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Service!Unqualified PO Box 1391 Almonte on K0A 1A0 Phone: (613) 256–5081 Editor: Kris Riendeau Editor@Thehumm.Com free NOVEMBER 2010 The Art of p.26 & 27 Ankaret Dean p.3 November’s Events p.16 & 17 Fall for Local Art p.11 The Art of Local Food p.35 Retreat to a Yurt Question: How did you take on the big box stores and survive? Answer:Service!Unqualified PO Box 1391 Almonte ON K0A 1A0 Phone: (613) 256–5081 Editor: Kris Riendeau [email protected] Who’s Reading theHumm Who’s Reading Layout and Design: Rob Riendeau [email protected] Advertising and (above) Two members of The Nylons (would that be equivalent to Promotions: a stocking…?) took time at the end of one of their 2008 Christmas Kris Riendeau concerts to read theHumm (helpfully held by Cori Riendeau). From Windswept Desert Sands We Cry Phone: (613) 256–5081 (below) Nancy and John Peters of Almonte posed with [email protected] From windswept desert sands we cry, theHumm while vacationing on the sunny, southern Algarve coast Th e dead upon dead who marched to die, of Portugal, in Carvoeiro for four weeks during the Assistant Editor: Th e brothers forged, hearts beating fire, winter of 2008/09. Rona Fraser A gunshot symphony a dismal choir; [email protected] Readers Write Readers Or from the forests dark and deep theHumm is a monthly arts, en- Where ghostly soldiers trudge their sleep, tertainment and ideas newspaper Th e tanks echoes still ring clear, delivered free to businesses and Th eir dark chorus a veil of fear; visitor attractions in Almonte, Perth, Carleton Place, Westport, Some found faith in the trench, Pakenham, Carp, Arnprior, Lan- Some lost it amidst the stench ark, Smiths Falls, Burnstown, Of death and sulfur, blood and bone, White Lake, Balderson, and Ot- Fighting and dreaming of making it home; tawa. Our mandate is to connect and promote people and events Th ey spilled bloody tears in the mud and sand, in the small towns and rural com- Fought for freedom in foreign lands, munities of the Ottawa Valley — Now the fl owers mark the brave, where the arts fl ourish and enter- Solemn stones soldier on by the grave. taining characters run amok! © Tom Stanley Submissions By email or on disk. Television: a medium. Deadline is the 22nd of the month prior to So called because it is publication. neither rare Subscriptions cost $35 (includes HST) for one nor well done. year (12 issues). Send a cheque Hummble Thought with your name and address to: — Ernie Kovacs theHumm PO Box 1391 Almonte ON K0A 1A0. Opinions and information pub- lished in theHumm in letters, press releases, or individual col- umns do not necessarily refl ect the opinion of this newspaper. All writing, artwork, and photo- graphs published in theHumm are copyright to the author, or to theHumm in the case where no author is specifi ed. Reprinting any content without permission violates copyright and is prohib- ited (and despicable!). Thanks this month to: Everyone who ran for municipal offi ce this year — thank you for being willing to serve your community in that very public capacity. 2 www.thehumm.com November 2010 Ankaret Dean — THE HUMM The Persuasion of Art Not since I interviewed led to her teaching a variety of otal. When she turned forty, she Art… and Soul Juan Geuer when he was courses for the Board of Educa- enrolled in the Sheridan School 91 have I come away from tion, including macramé (the art of Design in Mississauga. Her an artist interview feeling of decorative knotting) and cro- eyes sparkle as she describes her so optimistic and person- cheting. three years as an arts student as ally energized. Ankaret the turning point in her life. “I Dean expands my ever- Life Is a Four-Act Play became a weaver and an artist growing list of compelling As this 78-year-old fi bre artist and my whole outlook changed.” reasons to value, support began chronicling the highlights Luckily she had a very supportive and participate in the arts of her artistic career for me, she family. throughout one’s life. shared her metaphor of life as a After a seminal book by Ed four-act play. For Ankaret, art has Rossbach entitled Baskets as ARTIST TRADING CARD by Sally Hansen been and continues to be the cat- Textile Art legitimized basketry Dean’s extensive artist’s alyst for many of her adventures in 1973, Ankaret discovered she that her experiences travelling clude arts and crafts workshops, résumé lists a large number of and much enjoyment throughout was in the right place at the right alone as a volunteer in India and lectures, musical events and many juried and invitational