Quinte Ballet School Gala goes Mad for Men

January/February 2014
COVERING THE ARTS IN QUINTE
Quinte Ballet School Gala
goes Mad for Men
Volume 23, Number 6
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On Saturday, January 25, from 6 pm to midnight,
Quinte Ballet School of Canada is hosting its 2014
Gala, Mad Men style! Belleville’s Greek Hall will
be transformed into an intimate, sexy 1960s era
supper club, complete with candlelight and crooners
serenading you. Was there ever a cooler place than
New York City in the 1960s? The city was booming
and Hollywood brought its glamour to us in movies
such as Pillow Talk and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, where
the men were handsomely dressed in their tailored
suits and ties, and the women were glamorous and
coiffed. We invite you to ‘don’ your fedoras and 60s
glam and slide back to the ‘ad men’ era when New
York was a hotbed of creativity and ingenuity and
the kings of the advertising world sold us dreams
through aspirational advertising.
Cool cocktails, canapés, the smooth sounds of jazz
standards performed live and tempting silent auction
items will be there to greet you during the cocktail
hour, from 6 to 7 pm, with QBSC friend and
photographer Bob House on hand to provide guests
with a souvenir of their evening. At 7 pm enjoy a
multi-course meal and great wines from sponsor
Rosehall Run, with Mix 97 radio personality Orlena
Cain, our Master of Ceremonies, on hand to
officially greet you. She’ll also be acting as the
most gorgeous auctioneer this side of Manhattan for
the live auction!
But wait, there’s more! Awards will be given for the
best Mad Men era male and female costumes. Think
Don Draper and Joan Holloway! Following all this
excitement, Quinte area DJ extraordinaire Jason
Ferguson will be putting on the Ritz with music
from the 60s era to dance and party the night away!
Every year, QBSC holds a themed Gala event to
raise funds for the Scholarship and Bursary
Program. “Development of this program is so very
important,” says Artistic Director Catherine Taylor,
“as it offers financial support to families of students
to study dance on a professional level that otherwise
would not have the means to do so.” As part of the
evening, both the professional and recreation
division students will perform a new work,
specifically choreographed by members of the
artistic staff to fit within the theme of the evening.
Christina Taylor, Chair of the Board of Directors,
says that “it is for them that we gather on this
Saturday night, to admire their talent and dedication,
and to raise funds that many need in order to realize
their dreams.”
music and dancing! Tickets are $125 per person,
and a proportionate charitable tax receipt will be
issued. Call 613-962-9274 or email QBSC at
[email protected] today to purchase your tickets for this
fundraising event. Tables are available in groups of
eight and ten.
Mark your calendars and contact the Quinte Ballet
School of Canada to reserve your tickets for an
evening of vintage costumes, classic cocktails,
44 Bridge St. E.
Treat your
Valentine.
Reserve a table and
celebrate with us!
613-966-2556
38 Bridge St. E.
613-966-6542
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MISSION, VISION & VALUE STATEMENTS
Mission: The Quinte Arts Council is an umbrella
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appreciation of arts and culture in the Quinte region.
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Message from the Chair
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday
season and I would like to take this opportunity to
wish all of you and your families a wonderful and
prosperous new year.
We have somewhat recovered from the stress of
organizing and staging the Gala. Although the
attendance was below our expectations, nevertheless
the event was a success and by all accounts was
enjoyed by all those who attended. As usual, one of
the highlights of the evening was the live auction
with Boyd Sullivan, who did a remarkable job with
the live auction items. At the end of day, while our
auction proceeds were below budget, the Gala still
produced net revenues of approximately $50,000 for
the QAC. I would like to thank all of the volunteers
and QAC staff for their efforts in making this event
the success that it was. The production of any event
such as this depends on the efforts and dedication of
a large group of volunteers and my sincerest thanks
go out to all of you.
With the finalization of the Gala results, the QAC
Board is now in the process of reviewing our
budgets for the coming year. It is still my personal
objective to have the QAC in a more stable financial
position than we typically have been and less reliant
on last-minute grants, events, etc. to sustain its
operations. This may be wishful thinking but in the
world of not-for-profit organizations, one has to
remain confident and optimistic that things will get
better before they get worse. So, as we begin the
New Year, hopefully some of the changes the Board
is considering in our operations and fundraising will
help to bring a renewed focus and sense of stability
to the Quinte Arts Council and will provide a basis
upon which to build for the future.
As always, I welcome any comments or suggestions.
Dan Atkinson FCPA, FCA
Chair
Let’s Celebrate Those Who Have Made A Difference!
The Quinte Arts Council’s
Arts
Recognition
Awards
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 recipients have included visual artists, musicians, writers, actors, volunteers, musical
and artistic directors, business leaders and corporate sponsors. See the names of past
recipients on the QAC website.
The deadline for nominations for the 2014 Quinte Arts Council Arts Recognition Awards
is May 14. Nomination forms are available from the QAC office at 36 Bridge St. E,
Belleville, and on the website: www.quinteartscouncil.org.
HERITAGE
Belleville’s greatest unsung hero
What do you know about Belleville-born Dr. James
Bertram Collip? Would it surprise you to know that
he was one of Canada’s greatest medical researchers
of the 20th century? And would you be amazed that
he was a key member of the team, with Doctors
Banting and Best and Professor Macleod, that
developed insulin for the treatment of diabetes in
humans and that, in fact, it was Dr. Collip who
made the final breakthrough? Biographer Dr.
Michael Bliss considers Dr. Collip “one of the most
important scientists Canada has ever produced.”
The Collip family owned a market garden outside
Belleville’s eastern limits, at what is now the corner
of Airport Parkway and Elmwood Drive. His
grandparents, who emigrated from England in 1872,
sold vegetables and flowers at the city’s market, his
father operated a flower shop at 265 Front Street in
Belleville and his mother was a school teacher. One
biographer recounts the young Collip selling farm
produce door-to-door from a horse-drawn cart. The
family later lived on Albert Street.
A clever student, James Collip moved quickly
through the early grades in a one-room country
schoolhouse, and graduated from Belleville High
School in 1908, enrolling at Trinity College at the
University of Toronto at the age of 15. He earned a
B.A. in 1912, an M.A. in 1913 and a Ph.D. in 1916.
James Bertram Collip’s career began as lecturer in
biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1915, a
post he held for 13 years, with a sabbatical leave at
the University of Toronto in 1921/22, a sabbatical
which would make medical history.
The team of Dr. John J.R. Macleod, Dr. Frederick G.
Banting and Dr. Charles H. Best, an undergraduate
assistant, was assembled at the University of
Toronto in 1921 to conduct experiments on the work
of the pancreas. A form of insulin was demonstrated
effective on laboratory animals, but proved toxic to
human patients, and its use was discontinued. Dr.
James Collip was invited onto the team because of
his advanced expertise in biochemistry. Dr. Collip
wrote a letter on January 25, 1922: “…. last
Thursday, January 19th, I finally unearthed a method
of isolating the internal secretion of the pancreas in
a fairly pure and surprisingly stable form suitable for
human administration.” This process was patented
by Banting, Best and Collip. Dr. Collip’s extract
was used in clinical trials and proved successful! It
moved to mass production and use by diabetic
patients.
Within 44 days, he had isolated “the first insulin
suitable for use on human beings.” In January 1922,
the first insulin injection saved the life of 14-yearold Leonard Thompson; diabetes had become a
manageable condition. Dr. James Bertram Collip’s
discovery would make it possible for millions of
people living with diabetes world-wide to lead
healthy and productive lives.
To honour this “unsung hero of medical science,”
Belleville City Council declared in November 2012
that November 20th will be Dr. James B. Collip Day
in Belleville, in perpetuity.
The Dr. James B. Collip Recognition Committee
was formed, comprised of: Hastings County
Historical Society, Heritage Belleville, Hastings &
Dr. Collip in his University of Toronto laboratory
Prince Edward Branch, Canadian Diabetes
Association, and Dr. George Pearce. The purpose of
the Committee is to commemorate and bring local
and provincial recognition to Belleville-born Dr.
James Bertram Collip (November 20, 1892 - June
19, 1965). The immediate goal is to raise funds: (1)
to have a Provincial Heritage Plaque erected at the
Belleville Public Library in the spring of 2014 and
(2) for the preparation and publication of a book on
the roots of Dr. Collip. An application has been
submitted to the Ontario Heritage Trust to this
effect. The total fundraising goal is $15,000.
Public recognition of the achievements of this local
hero will have a major, positive impact on our
whole community, a source of civic pride and a
shining example to our young people and students.
Your donation to this recognition of Dr. Collip
would be very much appreciated. For information,
call 613-961-7772 or 613-969-1324. Donations can
be made to Dr. James B. Collip Recognition
Committee, c/o Hastings County Historical Society,
General Delivery, 154 Cannifton Road North,
Cannifton, ON K0K 2K0.
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Ghost towns and pioneer villages - part II
Come away on Saturday, May 24 (NOT the long
weekend) for a day in a luxury Franklin touring
coach, and be transported back in time as you
explore the mysterious disappearance or decline of
many of the thriving villages of 19th and early 20th
century Hastings County.
This tour is the second in a series of three, presented
by the Hastings County Historical Society, focusing
on ‘Ghost Towns and Pioneer Villages in our
Backyard.’ Last year’s tour covered the southeastern section of Hastings County (Tyendinaga
Township and Centre Hastings north as far as
Sulphide), and demand for tickets was so brisk that
two busloads were sold out by mid-February.
Resident historical sleuth, Bill Hunt, and other
colourful commentators, will give you the scoop on
what north-west rural Hastings County used to be
like. Find out what created new communities, and
why some survived and others didn’t. Take a closer
look at places you have passed by without realizing
what they used to be. Check out places you never
thought of visiting!
Your ticket includes a comfortable touring coach
ride, and lots of fun and new information as you
explore the secrets of life in 19th and early 20th
century Halloway Heights, Tuftsville, Stirling,
Wasn’t that a party!
The loud laughter and animated chatter signalled
that everyone was having a great time.
When almost 150 people gathered at the Travelodge
in Belleville on October 26, for the Hastings County
Historical Society’s Annual Celebration of Local
History and Heritage, most had no idea that the
guest speaker loved a good party, that she spoke four
languages fluently, that she had spent her early
summers at a cottage on Stoco Lake, or that she was
the driving force behind the formation of the federal
government’s Historic Places Initiative in 2000. As
she was ‘piped in,’ most remembered her only as
“Nobody’s Baby”– her retort in response to jibing
by John Crosbie in the House of Commons. Tequila
Sheila wasn’t his baby then, and she has never been
anyone’s baby since! While most women of her era
were at home complaining about the glass ceiling,
Sheila Copps made it her business to smash it and
open the way for more women to follow.
First elected to the House of Commons in 1984,
Sheila made political history when Jean Chretien
appointed her the first female Deputy Prime
Minister of Canada, 1993 to 1997. Her
distinguished political career included several
cabinet-level leadership positions: Minister of the
Environment, 1993 to 1996; Minister of
Communications, 1996; Minister of
Multiculturalism and Citizenship, 1996. In 1996,
after some pressure, she kept her promise to resign if
the Liberals did not scrap the Goods and Services
Tax (GST). She resigned and ran in the subsequent
by-election, which she won. She resumed her place
in the cabinet as Minister of Amateur Sport, 1996 to
1999, and Minister of Canadian Heritage, 1996 to
2003. She ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party,
but was defeated by Paul Martin. At the height of
the sponsorship scandal, she lost the Liberal
nomination for the newly created riding of Hamilton
East Stoney Creek to Tony Valeri, and decided to
retire from politics in 2004.
