March/April/May 2014 COVERING THE ARTS IN QUINTE Volume 24, Number 1
Congratulations to our COMMUNITY PARTNER Belleville hosts 2nd Annual Plein
Serving the Quinte region Air Festival - $4500 in prizes for more than 65 years! by Carol Feeney
None of this work would website, www.bellevillepleinairfestival.com. have been possible without Registrants are encouraged to register in advance as the invention of the space is limited. Artists are allowed to submit two collapsible zinc paint tube pieces, that must have been completed outside, with stopper cap, portable during the festival, to be considered by the jurors. easels, palettes and paint All participating artists must bring their blank boxes. Before having access canvasses to the BDIA office for stamping prior to to these products, artists beginning their work. would painstakingly grind up There will be an opening reception on Thursday pigments with linseed oils night, lots of opportunity for participating artists to and prepare materials for explore and enjoy Belleville’s downtown shops and working outside. They would restaurants and a finale with an awards presentation also have to carry heavy on Sunday, where cash awards totalling $4,500 will equipment and trek some be given out. Last year’s award winners were: first The Belleville Downtown Improvement Area distance to find the perfect place. place, Frank A. Edwards from Kingston for his oil, (BDIA), in association with the Quinte Arts Council View from Victoria Park; second place to Sharon and the Ontario Plein Air Society (OPAS), is The Belleville-on-the-Bay-of-Quinte Plein Air Fox Cranston of Bloomfield for her acrylic, Hot and organizing the second annual Belleville-on-the-Bay- Festival has grown to a four-day event, where artists Hazy by the Bay; third place to Delibor Dejanovic of of-Quinte Plein Air Festival. From Thursday, May will be completing their works outdoors, capturing Toronto for his pastel, Break Time; and the OPAS 29 to Sunday, June 1, artists from near and far will natural light, colour, texture and nuance in their Artists’ Choice award went to Antonio Afable of capture the beauty of Belleville ‘en plein air!’ work. “The success of the first time this artistic event hit the streets of Belleville last year has been Toronto for his acrylic piece, Belleville Downtown. En plein air is a French expression which means “in very encouraging,” says Seppo Nousiainen, Plein After the awards presentation, the public is invited the open air,” and is particularly used to describe the Air Festival Chair. “Artists will have a chance to to see the exhibit and enjoy refreshments at Dinkel’s act of painting outdoors. Many famous French capture the beautiful images of historic downtown Restaurant & Courtyard. Impressionist painters, such as Claude Monet, Belleville, the shores of the Bay of Quinte, the Camille Pissaro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir famous ‘Old East Hill’ and the Moira River. This Last year, artists came from as far away as Kelowna, advocated en plein air painting and much of their event is a juried and judged competition, that is open British Columbia as well as Toronto and many parts work was done outdoors. to artists working in various media, such as of Ontario and the Quinte area. “What strikes me most about this event is the calibre of the work The beauty of plein air paintings is that the art is watercolour, acrylic, soft pastel and oil,” he added. created in such a short time frame,” states Carol based on direct observation of the subject, not from Participating artists can choose their own spot as Feeney, Executive Director of the Quinte Arts memories, or photographs. Artists must capture the long as it is along the Moira River, on the periphery Council. “It is also a joy to see how artists from near natural light and work quickly to catch the subject in of the Bay of Quinte, in downtown Belleville or in and far capture and express the beauty of spaces, that moment, as light changes significantly in a two- Old East Hill. Artists must register by May 17. The buildings, wildlife, streetscapes, and landscapes that hour period. The plein air movement has its origins fee is $25 for members of the Quinte Arts Council we as citizens take for granted or overlook in the 17th century, through the works of artists such or the OPAS and $30 for non-members. Young completely. It is my hope that people will plan on Nicholas Poussin (1594 - 1665) and Claude Lorraine artists under 18 years of age pay $15. coming out to watch the artists create their work and (1600 -1682), although much of the work that we take the opportunity to meet and greet them.” have come to know had its origins in the early 19th To add another element to this outdoor visual art century through the works of painters such as Jean- fest, organizers are looking for buskers and For more information, visit Baptist-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) and John musicians, who will take to the streets while the www.bellevillepleinairfestival.com or contact the Constable (1776 - 1837). artists are creating their works. Interested parties are BDIA office at 267 Front Street, Belleville, 613- asked to contact the BDIA office. 968-2242, or [email protected]. This type of painting influenced the development of the Barbizon School, a group of artists who were “The BDIA is very excited that we are able to bring based in the village of Barbizon in France, near the back the Plein Air Festival to downtown Belleville forest of Fontainebleau. In later years, this work in for 2014,” said Karen Parker, Executive Director of turn influenced the French Impressionist movement, the BDIA. “Last year we were thrilled to welcome This issue sponsored by which held that painting in heavy brushstrokes and 55 registered artists and their friends and families to flecks of colour would create the overall impression the Quinte area and we look forward to increasing of a scene, as a means of capturing and conveying that number this year and encourage everyone to Essence the outdoor experience, although not as take part in this truly unique event.” representationally as earlier works of the artists. 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A PUBLICATION OF THE QuinteArtsCouncil Cultivating Creativity Message from the Chair Umbrella The winter months have typically been trying ones support our organization in order to coordinate and for the Arts Council as we cope with decline in deliver these programs. A task force from the revenues to support our organization, programs and Board’s Finance Committee has been meeting to services. These problems have been modified this determine what the possible options are for EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE year with reductions in sponsorship, funding from fundraising events, particularly those not involving a Chair Dan Atkinson the Ontario Arts Council, ticket sales to events and Gala, with an emphasis on those that will highlight revenues from our Gala, a situation not unlike what the QAC’s leadership role in the arts community. I Past Chair Barbara-Jo Clute many of our member organizations are experiencing. think we have a terrific opportunity to move, as they 1st Vice Chair Pat Feasey say, outside the box, and to promote a number of In anticipation of this, and with a view to being 2nd Vice Chair Anne Cunningham different activities in our community. I will keep you proactive, we embarked upon a campaign last year Secretary Heather Smith posted on our progress and hopefully we will have a to do two things: one was to increase our Treasurer Jenny Woods plan in place by spring. membership in both the artistic community and the BOARD OF DIRECTORS business community and the other was to move As always, I welcome any comments or suggestions. Rick Zimmerman, Tina Osborne, membership to a calendar year basis in order to Please remember that our AGM is in early June. Dianne Coyle, Daniel Vaughan smooth our external funding sources, i.e. to bring in Dan Atkinson FCPA, FCA and David Vaughan more funds during the winter months. That being said, these changes are now well under way, but as I Chair STAFF have stated on many occasions, we do need to find a more sustainable source of revenue that will not Carol Feeney only provide for our programming costs but also Executive Director [email protected] Carol Bauer Artist and Member Services Officer [email protected] Kim Lidstone Notice to QAC Membership Administrative Assistant [email protected] The Quinte Arts Council’s Annual General Meeting will be held Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 5:30 to 7:00 pm The Quinte Arts Council is a not-for-profit, charitable organization, registration number 107869448 RR 0001. In the Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Belleville Public Library Publications mail agreement number 40667523. 254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville Umbrella is delivered without charge to QAC members, to municipal, provincial and federal representatives, funding agencies, community arts The meeting includes: councils, Quinte region public libraries and to selected • the election of the board of directors media and public distribution outlets. • reports on the QAC’s strategic planning initiatives Editorial Staff Carol Bauer Jane Mackenzie • social time and networking Carol Feeney • finger foods, cash bar Poetry Editor Chris Faiers Design Marc Budgie Bourdon • live entertainment Production Carol Bauer Published by The Quinte Arts Council Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP by May 20. 613-962-1232 36 Bridge St. E., P. O. Box 22113 Belleville, Ontario K8N 2Z5 Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday - Friday Administration: 613-962-1232 www.quinteartscouncil.org Printed by Essence Publishing Belleville, Ontario Quinte Arts Council is seeking
Deadline for the June/July/August new Board members issue is Monday, May 5, 2014. The Quinte Arts Council is currently seeking representatives from our Umbrella welcomes submissions in the following cate- gories: illustrations and photographs, articles on or about membership to join our committed team and help to shape our future. the arts in the Quinte region, poetry or prose. Umbrella assumes no responsibility for unsolicited materials. Our goal is to expand the board to include more artist members who are Material may be reprinted only with permission of the editor. Umbrella reserves the right to edit, crop and interested in assisting us to develop our programming and to take other editorialize all submissions. initiatives to help us serve artists in the region. Umbrella is mailed to members and is delivered to a wide variety of distribution points throughout Quinte and beyond. The information and opinions contained in this newsletter We also need business and community leaders who can help us with strategic are obtained from various sources believed to be reliable, planning, fundraising and financial sustainability. These are challenging but their accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The Quinte Arts Council and its employees and agents assume no respon- economic times for the arts and we need your help. sibility for errors or omissions or for damages arising from the use of the published information and opinions. Readers are cautioned to consult their own professional advisors to The Board meets once a month, 10 times a year, for approximately one and a determine the applicability of information and opinions in this newsletter in any particular circumstances. half hours per meeting. Committees meet on an as needed basis throughout the year. MISSION, VISION & VALUE STATEMENTS Mission: The Quinte Arts Council is an umbrella If you are interested in and enthusiastic about the arts in the Quinte region and organization dedicated to promoting artists and arts organizations in all disciplines and to further willing to share your time and expertise to assist an organization that has been appreciation of arts and culture in the Quinte region. serving the community for more than 45 years, we want to hear from you. Vision: Cultivating Creativity To achieve our mission, we: Please send your résumé and area of interest to Carol Feeney at • provide effective, accessible communication tools • engage artists in our programs and events [email protected] by April 30. The applications will be vetted by • provide arts education opportunities for artists and students the Organizational Development Committee and members of the Executive • provide professional development activities for artists committee, and the names and bios of successful candidates will be put • foster and engage in dialogue about the arts in our community forward for a vote by our membership at the AGM on June 10, 2014. Visit www.quinteartscouncil.org for more information about the QAC. #ISSN 1183 - 1839
2 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Let’s Celebrate Those Who Have Made A Difference! Umbrella now publishing 4 times a year! As of this issue, Umbrella arts newspaper will be published seasonally, 4 times a year instead of 6. With the rising costs of printing and mailing, a decision had to be made to cut expenses. The new publication timing will start with this spring (March/April/May) issue, Volume 24, Number 1, TheThe QuinteQuinte ArtsArts Council’sCouncil’s covering events happening during the spring months. Below are the deadlines for the next 3 issues of this Arts year. If you are an advertiser and you ‘signed up’ for the 6-issue discount, you will now have a choice of either placing ads for 4 issues or 6. For more information, call Carol at 613-962-1232 ext. 26 or Recognition email [email protected]. More information will be on the website, Awards www.quinteartscouncil.org.
The QAC wants to hear about individuals, groups or businesses that have shown consistent and outstanding support for the arts in Quinte. All it takes are 250 words on why the nominee should be considered and at least two letters of support. Anyone may nominate those that have produced, supported and/or promoted the arts within the Quinte community. Previous nominees who have not received the award may be resubmitted. Past Umbrella Deadlines 2014 recipients have included visual artists, musicians, writers, actors, volunteers, Please send your articles and Calendar events to musical and artistic directors, business leaders and corporate sponsors. See [email protected]. Advertisers must the names of past recipients on the QAC website. book their ad space by the deadline but have another week to send in copy. The deadline for nominations for the 2014 Quinte Arts Council Arts Summer: June July August 2014 Recognition Awards is April 15. Nomination forms are available from the Deadline: Monday, May 5 (ad copy May 12) QAC office at 36 Bridge St. E, Belleville, and on the website: Fall: September October November 2014 www.quinteartscouncil.org. Deadline: Tuesday, August 5 (ad copy Aug. 11) Winter: December 2014, January February 2015 Deadline: Monday, Nov. 3 (ad copy Nov. 10) Spring: March April May 2015 Deadline: Monday, Feb. 2 (ad copy Feb. 9)
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March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 3 VISUAL ARTS Art in the Community visual arts program AITC will now change over every three months
For more than 10 years, Quinte Arts Council has We currently have spaces available in April/May. undertaken the Art in the Community program, Starting in June, each show will run for three bringing the work of our visual artist members to the months, rather than two (to coincide with the new public in non-traditional venues. We average about Umbrella schedule). If you’re a visual artist and $12,000 in gross sales every year, 80% of which would like to participate, we are booking the goes directly to the artists involved and there is no summer (June/July/August), fall hanging fee for artist members. QAC takes care of (September/October/November) and winter the sales transactions and hosts an opening reception (December/January/February) shows. in our gallery and gift shop for each change over, We are looking for two- and three-dimensional where artists, members and the public enjoy works - jewellery, glass, sculpture, pottery, refreshments while viewing the works. woodwork, photography and paintings in any this program. Fees will be charged to non-members Participating artists are publicized in Umbrella arts medium. Two-dimensional works must be ready to based on number of pieces to be displayed. newspaper, in weekly Arts Updates, on the QAC hang with proper picture wire. We also welcome website and in the Art Scene column in the books, CDs and DVDs. If you are interested in participating or would like Intelligencer. more information, please contact Carol Feeney at There is no charge for QAC members to be part of [email protected] or call 613-962-1232. Are You In?
The Intelligencer has offered to assist the Quinte Arts Council by providing and promoting a special online auction. Proceeds from this auction will support QAC’s year-round services and programming in visual arts, performing arts, literary, film, heritage and arts education for local students as well as the Umbrella arts newspaper and other member services. We hope that our membership and members of the community would be willing to support this effort by donating gift certificates, artwork, entertainment and sport tickets, merchandise, and/or services that will be auctioned online. There will also be a catalogue printed to promote the auction and its participants. We are also seeking volunteers to form a committee to make this online auction a success. Before this opportunity can be realized, we need to know if our members and readers will participate. Please contact Carol Feeney at 613-962-1232 or [email protected] before March 15. Thank you!!!
