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The
Newsletter of the Arts Council Of
Northumberland he Arts Council of
Northumberland encourages creativity and raises the visibility of the
artist and the arts community through advocacy, communications and
leadership. Website:
http://www.northumberlandarts.ca/ This newsletter
covers theatre, music, lectures, films, workshops and
exhibitions. A long-range
calendar of events is available HERE. A listing of member artists 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 Ross Dreveney - Ross
Dreveny is a self taught artist who works in egg tempera on paper and
acrylic on gesso board and canvas. His technique and temperament
bring a quiet, zen-like quality to his work. “I find inspiration for a
painting in many ways ... a song, a glimpse, a colour, a word. These
things conjure up an image which I then try to put into paint. It is very
much like painting a dream. Occasionally, I succeed”. Ross was born
in rural Saskatchewan. He moved to Toronto when he was 10 years old
and presently resides in Cobourg, Ontario. Ross’ work can be found in many
exhibitions, galleries and in private collections across Canada, the US
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From The Arts Council – Not Only For Artists! NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IS HOME TO HUNDREDS OF ACCOMPLISHED VISUAL ARTISTS AND ARTISANS. Are you one of them? The new show from the Art in Public Spaces Committee of the Arts Council of Northumberland, began December 1 at the County Building at 600 William Street in Cobourg. This building is used by many community groups, and has heavy public traffic throughout the week. Ongoing juried shows feature works in all media, that bring fine art and craft to the people of our county. If you are interested in having your work seen (with an option to sell if you wish), you are invited to submit work at any time, by sending jpeg images to website@northumberlandarts.ca. 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 Annual film festival returns Jan. 28
-Northumberland Film Sundays premieres its seventh annual weekend film
festival Friday, Jan. 28 at Northumberland Mall Cinemas with Barney's
Version, Family-friendly panto entertains kids of all
ages SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS PANTO Port Hope
Festival Theatre -- Capitol Theatre until Dec. 19 PORT HOPE -Port Hope
Festival Theatre presents three different versions of Snow
White Fellowship Baptist hosts cantata Dec. 19 -Welcome To Our World is a Christmas cantata that uses an exciting
blend of music to tell the story of Jesus' birth
-and-performance exhibition opening
Dec. 11 at Meet at 66 King East. It's a collaboration between
Northumberland What’s On – This Weekend
And The Coming Week Friday
Mysteries And More at The Cobourg Public Library, 2:00 pm. programme
HERE 9th Annual Christmas
“Panto” “Snow White”, A Fractured Fairy Tale - Dec. 3rd & 11th @ 7:00
PM, Dec. 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th & 19th @ 2:00 PM at the Capitol
Theatre Port Hope, Naughty Panto (for Adults Only) , December 4th, 10th,
17th & 18th @ 8:00 PM The 9th Annual Christmas Show which has
become a family tradition at the Capitol Theatre. Filled with comedy, music, mayhem
and song it is once again time to cheer for the hero and boo at the
villain. The
Royal Canadian College of Organists - Northumberland Centre - Advent Noel recitals:
4:00 pm
Dec.
19 - St. Paul's, Perrytown Concert Band of Cobourg Christmas Concert. The Concert Band
of Cobourg presents their annual Christmas concert on December 19 at 2 and
7 p.m at Victoria Hall, Cobourg, FRIENDS OF MUSIC present TRUE NORTH BRASS at the Port Hope United Church Sunday, December 19, 2010, 3:00pm. Tickets 905.885.1071 www.porthopefriendsof music.ca “John Landry &
Friends” Sunday, December 19th @ 7:30 PM. at the Capitol Theatre Port Hope.
John Landry's
unmistakable voice combined with his intelligent songwriting abilities
create one memorable hit after another. His Christmas Show has been a hit
at the capitol for the past five years. Monday
Musical Movie Matinee 2:00 pm Cobourg Public Library. Programme HERE The thirteenth annual performance of The Twelve Days of The Infanta, 66 King Street East on Monday December 20th. 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 can be purchased at 66 King Street, Cobourg. Price includes refreshments and proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity Northumberland. The story, by Eric Winter, is a plausible fiction based on the desire of the Infanta to be painted in the nude. It is narrated by Chris Sharp and Erin Thompson with singers Cathy Lyons, Meagan Macdonald, Christine Sharp,Chris Sharp and Gregory Ward. Musical accompaniment is by Phillip Hughes and Gregory Ward. Classic Movie Matinées, Tuesdays at 2 pm, Port Hope Public Library, Mary J. Benson Branch, Programme HERE What’s Coming – At The
Lectures, Readings, Book Launches and Awards
The committee
organizing Heart of Northumberland Garden Tour in June is presenting four
wonderful garden speakers on four Wednesdays in March, 2011.
