Arts

Roundtable aimed at kickstarting rural artists

October 4, 2019 The Goat

By Laura Keil A dance company with a global mission is bringing an artist roundtable to Valemount Oct 5th to share knowledge to ultimately inspire more rural art. SQxDance is a Kootenay-based dance company that […]

Robson Valley Music Festival 2019

August 29, 2019 The Goat

By Goat Staff This year’s festival may have been muddy and wet due to rainball but the music and artistry was razor sharp. “RedPath performances and empowerment programs powerfully blend Indigenous culture and modern […]

Public art project boasts copper toenails

August 24, 2019 The Goat

By Andru McCracken It’s a really big foot, but if you’re thinking of legendary fur-covered beasts, think again. Valemount is getting a big foot entirely unrelated to a Yeti or the abominable snowman; instead it […]

Bite and Bark

August 12, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken A travelling exhibition at the Valemount Museum features an ancient, rare and once commonplace art that you may have never come across before. Birch bark biting is thought to be tens of […]

RMG 2nd annual photo contest

August 11, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Laura Keil The Goat’s photo contest attracted some excellent submissions and we are happy to showcase a number of them in the paper this week. The grand prize winner is Courtney Rupertus for her […]

Robson Valley Music Festival gets beer garden, filmmakers

August 1, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Laura Keil The Robson Valley Music Festival is back and promises more activities to keep festival-goers busy, including a beer garden near the stage. This is the first year the festival has a liquor […]

VCTV wins and the community does too

June 26, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken Despite a new judging and ranking system, Valemount’s own community television station has won a Tuned-In Canada’s award for best content. The award comes with accolades for VCTV and a boost for […]

Video made the radio star

June 7, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken Local terrestrial television rebroadcaster, the Valemount Entertainment Society continues to buck the trends by providing local entertainment in old-fashioned mediums, namely broadcast television and FM radio. The society rebroadcasts nine television channels […]