4 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Mnemonics: Oeno Gallery’s 10th anniversary exhibition by Carlyn Moulton
In celebration of the beginning of Oeno’s 10th season, the gallery is presenting a landmark exhibition of work by two important artists: Chinese photographer, Chen Jiagang, and Canadian print maker and ceramic sculptor, Susan Collett. Chen Jiagang creates extraordinary large format photographs that explore the contrast of the landscape of cold-war China with the shifting Bridges (The Great Third Front series), 43” x 71”, a photograph by identity of contemporary China. Jiagang took his Chen Jiagang crew to many restricted areas, and using a customized 24 x 24 inch negative print camera, he has documented, in remarkable detail, elements of China’s romantic past, both with tradition and hardship, and the fast growing cultural economy of its future. Featured in each abandoned industrial landscape is a female figure, suspended in the image with a translucent presence. The women resurrect a sense of humanity in this lost industrial space, formerly worked by men isolated from their families. The jarring contrast of these mythological figures amidst the environmental degradation is unsettling, the detail mesmerizing. These confrontational and evocative photographs from his three series, Third Front, Temptation and Smog, have been exhibited in the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, China, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art ‘Red Flag’ exhibition in 2010. They were presented by Saatchi Gallery in London, and were featured in Art Basel (Switzerland, Miami) and the Toronto International Art Fair by Han Art Gallery of Montreal. His work is collected by the Museum of No Trail (Temptation Series), 43” x 71”, a photograph by Chen Jiagang Modern Art in New York, the Meseo del Territorio in Italy, and the Art Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing. The alcove exhibition features new clay and paper of Ceramics and the Royal Canadian Academy of Chen Jiagang is an important cultural innovator. He work by Canadian artist Susan Collett. Collett’s the Arts, her work has been exhibited by the is the founder of the first private contemporary art artistic practice has been significantly influenced by Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, The Canadian museum in China, and in 1999, was named by the her residencies in China. The uncommon scale, Clay and Glass Gallery, the Tom Thomson Memorial United Nations one of the 12 ‘Outstanding Young structure and glazing techniques used to create her Art Gallery, and is part of the permanent collections Architects.’ ceramic sculptures evolved during time spent at the of the Sevres Porcelain Museum in Paris and the This is a rare opportunity to see this important work. Sanbao Art Institute in Jingdezhen in 2003 and the World Ceramic Centre in Icheon, Korea. This is the The large scale works are produced in a limited FULE International Ceramic Art Museums in fourth exhibition of her work at the Oeno Gallery. edition of 12. Fuping, China in 2007. The exhibition continues until April 13. The Oeno Collett’s recent delicate monoprints from her Family Gallery is located at 2274 County Road 1, in Prince Tree and Labyrinth series incorporate ethereal Edward County, next to Huff Estates Inn and elements from this China experience. She is Winery. recognized as one of Canada’s pre-eminent print ART makers. Elected to both the International Academy IN THE YARD
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March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 5 March to May in the the John M. Parrott Art Gallery by Susan Holland, Curator Local artist and filmmaker Brittany Ollerenshaw feels a certain ‘sympatico’ with the acclaimed artist Vincent van Gogh. She says that she somehow feels connected to him, that she understands him, as if they were friends. This sense of connectedness has led to a wonderful documentary and art exhibition entitled Unravelling Vincent: The Van Gogh Project. In 2013 she created a Van Gogh inspired piece for the Brighton Arts Council’s fall show. And then it hit her: “If there were enough artists contributing inspired pieces to that exhibit, what was stopping me from filming the process of each artist creating their piece?” Thus began the evolving project that has culminated in 13 artists working in various media, making art and being filmed while creating. Brittany says: “What started out to be a simple View from the Highway, Lake of Two Rivers, watercolour by Bruce Laughton project exploring the artistic process, became a film year will again be a thought-provoking, eye-opening that examined Vincent through the eyes of other view of the world from a teen perspective. Many artists.” thanks to the students and teachers who make this This project has been selected to be screened at the show a reality year after year, but also a huge nod to 2014 Downtown DocFest, right here at the John M. Susan Davies who coordinates the elements behind Parrott Art Gallery. Once the film has premiered, it the scenes to make this such a continued success. will be included in the exhibition as well. We are honoured to continue to provide a space for our young artists to show their work and look This project has completely engaged the forward to many more years of this partnership. participating artists, as the influence of Van Gogh encourages them to abandon the rules and expand Please join us on Thursday, April 3, from 6 to 7:30 their normal artistic practices. One artist has even pm, to open the show, meet the students and their discovered a new genre to add to her ever-expanding mentor teachers and to enjoy some refreshment portfolio! Tina Osborne has delved into the realm of surrounded by the wonderful exhibit. sound and has constructed a musical piece which The Biennial Juried Show returns to the Gallery will not only be heard in the exhibit, but will also be May 1 to 29, with an opening reception and awards used as part of the soundtrack for the film. presentation on Thursday, May 1, from 6 to 7:30 I first became intrigued by this concept when I read pm. Quinte area artists working in any medium are Brittany’s call for artists in a previous Umbrella. invited to enter the gallery’s biennial juried show of That this project has come to fruition in such an original artwork. The theme for 2014 is: Backyard exciting way is extraordinary. We hope you enjoy Perceptions. What’s in your backyard? What is your this exhibit which runs until Wednesday, March 26, perception of backyard? Is your backyard a tangible in Gallery Two. thing or a sensory thing? Is your backyard what you experience from your back door or is it a much more In Gallery One, until March 26, we are thrilled to vast area? As in previous years, we have introduced welcome back watercolourist Ron Pickering and his quite a broad theme, to be interpreted by you, the students. Ron is a very accomplished artist and Inspired Irises, mixed media by Brittany Ollerenshaw artists, in any number of ways. The fee is $20 for teacher in watercolour and some of his students have up to two entries and the deadline is March 28. The been studying with him for many years, both at regular programs, workshops and special events. call for entry and terms of entry are available at the Loyalist College and at the Kingston School of Art. Please visit our website at www.bellevillelibrary.ca Gallery or at www.bellevillelibrary.ca. Ron truly is a master of his medium and, through for more information and hours of operation. him, so are his students. The John M. Parrott Art Gallery, housed on the third floor of the Belleville Public Library, also offers It has been quite a while since we have held a watercolour exhibition and the medium is still a favorite in this city, so we sincerely hope that you enjoy the show! April showers bring… The Annual Secondary School Art Show, now in its 26th year with the Library Gallery! Expanding Horizons 2014 runs from April 3 to 23 in Galleries One and Two. Once again, each high school in the region is invited to submit five pieces of work by students at all levels and in all media. We know that the exhibition this
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6 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Quilt Show 2014 with guest artist Joan Reive The Quinte Quilters’ Guild will hold their spring each of the small quilted squares distributed shop for fabrics, patterns, books, tools and kits and quilt show at the Quinte Curling Club on May 3 and throughout the show. plan to attend one or more of the scheduled 4. Our Guild members will be showing their demonstrations. Our guest artist will be Joan Reive. Joan began to fabulous bed quilts, wall quilts, fibre art pieces and paint in Grade 4/5 and started to sew around the The Raffle provides an opportunity to try your luck other quilted items, some of which will be for sale. same time, making a “machine-quilted pot holder.” at winning one or more amazing prizes. Among An antique quilt display will bring everyone back to She continued to paint but did not return to quilting them are quilted and quilting related articles, as well the roots of this art form. until the late 1970s, after being introduced to art as gift baskets and non-quilt related items. And, The creative results of the 2011/2012 Piece-za Box quilting. She began to paint with fabric and has when you need a break or wish to chat with friends, Challenge will be shown. The challenge involved a reproduced some of her own paintings. She will be the Tea Room overlooking the show offers a number of pizza boxes, each containing a piece of exhibiting an exciting selection of her fibre art selection of light lunches, beverages and sweet fabric and a designated theme which were circulated works and quilts, some of which have received treats. among participants. Each month, the participant awards at Regional Quilt shows and national The Quinte Curling Club is located at 246 Bridge created a block, traded boxes and in the end, each recognition at Quilt Canada. She recently celebrated Street West, Belleville. Show times are Saturday, box, containing 12 blocks relevant to the theme, was 50 years as an artist and, in 2013, she was awarded May 3, from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, May 4, raffled off to participants and the blocks were made the Quinte Arts Council’s Arts Recognition Award. from 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is $6 and spouses into quilts. Visitors to the show will be able to take The ever-popular Merchant’s Mall hosts 10 vendors get in free! For more information, please visit our part in our Song Title Challenge in which they are - some local, some from Western Ontario and some website at www.quintequiltersguild.ca. We look invited to guess the title of the songs represented by from points East. Bring your scissors for sharpening, forward to seeing you there.
either privately or within the elementary or secondary adjacent the park. 613-338-5431, school system. Groups may also apply. This award is [email protected]. designed to recognize outstanding and worthy performers Calls for entry Empty Bowls and Hand Crafted Sale will be held Mar. in these fields and to promote and encourage further study 29 in the cafeteria at Loyalist College in Belleville. in these areas. Teachers may apply on behalf of their Deadline Mar. 7 Call for Artists… 2014 The Mother of Artists are invited to participate as vendors. Potters are students. 613-354-4248. There is no entry fee. all Craft Shows! Celebrating its 5th anniversary, this invited to donate bowls. www.gleanersfoodbank.ca. year’s show is going to be held on May 4 from 10 am-4 Belleville-on-the-Bay-of-Quinte Plein Air Festival The Kiwanis Club of Tweed and the Tweed and Area pm at the River Inn, Corbyville. The on-line application BDIA and QAC invite artists to enter. There will be up to Arts Council are calling for artists to participate in their process is now underway and organizers are looking for $4,500 in cash prizes awarded. Artists will have a chance Art in the Park at the Memorial Park in Tweed on Aug. the “wow” factor in all artistic mediums including edibles. to capture the beautiful images of historic downtown 2. www.tweedartscouncil.ca 613-478-1777. Indoor and outdoor spaces available. Belleville, the shores of the Bay of Quinte, the famous www.motherofallcraftshows.com. ‘Old East and West Hill’ and the Moira River. This event Deadline Apr. 24 The Rednersville Road Art Tour is Looking for a Director and Choreographer to work with is a juried and judged competition that is open to artists looking for guest artists, hosts and sponsors for 2014 and Shaer Productions to re-stage the original musical, “I’ve working in various media. The festival will take place 2015. The show takes place Labour Day weekend. For Heard That Song Before with The Dan Shaer Big Band.” May 29 to June 1. www.bellevillepleinairfestival.com. sponsorship opportunities, contact [email protected]. These are both paid positions. They are planning two $30 registration fee. 613-968-2242 or Prospective artists and hosts, contact performances in Belleville at Maranatha and two [email protected]. [email protected]. performances at Showplace in Peterborough this Deadline Apr. 15 The Friends of the Tyendinaga Actor needed Looking for an intense and compelling November. www.shaerproductions.com. Serious Township Public Library’s Annual Art Show & Lilac Tea actor to play the title role in an October 2014 production applicants can contact Dan at [email protected] on May 24 from 10 am to 2 pm. At the Township of of Dracula: The Vampire Play. Must be male, aged 19 - or 343-263-7469. Tyendinaga Recreation Complex, 852 Melrose Rd., 35. Only the serious and committed need inquire. Call for Vendors We Create Artisan Events is holding its Shannonville. $40 table charge. Contact Chris Green to [email protected] first annual Spring Clean Craft De-Stash Bash! They’re reserve your table. 613-396-6682, [email protected]. Muskoka Lifestyle Show to be held May 30 to June 1. looking for artists, artisans or hobby crafters who’d like to Deadline Mar. 28 The John M. Parrott Art Gallery Applications/ Vendor Packages are online: make some extra money by de-cluttering their studios and invites artists of all disciplines in the Quinte area to enter www.muskokalifestyleshow.com. workspaces to find new homes for old or gently used their 10th Juried Show: Backyard Perceptions. The show Quinte Arts Council’s Art in the Community program is crafting supplies. The cost to participate is $25 per table. runs from May 1 to 29. Entry forms are available at the looking for visual artists to participate in up-coming The event will take place on Apr. 6, 10 am to 4 pm at 360 Gallery or online at: www.bellevillelibrary.ca. 613-969- shows. Each show now runs for three months. If you Pinnacle St., Belleville. 6731 X 2240. have 2-dimensional work, ready to hang, or 3-d work and www.wecreateartisanevents.weebly.com. Deadline May 30 The Bancroft Art and Craft Guild is craft, and would like to show and sell, contact Deadline May 16 Ontario Fidelis Alpha is accepting holding its outdoor summer show Aug. 2 and 3 in [email protected], 613-962-1232. applications for the Orma Tipper Arts Award in Music Millennium Park on the same weekend as the International The Colborne Art Gallery is currently seeking new and/or Drama. This award is intended for persons of Rockhound Gemboree (which attracts from than 40,000 members in any medium. www.thecolborneartgallery.ca amateur status currently studying music and/or drama visitors). Indoor vendor booths are available at Club 580, 905-885-7963. One crafter’s trash is another crafter’s treasure We Create Artisan Events, producers of The Mother Artists, artisans and hobby crafters are all invited to of all Craft Shows, Kaleidoscope and Mistletoe join in for a fun day of finding new homes for old Magic, is holding its first annual “Spring Clean” supplies. This is a great opportunity to make some Craft De-Stash Bash. extra money by de-cluttering your studios and workspaces and to find new or gently used supplies at a discount. Crafting supplies to “de-stash” or purchase would be: paint, brushes and blank canvases; fabric,
Samples of crafters “trash”
patterns, sewing machines and sewing notions; beads and findings; yarn and knitting supplies; scrapbook and floral supplies; storage containers; tools of the trade; display items... anything that inspires or can be used to create, store or display works of art! The event will take place on Sunday, April 6, from 10 am to 4 pm, at the former Clearing House/Brick Furniture Store, 360 Pinnacle Street in Belleville and is open to the public with a $1 admission fee. The cost to participate is $25 per table. For more information, please contact We Create Artisan Events at [email protected] or www.wecreateartisanevents.weebly.com. Follow us on facebook/WeCreateArtisanEvents.
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 7 Swept Away at Arts on Main by Amelie Koning We hope you will be ‘Swept Away’ by our new often painted over a watercolour underpainting on show at Arts on Main Gallery in Picton, which runs paper or canvas. “Cloudy skies, stormy skies, from March 5 until May 12. Our cooperative is moody, saturated, threatening skies. It’s my hit of proud to have added several new members and, as abstract within the landscape. Painting something always, they are all residents of The County. that is lighter than air and in constant motion challenges me each and every time,” said Sharon. Iris Casey was a guest artist first and joined us in “When I get it right – magic. The sky can be the the summer. She enjoys working in two media: soul of a painting; it adds atmosphere, movement, wrapped wire and mosaics. “I enjoy both for and depth to a scene.” different reasons,” she says. “The wire, as it is fun to create creatures... something with life and Ron Pickering joined the gallery last summer. An personality, out of something as functional art teacher for the past 15 years, with the Loyalist and industrial as wire; the mosaics, because I love College Continuing Education Program and the putting the pieces together to create a whole... to use Kingston School of Art, Ron describes his approach the colour, the flow, the challenge of arrangement.” to watercolour as “more controlled than traditional work in the medium. I am looking for a sense of Barb Hoegenauer and Terry Culbert joined us last realism with textures and contrasts.” spring with their wonderful paintings. Terry has drawn and cartooned all his life. Utilizing his Ann Wood, last but not least, is one of the persons drawing skills and his love of colour, his works vary instrumental in the start-up of our gallery in 2007. PEC-Tapestry, acrylic by Sharon Fox Cranston from whimsical to almost illustrative. Each canvas She evolved as an artist until she felt comfortable tells a story, often bold, always humorous. Barb’s enough with her paintings to join our group. That, from 2 to 4 pm. paintings go through layers of paint, building up along with her organizational skills, makes her a true The gallery is located at 223 Main Street in Picton, texture and colour until the final piece comes into its asset to the gallery. Ann has been voted in as our across from the Regent Theatre, and is open seven own. Attempting to interpret the natural world, Barb new Chair, as Doug Johnson retired as Chair. He days a week. Winter hours are 11 am to 4 pm, strives to create work that evokes an emotional will remain an associate member and we all value except Saturdays, from 10 am to 6 pm, until April response in the viewer. the contribution he has made. 30. Admission is always free and, although all the Sharon Fox Cranston became a member of Arts on All of our members deserve your attention and we work is for sale, everyone is welcome to come in to Main Gallery in October of 2013. Acrylic and pastel invite you to see this vibrant new display. The browse and enjoy the art. For more information, are Sharon’s preferred media. Her pastel work is opening reception takes place on Saturday, March 8, visit www.artsonmaingallery.ca. Five tips to a successful artist commission/contract by Tina Osborne
