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ACN Artist
Of The Week:
Oliver Steins
is the new owner of the Ganaraska Art & Framing store on Walton
Street in Port Hope. Along with framing, his
business will offer photo and art classes, imported artworks in mixed media
and pottery, fine art printing materials for photographers, large format
printing as well as works of local artists.’
The Forsyth Review – The Year Of Magical Thinking
- Magnificent
“As
for Patricia Yeatman, there are no words to describe how absolutely amazing
she was. She was Joan Didion.
Robert’s direction was brilliant; the experience was extremely powerful
and one I cherish. It is amazing that we get the caliber of performances that
we do in this small town. All thanks go to Robert Latimer and the First
Stages Theatre Company. What a treat.”
Jamie Parker At ‘Friends of Music’
– The Nimblest Fingers In The Business
“And
what a treat he was. Not only does he have the nimblest fingers in the
business, but he is also a very funny man.”
From The
Arts Council
Calling All Writers
Local author book signing and sale, Sunday
November 30th in co-operation with the Cobourg
Public library. Details tba.
A report published by the Conference
Board of Canada is only the latest to underline the strategic role
of the arts in creating jobs and building livable communities. "Increasingly, countries around the world,
as well as cities and regions, are recognizing the pervasive role that a
dynamic cultural sector plays as a magnet for talent, an enhancer of economic
performance and a catalyst for prosperity," says the report - Valuing
Culture: Measuring and
Understanding Canada's Creative Economy. MORE
Arts Headlines
Sculpture offered for Gathering Site
Local takes home second Gemini
Presqu'ile hosts annual art sale
Art policy open to public opinion
An enchanting concert
Port Hope cultural Renaissance begins
What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming
Week
Friday Mysteries and More – 2:00 pm Cobourg Public Library
Cape Fear– 1962. Director: J. Lee Thompson. Gregory Peck, Robert
Mitchum and Polly Bergen. A released convict terrorizes the lawyer who put
him in jail. “One of the most suspenseful and heart-pounding
confrontations every committed to film.”
Awesome Art
Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm,
Cobourg Public Library, art classes with Barb Smith, ages 4-6.
Any Wednesday, by Muriel Resnik
Friday and Nov. 1, 2, The Best
Western Cobourg Inn and Convention Centre. Directed by Brenda Worsnop, produced by Helen Matthew More Details
Playing at the Human Bean, Cobourg
Friday, 7:00 pm - Ed
Pearson - free coffee! -
Details
Saturday, 7:00 pm - Cheryl Casselman
Youth Harmony Explosion at the Northumberland
Chorus
Saturday, November 1st, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm,
Golden Plough Lodge Auditorium, 983 Burnham St,
Cobourg. Learn A Cappella Four-Part Harmony. You'll want to BLAST OFF to this
one!!! A Cappella Workshop for young people between 11 & 18 years. Lunch
will be provided. Registration fee: $15.00. Performance at 4 pm. Family and
friends are invited to cheer you on!! See you there!!! Read more…
Christmas at Presqu’ile.
November 1, 2, 5, 8 & 9, 10:00 – 4:00. 17th Annual Christmas at Presqu’ile Arts and
Crafts Show & Sale. Over 100
artisans’ work will be beautifully displayed in the Christmas House.
Visit with local Artists, Linda Barber, Rose Brown and Doug Comeau at the Lighthouse
Art Gallery.
The Friends’ Lighthouse Gift Shop will also be open for last minute
gifts. info@friendsofpresquile.on.ca or
613-475-1688.
Oriana Singers - Strike Up The Band
Saturday, 7:30 pm, Trinity
United Church, 15 Chapel St
Cobourg
This will be our sixth concert with the Concert Band
of Cobourg - an annual favourite. The choir and band look forward to
presenting another brand new arrangement by a local composer with the support
of their Trillium Foundation Grant fund. Join us for this fun, casual
concert. Tickets are available at the Victoria Hall, Concert Hall Box
Please join us to dance
Sunday, 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Fusion
Yoga Centre, 210 Willmott Street,
Unit 5, Cobourg
We dance in celebration of all our ancestors - human,
animal, arboreal, geological and even celestial! We especially highlight
those ancestors to whom we are indebted for the gift of dance! info: achudson@sympatico.ca or 905-373-1218
Northumberland Film Sundays AMAL
Sunday, 4:00 pm Northumberland
Mall Cinema. Directed by Deepa Mehta, shot on location in India
by a combined Canadian and Indian crew, the story follows the simple daily
life of Amal, the title character (played by Canada's
RUPINDER NAGRA). He is very poor but rich in spirit, generosity and
selflessness. An autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small but vital
role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi
as quickly and safely as possible.
