museum - including our ever-popular gold panning! We’ll be open by donation all day.
Entry is free, but donations are always appreciated!
This event is supported in part by the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture, Tourism Rossland, the Nelson & District Credit Union, the Columbia Basin Trust, the Province of BC, and Teck Trail Operations.