A painting commission occurs when the buyer plays completed detailed sketches, several tray mockups, expectations. Make sure you have their signature or a significant role in the outcome of your painting by and three fittings before completion. I did three sets an email concurrence to the contract. Document any choosing the of sketches in coloured changes, either theirs or yours, in writing. Once colours, mood, markers for the you’ve experienced a lost sale or are out of pocket, size, the subject Sandbanks project. The this process becomes automatic. matter and time- Manager said upon frame. Here are delivery, “These paintings 5. Obtain a down-payment up front. I accept 30 to my five top tips are exactly what I 50%. This pays for the materials, and commits the that I live by for expected!” client. It also indicates that you are a professional. a successful For the turquoise bracelet and earrings commission, commission. 4. Draw up a contract the down payment allowed me to buy the high-end or written document components that I would not have used normally. 1. The Biggie! before you start the If you don’t like work. This can be as Final words: 1. Don’t accept a commission if it someone telling simple as an email or as doesn’t feel right. Your gut instinct can save you you how your complex as a written from a bad experience. 2. Don’t allow any peeking painting should contract. It will reiterate by the client part way through the painting. This can turn out; if you what the client wants, i.e. cause you to lose momentum and confidence. are theme, colours, size, Partially completed work seldom looks like the uncomfortable any/how many pre- finished work, and everyone will have comments with having to sketches for client about what you should/shouldn’t do. 3. Enjoy your meet someone approval, amount paid for success. Not only have you taken steps to ensure else’s artistic the commission, deposit, success but you have provided a unique and criteria and feel personalized piece for your client that no one else Crystal, painting by Tina Osborne completion/delivery date, cramped by their copyright parameters, and so on. This ensures that has done. expectations; and if you don’t like working everyone is clear on responsibilities, and with/communicating with people… Do not take commissions - it won’t be fun. 2. Research. See the space, see the subject matter Visit the John M. Parrott Art Gallery (or at least have pictures of it). This will stimulate your analytical and creative processes. For my Sandbanks Summer Village contract last summer, I visited the outdoor pavilion several times, took • Monthly Exhibitions many pictures, viewed it at different times of day which helped determine a theme of six different • Manly MacDonald Collection paintings. For the Crystal portrait, I knew the horse well, her moods, her attitude, how she moved, etc. I • Programs and Events have also visited dogs and cats whose portraits I • Gallery Gift Shop, featuring the have painted, interacted with the animals, talked with their owners and worked from several pictures. work of local artists & artisans 3. Communication. Schedule one or more client meetings to obtain a clear understanding of what is • Gifts for every occasion! wanted; colours, mood, size, theme. Use your artwork as a platform and help your client choose what paintings of yours they like. This will help gain On the Third Floor of the Belleville Public Library further insight into what your client is looking 254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario K8N 3B1 for. For example, what attracted them to particular 613-968-6731 Ext. 2240 www.bellevillelibrary.ca paintings? The texture, colour, rigid or soft lines, Closed Mondays. Open Tues, Wed, Fri, 9:30-5:00, Sat 9:30-5:30 themes? For the quartz, pearl jewellery set, I Thurs open until 8:00 pm
8 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Canadian Winter at Gallery One-Twenty-One
Barbara Whelan will be the featured artist at Gallery many local artists, through courses at Loyalist with Claudia, Jeanette and Joan, she has been One-Twenty-One from March 1 to April 26. The College, the City of Belleville Recreation exploring the world of abstraction and collage. theme of her show is Canadian Winter and she will Department, and the East Central Ontario Art Her paintings can be seen at the Belleville Art be joined by two guest artists; painter Jan Coombs, Association. Her work has been exhibited solo at the Association, the John M. Parrott Gallery and the and sculptor,Tom Ashbourne. Belleville Public Library Gallery in 1978, 1989, Blue House in Brighton. Previously, she has shown 1991 and 1996, and at Gallery Eight, Wellington in at Quinn’s of Tweed and Arts on Main in Picton. Barbara Whelan is a well-known artist in the 1982. Belleville arts community. In fact, she has been She has had the honour of having been accepted into painting for more than 50 years. She laughingly Commissions have included the Culture Award for many juried shows at the Parrott Gallery and has tells of winning her first art award when she was in the City of Belleville, works for the late Mr. J. been part of a six-person show, As We See It, at the grade 3. She won 25 cents! Green, and Christmas card designs for the late Jack Parrott Gallery, with Paul Thrane and friends. Ellis, MP, and for Lyle Vanclief, MP. Barbara has received numerous awards, including At Gallery One-Twenty-One, Jan’s paintings will the Muriel Andrews Award for Excellence in Design Barbara is a founding member of the Belleville Art include a variety of canvases, from miniature to in 2000, and the Quinte Arts Council’s Arts Association, the Burlington Fine Arts Association medium size to larger versions, showing how art Recognition Award in 2003. and Gallery One-Twenty-One. She also founded Art transforms the natural colours and forms of nature on the Fence in Ameliasburgh, which she supports to for us to experience and enjoy in our everyday lives. this day. Tom Ashbourne has been an art lover, patron and Barbara works in oil, and occasionally in collector, and now he is personally exploring the soft pastels, oil pastels and acrylics. She is world of sculpting. His interests are broad, focusing a tireless observer of life, and a lover of on colour, shape and texture. He has an art landscape and people. Her passion is collection which is not only extensive, but also reflected in all of her work. This freedom eclectic. and spontaneity is coupled with a lively “Sculpture offers me a challenge to create images sense of colour. Her paintings are in and forms from materials that initially convey no private and corporate collections readily discernible image or form. Essentially a worldwide. sculptor creates something from nothing. As I work Many of you will know Jan Coombs from the stone, it slowly reveals the form within, an her days with the Hastings County Board expression of its essence and how the stone wants to Barbara Whelan In 1994 Barb was honoured of Education, where she was principal at Bancroft show its true self.” when her painting, Skating on the Public School for two years, and then at Tyendinaga Tom has no ‘formal’ art training, but has been Harbour, was presented to the City of Lahr, for the last five years of her professional career. Germany, by the City of Belleville to commemorate strongly influenced by noted Prince Edward County the 22nd anniversary of the ‘twinning’ of the two Jan is a very active member of the Belleville Art sculptor David Bourne and by Barbara Whelan. cities. The painting is housed in the Lahr City Hall. Association. She enjoys participating in courses, Our opening reception will be held on Saturday, Belleville has also presented paintings by Barbara to and has been influenced many local artists through March 5, from 2 to 4 pm. You will have an Gunpo, South Korea (another twin city) and to course work and mentorship; in particular, Jeanette opportunity to chat with the artists and, as usual, Major General Lewis Mackenzie. Campbell, Ron Sayeau, Valerie Kent, Linda Kemp, refreshments will be served. We welcome everyone Bob Pennycook, Joan Reive and Claudia McCabe. to the gallery, which is located at 48 Bridge Street Barbara studied art under many artists, including Jan’s work is often inspired by nature’s beauty in East in Belleville. Paavo Airola. She in turn has inspired and mentored landscapes and gardens. Lately, through her work The Mother of All Craft Shows celebrates fifth birthday It’s a party and you’re invited! The Mother of all proud of the shows we produce and with ‘Mother’ many applications coming from well beyond the Craft Shows is celebrating its fifth birthday on turning five, we think it’s something to celebrate!” Quinte region. Attendance has also steadily Sunday, May 4, from 10 am to 4 pm at The River agree the organizers, Connie Yrjola, Barb Forgie and increased every year thanks to a loyal following that Inn in Corbyville. And, like a true birthday party, Cara Hunter. keeps growing. there will be games, balloons and cake, in addition The show has earned a respected reputation on the Connie, Barb and Cara are currently undergoing a to the over 40 artisans and live music that past show circuit and, as a result, the number of artisans rebranding as ‘We Create Artisan Events’ as they visitors have come to expect and enjoy. “We’re very has more than doubled since the first year, with also produce Kaleidoscope; A Celebration of Craft and Design, Mistletoe Magic and their newest show being held in early April, The Spring Clean Craft De-stash Bash! Hastings County For those who have never attended The Mother of Historical Society all Craft Shows, it is a fun and lively day of arts, SPRING crafts and music, spent along the banks of the Moira Annual Bus Tour River at the picturesque River Inn. Guests can enjoy EXHIBITIONS a glass of wine on the patio and engage with the many talented artisans selling their work. Ghost Towns & Pioneer Villages AT In Our Backyard - Part II Once again, a portion of the show’s proceeds will benefit Fixed Fur Life, a local charity that spays, Come away for the day and neuters and fosters stray cats. The show takes place learn more fascinating stories of the week before Mother’s Day, to encourage FINE ART GALLERY disappearing villages and the shoppers to find those special one-of-a-kind gifts. heroic tales of pioneers in our region. March 8-30 Awakenings, 5 Artist Exhibition Keep up-to-date by visiting Bonnie Brooks, Don Cavin, Lisa Johnson, www.motherofallcraftshows.com and Saturday, June 7, 2014 John Stuart Pryce OSA IPAP, Barry Dicks SCA. facebook/MotherofallCraftShows. Opening reception, Saturday March 8, 2-5pm. Bus departs 8:30 am from northeast Artists in attendance. In the Upper Gallery. parking area of Bayview Mall, April 12-May 4 Sampson & Matthews Silkscreens off Bridge Street East, Belleville The Forgotten Sampson & Matthews Silkscreens 1943-1962. Opening reception, Saturday April 12, Cost $65, includes lunch 2-5pm. Lecture 3pm. In the Upper Gallery. Tickets: call Mary-Lynne Morgan May 24-July 6 Robert McAffee at 613-961-7091 Painting Canada One Canvas At A Time Opening reception, Saturday May 24, 11am-5pm. Last year we sold out two buses Artist in attendance. In the Upper Gallery. by mid‐February ‐ so don’t delay, 345 Victoria St., Tweed get your tickets today! 613-478-0000 www.QuinnsOfTweed.ca
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 9 March, April and May at the Art Gallery of Bancroft
The Art Gallery of Bancroft will hold the Michal other shows, he also exhibited Manson Memorial–23rd Annual High School canvases that explored his spiritual Exhibition, showcasing art work from four high quest as a Buddhist, and a painting schools in the area. Students from North Hastings series titled My Landscapes, which High School in Bancroft, Centre Hastings Secondary he refers to as a return to his muse, School in Madoc, Madawaska Valley District High the countryside around rural School in Barry’s Bay and Haliburton Highlands Bancroft, where he grew up, as well Secondary School in Haliburton have been invited to as images from the environs of Ajax, submit 10 to 15 pieces per school for selection. where he currently lives. Artist Gretel Boose will jury the show and awards In January of 2013, O’Marra hung a will be presented in the categories of drawing, retrospective of his work at a local painting, three-dimensional and new and mixed Ajax community venue, under the Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, acrylic and mixed media work. auspices of the Durham Region media on paper (22” x 32”) by Allan O’Marra Gretel Boose studied with painter and graphic PineRidge Arts Council. designer, Uwe T. Gusch in Germany from 1976 - favourite classical music compositions. “The show was comprised of my typical realist 1984. She painted in oil and acrylic until 2004 when portraits, figures, figures-in-landscapes and pure “Over the next 12 weeks I produced 30 paintings - she began her present work in ceramic and mixed landscapes—plus a small selection of abstracts. And, my most prolific period of art production in a 42- media sculpture, after immersing herself in sculpture at that moment in time, I seemed to hit a point of year career. My work method involved listening to a and ceramic art studies with sculptors Natalia pause and review of themes and production of my specific piece of music and taking away a sense of Shapira and Yaroslav Kotchutin from 2004 to 2012. work. And took some time to ponder what I would resonant colours and combinations of hues; then Boose has exhibited her work in Ontario and has do next,” said O’Marra. listening again to devise compositional elements and work in private collections in Canada and Germany. movement based on the structures and movements Several years earlier, he The Art Gallery of Bancroft of the music. And I would play the piece, on had been gifted with a has been holding the student occasion, as I progressed with each painting over the large quantity of high exhibitions since the early course of a day or two that it took to produce each quality, large format 1990s. This exhibition is a work of art.” drawing papers from the memorial tribute to beloved estate of an artist who The Art Gallery of Bancroft is very pleased to have artist Michal Manson, who had passed away. As a the opportunity to exhibit this new series of works was an Art Gallery of starting point to getting by O’Marra. There will be an opening reception on Bancroft Committee Member back into production, he Friday, April 4 at 7:30 pm. for many years. Born and decided to use the papers raised in Muskoka, Manson From April 30 through May 25, the Art Gallery of to make some form of went on to study art at the Bancroft will hold its 32nd annual juried exhibition art. Ontario College of Art and titled Invitation 2014. The show will be juried by continued her education at Sir “I have always dabbled local painter, Susan Dunlop. Pre-registration by George Brown College in in the abstract - and April 23 is required. Call for entry forms are J.S. Bach: Air on the G String, acrylic and mixed Montreal. From 1971-73 she teach it on an ongoing available at the art gallery or on the website: media on paper (22” x 32”) by Allan O’Marra taught design and illustration at basis in artist-in-the-school agb.weebly.com. The categories for submission are Conestoga College in Waterloo and then went on to projects, in community centre classes and in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, drawing, two- become a lecturer and full-time instructor in Fine workshops. I use, and teach, a variety of techniques dimensional, mixed media and three-dimensional. Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University. She received - in acrylics and various types of mixed media on There is a $10 fee per artwork submitted. The research funding for several works including the canvas - and set to work trying it out on sheets of awards are: Best in Show, David B. Milne Award for Illustrated History of Women in 1993. Manson the heavy paper.” $500; $100 awards for best in each category; and referred to her work as figurative abstract and said, $50 for honourable mentions. Artists may enter up to O’Marra enjoys listening to classical music as he “My interest lies with colour, the special two works in four of the categories. The opening works, and when he began this new exploration, he relationships and narrative.” Manson passed away in reception and awards ceremony will be held on was playing a piece by J. S. Bach - his Air on the G February of 2010 and the AGB renamed the student Friday, May 2 at 7:30 pm. String. O’Marra said he felt a connection between exhibition in her memory. the colours and the compositional elements that The Art Gallery of Bancroft is located at 10 Flint This exhibition runs from March 5 through March were surfacing in his painting. He decided to name Avenue in Bancroft. For more information, contact 29, with an opening reception and awards ceremony the painting after the piece of music and hit upon the the gallery at 613-332-1542 or [email protected]. on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 pm. idea of producing a series of works based on his From April 2 through April 27, the Art Gallery of Bancroft will feature the paintings of Allan O’Marra in a show titled Classical Abstracts. Allan O’Marra studied art at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, graduating in 1971 from the Communications and Design course, with principal interest in painting and photography. Over the years, he worked at various advertising and promotion jobs and for 20 years was promotions manager in the Corporate Marketing Department of Bank of Montreal. Throughout those years he maintained a parallel career as a fine artist, showing in dozens of solo and group exhibitions. O’Marra self-published two books of poetry combined with black and white photography, an illustrated children’s book titled Retreat at Worst Horse.on the theme of meditation and, in 2012, a book in which he documents the experience of a five-day meditation retreat in prose, poetry, photography, paintings and drawings. Rebate During his four decade career, his paintings and † drawings have been primarily done in a high realist when you purchase ® style, using his own photography as reference. Duette honeycomb O’Marra has put together solo shows on specific shades. themes, such as paintings of Lake Ontario; an exhibition of Polaroid photos titled, Available at INSIDE DESIGN Parallels//Polarities; a show called The Joy of Falling which, in his own words, was “… a set of www.insidedesignco.ca psychologically-challenging paintings and drawings Belleville of leaping and falling child figures.” Among many 613 967 0021
10 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 The Colborne Art Gallery offers new opportunities for local artists by Barbara Buntin
Have you ever wondered about becoming a member and galleries. of The Colborne Art Gallery? This might be the perfect time for you or someone you know to get There are many challenges involved in a dynamic artists’ cooperative. and rewards of gallery membership. In the words of The Colborne Art Gallery is comprised of a group of a long-time member, “The visual artists working together to present eight members of the gallery ‘get’ shows each year in a charming heritage building on me and they understand my the main street of Colborne. This artists’ collective art obsession, as I do is currently inviting applications from established theirs. We watch and help each Pat Stanley and Rod Bergeron at the gallery PHOTO BY BILL HORNBOSTEL and emerging visual artists, in a variety of media, to other develop over time, as well as sharing the work join the team. it takes to keep the gallery running. I have grown in We welcome applications from makers of fine craft, unexpected ways because of these dynamics!” fibre and mixed media artists, painters, Being a member of an artist-run organization has a photographers, sculptors, printmakers and other wide variety of benefits which the members of The If you or someone you know is ready for new visual artists. The Colborne Art Gallery is at 51 Colborne Art Gallery express with passion. One challenges and opportunities as a visual artist, visit King Street East in Colborne. You can reach them member explained; “ I particularly enjoy the The Colborne Art Gallery website for membership by phone, 905-355-1798, or email, fellowship of the other artists, trading information, application details; www.thecolborneartgallery.ca. [email protected]. sharing ideas, responding to each other’s work in a candid way,” while another says “having new work on display eight times a year gives me a chance to investigate fresh ideas and receive immediate response, it’s been good for my growth as an artist.” The members are a diverse group in terms of their lives as well as their art. Some are full-time artists, while some balance another full-time job with their creative work for the Gallery. Some members use the Gallery shows as their only outlet for exhibition while others are involved with a variety of shows • Afternoon Tea Thursday, Friday & Sunday Seatings: 12 pm or 2:30 pm (call for information/reservations) Don't miss the next • Tea Room Events Easter Tea: Dust off your “Easter Bonnet” and visit the Tea Room for a delightful afternoon of tasty treats & an Easter surprise Mother’s Day Tea: What better way to honour Mom Later Life than enjoying a relaxing Afternoon Tea in the peaceful elegance of this historic Inn Learning Lectures Funk & Grüven A-Z •Weddings/Receptions & Wedding Photography •Private Functions: Anniversary/Birthday/Retirement Antiques & Beautiful Furnishings Receptions, Bridal/Baby Showers •Luncheon or Dinner Parties •Business Meetings Challenges in the 52 Bridge St. E., Downtown Belleville 613-968-5612 • Gift Certificates available 21st Century: Is it www.funkandgruven.com For information and reservations 613‐966‐1028 www.montroseinn.ca changing for the better? OPEN DAILY 1725 Old Highway 2 West, Quinte West Quinte Readers' Choice Favourite B&B 2005 - 2013 COME IN... HAVE A GOOD LOOK! 2006 Business Achievement Award A series of 4 lectures: Business of the Year Tourism and Hospitality April 23 and 30, May 7 and 14