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia In Concert
Sunday, Nov. 2nd, 3:00 pm,
Port Hope United Church.
Friends of Music Port
Hope will be the proud sponsors of at Port
Hope United Church.
Conducted by Kerry Stratton, the program will
include works by Rossini, Puccini and Donizetti with special appearances by
guitarist Claudio Marcotulli and soprano Iris Rodriguez.
Port Hope Friends of Music is the first stop on the
orchestra's debut Canadian tour.
"An Enchanted Afternoon: Songs of Love from
Screen and Stage."
Sunday, November 2nd, 2:00 pm.
A.K. & Bob Sculthorpe Theatre, Capitol
Tickets $20.00 Programme includes songs and duets
from various movies and musicals. Sepideh Eslahjou, Soprano, Brett Chapman,
Tenor, Danny McErlain, Accompanist.
Steven Thachuk - Classical Guitarist
Sunday, November 2nd, 2:00 pm
The Citizens Forum, Victoria Hall Cobourg. Mr. Thacuk's repertoire spans from
the Baroque to the Beatles. He has performed most of the major concertos in
the guitar repertoire with orchestra and has had concerts broadcast on NPR in
America and
the CBC in Canada.
Tickets are $20.00 each and are available through the Box office or at the
door.
Monday Musicals Matinees – 2:00 pm - at the Cobourg Public Library
No musical, but Spiderwick Chronicles at 3:00 pm
Tuesday
Classic Movie Matinées – 2:00 pm – at the Port Hope Public Library
Gilda (1946). Rita Hayworth sizzles
in this film noir classic, from her first hair toss to her near-striptease
while singing "Put the Blame on Mame."
Furby Books Presents: Meet Joseph Boyden -
Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist
Wednesday, 8:00 pm, Sculthorpe Theatre at the Capitol
Joseph Boyden is a Canadian with Irish, Scottish,
and Métis roots. Three Day Road
has received the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the McNally
Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award and has also been shortlisted for
the Governor General Award for Fiction and published in 10 languages. He is
the author of Born with a Tooth, a collection of stories that was shortlisted
for the Upper Canada Writer’s Craft Award. Visit www.josephboyden.com
Nudes And Neutrons – The Northumberland
Learning Connection
Thursday, 7:00 pm at the
Davies Centre, Trinity College
School, Port Hope
The Northumberland Learning Connection's lecture
series, Nudes & Neutrons: Leaps of Imagination in
Art & Science, The series takes place on six Thursday
evenings, with five lectures, and the film, Sketches of Frank
Gehry.
Paul Hoffert is a visionary
with solid credentials in both arts and technology. He studied mathematics
and physics at the University of Toronto
and worked at the National Research Council in Ottawa,
but he is better known as a recording artist, performer, author, film
composer, and co-founder of Lighthouse, a rock group that sold millions of
records and earned three Juno Awards as one of Canada’s
leading pop bands. He was the first artist to chair the Ontario Arts Council
(1994-97). Paul is a professor of Fine Arts at York
University, former Faculty Fellow
at Harvard Law
School, and founder of CulTech
Research Centre. The Financial Post named him a New Mandarin along with Bill
Gates
Single lecture tickets $25. For series tickets or
more information, call Joanne Bonebakker,905-349-3402, visit www.northumberlandlearningconnection.ca
Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings
Thursday, 8:00 pm Capitol
Theatre complete schedule HERE
Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings is a brand-new show
that offers the best of Forever Plaid tied-up in a nifty package with a big
Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas standards that have all been
“Plaid-erized,” our boys are back to do their Christmas Special.
At first they aren’t sure why they’ve returned, but a phone call
from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they’re needed
to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the
Christmas offerings are audience favorites like their riotous three minute
and eleven second version of “The Ed Sullivan Show” - this time
featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, and a Plaid
Caribbean Christmas which puts the “Day-O” in Excelsis! This is
one holiday treat that is truly “heaven-sent!”
At The Oasis,
Cobourg
Wednesday – 7:00 pm
– tba
At The Mill,
Cobourg
Thursday – 7:00 pm – Flat Rock
What’s
Coming At The Opera
Doctor Atomic (Met Premiere) – Adams
Saturday, November 8, (1:00 pm ET)
John Adams’s contemporary masterpiece explores
a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb.
Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that
changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the title character. Conductor:
Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady,
Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink
What’s
Coming – At The Lectures, Readings and Book Launches
Writers & Friends
Sunday November 9th at LeVan
Hall, Trinity College
School, Port Hope. Readings
by some of Canada’s
most engaging authors, a question & answer session, book signings, a
gourmet buffet, music, a grand silent auction and a select live art auction. Contributors
to this year’s event include popular biographers Charlotte Gray and
Richard Gwyn, novelist Helen Humphreys, writer and founding co- president of
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Dr. James Orbinski, and special guest, Farley
Mowat. Writers & Friends will once again be moderated by Globe & Mail
writer and TCS alumnus, Ian Brown.
Among Writers & Friends Live Art Auction donations this year are works by
Stephen Gilberry, Andrew Gregg, George Raab, Shelagh Stewart, Tony Urquhart,
and Andrew Manyengedzo of the Zim Art Studio of stone sculpture, as well as
the much anticipated “Week in the South ”.
Tickets are available for $ 110 ($ 65 tax receipt) at Furby House Books, Port
Hope and Horizons of Friendship. Horizons at 905 372- 5483, e-mail info@horizons.ca
or visit www.horizons.ca <http://www.horizons.ca/>
“Changing Ways” Book
Launch
Friday, Nov 28th, 7:30 pm at "Meet at 66
King East"66 King Street E., Cobourg, the The book launch of an
anthology of 6 Northumberland writers: Shane Joseph and Brian
Mullally of Cobourg, Fran O'Hara and Jean Benitz of Port Hope, and Len
D'agostino and Patricia Calder of Colborne. The publisher is
Hidden Brook Press of Brighton. Entry fee of $13.00
pays for a copy of the book or any other HBP book. Book launch special price
at the door only. For further information about the book go to: http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/b-ChangingWays.html
What’s Coming? - At The Theatre
The Capitol 2008 Fall Season This November the Port Hope Festival Theatre will
be presenting Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings
which brings back the "Plaid Tidings" crew in a wonderful new
Christmas musical. Then in December
the "7th Annual Christmas Panto", Hansel
& Gretel. Filled with comedy, music and mayhem
this show has become a family tradition over the years
The Odd Couple - Female Version
November 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 8:00 pm with a 2:00 pm matinee on November 15. Tickets are $25.00 each or $135.00 for a
table of six. Cabaret style- l 905 372-2210 for tickets.
Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger
and Olive Madison that is! Neil Simon's updated version on this contemporary
classic looks at life from the female point of view - instead of playing
poker as in the original version, the girl friends are invited for an evening
of Trivial Pursuit.
Lend Me A Tenor
November 8th to December 6th
at the Park Playhouse, Cobourg
World famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is
to perform OTHELLO for the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. Saunders, the
general manager, hopes this will put Cleveland
on the operatic map, Morelli is late, and when he arrives it is too late to
rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious set of mishaps, Il Stupendo is
given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has
consumed, and he passes out. His pulse is so low Saunders and his assistant
Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an
aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli’s
Othello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he is Tito. Max
succeeds admirably, but Tito comes in and gets into his other costume. Now
TWO Othellos are running around in costume and two women are running round in
lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo,
while the Bellhop continues to try to meet Il Stupendo.
Marigold's Wings
November 29th, 7:00 pm, Warkworth Centre For The Arts. A magical play for
children aged 5-10, based on the award-winning book by Vlasta van Kampen, it tells the story of the migration of monarch
butterflies to Mexico.
705-924-1230
What’s
Coming? - At The Concerts
Christmas - The Magic Ornament
November 15 & 16 at 2 pm; (St.
John’s United Church, Campbellford)
November 22 & 23 at 2 pm; (The Barn)
A new Christmas Musical based on an original story
by Michael Nitsch. Original music by Michael Nitsch and Brian Finley
Join Victor and his family as their traditional
Christmas is transformed when a magical decoration opens up a portal into
another world. The Westben Choruses join forces in this choral adaptation of
an original story and music by Michael Nitsch. Blending favourite Christmas
traditions with an unexpected sense if magic and imagination, the 75 minute
production is suitable for the entire family and groups of all ages.
Performances at St. John’s
are in a comfortable church setting while performances at the Barn require
warm winter wear, including footwear. Hot apple cider and propane patio
heaters help, but please be advised that The Barn is not insulated. Westben
Youth Chorus, Westben Teen Chorus, Westben Festival Chorus Donna Bennett
& Brian Finley, directors
$15-$30 (Ask about the Family pass) Campbellford,
1-705-653-5508 or 1-877-883-5777 www.westben.ca
Shane Yellowbird
Saturday November 15, 8:00 pm
at the Park Playhouse, Cobourg
Country Music Award Winner & Canada's very own
Country Music Star Shane Yellowbird.
