Autumn is in full swing in downtown Kamloops. Check out all the events below this season to Fall in love with downtown Kamloops!
Kamloops Blazers hockey is back! Get ready to cheer on your hometown team as they hit the ice for another thrilling season.
Tickets are available now!
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📍Sandman Centre
Adrian Romeo
The Cube
Adrian Romeo's latest body of work uses humor and play to explore the human condition and her personal struggles with mental and physical health. Central to the exhibit is a wooden racetrack featuring five sculptural wind-up toys that symbolize her foes: depression, fatigue, chronic pain, insomnia, and self-doubt. Visitors are invited to race these toys while reflecting on the accompanying insight cards that delve into the challenges represented. Romeo also presents hand-sewn textile wall works resembling sporting event banners, which offer encouraging slogans that highlight shared struggles. Through bright colors and playful elements, her art contrasts with the darker themes of emotional and physical pain, encouraging open conversations and providing a lighthearted approach to difficult topics.andescent emotional truths that are somehow both deeply personal and wholly universal.
Robert Davidson, Francisco de Goya, Jérôme Havre, David Hockney, Ed Pien, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Marina Roy, Royal Art Lodge, Cauleen Smith, Amanda Strong, Camille Turner, Joyce Wieland
Central Gallery
"Stories that Animate Us" explores the significance of storytelling through a rich selection of works on paper and animations, drawing from collective oral histories, knowledge systems, and personal memories. The featured artists delve into themes of culture, community, memory, death, and identity, reflecting on past, present, and future narratives. With diverse voices at the forefront, the exhibition includes Joyce Wieland and the Royal Art Lodge, who use drawing as a creative tool; David Hockney, who finds inspiration in fairy tales; and Indigenous artists like Robert Davidson and Amanda Strong, who reclaim cultural narratives. The exhibit also features Francisco de Goya and Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, addressing the traumas of war, while Marina Roy, Jérôme Havre, Cauleen Smith, and Camille Turner explore new identities through speculative fiction. Ed Pien draws on the spectral and supernatural to highlight transformative potential, showcasing storytelling’s multifaceted power.
📍Kamloops Art Gallery
The Fall Home Show returns to Sandman Centre on October 5th & 6th!
At this free event, attendees can expect to discover the newest trends, products, and services in home improvement through a variety of exhibitors. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with local contractors, home decor experts, renovation specialists, and real estate professionals who are ready to assist with their projects. Additionally, the event will showcase creative ideas and solutions to enhance homes, all conveniently located in one place. Attending this event offers personalized consultations, allowing guests to bring their ideas and speak one-on-one with industry experts who can help turn their home improvement visions into reality. With a wide range of services available, whether you’re looking to renovate, decorate, or buy, you’ll find diverse options tailored to your specific needs.
📍Sandman Centre
The CIBC Run For The Cure is back at Riverside Park.This year on October 6th, people from all over Canada will participate in the CIBC Run for the Cure. Join us in Kamloops at Riverside Park - run for one, we run for all. Help support those affected by breast cancer by registering and fundraising.
📍Riverside Park
The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award–winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theatres and event spaces worldwide. The Paramount Theatre opens for the pre-show 30 mins before each performance. Tickets are on sale now.
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Sat Oct 5, 2024
Doors at 9:30am, Show at 10:00
Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse.
Grounded
Jeanine Tesori
Libretto By George Brant
Sat, Oct 19, 2024
Doors 9:30 AM, Show at 10:00
Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzosoprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.
