Creative
Limoncello - Paint Swatch Contest Winner
Emma Kivisild is a writer and artist living in Prince Rupert BC. She published three books with Press Gang Publishers, emceed the Vancouver Folk Music Festival for seven years, and is now active with Complete Streets Prince Rupert. She lives with the painter Suzo Hickey.
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Wood Anemone - Paint Swatch Contest Second Place
Jenn Marx is based in Stewart, BC. Her entry to our writing contest snagged her a well-deserved second place.
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West Coast Fury - Paint Swatch Contest Honourable Mention
Hailing from Terrace, Baxter Huston submitted this poem, incorporating three esoteric-named paint swatches.
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Prince Rupert-based Caroline Dudley submitted this entry to our Paint Swatch Writing Contest.
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Slow
The photographic eye of Talon Gillis is always on point. As an adventurer, Gillis gravitates toward self-propelled travel and his take on “slow” reflects this tendency as well as his love and passion for the landscapes of northern BC. We pair the final photo in this segment with a poem from Paul Glover, Watching Paint Dry.
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A Simple Boat Repair
Sometimes the “quick fix” takes a whole lot longer than we’d hoped it would. Patrick Williston spills blood, tears, and laughter as he works on his family’s sailboat.
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Slow Burn
What happens when you process chilis for a deer sausage recipe with just one glove? Haida Gwaii-based Allison Smith has the story...and the heat-haunted memories that go with it.
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Colour of the Water
Sometimes adventures take a strange turn and, when they do, they etch themselves firmly in your memories—including the colours. Paul Glover takes us on a trip down the Nass, and the proverbial memory lane.
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Lost or Found?
We asked six writers and one photographer (Michelle Yarham) to tackle this issue’s theme in whatever way they saw fit. What they came up with is quirky, funny, poignant, reflective, and uniquely northern.
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Creative Space
Whatever we create, the environment we are in leaves an imprint on our work. Many artists crave isolation during the creative process, but some encourage outsiders to interrupt and even influence the direction of the pieces. Six northern BC artists discuss their creative spaces and what makes them so significant to the work they produce.
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Haida Gwaii: The Board Game
Incorporating Haida cultural history, Nang K’uulas develops a new strategy game
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Passing Through
Yawning and leg stretching at the visitor centre. The city connects highways and breaks up a train route, but the distances are vast. Some travellers collect brochures and pile them in their car doors. Others invest in small mementos: a printed mug or a wooden Mr. PG. A few leave behind their stories.
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Paint Swatch Writing Contest
Sharpen your pencils & your wit for Northword's first writing contest!
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Edge of the World
The beginning of a thing is often not recognized as such until long after, or indeed until an ending appears on the horizon. Such was the case in the fall of 1994, when four dirtbags pooled their limited resources and headed north from Vancouver and the Kootenays to undertake a month-long sea-kayak trip in Gwaii Hanaas National Park Reserve.
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The Crawl
Patrick Williston lives in Smithers in a mountainside home with a dark and spidery crawl space. When days are longer, you will find him and his family gunkholing around the Chatham Sea in an old sailboat. This is his first piece of fiction for Northword.
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Beginnings
Check out Northword's latest publication, a collection of northern stories and amazing images.
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A Terror of Tyrannosaurs
The best way to see ancient dinosaur footprints is in the dark. It’s also the best way to feel that tingly sensation on the back of your neck. Jo Boxwell takes us to Tumbler Ridge, where lantern tours of the dino trackways are a mainstay of the growing paleo-tourism industry.
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By Boat
In Haida Gwaii, the dark months of winter mean more time for things like hunting trips. Join photographer Joseph Crawford as he explores abandoned buildings and the subdued coastal landscapes while on a boat-access hunting excursion.
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Simbiyez Wilson
Her name means “child of the stars.” And Witsuwit’en singer-songwriter Simbiyez Wilson seems to be living up to the name.
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Future Past
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” - Søren Kierkegaard
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Creative Connections
From Prince George to Prince Rupert, creative folks join forces to enhance their respective cultures, and northern BC culture as a whole. Collaboration at its best in three northern communities.
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Mind (over) Mountains
"Everyone deserves to enjoy the mountains." Talon Gillis inspires with his photo essay.
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Perception Problem
Prince George’s reputation for crime is a harsh reality for some and a bizarre background for others.
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True Coldness
It is being on the edge of everything; being in the North, experiencing true coldness, even fleetingly from the deck of a cozy home in a warming climate.
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Life in Dead Places
Morels like dead places. Brains on the outside. Greyish honeycombs on stems. That’s what we have in common. We aren’t pretty and we thrive in dead places.
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Orchestra North: summer music program is serious fun
The audience hushes as the conductor and co-director stride down the aisle. At the front of the room, the orchestra members fall quiet.
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Stone women: The water girls
what is it with us water girls always looking for the current in the current, the secret in the water that is the water…
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How Raven found his lunch: Stories across cultures of an eternally hungry bird
Corvus corax. We-gyet. Trickster.
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Mountain garden: Discovering grace in the great northern wilderness
It was another perfect Saturday among the many this summer.
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Lost in definition Art lives in Smithers
The creative process is a great and beautiful mystery.
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Past present: Thrill of the hill
I realized it was a mistake as soon as I looked down: the slope transformed suddenly into a vertical field of moguls. I slid a glance at my daughter standing next to me, and her brave face and wobbly stance nearly did me in. She was on downhill skis for the first time in her nine years on the planet. I had made a mistake—many mistakes, in fact—and the bumps in front of us were just one.
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Deep Art: Creative reports from the wilds of Gwaii Haanas
The concept was simple: take several artists, remove them from their usual surroundings, and immerse them in the wildest parts of Gwaii Haanas—the rugged, mossy park that covers much of the remote southern end of Haida Gwaii. With only a guide and each other for company, this would promote an intense absorption with the landscape, deeply influencing the resulting artwork.
READ MORE➦Winter 2018-19: Slow
Slow repairs, slow pace, slow recovery, and much more.
