I'm of VINTAGE IS on the ROAD to ABBEY ROAD Page 5
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
MAY 2017 BRANTFORD | BRANT SIX NATIONS FREE BSCENE.ca PULL OUT EVENT GUIDE PAGES 11 to 14 Entertainment & Community Guide Book Today: 519-442-4452 www.ParisDentalCentre.com [email protected] BRANTASTIC PEOPLE! I’M OF VINTAGE IS ON THE Inside Brant page 5 page 3 ROAD TO ABBEY ROAD BSCENE FOOD SCENE Blue Dog Coffee Roasters page 7 BOOKS Much Anticipated Night’s Betrayals is Here! page 15 BSCENE MUSIC SCENE Arcady presents the musical drama RUTH page 4 Photo: Sean Allen BCHS FOUNDATION Share Your Hair for Cancer Care on May 15 page 23 YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD EXPERTS page 8 - 9 Colour photos: Belinda J. Clements SPRING in advance $7 through Bruha.com at the $10 door MAY 27-28, 2017 10am– pm daily Hamilton Convention Centre 1 Summers Ln 4 bumpbabyandtoddler.com 2 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide MAY 2017 Vol. 3, Edition 8 BScene is a free monthly publication showcasing the great people, events, and BE SEEN WITH ideas of Brantford, Brant and Six Nations. BScene is distributed free to you through key community partners including local advertisers, retail outlets, dining establishments, and selected community centres. BSCENE inside Views expressed by contributors are not necessarily held by the staff, editor, publisher this issue or ownership of BScene. BRANTASTIC People 3 The BSCENE Team BSCENE AROUND OWNER, PUBLISHER BScene Music Scene 4 Jason Freeze ([email protected]) TOWN IN APRIL DESIGNER I’m of Vintage 5 Josef Stevens (acmedesign.ca) LEAD REPORTER BBBS Allies of Local Youth 6 Yvonne Van De Wiele-Cooper 7 COLUMNISTS BScene Food Scene Sandra L. Anderson Shannon Hugman Your Neighbourhood Experts 8 - 9 Jack Jackowetz Avery Kloss Alyssa Lamanna ShopBrantford.com 9 Lindsay Roche Valerie Sawicki Lansdowne Charity SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST 10 Dean Ellis Motorcyle Ride PHOTOJOURNALISTS BScene Puzzles • Sudoku 11 Heather Cardle Belinda J. Clements Denise Kinchsular Hoag MAY EVENT GUIDE 11 - 14 EVENT GUIDE COORDINATOR / GRAPHIC DESIGN Be Seen with BScene 14 Edith Freeze ([email protected]) DELIVERIES Night’s Betrayals is Here! 15 Amanda Ferris Bruce Freeze 16/17 A Look Back - The 1950’s pt 2 Jason Souliere Photo: EVENT GUIDE LISTING [email protected] BSCENE SUPPORTS LOCAL THROUGH THE ENTIRE CHAIN Be Seen with BScene 18/19 From beginning to end, the BSCENE paper stays local and supports local COVER PHOTO endeavours. Our publication starts out by being printed locally at Ricter I’m of Vintage colour photos by Why Ride? 19 Belinda J. Clements; black-and-white Web Printing. From there, we distribute locally to many businesses photo from Facebook. and organizations within our grand community. Then, at the end of the Sandra on Scene 20 - 22 A member of the Brantford-Brant month, we’ll collect any left over papers for recycling. These papers Chamber of Commerce and the Paris are recycled through a special fundraising program with Sydenham- and District Chamber of Commerce Share Your Hair 23 and . Hartmann’s is a local for Cancer Care Heritage United Church Hartmann’s Canada egg carton manufacturer located in Holmedale and turns the papers into egg cartons, which are sold back to you at the store. The money raised through this fundraising program gets sent back to Sydenham-Heritage United Church to be used in their Green programs for sustainable upgrades. BSCENE prides itself on supporting local whenever we can and is honoured to be able to stay local from start to finish. Android Boxes Now Together in One Convenient Location Cellphone Repairs New & Used Computers 441 West St. Brantford Expert On Side Support by Function Key Solutions HOURS call Francis @ 519.802.8272 Mon. - Wed. 10am - 6pm www.functionkey.ca Thurs. - Fri. 10am - 8pm MATTRESS MIRACLE Jebbo’s Sat. 10am - 4pm Technology Solutions Jebbo’s Computers: 519.756.5901 Sun. 12pm - 4pm Mattress Miracle: 519.770.0001 www.jebbo.com Locally Owned & Operated by 2 Brantford Brothers www.mattressmiracle.ca MAY 2017 facebook Twitter BSCENEPaper 3 BRANTASTIC People INSIDE BRANT about what they do without being rehearsed. And the people and volunteers behind the scenes are from the community as well. The best part is that pretty much anyone can request to go on the show and talk about their event, business, or organization. Since BScene started, we’ve had the JASON FREEZE pleasure of being on Inside Brant fairly regularly. We’ve had the chance to show off our new editions and talk about all the great twitter@Jason Freeze events there are within the region. So this month, we thought it would be a fun facebook jason.freeze idea to switch things up a bit and interview the host instead. Gord McLean is a relative newcomer to Inside Brant. He started BScene.ca hosting the show in September 2016. or those regular watches, you know Since he started, he’s chatted with a wide