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!

DESSERT TASTING EXPO

TASTINGS: La Ruelle, L&C French Bakery, Feed Your Soul Foods, Starbird Bakehouse, Raven Roast, Lucky, Viva Cacao, Nelson’s Chocofellar, Schoki Chocolate, Baked Vegan, Rawsa Desserts, Okanagan Rawsome, Marzano, Kootenay Tamil Kitchen, Sassy-Fé Praline, Kootenay Co-op, Cachai Chocolate

SHOWCASE: Honey Bee Zen, Kootenay West Distilling, Fernie Roasting Company, Kootenay Feliz Gardens, Virtue Tea, Sternwheeler Craft Distillery, Pommier Ranch Meadery, GeeWowZa, Water Over Leaves, Mountain Oats, Natural Farmworks, Stoke Roasted Coffee,

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

GET YOUR TICKETS

Dessert Tasting Expo: FREE

Pay-per-bite: $2 tickets available in advance or at event (card only)

Film: $15

Combo 5x bite tickets + film admission: $25

Saturday, November 8

Mary Hall / Shambhala Hall (Selkirk College), Nelson, BC, MAP

3:00pm-4:30pm, Dessert Tasting Expo

3:45pm-4:15pm, Show & Tell

4:30pm-6:00pm, FILM: Sweet Störy

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.

Director/Producer/Writer: Sarah Justine Kerruish / Director/Producer/Editor/Director of Photography: Matt Maude / Executive Producer: Michael Stern Forde

ABOUT MEG RAY: Meg is the founder and chef behind Miette, a patisserie recognized by Condé Nast as one of the top ten pastry shops in the world. A self-taught baker with a taste for adventure, Meg has been making cakes since she was a small child. Inspired by her lifelong passion for French pastries, Meg began Miette at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market in the fall of 2001. Quickly expanding to a large bakery, five shops, and a thriving online business, her journey towards Swedish baking began when she discovered Café Truten whilst sailing throughout the Stockholm archipelago. “When I first walked into that cafe, I really felt destiny. I had met destiny.” The rest, as they say, is cinnamon-dusted history. Her experiences making and baking on the island of Rödlöga have culminated in the creation of her memoir and cookbook, ‘Cafe at the Edge of the World’.

WEB: www.sweetstorythemovie.com