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The newsletter of the Arts Council Of Northumberland Arts Northumberland |
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The Arts Council Of Northumberland is a non-profit
volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life within our
community by developing widespread appreciation of, support for and
involvement in the arts and culture. This newsletter covers theatre, music, lectures,
films, workshops and exhibitions. A separate, edition is devoted to the visual
arts and galleries. Past issues of the newsletters are available HERE.
A long-range calendar of events is available HERE. Arts and cultural organizations wishing to place
events on the long-range calendar please notify Oliver Steins at soliver@cogeco.net
ACN Member Of The Week Diana Cohen – mixed
media artist “Floundering woman/artist, Gypsy spirit, Super Hero wanna-be, Tree hugging nature girl, Dumpster diving
garbage fairy, Ever striving creator of magic.” |
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From The Arts
Council The ACN website now has a map of cultural attractions – galleries,
theatres, museums - in Northumberland. It is a work in progress with the
possibility of including studios, arts supplies stores and other ancillary
businesses. Check it out HERE Cultural Needs Feedback Request
The Community Futures Development
Corporation has issued this survey to help determine the specific needs of
the cultural sector in terms of access to capital. By completing this survey,
the Northumberland artistic and cultural community will enable CDFC to
analyze the collective needs of this crucial sector and help shape new
lending policies. Please click on the monkey to take the survey at
surveymonkey.com. Exposure! Exposure! Exposure! Want Lots of Visitors on your Webpage? 1,200 to 1,400 different people visit the
ACN website each month.
For more info on membership, click HERE Arts Headlines First Stages Theatre Announces
New Season.
After much negotiating and waiting, Artistic Director, Robert
Latimer-Cornell is now able to officially announce the 2009-2010
Season for First Stages Theatre Company. From The Blogs:
The Ramblin’ Rose Arts
Report: The Spirit Of The Hills Tries Art Show And
Sale At Golden Beach Car Event Our visual arts organizations are
constantly on the lookout for suitable venues to showcase their ‘products’.
And like Beth Rhind, they have to be ready to
experiment. As one of the Spirit of the Hills artists put it, "you never
know until you try it". Neurartic Blog in Bruno Saskatchewan community building and the “creative
class”. I'll
bet she'd have a thing or two she could teach big-city politicians about
community-building and the "creative class". Richard Florida might
want to consider inviting her to deliver a guest lecture at the Not a Nice Place to Visit, and I Wouldn't
Want to Live There, Either ROM-ruining architect Daniel Libeskind has just
unveiled "Villa", a "luxury" mass-produced pre-fab house that can be shipped and assembled anywhere in
the world. How Young Artists Live
the artists being the couple whose work is on display at the gallery.
Whether the economy is good or bad, young artists have always been adept at
finding creative ways of supporting themselves and their artmaking.
For some, this means leaving the city for a more affordable rural or small town existence. The Wally Keeler Blog - Poetry Reading At The Meet
It was my second occasion to enjoy an evening of poetry at
The Meet, A Doggie Do Dump In Victoria Park I went to see ‘Sheltering Form’, the sculpture made by local resident, Frances Gage, that now sits in Victoria Park. What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming Week Playing at the Human Bean,
Cobourg – Friday,
- Ruth
Wilkinson St John's Boys' Choir To Sing in Port Hope,
Friday, 7:00 pm in the Memorial Chapel, Trinity College School, Ward St.,
Port Hope Thirty-six boys from the US Midwest, ages
10 to 14, will include a concert stop in Port Hope as guests of two local
churches. In
their nearly thirty years of singing the Choir has performed in ten countries
on three continents. Their local stop is being hosted by families of young
singers at St Mark's Anglican Church, Port Hope, and St Mary's RC Church,
Grafton. These local children will join their visitors in a piece by John Rutter at a concert to be held. The American choir will
perform a wide selection of music, including Gregorian chant (appropriate,
considering their connection to a Benedictine abbey!), American and Canadian
spirituals and folksongs, and Vaughan Williams' "Let All the World"
with local organist Randy Mills. Admission is $10 at the door ($25 for a
family group of three or more). Port
Hope Festival Theatre "Rock n' Roll Drive-In" The
