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EVENTS CALENDAR
MONTHLY EVENTS Make sure to stay up to date by visiting FernieFix.com/events. Send your events to krista@clarismedia.com for inclusion!
Monday 1.11.2021
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Teen Clay Camp Ages 12-15 @ The Arts Station, 3:30pm
Wednesday 3.11.2021
Pottery Wine and Wheel @ The Arts Station, 7pm
Thursday 4.11.2021
Virtual Author Event: Nobodoy Ever Talks About
Anything But the End by Liz Levine @ Fernie Heritage Library, 7pm
Friday 5.11.2021
“Blue” Call for Entry Deadline @ The Arts Station. More details at theartsstation.com
Saturday 6.11.2021
Professional Development for Artists @ The Arts Station, 10am
Monday 8.11.2021
Kids Clay Ages 8-12 @ The Arts Station, 3:30pm Regular Council Meeting @ City of Fernie, 7pm
Tuesday 9.11.2021
Makey Makey @ Fernie Heritage Library, 3:45pm craft, engineering and science for ages 7-10
Wednesday 10.11.2021
Artist Video Workshop @ The Arts Station, 7-9pm
Friday 12.11.2021
FAST Ski Swap @ Fernie Community Centre, gear drop off 6-8pm Fernie Ghostriders Hockey Game @ Fernie Memorial Arena, 7:30pm
Saturday 13.11.2021
FAST Ski Swap @ Fernie Community Centre, 10am Fernie Ski and Board Film Fest @ Fernie Community Centre, 6:30pm
Saturday 13.11.2021 - 28.11.2021
Gift Giving X2: A Pop-Up Art Sale & Heritage
Fundraiser @ Fernie Museum
Monday 15.11.2021
Teen Clay Camp Ages 12-15 @ The Arts Station, 3:30pm Committee of the Whole Meeting @ City of Fernie, 4pm
Tuesday 16.11.2021
Fernie Ambassador Program @ College of the Rockies, 12:30pm Makey Makey @ Fernie Heritage Library, 3:45pm craft, engineering and science for ages 7-10
Read Local Book Club: Confessions of a Failed
Environmentalist by Jennifer Ellis @ 7:30pm
Thursday 18.11.2021
Lifelong Learners – DIY Group for Adults @ Fernie Heritage Library, 7pm
Saturday 20.11.2021
Fernie Ghostriders Hockey Game @ Fernie Memorial Arena, 7:30pm
Monday 22.11.2021
Intensive Pottery Workshop @ The Arts Station, 7pm Regular Council Meeting @ City of Fernie, 7pm
Tuesday 23.11.2021
Makey Makey @ Fernie Heritage Library, 3:45pm craft, engineering and science for ages 7-10
Thursday 25.11.2021
“Blue” Group Exhibit opening @ The Arts Station
Friday 26.11.2021
Tea and Talk: Butter Honey Pig Bread by
Franvesca Ekwuyasi @ Fernie Heritage Library, 1:30pm Holiday Kickoff @ Downtown Fernie, ferniechamber.com Holiday Kickoff @ Fernie Heritage Library Garden, 5pm for holiday cheers, music, cider, lights and decorations.
Saturday 27.11.2021
Movember FatBike Social Ride @ Fernie Trails, FMBC.ca Fernie Ghostriders Hockey Game @ Fernie Memorial Arena, 7:30pm
Tuesday 30.11.2021
Teen Book Club: Displacement by Kiki Hughes @ Fernie Heritage Library, 6:30pm
WEEKLY EVENTS
Mondays
Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page Les Tiguidous @ AFRosFernie, outdoor activities with songs, stories in French ages 0-5. 10:15am Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Le Club Baguette Junior @ Rotary Park, outdoor activities and games in French ages 7-12, 3:30pm After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm
Tuesdays
Storytime (ages 3-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open League @ Fernie Curling Club, 6:30pm Seniors Only League @ Fernie Curling Club, afternoons
Fernie Options for Sexual Health Clinic
Open @ Elk Valley Hospital, 6:30-8:30pm by appointment Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page Burger and Beer Night @ The Northern Wing Night @ The Pub
Wednesdays
Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Curbside Craft @ Fernie Heritage Library, Pickup is from 10am each Wednesday Toddlertime (Ages 0-2 years) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open League @ Fernie Curling Club, 6:30pm
Inclusive Kids and Teen Mindfulness Yoga
Classes @ Branch Out Learning Team Trivia @ The Fernie
Thursdays
Bellies to Babies @ Zoom, 2pm
Club Baguette Adultes - Practice Speaking
French @ AFRos Fernie via Zoom, 7pm Pub Team Trivia @ The Pub After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open Mic Night @ Fernie Distillers, 7pm
Fridays
Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Storytime (ages 0-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Fish and Chips @ The Pub Fish and Chips Take Away @ Fernie Hotel, 4pm Meat Draw @ The Fernie Club Cre8 @ The Arts Station After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open Mic Night @ Fernie Distillers, 7pm Equine Assisted Learning Life @ Fernie Therapeutic Horse and Pony Club through Branch Out Learning
Saturdays
Shawarma Take Out @ Fernie Hotel, 4pm Meat Draw @ The Legion Pint and Ghostrider Hockey Game Deal @ Kodiak Lounge and Parkplace Pub
Giving Me Something That I Need
by Sadie Rosgen and Strangers
“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” -Charles Glassman
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Rousseau