Following her retirement, Sheila became a nationally
syndicated columnist and broadcaster, and
subsequently developed her own company, Sheila
Copps and Associates, in Ottawa, where she lives
with her husband, Austin Thorne. A mother of four
and grandmother of four, she is also a member of the
Board of Governors of New Westminster College
and is a published author of two books and
numerous magazine articles and scholarly
publications, including Worth Fighting For (2004),
La Batailleuse (2004), and Nobody’s Baby (1986).
She is also a contributing author to the Norwegian
Language publication on UNESCO cultural
diversity. In addition to serving as Governor of New
Westminster College, she serves on a wide variety of
other boards, and throughout her career has received
numerous honours and awards.
It was from her experience as Minister for Canadian
Heritage that Sheila spoke passionately about the
need to cherish and understand our history, in order
to be better prepared to plan for our future. She
spoke about the work of the Historic Places
Initiative of 2000, the goal of which was to make it
financially feasible to maintain the architectural
heritage of downtown areas. Lack of sufficient
funding for this initiative ultimately led to its being
entirely scrapped by the current federal government
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Wellman’s Corners, Harold, Bonarlaw, and
Springbrook. What possessed men to sink their
lives and what wealth they had into backwoods
places like Cordova Mines and Marmora? Why was
a stone church, built in the first decade of the 1800s,
in the woods, left to go to ruin? What happened to
the thriving communities of Chatterton and Tucker’s
Corners?
The cost for this day-long excursion is just $65,
which includes a delicious lunch. There is limited
seating so book early! For more information, go to
www.hastingshistory.ca, or to place your reservation,
call Mary-Lynne Morgan at 613-961-7091.
by Mary-Lynne Morgan
in 2011. Such a timely topic found attentive ears,
especially among those who are so concerned about
the future of downtown Belleville. Taking the
thought one step further, and speaking as a mother
and grandmother, she noted that as small towns
crumble, citizens decide to leave, and especially in
the case of the young, they never return. The many
heads nodding in agreement confirmed that she had
hit a nerve with this local audience.
Sheila also spoke about the existing inequalities
between men and women in the workforce, and
especially the need for more women to enter
politics. The guests at one table in particular could
not have agreed more. Over the years, Hastings
County has had many successful female politicians.
(At one time, all of the Councillors in Tweed were
women!) Several were in attendance for the
evening’s festivities and enjoyed socializing with
each other: Bernice Jenkins (Mayor of Bancroft),
Margaret Walsh (Councillor for Tyendinaga
Township and formerly Warden of Hastings
County), Bonnie Adams (Reeve of Carlow/Mayo
Township) and Vivian Bloom (Mayor of Hastings
Highlands). There were also several current and
past female Belleville City Councillors in
attendance; Kay Manderville, Jackie Denyes and
Georgina Thompson. Citing the fact that women
seem to approach issues in a more conciliatory and
less confrontational way than men, Ms. Copps
suggested that we need more women in positions of
responsibility at all levels of government, as tighter
budgets, increasingly serious environmental issues
and an aging population all cry for attention.
MC for the evening, Peter Lockyer, the creative
force behind the interesting series of short local
history vignettes History Lives Here, indicated that
one of the reasons he has produced these series is to
bring local history to life and to make people aware
that history is all around us, especially in Eastern
Ontario. He drew attention to the informative and
interesting displays that have been produced by the
Archive volunteers, from materials in the Archives
collection, on such topical subjects as the history of
Belleville’s Courthouse Block, the demise of Hotel
Quinte and the many women politicians who have
served in Hastings County.
Several people were lucky winners of draw prizes,
donated by Wallbridge House Publishing (Wind,
Water, Barley & Wine), Tim Hortons, and Hastings
County Historical Society (Point Anne: History of a
Cement Factory Village).
In closing, President Richard Hughes noted that the
Hastings County Historical Society is at a high point
in its 50-plus year history. He cited very wellattended monthly presentations, the recent standingroom-only launch of its newest publication, Point
Anne: History of a Cement Factory Village by Vern
Whalen, and the successful partnership of the City
of Belleville, County of Hastings and the Hastings
County Historical Society in developing the new
Community Archives, which even now is being
operated by our professional archivist, Sharon
White, along with the dedicated group of hardworking Archives volunteers. He said he hoped that
all present would reassemble in a year’s time to
celebrate the opening of the new Community
Archives in the Belleville Public Library building.
Sheila Copps
Entering the final stages of the development of the
Archives is the culmination of 50 years of collecting
priceless documents and photographs, and at least
ten years of very hard work by people such as
Orland French, Gerry Boyce and others on the
Board - another good reason to celebrate our local
history and heritage.
Richard also invited all to attend the free monthly
public presentations held at 7:30 pm on the third
Tuesday of each month, at the Quinte Living Centre
Auditorium, 370 Front Street, Belleville. On
January 21, HCHS presents author Paul Kirby,
discussing the amazing life and times of Billa Flint,
Magistrate, Member of the Legislative Assembly of
Canada (pre Confederation), Belleville Mayor and
Senator after 1867. On February 18, HCHS presents
firefighter, Mark Shannon, discussing the founding
of the Belleville Fire Department, its early
development, the changing technologies and the
major battles with local fires.
For more information on the activities of the
Hastings County Historical Society, go to
www.hastingshistory.ca.
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repairs, re-designs
classes and supplies
by designer,
Connie Yrjola
www.glamourjunkie.ca
613.966.5692
[email protected]
VISUAL ARTS
At the Art Gallery of Bancroft
The Art Gallery of Bancroft is beginning the year
with an exhibition of two printmakers, George Raab
and Suzanne Thea. This show runs from January 8
through February 1, with an opening reception on
Friday, January 10 at 7:30 pm.
approximately 70 meters long, embroidered with
coloured woolen yarns which depict the Norman
conquest of England, in 50 separate scenes.
George Raab, who lives in Millbrook, Ontario, has
gained an international reputation for his wilderness
landscape etchings. His intaglio prints are made by
creating textures and grooves below the surface of
zinc plates. The techniques he uses most frequently
are acid-etching, aquatint, photo-etching and
drypoint, and some of the resulting images are
watercoloured.
From February 5 to March 1, the Gallery will be
featuring the work of Anita Murphy, in a show titled
Painting Spring. Murphy works in watercolour,
acrylic, oil and mixed media. She focuses on the
beauty of the natural environment and people simply
going about their daily lives. Creating her art is an
extension of how she visualizes whatever affects her
emotionally in her daily life.
“I turn to our natural environment for a sense of
peace and solace and for artistic inspiration.
Printmaking, my chosen medium, is very indirect
and elusive. In these intaglio prints there is a sense
of the mystery of the wild lands we all need in order
to better know ourselves,” says Raab.
In this exhibit, he is presenting his series of Wild
Things, which are delicate images of grasses and
wildflowers that we often see in their subtle dance
across meadows and at the edges of wetlands.
Raab’s prints highlight the beauty of these wild
plants.
Suzanne Thea, who lives in Korsoer, Denmark, is
an acclaimed artist, whose 72-meter Paraphrase of
the Bayeux Tapestry and uniquely personal
figurative language has attracted attention from
museums around the world. The Bayeux Tapestry,
which hangs in Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux,
in Bayeux, Normandy, France, is a linen cloth,
Thea is a visiting lecturer at academies of art, giving
talks on her inventive and witty figurative language
and the etching and printing techniques she favours.
“I take a very free and experimenting approach to
my work, making use of more than 400-year-old
graphic techniques for my copper etchings, wood
engravings and monotypes. In this way I am able to
create, very exactly, the image that I have in mind.”
Wild Things, intaglio print by George Raab
In his essay, War and Love, Tom Jørgensen, art
historian and editor of Kuntstavisen, said, “In her
copper etchings . . . Susanne Thea adds an extended
series of scenes in borders showing everyday life in
London before William the Conqueror carries the
city by storm, after having butchered the English
army at Hastings on 14 October 1066. In this way
the viewer is rather ominously reminded of what
awaits the poor people in the large city.”
Murphy says, “I have never set out to create a series
or style in one particular medium or another. Quite
often, whatever I am working on, I have already
determined how I want to represent it and what
medium would best express how I view it. My art is
me, and the more I grow in it, the more effectively I
can express myself.”
Educated at the Schneider School of Fine Arts,
Murphy has exhibited her work in Hastings County
and has her work in private collections in Canada,
the United States, Europe and Asia.
The opening reception for this exhibit will be on
February 7 at 7:30 pm, and all are welcome. The
Gallery is located at 10 Flint Avenue, in Bancroft.
For more information, visit www.abg.weebly.com.
January and February in the
John M. Parrott Art Gallery
by Susan Holland, Curator
This winter we invite you to venture into the
galleries to experience some intriguing exhibitions
that we know will warm your spirits as well as your
toes!
From January 9 to February 13, we present Shot
which is a show of photographs by five of the area’s
finest shooters. In Galleries One and Two you will
discover both digital and film formats, colour, and
black and white photos. Each photographer brings
their own style and technique to their work and the
show promises to be a look into how
each sees the world around them. The
same world through different lenses,
perhaps? The artists are Robert
Laycock and Brian Tyson, both from
the Northumberland area, and Dave
Lumbers, Brenda Nielsen and Kim
Klaver from Belleville. Each of these
exhibitors has been photographing for
most of their lives and most have
exhibited their work here in the past.
View From the Highway, Lake of Two Rivers, painting
by Bruce Laughton, one of Ron Pickering’s students
Please join us for the opening reception and meet
the artists on Thursday, January 9 from 6 to 7:30
pm. Refreshments will be available and everyone is
welcome.
From February 20 to March 26, we are thrilled to
welcome back to Gallery One watercolourist Ron
Pickering and his students. Ron is a very
accomplished artist and teacher in watercolour, and
some of his students have been studying with him
for many years. 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!
Join Ron and his students at an opening reception on
Thursday, February 20 from 6 to 7:30 pm. This is a
great opportunity to talk to one of the foremost
watercolourists in our region and to see such a large
body of work.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone
for their support of the Gallery in 2013, to wish you
all a very happy and healthy 2014 and we look
forward to seeing you here often!
For information about other gallery events and
programs, please visit www.bellevillelibrary.ca or
give us a call at 613-968-6731 ext. 2240.
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Art in the Community – January/February/March
by Carol Feeney
The January/February/March Art in the Community
exhibit features a beautiful mix of paintings,
photography, pottery and jewellery that is sure to
brighten the winter blues. The Quinte Arts Council
Gallery and Gift Shop will have landscapes by Terri
Horricks, functional pottery by Barbara Chappelle,
and fashionable jewellery by Connie Yrjola.
Terri Horricks and the other six members of her
Canadian Air Force family have seen much of this
great country having moved from province to
province. Terri settled in the Quinte Region at the
age of 11, and her art was already an established and
Georgian Retreat by Terri Horricks
recently returned from Paris where a few of her
paintings were chosen to be hung in a special exhibit
at the Louvre. She has also enjoyed much success
and critical acclaim in numerous juried shows,
galleries, and art festivals throughout Eastern
Ontario. Donna’s style gives the impression of
realism and is best known for attention to detail and
bold use of colour. Subject matter is inspired by
many life-long passions. Travel has inspired many
paintings from Europe to the High Arctic. Years of
experience with boats and horses allows for accurate
rendering of these within a composition. Horse and
pet portraits are a specialty.
Jesus Estevez will be featured at the Boathouse
Seafood Restaurant. He is best known for figurative
art, landscapes, interiors, still-life, and he sometimes
mixes the real and the surreal with an expressionistic
style. When asked about his “positive art” style,
Jesus describes “I think painting is a way of
communication, and there are enough things that are
negative in our lives…. Paintings through its colour
can make you feel good, show you the beauty the
artist got inspired from, then you got something
important and good.” Jesus and his wife Erin own
Thomas Estevez Design on Front Street, Belleville.
important part of her life. She attributes most of her
art education has having stemmed from
experimenting, studying and asking plenty of
questions.