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March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 11 Daily Practice by Annie McDonald
I had a remarkable visit with Elizabeth Hutchinson in her studio last week! Walking into her quiet work space is like entering a jewel box, with tiny representational paintings lined up on shelves. She shared some thoughts about her feature show, Daily Practice at the Colborne Art Gallery that is slated to open in early March. I even got to view some of the paintings that will be exhibited. I have to be honest here: strict representation is rarely my cup of tea - but these enchanting oil paintings pulled me right in! Her subjects for this show are mostly quiet, domestic still life scenes, some lively studies of birds, and also watercolour sketches. When I asked her if she is strict about the observation, as opposed to more abstract expressions of the world, she answered, “ No, but I select the things to emphasize and leave the rest. Really you are seeing light. You don’t want to share all that muck amuck in the shadows. Otherwise you haven’t made any decisions; it can have a suffocating effect and feel constricted.” She explained this idea Lunch, painting by Elizabeth Hutchinson further, “photography is completely democratic - everything is described. With painting you share with the viewer the things you notice particularly. the gate. “If there is too much fuss at this stage including a return to live in Carrying Place, Ontario, Put light on anything and it’s gorgeous! It’s a things become static; you put in the dark and light where she grew up. A few lucky students study with conversation about the shadow mass and a specific idea which is the big idea.” Then, as she focuses on her and she makes painting trips abroad. She is area of local colour - usually it’s right where the those magical edges that get the light, everything clear about her choices, “This is my life - this is my light hits the objects - and if you aren’t connected to slows down. stuff. The birds are here everyday. My studio is a spare bedroom, and this is the way I want to be this process in an emotional way, how can you Elizabeth Hutchinson’s training was thorough and painting!” expect the viewer to be connected?” academic. She first attended OCAD in Toronto, Elizabeth was generous with sharing her process. later the University of Guelph. She then spent many Elizabeth Hutchinson’s feature show, Daily Practice She begins with a tiny, prepared board. She years in New York City, completing a Master’s at opens March 8 at the Colborne Art Gallery, along explained how the pace of painting really changes as the New York Academy of Art, continued study at with a small show of my own new ceramic works she progresses: first, laying out the bones of the the New York Studio School and at the Art Students entitled, Thaw and works by gallery artists. There composition is fast and energetic. She explained League. In the end she has made departures - “I am will be a reception from 2 to 4 pm with artists that you shouldn’t make decisions about the edges at grateful that I did all that, but now I find it so present. All are always welcome to attend and deadly!” Elizabeth is finding her own way, admission is always free! Fine art meets the outdoor lifestyle of Ontario I am having a great time introducing possibilities are endless. Banners are another great by Janet Battaglio lovers of fine art to the world of creating a idea. Ask about Outdoor Art at Janet B Gallery & personalized lifestyle escape that includes Studios, 9 Division Blvd, Consecon, 613-965-5698 art and culture in their own backyards! or [email protected]. This spring will be filled with arranging wonderful outdoor dining spaces to experience art as a focal point, creating fabulous atmospheres for entertaining, relaxing or just being fanciful! With this outdoor style of art, I find the images can transport you to far-away places, be it in the world or in your mind. Even conjuring up memories. Decorating outdoor spaces with images or paintings, with a theme such as sports or other interests, is another fabulous opportunity. I like the idea of bringing art outside to personalize institutional settings too, no maintenance for the image of a painting or photo of a wonderful barn, scene, garden, trees, wild life or activities. As many ideas as we can come up with, people are coming up with more. This popular style of outdoor art is finally becoming accessible, durable and affordable for us Canadians. Currently a wonderful 3’x4’ Pink Peony is the backdrop to the dining area on the deck outside at Janet B Gallery. A gallery wrapped canvas, it has weathered its first winter with 100 km winds, two ice storms and record cold weather and come through unscathed! Photographic images from My Backyard Ontario series, and other Studio G Group work is available. All our art, or your Janet Battaglio outside her studio in Consecon own, can be enlarged and incorporated into an outdoor canvas with a frame. The
12 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 20th anniversary! QAC Arts
Recognition Awards Those who have been honoured Deadline to nominate is April 15 to date are:
Luncheon celebration is May 15 2013 – Joan Reive, In-Four-Mation, Robert Kranendonk, Sam Brady, and Bill and Debbie Morton This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Quinte Arts Council’s Arts Recognition Awards 2012 – Mary-Lynne Morgan, Artists Below The Line, Nancy Garrod, to acknowledge and celebrate those artists, individuals, volunteers and supporters who Rev. John Uttley, Dona Knudsen, Sylvin Pineau, make a difference to the arts in our community. We are very pleased that Mayor Ellis has Ross McDougall, Doug Thompson and Harvey Gere of the again agreed to be the host of the event at the Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts that will be Belleville Lions Club held on May 15 in the Park Ballroom at the Travelodge in Belleville. 2011 – Al Hazel, Jack Evans, Stephane Lemelin, Lise Lindenberg, The deadline for nominations for this year’s award recipients is April 15 and we Shawn Patriquin, Teresa Bell and Paul Thompson encourage people to submit their nominations. The process is simple. Go to www.quinteartscouncil.org (it’s under Programs/Services) for the nomination form and tell 2009 – Bob Long, Don Pinder, Quinte Symphony Orchestra us in 250 words why you think the person, or organization or supporter should receive an award. Get two letters of support for this nomination and send it to us. If your 2008 – Andrew and Adam Gray, Carlyn Moulton, Debra Tosh, nomination is accepted you will be invited as our guest to attend the luncheon along with Marc Bourdon, Georgette Fry, Peta Hall, and the Marilyn and the nominee. Lunch this year consists of a baby arugula salad with toasted pecans, Maurice Rollins Foundation sundried cranberries with maple and white balsamic vinaigrette; choice of pan seared chicken supreme or filet of Atlantic salmon; chocolate mocha cheesecake with berry 2007 – Quinte Opera Guild, Quinte Rotary Music Festival, Rob Brown, coulis and tea and coffee service. Tickets are only $35 per person (includes tax and Anne Buckley, Muriel Gibson, Bob Clute gratuity) and there will be live entertainment and a cash bar. 2006 – Wayne McFaul, Quinte Film Alternative, Moira Nikander Winners of the Arts Recognition Awards will receive a hand-crafted blown glass trophy by Forrester, Sharon Campbell, and Chantale Brisson Marc “Budgie” Bourdon as well as a certificate from the Mayor and members of Parliament. There will be a special souvenir program created to mark the occasion thanks 2005 – Marilyn Holden, Ann Pickett, Rudy Heijdens, Andy Forgie, to Veridian Connections. The event is also sponsored by the Intelligencer, Classic Hits and Jack and Bernice Parrott 95.5 and Cool 100, and we are hoping that other sponsors will agree to participate this 2004 – Caroline Smith, Mark Rashotte, Charlie Kammer year. This event is not only prestigious but it is fun and entertaining. All are welcome to share in the celebration. You can order your tickets by calling Kim at 613-962-1232. 2003 – Campbell Monuments, Warren McFaul, Barbara Whelan Hope to see you there! 2002 – Wilma Alexander, Procter & Gamble, Quinte Ballet School Guild 2001 – The Leona Riggs Foundation, Marion Stratton, Wilma Donald, The Marysburgh Mummers 2000 – Beryl Rutland, Stirling Performing Arts Committee, Belleville Art Association QuinteArtsCouncil 1999 – Dorothy Aitchison, Eugene Lang, The Belleville Theatre Guild 1998 – Tony Lassing, Susan Richardson, Marilyn and Maurice Rollins, Lee Jourard, Nortel Please join us at the 1997 – Linda Hamer-Harris Mustard, Jim Alexander, Stan Wiggins Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts 1996 – Harlan House R.C.A., Paul Dinkel, Jane Hull to celebrate the winners of the 2014 Arts Recognition Awards 1995 – William Maddox, Brian Scott, Corby Distilleries
Thursday, May 15, 2014 1994 – Florence Lennox, Gordon and Audrey Davies, Diana Koechlin 11:30 am to 2 pm in The Park Ballroom Travelodge (at the Bay Bridge) in Belleville Awards Luncheon Menu Tickets: $35 (includes tax and gratuity) Appetizer Baby Arugula Salad, Toasted Pecans, Sundried Call 613-962-1232 or visit the QAC, 36 Bridge St. E, Belleville Cranberries, with Maple & White Balsamic Vinaigrette Sponsored by Main Entrée Course Pan Seared Chicken Supreme, Herb Reduction, With Seasonal Vegetables and Rosemary Roasted New Potatoes -Or- Seared filet of Atlantic Salmon, Baby Shrimp & Citrus Beurre Blanc With Garlic and Green Onion Mashed Potatoes, & Roasted Vegetables Dessert Chocolate Mocha Cheesecake with Berry Coulis Freshly Brewed Tea and Coffee Cash Bar opens at 11:30 a.m.
Come enjoy the Awards Presentation and Live Entertainment
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 13 Studios celebrates the Year Of The Horse with a film and photography exhibit by Gabi von Gans. New original MARCH works by local guest artists. Mar. Apr. May The Quinte Arts Council’s Art in the APRIL Community visual art show and sale featuring art and craft produced by QAC members, 36 Bridge St. E., Calendar MAY Belleville. The current show runs to Apr. 2. The next show will run Apr. and May. The opening will be Apr. 3, 4 to 7 pm. Work also hangs at various venues throughout Belleville. www.quinteartscouncil.org (click on About). Metropolitan Opera on Apr. 26. New members welcome. Mar. 4 to 15 On Mar. 4, 5 to 8 pm, opening reception of PERFORMING ARTS Mary at 613-962-3190. the International Women’s Day Community Art Show. Feb. 27 to Mar. 15 My Theatre presents Love, Sex and Apr. 18 An ecumenical choir will perform John Show runs 10 to noon, 4 to 7 pm except Sundays. On the IRS, written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, Rutter’s, Requiem at Bridge Street United Church at 7 Mar. 8, 9:30 am, premiere screening of the documentary directed by Bev Roy. Performances at the Historical pm. This performance will include Elizabeth McDonald Girl Rising and celebration of International Women’s Trenton Town Hall - 1861, 55 King Street, Trenton. singing the soprano solos, as well as a small instrumental Day. Both at the Core Arts and Culture Centre, Belleville. Tickets: [email protected] or Quinte Chamber of ensemble including flute, oboe, cello, harp, organ and Free. Mieke at 613-969-1782. Commerce, 613-392-7635. percussion. The program will also include Mozart’s Kyrie To Mar. 26 The John M. Parrott Art Gallery, 3rd floor, Mar. 1 Yuk Yuk’s You Just Can’t Laugh Any Harder in d minor, K341 as well as his Ave Verum. A free-will Belleville Library, is showing Art Students Showcase dinner and comedy show at Deseronto Community Centre, offering will be taken to help offset costs. 60 Bridge St. featuring work by watercolour artist Ron Pickering and his 51 Mechanic St. will benefit the Deseronto Centennial E., Belleville, Terry Head, 613.962.9178 ext. 74. students. Park Revitalization Project. Tickets: 331 Main St., Apr. 26 The Kingston Symphony presents Broadway, Mar. 5 to May 12 Arts on Main Gallery presents Swept Deseronto, 613-396-2440. My Way featuring vocalist David Rogers at 7:30 pm at the Away! 223 Main St. in Picton, open 11 am to 4 pm. Mar. 1 Comedian Ron James will perform at the Empire Grand Theatre. Info and tickets, 613-530-2050, Opening reception Mar. 8, 2 to 4 pm. Theatre in Belleville, 7:30 pm. www.shantero.com. www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca. www.artsonmaingallery.ca, 613 476 5665. Mar. 8 The Three Bluesmen in Concert. Tim Campbell, Apr. 27 Belleville Choral Society presents On To Apr. 13 In celebration of the beginning of their 10th Tony Vani, and Ron Nicolas, perform at The Core at 233 Broadway-With a Song in My Heart at 3 pm at St. Mary season, Oeno Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Pinnacle Street Belleville. Tickets $10 at The Core and at Magdalene Church, 137 Robinson St., Napanee. Tickets two important artists: Chinese photographer Chen Jiagang, the door on arrival. at QAC and from members. and Canadian print maker and ceramic sculptor, Susan Mar. 9 Quinte Symphony presents March into March May 2, 3, 9, 10 Prince Edward Community Theatre Collett. 2274 County Road 1, in Prince Edward County. Concert at 7 pm, Bridge St. Church, Belleville. If you presents the thriller Deathtrap at 8 pm at Mt. Tabor www.oenogallery.com. remember the Lone Ranger radio show, you’ll know the Playhouse, Milford. Advance tickets $14 at outlets or by Mar. 5 to 29 The Art Gallery of Bancroft presents its famous theme from the William Tell Overture. Also a full- phoning 613-476-5925 or [email protected]. $16 at 23rd High School Exhibition, with an opening reception blown performance of Beethoven’s 6th. Tickets in the door. and awards ceremony on Mar. 7 at 7:30 pm. 613-332- Belleville at the QAC, 36 Bridge St. E., at Sam the Record May 3 Quinte Children’s Theatre presents Andy Forgie 1542 or [email protected]. Man at Quinte Mall, or at the door. and Friends (the Fiddleheads and Meaghan Lattanzio) 1 Mar. 8 to Apr. 13 The Colborne Art Gallery presents Mar. Apr. The Stirling Festival Theatre, 41 West Front pm at Maranatha Church, 100 College St., Belleville. Daily Practice, an exhibition by Guest Artist Elizabeth St., Stirling presents Mar. 11-15, Fairy Tale Ending, The Tickets at QAC, Military Family Resource Centre, Party Hutchinson. The opening reception Mar. 8, 2 to 4 pm. 51 Big Bad Family Musical. Mar. 19 at 2 pm; The Celtic Castle and The Core. 613-967-0255, King St E Colborne. www.thecolborneartgallery.ca, 905 Dance Company of Canada’s Shamrock Party! Apr. 4 and www.quintechildrenstheatre.ca. 355 1798. 5 at 6 pm, Par For The Case, a Murder Mystery Dinner May 3 Dessert Cabaret at Bridge Street United Church Mar. 8 to 30 Quinn’s of Tweed presents Awakenings, 5 Theatre. Apr. 12 at 8 pm, Classic Country Road Tour in Belleville, 7:30 pm in the Sills Auditorium. Tickets $10 Artist Exhibition featuring work by Bonnie Brooks, Don 2014 with James Ryce and Top Shelf including special and include desserts, coffee/tea. Silent auction. All to Cavin, Lisa Johnson, John Stuart Pryce OSA IPAP, Barry guest Joanne Post. Apr. 13 at 2 pm, Soldiers of Songs: raise funds for the final phase of restoration work on the Dicks SCA. Opening reception, Mar. 8, 2 to 5pm. 345 Canada’s Famous ‘Dumbells’ - irreverent, socially aware, organ. Theme is Hollywood/Broadway. Tickets: church Victoria St., Tweed. 613-478-0000 sacrilegious, sentimental and intensely Canadian! Apr. 25 office, or Terry Head at 613-962-9178 ext. 74. at 2 pm and 8 pm, The Legendary Patsy Cline starring www.QuinnsOfTweed.ca. May 3 Harvest Moon presents The Wilkinsons and Amberley Beatty and The Sweet Dreams. Apr. 30 at 2 pm, Apr. May Tyendinaga Township Public Library will be Small Town Pistols with The Abrams Brothers Sleddogs Good Night and May God Bless, a Red Skelton Tribute. displaying the works of local visual artist, Pat Werden. 613-395-2100 www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.com. and Emma and Sam McNichols. Plus the comedy of Nick Foley and Friends. A benefit for The James Fund (for Apr. 2 to 27 The Art Gallery of Bancroft features the Mar. Apr. May At the John M. Parrott Art Gallery, 3rd neuroblastoma research) at the Empire Theatre. paintings of Allan O’Marra in a show titled Classical floor of the Belleville Library from 10:30 to 11:30 am, www.wilkinsonscominghome.com Abstracts. Opening reception, Apr. 4, 7:30 pm. 613-332- enjoy the Musical Gifts Series presented by pianist Rick 1542 or [email protected]. Penner. On Mar. 13 Rick will feature Jimmy Webb, Songs May 4 Belleville Choral Society presents On Broadway- of Love Returned and Not. On Apr. 11, it’s Edvard Grieg, With a Song in My Heart at 3 pm at St. Michael the Apr. 3 to 23 The John M. Parrott Art Gallery presents Music from the Mountains of Norway. On May 9, enjoy Archangel Church, 296 Church St, Belleville. Tickets the 26th annual Secondary School Art Show, with an Mancini Magic. 613-968-6731 x2240. ($20 adult, $5 ages 6 to 18) at the Parish Office, QAC and opening reception on Apr. 3, from 6 to 7:30 pm. from members. www.bellevillelibrary.ca. Mar. Apr. May Active Arts Studio, Mar.15, Susan Latimer and Mike Tabares; Mar. 21, Kim Doolittle and May 9 Royal Wood performs at the Empire Theatre in Apr. 6 We Create Artisan Events’ Spring Clean Craft De- friends; Apr. 6, Alan Rhody; Apr. 17, Bill Durst Blues Belleville, 8 pm. Tickets: 613-969-0099, Stash Bash! will be at 360 Pinnacle St., Belleville, 10 am Band; May 9, Morgan Davis …History of the Blues (tbc); www.theempiretheatre.com. to 4 pm. Crafting supplies on offer at discounted prices. Open to the public. $1 admission. May 17, Lindsay Barr Band; May 31, Kim Pollard Band. May 10, 11 For Mother’s Day weekend on May 10 at 7 www.wecreateartisanevents.weebly.com. 613-779-8933 pm at Bridge St. Church in Belleville, and on May 11 at Mar. 15 Shamrock Shuffle, a St. Patrick’s Day pub 2:30 pm at the Regent Theatre in Picton (tickets at the Apr. 8 to 15 You are invited to see the Loyalist College crawl, downtown Belleville, starts 4 pm. Tickets: $20 at Regent), the Quinte Symphony will perform a salute to Art and Design Foundation students’ typographic Richard Davies, Pure Honey, Estetika and Miss Priss. mothers. Enjoy vocal favourites, plus a lush touch by creations at the Link Lounge on the main campus. French composers and a popular Strauss waltz. Tickets in Opening reception on Apr. 8, 5:30 pm. Mar. 15, Apr. 26, May 17 Night Kitchen Too, innovative Blvl at QAC, Sam the Record Man or at the door. musical showcase, 8 pm at Pinnacle Playhouse, Belleville. Apr. 12 to May 4 Quinn’s of Tweed presents The $10 ($5 unwaged). 613-849-1976 May 10 Barbershop chorus, A Cappella Quinte presents Forgotten Sampson & Matthews Silkscreens 1943-1962. a concert of barbershop favourites. Maranatha Church, Opening reception, Apr. 12, 2 to 5 pm. Lecture 3 pm. In Mar. 16 The Quinte Opera Guild will meet at the 7:30 pm. Special guests, Shaken Not Stirred. Tickets at the Upper Gallery. 