THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice 613.241.1010 YEAR 43, No.7 JUNE / AUGUST 2015 Old Ottawa South’s Green Dreamers See story on page 20 Green Dreamers Brian and Winnie at work on a Bank Street planter. Presents OSCA If you would like to get involved email [email protected] and watch for Adopt-a-Garden news in The OSCAR and at oldottawasouth.ca. Sunday July 12 3-5pm PHOTO BY DIANNE CALDBICK Join us at WINDSOR PARK for a tea party COMMUNITY CALENDAR wearing your most fabulous hat! Sat. & Sun. July 4 and 5, Glebe Art In Our Gardens and Studio Tour All Ages welcome 10:00 - 16:00 Tea, cups and amazing activities will be provided. Bring your own Mon. July 6, 10:00 TD Summer Reading Club Kick-off, picnic blanket. Sunnyside Library . Mon. July 6, 14:00 Music & Beyond: “À la hongroise!”, Southminster United Wed. July 8, 19:00 The Tempest by Bear & Co, Windsor Park Thurs. July 9, 19:30 Music & Beyond: Wallis Giunta – “Ladies and Gentlemen!”, Southminster United Sat. July 11, 14:00 Music & Beyond: “An Afternoon of Song and Conversation”, Southminster United MAd Hatter Tea Party Sat. July 11, 19:00 The Comedy of Errors by Company of Fools, Windsor Park Sun. July 12, 15:00 - 17:00 OSCA Mad Hatter Tea Party, Windsor Park Tues. July 14, 19:30 Music and Literature: Us Conductors, Southminster United old Thurs. July 16, 19:30 Music & Beyond: “Alliage at the Movies!”, ottawa Southminster United south Mon. July 20 Deadline for Old Ottawa South Studio Tour sale registration Thurs. July 23, 19:00 The Tempest by Bear & Co, Windsor Park community wide Fri. August 7 OSCAR Deadline (September paper) pm Saturday Sat. August 15, 19:00 The Comedy of Errors by Company of September3 12 am- Fools, Windsor Park PORCH8 Tues. Sept. 1 (Children) OSCA Program Registration Need a break? and Sept. 2 (Adult) Join us between 11am - 1:30 pm on the Wed. Sept., 12, 8:00-15:00 OOS Community Porch Sale Old Firehall Porch opportunity to for live music, face painting & delicious fare. excellent An To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca 260 sunnyside avenue find or sell your treasures! : hours like us on facebook Page 2 THE OSCAR l JULY / AUGUST 2015 LOCAL NEWS Windsor Park Art Show Dinos and Darcy on the stage. The Hopewell Jazz Band under the direction of Marya Woyiwada. PHOTO BY DIANE GLOUSER By Brenda Lee participants and we hope to see you next year, hopefully with sunnier Artists and art lovers braved the cool skies! weather on May 31st to attend the To see all the artists and their OSCA Windsor Park Art Show 2015. info, plus photos of the day, visit Thank you to Tracy Arnett for the OSCA Facebook site (www. sponsoring our musical talents, facebook.com/oldottsouth) and the featuring the Hopewell Band, Darcy OSCA Windsor Park Art Show event and Dinos, and local songwriter/ page. musician John Allaire. Thank you to David Chernushenko for supplying PHOTOS BY BRENDAN MCCOY AND the stage. Thank you to the many BRENDA LEE Artist Ken Ross with his acrylic paintings (above) and artist Brenda Small with her glass art windows (below). Oil paintings by Margaret Chwialkowska. (below) THE OSCAR l JULY / AUGUST 2015 Page 3 17th Southminster Scout Group Register TODAY at myscouts.ca! For boys and girls! 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By Tracy Morey actor, is part of the professional col- Zoe Georgaras got the theatre bug graphed fire dances. lective called Bear & Co, that has as a youngster, when she entertained About playing Ariel in Ottawa: “I A performer who hails from OOS produced Shakespeare in parks across her mother’s friends doing imitations. am ecstatic. It is the first time I have returns to Windsor Park this summer Ottawa for the last four years. That “When they said ‘do it again’, I saw been able to merge my theatrical to appear in The Tempest as a fire tradition of outdoor productions, by how happy it makes people.” background and the new fire element. dancer. Fire dancer? various Ottawa theatre groups, goes After Hopewell School, she studied It’s a huge breakthrough.” “It involves taking any circus back at least two decades. drama at Canterbury, then Canadian prop - hula hoops, juggling pins - The Bard should be produced out- Studies and Communications at Car- Bear & Co performance dates and lighting them on fire,” says Zoe doors, says Eleanor, because much of leton. She also studied jazz dance and for The Tempest Georgaras. “It’s prop manipulation ... his writing was for outdoor playing musical theatre along the way. Then Show-time is 7:00pm with fire resistant props.” and travelling players, before theatres her life was changed by studying for July 8 Windsor Park OOS “Zoe plays Ariel, who is a fire and indoor lighting. a year in Paris with a noted circus July 15 Central Park Glebe spirit,” explains theatre director El- “So we’re going back to original clown. “He advocated a clownish July 21 Central Park Glebe eanor Crowder, “so it’s written right practices... I want to see how scripts approach to acting in order to find July 22 Applewood Pl Alta into the lines of The Tempest.” The work outdoors. Also it’s great that pleasure in every role. I draw from Vista fire dance, she says, dates back to tra- Ottawa audiences show up in sailing that in everything.” July 23 Windsor Park OOS ditional carnival street performances gear when it’s raining.” She recently formed a group of cir- and to early gypsies. cus performers called Fire Liberation The Fire Liberation Front is at Eleanor, who is also a writer and Career started early Front whose work includes choreo- www.fireliberationfront.com THE OSCAR l JULY / AUGUST 2015 Page 5 THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: [email protected] August 7 (September issue). 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