Life

A record number of Canadian families are discovering the fun and flexible travel that the RV lifestyle provides and are taking advantage of continued affordability in the marketplace.

In time with World Water Day on March 22, the organizers of the Meadowlark Festival have announced that international water advocate Maude Barlow will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Meadowlark Festival.

Imagine escaping from the everyday pressures of work to spend quality time with your children: swimming and interacting with dolphins and stingrays; building sandcastles on one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean; or snorkelling above the world’s second largest coral reef.

On March 26, a Cawston group is offer a day-long documentary film festival featuring themes such as poverty in Canada, globalization, peace issues and sustainability in global and local agriculture.

Reading Abraham Verghese’s novel Cutting for Stone feels at times like watching a PBS live surgery show. In an Ethiopian operating theatre, twin boys Marion and Shiva are being born. With no other surgeons to be found, the father, Dr. Thomas Stone, is forced to cut the children from their ailing mother.

After a spectacular sold out performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the OSO, violinist David Greenberg returns to our stage for a repeat performance. Renowned for both his inspiring baroque interpretations and his Cape Breton fiddling, Greenberg has been praised as both a great folk fiddler and one of the best baroque violin soloists in Canada

Mars Needs Moms? Okay. But first, movie needs a little help.Sure, there is a pinch of charm and a decent message in Disney’s latest stab at the hit-or-miss exercise of performance capture, the very complex process that involves mingling animation with a live actor’s movements and facial gestures.

The Okanagan School of the Arts is putting the Shatford Centre in Penticton to work, hosting two sets of creative workshops in the renovated heritage building for the first time, starting later this month.

Tickets are now on sale for the Many Hats Theatre Company production of award-winning Canadian playwright Douglas Bowie’s Rope’s End, opening on March 31 at the Cannery Stage in Penticton.