345 Victoria St., Tweed. 613-478- Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Rd., QAC, from any member of the chapter or at the door, $20. 0000 www.QuinnsOfTweed.ca. Belleville at 2 pm. Guest speaker will be Celine Papizewska. Also a discussion on what fascination does May 23 to 25 The Prince and the Pauper presented by Apr. 19 to May 25 The Colborne Art Gallery presents a opera hold for you? New members welcome. Mary at 613- Centennial Theatrical Productions. 7 pm on Fri. and Sat. Solo Show by Avril Bull Jones, new works by other 961-3190. and a 2 pm on Sat. and Sun. Suitable for all ages. Adults gallery members in 2nd and 3rd galleries. Opening $15, students and seniors, $10. Centennial Secondary reception Apr. 19, 2 to 4 pm. Mar. 21, 22, 28 Prince Edward Community Theatre School, 160 Palmer Road, Belleville. Info 613-962-9233 www.thecolborneartgallery.ca, 905-355-1798. presents God of Carnage at Huff Estate Winery, PE ext. 3460 County. www.pecommtheatre.ca. Apr. 26 The Dumpster Diva Collective presents the 2nd May 24 Music Lovers’ House Tour. Details TBA. Annual Garbage Bag Ball - Thinking Beyond the Mar. 22 Quinte Children’s Theatre presents Duffle Bag www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca. Dumpster; Celebrating Local Creativity! The Dumpster Theatre in Cinderella, 1 pm at Maranatha Church, 100 Divas promote the art of dressing in an eco-conscious way May 25 The Quinte Opera Guild will meet at the College St. W., Belleville. www.quintechildrenstheatre.ca. rather than following fashion trends. This includes buying Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Road, previously enjoyed and locally made clothing and Mar. Apr. Kingston Symphony presents: Mar. 23, 2:30 at 2 pm. There will be a presentation on Semiramide. accessories that help express each person’s uniqueness. At pm at the Kingston Gospel Temple, 2295 Princess St., all New members welcome. Mary at 613-962-3190. Mozart program, including the Requiem. Mar. 29 at the the Belle Pub, 310 Front St., Belleville, 7 pm. Music by Grand Theatre, Sweet & Hot, classical and jazz violin. May 29, 30, 31 Trenton High presents a musical written The Stir. A panel of celebrity judges will choose the “best Apr. 13 at the Grand Theatre, Brahms, Schumann and by the Music Theatre Production students, featuring the dressed” people. Categories include: Vintage, Most Tchaikovsky. Apr. 26 at the Grand Theatre, Broadway, My music of Elvis. 7 pm each night in the auditorium. Tickets Creative, Best use of Garbage Bags and The Trashiest. In Way. 613-530-2050. $10. addition to the category prizes, attendees may buy and bid raffle tickets in a Chance Auction, featuring items donated Mar. 24, Apr. 29, May 28 St. Mary Magdalene in May 29 to June 14 Belleville Theatre Guild presents by local entrepreneurs and artists. Admission is $10 in Picton is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its grand Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim at Pinnacle advance, at the door is $12 or $10 plus a donation to the Casavant pipe organ with a series of three concerts, Mar. Playhouse. www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca. Gleaners Food Bank. The dumpsterdivacollective.com 24 by William Maddox, Apr. 29 by Michael Goodwin and website lists ticket outlets and further event information. May 28 by Duncan McDonald. All concerts at 7:30 pm. $15 adults, $5 students. VISUAL ARTS Apr. 30 to May 25 The Art Gallery of Bancroft holds its 32nd annual juried exhibition, titled Invitation 2014. Apr. 1 to 19 The Belleville Theatre Guild presents To Mar. 26 The John M. Parrott Art Gallery, 3rd floor The opening reception and awards ceremony is on May 2 Enchanted April, by Matthew Barber. 613-967-1442 or of the Belleville Library, presents Unravelling Vincent: at 7:30 pm. 613-332-1542 or [email protected]. www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca. The Van Gogh Project in Gallery 2. The opening will be held Feb. 27 from 6 to 7:30 pm. May Exhibit of outdoor deck & patio art, fine art Apr. May June At the Regent Theatre in Picton: Apr. reproduction installation, one of a kind, limited edition, 13, 2 pm, PEC Jazz: Swing Into Spring; May 3, 8 pm, The Mar. The Quinte Fibreartists will be having a display of and open work by Gabi von Gans and Studio G Group Barra MacNeils; May 11, 2 pm, Quinte Symphony; and work at the Tall Poppy Restaurant in Wellington for the members. Art Consultant Services for existing and new June 5, 8 pm, Wingfield on Ice. Month of March. art installations. Janet B Gallery & Studios, 9 Divison Apr. 13 The Quinte Opera Guild meet at the Quinte Mar. 1 to Apr. 26 Gallery One-Twenty-One features Blvd, Consecon, 613-965-5698. Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Rd. Belleville Barbara Whelan’s show, Canadian Winter. Guest artists May 3 and 4 The Quinte Quilter’s Guild spring quilt at 2 pm. There will be a presentation on Hercules are Jan Coombs and Tom Ashbourne. Opening reception show at the Quinte Curling Club, 246 Bridge St. W., performed by the Canadian Opera Company on Apr. 27 on Mar. 5, from 2 to 4 pm. 613-962-4609. Belleville, 10 am to 5 pm May 3 and 10 am to 4 pm May and on Cosi fan Tutti, to be shown in HD of the Mar. Apr. May Heart of A Horse, Janet B Gallery &
14 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 4. Admission $6, husbands free! Area Arts Council. All workshops $50 each plus supplies copper, lead, silver and even gold. 7:30 pm at the Quinte www.quintequiltersguild.ca. and will be held at the Marble Arts Church, Bridgewater Living Centre, 370 Front St., Belleville (north door) for May 4 The 5th annual The Mother of all Craft Shows at Rd. Tweed. Pastel Painting with Sue Vanderwey, Apr. 22 this free public presentation. www.hastingshistory.ca. and 24 from 6 to 9 pm; Acrylic Painting with Saga Sabin The River Inn, 79 River Road, Corbyville, 10 am to 4 pm. May 31 Fundraising plant sale, 8 am to 1 pm, features Apr. 23 and 30 from 6 to 9 pm; Watercolour Painting with To support www.fixedfurlife.com. perennials, gardening books, accessories and a bake sale Sharon Bower, Apr. 26 from 10 am to 4 pm; Monoprinting www.motherofallcraftshows.com. on the front lawn of Glanmore National Historic Site, with Bob Pennycook, Apr. 29 from 6 to 9 pm; and 257 Bridge St. E. May 24 to July 6 Quinn’s of Tweed presents Robert Decorative Painting with Connie Clark, May 3 from 10 McAffee, Painting Canada One Canvas At A Time. am to 4 pm. Register at the Food Company in Tweed or June 7 Ghost Towns & Pioneer Villages in Our Opening reception, May 24, 11 am to 5 pm. Upper email [email protected] for more information. Backyard - Part II. Day-long guided bus tour of west- gallery. 345 Victoria St., Tweed. 613-478-0000 central Hastings County. Cost $65 includes lunch. Camera & Photo Courses with Instructor Peggy deWitt. www.QuinnsOfTweed.ca. Organized by Hastings County Historical Society. Mary- Photo Workshops Series 2014 at The Grange Winery, Apr. Lynne Morgan (613-961-7091) www.hastingshistory.ca. May 29 to June 1 The second annual Belleville-on-the- 26, Jun 13, Sept 12 & Oct 10, 10 am to 2 pm. Cost $65 Bay-of-Quinte Plein Air Festival. each (includes HST), 613-476-1099 or www.bellevillepleinairfestival.com or BDIA office: 613- www.peggydewitt.com. 968-2242. LITERARY May Consecon Banner Painting Festival. Beautify Mar. 5 International Women’s Day presents, at the May 31 to July 6 The Colborne Art Gallery presents Consecon, sponsored by Janet B Gallery & Studios and guest artists, Weavers Unlimited, with new works by Belleville Public Library Gallery, 3rd floor: 9:30 am, Consecon Area Rate Payers Association – Beautification Gathering, a presentation by teen author Jennifer Gibson; gallery members in 2nd and 3rd galleries. Opening Project. 613-965-5698, [email protected]. reception May 31, 2 to 4 pm. 11:15 am. Also, Downtown March: politely hold up www.thecolborneartgallery.ca, 905-355-1798. traffic, raise awareness of IWD. 613-969-1782. FILM Apr. 3 Friends of the Tweed Library Writers Series, 7 pm at the Library, 230 Metcalf St. Featured writer: Feb. 28 to Mar. 2 Belleville Downtown DocFest 3rd WORKSHOPS Katherine Sedgwick, author of the Meanwhile, At the Annual International Documentary Film Festival will Manse blog, will speak about writing blogs, her Register by Mar. 14 Art for Everyone! is holding a screen over 40 outstanding films that celebrate life and experiences and the history of blogs. She is a professor of Make Your Own Handbag Workshop Mar. 22 and 23 human dignity around the world and right here at home, online journalism at Loyalist College. from 10 to 4 at the Military Family Resource Centre in Feb. 28 to Mar. 2. www.downtowndocfest.ca. Trenton. 613-885-9840, atthemanse.wordpress.com. Mar. 2 Celebrate at free Water Ceremony at 11 am at [email protected]. Apr. 9 to 12 The Prince Edward County Authors the waterfront of Riverside Trail across from the Empire Festival features readings, workshops, book signings and Register by Mar. 25 & Apr. 8 Learn Ukrainian Egg Theatre in Belleville. Gather in Front of Café E to draw more. Books & Co., 289 Main St., Picton, 613-476-3037, Decorating with Art for Everyone! on March 29 and April energy and awareness to our sacred water and to prepare www.pecauthorfest.com. 12 from 10 to 4 (2 hour sessions) at the Military Family us to view DocFest’s documentary Watermark, showing Resource Centre in Trenton. 613-885-9840 or Mar. 2 at 3:15 at Empire Theatre. 613-962-5630. May 1 Friends of the Tweed Library Writers Series, 7 artforeveryonetrenton.com. pm at the Library, 320 Metcalf Street, Tweed. Featured Mar/Apr/May Quinte Film Alternative at 2 and 7:30 writer: Hilary MacLeod, author of The Shores Mystery Janet B Gallery & Studios Classes in drawing, pm at the Empire Theatre in Belleville. Inside Llewyn Series set on a small fictional island on the Atlantic coast. watercolour, acrylic, oil, hand painting silk. Individually Davis on Mar. 5, The Past on Mar. 19, Philomena on Apr. She spends her winters here in PE County and her designed art plans. Custom workshops and art outings for 2 (TBC), Hannah Arendt on Apr. 16, Mandela: Long Walk summers in Prince Edward Island. Hilary will sign books individuals, families, groups and business. Healing arts, To Freedom on Apr. 30, Louis Cyr on May 14 and and copies of her books will be available for purchase. food and wine can be arranged for half and all day Sunshine On Leith on May 28 (TBC). Info at 613-480- workshops. 6407, www.quintefilmalternative.ca. May 31 Mystery Month author reading, 10:30 am at Quinte West Pubic Library, and 2 pm at Belleville Public Mar. 10 and 24 Art Encounters – Art programming Mar. 13 Join filmmaker and artist Brittany Ollerenshaw 6 Library features local mystery author, Janet Kellough designed to enrich the lives of individuals living with to 7:30 pm for an Art Talk about the exhibition, presenting the latest in the Thaddeus Lewis series, 47 dementia and their care partners. Art Encounters Unravelling Vincent - The Van Gogh Project. View the Sorrows. Join Janet for a fascinating glimpse into to the recognizes the value of the creative arts as a means of work by the 13 artists featured in her film which dark and deadly history of PE County. engaging and enhancing the lives of those with dementia, premiered at the 2014 Downtown DocFest. offering discussion based art gallery tours and creative art making programs developed by artist and art facilitator Apr. 26 to May 3 Active Arts Studio announces the first Marie Timbers. Join them in March for informative art Rednersville International Film Festival. The opening ODDS AND ENDS presentations and art related discussions held in a relaxed event will be a screening of The Last Waltz with the Mar. 1 Nibi Wabo Water Ceremony hosted by Kim and art gallery space. Art related themes will be explored definitive two channel audio mix by sound editor Rob David Maracle at 226 Bayshore Rd, Tyendinaga, 6 to 9:30 through the use of gallery art work including paintings, Fraboni, who will be in attendance. The concluding event pm. Parking at the café at 216 Bayshore. Potluck dinner - photography and sculpture and other visual materials. will be a screening of Bruce Cockburn’s Pacing the Cage, bring a feast basket (plate, cutlery, cup) for yourself and a Knowledge of art or art history is not required. Art with Bernie Finklestein and Joel Goldberg, who will be container of water. RSVP at 613-396-2767, Encounters provides a stress free environment ensuring an available for Q & A. 613-779-8933. [email protected]. A woman’s ceremony but men enjoyable and meaningful shared experience of the Apr. 30 The Rotary Club of Picton hosts a fundraising are welcome to help. Bring your hand drums, rattles, individual with dementia and their care partner. At Gallery movie bonanza for Atorkor Vocational Training Institute birch bark sticks, a skirt and gather on the water’s edge. 121, 48 Bridge St East, Belleville, Mar. 10 and 24, 10 am and Polio Plus, at the Regent Theatre. Three showings: Protect our waters for our future generations through to noon. Cost: free. For further information and to book, 1:30 pm, Mamma Mia; 4 pm, African Queen; 7:30 pm, awareness. www.davidrmaracle.com under Stage Red and contact Marie Timbers 613-477-3232 or email Mamma Mia. Tickets $15, include all three showings, Events. [email protected]. 613-476-8416. Steampunk Quinte Society is looking for members. Workshops with Donna Bonin. Oct. 3 to 6, Autumn Exchange ideas and swop steampunk related items and colours at Bridgewater Retreat. May 8 to 23, 2015, Paint dress up for the fun of it. When a location and date of the in Southern France. Early registration by June ensures HERITAGE first meeting is decided, one of the first topics of lowest air fare. This very popular workshop is limited to Mar. 3 History Nights at the Regent Theatre in Picton. discussion: First Annual Steampunk Extravaganza, where 10. Contact Donna 613-395-5959 or Captain Rene-Hippolyte Laforce was appointed we visit a distillery, glass blowing studio, blacksmith, [email protected] for details and registration. Commodore of the French navy on Lake Ontario in 1756. homemade ice-cream shop, etc. Let Marc Budgie Bourdon He was so admired by his British enemies they hired him know if you are interested or if you have any ideas: Mar. 18 to Apr. 12 Tweed & Area Arts Council’s to fight for them against American forces during the War Student Theatre classes begin Mar. 18 at the Marble Arts [email protected], 613-966-9431. (Sorry, 18 or of 1812. Hear the story of this native-born naval older.) Centre, Actinolite. They will be held on Tuesday and commander from Kingston from author and historian, Mar. 21 to 23 Maple in the County, Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 pm and Saturday’s from 10 David More. 7 pm. Tickets $15. Students $5. 613-476- www.mapleinthecounty.ca. am to 4 pm for 4 weeks. They conclude with a Showcase 8416 www.theregenttheatre.org, www.historyliveshere. on Apr. 12. Students age 8 to 14 are welcome. Cost is $50. Mar. 29 Empty Bowls, supporting local food banks, Mar. 11 to 14 Bring the family to Glanmore National Registration form: www.tweedartscouncil.ca. Bonnie at 10:30 am to 4 pm at Loyalist College Cafeteria, Belleville. Historic Site this March Break for some magical fun! 613-478-1777. Soup prepared by Loyalist College Chef, John Explore the historic house plus learn simple magic tricks Schneeberger and Dinkel’s Restaurant. Had-craft sale, Tuesdays Visual artists are welcome to bring their to amaze friends and family. 10 am to 4:30 pm. 257 Harvest Hastings, Desserts, live folk music. Tickets $20 supplies to the John M. Parrott Art Gallery from 10 am to Bridge St. E., Belleville. 613-962-2329 (pottery bowl and soup), $8 (soup only), at QAC, 1 pm for the Open Studio Tuesdays program. Great place www.glanmore.ca. for both the novice and experienced artist to get together Gleaners, QRFSS Member Food Banks, to create. 613-968-6731 x2240 or email Mar. 16 The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario www.gleanersfoodbank.ca. Quinte Region Brach will tour Glanmore National [email protected] Apr. 23, 30, May 7, 14 Don’t miss the next series of Historical Site, 257 Bridge St., E., Belleville starting at 2 Later Life Learning Lectures. Challenges in the 21st Third Thurs. The Drawing Room offers non- pm. See the results of major renovations and newly Century: Is it changing for the better? 10 am at St. instructional studio sessions to encourage the traditional revealed frescos. practice of drawing and painting the human figure from a Thomas Church, 201 Church St., Belleville. Get on their draped model, third Thurs. of each month, 2 to 4 pm, 3rd Mar. 18 Hastings County Historical Society presents mailing list: [email protected]. Diana Koechlin, floor meeting room in the John M. Parrott Art Gallery, Radio Personality, Sean Kelly, speaking on the 68-year 613-962-9492. History of CJBQ Radio in Quinte. 7:30 pm at the Quinte Belleville Library. 613-968-6731 ext. 2240. Apr. 27 Spring Showcase Day at Albert College in Living Centre, 370 Front St., Belleville (north door). Belleville. 2 to 4 pm. 613-968-5726, Mar. 20 to Apr. 24 Artist Workshop: Sketching – Ink Bring a friend. www.hastingshistory.ca. and Watercolour. Six-weeks, Thurs. nights, 7 to 9 pm. www.albertcollege.ca. Mar. 21 Seniors Information Fair at Quinte Sports & 613-393-3900, www.galleryonmain.ca. May 15 Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts will celebrate Wellness Centre, 11am to 3pm. Come see the Hastings the winners of the 2014 Arts Recognition Awards. 11:30 Mar. to Nov. Andrew Csarfordi is offering his two-day County Historical Society/Community Archives displays. Encaustic Painting Workshops at his studio farm in PE am to 2 pm in the Park Ballroom at the Travelodge, County. $395 per person (plus HST) One-Day Workshops Apr. 22 The Archives Angels present Highlights of Belleville. Tickets: $35 (includes tax and gratuity), live available - inquire about dates & fees. Workshop gift Local Heritage Gems - fascinating stories of the events entertainment. Call 613-962-1232 or visit the QAC, 36 certificates available. 613-393-1572 and people they have recently found in Community Bridge St. E, Belleville for tickets. www.andrewcsafordi.com. Archives. 7:30 pm at the Quinte Living Centre, 370 Front St., Belleville (north door) for this free public See CALLS FOR ENTRY on page 7 Apr. 12 Register early, space is limited. PECAC-The presentation. www.hastingshistory.ca. Milkweed Collective of PEC will present a One-Day Workshop for Adults at the Bloomfield Centre for May 11 Mother’s Day Tea and Tour at Glanmore Creativity, 3 Stanley St., 10 am to 3 pm. This experiential National Historic Site at noon and 3 pm. Delicious tea Deadline for the June/July/August issue workshop offers an inspirational way to awaken our sandwiches, scones, homemade jam, and sweets then creative self, and invites us to recover our sense of wonder explore the historic house with a guided tour. Limited is Monday, May 5, 2014. and playfulness. In a relaxed and supportive atmosphere space, tickets: $25 each. and with exercises that activate the imagination, we will May 18 International Museums Day Open House at For advertisements, use oil pastels, words and stories to access our inner artist. Glanmore, 1 to 4 pm. Admission is free! 613-962-2329 For teachers, parents, educators, artists, seniors, and www.glanmore.ca. anyone with or without art experience. $50, (bring your please contact QAC lunch.) [email protected] or call 613-471-1392 May 20 Historian Cathie Jones presenting A History of the Marmora Mines. Learn about the opening of mines before copy deadline. Apr. Visual arts workshops offered by the Tweed and in Marmora in 1820 and over 150 years of extracting iron,
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 15 FILM A tsunami of emotion from The Past by Scott Whalen
