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Alberta House News Volume 18, Issue 9 September 2018 Business Name Alberta House Arts Center 217 Ferris Street Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 906-635-1312 SEPTEMBER EVENTS www,saultarts.org [email protected] Wednesday 5 — THIS IS OUR YOUTH. An In Your Eyes production described as “a Inside this issue: living snapshot of the moment between funny adolescence and adulthood”. Directed by Loretta Durat and Joseph Lauzon. Shinwauk Auditorium at Algoma EVENTS 1 & 2 University in Sault, Ont., 8 p.m. Not suitable for children. $30/25 & 15. SAULT, MICHIGAN 3 to 6 Thursday 6 — THIS IS OUR YOUTH. See Sept. 5. EXHIBITS Friday 7 — FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION at the Winery for Sue and Dale Johnson whose innovative doodle art and area scenic photographs will be in the Winery dur- ALGOMA 7 ing September. 5 to 7 p.m. See p. 6. EUP 8 HARVESTFEST. Marketplace, penny raffle, silent auction beginning at 6 p.m. and concluding with dancing to the music of HWY 638. Fundraiser for the Ontario OUTSTATE 9 Resthome Foundation. The Machine Shop in Sault, Ont. $50. HONORS & 9 to11 THIS IS OUR YOUTH. See Sept. 5. ACCOLADES Saturday 8 — FINANCIAL PLANNING CLASS, 10 a.m. to noon. Contact Laurel Are- SAULT SUMMER 10 & nivar at [email protected] to sign up. See WORKSHOPS, p. 12, for details. AETS FESTIVAL 11 THIS IS OUR YOUTH. See Sept. 5. WORKSHOPS 12 Tuesday 11—TUESDAY MATINEE. Free movie at the Bayliss. 2 p.m. SOO FILM 12 CREATIVE ENDEAVORS MEETS at the Bayliss from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. FESTIVAL Wednesday 12—SOO FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS with films at the Soo Theatre and at ARTISTIC 13 the Bayliss Library, and continues through Sept. 16. Tickets went on sale Satur- OPPORTUNITIES day, September 1. Complete ticket information will be online at soofilmfesti- val.org. Ticket prices are $7 General Admission (per block), $5 Seniors and Stu- NEWS & NOTES 13 to dents (per block); $20 Daily Pass (admission to all blocks on a single day); $50 Fes- 15 tival Pass (admission to all films and shorts programs, all days). Films screened at Bayliss Library are free of charge. See p. 12, for schedule. SUBSCRIPTION 16 INFORMATION Thursday 13—SOO FILM FESTIVAL films at 6:30 p.m. See Sept. 12. Friday 14—LSSU ARTS CENTER MOVIE: “Incredibles II”. 7 p.m. $5. Saturday 15—LSSU ARTS CENTER MOVIE: “Incredibles II”. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. $5. THE COMEDICS: Fundraiser for Tracy’s Dream at the Great Moose Lodge, 543 Trunk Road in Sault, Ont. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; perfor- mance at 7:30 p.m. (may not be suitable for children). Silent auction and cash bar. $25. Tickets at the Sta- tion Mall Kiosk**. Zoey Wood Salomon “Raven”. 8 x 10” acrylic (Continued on page 2) on canvas—to be auctioned September 22. Page 2 Alberta House News EVENTS (Continued from page 1) McBride. Open Mic to follow. Bayliss Library, 7 p.m. FINANCIAL PLANNING CLASS. See Sept. 8. Thursday 27—MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. Tuesday 18—TUESDAY MATINEE. Free movie at the Join others at the Bayliss Library when over 100,000 Bayliss. 2 p.m. film lovers unite in over 300 cinemas across 6 conti- SAAC BOARD MEETS in Alberta House at 4 p.m. nents to view and vote on the finalists films in the CHIPPEWA COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 21st Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. meets at the Bayliss Library at 7 p.m. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday 19—YARNWORKERS GUILD MEETS at BAYLISS BOOK CLUB MEETS at 7 p.m. the Bayliss Library from 10 a.m. to noon. Friday 28: OPEN HOUSE AND MOVIE IN A HANGER Art Gallery of Algoma presents STIMULATE YOUR at Sanderson Field. Planes and emergency vehicles Senses. Paintings paired with beer, music and ap- tours from 6 to 7 p.m. Planes, Fire and Rescue mov- petizers. 7 to 9 p.m. $35. Tickets: 705-949-9067, ie begins at 7 p.m. $5 admission. Call 906-632-5779 ext. 107. See p. 13, for details. for more information. Thursday 20—350th ANNIVERSARY TRIBAL TALK: UNCLE CRACKER. DreamMakers Theater, 8 p.m. Traditional Medicine/Men’s and Women’s Teach- $25.50, *** ings. Bayliss Library Community Room, 6 to 7 p.m. MEMPHIS JONES AND THE KING. SCTC** in Saturday 22 — FINANCIAL PLANNING CLASS. See Sault, Ont., 7:30 p.m. $39.55. Sept. 8. Saturday 29—OCTOBERFEST. 11 a.m. West Portage FAMILY MOVIE AT THE BAYLISS. 1 p.m. Call between Osborn and Ashmun. 