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The Kootenays’ Backyard Booty

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Dave Quinn in People, teaser

KMC-hosted Backyard Booty brings Kootenay mountain culture to life on the big screen 

Artists strive to capture the essence of a subject – to essentially freeze it in time to allow the rest of our less intuitive brains time to render the fat from the meat, to see it’s true spirit.

Some of us work with words.  We try to arrange this jumble of symbols you see before you in such a way as to kindle some inner fire if inspiration and understanding.

Award-winning Nelson photographer Kari Medig seeks unique perspectives that tell his subject's stories in compelling ways. Kari's work will be featured at KMC's Backyard Booty on December 11th.

Others break our fast-paced world into frozen, individual images. Photographers offer us our world one frame at a time, allowing us to explore the full range of human emotion, the power of landscape, the meaning of shape, tone and colour.

Painters and sculptors are limited only by the human imagination – their own and that of their audience. Their offerings are as much a glimpse into their own souls as a lens through which to view our surroundings.

For the last five years Nelson’s Mitchell Scott and Peter Moynes have bound a range of place-based art into the pages of a single publication, Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine (KMC). And for the past five years, KMC’s high-quality presentation, resonant content, and creative depth have had locals clamouring for the next edition of this biannual months before publication.

In addition to celebrating the local flavours in print,This years event launches on December 11 at Nelson’s Capitol Theatre. Showtime 7 p.m.

Courtesy Jeremy Down

Whether you’re an ingredient in the unique spice that is Kootenay Mountain Culture, or just a voyeur wanting a better peek at what’s on the other side of the powder curtain, Backyard Booty in Nelson is the place to be this month.

Links:

karimedigphoto.com
www.jeremydown.com
Mitchell Scott: adventurestorytelling.ca

Lead photo courtesy Jeremy Down

Tags: Backyard Booty, Kootenay Mountain Culture, Mitchell Scott, Peter Moynes, The Kootenays