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ACN Authors
Of The Week:
Mark Clement, Linda Hutsell-Manning,
and Ron Waddling
are among the local authors who will be signing books and whose work will be
on sale just in time for unique Christmas gifts on Sunday,
November 30th, 1:00 – 4:00 pm at
the Cobourg Public Library.
Shelagh Purcell –
musician. Purcell has been instrumental in editing and publishing the diary
of her father, a Hong Kong prisoner. Book launch and
sale Sunday, November
30th. 2:00 – 4:00 pm. Announcement below.
From The
Arts Council
Are you the “Unkown
Artist”? A free webpage is included in your $20.00 membership in the Arts
Council of Northumberland. For more info click HERE
Dance Ontario: Information On Dance Activities In Northumberland Wanted
Any or all of the following: Festivals, Musicals,
Visiting dance artists performing and/or teaching workshops, Extra-curricular
dance after school, Dance in curriculum, Student matinee field trips [please
tell us who the artist and/or presenter is], School dance recitals,
Competitions. You can submit this information to: Jessica Westermann, Program
Manager, jessica@danceontario.ca or Rosslyn Jacob
Edwards, Executive Director, rcj@danceontario.ca.
The Forsyth Review - The Odd Couple.
It’s the 1990s. Olive Madison, a single woman
who wears running shoes, ball caps on backwards and is a total slob, has
women friends Mickey, Sylvie, Renee, Vera and Florence over to her apartment
every Friday to play Trivial Pursuit. One Friday evening Florence Unger
doesn’t show up. We very quickly learn that she has been dumped by her
husband of 14 years, is devastated and has nowhere to go. She is a total neat
freak to the point of driving everyone to distraction and she constantly
makes terrible noises to clear her sinuses. Despite all this Olive takes her
in and we have the beginning of The Odd Couple, Female
Version. And it is very, very funny. Slob Olive and neat freak
Florence are a
treat.
I hope you didn’t miss this play put on by the
Victorian Operetta Society at Victoria Hall. It was written by Neil Simon shortly after the initial success of his play The Odd Couple on Broadway. You
will remember that Oscar Madison wears running shoes, ball caps on backwards
and is a total slob and Felix Unger is a total neat freak to the point of
driving everyone to distraction and he constantly makes terrible noises to
clear his sinuses. The female version is every bit as funny as the male one
and Clare Tickle as Olive and Jenni Ryan as Florence
are absolute standouts. Which is not to say that the other
actors fall short by any stretch. Smaller parts but equally big
talents. The two gents who play the Spanish single guys upstairs with whom
Olive and Florence have a
disastrous date are also wonderful. Many congrats to the actors, director Gillian Snook and the entire production team. All in all
it was a splendid afternoon; I enjoyed every minute.
Arts Headlines
Woolaver: truth
is 'not all sweetness and light'
Guitar prodigy
Jimmy Bowskill rocks Capitol this weekend
JTTA Gallery
explores the creative spirit
Rita MacNeil brings Christmas to
Playhouse
Come 'Home for
the Holidays' with the La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra
Local authors explore change for new
series
Port Hope songstress says thanks
What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming
Week
Friday Mysteries and More – 2:00 pm Cobourg Public Library
Death of a Cyclist. 1955.
Drama. Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. A
hit-and-run accident reveals the deep divisions in General Franco’s
Spain
“Changing Ways” Book
Launch
Friday, 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
Playing at the Human Bean, Cobourg
Friday, 7:00 pm - YuleSing-a sing-a-long night hosted
by talented musicians from near and far
Lend Me A Tenor
Friday, 7:30 pm 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.
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!”
Marigold's Wings
Saturday, 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
Rita MacNeil's Christmas
Saturday, 2:00 & 7:00 pm
at the Park Playhouse. “There were many warm memories that filled my
heart when I started to write my Christmas songs, and it was truly a labour
of love.”
"Jimmy Bowskill"
Saturday, 7:00 pm at the
Capitol. The 18-year-old guitarist, singer has astounded everyone from The
Allman Brothers Band founder Dickey Betts to ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and
Canadian icons Colin James and the late Jeff Healey.