Tickets for the Series are only $35 and are limited. Single tickets,
if available, will be $15. Northumberland Learning Connection presents Opera brown-bag lunch talks. These popular talks are returning for the 2010-2011 Metropolitan Opera season. Bring your lunch for a half-hour talk, one hour before the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera HD broadcasts. Brown-bag talks start one hour ahead of each opera broadcast, upstairs at the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre, Port Hope. (Start times vary for each opera) . Coffee and tea are on the house! $5.00 per person at the door.January 8, 2011 -Ian McDonald on La Fanciulla del West by Puccini; January 22, 2011 - Elizabeth Wilson on Don Carlo by Verdi; February 12, 2011 - Elizabeth Wilson on Nixon in China by Adams; March 19, 2011 - Thais Donald on Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti; March 26, 2011 - Jenny Lorentowicz on Iphigenie en Tauride by Gluck; April 23, 2011 - Heidi Croot on Capriccio by R. Strauss; May 7, 2011 - Joanne Bonebakker on Le Comte Ory by Rossini; May 14, 2011 - Ian Montagnes on Die Walküre by Wagner; June 4, 2011 - Ian McDonald on Il Trovatore by Verdi. For more information call Joanne Bonebakker at 905-349-3402 or visit www.northumberlandlearningconnection.ca For start times and tickets for the HD Metropolitan opera broadcasts, call the Cameco Capitol Arts Cente, 905.885.1071, or 800.434.5092, or visit www.capitoltheatre.com Northumberland Opera Guild: lectures, at 7:00 pm at the Port
Hope Public Library: February 9, 2011, Silvio Venditti on Rossini’s La
Cenerentola; March 9, 2011, David Murray on Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos;
April 13, 2011, Grace Orzech on Gluck’s Orfeo et
Euridice The Northumberland Opera Guild promotes interest in opera in the Northumberland region and organizes activities to foster interest in and knowledge about opera and provides its members with opportunities to socialize and share their love of opera. The Guild’s programs will run from September to April. The monthly lectures feature talks illustrated with audio-visual excerpts, good company, and refreshments. Annual Membership Fees are $25 for a single and $35 for a family, and entitle guild members to obtain tickets to Canadian Opera Company performances at specially discounted rates, join bus charters to attend opera performances in Toronto, and other special events. What’s Coming? - At The
Theatre And Dance The
Northumberland Players Season Programme HERE The Elephant Man - The Northumberland Players is set to reopen its doors in the Firehall theatre with the Bernard Pomerance play The Elephant Man on February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. and February 13 at 2 p.m. The winner of several Tony awards including Best Play is based on the life of John Merrick, a horribly disfigured young man in nineteenth century London, struggling to achieve his dream of becoming a man. All tickets are $15.00 - general admission seating. What’s Coming? - At The
Concerts and Opera Shelter Valley’s “Community Concert Series” will
begin in 2011 on Sunday January 30th with information at http://sheltervalley.com/concerts.htm
about the first concert in the series with artists “Rick Fines & Suzie
Vinnick”. BRAITHWAITE & WHITELEY”, Saturday, January 29th, 8:00 pm at the Capitol, Port Hope The popular American Jazz and Blues Bible DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE said about Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley “It’s a rare and good thing when two talented performers join forces”. Presenting authentic, vintage blues this duo pleases audiences young and old. A Blues concert extraordinaire!!! CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE, Supertramp: Crime of the Century, Friday, February 11th, 8:00 pm at the Capitol, Port Hope Note for note, cut for cut. Classic Albums Live presents Supertramp: Crime of the Century. Sit back and relax. Remember the vinyl! This album is a classic…and no one does a tribute to this album better than Classic Albums Live! MEMEZA AFRICA, Friday, February 18th, 8:00 pm at the
Capitol, Port Hope MEMEZA AFRICA is a brilliant example of what can happen when two worlds come together in harmony. This masterful fusion of traditional African music and dance combined with spellbinding original Canadian compositions, delivers a performance so packed with energy and emotion, audiences are left profoundly moved and sincerely hooked. The
LaJeunesse Youth Orchestra Season HERE The
Northumberland Orchestra and Choir Season Programme HERE The
Friends of Music Season HERE What’s Coming – Workshops