632-9331 for title. MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival (repeat of ANNUAL SAAC ART AUCTION AND Sept. 27) at the Bayliss Library. 1 to 3 p.m. DINNER. LSSU CISLER CENTER BALL- FINANCIAL PLANNING CLASS. See Sept. 8. ROOM. Viewing from 4 p.m. Wine and cheese so- cial from 5 to 6, and dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner tickets *Tickets for LSSU Arts Center events are available at $25. Reserve by calling Pat Claxton at 635-0424, the Norris Center ticket office (635-2602) or online Jean Jones at 437-5463 or e-mailing: at: https://lssutickets.universitytickets.com. [email protected]. Frank Blisset is the auctioneer. AUCTION BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 7 P.M. AND IS **The former Kiwanis Community Theater, at White FREE OF CHARGE. One need not attend the din- Pines Collegiate, 1007 Trunk Road, Sault Ste. Marie, ner to enjoy the auction. Auction items can be seen Ont. has changed both its name and its website. It on the SAAC website as they come in. See pp. 4 & 5 is now the Sault Community Theatre Centre and its for photographs of item photographed by August 25, website: is http://www.saultctc.ca/ Community The- and p. 13, for dinner details. atre tickets are still available online at: th038wq008.boxpro.net/c2bownet.asp or at the box CREATIVE ENDEAVORS MEETS at the Bayliss office in the Station Mall Telephone 1-705-945- from noon to 2 p.m. 7299—[email protected]. By the time you add TUESDAY MATINEE. Free movie at the Bayliss. 2 the online handling fee and the box office fee, any p.m. ticket obtained there will cost $6.50 more, so you’ll LARRY THE CABLE GUY. Kewadin Casino, 8 p.m. save if another ticket source is available to you. $35. *** *** DreamMakers Theater, 2186 Shunk Road. Tickets YARN WORKERS GUILD MEETS at the Bayliss online at: https://tickets.kewadin.com/ or call: 1- from 6 to 8 p.m. 906-635-4917 SUPERIOR POETRY CAFÉ featuring Beverly Page 3 Alberta House News SAULT, MICHIGAN EXHIBIS OLIVE CRAIG GALLERY A “TRACKS”, A MULTI-MEDIA EXHIBITION BY A ED GRAY L R B E T MINI GALLERY until September 22: ART AUCTION PREVIEW R S September 23 to 29: WORK FROM THE GALLERY’S T PERMANENT COLLECTION A C Alberta House Arts Center is E very pleased to welcome Ed Gray whose work will be dis- H N T played in the Olive Craig Gal- O lery September 4, through 29. U E Ed recently retired as Executive S R Director of the Calumet Arts E Center. It’s difficult to describe Ed and his work because he is many things and works in many 217 Ferris Street, Sault Ste. Marie, MI materials. He is a potter and bead maker, weaves, and works 49783—906/635-1312. E-mail: extensively in copper. A dedi- [email protected]. Website: cated teacher, he conducts www.saultarts.org. Open Tuesday workshops in potting, working through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with copper and in other crafts. As an artist he is a purist, be- ginning with the rawest of ma- terials and making all the com- ponents that comprise his art including the pit or kiln used to fire his pots. Ed grew up on the fruit farm that had been in his family for five generations and which he was expected to take over. Instead he embraced his ancestry on his mother’s side—Sami and Native American—which drew him to creating art from earth’s elements—copper and clay. He studied pottery with renown Charlevoix potter, Bonnie Staffel. Over the years he established a number of successful studi- Clay pots, trimmed in horsehair os in the northern lower peninsula, always moving on and north and eventually with copper wrap. Ed’s pots are ending up on Lake Superior in Calumet in 2004. He became Executive Director of pit or smoke fired. the Calumet Arts Center in 2008. He decided to retire as director this year when he reached the age of 80. Ed continues to teach workshops and classes at the Cal- umet Arts Center. He is committed to passing on the knowledge he has acquired over the years. Ed cites the elements of earth, fire, air and water as the basis for his art. He has worked copper for many years follow- ing the tradition of his great grandfather, Golden Hawk, an Ojibway copper worker. Today Ed works primarily in clay and copper, producing art objects that are totally unique. His art is labor intensive in the extreme. All the colors Ed uses on his pots come from stones collected on the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. He tries to find stones that have a dominate color, whether cobalt, iron or some other substance. After bringing the stones home and sorting them sorted by color, he grinds them by hand into a powder using only a mortar and pestle.