Wirework by Connie Yrjola
in the studio rather than in the field. All his
paintings, however, contain a strong element of
design. Robert’s paintings can be seen at Dinkel’s
Restaurant & Courtyard.
After 40 years of getting to know many media, using
various materials and subject matter, Terri has
chosen to turn her attention back to the Canadian
landscape in which she was raised. In some ways it’s
a journey home and it is being documented through
her paintings.
Barbara Chappelle has chosen clay as a medium
for three-dimensional art because of its plasticity,
agelessness, and challenges. An endless variety of
forms can be manipulated at will, and mark-making
on clay is immediate and satisfying. There are a
myriad of surface treatment possibilities that
stimulate an artist’s appetite for creativity. Every
step of the forming, surface enhancement, and firing
processes has the potential of being disastrous or
spectacular.
Figures and vessels are Barbara’s favourite subjects.
Overcoming the many challenges of having a piece
survive the construction and firing processes are all
part of the joys of working in clay. “I am continually
searching for and learning new ways to push the
boundaries of form and firing in clay sculpture.”
Designing jewellery and fashion accessories, “styled
with a twist!” Connie Yrjola officially founded
Glamour Junkie in 2004. Connie combines her keen
sense of style with current fashion and jewellery
trends to create her designs. Blending art with
fashion, Connie created ‘The Original Ribbon Scarf’
as an alternative to traditional jewellery. Using
beautiful fibres and gorgeous, eye-popping colour
combinations, ribbon scarves hold their own as an
enticing accessory and an original work of art. A
true craftsman, Connie’s attention to detail can be
seen in each piece she perfects with her own hands.
At Earl & Angelo’s Steak & Seafood Restaurant you
will see works by Donna Bonin who has just
Still Life with Grandma and Grandpa by Jesus Estevez
Robert Worling is an amateur artist and
photographer, largely self-taught. The majority of
his paintings are neither truly realistic or
representational nor entirely abstract but all contain
a strong element of design. Robert’s paintings are
done in oils or acrylics and, in some cases, a mixture
of both. His genre or style can vary from being
entirely realistic to semi-abstract and many could be
described as imaginary landscapes – scenes that
come out of his imagination and which are executed
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Artist photographer Cathy Vanner has her creative
and colourful works at Prime Time Steakhouse. When
shopping at Bathworks or visiting Mayor Ellis’s office
you will be treated to an assortment of work by many
of the artists participating in this show. There will be
an opening reception at the Quinte Arts Council
Gallery and Gift Shop, 36 Bridge Street East in
Belleville on January 16, from 4 to 7 pm. Everyone is
welcome to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments.
The show runs until April 2, 2014.
Oeno Gallery wins Best Contemporary
Art Collection award!
by Carol Feeney
compelling shows in an interesting
environment. Sometimes big city
galleries and critics can’t imagine
anything interesting happening ‘way
out in the middle of nowhere,’ as one
person described our location. It is
very rewarding to receive this
recognition.”
Moulton notes that just in the past few
months, several artists represented by
the Gallery have received national and
international kudos. Gallery Stratford is
Rain Cloud Woman by America Martin, oil and acrylic on canvas,
34.5 x 75.5 inches
mounting a solo retrospective exhibition
for painter Scott Pattinson that opens
Each year, the Province hands out Best of Ontario
January 19. Sophie De Francesca’s sculpture was
awards, and in the latest round, the Oeno Gallery
selected by the American Sheldon Art Museum
was a winner. As a result, Days Out Ontario, the
exhibition in the U.S. in December, and is exhibited
province’s premier trip planning resource and travel
next to work by distinguished artists Alexander
blog, has put Bloomfield on its ‘must see’ list. Citing
Calder, Constantin Brancusi and Dennis Oppenheim.
the expanding sculpture garden, exciting local cuisine
Ceramic artists Paula Murray and Susan Collett have
and wine next door at Huff Estates, monthly
just returned from speaking tours in Korea,
exhibitions, and a growing roster of internationally
Edinburgh and China. Sculptor Richard Tosczak was
recognized Canadian artists, the panel declared Oeno to
the only Canadian to get into the juried figurative
be the best gallery destination the province has to offer.
sculpture exhibition this past fall in Barcelona
(although Oeno Gallery artist Nicholas Crombach
Curator and owner Carlyn Moulton admits the
also received honorable mention).
award took the gallery staff a bit by surprise. “We
continually try to put together challenging and
Some of these artists live and work locally.
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Stefan Duerst, 30 x 15 x 6 inches
Canadian Art is about to publish a profile on the
extensive influence of painter Otto Rogers, who
lives near Milford. Picton resident (and Gallery
staffer) Carl Wiens was just invited to exhibit in the
prestigious annual New York Society of Illustrators
Exhibition. House and Home Magazine recently
profiled Wooler glass artist, John Paul Robinson.
“We like to take risks,” says Moulton, recalling the
experimental jazz performances of Alice Teichert’s
text paintings three years ago. The performance was
reminiscent of work by R. Murray Schaeffer, multifaceted improvisation that challenged the
expectations of the audience. “But this past
November, Teichert was ‘performing,’ if you can
call it that, with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.
I love it when different art forms intersect.”
Although it is known for its focus on contemporary
work, the Gallery also quietly helps collectors buy
and sell ‘secondary market’ work. “This past year,
we have sold several Group of Seven works, and
work by other important Canadians, like Letendre,
Ronald, Town, Pootoogook,” Moulton
acknowledges.
The Gallery continues to evolve, searching out
quality artists and expanding its reach. They now
have six full-time, knowledgeable staff to speak with
visitors, work with clients, and help to ship work all
over the world. They remain open seven days a
week throughout the year. It offers a great local
opportunity for art enthusiasts to see interesting
work and for collectors to find works of value to add
to their collection.
Let it Snow! is an energetic group exhibition of
work, featuring Scott Pattinson, and introducing the
work of sculptor Stefan Duerst, and painters Dan
Solomon and Alex Cameron. It continues until
January 7. Details for the next exhibitions can be
found on Oeno’s website at www.oenogallery.com.
Enjoy:
A leisurely visit to the John M. Parrott Art Gallery. In the heart of
Belleville for over 40 years!
Explore: The Parrott Gallery Shop featuring hand crafted items by
regional artists.
Discover: Amazing Artwork in three beautiful Galleries and the Corridor on
the Third Floor of the Belleville Public Library.
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PERFORMING ARTS
Belleville Choral Society is growing
“In its 54th season, the Belleville Choral Society is
flourishing,” says its director, Mirijam Spoelstra,
who is in her second season with the Choral
Society. The Society ushered in the Christmas
season for a large audience on December 1, at St.
Michael the Archangel Church in Belleville, with a
program entitled Jubilation! The audience
responded with a resounding standing ovation.
Keyboard accompaniment was provided by Peter
Fuller, who joined the Society in the fall of 2013 as
accompanist, and George Couperous played the
organ for three rousing carols, with audience
participation.
Attendees commented that the concert was “glorious
singing,” and “a sonic treat… music was well
rehearsed, well-disciplined and marvelously
presented.” The concert program included original
compositions or arrangements of familiar Christmas
music by six Canadian composers, and seasonal
music in a variety of styles by British and American
composers.
The Belleville Choral Society has long had a
commitment to furthering music education for
young people. This year, its membership includes
two generations of the Shortell family, father Brad in
the bass section and daughters Catherine and Monica
in the soprano section. “Singing with the Belleville
Choral Society is a really amazing experience,” says
Catherine, a Grade 10 student at Nicholson Catholic
College in Belleville. “I look forward to going to
choir every week. Although I was nervous about the
concert, it was a lot of fun.”
At this time of year, the Society announces the
opening of applications for The Belleville Choral
Society Music Scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship
awarded to an eligible student who is pursuing postsecondary education in a music
program. Information and applications are available
from all area secondary school guidance offices.
At least 18 new singers joined this community choir
in the fall of 2013, joining returning members, some
of whom have sung with the group for
decades. Members are drawn from the entire Quinte
and central Hastings area, and are from a wide
variety of backgrounds, but united in their love of
singing. “A dozen of the members are themselves
current or former choir directors or music teachers.
Their talent, experience and confidence facilitates
the tackling of challenging repertoire and a more
professional sound,” comments Spoelstra. The
winter/spring session of rehearsals will begin on
January 7, in preparation for a concert in the
spring. New members are welcome.
The Belleville Choral Society, founded in 1959, is a
community choir where singers of all ages have the
opportunity to hone their musical skills. The Chorus
consists of professional and amateur musicians of
diverse backgrounds, performing choral literature
from all musical periods. The Society regularly
collaborates with other vocalists and instrumentalists
to present music ranging from classical to
contemporary and including both sacred and secular
repertoire. As part of its community outreach, annual
scholarships are granted to eligible students pursuing
post-secondary education in music. For more
information about the Belleville Choral Society, call
613-966-0372.
Leading Ladies – loads of laughs at BTG
The third production of this year’s Belleville Theatre
Guild season is an outrageous comedy by Ken
Ludwig, author of Be My Baby and Moon Over
Buffalo, among many other plays.
production at Florence’s estate, to give him more of
an opportunity to be with her, both as Leo and as
Maxine. Meanwhile, Meg’s fiancé, Duncan, grows
increasingly suspicious of the “leading ladies”.
Set in York, Pennsylvania, in 1952, this mad-cap
farce centers on two down-on-their-luck
Shakespearean actors, Leo Clark and Jack Gable.
They are getting depressed because their careers are
going nowhere. They’ve been reduced to doing bits
of Shakespeare on the Moose and Elk Lodge circuit
in the Amish country of Pennsylvania.
Comparisons between Leading Ladies and another
famous cross-dressing story set in the fifties - the
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe classic
Some Like It Hot - are inevitable. It is the same type
of very funny, classy, stylish farce filled with
colourful characters, coincidences, mistaken
identities, riotous one-liners and an improbable plot.
They think that their luck might change, however,
when they discover, through a newspaper article that
Florence Snider, a dowager aunt who thinks she is
dying, lives in a nearby town. She is desperately
looking for Max and Steve, her sister’s children,
who moved away to England when they were
young, in order to include them in her multi-million
dollar inheritance. Leo convinces Jack that they
should impersonate the heirs, in order to claim a
portion of the loot.
Leading Ladies is produced by Pat Gray and
directed by Heather Barker. The set is designed and
the show stage-managed by Bill Dahl. Veteran BTG
director, Phil Bowerman, is mentoring the
production. It runs from February 6 to 22, with a
preview on February 4.
When they discover that Max and Steve are actually
Maxine and Stephanie, they continue on, undaunted,
in drag. Leo falls for Florence’s actual niece Meg,
who is engaged to the local Reverend, while Jack
swoons over the old lady’s part-time aide Audrey.
Florence recovers just as the pair arrives, but they
decide to keep on, both to outlast her health and to
stay close to the objects of their interest.
Leo (as Maxine) convinces Meg, who is enamored
of Shakespeare and a fan of Leo Clark’s, to put on a
The pair playing the hapless actors, Terry Boyd as
Leo, alias Maxine, and Nathan Mahaffy as Jack,
alias Stephanie, will keep you in stitches with their
playfulness and antics. Feisty old Aunt Florence,
who refuses to die, is captured by BTG veteran
Denyce Nielsen. Other theatre regulars William
Dauphinee and Colin Leonard play the Reverend
and the Doctor, and Eric Lucas is young Butch,
Audrey’s boyfriend. Audrey is played by awardwinning Maija Thompson, previously seen in last
years’ production of Bedtime Stories. Newcomer
Wendy Cardinal is the most normal-seeming
character - Meg, Aunt Florence’s real niece.