The Past is a tsunami of emotions that overwhelms Farhadi achieves powerful moments in the the present, threatens the future and brings waves of most mundane and simple of situations – as tragic destruction in its path. characters drive through busy Paris streets, cook in a cramped kitchen or run to get out This astounding Iranian film is, at times, a of the rain. However, the conversations that downward spiral of despair, but still manages to accompany these moments are often loaded offer glimmers of hope, with love and family as the with innuendo and layered meaning. The only rays of light in the movie’s bleak and relentless Past is the mundane elevated to the landscape. symbolic in a rich, narrative tapestry. The Past succeeds on all fronts because of the The simple becomes the sublime and the craftsman-like precision of its director Asghar sublime becomes the symbolic in this Farhadi, who wowed audiences with his previous director’s vision. Each scene is a carefully film, A Separation (QFA 2012). That film also portrayed vignette, packed with meaningful chronicled the end of a marriage with Iran looming moments delivered by powerhouse large in the background and went on to astounding performances from a perfect cast. Bejo won acclaim, including winning the Academy Award for best actress honours for The Past at the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film. Cannes Film Festival. In The Past, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris Glass, doors and windows seem to be from Tehran, following a four-year separation from recurrent visual motifs in the film, with his estranged wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo, The many scenes happening behind glass, or Artist), who wants to finalize their divorce so she through glass, or even looking out from the can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim). hermetically-sealed fishbowl of a car. Bérénice Bejo as Marie in The Past During his tense, brief stay, Ahmad discovers the These visual filters represent passages – perhaps The Past wreaks havoc on the present and future. conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with her from Iran to the outside world, perhaps from the old There is nothing to do but live through it and hold teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet). Ahmad’s world to the new, and definitely from the past to the on for dear life. Only when the storm has passed can efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a present and into the future. But while these the true reconstruction begin. secret from their past. pathways present themselves, they also obscure our And in the end, only one thing is certain – life goes A thriller-drama in a domestic setting, The Past vision and block reality, distorting the view. on. continues to show Farhadi focusing on powerful And while memory may be blurred, the achievement family themes of dissolution, the breakdown of QFA Great Movie Wednesdays presents The Past on on the screen is not. At its heart, The Past is a relationships and redemption through love. March 19 at The Empire Theatre in Belleville at 2 brilliant, brilliant study of human nature and human and 7:30 pm. What sets this film apart is the raw tension that the emotion. director achieves in almost every scene. We are To receive biweekly notification of upcoming QFA We’re watching a tragedy unfold as we see good riveted to this family’s story, the woes that beset films delivered right to your Inbox, subscribe to the people in a horrible reality. It all makes for riveting them and the unrelenting tragic turns that come their E-Bulletin at quintefilmalternative.ca - Get Involved. drama as the story plunges deeper into a well of way. despair. Movie fundraiser for Atorkor
Rotary’s Polio Plus program in action in Atorkor, endeavouring to eradicate polio worldwide
Prince Edward County’s own Rotarian Peta Hall seated on the left with staff. Peta is the site manager to ensure the project stays on track The Rotary Club of Picton is hosting a fundraising The proceeds will go to the purchasing of books for movie bonanza for Atorkor Vocational Training and the Atorkor Vocational Training Institute library, Polio Plus, on Wednesday, April 30, at the Regent whose shelves are currently empty, and the Rotary Theatre in Picton. Two classic movies will be Polio Plus program, endeavouring to eradicate polio featured, the iconic The African Queen starring in Africa and afield. Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and the Tickets are $15 each and are available at the Regent joyfully musical Mamma Mia! Theatre Box Office, 224 Main St Picton; 613-476- There will be three showings: Mamma Mia! at 1:30 8416 or online at www.theregenttheatre.org. and 7:30 pm, and The African Queen at 4 pm. There The Atorkor Development Foundation (ADF) is a will be plenty of popcorn and goodies to munch on non-profit development organization based in Ghana including a cash bar for the evening show. There and the UK. For more information, visit will also be a colourful display of Ghanaian items www.adfatorkor.org. for sale. Peta Hall will give a brief update on the institute before each show and answer any questions.
16 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 HERITAGE Update from Glanmore National Historic Site by Lindi Pierce We are hoping to include an update from Glanmore in each issue of Umbrella. In this issue, we are featuring an artifact which will resonate for anyone following the story of the Department of National Defence expropriation of the Meyers family farm, land granted to Captain John Walden Meyers over 200 years ago in recognition of his service to the Crown. The Glanmore National Historic Site collection contains a powder horn which once belonged to Captain Meyers. The artifact was donated to the museum over 30 years ago, by a collector who realized its significance to the community. Powder horns were made of waterproof cattle horns, capped with wood or metal plugs, which kept gunpowder dry and safe from accidental Captain Myers’ powder horn. detonation. The Meyers powder horn is fitted with a pine plug and a wooden stopper. Meyers’ name and the date are carved into the horn. This remarkable piece of local history is preserved at Glanmore for generations to come. Restoration projects continue at Glanmore. The breakfast room structural repairs were completed in early 2013, and ceiling lath and plaster were consolidated. Over the winter, conservator Ian Hodkinson has determined the original decorative theme of the room, working his way down through tour guides or collections volunteers, assist with 11 layers of paint and wallpaper, to find the general duties and special events - and enjoy delicious cream and tan colour palette. In January, participation in a welcoming group and a range of painter Kirk Tischbein began work, and the change educational activities. For more information call is dramatic. When the project is completed, a 613-962-2329, go to www.glanmore.ca or visit us on reproduction picture rail will be reinstalled, and an Facebook. 1880s brass chandelier from Dundurn National Glanmore National Historic Site is located at 257 Historic site will be hung from a reproduction Bridge St. East in Belleville. plaster medallion. New volunteers are always welcome at Glanmore. A wide range of opportunities is available. ‘Friends of Glanmore’ assist with children’s programs, work as Ghost Towns and Pioneer Villages Part II - Bus Tour Saturday, June 7, 2014 Enjoy a full-day trip examining early settlements from Halloway Heights, Wellman’s Corners, Cordova Mines and Marmora. Cost is $65. Including a delicious lunch. Organized by Hastings County Historical Society. Tickets available by calling M. L. Morgan at 613-961-7091. For more information, go to www.hastingshistory.ca. SPOTLIGHT $3,000 raised for Trenton High Music Program
Trenton High School music teacher Vince Thornton (middle) accepts a cheque for $3,064.25, the amount raised in A Big Band Christmas concert produced by the Commodores’ Orchestra and sponsored by the Seasons Dufferin Centre (of Trenton) on December 7. The Trenton Kiwanis Club also contributed $500. From left are Louise Sandercock, Seasons Dufferin; Johnny Mitchell, a Commodores’ member for 66 years; Vince Thornton and music students, Brad Harpell and Nic LeBlanc. Thornton says the money will be used for new saxophones.
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 17 PERFORMING Fall under the spell of Enchanted April Renting a villa in Italy is going to be topping the bucket list of theatre goers in Belleville this spring. PHOTO BY PHIL BOWERMAN The Belleville Theatre Guild’s next production, Enchanted April, at The Pinnacle Playhouse, begins in the gloomy rains of a London winter and blossoms into spring in a castle in Tuscany. Written by Matthew Barber, Enchanted April captivated audiences at the Shaw Festival this past summer and won the 2003 John Gassner award for Outstanding New American Play, as well as a Tony nomination. The time is 1922, at the start of what will become the Roaring Twenties, but the characters in the opening act are tied to the societal roles and norms for relationships and behavior that have ruled London Society for years. Two women meet in a ladies’ club in downtown London and the rain pours down relentlessly outside, casting gloom and quiet desperation on the clientele. Lottie Wilton, played by Heather Barker, reads a newspaper ad for a month’s rental of a castle in Italy and feels a glimmer of hope. She plants the idea in the mind of a stranger, Rose Arnott, played by Heather Muir, sitting near by. Both women are struggling in their marriages. Lottie’s husband, Melersh, played by Tim Fransky, In the foreground are (left to right) Heather Muir and Maija Thompson. In the background are Scott Roodvoet, is an up-and-coming family lawyer, who expects his Vicki Williams, and Nathan Mahaffy, all of whom are in the cast of Enchanted April wife to be a social support to his career. The very proper and devout Rose disapproves of her husband, Frederick, played by Scott Roodevert, a popular Anthony Wilding, played by Nathan Mahaffy, who proper Rose, the imperious dowager, the self- writer of titilating novels. made his debut in Leading Ladies. Vicki Williams absorbed Lady Caroline, the social climbing For both women, the idea of a month in an exotic returns to the Pinnacle stage in the delightful Melersh, the philandering Frederick, the artistic locale, away from their everyday lives, moves from character role of the Italian housekeeper and cook, landlord, and the down to earth housekeeper, keep a dream to a determination, as they recruit two other Costanza. the story moving from quiet desperation to a spring unlikely tenants to help cover the cost. Mrs. Graves, From the restrictive gloom of a London winter in the of rebirth with pathos, laughter and a flash of nudity. played by Pat Gray, is an elderly dowager who sees first act, the second act blossoms into sunshine and The play is directed by Liz Marshall, produced by herself as an enforcer for the norms of proper self discovery in the delightful castle grounds, where Dianne Burley, stage managed by Phil Bowerman, society and is looking for an affordable prestigious everything is possible and even a walking stick lighting by Jim Alexander, costumes by Yvon vacation, and Lady Caroline, played by Maija planted in the earth can grow into a flowering tree. Menard and Linda Serres, set decor by Judy Bridle Thompson, is a young pampered heiress who wants and Liz Gray, and sound by Bill Petch. Enchanted to escape her tiresome bevy of suitors. There are layers in this play but they don’t interfere with the pure enjoyment of the plot. The interplay of April runs from April 1 to 19 at the Pinnacle The cast is rounded out by the castle owner, characters, from the impetuous Lottie, the very Playhouse in Belleville. For more information, visit www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca. On stage with A Cappella Quinte
A Canadian barbershop quartet which has worked its Apart from an extremely smooth, professional of barbershop favourites, from classics like Hello way into North American prominence will be special sound, this quartet has also created some hilarious, Mary Lou to contemporary hits like The Longest guests for the annual concert by the Quinte area’s family-friendly comedy routines which will be part Time, the Celtic classic, Fare Thee Well Love and the barbershop chorus, A Cappella Quinte. of their act. currently popular Hallelujah. Also on the program are the rousing New Ashmolean Marching Society, The concert is on the eve of Mother’s Day, Saturday, If you remember your James Bond lingo, the quartet Blue Moon, Java Jive and much more. title “Shaken Not Stirred” should ring a bell. They May 10 at 7:30 pm in Maranatha Church on College certainly know how to ring a chord, having been in Street in Belleville. Tickets will be available soon A Cappella Quinte has earned major recognition in the championship circle in provincial, national and from any member of the chapter, the Quinte Arts recent provincial competitions and will be international competitions several times in recent Council and at the door. Price is $20 per ticket. demonstrating this success for its local audience on May 10. Also taking part will be the chapter’s years. Meanwhile, the 30-plus members of A Cappella longest-serving quartet, In-Four-Mation. This show Quinte have been rehearsing diligently under promises to be a memorable evening of music and Shaken Not Stirred director Bob Young to prepare a harmonious buffet comedy.
18 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Celebrating the 100-year-old pipe organ in Picton by Michael Goodwin The year 2013 saw the centennial celebrations of the population of Picton and the County at large. Now, conductor and organist in the 1990s and has led ‘new’ church of St. Mary Magdalene in Picton. The in 2014, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary choirs across eastern Ontario, in Cornwall, old church, built in 1827, was deemed too small for with a series of three concerts, the first of which will Morrisburg, Brockville and Kingston. He is in his the burgeoning population and is now a part of the be on Monday, March 24, almost 100 years to the tenth year at St. Mary Magdalene. Michael will be Macaulay Museum and Heritage Park on Union day! This first concert will be played by William assisted in his program by singers Josie Farrar, Street. The new church construction was begun in (Bill) Maddox. soprano, and Michael Dufault, baritone. 1912 and the building finally opened in May of Bill Maddox is a local boy, born and raised in The third concert in this series, on Wednesday, May 1913. Picton. He graduated in performance from Queen’s 28, will be performed by Duncan McDonald, who It was soon decided University and from is also a resident of the County. After studying piano that a grand pipe organ Trinity College of Music for several years with Betsy Kidd, he began taking should be installed in in London, England. He organ lessons with Bill Maddox, also at St. Mary the church, to add the served in churches in Magdalene Church. He was soon recognised by Bill glory of music to the Belleville and Kingston as a very talented young man and after finishing church services and to and was, in fact, the high school, he won a place as an organ student at further the interest of organist at St. Mary the prestigious McGill University Music Department music in the Magdalene in Picton from in Montreal, where he is in his third year. He is also community. The 1976 to 1980. the Organ Scholar at the Presbyterian Church of St. company, Casavant Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. In 1996 he became Frères, in St. Organist and Music The organ itself filled the needs of the parish until in Hyacinthe, Quebec, Director at Yorkminster 1974, when it was decided that it was in need of was approached and a Baptist Church in refurbishment. A representative of the Casavant suitable plan was Toronto. This is the company was hired to do the work, which included drawn up to build and largest Baptist Church in necessary repairs and the addition of new pipework install a two manual Canada and supports a to improve the overall tonality of the instrument. It organ. It was installed music program which was also given a new console at this time. Other in March of 1914, embraces the very finest minor changes were made in 2008 to further numbered 551 by the of the church music improve the sound. The instrument has been company, and played repertoire. described as the best example of its kind for its age in the services, in eastern Ontario. morning and evening, The second concert, on for the first time on Michael Goodwin and the old pipe organ at St. Mary Magdalene Tuesday, April 29, will All concerts will begin at 7:30 pm. Admission is March 22. The be played by Michael $15 for adults, $5 for students. All proceeds will go following day, a recital was played on the new organ Goodwin, who is the present music director at St. to the continuing maintenance of this wonderful pipe by Mr. R. J. Devey, from St. John’s Church, Mary Magdalene. Michael was for many years a organ. Peterborough, to introduce the instrument to the professional French horn player. He became a choral
Quinte Symphony on the move
For the first time in many years, Quinte Symphony been a financially challenging year for the orchestra. will be hitting the road to a venue outside of Nonetheless, the board is already planning for its Belleville. A concert scheduled for Picton’s Regent 2014 -15 season. More programs, appealing to a Theatre on Sunday, May 11 (Mother’s Day) at 2 pm wider spectrum of the public, are the main focus of will wrap up the orchestra’s 2013-14 season. This the new season, including a reprise of the popular concert, themed “Musical Memories for Mothers Last Night of the Proms theme. and Others,” is actually a repeat of a concert the Meanwhile, the orchestra’s next concert is on preceding evening at Bridge Street Church in Sunday, March 9 at 7 pm in Bridge Street Church. Belleville, but may well signal future concerts Theme of the show is “March into March,” with outside the city, depending on its success. several popular marches on the program, including With competing events at some concerts and a major the evergreen hit, Colonel Bogey. But the special blizzard for the Christmas season concert, it has treat will be a full-blown performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.6. This work was inspired by one of the great composer’s walks in the At St. Mary Magdalene Church in Picton woods near Vienna. The composer poured his creativity into this tuneful and exciting work, which Quinte Symphony Orchestra AA CentennialCentennial musically portrays the songs of birds, a babbling brook, the wind in the forest, a peasant celebration with dancing and suddenly, a summer thunderstorm. For this section, Beethoven’s scoring is so dynamic, PIPEPIPE ORGANORGAN one can almost see the lightning. This would be an excellent concert to attend with one’s children or CELEBRATIONCELEBRATION Mention the Quinte Arts Council grandchildren, to expose them to the amazing capability of music to portray nature. at the register when you shop at Connon Nurseries Also on the program is the always fun and rip- roaring William Tell Overture, familiar to many as the theme for The Lone Ranger radio show. Three concerts featuring the 100 year old instrument and Connon's Tickets are available in Belleville at the Quinte Arts Council at 36 Bridge Street East, Sam the Record Monday March 24 , will donate William Maddox Man, and Quinte Mall; in Trenton at J and B Books; former organist at St. Mary Magdalene Church 10% in Picton at Books and Company; and, as always, at of your the door. Prices remain at $20 for adults, $15 for Tuesday April 29 Michael Goodwin, purchase seniors, $10 for students, and free for children present organist, with guests Josie Farrar, to the QAC accompanied by an adult. soprano and Michael Dufault, baritone Quinte Symphony continues to need public financial Wednesday May 28 Duncan McDonald, support through donations or sponsorships. Another key need is a few younger people as “roadies,” to organ student at McGill University, Montreal move symphony instruments to and from venues. None of the equipment is excessively heavy and All concerts will begin at 7:30. Admission $15 adults, $5 students. those who help are entitled to a free pass to the All proceeds to go to the continuing 956A Old Highway #2, Trenton concert. Just leave your name at the Quinte Arts maintenance of this wonderful instrument built by Council office, or with Jack Evans at 613-967-3970 Casavant Frères of St. Hyacinthe Que. in 1914. 613‐392‐0402 www.connon.ca or Debbie Shaw, 613- 962-7430.