shows three of those acts. She traces the time. During the '80s and '90s Bangladesh had on her personal more, described on their website spanning the thirty years of her origins of her love of basketry to she participated in many shows, development. “You really get to <www.meraschoolhouse.org>. eclectic fi bre artistry. Most of her childhood in England where garnered many awards for her know yourself when you are liv- Besides teaching a recent work- her acclaim has been the result a governess taught her and her creative sculptural basketry, and ing on your own in an environ- shop titled Making Th ings with of her innovative basketry and siblings how to make baskets honed her speaking and teaching ment where you don’t even speak Cattails and Rushes, Dean is skills at international conferenc- the language. I learned a lot in the process of developing a es, workshops and symposia. In about myself.” In 1994 the cou- grant application to build a yurt the '80s she also received funding ple left the much-yuppifi ed “vil- at the MERA Schoolhouse. She from the Ontario Arts Council lage” of Oakville and purchased a is a strong believer in the value to travel to Sweden, Japan, Eng- farm just outside of McDonald’s of community, and in the power land and the U.S. to study and Corners in Lanark County at the of art to draw people together teach basketry. Always a natural- urging of their daughter who had through shared interests. ist at heart, Dean grew her own moved to the area. Speaking of which, Ankaret willows and collected cattails achieved her designation as a and reeds. In 1985 she started a Act IV “Master Gardener” in the wake of monthly publication titled Th e Ankaret characterizes her ex- the destructive ice storm of 1998. Basketry Express which she pub- perience of her current fourth “I always loved to garden, and I lished and edited until 2000. act by saying that “I changed love my fellow master gardeners,” Th e '90s provided Dean with my focus from me as an artist, she explains. “I also am pretty en- more support for her belief that to us as artists.” In 1997 the Vil- ergetic,” she adds. good things can happen if you lage of McDonald’s Corners was are open to new ideas and adven- amalgamated with several other Contingency Plan tures. She was keeping bees on municipalities into the new mu- Just in case her macular degen- weaving endeavours, but she from collected round reeds. Fol- the small family farm in Oakville nicipality of Lanark Highlands, eration progresses to the point began almost accidentally as a lowing her studies as an x-ray when she noticed an ad in a bee- and the village’s century-old that some of her arts activities spinner in the '60s when the fam- technician, Act I concluded with keepers’ magazine. Canadian one-room schoolhouse was no are curtailed, a few years ago this ily acquired a new puppy. While her departure from England to Executive Service Organization longer needed as a municipal of- indomitable woman decided to researching the care and feeding see the world. On board the Em- (CESO) was looking for an in- fi ce. Working with a like-minded learn how to play fl amenco gui- of their fl uff y Samoyed, she was press of Australia, however, she structor to teach nuns in Jamaica group of community members tar, by ear. She traveled to Spain intrigued to learn that you could met a man who was en route to how to breed queen bees. An- who recognized the potential of recently to study and, based on a use Samoyed fur as fl eece in your Toronto to visit a friend. Th ey karet submitted her application, the building as a valuable commu- brief demonstration, she is well sleeping bag, or spin it to knit discovered they would be staying but a hurricane struck and the nity resource, Ankaret became a on her way. Are there any like- mittens and sweaters and hats. two blocks away from each other, nuns’ bees were all blown away. founder and board member of minded players in the area inter- At the time she was raising and a year later they were mar- Her application remained on fi le, MERA (McDonald’s Corners/El- ested in joining her in a fl amenco four children in the “sleepy lit- ried. Stay tuned. In Act III she and in 1992 she was invited to phin Recreation and Arts). jam? She would love to hear from tle village of Oakville” where resumes her travels. teach basketry in India as a CESO Still serving as the organiza- you at 278–1203, or by email at her husband John worked for volunteer. In 1994 she was sent to tion’s Program Director, she is <[email protected]>. And if you Ontario Hydro.
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