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1 October 15 – 29, 2015 A FREE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE ANNAPOLIS VALLEY October 15 – 29, 2015 | Issue No. 12.21 ARTS CULTURE COMMUNITY You're holding one of 5700 copies PHANTOM EFFECTS FREAKSHOW P.16 REDRESS PROJECT P.3 COME FROM AWAY P.12 PRIVET HOUSE P.14 FESTIVE CARDS P.17 HARVEST PRIDE EVENTS P.19 DEEP ROOTS REVIEW P.19 ROMÉO DALLAIRE P.23 ••••••• SARA POUND CD RELEASE P.27 ••• PAGE 2 REG 2 October 15 – 29, 2015 ON THE COVER Phantom Effects teams up with Stirling Fruit Farms to create a creepy haunted house experience for the Annapolis Valley. Visit them in Wolfville and show support for the IWK Foundation. 2,000 Bonus reward miles. To apply, visit us at: Wolfville Branch, That’s two tickets! 424 Main St. BMO® AIR MILES®† World MasterCard®* Stop waiting. Start doing. Le Caveau is now taking bookings for private functions; book our dining room for your private party! Contact Beatrice at 902-542-7177 or send an email to [email protected] The Grapevine is looking for someone who WANTED is enthusiastic and community-minded for an ad sales position. Interested applicants are asked to email for a full job description. Grapevine Delivery INFO: [email protected] TeamDELIVERERS Members NEEDED FOR: Coldbrook, New Minas, & Grand Pré INFO: [email protected] Public After-School Program Mon-Fri 2:45 - 5:00pm Grades K - 8 / $15 per day For details: www.bookerschool.ca / 902.585.5000 FEATURES 3 October 15 – 29, 2015 REDress Project Genevieve Allen Hearn bone-chilling and deeply sorrowful. Jaime lour that turns heads. Black wanted people to REDress Project exhibit with friends, and then Black, a multidisciplinary artist of mixed notice the bodiless dresses, just as they would returned individually to reflect on the exhibit Chances are you have seen the dresses hang- Anishnaabe/Cree and European descent, has notice a woman wearing a beautiful red dress. in solitude. It is an experience that evokes an ing from the trees in front of Acadia’s Beve- been installing the floating dresses in the As well, Black explains, “red is the representa- urge to stand silently, allowing the message to ridge Arts Centre. But if you haven’t yet taken public realm for the past five years as a spec- tion of the woman of the red nation.” penetrate. the time to visit the Acadia University Art tral reminder of the hundreds of missing and Gallery to view the REDress Project exhibit in murdered Indigenous women across Canada. It is also interesting to note that REDress has The REDress Project has travelled across the its entirety, you are only getting a small part Black states, “This installation piece attempts a double meaning. To ‘redress’ is to ‘remedy or country – starting in Black’s home province of of the experience. to situate the Indigenous female body as a compensate for a wrong or grievance.’ Black Manitoba and visiting numerous galleries and contested entity and the specific target of believes that education will be a way to take museums including the Canadian Museum I had passed the crimson dresses dancing in colonial violence while reclaiming space for a stand against government inaction on mur- of Human Rights. The exhibit will be at the the trees a number of times, but I was not Indigenous female bodies.” dered Indigenous women. “I think that educa- Acadia University Art Gallery until November prepared for how it would feel entering the tion is the key to help people understand and 29. Take some time to visit the gallery and ex- gallery and being faced with the dismaying Black intentionally places the dresses in a have more sensitivity around the issue and perience the power of this aesthetic response truth – that Indigenous women in Canada highly visible outdoor public area. "I think maybe in that way it will change something.” to a critical national issue. are five times more likely to have their life if you see that symbol over and over… the ended by a violent death. Placing myself in the weight of the issue will resonate with people.” In speaking with a Gallery Assistant, I learned middle of dresses absent of bodies was at once The colour red was chosen because it is a co- that many people have passed through the Active and Healthy Living: Cheers! Lee-Ann Cudmore R.Ac, Registered Acupuncturist I have two boys under the age of six and We would normally expect to be a couple of And the list could go on. In the last six years “The people who are crazy collectively we, as a family, have had many un- hours, but I must say that the wait has never we've had calls at home from pharmacists, on- planned