John de Visser Portfolio, Saturday, 2:00 pm –
4:00 pm, opening reception at the
Songs of
War & Peace Saturday, Ron James - "Mental as
Anything" Saturday, June 27, AGN Cobourg: The John de Visser Portfolio, Saturday, 2:00 pm –
4:00 pm, opening reception. A
selection of photographs from this renowned photographer's collection of work
from 1980 to 2000 will be featured. The Art Gallery of Northumberland owns
100 of his color photographs. Photographs are primarily Canadian in subject. What’s Coming – At The Lectures, Poetry, Music, Conversation
and Wine. Thursday, July 16th, Frances Gage: Unlikely What’s Coming? - At The Theatre And Dance The
summer season at the Fourth Line Theatre HERE Port
Hope Festival Theatre "Rock n' Roll Drive-In" What’s Coming? - At The Concerts Opening Gala at Westben. To
Joy! Beethoven’s 9th & Tchaikovsky’s 1st with soloists,
orchestra and 100 voice choir, Saturday July 4, at 7:30 pm, To Joy! (Saturday
Evening Cosi fan tutte - Comic Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Saturday
July 11, at 2:00 pm. also Sunday, July 12 at 2:00 pm at
Westben, Campbellford. Don’t miss Mozart’s masterpiece
celebrating the steadfast fickleness of love! Nancy Hermiston leads the UBC
Opera Ensemble. (Fully staged, in Italian,... The Fab
Four, Friday, July 17th, Tickets
are on sale now for the Capitol Fall Series: Susan Aglukark / Dawn Langstroth, Saturday, October 3rd at Dini Petty – A Broad View, Friday, October 9th at Valdy, Saturday,
October 17th at “1000 Kisses
Deep” – A Celebration Of Leonard Cohen, Thursday, October 22nd at “Sweet Dreams” – A Tribute
To Patsy Cline, Friday,
October 23rd at Dan Hill – An
Intimate Evening,
Saturday, November 21st at John Mcdermott, Saturday, November 28th at LJYO 2009 / 2010
Concert Dates at Port Hope United Church Home for the
Holidays, Sunday November 29th; In the Spotlight, Sunday February
21st, Sonic Bloom, Sunday May 16th. What’s Coming – At The Auditions tba What’s On And Coming – At The Shows, Exhibitions and Coming to the Upstairs Gallery,
Port Hope. Four From Northumberland - Rosemary Avery, Doug Haddow, Herb Jung, Liza Quinn
June 28th – August 1st , Opening Reception Sunday June 28, The Northumberland
Potters - Open to
all artisans/potters who work in clay, meeting on the 4th Monday of the
Month, rotating location. Please contact Susan McDonald 905-753-2731 for
information New to the AGN's
Permanent Collection. The Art Gallery of Northumberland's Collection Committee
has received a number of gifts to the collection during the past year. The
recent acquisitions will be listed in the annual report and they are grateful
to all who have made these contributions to the gallery. Recently, the AGN
was offered four drawings by Harriet Clench.
Clench was Paul Kane's wife and the
daughter of Cobourg furniture manufacturer Freeman Clench. Peace for Wayne Mondok at Ganaraska Art and Framing, Port Hope, June 1st to June 30th Hours: Monday to Saturday 10;00 am - 5:00
pm. At A.K. Collings
Gallery, Port Hope "Ties that Bind". Robert Malinowski and Erin Glover
are two young artists who departed for their honeymoon in NYC (really!) on
the weekend following the opening. They have produced a series of drawings
which are romantic and just a tiny bit odd...capturing the truth and
intensity of married life. Svava Thordis Juliusson is a sculptor who works with zip ties
and other found materials. She will be installing sculpture from the "Svona, Svona" series. (this is a term of consolation in Icelandic, roughly
meaning "there, there"). Melanie MacDonald –
opening " MacDonald was included in the
"Emerging Artist" category for the Magenta Foundation's book, Carte
Blanche 2, which honours Tim Stanford,-Photographer, at the Human
Bean, Cobourg, in June. "Photography has been a great passion of mine for
ten years. I seek inspiration from the everyday beauty that surrounds us and
enjoy capturing special details in each and every one of my compositions smART Creating Joy July 25 - August
6, 2009 Tues - Sat, 10:00 am to 4 :30 pm. Opening reception Saturday, July
25, 2 pm - 7 pm, at Scott’s Barn Cultural Centre. An exhibition of paintings and ceramic
art by Catherine McIntosh Jeffery, Molly Moldovan, Judith Myers & Josef Roschar. The artists will be in attendance Saturday, July
25 & Saturday August Wendi Robbins at
Gallery 121 Exhibits on a
permanent basis: Gallery 121 Belleville (Member), Upstairs Gallery: Port
Hope, SideStreet Gallery: The Cobourg Art Club
has a display of paintings upstairs at The Mill Restaurant ,
Cobourg --an eclectic mix of original work in all media. Zed Woman and the City” The Colborne
Art Gallery, an
exhibition of work by Annie McDonald &
gallery artists. The show will be on through August 2nd. Ms.
