For over 20 years, the Niverville Drama Club has been entertaining and celebrating our town. Though it is on a temporary hiatus, the club is still very much alive in the minds of many Niverville artists.

For most of us, Christmas is a special time of year accompanied by the sights, sounds, and smells of the season. Simply put, it is a wonderful time for sensory overload. I have to admit, though, that I sometimes find it quite overwhelming. Don’t get me wrong: I love all of the celebrations and food, but my struggle comes from the fact that I am a self-described minimalist when it comes to design and décor.

It’s been said that one can only see the stars when it gets dark enough. Briana Bloom is a testament to that. Briana looks like your average 14-year-old. She is demure and sweet. Sitting cross-legged in blue jeans across from me, we are surrounded by a gathering of button-eyed monkeys and other delightful creatures of her making.

In Grade 1, Evan Braun won third place in a CBC writing contest, and the rest, as they say, is history. The story was called “The Magic Christmas Tree.” It was about going to a tree farm in Beausejour with his father to pick out a tree, which then happened to have magic powers.

Arcade Studios is a state-of-the-art digital music production facility located beside Slice of Life in Niverville, and it’s accredited by Manitoba Film and Sound. Over the past 2 years, they’ve recorded an LP for the rock band Whiskey Talks and produced 13 singles. And that all happened while the facility was being built! Ambitious doesn’t seem to do them justice.

Nashville, Tennessee is nicknamed Music City. It’s the home of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. And recently, local musicians Evan St. Cyr and Brady Dyck travelled there to take their songs to the next level. Accompanying them on the trip was Gerry St. Cyr, part-owner of Arcade Studios.