The Big Easy 7 - Swing and Sway the Big Easy Way
Saturday, 8:00 pm, The Concert
Hall at Victoria Hall, Led by Chris Devlin, enjoy the talents of Lee Batchelor, Don Dawson, Frank Gallimore, Beth Hunt, Scott Lean,
George Lee, P.J. LeConte and Darren Strongman. Tickets are $15.00
per show or purchase the whole series for $50.00 (+GST). Call the Box Office
to reserve your spot. For more information, please visit www.bigeasy7.com.
Book Launch and Sale - A Hong Kong Diary Revisited - The Family
Remembers
Sunday, November 30th
, 2:00 – 4:00 pm , the Mill Restaurant Cobourg.
The book was edited in part by
Shelagh Purcell, the daughter of Lieut. Corrigan
In 1941, Lieutenant Leonard B.
Corrigan was among the nearly 2,000 Canadians sent by their government to
defend Hong Kong. The battle lasted 17
days and the survivors spent the next three and a half years as prisoners of
war of the Japanese. This is the diary kept by Lieutenant Corrigan during
those years, the story of who he was, the family he
left at home, and his life when he returned to Canada.
"Home For The
Holidays",
Sunday, 3:00 pm, Port Hope
United Church. - La Jeunesse Youth
Orchestra kicks off the 10th season
Tickets are $15, $12 for students, or $40 for a family pass of 4 tickets, at www.ljyo.ca,
at the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre in Port Hope, and at Victoria Hall in
Cobourg.
Wassail Bowl - East Durham Historical Society
Sunday, 2:00-4:00 pm, Dorothy's House Museum, 3632 Ganaraska
Rd., Garden Hill. Traditional punch,
refreshments and music. Free admission, all welcome. Info: Ron Getz at
905 797-2247
Monday Musicals Matinees – 2:00 pm - at the Cobourg Public Library
All That Jazz, US, 1979, Directed by Bob
Fosse. Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange Semi-fictional biography of Bob Fosse.
Classic Comedy Tuesdays at the Port Hope Public
Library – 2:00 pm
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Arthurian mayhem from the Python usual suspects
Nudes And Neutrons – The Northumberland
Learning Connection
Thursday, 7:00 pm at the
Davies Centre, Trinity College
School, Port Hope
The Reality of Time, is presented by Lee Smolin, physicist, founding member of the Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo,
and author of three books including The Trouble with Physics.
For more information, call Joanne Bonebakker at 905-349-3402, or visit www.northumberlandlearningconnection.ca
At The Oasis,
Cobourg
Wednesday – 7:00 pm
– tba
At The Mill,
Cobourg
Thursday – 7:00 pm – Born Yesterday
What’s
Coming At The Opera Broadcasts “Live From The Met”
Thaďs (New Production) – Massenet
Saturday, December 20, 12:00 pm
(Sung in French)
Renée Fleming stars as the Egyptian courtesan in
search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from
grace. Massenet’s sensual opera is presented in a new production by
John Cox. Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos; Production: John Cox; Renée Fleming,
Thomas Hampson, Michael Schade
What’s
Coming – At The Lectures, Readings and Book Launches
Port Hope Library Open House
December 5th,
9:00 AM Christmas Open House
9:30 am Bill
Slavin, award-winning children's illustrator
10:30 am Melody
Crowe, First Nations story-teller
1:30 pm Jean Rae Baxter,
Red Maple Award nominated author of The Way Lies North and the new book
Looking for Cardenio
2:30 Pat Bryan,
local author, reads A Child's Christmas in Port Hope. Mr. Bryan will
also be reading at St. Mark's Church Christmas Concert on Saturday, December
6th, at 6:30 pm.
3:30 Farley Mowat
reads from his new book Otherwise.
4:30 Ed Greenwood
reads from J.K. Rowling's new book Tales of the Beetle Bard.