McDonald states the show is "an exploration of one mythic figure's transformative
powers", and resembles walking into a graphic novel. Several mediums are
employed to make the work, from stone and ceramics to fabrics and wire. The
city is the rhetorical device used to depict the relationships of humanity
with environment.” Spirit
of the Hills, Franziska Windover
to June 30th at Campbellford Library. The calm of early morning and soft music
invokes the creative spirits for this self-taught pencil artist. She states
that she has the utmost respect for texture, depth and shading which she
combines to capture a most accurate representation of the image in pencil. Local
Ink by fine art photographer Gary Mulcahey at the Spirit of the Hills presents two Heart Of The John De Visser Portfolio, June 25th -
July 30th, opening reception June 27th, Art de Triomphe 2nd Annual Exhibition & Sale, July 1st to 4th,
9:00am – 5:00 pm Meet at 66 King St. East, Cobourg. Horizons of
Friendship 12th Annual Homes, Gardens & Music Tour - Bi-Annual ACO Port Hope Garden Tour,
Saturday, July 11th, IN A GARDEN July 18th &
19th, Port Hope Estival! is calling for artists to
participate during the August 1st & 2nd
2009 weekend. We would welcome artists in all media & we are encouraging
any artist to demonstrate their work during the festival. Estival
is a 2 day event designed to promote the art, food, music & culture of
Northumberland county & the surrounding area. Please check out the
website www.porthopeestival.ca The Other Canvas September 19,
Westben Campbellford. a unique event
showcasing national and local talent as well as fundraising, presented in the
picturesque Trent Hills of Northumberland County.The
day will begin with a welcome and orientation, followed by a 'Meet &
Greet' with the artists before a live art auction. A sensuous gala dinner
prepared by Executive Chef Robert Buchanan of Acqua Ristorante
e Bar ( Some of the participating artists are:
Robert Bateman, Holly Carr, Charles Pachter, Brent
Butt, Jean Stilwell, and Clermont Duval. The Other Canvas will take place at
Westben Barn Theatre, a magnificent 400-seat timber-frame barn which opens
onto a lush meadow amidst the gently rolling hills of The Northumberland
Potters Christmas Show, November 21st & 22nd What’s Coming? – At The
Movies See the line-up at the
Vintage Film Festival, October 23rd-25th
HERE What’s On – At The Competitions Cobourg Waterfront Festival Photography
Contest. Entries close August 3rd The Cobourg Waterfront Festival invites
individuals to participate in the first annual Cobourg Waterfront Festival
Photography Contest. Subject of photographs must be of 2009 or past Cobourg
Waterfront Festivals taken while festivals were in progress. Full details and
entry forms here: www.waterfrontfestival.ca/photo_contest.htm Arts Blogs We Like |
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‘Neurartic’
– an
eclectic blog by A.K. Collings, Port Hope ‘View On Canadian Art’ Your Cultural Concierge! VoCA offers critical commentary on the Canadian art
scene, with a focus on Art Daily – The first art newspaper on the
net!
This newsletter is edited by
Walter Luedtke. Please send any notices or comments to wluedtke@cogeco.ca. |