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.” -Charlie Chaplain
This month, I engaged people all across the country to talk about kindness. In order to accomplish this social experiment, I cold called Canadians, simply put, I picked up the proverbial phone books from across the country and started dialing. This was not a simple task and I found many people were quite unkind! After being hung up on, sworn at, and on the off chance that someone would talk to me, quite eye opening. In both French and English Canada, folks are feeling tired and confused, overjoyed and overcome. As I dialed random phone numbers (calls were made from Cape Split, NFDL and spanned the country to Kitimat, BC), I found that those who had time to chat were quite delighted by my little project. It felt great to laugh with strangers near and far and no matter who I spoke to, it all came down to kindness.
Thanks, strangers! I couldn’t have done it without you.
Giving Me Something That I Need
By Sadie Rosgen and Strangers
let kindness crack open your heart let kindness guide you in the dark let kindness be the ember
light the spark
giving me something I need finding out how
kindness is learned or buried deep within ourselves burned into our very being sprung from the memories of our ancestors reflecting us just as we are kindness lets light in kindness is what I’m all about
finding out how
desire to be kind no going back pause
rewind
when I die, they’ll know me ‘cause I’m kind...
Bill and Ted Face the Music
by ANDREW VALLANCE
In 1989, Orion pictures released Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a low budget comedy that details the adventures of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keeanu Reeves) as they attempt to complete a project for their high school history class, with the help of their grizzled, ultra-cool mentor Rufus (George Carlin) and a time machine shaped like a phone booth.
This was Keeanu Reeves’ first acting success, and for years he tried to shake the stigma of playing the wacky Ted by taking on serious projects that included My Own Private Idaho (1991), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). He became a big-budget action star with the release of Speed (1994), and he struck box-office gold again in The Matrix (1999) and its sequels. His more recent successes are John Wick (2014), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure was a good movie, and it became an instant success. It cost $6 million to make and earned $40 million at the box office. It was simple to understand, funny as hell, and Reeves and Winter were wonderful as the slightly dim yet undoubtedly sympathetic heroes. Its sequel, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey was released in 1991 and was more existential, with Bill and Ted using the time machine to visit Hell, as well as other plains of existence, meeting aliens and playing twister with Death, played by the great William Sadler. It was, unfortunately, a weird, confusing film which was not as successful at the box office. This explains why the third film in the Bill and Ted saga was not released until this year, 31 years after the original.
Bill and Ted Face the Music was released via Video on Demand in August 2020, and this new effort sees Reeves and Winter reprise their roles as Ted and Bill. In the final film in the trilogy, our heroes are asked to create the song that will prevent the destruction of the universe and save the human race. Frustrated by their inability to do so, they decide to travel into the future to ask their future selves how they wrote it. In the meantime their daughters, Billie and Thea, played by Samara Weaving and Bridgette Lundy Paine, travel through time in order to assemble the greatest band in history to write the song themselves. Weaving won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2019 for her supporting role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
I would like to say that this film is as good as the earlier ones in the series. Unfortunately, it is not. Winter and Reeves are great, and Paine and Weaving give wonderful performances, so good in fact that I believe they deserve to be given their own movie. Sadly, the script is dull, which is odd, given that the movie is about preventing the apocalypse, a subject that should make us sit up and pay attention. The film also suffers mightily from the lack of George Carlin, who passed away from a heart attack in 2008. The writers have tried to replace the character of Rufus with that of his daughter Kelly, played by Kristen Schaal, but it doesn’t quite work.
If you are a fan of Bill and Ted’s earlier adventures, I strongly advise that you satisfy your desire for nostalgia by re-watching the much more exciting Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
One thumb up.