and Auditions VISION & DISCOVERY / DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKFLOW SPRING & FALL 2011, Instructors Richard Martin and Charlene Kenna. Exclusive workshops in creative photography or digital camera-computer workflow with Canadian photographer Richard Martin. Unleash your creative spirit in a small class setting. The $599.00 fee includes three days of workshops and meals at The Woodlawn Inn Limited to only eight participants. For a full brochure, please contact Stephen Della Casa Stephen@WoodlawnInn.com . Essential Drawing and Painting with Melanie Browne - This is a 6 week workshop exploring some of the first principles of drawing and painting. Both grounding and enriching, these ideas – things like gesture, composition, colour, value, and artistic process - will be experienced through a variety of exercises and projects. Subjects will include still life, landscape and abstraction. This course is appropriate for new and emerging artists, as well as more experienced artists looking to re-invigorate their practice. Wednesdays 1:30 – 4:30 in Port Hope, January 5 to February
9, 2011 $160.00. Materials list and location will be supplied on registration. Contact Melanie at: melanie.browne@sympatico.ca or 905-885-6116 The Painted Tree Cobourg. New classes starting in Jan 2011 including Kid's Classes and Beginner Calligraphy. www.thepaintedtree.ca. Free Winsor and Newton demonstration to Feb 19th TED AMSDEN For
over 20 years, Ted Amsden
Photography has been photographing families and working with local
businesses. Now TAP has opened a photographic studio at 468 King St. West in Cobourg. Great Pine Ridge Spinners and Weavers meetings: Regency
Manor Retirement Home on Dorset St. in Port
Hope. Cindy Taylor is offering a series of photography workshops
through the Fleming College campus in
Cobourg. Please
visit the website HERE for information on
the courses. Northumberland Hooks and Needles Guild meets at Regency Manor Nursing Home, 66 Dorset St. E., Port Hope at 7:00 p.m. Contact Yvonne O’Neill 905-885-4872. Northumberland Hooks and Needles meetings have changed to the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. September meetings will be the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Thereafter the meetings will be on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays. What’s On And Coming – At
The Shows, Exhibitions and Tours The Friends of Bon Echo
Park invite all nature artists to the 16th annual Bon Echo Art
Exhibition & Sale at Bon Echo Provincial Park, Hwy.41, Cloyne,
ON. The theme of this juried
exhibition of original art is about Canadian Nature, Wildlife, or
Countryside, and will take place on July 22, 23, 24, 2011. At the AGN, Main Gallery, Victoria Hall, Cobourg. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Tony Urquhart, Peter Haller and Ron Eccles. November 23, 2010 – January 2, 2011 Bringing our 50th year to a close is an exhibition that features the work of these three artists, who are represented in our collection and still actively, practicing their work. The exhibition will consist of the works that we hold in our permanent collection, which reaches back 40 years, coupled with more recent work by each of the artists. All three artists work in abstraction, three dimensions and are dedicated draftsmen. Their explorations of space, time and event are challenging and exciting. The Colborne Art Gallery’s annual “ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL “This show celebrates the oncoming winter season and the festive atmosphere that it generates. Gallery artists will be exhibiting and selling art work of all sizes and price ranges……..everything from cards and ornaments to art for your walls. Perfect gifts for the art lovers amongst us. As a special fundraiser this year, tiny 3” x 3” canvasses have been transformed by gallery artists, into one-of-a-kind artworks. These will be available for sale on the day of the opening. All proceeds will go towards the gallery. From The Cobourg Art
Club - See paintings by local artists at The Mill restaurant and pub,
Cobourg, a continuing show with lots of variety. for more info call
Maureen 372-7214 What’s Coming? –
At The Movies Classic Movie Matinées, Tuesdays at 2 pm, – Port Hope Public Library, Mary J. Benson Branch Friday Mysteries And More at The Cobourg Public Library,
2:00 pm. Northumberland Film Sundays - Seventh Season! Here Are The Dates And The Line-Up: January 15, 2011 - To Be Announced; Tickets Are Available Now!! Seven Movies In Our Fall Series - $45.00 FILM FESTIVAL JANUARY 28, 29, 30, 2011, Festival Packages Go on Sale starting November 28th at the Mall Kiosk, $45.00 each includes five movies, and Reception at Victoria Hall Confirmed line up of movies: Barney's Version; Force Of Nature; Made In Dagenham; Never Let Me Go; And One More Movie Awaiting Confirmation What’s On – At The
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