that Inside Brant is a fun way to get in range of people. But for him, one of the touch with our community. For those F best segments is with the Brant County that haven’t heard about it before, you’re SPCA. Gord mentioned that he always likes missing out on some #BRANTastic fun! to see the pets when they come into the studio. I also asked him about what inspires Inside Brant has been a regular show on him to do this. He said that the community Rogers Cable 20 since 2009. In that time aspect is part of it, but another is seeing they have been able to showcase hundreds the folks behind the camera get involved of local events, people, and organizations as well. From the producers to the student through a ‘talk-show’ type format. Each volunteers. show has something different like local pets from the Brant County SPCA to regular Congratulations and thank you to everyone guests such as Syd Bolton to talk about involved in keeping up this local station and tech. And each week we get to stay updated making this show happen each week. Make about what goes on in our community. sure to Be Seen tuning in each week to learn more about what’s going on Inside Brant! The great part about the show is that it’s real. Every show has real local people talking Photo: Paul Harding Paul Photo: Photo: Jason Freeze Photo: Android Boxes Now Together in One Convenient Location Cellphone Repairs New & Used Computers 441 West St. Brantford Expert On Side Support by Function Key Solutions HOURS call Francis @ 519.802.8272 Mon. - Wed. 10am - 6pm www.functionkey.ca Thurs. - Fri. 10am - 8pm MATTRESS MIRACLE Jebbo’s Sat. 10am - 4pm Technology Solutions Jebbo’s Computers: 519.756.5901 Sun. 12pm - 4pm Mattress Miracle: 519.770.0001 www.jebbo.com Locally Owned & Operated by 2 Brantford Brothers www.mattressmiracle.ca 4 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide BSCENE MUSIC SCENE ARCADY PRESENTS RUTH AT THE SANDERSON CENTRE as the 19th performance to date. This special production will feature several talented emerging artists chosen from numerous applicants from around the world. The project was made possible by a grant arcady.ca from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The international n June 23, 2017, for one cast will be supported by night only, the beautiful Arcady’s professional chorus, Omusical drama Ruth will orchestra, and Academy of be presented by acclaimed Ballet Classique. The composer performing company Arcady himself, Ronald Beckett, will at the Sanderson Centre for lead the company as musical the Performing Arts. Ruth is a director and conductor. Stage moving story of immigration direction will be by Tammy and welcoming others into your Whetham. The organization land. The drama follows the looks forward to bringing Ruth life of Ruth, an independent, to the Brantford stage for their strong, and hopeful woman as largest adaptation to date. she searches for a better life for herself and her people. The Tickets range from $30- work was written in 1996 by $40 and are available through Ronald Beckett to the words of the Sanderson Centre box office Brantford librettist Roger Bayley. by calling 1-800-265-0710 or online at sandersoncentre.ca Ruth has been performed by Arcady regularly over the past For more information 20 years, marking June 23rd visit: arcady.ca Change is Difficult. Our WHOLE TEAM Works Together with You. If you are unhappy with your present providers, we are ready for you! Respect Starts Here. Methadone Maintenance Treatment - across from Maria’s Pizza & Mon. - Fri. 7am-6pm Sat. 8am-3pm Sun. 9am-1pm MAY 2017 facebook Twitter BSCENEPaper 5 I’M OF VINTAGE IS ON THE ROAD TO ABBEY ROAD LOCAL INDIE GROUP EMBARKS ON A SERENDIPITOUS ADVENTURE Gooder, something with friends. Reverbnation. summer, the adventure will be captured in a documentary that the group hopes to show Gooder says the album was initially Gooder describes the group’s sound as; to the Toronto Film Festival. supposed to be acoustic, but he enlisted “blues, jazz, rock, alternative, country and a friends Phil Eastman, T.J. Wiltshire and Matt little swing which comes out as Indie Folk Videographers Lisa Overholt and Josh Huddleston to accompany him and before Rock, but not exactly.” Furman of Fourth Dimension Films make up they knew it, they were an Indie band. the video crew, while photographer Belinda The Abbey Road connection was also just Clements will be on hand to snap still shots YVONNE VAN DE WIELE- The group’s name also came about in a another one of those things that happened. of the adventure. COOPER spur of the moment when Gooder, a plant manager by day, was attending a safety While accompanying his wife on a business As a strong supporter of the group, meeting and heard someone refer to his age trip to Luton, England, Gooder met a man Clements says she is “absolutely over the @YWiele by saying “I’m of the vintage.” with connections to Abbey Road and the pair moon and thrilled” about the opportunity.