Mountain Guide

When mining is referenced in the Bow Valley, talk inevitably turns to coal. And for good reason, as coal mining was a major factor in how the Bow Valley developed economically and physically.

Sometimes, in the big scheme of things throughout a person’s life, there can be one of those defining moments which affects everything which follows.

Danny Michel is making his Bow Valley rounds, between trips to Belize, with a stop at Communitea in Canmore, Sunday (Feb. 26). “I’ve been playing out in Banff and that area since I had my first bands,” said Michel.

Audible, the first full-length experimental dance performance created by 605 Collective, will take to the Eric Harvie Theatre stage at The Banff Centre, Wednesday (Feb. 29).

Music, words and photographs come together when documentary photographer Lawrence Chrismas and Robert Remington take to the stage at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Thursday evening (Feb. 23).

It’s a risky business to craft a piece of non-fiction in the first-person narrative. Few dare try, fewer succeed.

Gregory Kozak likes to make tunes out of trash. The Vancouver-based sound artist does just that, using scrap metal, plastic and wood to create instruments from what others throw away.

For wildlife photographer Peter Dettling there is more to his new gallery show than pictures of wolves and bears. With his Terra Magica Gallery in Canmore, Dettling has combined his passion for photography with a wilderness education centre.

Lock up your sons, as Mobina Galore, a two-member all-girl alt rock band, is coming to Banff. With Jenna Preistner on guitar and Marcia Hanson on drums, the duo met in Fernie, where they lived until last October before relocating to Vancouver.

Good writing makes readers think, question and contemplate, but for that to occur, it takes a writer who is willing to throw open their cupboards and share the corners of their life.