This field trip will offer an opportunity to see the fossils in their natural setting, tour the Cultural Visitor Centre and gain a sense of the geologic formation of the Land on which we now live. Please note the lecture on Sept 22 is a pre-requisite for the field trip.

Participants will meet at Aberdeen Mall, close to the Cineplex theatre. It is expected that we will carpool to the site. Dress in weather appropriate clothing, bring along a packed lunch and water.

Dame Paula Rego (1935-2022) was a renowned Portuguese painter who lived and worked in London. Rego’s women are a refreshing interpretation of femininity in contrast to the way women have traditionally been presented by artists. Her works offers a cryptic glimpse into an intimate tragedy, perverse fantasies and awkward truths.

Come learn some new ways to joke around with seasoned improv coach and funnyman Dan Ondang of The Freudian Slips Improv.  This session will include games based around word association, miming, and a few scene games that The Freudian Slips use to rehearse and perform. Much of the session can be done seated if preferred. A possible second comedy troupe member will be assisting the instructor.

The far right is rising at an alarming rate – and it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. Billionaire tech barons, ethno-nationalists and religious fundamentalists are uniting in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming. They welcome a future of catastrophe, and they are convinced they’ll be among the saved on the other side. But Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor reveal that these new survivalists are far from impregnable.

Guardian journalist and host of Today in Focus podcast Nosheen Iqbal hosts them to discuss their blistering and hopeful new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. They’ll take us deep into this man-made Armageddon complex and show us how to resist it. This is your chance to hear firsthand from Klein and Taylor on how we can help each other counter this apocalyptic narrative with a far better story. A story not of end times, but of better times; not of separation and supremacy, but of belonging and interdependence. This is a livestream event from London, England. Feel free to bring your lunch.

After 25 years of providing space for aspiring artists of this region to study at home alongside peers from across the country and around the world, Thompson Rivers University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program officially closed this spring. In recognition, this exhibition celebrates a few of the many artists who graduated from this program and continue to create and exhibit work on regional, national, and international stages.

Since 1943, BC Livestock has been selling cattle throughout the province.  Kamloops is one of 4 auction sites run by rancher-owned and operated businesses.  All sales are open to the public, but KALS has an opportunity to meet the auctioneer and have a brief tour before the auction begins.

Charlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war. But in the autumn of 2022, seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she travelled there to cover a literary festival. The experience would change her life. In her searing new book, Ukranian Lessons: Art in a Time of War, she details her first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine. Drawing on two decades of cultural journalism at the Guardian, three years of reporting trips to Ukraine and her training as a classicist, she explores what artists are prepared to risk – and why culture remains worth fighting for. She will be in conversation with three exceptional Ukrainian writers, Olia Hercules, Sasha Dovzhyk and Olesya Khromeychuk. Chaired by Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s central and eastern European correspondent, join them as they reflect on how art and literature give voice to the often unspoken truths, horrors and emotions of the conflict. This is a livestream event from London, England. Please feel free to bring your lunch.

What would the Kamloops region look like if we took a people-centred approach to economic development, affordable housing, and community ownership? Through interactive discussion and workshop activities, we’ll explore examples of community wealth building in the Kamloops region and opportunities to further grow our community wealth building strategies

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is universally famous for his Abstract Expressionist drip paintings. Two women in his life made major contributions to his success in the Ab Ex movement. The CIA also played a role in promoting Abstract Expressionism. This presentation will consider his well known Ab Ex works as well as the paintings of Janet Sobel and Lee Krasner, and other women of the Ab Ex movement.

Listen and learn about bees and the variety of honeys in a presentation at this farm near Vernon. Watch the bees make honeycombs. Experience working bees up close. Taste the honey and mead, honey wine made from the farm’s honey. Take a bee friendly garden walk suitable for all abilities. Davidson Orchard is nearby and has a cafe and two gazebos for a lunch break. Bring $3 if you would like to participate in the mead tasting. Meet at Shopper’s Drug Mart in the Valleyview Parking lot to carpool. Departure at 10:00 am.

This class is an opportunity to tour, learn the history of, and enjoy a visit with the cats who have been rescued by Sammy’s Forgotten Felines, and who are awaiting adoption through the Catloops Cat Cafe.

We will look at the benefits of reducing, but not eliminating altogether, the amount of water we use in our gardens.  We will discuss principles and tips for doing this.  We will also look at issues around the use of mulch while considering the FireSmart principles.