Tickets are $20, $10 for students and $18 for
CSS’s Leader of the Pack
classic hits, talented students and Freddie Vette
The music department at Centennial Secondary
School in Belleville is thrilled to be staging a
production of Leader of the Pack, in January. The
show takes place in the early 1960s and traces the
musical career of Ellie Greenwich, a gifted
songwriter who co-wrote many hits with her
husband Jeff Barry, including Chapel of Love, Do
Wah Diddy, Be My Baby, Da Doo Ron Ron, Baby I
Love You, Leader of the Pack, And Then He Kissed
Me, River Deep Mountain High and Christmas-Baby
Please Come Home.
The CSS production of Leader of the Pack includes
over 20 songs and boasts a special guest appearance
by local music celebrity, Freddie Vette. The senior
vocal class has taken the initiative to co-ordinate the
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many facets of production, including choreography,
costumes, props, and set design, all under the
guidance of music teachers David Reed and Blair
Yarranton. The performances include a cast of 15,
25 instrumentalists and a choir of 30. Together,
these 70 students are creating something truly
special.
The performances will run on Thursday, January 16,
Friday, January 17 and Saturday, January 18 at 7
pm, and a matinée on Sunday, January 19 at 2 pm.
All performances will be staged in the CSS
auditorium. Tickets are available at CSS (160
Palmer Road) and Sam the Record Man, and will
also be available at the door.
Heather Barker, director; Bill Dahl, stage manager and Pat
Gray, producer of Leading Ladies at the Pinnacle Playhouse.
seniors. Show time is 8 pm for evening
performances and 2 pm for the Sunday matinée.
Visit www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca or call 613-9671442 for more information.
Quinte Children’s Theatre
Take a beautiful performance hall, a top notch sound
and lighting crew and incredible business sponsors.
Create a social media network that is connecting to
hundreds of families. Invite school communities to
become engaged partners. Now, assemble the best
young audience performers in the country and
charge only $7.50 per ticket. That is the winning
formula of the Quinte Children’s Theatre.
Operating with the motto, “Artistically Brilliant,
Family Entertainment!” QCT’s Artistic Director, Ted
Howe has spent the last year quietly selling his
vision of a top flight children’s series, designed to
connect all families to the best performers in the
land. The shows are staged on selected Saturdays at
the beautiful, state-of-the-art Maranatha Auditorium
at 100 College Street West in Belleville.
Andy Forgie
The first season’s opening act was the legendary
Sharon and Bram, followed by the hilarious
Dufflebag Theatre, award-winning dance company
Motus O, and Parent’s Choice winner Jack Grunsky.
Topping the inaugural season would be a challenge
but it looks like they are doing it. The second season
started with a bang on November 2 with 2012
Canada’s Children’s Group of the Year, Splash ‘n
Boots. The crowd was treated to a lively
performance with wonderful guitar work and
delicious harmonies. This group, a regular on
TreeHouse TV, has become one of the most soughtafter acts at festivals across the country.
The second show of the season, just around the
corner on Saturday, January 18, has created a real
buzz - Japanese taiko drum sensations, Fubuki
Daiko. This Winnipeg-based ensemble has played
all over the world, most recently at a festival in
Japan and at Drumfest in Poland. They are making
the Quinte area their ‘base’ while performing in
Eastern Canada. They will be doing a total of five
school day performances in Belleville, Trenton and
Kingston, as well as the QCT family concerts in
Belleville and Kingston. For a small taste of their
incredible sound, go to www.fubuki.ca. Less than
100 tickets remain for this show!!
‘Popular demand’ is the order of the day for the third
show of the season - QCT has invited Dufflebag
Theatre back to tell the tale of Cinderella, on March
22. If it is anything like the performance last year,
Dufflebag Theatre
expect hilarious twists and turns. They are masters
of the art of improv and no two shows are ever the
same. However, the best parts are those played by
the talented children who take the stage and steal the
show.
The season draws to a close with a man who is one
of the area’s musical treasures, Andy Forgie, on
May 3. When one thinks of children’s music in this
part of the country, we immediately think of Andy.
Andy hits the stage, doing his children’s program
with his friends The Fiddleheads and a wonderful
new talent to the local music scene, an amazing
guitarist and singer, Meghan Lattanzio. It will be a
special afternoon with familiar songs performed by
local musicians we proudly call our own.
Tickets are available through the Quinte Arts
Council, the Party Castle, MFRC in Trenton, on-line
at www.quintechildrenstheatre.ca or by calling 613967-0255 ext. 3. All Belleville family shows are at 1
pm on selected Saturdays throughout the year.
LITERARY
The Alphabet Stones - future Govenor General winner
Clear room on your bookshelves for The Alphabet
Stones. This book is a keeper - it had better be a
contender for the Governor General’s Award, the
Giller, Canada Reads - all of Canada’s major literary
awards - it’s that damn good! Make room between
Jane Urquhart’s amazing novel, Away - pioneer life
amid haunting forest mysteries on the edge of the
Canadian Shield, and Miriam Toews’ coming-of-age
novel, A Complicated Kindness - growing up in a
dysfunctional Mennonite community.
Acclaimed area author Ursula Pflug’s novel parallels
much of the territory of both these two pillars of
Canadian literature, and much, much more. Pflug
makes us understand and appreciate the abandoned
homesteads, fields and forests of eastern Ontario,
where powerful local spirits prevail, which most
humans fleetingly occupy with unseeing eyes.
Special people, seers, young women open to all
possibilities with shamanistic awareness, these are
the finders of the gates to a truer and deeper
awareness in all these novels. The prose in Stones
is poetic, perhaps even more evocative and
haunting than Urquhart’s masterpiece of mental
illness and Toews’ understanding of the incredible
coping mechanisms a teenager much learn to
survive among dysfunctional adults ruling a
bizzaro fundamentalist world.
If you dare to see through the eyes of young seer
Jody Bear, who was born to read the alphabet stones
in a deserted First Nations fairy field, you will begin
to comprehend the haunting truths which live out
here on the edge of civilization. I have lived here, in
what Al Purdy called “The Country North of
Belleville,” for a quarter of a century, and I have
also experienced powerful encounters with other
realms, other times and realities. But it has taken a
master storyteller, a magi with words and vision, to
capture and tell this magic.
At this planetary juncture, even here on northern
Turtle Island, we all live in a bizarro world ruled by
the unwise and unseeing. Reading The Alphabet
Stones will give you a crash course in learning
where true magic still lives and thrives. There are
real gateways and visionary options to lead us out of
the mess this small planet is now in, and The
Alphabet Stones is a good way to begin, learning to
read and live with ancient runes and signs
showing ways of becoming truly harmonious with
our magical and sacred environment.
The Alphabet Stones, Blue Denim Press, is available
from Amazon and other online booksellers. I highly
recommend this book for readers of all ages, from
young adult up.
Book review by Chris Faiers, retired Head
Librarian/CEO, Marmora Public Library, Stirling
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Poets among us
Springtime In Paudash
Empty Faces
Spring hath graced the land
With a golden hue
Winter’s ice and snow hath given way
To gentle dew
Bright flowers unfurl and bees do hum
As I roam about in delirium
Bubonic plague infected rats
Swarms of hungry, rabid bats
Hornets, slugs and buzzing gnats
Won’t suck your blood until you die
Like the flying piranha known
As, “Black Fly.”
Today I walked upon the stage
naked, save my song
My opera calling out to those
who wished to come along
Oh, mighty God
Oh, Mother Earth
Your creation is esteemed above all worth
You are so infinitely wondrous,
Magnificent and wise
But tell me: Why black flies?
Oh, woe to you, foolish mortal
Who would venture through
An open portal
To mow the lawn
Or walk the dog
‘Tis better, right now, to be a frog.
Two billion wings doth beat as one
As a ghastly shadow darkens the sun
The spectre of frogs and locusts
Falling from the skies
Would be a relief
Compared to a billion black flies.
My tenor voice alive with joy
reflections of an age
Sorrowful dirge and rhapsodies
grafted to the page
But day did end as it began
still trying to be strong
No one hummed my melody
no one sang my song
by Kathy Figueroa
by C. C. Cashin
Retired lawyer publishes new e-books
Donald W. Desaulniers, a Belleville real estate
lawyer, continues to produce interesting new novels
in his retirement.
Rich Lawyer, Poor Priest is a thought-provoking
story about an avaricious Canadian solicitor who is
forced to share a hotel room in Las Vegas with a
kind and generous Catholic priest from Texas.
During a heated discussion fueled by beer, the priest
accuses the lawyer of being an immoral predator of
trusting widows. The lawyer retaliates that Father
Timothy is a pathetic slave to his Catholic Church
which over the centuries has mastered the art of
milking its elderly parishioners while at the same
time abusing its priests by overworking and
underpaying them.
The lawyer and the priest are both profoundly
affected by that insulting exchange and their lives
and careers are permanently impacted, proving that
when greed and charity are thrown together, neither
escapes unscathed.
Love Seduces a Fool describes a steamy romance
between a retired government lawyer and a 22-year-
old hitchhiker. Can a torrid relationship survive such
a massive age difference, or will the lawyer once
again discover that an old fool and his money are
soon parted?
as the main characters, but it quickly dawned on me
that no one would believe such an upside-down
combination so I made the priest ethical and the
lawyer shady.”
Ty Ward’s Next War is the third novel in the popular
Ty Ward adventure series. The hero inadvertently
stumbles onto a home invasion in progress and that
propels him into a kill-or-be-killed war with a
ruthless drug cartel. Ty must use every ounce of his
cunning and experience to stay alive and
exterminate this new enemy.
Desaulniers has now published eight different ebooks through Amazon. Each is priced below $5.
Readers can check out all of these novels by going
to the Amazon.ca web site and typing in the author’s
name.
When asked where he gets the ideas for the books,
Desaulniers responded that inspiration can come
from anywhere.
“For example, the idea for Rich Lawyer, Poor Priest
arose while my wife and I were having supper at the
Dugout with two ladies from Jane’s choir. One of
the women mentioned that a local priest loved Las
Vegas, so I blurted out that I could create a great
story along that line of thinking. My original plan
was to have a crooked priest and an honest lawyer
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FILM
DocFest presenting an impressive line-up
by Lynn Braun
The 3rd Annual Belleville Downtown DocFest
International Documentary Film Festival will be
taking place from February 28 to March 2.
This community-oriented film festival, with a focus
on social justice, human rights, the environment and
the arts, screens over 30 documentaries that
celebrate life and human dignity around the world
and right here at home. Local high schools are again
invited to bring their students to the Core Arts &
Culture Centre (CACC) and Belleville Public
Library’s John M. Parrott Art Gallery on Friday
afternoon.
On Friday evening, the Opening Gala at The Empire
Theatre will feature the compelling new film,
Twenty Feet From Stardom, the untold true story of
the backup singers behind some of the greatest
musical legends of the 21st century. The film will be
followed by a live concert. The festival continues on
Saturday and Sunday at CACC and the library.
DocFest’s partnership with Toronto’s Hot Docs
Showcase will bring in highly acclaimed films like
Watermark, Blood Brother, Oil Sands Karaoke and
Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children. National Film
Board selections under consideration include NCR:
Not Criminally Responsible, Island Green, Buying
Sex and Secretariat’s Jockey - Ron Turcotte.
