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LOCAL IS SWEET – Dessert Tasting, Sweet Marketplace, Talks & Film
Satisfy your sweet tooth and celebrate local talent at Local is Sweet! This free admission, pay-per-bite dessert tasting expo brings together the region’s most delectable treat-makers for an afternoon of bite-sized indulgence, community connection, films and talks. Come sample, mingle and learn—then stick around for a feature film screening next door!
$2 pay-per-bite tickets available at the event (cash only / ATM on site). Staying for the film? Purchase a combo in advance (5x bite tickets + film admission).
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3:00pm-4:30pm, Dessert Tasting Expo
3:45pm-4:15pm, Show & Tell
4:30pm-6:00pm, FILM: Sweet Störy
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Dessert Tasting Expo: FREE
Pay-per-bite: $2 tickets available at event (cash only / machine on-site)
Film: $15
Combo 5x bite tickets + film admission: $25
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DESSERT TASTING EXPO
Selkirk Culinary students w/ Chef Loïc Fauteau-Goulet, La Ruelle, L&C French Bakery, Feed Your Soul Foods, Sweet & Stoked, Honey Bee Zen, Lucky, Viva Cacao, Nelson’s Chocofellar, Schoki Chocolate, Treasure Life Flour Mills, Rawsa Desserts, Okanagan Rawsome, Marzano, Pommier Ranch Meadery, Oso Negro Coffee, Water Over Leaves, Kootenay Tamil Kitchen, Virtue Tea, Sternwheeler Craft Distillery, Fernie Roasting Company, Cachai Chocolate, Kootenay Co-op, more TBA
SHOW & TELL
Get to know your dessert and coffee makers with these short 5-minute presentations
- Anne Bokser Wishlow & Ned Woods, Oso Negro Coffee
- Loïc Fauteux-Goulet, Winner of The Great Canadian Baking Show
- Beth Campbell, Viva Cacao
- Cyrielle Lagadec and Lisa Lopez, L&C French Bakery
- Gwyn & Elliott McLennan, Feed Your Soul Foods
FILMS
Sweet Störy
(2025, USA, 75min)
“Something every day needs to be sweet,” says Meg Ray in this charming feature documentary about a tiny café on a remote island in the Baltic Sea, at risk of closing down unless Meg and a small team of islanders can preserve it. Café Truten has very little running water or consistent electricity and with only days to open the cafe, we watch as Meg and her helpers are pushed to their limits and pull off culinary miracles. SWEET STÖRY is a reminder of what is possible when just a few people set out to make their small corner of the world a better place. Directed and produced by the multi award winning filmmaker duo, Sarah Justine Kerruish & Matt Maude, Sweet Störy was the Opening Night Film at the Sonoma International Film Festival.
True Local
A selection of local dessert-maker profiles from Nelson’s Kootenay Co-op
(2022-2025, Canada)
