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ACN Artist
Of The Week:
Susan E. McDonald –
potter. Visit the ‘Practically Potty’ open house tomorrow and
Sunday.
The Forsyth Review – The Year Of Magical Thinking
- Magnificent
Jamie Parker At ‘Friends of
Music’ – The Nimblest Fingers In The Business
From The
Arts Council
ACN Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, November 26th at 7:00pm.
The location will be announced. Come between 6:00pm
and 7:00pm, "BYO" - we'll
supply the hors d'oeuvres - and enjoy chatting with other members.
Calling All Writers
Local author book signing and sale, Sunday
November 30th in co-operation with the Cobourg
Public library. Details tba.
Arts Headlines
Lend Me a Tenor is a farce with music
It's a family
affair
Christmas favourite returns with new
Forever Plaid show
Port Hope's Farley Mowat
a much-loved mischief maker
Literary evening supports local charity
What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming
Week
Friday Mysteries and More – 2:00 pm Cobourg Public Library
No movie today.
Playing at the Human Bean, Cobourg
Friday, 7:00 pm - Cheryl Casselman -award winning
country/roots songstress
The Odd Couple - Female Version
Friday and November 8, 13, 14, 15 at 8:00 pm with a 2:00 pm matinee on November 15. At The Concert Hall at Victoria Hall. 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.
Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings
Friday, 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!”
Christmas at Presqu’ile.
November 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.
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
Practically Potty Studio 3rd Annual Christmas
Open House
Saturday and 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
Ron Templer
presents: A Family Affair.
Saturday, 8:00 pm at Meet at 66 King, Cobourg - A selection of trios, duets and solos
from Broadway and beyond by Lauren Russell, Claire Russell and Elly McCall.
$25.00 - includes Dessert and coffee.
Lend Me A Tenor
Saturday 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.
Preview, artist's talk and brunch
Steve Levinson - "A Place Apart"
Sunday, A.K. Collings Gallery inaugural exhibition at the
new location in historic Maitland House, 35 John Street, Port Hope. Meet at
the gallery at 11:00 am for
mimosas, and to preview the exhibition; then cross the street to Zest Bistro
for a fixed price brunch, and the artist's talk. Reserve a place by
contacting the gallery.
Payment for the brunch (approximately $25.00) will be made to Zest on the day
of the event. R.S.V.P.: 905 885 2001 or akcollings@sympatico.ca
Book Launch – Richard Grove – Psycho Babble and the Consternations of Life –
Sunday, 2:00 pm, 66 King
Street East. The
Late Al Purdy A-frame fundraiser book being published by Hidden Brook Press.
This is a call for submissions for poetry and prose for Purdy A-frame
fundraiser book. Poems about Al Purdy or that make reference to Al Purdy and
about Purdy country – the country that Al Purdy lived in, are welcome
for publication in "Purdy Country" and to be read on Sunday.
The Shelter Valley Shapenote Singers
Sunday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
at the Lawless Gallery, 10831 Hwy. 2 in
Grafton. Early American harmony from
the Sacred Harp tradition. All voices and all ages are welcome, and no previous
experience is necessary. Cost is a free-will offering to assist in paying for
the use of the wonderful gallery space.
To learn more about the shape-note tradition, visit http://www.fasola.org .
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
Monday Musicals Matinees – 2:00 pm - at the Cobourg Public Library
Amadeus, Dir: Milos
Forman, 1984, 2h 40m, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Not so much a traditional musical as a film that is
packed with music. Salieri narrates the story of
Mozart’s arrival at the court in Vienna.
Peter Shaffer wrote the film adaptation of his own play
Tuesday
Classic Movie Matinées – 2:00 pm – at the Port Hope Public Library
To Catch a Thief (1955). Grace
Kelly, Cary Grant and the south of France combine to make for
gorgeous scenery in this light-hearted Hitchcock caper.
Barbara Bickell Art
Show
Thursday, 6:30 to 8:00 pm,
opening reception, One Hundred Mile Diner, 17 Main
Street, Warkworth (705 924 9605).
Getting us into the changing season, snow and ice
figure largely in a number of the landscapes.. Cash
bar. Nibbles provided.
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.
Vivian Rakoff
is professor emeritus and former chair of the department of psychiatry, University
of Toronto and former director
and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Clarke Institute, Toronto
(now the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). In addition to his
professional publications he has written plays for radio and television and
is known as a popular lecturer.
Until the end of the 19th century – even until
the end of World War II – much of medicine was practised
in the realms of the creative and the humanistic. There was not much science,
although medicine always aimed towards science. What has changed since then
and what do the changes mean?
Single lecture tickets $25. For series tickets or
more information, call Joanne Bonebakker,905-349-3402, visit www.northumberlandlearningconnection.ca
At The Oasis,
Cobourg
Wednesday – 7:00 pm
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At The Mill,
Cobourg
Thursday – 7:00 pm – Time Lines
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
Poetry, and Music, Conversation and Wine
November 20, 7:30 pm, Meet at 66
King Street East (cafe), Cobourg, featuring
readings by Stuart Ross, Deb Panko
and Roy Kempton.
“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
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
The Cobourg Gogo Getters present Brad Halls (piano and vocals) and
Laura Harp (vocals)
Saturday Nov 15 at 7:00pm at Meet at 66 King East.
Tickets $10 available at Meet at 66 King East. “Someone to Watch
over Me” Classic Songs of Loving and Caring. Also Silent Auction. Details of the silent
auction at www.gogogetters.com.
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.
Wassail , Wassail
Dec 13, 7:30 pm and December 14, 2:00 pm, Victoria Hall
Concert Hall, Cobourg
Here we come a-wassailing with wine, hot cider,
desserts and general good cheer, including a carol sing-a-long with a rousing
“Twelve Days of Christmas” table competition!! Join us again or
come for your first Wassail to see what you’ve been missing in previous
years. You can’t help but get
into the Christmas spirit at an Oriana Singers
Wassail in the rich heritage setting of Victoria Hall.
A portion of the proceeds from these two concerts
will be donated to:
Keystone House. Reserved cabaret seating. Tickets are $35
What’s Coming – At
The Festivals
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What’s
On–Classes And Workshops
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
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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