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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 .John de Visser – photographer. John de Visser’s work is on display at the Art Gallery of
Northumberland and he will be giving a talk on Saturday, July 18th,
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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 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 John de Visser's
work featured at Art Gallery of Northumberland A gift of 100 photographs to the Art
Gallery of Northumberland has blossomed into a one-man show for a local and
nationally-acclaimed photographer,... In a Garden' art show invites viewers to
gallery in Welcome. Local artisans celebrate the season by opening a temporary
art gallery in a mid-summer garden. From The Blogs:
The Arts Northumberland Blog: Port Hope Gallerist
Aurelie Collings loves her work by Peg Mccarthy/Northumberland
News. From pediatric neuro-psychologist to gallery
curator, Aurelie Collings has always been an art collector.Her almost four-year-old A.K. Collings Gallery,
on John Street, Port Hope, has held the work of emerging and established
Canadian artists, and from the beginning, she wanted to "set the bar
high" for her exhibits. The Ramblin’ Rose Arts
Report: tba Neurartic Blog: Widening Gyre
Here is a stream-of-consciousness spiral-inspired art hop on a theme of the
land and the landscape, intervention and impermanence. What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming Week Port Hope Festival
Theatre “The G-String Broke” by Alan Bright. July 16th - August 1st
at the Capitol,
Richard Phillips is just trying to finish writing his new musical. He doesn't
need complications of any kind. So! Who's the blonde on the ledge? When did
the brunette manage to get into his bed? Where did the red dress in the
bathroom come from? Why does his fiancee not trust
him all of a sudden? And! What is that woman doing in his piano? The
"G" String Broke is a zany romp (in the classic tradition of farce)
through the life, lusts and loves of a very confused playwright. The Fab Four, Friday, July 17th, IN A GARDEN July 18th &
19th, Schubertiad: Esterhazy
1809, Saturday July 18, at Westben at The
John de Visser Portfolio, Saturday,
July 18th, 4 Seasons Harp Quartet, Sunday July 19, at The New Northumberland Calling Normandy,
July 3rd -18th, at The Brighton Barn Theatre In tribute to the 65th
anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe, return with us for our
re-creation of a Northumberland radio troop broadcast. Experience once again,
through popular songs, radio sketches and news items of the era, our special
thanks for the Canadian triumphal breakthrough at Summer Movies for Kids, Every Tuesday at Summer Music at St Mark's. Wednesday
evenings 7:30 pm, Historic St Mark's Anglican Church, King S., Port Hope. Info: 905-373-0867.Classical music by
young area musicians. Offering at the door. Wednesday,
July Wednesday, July 29 - 7:30 pm. Gregory Ward, oboe and
Randy Mills, organ. Classical solos old and new for oboe
with solo organ selections. Broadway In The Barn, Thursday July 23rd,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Relaunch of Dragon Clay Pottery, Doc What’s Coming – At The Lectures, Frances Gage: Unlikely Poetry, Music, Conversation
and Wine. August 20th, What’s Coming? - At The Theatre And Dance Summer Movies for Kids, Every Tuesday at The
summer season at the Fourth Line Theatre HERE Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors,
Friday, August 7th, 7:00pm, Victoria Park, Cobourg. The Driftwood Theatre Group, What’s Coming? - At The Concerts Broadway In The Barn, Thursday July 30th and
Friday, July 31st, at Don Ross, Guitar, Sunday, August 2nd, at Julian Austin, Thursday, August 6th, 8:00
pm at the Park, Cobourg, Tickets $31.50 (taxes included) Country music has by
tradition offered itself as a haven to the hard drinking, hard living
misfits, who fought their way back to the light. Julian Austin is one of
these – a maverick, renegade, rebel and after
a lifetime of struggles has now earned the respected title of “The Bad
Boy With The Big Heart” of country music. What’s Coming – Workshops The life drawing group
that Melanie Browne runs at the Upstairs
Gallery in Port Hope on Tuesday nights is having a day-long pose on August 4th from Kathryn McHolm: Learn how to watercolour, find your painting hand again or just
want to have a change of scenery. An on site afternoon of landscape painting
once or twice a month - July until October,1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, weekdays
or weekend (your preference) ~ $30./session, 4-8 people/class. 3 sessions
paid in advance (need own supplies). 905-753-2196,
kathrynsgarden@sympatico.ca or register at In A Garden July 18/19 held in
Kathryn's Welcome garden What’s On And Coming – At The Shows, Exhibitions and Elizabeth Wilson is showing nine paintings
until the end of July at Furby House Books, Port
Hope. At the Upstairs Gallery, Port
Hope. Four From Northumberland - Rosemary Avery, Doug Haddow,
Herb Jung, Liza Quinn June 28th –
August 1st , Susan Caron’s work can be seen at
Munro’s, Anita Gutteridge
at Kingsley’s Korner, Louise Aronson, Evelyn Van Hoekelen,
Campbellford Public Library. A number of the paintings featured were inspired by her
visit to At A.K. Collings Gallery, Port Hope "Melanie MacDonald –MacDonald was included in the
"Emerging Artist" category for the Magenta Foundation's book, Carte
Blanche 2, which honours Canada's best and most
promising artists. The book was launched at the Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art (MOCCA) in November, 2008. She is a young artist whose work is
well worth seeing (and collecting). 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, 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 1st. The San
Murata Trio will be playing jazz on the afternoon of Aug. 1 from 2:00 to 5:00
while the artists will also be present (music and paintings). 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.” 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 Other
Canvas auction tickets are in great demand and there is a limited number
available. A person may attend the auction portion for only $75.00 rather
than buy a ticket for the gala dinner for 250.00. The national artist’s
canvases have been arriving over the past few weeks and they are impressive.
We are endeavouring to have a representative
contingent of national artists actually attending the event; of course their
official agents and managers are always a challenge to fit open dates. The Northumberland
Potters Christmas Show, November 21st & 22nd What’s Coming? – At The
Movies Summer Movies for Kids, Every Tuesday at 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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This newsletter is edited by
Walter Luedtke. Please send any notices or comments to wluedtke@cogeco.ca. |