DocFest is grateful to Quinte Film Alternative’s
sponsorship of the Spotlight on Local Filmmakers
initiative. DocFest works to develop the art of
documentary filmmaking at a local level, providing
artists in the immediate and surrounding area with an
opportunity to screen their films to a wide audience,
interact with filmgoers, network with other
filmmakers and develop their skills through a series
of workshops.
Quinte area’s social agencies and not-for-profit
organizations have an opportunity to present and
sponsor documentaries relevant to their work in the
community. This year Amnesty International is
sponsoring Gold Fever, a hard-hitting documentary
about the destruction and exploitation of
transnational mining.
Loyalist College Post Grad Public Relations students
assist with promotion of the festival, and Artists
Below the Line hosts an art show and sale in the
CACC gallery. In the interest of supporting our
environment, DocFest will endeavour to present a
waste-free event.
Tickets are available at the Quinte Arts Council and
The Empire Theatre. Complete film information,
festival schedule and additional ticket outlets can be
found at downtowndocfest.ca. Find us on Facebook
and follow us on Twitter. Email
[email protected] or call 613-849-1976 for
more information.
Gabrielle hits a perfect note
by Scott Whalen
Gabrielle is a truly exceptional young woman.
A 22-year-old who is developmentally challenged,
Gaby (Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) lives in a special
home in Montreal known as the Centre, but she is so
much more than that reality.
Played perfectly by Marion-Rivard, who has
Williams syndrome developmental disorder in real
life, Gabrielle is a vision of all that is lovely and
wonderful in the world. She has a quirky fashion
style of peasant dresses, retro pastel sweaters, funky
headbands and jangling East Indian bracelets.
Her toothy smile lights up the screen in this subtle
but smart study of what it means to be
‘different.’And the lovely Gaby is often smiling. She
sees the joy and beauty in life around her. She revels
in every moment, whether it is splashing in the pool,
singing beautifully with the Centre’s choir called
The Muses of Montreal, or falling slowly and deeply
in love with Martin (Alexandre Landry), who also
lives at the Centre.
Her sweet laughter and beaming smile make her a
magnet for everyone around her. As a thoughtful
young adult, she has the same dreams others have –
she wants more independence and she wants to be
with the boy she loves.
But the world can be a cruel and confusing place,
especially for a brain that’s a little fuzzy. Just
making toast or sharing a first kiss is fraught with
drama and danger. Since she’s also dealing with
diabetes and not yet fully capable of finding her way
in the world, Gaby is at risk of literally becoming
lost and harming herself.
However, she has some incredible support. The
choirmaster and the owner of the Centre both ‘get’
Gaby and help her be who she is. Her older sister
Sophie (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) is her true
rock of support, guiding Gaby through complicated
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and challenging life moments. It’s when even those
supports are truly threatened that Gabrielle must try
to make it on her own.
What’s astounding about this simple but thoughtful
love story is that it never turns sappy. We feel
Gaby’s fear viscerally and we celebrate the joy of
her life without it ever feeling sentimental or
silly.Instead, Gabrielle’s story is subtle and lyrical
and beautiful. Yes, there is true danger in the world,
and no, not everyone understands this special young
woman, but the overall message is hopeful.
Somehow, Gaby exudes strength and trust – we just
somehow feel and believe she will be alright in this
difficult modern world.That hopeful note is
accomplished by the understated direction of
Quebec filmmaker Louise Archambault. In her quest
for authenticity, the director cast developmentallychallenged performers alongside the professional
actors. She also enlisted a performance from
singer/composer Robert Charlebois, who performs
with the school choir.
The other big star in Gabrielle is the music, which is
poignant and unique. Featuring everything from
original compositions to an interpretation of Iggy
Pop’s The Passenger, the voice and piano melodies
are the glue holding this story together.
Gabrielle is Canada’s official Academy Award
submission for Foreign Language Film. It opens the
second half season for Quinte Film Alternative Great
Movie Wednesdays on February 5 at The Empire
Theatre, 2 and 7:30 pm.
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JANUARY
FEBRUARY
PERFORMING
info: 905-797-2295,
www.porthopefriendsofmusic.ca.
Jan. Feb. Live on Stage at The Regent Theatre
in Picton: History Nights presents Trenton: The
Movie Years on Jan. 6; The S.S. Keewatin & The
Business of History on Feb. 3; Ed Sullivan Caravan of Stars Tribute Concert on Feb. 9; and
Buzz Collins - Live Comedy, Hypnosis, Chaos
on Feb. 15. www.theregenttheatre.org.
Feb. 8 The Canadian Federation of University
Women Belleville District and the Belleville
Public Library present Mozart’s Flights of
Fancy, a family concert, 11 am and 1:30 pm in
the John M. Parrott Art Gallery, 3rd floor,
Belleville Library. Bring a comfy cushion to sit
on. Tickets: $5 (all ages) at the library’s
children’s services.
Jan. 8 to 25 Blue Canoe launches into its 8th
Season with the Kingston Debut of Nine, The
Tony Award winning musical. Wednesdays to
Saturdays at the Baby Grand Theatre, 218
Princess St. Shows at 7:30 pm with Saturday
matinees at 2 pm. Tickets: 613-530-2050 or
www.kingstongrand.ca.
Jan. 16 to 19 Centennial Secondary School in
Belleville is staging Leader of the Pack,
including over 20 songs, and a guest appearance
by Freddie Vette. Performances at 7 pm on Jan.
16, 17 and 18, and 2 pm on Jan. 19, at CSS
auditorium, 160 Palmer Rd. Tickets available to
CSS, Sam the Record Man and at the door.
Jan. 18 Relive the musical moments from your
favourite movies, as the Kingston Symphony
hosts a tribute to Hollywood at 7:30 pm at the
Grand Theatre. Romance, drama, adventure, and
comedy in a spectacular line-up of nominated
and award-winning scores and songs from the
Silver Screen. Tickets range from $20 to $50,
613-530-2050 or www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca.
Jan. 18 Quinte Children’s Theatre’s presents
Fubuki Daiko on Jan. 18. The series continues
with Dufflebag Theatre on Mar. 22 and Andy
Forgie and Friends on May 3. Tickets at Quinte
Arts Council, Military Family Resource Centre,
Party Castle and The Core. All shows at
Maranatha, 100 College St. W., Belleville. Info:
613-967-0255, www.quintechildrentheatre.ca.
Jan. Feb. The Empire Theatre in Belleville
presents The Musical Box, Genesis Tribute, on
Jan. 24; Veterans of SNL (Rob Schneider, Chris
Kattan and Tim Meadows) on Feb. 7; and Bruce
Cockburn on Feb. 18. For a full listing, see
www.theempiretheatre.com. 613-969-0099.
Jan. 26 Hymns We Loved to Sing! Enjoy four
guest groups presenting a concert of favourite
Christian hymns at St. Michael the Archangel
Church, 296 Church St., Belleville from 3 to
4:45 pm. Tickets $10 at the door or in advance
at the church office (613-962-4634) or at The
Icon (69 Dundas St. E.). Sponsored by The
Hanoski and Cape Families.
Feb. 2 Heralded as one of the greatest pianists
of our time, Jan Lisiecki will perform
Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, The Emperor
with the Kingston Symphony at 2:30 pm at the
Grand Theatre. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 is also
on the program. Stirred by Brahms’ Symphony
No. 3, Dvorak vowed to make his seventh
symphony a piece “capable of moving the
world.” Tickets range from $20 to $50, 613-5302050 or www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca.
Feb. 2 I’m An Acadian-Canadian, Eh! stars
Jeanette Arsenault who tells a poignant and
humorous tale about her Acadian heritage
through storytelling and music at Kalays Seafood
Restaurant in Belleville. Kalays will feature an
authentic Acadian-style meal. Call 613-9623838 for tickets. Limited seating. Tickets $50.
Feb. 2 The Kingston Symphony presents
Mahler, Ravel and Dvorak, featuring piano
prodigy, Jan Lisiecki, 2:30 pm at the Grand
Theatre. Info and tickets, 613-530-2050,
www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca.
Feb. 6 to 22 Belleville Theatre Guild presents
Leading Ladies, by Ken Ludwig. Directed by
Heather Barker. Some Like It Hot meets William
Shakespeare in this outrageous comedy, filled
with wit, romantic entanglement and crossdressing! Box office 613-967-1442 for
information, or visit
www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca to order tickets
online.
Feb. 7 The Port Hope Friends of Music present
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in a return
performance, with a program called Bella
Napoli, under the direction of Jean Lamon. 7:30
pm at Port Hope United Church. Tickets and
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Feb. 8, 9, 15, 16 Prince Edward Community
Theatre continues its 6th Season with Neil
Simon’s The Odd Couple (female version) on
Feb. 8 and 15 at 8 pm and 2 pm matinees on
Feb. 9 and 16 at Mt. Tabor Playhouse, Milford.
Director Lynn Fennell promises audiences a
zany romp. Tickets and info:
www.pecommtheatre.ca, 613-476-5925,
[email protected].
Feb. 9 Give your children, grandchildren,
nieces, nephews, and friends an opportunity to
discover the wonderful world of classical music
with the Kingston Symphony at 1 pm at the
Grand Theatre. Tickets range from $10 to $25,
613-530-2050 or www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca.
Feb. 9 Melos Choir and Chamber Orchestra
presents Eros and Agape: Love’s Longing and
Laments. Passionate music of the 12th to the
17th Centuries by Hildegard von Bingen,
Victoria, Palestrina, Machaut, Dufay, Gesualdo,
Monteverdi, and Lully. Melos choir and soloists
will be accompanied by Renaissance and
medieval instruments, all conducted by Holly
Gwynne-Timothy, the new director of Melos.
3:30 pm at St. George’s Cathedral, 270 King
Street East (at Johnson), Kingston. Tickets at
Novel Idea, The Church Book Room, St.
George’s Cathedral office, and at the
door. www.melos.ca or 613-634-9312.
Feb. 14 The Strumbellas will perform a
Valentine Concert and Dance at the Grafton
Town Hall (10836 County Rd. 2, just east of
Cobourg) at 8 pm as part of the Shelter Valley
Folk Festival concert series. Their engaging
sound (often called folk pop-grass), has earned
them JUNO nominations and a second album
release. Info: 905-349-2788,
www.sheltervalley.com. Tickets: $27, $30 at the
door.
Feb. 14 and 15 The Stirling Festival Theatre,
41 West Front St., will hold a Dinner and Show
Naughty Valentines’ 50 Shades of Cabaret! at 6
pm. Tickets: Members $70, Non-Members $75,
613-395-2100 or 1-877-312-1162 or
www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.com.
Feb. 15 Seuss and Goose! a delightful mix of
Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose songs and stories
told with the help of some awesome puppets at 2
pm at Stirling Festival Theatre. All seats $10.
613-395-2100 or 1-877-312-1162 or
www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.com.
Feb. 23 Orchestra Kingston presents a concert
featuring Smetana’s Die Moldau, Beethoven’s
1st Symphony, Taylor Donaldson’s Bagpipes,
and Aurora, by Griffith at 2:30 pm, Salvation
Army Citadel (816 Centennial, at Taylor-Kidd),
Kingston. Tickets at Novel Idea, The Church
Book Room, orchestra members, and at the door.
Info: 613-634-9312, [email protected],
or www.orchestrakingston.ca.
Solomon and Alex Cameron.
www.oenogallery.com.
Jan. 7 to Mar. 1 Gallery One-Twenty-One
presents First Nations Art Show and Sale,
featuring David R. Maracle and members of the
Mohawk community. Opening Reception Jan.
11 from 2 to 4 pm. Smudging
Ceremony; Original music by David R.
Maracle; Opening remarks by Marlene BrantCastellano. Corn Soup and Bannock served.
