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From The Arts
Council
Calling
all artists and friends of the arts to our “Estival
Meet n’ Greet” –Please join us to chat,
schmooze and network over a glass of wine and nibbles at the Great Farini Restaurant (Rooftop Patio), 22
Ontario St. in Port Hope at 4:00 pm on Saturday, August 1st.
In case of rain – unlikely! – we’ll
move to VINO’s next door.
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
Dramatic monologue celebrates
Cobourg’s Father of Confederation James Cockburn will reminisce about his
life and career in politics during the August Civic Holiday in Victoria Hall.
Bawdy farce at Port Hope Festival
Theatre. A zany farce with lots of sexual innuendo is promised by
the latest Port Hope Festival Theatre summer production.
Artists flock to new Northumberland Potters group. When Susan McDonald, the artist behind
the Practically Potty Studio on 4th Line, decided to try uniting the potters
of Northumberland she had no indication the response would be so
overwhelming.
The Arts Northumberland Blog:
In Memoriam Alf Blything
The Ramblin’
Rose Arts Report: Rose Rambles into...Zed Woman and the City
Two visits,
14 segments, heaven knows how many discrete pieces.
The first
visit to this exhibit at the Colborne Art Gallery was overwhelming: the installation is
frenetically busy, crowded with detail and media, a foaming-over bottle top
with creative energy erupting everywhere you look.
What’s On – This Weekend And The Coming Week
Transport of Delight—The Music of
Flanders & Swann. Friday July 24, at 7:30pm at Westben. ($35) All your cheery favourites
as written & popularized by the zanny British
song-writing team. Brian Jackson, piano & David Kemp, baritone. Performers:Brian Jackson
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.
Sandy
Goguen teaches Painting Fabric on Saturday, July 25th,
10:00 am –
4:00 pm at the Painted Tree, Division Street,
Cobourg, $50.00 905-372-1515. During
the week of July 28th, The Painted Tree celebrates its 1st
Anniversary with a student show and sale.
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).
Saturday
Night at the Opera’ Saturday July 25th ,
at 7:30 pm
at Westben. ($42) See stars
under the stars! An evening of operatic opulence hosted by a favourite
Canadian host personality. Sally Dibblee, soprano;
Kimberly Barber, mezzo; James McClean, tenor, John
Fanning, baritone. Event
Details
BROADWAY
IN THE BARN. Sunday July 26, at 2:00
pm at Westben. ($35) “Who could ask for anything more?”
This retrospective celebrates 10 unforgettable seasons of Broadway
magnificence at The Barn. The Dream Team includes Donna Bennett, soprano;
Gabrielle Prata, mezzo; Mark DuBois,
tenor; Robert Longo,...Performers: Brian
Finley, Donna
Bennett, Gabrielle
Prata, Mark
DuBois, Robert
Longo Event
Details
Summer
Movies for Kids, Every Tuesday at 1:00
pm at the Mary J. Benson Branch. Pick up a free ticket at the Circulation Desk.
July 28 – Coraline;
Janina Fialkowska, Piano. Tuesday July 28, at 7:00 pm at Westben. ($35) Following her spellbinding peformance
of Chopin's Concerto No 1 on Westben' s 2007 Orchestral Gala, Canadian
pianist extraordinaire Janina Fialkowska
returns for a solo piano recital featuring the music of Mozart, Chopin,
Schumann and...Event
Details
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. Wednesday,
July 29th Gregory Ward, oboe and Randy Mills, organ. Classical solos old and new for oboe with solo organ
selections.
Broadway
In The Barn, Thursday July 30th, Friday, July 31st, 2:00pm at Westben, ($35) “Who could ask for anything more?”
This retrospective celebrates 10 unforgettable seasons of Broadway
magnificence at The Barn. The Dream Team includes Donna Bennett, soprano;
Gabrielle Prata, mezzo; Mark DuBois,
tenor; Robert Longo,...Performers:Brian
Finley, Donna
Bennett, Gabrielle
Prata, Mark
DuBois, Robert
Longo
What’s
Coming – At The Lectures, Readings and Book
Launches
Frances
Gage: Unlikely Paradise -- sculptural work
and photographs from her life. August 1st - 29th, Art Gallery of
Northumberland, Cobourg. Reception and book launch at 85th birthday
celebration, Saturday, August 22, 2:00
to 4:00 pm. Frances
Gage has lived in Cobourg for 10 years and in that time has become an
integral part of the community. Prior to our arrival in our midst, Gage
gained wide recognition as one of Canada's leading sculptors. The recently finished biography by
Alan Butcher is being published this summer. This exhibition is an honor of
this event. The launch of her biography “Unlikely Paradise”
coincides with her 85th birthday.