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 19 Night Kitchen Too launches in Belleville A new musical concept sets three dates for 2014 On March 15, the first of three Saturday nights is “I attended and really enjoyed quite a already booked for a transplanted and innovative few of these concerts while visiting musical showcase called Night Kitchen Too, an idea Wolfville. When I approached a few borrowed from the very successful Night Kitchen musicians in and around Belleville, that has been entertaining full houses in Wolfville, their very positive responses motivated Nova Scotia, for over five years. Each evening will me to seek out partners with similar get underway at 8 pm at The Pinnacle Playhouse in ideas. Based on the success of the downtown Belleville. Wolfville Night Kitchen I believed Night Kitchen Too would be well The concept is quite simple: 14 invited musicians received and supported by the show up for a sound check an hour before the 8 community,’” explained Gary about his o’clock opening. All musicians get one or two songs interest and reason for adopting and until just before the coffee break; a selected promoting the concept of a second individual or group will perform three songs. All Night Kitchen. performances are acoustic so the sound system is very basic, one of the reasons the program works so Admission for all Night Kitchen events well. Musicians will await their turn sitting in front is $10 ($5 for students or unwaged). In row seats, offering encouragement and support for Wolfville, Night Kitchen is always sold the other performers. out, requiring tickets to be purchased in advance. At The Pinnacle Playhouse, Singer-songwriter Joe Callahan will host the Night tickets will go on sale a couple of Kitchen Too concerts. He is known to the Quinte hours ahead of the sound check. region’s live music scene through his work with the Revenue is divided up: the theatre Loyal Blues Fellowship in organizing local music receives a fixed rental fee and the rest festivals, workshops and jam sessions as well the is divided evenly amongst the radio show, Handmade Music, that he co-produced performers. In other words, they get with Tim Campbell in the 90s. “I’m excited about paid per song. Night Kitchen Too because I know there’s a wealth Joe Callahan of musical talent in the Prince Edward Marvin Tucker, president of the Board local musicians and giving them a place to express County/Quinte region that will now have another of Directors of the Belleville Theatre Guild, added their musical creativity. On with Night venue for their stuff,” said Callahan. “I’ve always his endorsement, “We are excited about the idea of KitchenToo!!” thought that the Pinnacle Playhouse would be a using the Pinnacle Playhouse as a musical venue. great place for live, local music, so when Gary We feel this is a wonderful and comfortable little The next two dates are April 26 and May 17. For Magwood suggested the idea, I was quick to jump theatre - just right for hearing some great music. We more information, call 613-849-1976 or on board.” are particularly excited about the idea of supporting 705-632-1939. Coming Home with the Wilkinsons
The Quinte region will see the convergence of two underway. Six months later we were past $100,000 significant forces on Saturday, May 3 – great and more research was funded. country music, and an outstanding cause. With the We didn’t find a cure in time for James. goal of increasing awareness for The James Fund, an organization focused on Twelve years later much defeating neuroblastoma progress has been made, and the (an aggressive childhood $5,000,000 now raised by The cancer), a major concert James Fund (plus $7,700,000 in gala will be held at the matching funding) has Empire Theatre in significantly contributed to the Belleville, headlined by a global search for a cure. one-time reunion of The Prior to the May 3 event, a Wilkinsons. Joining them Sponsor Meet and Greet with will be very special Syd will be held at The guests, Small Town Belleville Club on Thursday, Pistols, Sleddogs, The March 6, with doors opening Abrams Brother, and at 5 pm. In addition to free Emma & Sam McNichols, appetizers and wine tasting by with comedic interludes Huff Estates, there will be provided by Nick Foley & entertainment provided by one Friends. of the bands playing May 3 Syd Birrell started the and appearances by members James Fund when his son of some of the other bands. James was diagnosed with Interested sponsors can RSVP neuroblastoma. In Syd’s by phoning 613-962-5177 or own words: “In 2001, sending an email to treatment options were [email protected]. running out for my son The Wilkinsons are a band of James as he fought local pride that has achieved recurrent neuroblastoma. international success with 13 After yet another late- Canadian Country Music night medical crisis with Awards, one Juno Award, and two Grammy James, I found myself talking with one of the nominations with hit singles 26 Cents (number 1 on oncologists. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘childhood Canadian country music charts, number1 on the leukemia used to be 85% fatal. We threw a lot of R&R charts, and number 3 on Billboard’s Hot money into research and ten years later 85% of the Country Singles) and Fly (the Angel Song) which kids survive. We’ve got to do the same for made it to number 1 in Canada. The Small Town neuroblastoma.’” Pistols are currently nominated for this year’s Juno A week later we invited our friends to join us for the for Country Album of the Year. evening at our church. “Bring your cheque books. Tickets are available from the Empire Theatre box We are going to start The James Fund for office, or online at: www.theempiretheatre.com. For Neuroblastoma Research.” concert details or information on how to become a Some $30,000 came in that night. Within two sponsor, visit www.jamesfund.com, or months a couple of fast track research projects were ComingHomeWithTheWilkinson on Facebook.
20 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 LITERARY Al Purdy A-frame Writer-in-Residence program launched
Seven Canadian writers have been chosen for the Purdys hosted a who’s who of Canadian authors: first working retreats at the Al Purdy A-frame house Margaret Laurence, Milton Acorn, H.R. Percy, in Prince Edward County. They were chosen from Michael Ondaatje and hundreds of others. dozens of submissions. The seven are Katherine The Al Purdy A-frame Association gratefully Leyton, Sue Sinclair, Nick Thran, Kath MacLean, acknowledges the generosity of all donors to the Laurie Graham, Rob Taylor and Helen Guri. project. They are crucial to the success of this “I’m so excited about the projects,” said Jean Baird, effort. Special thanks are extended to major president of the Al Purdy A-frame Association. “The donors ($5,000 to $40,000): The Glasswaters first writer-in-residence will be in the house by Foundation, The Good Foundation, Avie Bennett, July.” The Metcalf Foundation, George Galt, The Chawkers Foundation, Michael Audain, Jeff The A-frame house was built on Roblin Lake in Mooney and Suzanne Bolton, Leonard Cohen, 1957 by the late Al Purdy, one of Canada’s greatest Rosemary Tannock, Tom and Helen Galt, The poets, and his wife, Eurithe. Thanks to the Griffin Foundation, Harbour Publishing, and Yosef generosity of Eurithe Purdy and donors from across Wosk. For a full list of donors, go Canada, the A-frame was acquired in 2012 by the Al to www.alpurdy.ca. Purdy A-frame Association, a national non-profit organization with a mandate to promote Canadian Fundraising efforts continue and are critical to the literature and to preserve the home as a retreat for success of the program. Online donations are being future generations of Canadian writers. accepted through PayPal at www.alpurdy.ca, or cheques may be sent to The Al Purdy A-frame The A-frame, a cottage beside Roblin Lake, was the Association, 4403 West 11th Ave., Vancouver, BC, centre of Purdy’s writing universe and a crossroads V6R 2M2. on Canada’s literary map. In their 43 years there, the The Al Purdy A-Frame
The Al Purdy A-frame Writers-in-Residence, 2014-2015
Katherine Leyton lives in Toronto. Her work has manuscript, and an essay incorporating his collection of poetry, Rove, was published by Hagios been published in various reviews and newspapers, experience at Roblin Lake and what it means to be a Press in fall 2013. including The Edinburgh Review, The Malahat Canadian poet in today’s social and political Rob Taylor is the author of The Other Side of Review and The Globe and Mail. She is the founder environment. Nick lives in Montreal. Ourselves, a collection of poems published in 2011 of HowPedestrian.ca, a video poetry blog. In Kath MacLean, a writer and filmmaker living in by Cormorant Books. He is working on a master’s addition to working on her own writing at the A- Edmonton, spent a week with Al and Eurithe Purdy degree in creative writing at the University of frame, Katherine plans to travel in the region and when they lived in Victoria, B.C., and looks forward British Columbia, and on a second collection of through her blog promote the poetry of Al Purdy to residing where Al did so much of his writing. She poems. Al Purdy’s writing has had a major influence and other local poets. will be working on a collection of poems based on on Rob’s style, and working at the A-frame will be Sue Sinclair is a highly acclaimed poet and novelist the actions, manners and etiquette of characters like a homecoming for him. He plans outreach with living in Montreal. Among her published works are found in the Nancy Drew mystery series. And as a the local community to promote and expand the four books of poetry and three novels. Sue is certified Ontario teacher, she proposes to involve writer-in-residence project. completing a PhD in philosophy, and at the A-frame local students in the project. Helen Guri is the author of Match, a collection of will work on a series of poems investigating Laurie Graham plans to use her time at the A- poems published by Coach House Books in 2011. theories of beauty, including its relationship with frame to complete a series of poems about the Her poetry column on Random House of human technology. North-West Resistance, tracking events involving Canada’s Hazlitt website was nominated for a Nick Thran is a widely published writer of poetry the Cree, Métis and government forces in the spring National Magazine Award in 2013. She plans to and prose. His book of poems titled Earworm won of 1885. It is a time-consuming and research-heavy continue work on her second collection of poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He will project, supported by a 2012 Canada Council grant. tentatively titled Oracle, during her residency at the undertake two projects during his time at the A- Laurie, a native of Alberta, lives in Toronto and is A-frame. Helen lives in Toronto. frame: completing work on poems for his third assistant editor of Brick magazine. Her first Old Orchard Purdy Country Literary Festival
The water mill’s been gone Mahler finally died never knowing three generations, perhaps longer, the great acclaim that was to come. but the Moira contains its music. No one will pick these apples. Frogs have taken over the old pond; They will remain long into November. Joe-Pye-weed lines the river’s banks. If the Moira holds the mill’s song, The reading over, the poets disperse — truly the silent branches of these some to the forest, others walk upstream enduring trees embody all the grace in search of the beaver dam. of the extended adagio that closes his 9th.
A few apples ripen on the boughs of an abandoned orchard by James Deahl despite the late spring, the cool summer. Mahler could have understood such isolation while nurturing his bittersweet 9th Symphony, a work he would never live to hear, his health failing, his wife unfaithful.
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 21 ARTS EDUCATION QAC’s Arts Education Bursaries for the performing arts awarded to two schools Every year the Quinte Arts Council’s Arts Education present an hour-long workshop Bursaries are made available for Quinte schools to for the Grade 10 drama class. help promote arts programming and bring in The Metaphysical Theatre professional artists to work with the students. This performs plays in the year, bursaries were given to Athol South Commedia Dell’Arte style. Marysburgh School and Centennial Secondary Langlois will be bringing his School for performing arts projects. beautiful masks and working closely with the students, On March 27, Sheesham and Lotus, one of the helping them to expand their most popular ‘old-time’ acts in Canada, will be knowledge of the genre. The performing at Athol South Marysburgh School for students will also research, 140 students from grades JK to 8. Old-time music is write and perform their own traditional folk music from the Appalachian region Commedia scenes. of North America, and is the basis for such popular music as jazz, ragtime, bluegrass, country, rap and The next deadline for Arts rock ‘n’ roll. Sheesham & Lotus will pass on Education Bursaries is methods of music-making that come from a time September 30 - this time, for when instruments were scarce and mass media the visual arts. For more unheard of. This band is noted for their highly information, call the QAC at original presentations and home-made instruments, 613-962-1232 or visit the ranging from jaw harps to homemade banjos. website: www.quinteartscouncil.org Sheesham and Lotus On April 30, David Langlois of Metaphysical (click on Programs and Theatre will perform for the grades 9 to 12 students Services.) of Centennial Secondary School. He will also A journey with kings and princes, thieves and paupers After this year’s successful production a week. The students will be of Leader of the Pack, Centennial will responsible for set designs, costume be gearing up to put on another play in designs, dance rehearsals and learning May! lines. In addition to their in-class time, the 27 keen students who have signed Centennial Theatrical Productions will up for the course, along with 12 present The Prince and the Pauper. additional lucky students from CSS The show will be the culmination of and Sir John A. MacDonald School, the work of the Theatre Production/Set will also attend one after-school Design courses running in semester rehearsal each week starting in two. In this two-credit course, students February. will start by exploring in detail the time period surrounding the play, The production is set to go on May 23 including the fashions, the social to 25, for a total of four performances. climate at the time of Henry VIII, the Join us this May for a hilarious play living conditions in Merry Old and watch our talented students as England, songs and dances of the they take you into the wonderful period, the history of doppelgangers, adventure story of rich Prince Edward and they will look closely at the works and poor Tom Canty. For more of Mark Twain. information, call the school at 613- 962-9233 ext. 3460. Every week, the students will rehearse The Theatre Production class at Centennial inside class time and after school once Secondary School, Belleville
Wild Stories i am old and i realize i have been wrong about a lot of things in my life so i have started lying about matters great and small and making up wild stories with gusto and joy and great relief by Paul Brown
22 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 PECAC award renamed to honour artist, Carol Burrill Peta Hall and The Prince Edward County Arts further education in the visual arts, performing arts Council would like to announce that the annual or arts administration, at a post secondary institution PECAC Student Award will be named the Carol in Canada. Burrill Award for the coming year, 2014. It is being We are appealing for contributions to the Carol renamed in honour of Carol Burrill, a creative, Burrill Award. It will not only memorialize Carol’s dedicated and hardworking jeweller who was name, but give an opportunity to a student who may legendary for her caring spirit in the community of not get any other financial assistance to follow Prince Edward County. Carol was very his/her dream in the arts! Donations in the form of a instrumental in the PEC Studio Tour, the Makers cheque can be made out to the Prince Edward Hand, The Arts Trail, Art in the Community and County Arts Council. Please ensure the name Carol Expressions, as well as having her own very Burrill appears clearly at the bottom of the cheque successful jewellery studio in Picton. and send it to the Prince Edward County Arts Carol Burrill The Carol Burrill Award will be open to students Council, P.O. Box 6180, Picton, Ontario K0K 2T0. year’s successful production of Leader of the Pack, who are residents of Prince Edward County, Receipts will be issued. Centennial will be gearing up to put on another play graduating from a secondary school in the Hastings We expect this to be a ‘one-time-ask,’ so we hope in May! and Prince Edward school area in 2014. It is the you will be as generous as you are able. After this expectation that the student will be proceeding to Come to our Jailhouse Rock musical! Trenton High’s Music Theatre Program is putting on including all the writing, ticket sales, props, she said, “This is a truly empowering experience for another marvelous production this May. This costumes, makeup, hair, and many other tasks being these students. To take their own ideas, writing, and program has been offered every other year for 10 completed by the students. The production this year discussions to the stage and preform them for a live years and the students have written more than five is based around the famous music of Elvis Presley, audience validates their art and their voice. This original shows. The students take a well-known who created tons of instant hits such as Blue Suede musical is experiential education at its core: every music artist and create a musical inspired by their Shoes, A Little Less Conversation, All Shook Up and decision, every moment is created by these students work. New this year was the introduction of a play- Can’t Help Falling in Love. from lights, to sound, to choreography, to story and writing course in the first semester, which now character. It’s so rewarding to see these students Trenton High School is one of the few schools in makes the program a three credit course. develop a collective piece that they can all be proud Ontario writing original musicals and we are proud of and say, “We did this ourselves.” Directing the play is Trenton High’s Drama Teacher, of the high level of writing and performing our Ms. Jennifer Ully, and directing the music portion is shows have to offer. Jennifer Ully has been the Come check out how great a student-written musical teacher, Mr. Vince Thornton. The program is Director for four of these productions. When asked can be on May 30, 31 and June 1 at 7 pm in the student-run with our directors assisting them, about the importance of writing their own musical, THS Auditorium. Tickets for the musical are $10. QAC’s January World Music and Dance program was loud and intense!