Everyone welcome. 48 Bridge St. East in
Belleville.
Jan. 8 to Feb. 1 The Art Gallery of Bancroft
presents an exhibition of two printmakers,
George Raab and Suzanne Thea. Opening
reception on Friday, Jan. 10, 7:30 pm. Info:
www.agb.weebly.com.
Jan. 9 to Feb. 13 John M. Parrott Art Gallery
opening reception for Shot will be held from 6 to
7:30 pm. This exhibition by some of the area’s
finest photographers (Robert Laycock, Dave
Lumbers, Brenda Nielsen, Brian Tyson and Kim
Klaver) includes both digital, film, colour and
black and white photos. Info: 613-968-6731
x2240, [email protected].
New location Dancing Moon Gallery will be
moving from their current location on Main St.,
Deseronto to a new and exciting location just
steps away down Main Street. The new gallery
is larger and will overlook the new Art Park
coming to Deseronto in 2014. Definitely worth
a visit to this new, vibrant art community.
Jan. 15 to Feb. 12 The Belleville Art
Association members present Artist Choice
show and sale. Original art works in a wide
variety of media.
Jan. 15 to Feb. 28 Janet B Gallery & Studios
displaying luxurious silk satin wraps, scarves,
pillows and a preview of kaftan designs for the
musical, Summer Six Pack. A special glimpse
into the world of horses through the lens of
portrait and equine photographer Gabi von Gans.
Graphite drawings by Rolf Busch. 9 Division
Blvd., The Consecon Mill, Consecon, 613-9655698, [email protected].
Jan. 16 to Apr 2 The Quinte Arts Council’s
Jan/Feb/March Art in the Community visual art
show and sale featuring art and craft produced
by QAC members will be on display at the QAC
Gallery and Gift Shop, 36 Bridge St. E.,
Belleville. Work will also be hung at various
venues throughout Belleville. An opening
reception will be held Jan. 16, 4 to 7 pm, at the
QAC. Info: www.quinteartscouncil.org.
Jan. 25 to Mar. 2 The Colborne Art Gallery
annual group theme exhibit by the members of
gallery, this year centering on the theme
of Vessels. Opening reception Jan. 25, 2 to 4
pm. 51 King St. E., Colborne. Info:
www.thecolborneartgallery.ca, 905-355-1798.
Gallery hours, during shows: Jan - March Sat. &
Sun. 12 – 4.
Feb. 5 to March 1 The Art Gallery of
Bancroft features the work of Anita Murphy, in
a show titled Painting Spring. Opening reception
is Feb. 7 at 7:30 pm. Info:
www.agb.weebly.com.
Feb. 19 to May 12 Arts on Main Gallery
presents Swept Away! Enjoy being swept off
your feet by the beauty of the art presented at
223 Main St. in Picton, open 11 am to 4 pm.
www.artsonmaingallery.ca
WORKSHOPS
To Jan. 15 The Belleville Art Association
Gallery is showing their Small Works Annual
Show and Sale until Jan. 6, and Celebrate, a
show highlighting the joys of the season through
original art works in a variety of art media 392
Front Street, Belleville. Info: 613-968-8632,
www.bellevilleart.ca. Hours: Tuesday to
Saturday 10 am to 4 pm.
Registration deadline Jan. 17 Rhythm,
Rhyme & Melody – A music education
opportunity for children! 15 week program
begins Jan. 21 and is designed for children ages
5-8 and 9-12. In this program, children will
have the opportunity to sing, play instruments,
learn basic music theory and experience
performance opportunities. This program is
based on the tenants of Orff and Kodaly music
education and merges the best of these two
methods. Registration fee, $75; however, those
with financial constraints are invited to inquire
about a subsidy. Music education is a powerful
asset in a child’s entire education experience.
Classes will be held at Bridge Street United
Church in Belleville. Info: Terry Head, Director
of Music and class instructor at 613-962-9178
ext. 74. Visit www.bridgestreetchurch.com to
obtain a registration form and brochure.
To Jan. 7 Oeno Gallery’s show Let It Snow, an
energetic group exhibition of work featuring
Scott Pattinson, and introducing the work of
sculptor Stefan Duerst and painters Dan
Registration begins Jan. 13 The Quinte Ballet
School of Canada Recreational Division is
offering classes in ballet, jazz, hip hop,
Broadway, pointe, tap, modern and early dance.
VISUAL
To Jan. 28 Arts on Main Gallery will show
Permission to Dream. 223 Main St., Picton
(opposite the Regent Theater). Info: 613 476
5665.
Classes commence Feb. 3.
www.quinteballetschool.com,
[email protected], 613-962-9274.
Jan. 23 to Feb. 27 Sketching – Ink and
Watercolour, 6-week evening workshop,
Thursday nights, 7 to 9 pm. Info and to register:
613-393-3900, www.galleryonmain.ca.
Workshops Ongoing custom all-day Art
Escapes and Art Plans at Janet B Gallery. With
a combination of art theory, composition basics,
brush techniques, and flexible schedules you can
build on what you have to take you where you
want to go in art. Fine art graphite drawing, oil
painting, acrylic, watercolour and silk painting.
Portraiture and Life drawing for adults and
children. Art Escapes Custom designed week
long, all day or half day outings and parties for
individuals, family, groups and business.
Combine art, yoga, food, wine and
accommodation. 9 Division Blvd., The
Consecon Mill, Consecon, 613-965-5698,
[email protected].
Tuesdays Don’t have room to paint at home?
Need inspiration to finish your art work? Bring
your supplies and join us at the John M. Parrott
Art Gallery from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the Open
Studio Tuesdays program. This unstructured
program is a great place for both the novice and
experienced artist to get together to create. Info:
613-968-6731 x2240 or email
[email protected]
Third Thursdays The Drawing Room offers
non-instructional studio sessions to encourage
the traditional practice of drawing and painting
the human figure from a draped model, third
Thurs. of each month, 2 to 4 pm, 3rd floor
meeting room in the John M. Parrott Art Gallery,
Belleville Library. 613-968-6731 ext. 2240.
Starts Jan. 21 Photography Lecture &
Workshop with instructor Peggy deWitt Jan. 21,
28, Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25 (Tuesdays for 6
weeks), 6 to 8 pm in Picton. Learn more about
composition, lighting, depth of field, flash and
your digital camera with assignments and
critiques every week. Cost $145 includes HST.
Register now! 613-476-1099. Info:
www.peggydewitt.com.
Tuesdays Estevez Art Academy, Oil Painting
course, Tuesdays 9:30 to 11:30 am or 7 to 9 pm.
12 sessions, sessions are continuous, join any
time. Registration: Thomas Estevez Design, 395
Front St. Belleville, 613 210 2979,
[email protected].
Feb. 12 and 19 Basic Digital Camera Course
with instructor Peggy deWitt, 2 evenings in
Picton, Wed. 6 to 8 pm. Understanding your
digital camera. Cost $55 includes HST.
Register now! 613-476-1099. Info:
www.peggydewitt.com.
CALLS FOR ENTRY
Deadline Jan. 6 The Prince Edward County
Studio Tour is calling for visual artists to join
the 2014 PEC Studio Tour. Artists must be fulltime PEC residents or apply as a guest artist.
Call Tracy Douglas at 613-476-7901 ext. 214,
email [email protected]. Application
forms are also available at
www.pecstudiotour.com.
Deadline Jan. 31 The info and forms to apply
for the QAC’s Arts and Education Bursary for
the Performing Arts are on the website:
www.quinteartscouncil.org. Educators or artists
who are members of the QAC are eligible to
apply.
Deadline Jan. 14 or 17 The Warkworth Art
(& Music) in the Park Committee is calling for
artists (any media) to participate in the fourth
annual Warkworth Art in the Park Juried Show
and Sale on May 17 and 18 at Mill Creek Park
in Warkworth. Independent jurors review artists’
submissions of images of current work.
Acceptance will be solely on the basis of these
images. (Returning participants do not have to
be juried for the next event.) To take advantage
of their lower rates, a deadline of Jan. 14 must
be met. Call for Entry www.warkworthartinthepark.ca. Info:
[email protected].
Scholarship The Belleville Choral Society
announces the opening of applications for The
Belleville Choral Society Music Scholarship, a
$1,000 scholarship awarded to an eligible
student who is pursuing post-secondary
education in a music program. Information and
applications are available from all area
secondary school guidance offices.
Actor needed Looking for an intense and
compelling actor to play the title role in an
October 2014 production of Dracula: The
Vampire Play. Must be male, aged 19 - 35.
Only the serious and committed need inquire.
Info: [email protected]
Deadline Jan. 29 Each year, the Multifaith
Action Society invites artists to submit works of
art for publication in their annual Multifaith
Calendar. The theme for our upcoming 2015
edition is: Stillness. “We believe this theme is
open to a wide variety of interpretations and
leaves open the possibility for a rich array of
artistic submissions. Click here for our Call’s hires pdf flyer.
Mount your group or solo art show at Quinn’s
of Tweed Fine Art Gallery. Quinn’s of Tweed is
contacted weekly by artists both unrepresented
and underrepresented to have their art displayed
in their gallery. There are, of course limitations
as to how many artist they can accommodate, so
they are trying something new - short term
representation - giving artists an opportunity to
have their works shown at Quinn’s of Tweed
Fine Art Gallery by mounting their own solo or
group shows. We encourage artists to contact us
for details, venue rental prices and terms.
www.QuinnsOfTweed.ca 613-478-0000, 345
Victoria St. N., Tweed.
2014 Oeno Gallery Sculpture Garden Call for
Submissions. Oeno Gallery, an internationally
known gallery, located at Huff’s Estates Winery,
Prince Edward County has a 4 acres sculpture
garden. Every year the Gallery invites artists to
submit sculptural proposals. Submissions will
be reviewed by the Gallery, and specific works
will be selected. The property offers a wide
variety of sites and locations including a
limestone quarry pond. Works must be original,
durable, and safe for viewing by the public. The
work should be able to withstand strong winds
and four season conditions. All works must be
available for sale. Artists are encouraged to
submit kinetic or large scale work. Preference
will be given to bold, original work that is in
keeping with the aesthetic of the Gallery and
which fits the scale of the exhibition areas and
landscape. For submission information go to the
news page at www.oenogallery.com/news.php
under downloads.
Deadline Jan. 17 The Warkworth Art (&
Music) in the Park Committee is calling for
artists (any media) to participate in the fourth
annual Warkworth Art in the Park Juried Show
and Sale on May 17 and 18 at Mill Creek Park
in Warkworth. Independent jurors review artists’
submissions of images of current work.
Acceptance will be solely on the basis of these
images. (Returning participants do not have to
be juried for the next event.) To take advantage
of their lower rates, a deadline of Jan. 14 must
be met. Click here for Call for Entry www.warkworthartinthepark.ca.
Deadline Feb. 28 The Friends of Bon Echo
Park invite all nature artists to the 19th annual
Bon Echo Art Exhibition & Sale at Bon Echo
Provincial Park, Hwy.41, Cloyne. The theme of
this juried exhibition of original art is about
Canadian Nature, Wildlife, or Countryside, and
will take place on July 25, 26, 27. Info and
applications: Executive Director, Friends of Bon
Echo Park, 16151 Hwy. 41, RR#1, Cloyne, 613336-0830, [email protected],
www.BonEchoFriends.ca.
Deadline Feb. 22 Calling All Artists International Women’s Day Community Art
Show Drop Off at the Core Arts and Culture
Centre, 223 Pinnacle St, Belleville, 10 am to 4
pm. Show runs Mar. 4 to 21, all age groups
welcome. This year’s theme: Justice, Dignity,
Hope: Celebrating Women Caring for the Future.
