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Classical Fridays @ Ohh Chocolat Jan
24, 7:30 pm Chamber music w/
members of the PGSO. Ohh Chocolat
565 George St.
Skratch Bastid @ The Generator Jan
24, 9 pm. 1240 3rd Ave.
A Weeee Hoedown w/ Black Spruce Bog
Jan 24 Riley’s Bar & Grill 600 Quebec St. Stand Up for Charity 13 Jan 25, 6pm
Hosted by UNBC Outdoors Club and
Bi-annual Kinsmen fundraiser w/
SGU. $5
Damonde Tschritter Doors 6pm, dinner
7pm, show 8:30pm. Tickets $40 at 777
Fri Night Nics Cafe Voltaire @ Books & Kinsmen Place
Co. 1685 3rd Ave.
Murder Mystery Dinner Lethal Luau
Persian music @ Shiraz Cafe,
Feb 14, 6pm @ Coast Inn of the North
Parkwood Mall. Jan 25, 7pm
Tix $50 at 1529 8th Ave. snowdaze.ca
Coldsnap Winter Music Festival Jan 24 Where The Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring
- Feb 1. Some shows now sold out.
Feb 13 – Mar 5. Theatre Northwest. Tix
www.coldsnapfestival.com
(250) 563-6969
International Data Privacy Day Jan 28,
9 - 4pm. Learn more about data privacy
from the UNBC Freedom of Information
& Protection of Privacy Office. UNBC
Student Services hallway.
Bringing Genomics Home Public
Forum Jan 28, 6pm Exploration Place,
333 Becott Place. Panel Discussion w/
Q & A. www.genomebc.ca/pg.
Coldsnap Sunday Afternoon Blues
Jam Jan 26, 2-4pm @ the Senior’s
Activity Centre 425 Brunswick St.
Family Sundays Concert Jan 26, 2 - 4
pm. Free family-friendly PGSO concerts
@ Two Rivers Gallery 725 Civic Plaza.
Britt Meierhofer Thurs 7pm @ The
Twisted Cork.
Variety Show IX: Crones, Whiskey
Fingers, Sean Wesley Wood Jan 31, 8
pm @ Riley's Pub 600 Quebec St.
Hay Goodacre Live @ Nancy O's Jan
31, 9pm. $5 at the door.
American Acoustic & Country Blues w/
Peter Lang & Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton
Jan 31, 7:30 pm @ PG Playhouse
www.coldsnapfestival.com.
Cinema CNC Sats 7 & 9:30pm $8/7. Jan
25: Kon Tiki; Feb 1: The Hunt. Rm 1-306
College of New Caledonia
Doc Cinema First Sundays, 2 pm PG
Public Library Civic Centre. Feb 2:. First
Hart Community Centre
4900 W. Austin Rd
Candlelit dinner, storytelling, music
w/ Bel Canto Choirs, Out of Alba
Tickets $50 @ Books & Company
PGSO Beethoven: The Romantic
Revolution @ Vanier Hall Feb 1, 7:30
pm. www.pgso.com
Spicy Latin Jazz & Afro-Cuban Dance
Party w/ Andino Suns and Rumba
Calzada Feb 1, 7:30 pm @ Coast Inn
coldsnapfestival.com
Sultans of String, Feb 5, 2014. McBride
Roundhouse Theatre, McBride, BC.
CFUR Presents: Cariboo Calling
Spoken Word Mic Nights @ Alfredo’s
Pub, 4182 15th Ave. Jan 28, Feb 11.
Verse, Ballads and Slam Jan 29, 7:30
pm @ UNBC Canfor Theatre $20.
coldsnapfestival.com.
88.7 FM
Jan 28: A Lifetime of Exploring Musical
Genres 12 - 2pm at the College of New
Caledonia Auditorium
workshops
Jan 24: At Home in the Hood: Stories and
Music from the VLA 12-2pm @ Youth
Around Prince George 1160 7th Ave.
Rick Schmidt Torchlight Parade
Hudson Bay Mountain Smithers, BC Feb
1,4:30pm $10 per person. (Height
restriction)
Munsch Mania 2 Jan 25, 1 - 3 pm
Listen to local celebs reading kid-friendly
works by Robert Munsch @ PG Public
Library downtown.
Jan 26: Song & Story Swap Around the
Firepit 11am-1pm @ the Firepit Cultural
Drop-in Centre 1120 3rd Ave.
Jan 27: Roundtable Songwriting
Discussion and Demonstration 1-3pm @
NUGSS Events Centre, UNBC
Jan 29: Spoken Word and Slam Poetry
Workshop 1-3pm @ NUGGS Event
Centre, UNBC. To register, contact:
[email protected]
Jan 31:The DNA of American Music w/
Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, and Peter
Lang. 11 am -1 pm at Long & McQuade
356 George St.
Feb 1: ANDINO RUMBA ZUMBA
Learn basic Latino dance steps to live
music w/ Andino Suns and Rumba
Calzada, 11am – 1 pm @ Connaught
Youth Centre 1491 17th Ave.