Refreshments - Kids' Crafts -
Book sales and author signings
The Fall
Friday, December 19th, 7:00 pm, 66 King Street East,
Cobourg. Words and music including verses from Paradise
Lost celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton. Tickets $20.00 Include coffee and dessert.
Tickets available at 66 King. A benefit performance for Habitat for Humanity
Northumberland
Seating is limited. Music from Phillip Hughes, Cathy
Lyons, Greg Ward.
Readers Wernfrid Döll, Andrew Gregg, Eric Winter, Erin
Thompson
Andrew Gregg Lectures at the Art Gallery of Northumberland
January 26th continuing into
February, 7:00 pm. The topics : comparative landscape painting (Canadian and
Australian style), Bernini and the Baroque, Matisse and his influence, and
modernity and cathedral art.Tickets are $10 per lecture or $35 for all four. For
more information, contact the gallery at 905-372-03
What’s Coming? - At The Theatre And Dance
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
Spirit Dancers
Sunday, Nov.30, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, the Fusion Wellness Studio, 210
Willmott St., Unit 5, Cobourg. We are dancing
community. For more info: Astrid at achudson@sympatico.ca, website: http://www.cbgscdance.wetpaint.com
"Hansel & Gretel"
December 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st
at the Capitol
The 6th Annual family Christmas Ferry Tale allows
you to cheer at the heroes
and boo at the villains. Great
fun for all. Matinee & Evening Performances
What’s
Coming? - At The Concerts
Rev. Max Woolaver In Concert
Friday, November 28th, 8:00 pm
at the Lawless Gallery, Grafton,. Admission will be
$15. The performance is in support of his 5th recording, ‘The
Innocence.” The CD will be available for sale that evening. A portion
of the funds will be donated to support the 2009 Shelter Valley Folk
Festival. Max Woolaver is a fine songwriter with a reputation as an engaging
entertainer. He has twice played the prestigious NXNE Festival in Toronto.
After his first performance at this music industry festival, he was offered
national distribution by Festival Distribution of Vancouver, BC. He has also
been showcased at the International Folk Festival and Canada Music Week. He
was ‘Pick of the
Writer’s Nights’ at Nashville’s
well known Bluebird Café.
"The Essentials"
Friday, December 5th, 7:30 pm
at the Capitol. This four piece acapella doo/wop group provides a high-energy,
entertaining and fun-filled show to
help kick off the Christmas Season
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 6th, 7:00 pm
St. John’s United
Church, Campbellford. Performed
by S. John’s Choir and Friends. Directed by: Ron Greidanus,
harpsichordist and Artistic Director of Georgetown Bach Chorale
Soprano: Kim McNeil;Mezzo Soprano: Kim Dafoe;Tenor :
Tom Sharpe
Bass: Blaine
Sharpe, free will offering, information: (705) 653-2283
A Child's Christmas In Port Hope - a story of
fifty years ago.
Saturday December 6th, 7.30 pm
St Mark's Anglican Church, 51 King Street
in Port Hope. St Mark's Church Choir
is again presenting a pre-Christmas concert of popular and sacred music,
based around a dramatic reading of "A Child's Christmas in Port
Hope" by local writer Pat Bryan,
read by the author himself. The concert features the St Mark's choir and
bell-ringers, directed by organist Randy Mills,
FRCCO, performances by 'Simply Strings', under the direction of Deborah
Henderson, the guitar and voices of Kelly and Warren Ambrose, and others. Music
will include O Christmas Tree, Good King Wenceslaus, O Little Town of
Bethlehem and other seasonal favourites. Christmas refreshments will follow the
concert, and copies of "A Child's Christmas in Port Hope', signed by the
author, will be available for purchase. Tickets are $10 each ($5 for children
12 and under) $20 for a family. Phone (905) 373-0867 for details and tickets.
"Christmas
Wonderland" – Northumberland
Orchestra And Choir
Sunday, December 7, 3:00 pm
at Trinity United
Church, 15
Chapel Street, Cobourg, This light-hearted start
to the Festive Season includes the Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Delius' Sleigh
Ride, together with other pieces, ending with a Christmas Sing-along.