FILM
Jan. Feb. The Quinte Film Alternative Great
Movie Wednesdays present first-run, festival
quality, must-see cinema every second Wed. at 2
and 7:30 pm at the Empire Theatre in Belleville.
Wadjda on Jan. 8, Our Man In Tehran on Jan.
22, Gabrielle on Feb. 5, The Invisible Woman
on Feb. 29. Info at 613-480-6407,
[email protected],
quintefilmalternative.ca.
Feb. 28 to Mar. 2 Belleville Downtown
DocFest 3rd Annual International Documentary
Film Festival will screen over 40 outstanding
films that celebrate life and human dignity
around the world and right here at home, Feb. 28
to Mar. 2. Opening Gala will feature the
acclaimed documentary, Twenty Feet From
Stardom and special guest Georgette Fry and
Shout Sister! Festival Passes and Gala tickets
are available through The Empire Theatre box
office: theempiretheatre.com or phone: 613-9690099, and also available at the Quinte Arts
Council and a number of outlets in and around
the Quinte area. Film selection, schedule and
ticket outlets will be gradually posted at
www.downtowndocfest.ca.
HERITAGE
Jan. 6 History Nights at The Regent presents
The Movie Years in Trenton (1917–1934). Guest
speaker, Peggy Dymond Leavey will tell of the
era when Trenton was Canada’s movie-making
capital, when film crews were familiar sights on
the streets of the town. 7 pm at the Regent
Theatre, Picton. Tickets $15; $5 for students.
www.historyliveshere.ca.
Jan. 21 Hastings County Historical Society
presents author, Paul Kirby, discussing the
amazing life and times of Billa Flint Magistrate, Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Canada (pre Confederation), Belleville Mayor
and Senator after 1867. www.hastingshistory.ca.
Feb. 18 Firefighter Mark Shannon presents The
History of the Belleville Fire Department.
Learn about the founding of the BFD, its early
development, the changing technologies and the
major battles with local fires. 7.30 pm at the
Quinte Living Centre, 370 Front Street,
Belleville (north door). Bring a friend.
www.hastingshistory.ca.
Feb. 18 Feb. 18 to 21 is Heritage Week.
Glanmore National Historic Site will be
highlighting its Victorian architecture - interior
and exterior. The Museum will be open every
afternoon from 1-4:30pm with a guide available
for tours starting at 2pm. Visitors will be able to
explore all of the restoration projects that the
museum has undergone since 1997. Discover the
most recent projects in the second floor and
main floor of the house, and a preview of the
current restoration project, the breakfast room.
LITERARY
Feb. 15 Belleville Public Library, 11 a.m.
Author reading: local author Anita Jansman
(One Day I Walk) shares the story of her
pilgrimage along the famous Camino de
Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain.
Come and be inspired to make a spiritual
journey of your own!
ODDS AND ENDS
The QAC office/gallery will be closed from
noon on Dec. 24 until Jan. 13. We will be back
on Jan. 13.
Jan. 9 The Ontario Trillium Foundation is
holding an Information Session about their
Community Investments Program at 80 Division
St., Colborne, 1 to 4 pm. Register by Jan. 6.
Info: www.otf.ca, 1-800-263-2887 ext. 243.
Jan. 25 The Quinte Ballet School’s Mad Men
Gala: Culture and Cocktails, will be held 6 to
11 pm at the Greek Hall, 70 Harder Dr.,
Belleville. Live and silent auctions, prizes,
raffles, 3-course dinner, entertainment. $125.
Tickets and Info: 613-962-9274, [email protected].
Jan. 31 Support the 7th Annual Sleep Out! So
Others Can Sleep In, 7 pm to 7 am at Belleville
Market Square. Contests with prizes, guest
speakers, music and free food and beverages in
the evening. Three ways to participate: Get a
pledge sheet and Sleep Out! So Others Can
Sleep In. Ask for donations to sponsor you for
the event; Pledge money to someone who is
Sleeping Out!; Go to www.cmha-hpe.ca and
donate directly to the Sleep Out! event. All
proceeds from Sleep Out! go towards the
maintenance and repairs of Canadian Mental
Health Association, Hastings Branch four
Transitional homes which support the homeless
people in our community.
Deadline for the March/April issue
is Monday, February 3, 2014.
For advertisements,
please contact QAC
before copy deadline.
January/February 2014 Umbrella 13
ARTS EDUCATION
The QAC’s World Music and Dance Program
presents Fubuki Daiko
by Carol Bauer
The Quinte Arts Council’s World Music and Dance
Program presents Fubuki Daiko, Japanese Taiko
Drummers, on January 20 at Trenton High School
auditorium.
Each year, the QAC presents a concert and
workshop of music and dance featuring artists from
many cultural heritages. Concerts take place in
venues and theatres outside the classroom and not
only provide an entertaining and educational
experience for students, but also bring students to a
theatre environment to help encourage them to
become arts patrons in the future. These
performances and workshops are free to students in
Quinte thanks to the generous support of the
Marilyn and Maurice Rollins Foundation.
Fubuki Daiko has reinvented traditional Japanese
drumming with their eclectic and energetic
performances that are part martial arts athleticism,
part meditation, and all rhythm.
The core members of the group each have over 20
years of Taiko experience and received their
formative training from the founder of North
American Taiko, Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka.
After performing at Carnegie Hall with the San
Francisco Taiko Dojo, and leaving with Tanaka’s
blessing, they relocated to Winnipeg where they
expanded into the current professional touring
ensemble. The group’s self-titled CD received a
Prairie Music Award for Outstanding Instrumental
Recording.
For over 18 years, they have performed at festivals,
concert halls, and schools across North America.
Collaborations with a wide range of groups
(including choirs, ballet companies and big bands)
have continued to fuel their pursuit of excellence
and innovation in this ancient art form.
The seats for this event filled up very quickly, so
unfortunately there are no seats available for the
performance or the workshop. There may still be an
opportunity for you to see the group at another of
their performances in the region – contact the Quinte
Children’s Theatre for more information
(www.quintechildrenstheatre.ca).
QAC’s Arts Education Bursary:
deadline to apply is January 31
The application for the Quinte Arts Council’s Arts
Education Bursary for the Performing Arts is online
at www.quinteartscouncil.org (click on the
Programs/Services menu, then Arts Education).
The QAC Arts and Education Bursary for the
Performing Arts is a support program designed to
help schools in Quinte bring professional artists into
the classroom to work on a project with the students
that will take place sometime between March 1 and
June 15.
Eligible projects will meet the following criteria:
involve a professional artist or group; involve
performing arts activities, such as music,
storytelling, drama, theatre, dance, puppetry, and
creative movement; support the Ontario curriculum;
have defined starting and completion dates, set
objectives, a project budget and a follow-up plan for
evaluations and a report; and involve a school or
classroom of students within the Quinte region,
grades K to 12. The applicant must be a
school/classroom in the Quinte region that is a
member of the QAC or whose board is a member of
the QAC. The application process can also be
initiated by an artist working with a school.
For more information, call the Quinte Arts Council,
at 613-962-1232 or email
[email protected].
QAC’s Arts Education Programs
are generously supported by
Student Ariel Larsson (right) and her mom, Audrey, at
the Dec. 3 opening of the Loyalist College Art and
Design Foundation/QAC visual art show in the Link
Lounge at the college. The program is a one-year
experiential certificate that gives students a broad
spectrum of learning in both art and design.
The Marilyn & Maurice
Rollins Foundation
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SPOTLIGHT
PHOTO BY NORMA LANGRISH
BAY OF QUINTE
COMMUNITY
PLAYERS WIN TWO
EODL AWARDS
Caleb and Megan Hutton of Instant Rivalry, one of the acts
that performed at the fundraiser.
COMPASSION
ABOUNDS AT
PHILIPPINES
FUNDRAISER
The Eastern Ontario Drama League is an affiliation
of 28 Community Theatres, located from
Peterborough to Ottawa. Each year they host a OneAct Play Festival at a member’s home theatre, and
this year it was held in Merrickville. Eight theatre
groups presented their plays and were adjudicated
for everything from set building to acting. The Bay
of Quinte Community Players, based in Trenton at
My Theatre, entered A Little Something for the
Ducks. This charming comedy/drama warmed the
hearts of many and drew much praise. Brittany
Grier, acting as stage manager, won an award for
Outstanding Student Contribution, while the entire
cast and crew won an award for ensemble
presentation and cooperation. For further
information about upcoming productions, go to
www.mytheatrequinte.ca.
The people of the Bay of Quinte area have once
again proven their immense generosity in a
tremendous show of support for the people of the
Philippines recovering from typhoon Haiyan. On
December 4, about 50 local artists performed for a
packed house at Eastminster United Church in
Belleville in a benefit concert for the Philippines.
In total, over $6400 was raised, which will go
directly to disaster relief. The Federal Government
will also match these donations, dollar-for-dollar,
bringing the total amount of relief provided by this
fundraiser to over $12,000!
Donations are forwarded to ACT Alliance
(www.actalliance.org), a coalition of more than 140
churches and affiliated organisations working
together in 140 countries to create positive and
sustainable change in the lives of poor and
marginalised people regardless of their religion,
politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or
nationality, in keeping with the highest international
codes and standards.
For more information, check out the Facebook event
page at: http://on.fb.me/1f806ik.
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Left to right are Bill Dauphinee (lead actor), Victoria
Farrell (lead actress), holding the Helen R. McGregor
Award, Brittany Grier holding the Colin Mawson Award,
and Len Hurst (director).
ANNE RECTOR’S
ARTICLE ON SHELVES
Anne Elspeth Rector writes of heritage treasures
she’s rescued in Hastings County – see January’s
issue of Canada’s History Magazine (formerly The
Beaver), for her article on local historic ledgers, in
the Your Story section. And please note: while many
newsstands tuck Canadian history into obscure
corners of their displays, Bayview Express (at the
Bayview Plaza in Belleville) proudly displays the
magazine front and centre; a consideration for local
consumers.
PHOTO BY K. REID
FIRST ANNIVERSARY
TOAST AT JANET B
GALLERY AND
STUDIO
Great art, wine and well-wishers came together to
celebrate and toast Janet B Gallery & Studio’s first
Anniversary! The walls were filled with new
original works of art by artists from across Ontario
and spirits were high. The artists in the gallery
work internationally and live across Ontario, so it
was an exciting opportunity to have so many of
them available to be there to meet guests and share
insights about their art. Studio G Group Creative
Director, Gabi von Gans, took the opportunity to
announce their upcoming Musical, Summer Six
Pack, and that Janet Battaglio (gallery owner and
silk artist) had been chosen to design costumes for
the main characters.
LOCAL CHORAL
MASTER OFF TO
VIENNA
Rudolf Heijdens, conductor of the Hastings and
Prince Edward Regional Chorus, was in Vienna over
Christmas and the New Year, but it was not all
holidaying. This past summer, during its European
concert tour, the Quinte Youth Chorale of the Chorus
performed in the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where the
Chorale was heard by the well-known European
conductor Nicolas Radulescu. As a result, Mr.
Heijdens was invited to Vienna to prepare a
professional chorus and soloists for their part in a
performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, on
December 30.
The concert is sung in German, but with the
language of the rehearsal being English, it is an
annual project of the International Joint Concert
Organizing Committee, with the Japanese
component being rehearsed in Japan and the
Austrian singers in Vienna. Mr. Heijdens’ task was
to combine the two groups, who were getting
together for the first time on December 28, and to
rehearse and fine-tune the chorus prior to the
performance.