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FRANCOFUN Festival d’Hiver Jan 24 Feb 8. www.ccfpg.ca Jan 24: Opening
@ Exploration Place, Jan 30: Skating
night @ The Oval, Feb 1: Sugar shack
brunch 9am - 3pm. 1088 Gillett
Two Rivers Gallery 725 Civic Plaza.
To Mar 30: Adad Hannah: Unfixed.
Rustad Galleria: To Feb 2: Home
Making, Susan Barton-Tait. Artist's talk
Jan 30, 7:30 pm.
Studio 2880 2880 15th Ave. To Mar 6:
Alex Moffat: The Ancients.
Night of Healing Reiki Jan 31, 7 - 9 pm
Ohh Chocolat 565 George St. $25 for a
20 min. session. Book in advance:
[email protected]
Mardi Gras Snow Daze: Jan 31 - Feb
22. www.snowdaze.ca Jan 31: Mr. PG
Pageant @ Ramada Inn; Feb 8: Senior
Idol, 7pm; Feb 9: Seniors Fun Fair,
10am - 3pm Hart Pioneer Ctr.; Feb 14:
Murder Mystery Dinner, 6pm Coast Inn
Feb 15: Curling Funspiel @ Prince
George Golf and Curling Club; Feb 22:
Wendy’s Kids Fun Fair 10 am - 4pm,
Connaught Youth Ctr.
Chinese New Year 2014 Feb 1 @ Hart
Community Centre 4900 W. Austin Rd
Family-friendly Year of the Horse
celebration. Doors 4:30, dinner 5:30pm.
Tix $30 adults, $10 kids.
Earthly Visual artists in any media can
submit up to six recent artworks (last
three years) that explore the concept
of EARTHLY and what it means to
you. Deadline: Feb 9, 2014. More info:
www.tworiversgallery.ca
7th Annual Steak & Lobster Dinner
and Silent Auction for the 2618 Rocky
Mountain Ranger Army Cadet Corps.
Feb 9. Doors 4:30, dinner 5:30pm.
Tickets $40. Phone (250) 963-9397 or
e-mail: [email protected]
Writer’s Union Short Prose
Competition Deadline: March 1, 2014
$2,500 Prize Nonfiction and fiction
prose; up to 2,500 words, English
language. Finalists will have their
stories submitted to three Canadian
magazine publishers for consideration.
$29/entry. Info: www.writersunion.ca.
Valentines for Water Feb 14, 12 -1pm,
7- 9:30 pm Exploration Place.
Celebration & fundraiser for the new PG
Water Gratitude Society (250) 981-8067.
BC Snowboard Provincial Series @
Tabor Mountain Feb 1, 9am - 5pm
Tabor Mountain Ski Resort, Hwy 16 E.
www.bcsnowboard.com
Wednesday Night Social Weds 6:30 8pm. Meet at the Lodge at Otway
Nordic Ski Centre to explore with other
skiers the trails at night. Head lamp
recommended. caledonianordic.com
Prince George Outdoor Ice Oval
Public skating @ 2187 Ospika Blvd S.
Writers Workshop w/ Ed Zaruk. Sats 1 4:30 pm. Feb 1: Fiction, Feb 8: Nonfiction. $20/session. Register @ Books &
Co.
Adult Beginner Hula and Tahitian
Dance Mons & Weds Jan 6 - Mar 6, 5:30
- 6:30 pm, Zion Lutheran Church. $5 dropin. Call (250) 617-0076.
Buddhist Meditation Society of Northern
BC Zen: Tues 6 - 8 pm; Vipassana: Weds
7pm. www.bmsnbc.com.
Northern Twisters Square Dancing
Mondays 7pm, Knox United Church. Call
(250) 563-4828.
Scribblers Unanimous Thurs, 7pm.
2x/mo. PGPL Civic Centre. Feb 13, 27.
hot as they can suffer it; which they
finde to agree very well with them
against their crudities, and feeding on
Biddulph's description of hearbs and rawe meates. Other
compounded drinkes they have, called
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Hony, with Snow therein to make it
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accounted a great curtesie amongst
His Pilgrimes (1625) :
them to give unto their frends when
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Upcoming Local Hockey
SPRUCE KINGS vs. COQUITLAM Jan
31, Feb 3 @ the Coliseum. Puck drops
7 pm.
COUGARS vs. RED DEER Feb 7 & 8,
7pm @ CN Centre.