NLMCC upcoming events!

Greetings,

The winter season is upon us! Please check out the upcoming events that will help put you in a festive mood for the season:

Festival of Trees, Nov.18 - Enter our annual Festival of Trees exhibit as a business, club, organization or family to show some community spirit! Top three trees voted by the public, win a prize! See poster for details.

MAX Christmas Art Sale - Nov. 23 - 11:00am - 4:00pm -  Come and support your local artists and get a start on your shopping for gifts this season. See poster for details.

Polymer Cane Workshop - Nov. 30 - 9:00am - 5:00pm - Join us to create these unique and fun pieces that can be used to decorate everything from jewelry to glass jars. See poster for details. Registration must include payment.

Diane Seals

Administration and Event Coordinator

Northern Life Museum & Cultural Centre

e-mail: admin@nlmcc.ca

phone: (867)872-2859

'Trashed' Film Oct. 22nd at 7pm for Waste Reduction Week!

Kim Rapati (kim@ecologynorth.ca) of Ecology North has requested distribution of the following event:

Hello, 

It's National Waste Reduction Week and I would love to invite you to a film screening of a new award-winning documentary 'Trashed', taking place at the Mary Kaeser Library in Fort Smith on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm. 

Please come on out to enjoy the film and talk about waste reduction initiatives that are going on in the north! Please invite your friends and colleagues who are working on waste reduction initiatives or have an interest in waste!

You can watch the preview here: www.trashedfilm.com 

See you on Tuesday, 

Kim

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Kim Rapati

Hay River Satellite Office Manager

Ecology North

(867) 874-4706

Theatre Workshop for Youth! Oct. 20 -24, 2013!

Reneltta Arluk [reneltta@gmail.com] on behalf of Akpik Theatre has requested distribution of the following workshop announcement:

What's Your Story? Akpik Theatre's Youth Outreach Theatre Intensive Workshop Tour!

 Akpik Theatre, with support from the NWT Arts Council, is travelling to 3 communities teaching Song and Script, Spoken Word and Theatre to youth in Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith!

In Fort Smith on:

Oct. 20 -24, 2013

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre

Each workshop includes a performance of the facilitators in the beginning and a youth performance at the end. Please contact akpiktheatre@gmail.com with any questions about the tour and how to sign up your youth when we come to your community!

 The workshops are free for youth and the performances are pay-what-you-can.

 Akpik Theatre believes in the grassroots of storytelling and the Arts.

We are humbled and excited to be bringing such performance diversity to the youth.

 Also there will be a performance by the What's Your Story Workshop Instructors:

Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 

8:00 pm at Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre

See posters for more details.

Mahsi cho,

Reneltta Arluk

Founder/Artistic Director

Akpik Theatre

akpiktheatre@gmail.com

Diane Seals

Administration and Event Coordinator

Northern Life Museum & Cultural Centre

e-mail: admin@nlmcc.ca

phone: (867)872-2859

Firefighter's Ball, Saturday, Oct. 19th, Tickets Still Available

Sarah Rosolen (sarahrosolen@gmail.com) on behalf of the Fort Smith Firefighter's has requested distribution of the following event:

Firefighter's Ball

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013

There are still a few tickets left for the Firefighter's Ball, this Saturday October 19th. 

Dinner and dancing and good times to be had!  Dinner will be a sit down 4 course meal with beef wellington or a vegetarian option as the main.

Lots of great auction prizes, including a kids birthday party at the fire station, Oiler's tickets, plane tickets to Edmonton, framed art, stained glass, lawnmower, chainsaw, bbq, 1 hr sightseeing tour by air, rafting trip, gas and oil, esthetics, and more.   

Tickets are $50 each. 

All money raised goes towards fire prevention and fire emergency response in the Town of Fort Smith.  To purchase tickets, please contact Jason Panter:  knorthernknight@hotmail.com  

Curling Club Oktoberfest Evening

This e-mail is being distributed on behalf of Janie Hobart (janie15.curling@yahoo.ca):

The Fort Smith Curling Centre is hosting an Oktoberfest Evening this Friday. Please see poster for details.