After a more than a year of work, we're announcing that Kitimat, BC, will launch North West Photo Fest, a regional celebration of photography, this August.
North West Photo Fest will feature an exhibit by photographers in northwestern British Columbia, with the theme "Why We Live Here." Despite the boom and bust resource economy and the uncertainty of tourism, many people chose to remain in the northwest or make every effort to return if their careers had called them away. One image from each photographer will illustrate that theme. The exhibit will run at the Kitimat Museum & Archives from August 5 to August 27, with an opening reception on the evening of August 5 at the museum.
On August 6, we will hold a day of seminars and workshops at Kitimat's Riverlodge Recreation Centre. Our special guests are well known to NPAC, Andy Clark and Paul Colangelo.
Local photographers who will be presenting are Doug Keech and Dwight Magee from Kitimat and Talon Gillis from Terrace.
At the lunch and learn, Kitimat Search and Rescue will give a safety briefing "Facing Your Fears in the Back Country" followed by a panel on observing wildlife with Walter Thorne of Kitimat Valley Naturalists and Rob St. Jean, a wildlife observer with LNG Canada.
Join us in Kitimat on August 6, 2016 for the North West Photo Fest seminars and workshops. Here is the lineup.
8:00 a.m. Registration opens
8:45 a.m. Welcome
9:00 a..m. "Daily Life" wth Andy Clark
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Local Portraits: "Seeing things poetically" with Doug Keech & "Environmental Portraiture" with Talon Gillis
11:45 a.m. Lunch (Provided)
12:00 noon Lunch & Learn "Facing Your Fears in the Back Country" with Kelly Marsh & Mike Stekelenburg, Kitimat Search & Rescue
1:30 p.m. Observing Wildlife "The North's Summer Song Birds" with Walter Thorne & "Wildlife observation" with Rob St. Jean
2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. "Pushing comfort zones in small towns" with Dwight Magee
4:30 p.m. "Voices from the Wild" with Paul Colangelo
7:00 p.m. Barbecue sponsored by Minette Bay Lodge and North West Photo Fest
Tickets ($25 including lunch and barbecue) are available on
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/north-west-photo-fest-tickets-26249898152For photographers in north western BC, you can get information on entering the festival at the Kitimat Museum & Archives
http://www.kitimatmuseum.ca/node/22Our sponsors and supporters are
District of Kitimat
LNG Canada
Kitimat Museum & Archives
Kitimat Leisure Services
Minette Bay Lodge
Kitimat Chamber of Commerce
Beau Photo
Nanuk Professional Cases
Thanks specially to the always hardworking Ali Ledgerwood, our liaison with the photo industry.
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