Rosie & the Riveters return to Jasper
After wowing the crowd at the last Jasper Folk Music Festival, Rosie & the Riveters are making their way back to Jasper.聽
This is a group of fiercely talented and sassy dames from Saskatoon, who perform uplifting folk music with a vintage 1940s flair.聽
Inspired by Rosie the Riveter, the feminist icon who symbolized the women鈥檚 movement into the workforce during the Second World War, the band seeks to empower women to be ambassadors for change within their own communities. In support of this vision they invest 20 per cent of their merchandise sales in women鈥檚 projects around the world through KIVA.org.
Rosie & the Riveters will be lighting up the stage at the Jasper Royal Canadian Legion on Jan. 22. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $20.
The band is also encouraging all attendees to dress up in the their finest vintage attire for the evening鈥檚 performance.
Three more plead guilty for entering caribou closures
Three men were charged $1,500 each after pleading guilty to entering an area closed to protect Jasper鈥檚 dwindling caribou herds, Jan. 12.
The guilty pleas bring the total number of people charged to 13 since the caribou closures were implemented in December 2014.
According to the Crown, a surveillance camera alerted a park warden that three men had entered a closed area on Signal Mountain on Nov. 17, 2016.
Upon arriving at the trail head, the warden located their vehicle and found footprints headed up the trail.
According to the Crown, their footprints indicated they had ignored a warning sign at the trailhead and went around a wooden barrier. A further 100 metres up the trail, the men ignored a second closure sign and ducked under red tape. The footprints ended at a third sign located approximately 600 metres up the trail, where the park warden located the three men coming back down the trail with their snowboards.聽
Access to the Tonquin Valley, Maligne-Brazeau and the North Boundary areas are currently closed. The Tonquin Valley will reopen on Feb. 16, while the two other areas will reopen on March 1.
Abstraction art exhibit聽now on display
Join Calgary-based artist Sylvie Pinard in her Journey Through Abstraction.
The exhibit will be displayed at the Jasper Art Gallery, in the library and cultural centre, starting Jan. 19.
According to the artist the show is the result of combined journeys of discovery culminating in an unanticipated final destination. 聽
鈥淎s the first vague impressions emerge, I undertake conscious decisions by successively adding and removing layers of acrylic colours and introducing different mediums and techniques,鈥� Pinard wrote in her artist鈥檚 statement. 聽鈥淎s new interactions of shapes, colours and textures appear, I finally reach a destination that is pleasing to my senses.鈥�
To celebrate the new offering of art, a gala opening will be held at the gallery on Jan. 20 from 7-9 p.m.