Poetry,
Music, Conversation and Wine. August 20th, 7:30 pm at 66 King Street East,
Cobourg. Paul Brown, Mark Clement,
guest poet - Mathew Tierney, M.C. - Glenda Jackson
An
Afternoon with Jane Urquhart - August 23rd, 1:00 - 4:00 pm,
Barnum
House
Museum,
Grafton. Reserve a spot for tea with
world-renowned author Jane Urquhart at Barnum House Museum. There will be a short reading of one of her works followed by a group
discussion. $7 per person, including museum tour. Visit Barnum House on
Sundays this summer and stay for tea and refreshments in the garden from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. (weather permitting)
What’s
Coming? - At The Theatre And Dance
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, Ontario's most accessible theatre company, celebrates its 15th Anniversary
Season. A master and servant arrive in a strange city in search of twin
siblings they've never met. When everyone they meet confuses them for their
local counterparts, you'd figure that someone would clue in. Lucky for us, no
one does. A wild, weird and wonderful journey towards the discovery of self
and the importance of family.
What’s
Coming? - At The Concerts
Broadway
In The Barn, Thursday July 30th and Friday, July 31st, at 2:00pm,
($35) “Who could ask for anything more?” This retrospective
celebrates 10 unforgettable seasons of Broadway magnificence at The Barn. The
Dream Team includes Donna Bennett, soprano; Gabrielle Prata,
mezzo; Mark DuBois, tenor; Robert Longo,...Performers:Brian
Finley, Donna
Bennett, Gabrielle
Prata, Mark
DuBois, Robert
Longo
At
Estival, July 31st, August 1st
and 2nd, Port Hope. Free concert Friday night at 7:00 pm. “11 Steps”, “Diana & Those
Guys”. The featured
act will be Firesound, an 8 man band made up of Toronto Professional
Firefighters who play Classic Rock and dance tunes from many different eras.
This is a free show, limited to 500 patrons inside the fenced bandshell area.
Saturday
7:15 pm with an encore performance by “Firesound”. “The Human Statues”. The featured act will be “Low
Level Flight” a
popular Kingston band fronted by Ryan Malcolm.
Sunday
8:00 pm
“Hamilton
All-Star Vocal Jazz”. “Aengus Finnan & the Badly
Bent”. Tickets from Scotiabank, Port Hope.
Montreal Guitar Trio.
Saturday August 1, at 7:30
pm at Westben. ($35) THEY’RE BACK!! Described by the CBC as
"the hottest guitar ensemble in Canada", the MG3 is also one of our most popular
ensembles ever presented at The Barn. If you missed it then, don’t miss
it this time! Ask about the Jazz... Event
Details
Don
Ross, Guitar, Sunday, August 2nd, at 2:00 pm at Westben. —One of today's true innovators of guitar
composition and technique, Don Ross has emerged as one of the most respected
musicians in Canada and one of the top guitarists in the world. (Watch for
details about Don Ross’s Guitar Clinic at Westben)
Tabla of the Night
Tuesday August 4, at 7:00pm
at Westben. ($35) Indian-Canadian tabla player Vineet Vyas joins together with singer/dancer, Bagashree Vaze and others for
an enthralling evening of classical Indian music and dance from a world
perspective. Performers: Vineet Vyas,
Event
Details
Carmen
& David—La chanteuse et le guitare. Friday August 7, at 7:30pm at Westben. ($35) An intimate evening of sultry singing
with chanteuse Carmen Genest and guitariste David Jacques. Having performed over 600
concerts in the past 9 years, this Quebec City couple is known across Canada and around the world for their... Event
Details
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
Chris
Worsnop at the Northumberland Players is preparing workshops for the fall: producing, play
writing, and stage management. Details tba
The
Painted Tree, Cobourg has announced
its schedule for fall classes. Visit the Website HERE
The
Northumberland School Of The Arts has an online art and crafts survey HERE
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 9:30-3:30 pm
It will be at the gallery and is open to anyone interested. The pose will be
long enough for people to paint, sculpt or create a variety of pieces by
moving around the figure. Call Heather Roy at
905-885-0188 for info or to reserve a spot.
