Mountain Guide

“The themes on this album involve emotion, darkness, depression, journeys, revelations, hopefulness, isolation, embrace, and escape,” said Banff musician Kasey Nolan. “There’s one song to reflect each of those things, while they are all also encompassed in the entire album ... I wrote it with the intention of it being one progressive piece.”

“It’s an outlet for me to work with my own sense of humour,” said 81-year-old Canmore based author Richard R. Wyly Sr. “Then put it out there and hope someone will get a giggle out of it. That’s what it’s really all about.”

“We are excited to bring new thinking and new approaches to the Canmore Museum. It's a really balanced, thoughtful, energetic, and experienced team now in place at the museum that is quite anxious to make an impact in our community.”

Imogene Broberg-Hull's work explores experimental black and white darkroom techniques and the use of double exposure using new and old photographs from her past to delve into the themes of surrealism, dreams and memory.

“It just didn’t make sense science-wise. And I guess to elaborate on that, as tattooers in this industry for at least 20 years, or more now, we as a collective have been operating under very strict and sterile practices, just like your dentist or doctor would … in fact it’s probably one of the most sterile environments you can be in besides those places.”

The Mountain Cabin Quilters Guild will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in a different way this year.

“They might be someone who is actively involved in a church community, or a religious community of another faith. It might be someone who would describe themselves as spiritual, but not religious. It might even be someone that just senses that there is something bigger than themselves when they’re outdoors.”

The first talk of the 2021 Bow Valley Naturalists online speaker series is on Tuesday (Jan. 26) at 7:30 p.m. and features the work of Bow Valley resident and research scientists Dr. Shari Fox, who will present The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in the Arctic.

“It’s tough being a musician right now because you’re not able to play and make money. If you were doing it just for the money, then it’s a really tough time. But if you’re doing it for the love of it, there’s still a lot of avenues that you can go down, even during these times.”

"Even if people didn’t know Ryan or his story – every time someone goes out on one of these routes they are sort of carrying on Ryan’s story and his spirit of adventure.”