visits to a clinic or emerg and several been more than I can bear. I once waited call doctors, and IWK specialists. We even had enough to think they can overnight stays. I will tell you about our most nine hours at an out-of-province hospital a world-class trip with paramedics - did you change the world, are the ones recent trip: Boy 1 comes home on a Friday emergency waiting room with a two-year-old, know they give teddy bears to children as they night, limping and fussing, which started at after a dog bite to the face, and also spent an travel? Not to mention all the support from who do” Steve Jobs. dinner, so we first assume a) he does not want entire day in a city (again out of province) my own colleagues here at the clinic. to eat this lovely meal or b) he is tired like going from walk-in clinic to walk-in clinic all As we are in the month of gratitude and the rest of us on Friday night. After supper crammed full and no longer taking patients, So as holidays approach and life gets busy, I Thanksgiving I want to say how thankful I the limping makes a turn for the worse. I get trying to get antibiotics for a child who got am thankful for you the health care workers am for our access to health care. I want to him on the couch, ask him where it hurts, lift strep throat after a few too many gulps of lake who are here in our beautiful valley - for those thank all of the doctors, nurses, technicians, his pant leg and BINGO there it is, a lovely water while swimming. Both incidents were who have chosen to be away from home so allied health care professionals, and everyone staph infection festering on his leg. Like the while we were on vacation of course. I digress, that you can service rural areas and places else who makes the system work. And just as vast majority of us, I go to Google images what I am trying to say is that I am happy to that need your help, and most especially for important, the families and support networks and quickly confirm that we are making a wait while patients are triaged, but every time those that sacrifice and travel abroad to help for those people. They are the grandparents mad dash to the clinic. Now it seems that the we have been away and had to get medical in times of crisis. picking up or dropping off children, or spous- nurses at the EKM (Eastern Kings Memorial treatment, I always think about how good we es who get left halfway through dinner, during Hospital) know us by name, and we have seen have it at home. So thank you, thank you. Cheers to you! on-call. In case you don't have a personal the vast majority of the doctors that work friend or family member in the health care in- there in the evenings - all fantastic, caring, Now to further drive the point home, a few Wolfville Integrated Health Care dustry, I will tell you that they make sacrifices and efficient. No word of a lie, we were in and days later we get a phone call from our doc- valleyacu.ca and so do their families. out of there, two prescriptions in hand, within tor's office... we've got an appointment later Phone/Text: 902-300-5100 an hour and home for bedtime. Now that was this week to follow up. Let me say how grate- extraordinarily lucky. ful I am to have access to this level of care. Seniors Week at Nova Scotia Public Libraries Submitted October 18 – October 24, 2015 During the celebration of Canadian Library Month, Seniors Week is an opportunity for public Highlights include: Chair Yoga for Seniors on October 20 at the Isabel and Roy Jodrey Memorial libraries to focus on programming, services, books, and materials for seniors provided by the Library in Hantsport; A Kitchen Party: Songs & Stories About Food & Cooking at the Berwick nine public library regions in Nova Scotia. Throughout the year, library staff continue to wel- Library on October 19; and Adult Colouring, The New Craze! on October 20 at the Kentville come and serve older adults coming to the library. Library. The Annapolis Valley Regional Library’s eleven branches and Bookmobile have a wonderful list Events are listed here: valleylibrary.ca/seniors-week of programs and events planned. A FABULOUS HINT: If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt. Nominate a student who is helping to Find More create safe and inclusive spaces in Absolutely their school or community for the Helpful LG’s Respectful Citizenship Award at hints at antibullying.novascotia.ca www.absolutelyfab.ca 8927 Commercial St., Kings Centre Plaza New Minas | (902) 681-2284 INDEX 4 October 15 – 29, 2015 About Us .................................

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