"Barra MacNeils - A Celtic Christmas"
Wednesday, December 10th, 8:00 pm
at the Capitol
A Celtic Christmas is a musical potpourri of
traditional MacNeil family favourites
www.barramacneils.com/
The Oriana Singers Present ‘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
"Cheryl Dunn - Emmanuel White
Christmas"
Sunday, December 14th, 7:00 pm
at the Capitol
Cheryl's Christmas Show with the Sweet Adelines www.cheryldunn.com/
"John Landry"
Sunday, December 21st,
7:30 pm
at the Capitol. John's Annual Christmas show. www.jlandry.com/
What’s Coming – At
The Auditions
Auditions – Brighton Barn Theatre - Over the River and Through the Woods
This play is a comedy about family relationships,
specifically, intergenerational ones. Required are 3 men and 3 women between
the ages of 25 and 75. Come out and see if there is a part for which you
would be perfect!
Auditions will will be held
Sunday, November 30 at 2:00 pm and Monday, December 1 at 7:00 pm; Rehearsals will
begin in February. Performances are from April 17th to May 2nd.
What’s
On–Classes And Workshops
Northumberland Hook and Needles Guild.
This friendly, creative group of knitters meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each Month! First Thursday is
“Knitter-Knatter”, including: Business Meeting, Treasurer’s
Report, Library Exchange, Knitting News, Show and Tell. Bring your knitting
to share, discuss and inspire! The 3rd Thursday includes: Presentation of a
Topic of interest, Show and Tell, Questions & answers, Problem Solving
and Library Exchange.
Dec. 18/08 Kindness Incentive Celebration; Jan.
22/09Website:Yarn, Info., Patterns
Feb. 19/09 Slipstitch Knitting; Mar. 19/09
Blocking Tips; Apr. 16/09 Cowichan Sweaters; May 21/09 Magic Loop Knitting;
June 18/09 Knitting Challenge Finale
For a complete listing of all workshops, classes
and lessons, on our website, please click HERE
New At ‘Ganaraska Art
& Framing’, Port Hope 905-885-1323
Ted Amsden is Teaching Photography
Basic Drawing / Acrylic / Water Color Techniques
with Stewart Syrett
Digital Scrapbooking with Danielle Boughen
Basic Drawing & Watercolor Course for Young
People with Hilda Van Netten
What’s
Coming – At The Shows, Exhibitions and Tours
Textiles Showcase
Saturday, November 29th and 30th, 12:00 – 5:00 pm
at 22 Barrett Street,
Port Hope. The newly formed Textile Collective (Veronica
Derry, Susan MacDonald, Melodie Massey, Peggy Mersereau and Alice Vander
Vennen) will showcase their work. 905 885 6224. 10% of sales to go
to local food banks
Kawartha Potters Guild 12th Juried Christmas
Show & Sale
Friday, November 28th, 4:00 -9:00 pm; Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00 pm; Sunday, 11:00 – 5:00 pm, Lions Community Centre, Peterborough.
247 Burnham St, just
south of Hunter St,
featuring some of the regions best potters and clay artists. Original
functional & decorative work. Stoneware, Porcelain, Raku &
Smoke-Fired techniques.
DEMOS, DOOR PRIZE, FREE ADMISSION. Free parking,
wheelchair accessible
Christmas in Cobourg House Tour
November 29th, 10:00 am and 4:00 pm
Six Cobourg and area homes, all decked out in their Christmas finery, will be
featured on this very popular tour. Proceeds to local charitable
organizations. Tickets are $20.00 and have sold out in previous years. Tickets
are available at the Box Office, Cobourg Tourism office at Dressler House,
the Buttermilk Café and Northumberland Central Chamber of Commerce in the
Northumberland Mall
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 Revisited; 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
Singer/Songwriter Contest
Sunday, December 14th
The Great Farini Restaurant & Bar, Port Hope; first prize is a
3 song recording session (value $850). To register for contest email james@wheretheyplay.ca.
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