Happy Canada Day 2008!

Happy Canada Day!

Congratulations on the Grand Opening of the new COMMUNITY CENTRE right next door!
Way to go, making your dreams a reality! The entire building is amazing and such a luxury to have in our village. We already love our new neighbors. Cheers!

Come get relief from the heat with an Epic Mocha Frappé or Mixed Berry Smoothie!
They're Delicious.

Or, try one of our new ventilated, FlexFit Hats on for size.
Summer is Here!!!

To celebrate Canada Day, we're having a sale on all our logo shirts and hoodies!
Enjoy your holiday!

Vanessa Stark Livens up the Shop

We are proud to be exhibiting the vibrant artwork of our friend Vanessa Stark at the cafe this summer. Vanessa lives the Pemberton lifestyle to the fullest, she is talented in seemingly everything she puts her mind to. Solid in all disciplines of shred and a mean cook to boot! We are stoked to be graced by Vanessa's good energy through her artwork. Come and check it.

Mt. Queen Bess Mission

Jack Hannan & Jon Johnston are en route to climb and ski Mt. Queen Bess up north. They are well equipped with some fresh French Roast and tasty Papua New Guinea for some extra lift. Check these shots of the masterpiece, amazing photos by John Scurlock. Good luck boys!

Supporting our Troops

Our local boys are off to AK (the upper one), in search of good times and amazing lines. Follow along on their journey here: www.cheetahfactoryracing.com

Featured Artist: Betsy Barnum

Betsy Barnum has an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an artist, designer and maker of things. Her collage is featured at Mount Currie Coffee Company for the months of March and April 2008. Betsy lives in Edmond, Oklahoma and loves traveling and going places she's never been. "I have lots of goals and projects I'm working on, and mostly I just want to live my life and create things that mean something to me."



Betsy's work features many layers and dimensions leaving you with a piece of her personality and beautiful worldy outlook...

"I use my works on paper to describe my life, expressing my thoughts and emotions about a specific moment or circumstance through my relationships with those I am close to. I build up thin layers of paint, ink and pencil to conceal and reveal images the way emotions and behavior are unconsciously layered to hide or signal something to others. The gesture and composition of the figures in my work are very important, as they are the first indicators of the work's meaning. I use recurring objects from piece to piece as symbols or metaphors for people and ideas. For example, I often use a typewriter to represent myself, or birds as metaphors for fear and emotion. I use paper as my surface because of its flexibility, smoothness, and capacity for erasure. Like a palimpsest, it shows the progression and history of layers of marks. Like skin it wrinkles and fights back when worked on, asserting its personality into the painting or drawing. Like journal pages, my work is an ongoing narrative, each piece chronologically linked to the others. Each gesture, color, layer, and object is significant, and each work interacts with the others to establish meaning through a repetition of these elements."

More of her work can be seen on her website: REVERIE STUDIO
or you can also EMAIL HER HERE
She's crafty as well.. (imagine that.) Her, one of a kind, work along with her twin sister Dana's are available at the LIME STORE.

A couple new gaskets later...

TUNE UP...




Alistair Durie from Elysian Coffee, our Synesso rep and guru came up for a six-month visit! Checking to ensure our machine is pulling perfect shots... After what should have only been an hour visit, our little Synesso is running better than ever.

Thanks Alistair!

If you're craving delicious brew and are in the city, check out:

The Elysian Room-

1778 West 5th Avenue
Vancouver BC Canada
V6J 1P2

store hours:
Monday : 7am - 7pm
Tue - Fri : 7am - 10pm
Saturday : 10am - 10pm
Sunday : 11am - 7pm

Featured Artist: Karen Love-Protter

Local Pemberton Artist -Karen Love- showcases her work from December through February!


ABOUT KAREN LOVE:

I was born and raised in Kleinburg, Ontario, home of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. While growing up I spent a lot of time at the gallery and in the woods and fields surrounding it. The Group of Seven, Tom Thompson and Emily Carr, naturally, were huge influences on me. As a girl I participated in many sketching outings led by A.Y. Jackson, who lived at the Gallery in his twighlight years. We'd go out to the wooded gallery grounds and sketch, and he'd be pushed along in his wheel chair and talk about our work - and his. While I'm very interested in abstract painting and often go through abstract phases, my greatest enjoyment comes from expressing nature's fundament though art.


I studied fine art at Art Sake Inc., a school known for experimental painting, and continued my studies at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, BCIT, Emily Carr Design Institute, and at Capilano College. I spent four years traveling, working and living in the Canadian Arctic, both in the Yukon and the North West Territories. Naturally I'm an avid outdoors-woman - I really enjoy paddling, horseback riding, mountain biking and running.


I spend a lot of time wandering our farm property in Pemberton, BC, always discovering new beauty in the field, forest, pond and garden. Nature's colours and geometric shapes are incredibly interesting to observe through the different seasons.I often find my own artistic development through my children and through teaching others to paint. Children are such great observers and love to spend time examining at nature's most minute details. I've spent my working life immersed in the visual arts - as a graphic designer, photographer, muralist, decorative painter, silversmith and painter. For many years, my husband and I owned and operated a marketing communication firm with a national client base. We moved to Pemberton in 1990, and have two children.

To see more of her work go to: http://www.karenloveart.com
or email her!