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 Tours
Third
Annual Purdy Country Literary Festival (PurdyFest
#3) and the CCLA Art & Lit Fest on Sunday, Aug. 2nd, Brighton. All day - art and book displays on sale in Memorial Park. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm: Launch of
"And Left a Place to Stand On" - a fund raising anthology from
Hidden Brook Press for the restoration of Purdy's historic A-frame house and
the formation of a writers-in-residence program.
ww.canadacubaliteraryalliance.org/A-FrameBook.html
Noon
– 1:00 pm
and 2:00 –
4:00 pm: "Spilling
to the Sky" - a grass and sky poetry reading in Brighton, Memorial Park.
5:00
to 9:00 pm: evening book launch at the China King
Restaurant; specifically, 5:30 to 6:30 pm - "meet and greet" dinner - everyone welcome;
6:30 - 9:00 pm: book launch readings;
music and poetry performance by gandhar.
ACN
member Richard Grove is the president of the Canada-Cuba Literary
Alliance. Co-organizer James Deahl has called "PurdyFests"
the "Woodstock
for poets". Details HERE
Third annual
Juried Photography Show and Sale Saturday, August
15th and Sunday, August 16th J. Bruce Taylor Accounting, Warkworth Main Street.
Awards: A "best in show", and a "second place" winner will be
chosen. Cash awards to these winners.
Winners will be announced during the long lunch on Sunday. Judging: Cindy Taylor will adjudicate the show on
Friday evening, August 14th.
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, King Street Cobourg. She is
also exhibiting at Ganaraska Art and Framing, Walton Street Port Hope.
Anita Gutteridge at Kingsley’s Korner, Brighton
for the month of July. Anita validates with passion
that painting in oils is what she loves to do best. Tending to her garden inspires
her and the exhibit at the Apple Crate location displays the exquisite
results. Kingsley’s Korner will be exhibiting
visual art and 3D art by local artists at 46 Prince Edward St from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
Louise Aronson, 100 Mile
Diner Warkworth. Award winning
artist, Louise Aronson, will be exhibiting her paintings at the 100 Mile Diner, Main Street, Warkworth from until the end of
August
Evelyn Van Hoekelen, Campbellford Public Library. A number of the paintings featured were inspired by her
visit to Bon Echo Park. Others find her focus more on colour and design. Evelyn has been working in oils for
the last ten years, taking courses, private lessons, and working in her home
studio. Her studio and home are full of paintings and drawings. Until
the end of September.
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
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 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 (Toronto) and Executive Chef Peter Gosling of Oak
Heights Estate Winery (Warkworth) will be served in the evening.
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 Northumberland County. The day
starts at 2:00 p.m., and there are three pricing packages available to ensure a truly
personalized experience.
Over
eighty percent of the artists’ canvases have arrived from across the
county. The artists have excelled in their creations and provided us with a
wide diversity of subjects and techniques. The public has stepped forward and
is showing a strong interest to support the Meet the Artists & Auction
features of the one-day event.
Kindly
note the following changes. Price of admission for both the Auction and Meet
the Artists portion is $50.00 and tickets may be purchased by calling
Catherine Holt at 705-653-4343 ext. 2104. We have changed the food &
beverage portion, which will be complementary, and cancelled the gala dinner.
The Northumberland Potters
Christmas Show, November 21st
& 22nd Baltimore Community Centre
What’s
Coming? – At
The Movies
Summer
Movies for Kids, Every Tuesday at 1
pm at the Mary J. Benson Branch. Pick up a free ticket at the Circulation Desk. Jul 28
– Coraline; Aug 25 – Hannah Montana:
The Movie; Aug 4 – Inkheart; Aug 11 –
Happily N’ever After; Aug 18 – Race to Witch Mountain
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
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