What’s Coming – At
The Festivals
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What’s
On–Classes And Workshops
Stephen Snider Art Classes
9:00 to
noon. At the Grafton Community
Centre. 8 weeks is 115.00 plus gst for
a total of 120.75..or 15.00 per
class on a pay as you go basis. (705) 924-9388
8 Art Journaling Sessions
Grief Support Group For Children 9-11 yrs old
Wednesdays, Oct. 8 - 29 & Nov. 5 -
26.Closing, 6:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m., Parent meeting: Dec. 3, 2008. At Hospice Northumberland, 259 Divison St.,
Cobourg
With Terry Marrocco, Art Therapist and Educator
Art Journaling is a creative and healing way for a
child to get in touch with their feelings in a small supportive group
setting. No perceived artistic ability
is needed.
Who is Art Journaling For: • Children grieving
the loss of a loved one.
Presenter:
Terry Marrocco, Advanced diploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art
Therapy Institute, Master of Education through the University
of Toronto. Terry is in private practice serving
children, adults, groups in Cobourg/Port Hope area.
Cost: Free of charge. Number in group is
limited. Terry Marrocco is
volunteering her services as a qualified Art Therapist,
Hospice is sponsoring the space and art materials. Pre-registration required:
Before September 26,
2008. Please call Peggy:
905-373-8875
Northumberland Academy Of Music
At The Port Hope Rec. Centre Learn the art of music through
singing, dancing, musical games, Use of rhythmic instruments, and an
introduction to Suzuki Tone Chimes. This a fun program with a strong emphasis
on vocal technique. Private vocal and piano lessons are also available. Call
Audrey Mead to register and for more information.
905-885-5146 audreymead.mom@mac.com
What’s
Coming – At The Shows and Exhibitions
Christmas at Presqu’ile, Presqu’ile Provincial Park, Brighton.
17th. Annual Christmas at Presqu’ile Arts
and Crafts Show & Sale.
November 1 & 2, 5, 8 & 9
at Presqu’ile Provincial Park,
Brighton, Ontario.
Over 100 artisans’ work will be beautifully displayed in the Christmas
House. Enjoy refreshments in the Stonehedge Tearoom. Visit with local
Artists, Linda Barber, Rose Brown and Doug Comeau at the Lighthouse
Art Gallery.
Free entrance to the Park and our Show. The
Friends’ Lighthouse Gift Shop will also be open for last minute gifts.
Hours are from 10AM
to 4PM daily. More information?
Contact us at info@friendsofpresquile.on.ca
or 613-475-1688.
Practically Potty Studio 3rd Annual Christmas
Open House
Saturday, Nov 8 & Sunday, Nov 9, 10:00 am to
4:00 pm, 4166, 4th Line (west off Country Rd 10) Port Hope.
Featuring the fine art and craft of Susan McDonald, Tannice
Goddard, Brenda Sullivan, Marily Alpress, Susan
Lago, Gwen Holmes and Sue Tate, and pottery students. We'll have a
crackling fire, mulled wine, fabulous treats by Gwen & friends, and the
house will be all decked out for the Holiday Season. 905-753-2731
A Harvest
of Christmas Delights
Friday, November 14th, 7:00 -10:00 pm; Saturday & Sunday. Nov.15th &16th, 10:00 am-5:00 pm The village of Welcome property of Kathryn McHolm, #4749 Cty.
Rd. 2, 1 km. north of 401, north of the Town of Port hope
Candles light your way to hot cider & a harvest
of artist created gifts fibre arts, handmade glass beads (lampworks), cards,
handmade soap, beeswax candles, tinwork, spinning and handmade woollen goods,
artwork, creative delectables, baskets, natural toiletries,pottery,
artist created tree hangers & more.
The works of: Veronica Derry, Karen Elmquist,
Elizabeth Barlow, Carrie Osborne,Jane Weeks, Kathryn McHolm, Sue Tate,
Rebecca Brown & others
Saturday & Sunday only take part in GATHERING of
the GREENS.Gather up boughs of evergreens for decorating your home for the
season.Potted trees, berries,and dried materials
will also be available. We can even
help you make a wreath.
Proceeds from the sale of "greens" (and
reds) go to PORT HOPE
HERITAGE ECOLOGY
GARDEN. all enquiries 905.753.2196 or kathrynsgarden@sympatico.ca
What’s
Coming? –
At The Movies
NFS FALL SEASON 2008 - Northumberland Mall
Theatres at 4 00 p.m.
October 5th - The Visitor; October 19th - The Stone
Angel; November 2nd - Amal
November 16th - Brideshead Revisted; The last two Fall Season
dates are: December 7, 2008
and January 11, 2009. PRICE: $40 for each package of 6 tickets
BONUS: First 40 packages sold will receive one free single movie ticket
What’s
On – At The Competitions
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