Hiroshi Koshiyama and Naomi Guilbert, members of Fubuki Daiko, demonstrated their technique on stage at Trenton High School in January. The Quinte Arts Council’s World Music and Dance Program brought the four-member Japanese Taiko drum group to the auditorium at Trenton High to perform for 500 students. They then lead a fascinating workshop for approximately 30. The students learned about the drums, the techniques, the traditions, the etiquette and the music. Did you know that there is no comprehensive system of written notation for Taiko music? It’s passed on orally through a method called kuchi shoga and each sound of the drum has a corresponding word to describe it. The students at the workshop were given the opportunity to perform on these spectacular drums while responding to their newly- learned musical commands.
QAC’s Arts Education Programs are generously supported by
The Marilyn & Maurice
Rollins Foundation Top: left to right, Hiroshi Koshiyama and Naomi Guilbert, members of Fubuki Daiko, demonstrated their technique on stage at Trenton High. Below: students got their turn on the drums.
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 23 STUDENT BURSARIES
Corner Volunteers Needed If you are a visual art fan, like to go to art openings, want to meet and get to know our artist members, then this is an opportunity that you don’t want to miss.
Art in the Community Program Coordinator Working with the Artist and Member Services Officer, you will review the work of QAC’s visual arts members to choose works that would be appropriate for each of the five venues participating. The artwork changes over every three months and we have set schedules for when the venues are available. Your job is to contact the artists, assist with the hanging of the work and gather information about the work and bios from the artists for the labels and event publicity. Each spring, the Quinte Arts You will be required to be available for two days every three months, during the day time, to help hang the Council awards TWO $500 work, plus your time to book the artists and create the labels. Creative flair, plus a driver’s license and bursaries to students graduating vehicle are definite assets. from secondary schools in Hastings Additional volunteers are also required at each venue to assist with hanging of the work only. and Prince Edward Counties and proceeding to further education in Administrative Volunteers the arts, at a university or college Do you like to meet people? Do you have Microsoft Office computer skills and would you be willing to in Canada, with the aim of pursuing work one or two four-hour shifts during the day each week? Consider joining us at our office and gallery a career in the arts. space. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Each spring, Hugh P. O’Neil, in conjunction with the Quinte Arts Please contact [email protected] for more information. Council, awards TWO $500 bursaries to students graduating from secondary schools in the Quinte Riding (as it existed in 1995). Students must be %8))(7/81&+ proceeding to further education in the arts, at a university, college, or (9(5<)5,'$< school of dance in Canada, with the aim of pursuing a career in the arts. SPSP The Hugh P. O’Neil Bursary fund was established in 1995 by the Quinte Provincial Liberal Association to recognize the contributions of former MPP Hugh O’Neil during more than twenty years of political life, and in particular to honour his significant support of the arts both ZLWKWKH%HOOHYLOOH&OXEDQG/·$XEHUJHGH)UDQFH provincially and locally. Deadline is April 30, 2014. You can apply for QAC or Hugh O’Neil or both. Applications are at the Quinte Arts Council, 36 Bridge St. E., Belleville. Call 613‐962‐1232 or download forms at IRUUHVHUYDWLRQV www.quinteartscouncil.org.
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24 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 Quinte Ballet School of Canada welcomes the Quinte Irish Canadian Society to their Palmer Road facility
After four years of offering traditional Irish dance door observing their classes (‘it’s like Riverdance… instruction at The Engineer’s Hall in Belleville, The ’), and some of the Irish dancers want to ‘see the Quinte Irish Canadian Society outgrew this facility ballerinas’! This new relationship is value-added for and, since early February, has brought their classes both organizations.” Thursdays are now the busiest to The Quinte Ballet School of Canada’s purpose- night at the school, with seven QBSC classes and built facility on Palmer Road. three QICS classes running, filling every studio. Martin Smit, parent coordinator for QICS dance The Quinte Irish Canadian Society offers hard shoe says, “The Quinte Ballet School is a beautiful and soft shoe solo and figure dances in a supportive facility. Our dancers and teachers are thoroughly and fun environment in conjunction with The Kelly enjoying the professional and spacious dance studio School of Irish Dance. Led by Orla Kelly (T.C.R.G., that perfectly suits their needs. The Quinte Ballet A.D.C.R.G.), a certified Irish dance teacher, who has School is such a positive, welcoming environment.” taught in Belleville and Mississauga since 2002, Marilyn Lawrie, Executive Director for QBSC, goes classes are offered for all skill levels - from first- on to say: “We are delighted to welcome the dance time dancers to advanced senior dancers. Orla division of the Quinte Irish Canadian Society to our received her Adjudicator Certification in 2006 and is facility. Apart from some additional rental income, fully accredited to teach and judge competitive Irish to have various styles of Irish dance offered right dancing. Orla’s classes (for all levels except for down the hall from our ballet, jazz and tap classes, beginners) run alternate Sundays. Thursday evening is really very special. Our students look through the classes are taught by Caitlin Callaghan (BED, HBA), an associate teacher for Belleville branch of The Kelly School of Irish Dance. Kaitlin is currently pursuing her T.C.R.G. certification. friendship and by supporting the efforts of other Founded in 1979, the Quinte Irish Canadian Society local groups. promotes interest in, and encourages all people to For more information about The Quinte Irish celebrate Irish culture in all aspects. Some goals of Canadian Society and Irish dance classes, please the society include: preserving and transmitting contact: Martin Smit at [email protected] or Irish music, song and dance though lectures, 613-962-4910. For more information about The concerts, socials, plays, and classes in Irish music, Quinte Ballet School of Canada, please contact Ann- language and dance; and to serve the community by Marie Brady at [email protected] or sponsoring activities emphasizing education, 613-962-9274, ext 21.
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March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 25 Member Groups Business Members A Capella Quinte Albert College About Framing Montrose Inn and Duchess of Art Gallery of Bancroft Academy Gallery Montrose Tea Room Arts on Main Active Arts Studio O’Connor House Artists Below The Line Advanced Electrolysis LASER OENO Gallery Arts Quinte West Allan Graphics Ltd. The Old Firehouse Café Bath Artisans Art For Everyone Pace Design Bay of Quinte Community Players Bay of Quinte Sweet Adelines Bathworks Peggy deWitt Photography Belleville Art Association Beaufort Pub Peter Smith GM Belleville Choral Society Bel-Con Design Builders Peytan’s Place Belleville Public Library Benton Fry Ford Sales Pinnacle Music Studio Belleville Scottish Country Dance Boathouse Seafood Restaurant Prime Time Steak House Belleville Theatre Guild Belleville Weavers and Spinners Bonn Law Office Quinte Business Accounting Services Beta Sigma Phi Christopher the Twistopher Quinte Dental Hygiene Services Bloomfield Centre for Creativity Cranston Gallery on Main Quinte Fibre Artists Bridge Street United Church Cunningham Centre Quinte Living Centre Inc. Brighton Arts Council Dancing Moon Gallery QuintEssential Credit Union Brighton Barn Theatre Debbie’s Restaurant Quinn’s of Tweed Fine Art Gallery Canadian Federation of University Women Carolynda Duo Deer Creek Pottery RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Centennial Secondary School Dominion Lending Centres Alliance, Mike Moffat Choking Hazard Orchestra Nick Reed Red Ball Radio Christmas Sharing Program Earl and Angelo’s Restaurant Regent Theatre CJLX-FM Loyalist College Radio Foster Park Pet Hospital Re/Max Quinte Ltd. Colborne Art Gallery Command Performance Choir Fotofactory Photography Rob Rapino Hair Design The Commodores’ Orchestra Funk and Gruven A-Z Roluf’s Inc. Core Arts and Culture Centre Glamour Junkie Jewellery Sand’n Sea County Theatre Group Inc. Great Canadian Oil Change Sans-Souci The Dazzlebugs The Great Deseronto Antique Emporium Set the Scene Doug Aselstine and the River City Swing Band History Lives Here Shipwreck Productions Downtown DocFest The Fade Kings Ian Stock – BMO Nesbitt Burns Snap 360 For The Love Of A Song Inside Design Spark Box Studio Friends of the Belleville Library Jane Simpson Financial Stephen Licence Ltd. Gallery One-Twenty-One Janet B Gallery and Studio StoneHouse Marketing Solutions Inc. Glanmore National Historic Site Knudsen, Brady, Vaughan Advisory Group The Blue House/The Upstairs Gallery Gleaners Food Bank (Quinte) Inc. Habitat For Humanity Liberty Tax Service Thomas Estevez Design Hastings County Historical Society Live Fit! Live Life! Tipper Financial Services Ltd. Hastings and Prince Edward County Loyalist College Travel Specifics School Board Mackay Insurance Trisha’s Closet Kingston Symphony Association Mad Dog Gallery Tuck’s Paralegal Services Law Firm Later Life Learning - Belleville Ken and Jennifer Madison Welch LLP, CA Lions Club of Belleville Marysburgh Mummers Malcolm Brothers Ltd. Wilkinson and Company LLP Moira Mat Makers Marlin Travel W. T. Hawkins Ltd. (Hawkins Cheezies) Morning Music Club McDougall Insurance Brokers Ltd. MusiQuinte Teaching Studio Miss Priss Music at Port Milford Naval Marine Archive: The Canadian Collection The Noteables Old Church Theatre Welcome new members Port Hope Friends of Music Prince Edward Community Theatre Artists Businesses Prince Edward County Arts Council Prince Edward County Authors Festival Lynda Pauk Bonn Law Office Red Ball Radio Purdy Country Litfests (PurdyFests) Great Canadian Oil Change Roluf’s Inc. Quinte Ballet School of Canada Member Groups Sand’ n Sea Quinte Children’s Theatre Liberty Tax Service Quinte Film Alternative Prince Edward County Mackay Insurance Brokers Inc. Snap 360 Quinte Grannies for Africa Authors Festival Peter Smith GM Tuck’s Paralegal Quinte Irish Canadian Society Services Law Firm Quinte Living Centre Band Rednersville Road Art Tour Pinnacle Music Studio Quinte Opera Guild Quinte Quilters Guild Quinte Region Craft Guild Quinte Arts Council Membership and Donation Form Quinte Singers Quinte Symphony CONTACT INFORMATION MEMBERSHIP TYPE (ANNUAL) Quinte Twirlers Mr.__ Ms.__ Mrs.__ Miss__ Dr.__ Community Friend $40 ______Quinte Woodturners’ Guild Artist $50 ______Quinte YFC/Youth Unlimited Name______Rednersville Road Art Tour Address______Member Group $50 ______Sid Wells, Swell Productions Member Business $60 ______City______Shaer Productions Student $15 ______Shelter Valley Folk Festival Postal Code______Stirling Festival Theatre Tel.#______ARTISTS, MEMBER GROUPS AND BUSINESSES MUST ALSO Town of Deseronto FILL OUT AN INFORMATION FORM IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE Trenton Scottish Irish Festival Email______LISTED ON OUR WEB DIRECTORY. FORMS ARE AT THE QAC Tweed and Area Arts Council Website______OFFICE AND ON-LINE WWW.QUINTEARTSCOUNCIL.ORG. Westben Arts Festival Theatre I would like to make a donation Total Membership ____ QAC programs are Patron $24-$124 ___ Total Donation ____ Payment can be made by cheque, funded in part by these Benefactor $125-$299 ___ cash or credit card government agencies Partner $300-$999 ___ Visa___ MasterCard ____ Premier Supporter $1000+ ___ Card No. ______Premier Arts Benefactor $5000+ ___ Expiry Date ______Signature ______The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Cheques are payable to the Quinte Arts Council, 36 Bridge St. E., Box 22113, Belleville, ON K8N 2Z5 Government of Ontario Thank you for JOINING US! and for your generous support
26 Umbrella March/April/May 2014 We Salute Our Donors
Premier Arts Benefactors Dorothy Brown Jennifer Chanter Elizabeth Mitchell The John M. and Bernice Hans & Lenneke Buré Jeannette Cornelissen Vera Morton Parrott Foundation Carol Feeney Marilyn Coulter Linda Mustard The Marilyn and Maurice Claire Grant Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Cronk Paul & Judith Niedermayr Rollins Foundation Kathleen M. Hallick Anne Cunningham Mary O’Flynn Penny Hendricks Marjorie Finlay Lindi Pierce Premier Supporters Marilyn Holden Tim and Cynthia Fort Quinte Opera Guild The Lehtinen Family K. Jane Hull Leo and Mary Jo Fortin Lola Reid Allin RBC Dominion Securities Inc. Diana Koechlin Lois Foster Elaine A. Small Lynda Wheeler Ken and Jennifer Madison Julie Brown Hale Jacqueline Staikos Gary Magarrell and Grant Harrison Lyle & Sharon Vanclief Partners Barry Brown Great Canadian Oil Change Sid Wells, Swell Productions David & Theresa Boyd Mary-Lynne Morgan Lori Huff Johns and Snap 360 Barbara Cameron Jack Press Earl Johns Margaret Werkhoven Bob and Barbara Jo Clute Quinte Living Centre Lee and Eleanor Jourard Douglas and Mary Wilson Ian Stock Concert Band Charlotte Kuntze Bill and Bev Yeotes Mike Malachowski, Elizabeth Scott Ann Lawrence Funk & Grüven A-Z Mary Shipton Florence Lennox Honourary Members McDougall Insurance Brokers Ltd. Wilkinson & Company, Don and Tommie Leslie Sandra Colden Ross McDougall Dan Dickinson Liberty Tax Service Peter Davis Hugh & Donna O’Neil Patrons Suzanne Lowther Manfred Koechlin Audrey Williams About Framing, Judy Leeson Bob and Cathy McCallum Mary-Lynne Morgan James Alexander Sharon McConnell Lynda Wheeler Benefactors Mary-Lou Ashton Elizabeth McDonald Advanced Electrolysis Dan & Cathy Atkinson Don McKay LASER, Susan Nurse Mary Bould Judith McKnight Bonn Law Diane Burley Jessica Melchiorre Mavis Milton Gerry and Bev Boyce Donna Campbell
Advertising in Umbrella now published 4 times a year! As of this issue, Umbrella arts newspaper will be published seasonally, 4 times a year instead of 6. With the rising costs of printing and mailing, a Umbrella is a decision had to be made to cut expenses. The new publication timing will start with this spring (March/April/May) issue, Volume 24, Number 1, covering events happening during the spring months. Below are the deadlines for the next 3 issues of this year. If you are an advertiser and you cost-effective ‘signed up’ for the 6-issue discount, you will now have a choice of either placing ads for 4 issues or 6. For more information, call Carol at 613-962- 1232 ext. 26 or email [email protected]. More information will be on the website, www.quinteartscouncil.org. way to reach Umbrella Deadlines 2014 Please send your articles and Calendar events to [email protected]. an important Advertisers must book their ad space by the deadline but have another week to send in copy. audience Summer: June July August 2014 Deadline: Monday, May 5 (ad copy May 12)
Fall: September October November 2014 AD PRICES Deadline: Tuesday, August 5 (ad copy Aug. 11) QAC Members - $4 per square inch Winter: December 2014, January February 2015 No charge to design Deadline: Monday, November 3 (ad copy Nov. 10) Non-members - $5 per square inch Spring: March April May 2015 If we design, add 50% of ad cost Deadline: Monday, February 2 (ad copy Feb. 9) Buy an ad in 4 consecutive issues (ads do NOT have to be the same in each issue): QAC members - $3.50 psi What Have You Planned For this yearÊs Culture Days? Non-members - $4.50 psi Premium Place Charge: Front Page Banner - $137.50 for members, $167.50 for non-members Page 3 – add 25% more Back Page – double the price Column widths – 3”, 6.5”, 10” Formats If pre-made, send as TIF, JPG, or As a grassroots collaborative movement, Culture Days relies on participation PDF. Book your space by calling by arts or culture organizations, artists, municipalities, schools, businesses Carol at 613-962-1232 or emailing and/or individuals - everyone is invited to get involved. [email protected]. Register your event(s) at www.culturedays.ca
March/April/May 2014 Umbrella 27 Umbrella is a great vehicle to help spread your message
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