The concert, conducted by Nicolas Radulescu, was
in the exciting new MuTh Concert Hall in Vienna,
which was opened last December and was built
especially for the famed Vienna Sangerknaben
(Vienna Boys Choir) at a cost of 15 million Euros.
Later Life Learning Lectures
*Returning in the Spring*
Save the dates... April 23 and 30, May 7 and 14.
Details to follow in the next Umbrella.
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16 Umbrella January/February 2014
MISTLETOE MAGIC
AND FOOD FOR
LEARNING
The Mistletoe Magic Artisan Show, held at the
historic River Inn in Corbyville this past November,
proved to be the best holiday shopping experience
yet for event organizers, Connie Yrjola, Barb Forgie
and Cara Hunter. It may have been a chilly day, but
that didn’t stop excited shoppers who formed a line,
waiting half an hour before show time, to gain entry
into the fourth annual event. Twenty-two artisans
shared their work with happy shoppers who were
dedicated to buying handmade for the holidays!
Shoppers had the opportunity to purchase raffle
tickets for the one-of-a-kind holiday wreaths created
by each artisan. Funds raised helped sponsor the
Hastings Prince Edward County School Board’s
Food for Learning Program, whose goal is to
provide food to all children who are in need of a
supplement to their daily nutritional intake.
Plans for Mistletoe Magic’s fifth anniversary show
are already underway, slated for November 23,
2014! Event organizers are always looking for
artists, artisans and local entrepreneurs who would
like to showcase at their shows. For more info,
visit www.mistletoemagicartisanshow.com.
Volunteer Corner
by Scott Miller
Volunteers once again came out in full force in
support of the Quinte Arts Council’s Art of Winter
Gala. The event, held at the old Brick Furniture site
on Pinnacle Street in Belleville, would not have
been a success without the help from 70 volunteers,
selflessly donating their time. Volunteer activities
included painting, décor, stage building, greeters,
coat check, ticket sales, servers, bartenders, bussers,
live and silent auction, and tear down/clean-up.
The amazing décor was the brainchild of Lisa
Morris and Peter Paylor. Their designs included
children’s art, ornamental art and digitally projected
images on the walls. Peter and Lisa were supported
by their set-up team: Debbie Morton, Kaitlin
Turbach, Lisa King, Muller Kalala, Jason Cook,
Loralei Kitchen, Rick Zimmerman, Kim Lidstone,
Ward Ahearn, Danyl Brett and Marc Bourdon. A
special thank you goes out to Dan Atkinson who
donated his time and his truck, and also to Kevin
Putnam and Tom MacLennan who donated their
trailer and helped build the stage and take it apart –
no small effort.
Thank you to Barbara-Jo Clute and the Laureate Alpha
Eta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, and the Avaya
Group of Volunteers for setting up the tables.
Thank you to the efforts of Brenda Foran who helped
with finding servers and also managed the servers on
the night of the Gala. Thank you to Stephen Feeney
who bussed, sorted and inventoried the dinnerware on
the evening of the Gala, along with his gallant, hardworking crew. Thank you to the bar staff - Sharon
Duffy, Glenn Lidstone, Debra and Dave Tosh, and
Grace Scutella, who worked tirelessly throughout the
evening.
There was no shortage of students to help out with
the gala this year. The efforts displayed by this
group were mature and professional. Thank you to
Chelsea Saunders, Megan Benn, Sarah and Ellie
Aston, Amelia and Sophia King, Kaylea Vieira,
Libbie Davies and Olivia McPherson.
Happy Mistletoe Magic supporter and Holiday
Wreath raffle prize winner, Heidy!
Greeters, bar ticket sales and live/silent auction are
an integral part of what makes the Gala function as
professionally as it does. Thank you to Ruth Hatton,
Lorie Brown, Celeste Odono, Kaitlin Turbach, Lisa
King, Diane Dollard, Brigitte Rittinger, Pat and
Dick Dunham, Marlene Phillips, and Ruth
Nodtvedt.
Thank you to Lorie Brown for picking up the pizza.
For the volunteers, this was the most important task
of the evening! Thank you to Ray McCoy who
made his yearly runs to Tim Horton’s to ensure we
were well fueled with coffee and timbits.
Finally, an incredible thank you to the employees at
Dewe’s Independent Grocer, who helped Dan
Atkinson and myself lift the 400 pound (I
exaggerate… but only slightly) auction donation
wagon of food into Dan’s pick-up truck.
The Gala only works because of the valuable time
donated by the volunteers. Without the volunteers,
there would be no Gala. We at the Quinte Arts
Council are very grateful for the support we receive,
not only for the Gala, but year-round from all our
volunteers.
2014 is another year to look forward to. We
currently have the following opportunities available:
1. QAC Office/Gallery – Positions are available to
volunteer in the office; answering phones, greeting
customers, renewing memberships, and other duties
as required.
2. Art in the Community Coordinator – organize our
bi-monthly Art in the Community show, recruit
artists for the show, meet the artists and assist with
preparing the show at the various community
venues.
3. Umbrella newspaper delivery – we require an
Umbrella newspaper delivery driver for east end
Belleville.
If you love or appreciate art and are interested in
volunteering, please contact Scott Miller at the
Quinte Arts Council, 613-962-1232.
Community Banking & Financial Services
293 Sidney St. 251 RCAF Rd.
Belleville Trenton
613.966.4111 613.394.3361
My Credit Union - My Community - My Future
www.qcu.ca
100 St. George Street, Deseronto
613-396-2874, 613-539-0491
Patricia Adriaans
[email protected]
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Member Groups
A Capella Quinte
Albert College
Art Gallery of Bancroft
Arts on Main
Artists Below The Line
Arts Quinte West
Bath Artisans
Bay of Quinte Community Players
Bay of Quinte Sweet Adelines
Belleville Art Association
Belleville Choral Society
Belleville Public Library
Belleville Scottish Country Dance
Belleville Theatre Guild
Belleville Weavers and Spinners
Beta Sigma Phi
Bloomfield Centre for Creativity
Bridge Street United Church
Brighton Arts Council
Brighton Barn Theatre
Canadian Federation of University Women
Carolynda Duo
Centennial Secondary School
Choking Hazard Orchestra
Christmas Sharing Program
CJLX-FM Loyalist College Radio
Colborne Art Gallery
Command Performance Choir
The Commodores’ Orchestra
Core Arts and Culture Centre
County Theatre Group Inc.
The Dazzlebugs
Doug Aselstine and the River City Swing Band
Downtown DocFest
The Fade Kings
For The Love Of A Song
Friends of the Belleville Library
Gallery One-Twenty-One
Glanmore National Historic Site
Gleaners Food Bank (Quinte) Inc.
Habitat For Humanity
Hastings County Historical Society
Hastings and Prince Edward County School
Board
Kingston Symphony Association
Later Life Learning - Belleville
Lions Club of Belleville
Marysburgh Mummers
Moira Mat Makers
Morning Music Club
MusiQuinte Teaching Studio
Music at Port Milford
Naval Marine Archive:
The Canadian Collection
The Noteables
Old Church Theatre
Port Hope Friends of Music
Prince Edward Community Theatre
Prince Edward County Arts Council
Purdy Country Litfests (PurdyFests)
Quinte Ballet School of Canada
Quinte Children’s Theatre
Quinte Film Alternative
Quinte Grannies for Africa
Quinte Irish Canadian Society
Quinte Living Centre Band
Quinte Opera Guild
Quinte Region Craft Guild
Quinte Singers
Quinte Symphony
Quinte Twirlers
Quinte Woodturners’ Guild
Quinte YFC/Youth Unlimited
Sid Wells, Swell Productions
Shaer Productions
Shelter Valley Folk Festival
Stirling Festival Theatre
Town of Deseronto
Trenton Scottish Irish Festival
Tweed and Area Arts Council
Westben Arts Festival Theatre
QAC programs are
funded in part by these
government agencies
The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the
Government of Ontario
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Business Members
Miss Priss
Montrose Inn and Duchess of Montrose Tea
Room
O’Connor House
OENO Gallery
The Old Firehouse Café
Pace Design
Peggy deWitt Photography
Peytan’s Place
Prime Time Steak House
Quinte Business Accounting Services
Quinte Dental Hygiene Services
Quinte Fibre Artists
Quinte Living Centre Inc.
QuintEssential Credit Union
Quinn’s of Tweed Fine Art Gallery
RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Mike
Moffat
Regent Theatre
Re/Max Quinte Ltd.
Rob Rapino Hair Design
Sans-Souci
Set the Scene
Shipwreck Productions
Spark Box Studio
Stephen Licence Ltd.
StoneHouse Information
The Blue House/The Upstairs Gallery
Thomas Estevez Design
Tipper Financial Services Ltd.
Travel Specifics
Trisha’s Closet
Welch LLP, CA
Wilkinson and Company LLP
W. T. Hawkins Ltd. (Hawkins Cheezies)
About Framing
Academy Gallery
Active Arts Studio
Advanced Electrolysis
and Laser Hair Removal, Susan Nurse
Allan Graphics Ltd.
Art For Everyone
Bathworks
Beaufort Pub
Bel-Con Design Builders
Benton Fry Ford Sales
Boathouse Seafood Restaurant
Christopher the Twistopher
Cranston Gallery on Main
Cunningham Centre
Dancing Moon Gallery
Debbie’s Restaurant
Deer Creek Pottery
Dominion Lending Centres Alliance,
Nick Reed
Earl and Angelo’s Restaurant
Foster Park Pet Hospital
Fotofactory Photography
Funk and Gruven A-Z
Glamour Junkie Jewellery
The Great Deseronto Antique Emporium
History Lives Here
Ian Stock – BMO Nesbitt Burns
Inside Design
Jane Simpson Financial
Janet B Gallery and Studio
Knudsen, Brady, Vaughan Advisory Group
Live Fit! Live Life!
Loyalist College
Mad Dog Gallery
Ken and Jennifer Madison
Malcolm Brothers Ltd.
Marlin Travel
McDougall Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Microdot Media
Welcome new members
Artists
Terrence Culbert
Barbara Forgie
Patricia Kapitain
Jessica Melchiorre
Evelyn Wolff
Businesses
History Lives Here
Quinte Dental Hygiene Services
StoneHouse Information
Quinte Arts Council Membership and Donation Form
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mr.__ Ms.__ Mrs.__ Miss__ Dr.__
Name_______________________
Address_____________________
City_________________________
Postal Code__________________
Tel.#________________________
Email________________________
Website_____________________
MEMBERSHIP TYPE (ANNUAL)
Community Friend
$40
Artist
$50
Member Group
$50
Member Business
$60
Student
$15
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ARTISTS, MEMBER GROUPS AND BUSINESSES MUST ALSO
FILL OUT AN INFORMATION FORM IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE
LISTED ON OUR WEB DIRECTORY. FORMS ARE AT THE QAC
OFFICE AND ON-LINE WWW.QUINTEARTSCOUNCIL.ORG.
I would like to make a donation
Patron
$24-$124
Benefactor
$125-$299
Partner
$300-$999
Premier Supporter
$1000+
Premier Arts Benefactor $5000+
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Total Membership ____
Total Donation ____
Payment can be made by cheque,
cash or credit card
Visa___ MasterCard ____
Card No. ________________
Expiry Date ______________
Signature ________________
Cheques are payable to the Quinte Arts Council, 36 Bridge St. E., Box 22113, Belleville, ON K8N 2Z5
Thank you for JOINING US! and for your generous support
We Salute Our Donors
Premier Arts Benefactors
The John M. and Bernice
Parrott Foundation
The Marilyn and Maurice
Rollins Foundation
Premier Supporters
The Lehtinen Family
RBC Dominion Securities Inc.
Lynda Wheeler
Partners
David & Theresa Boyd
Barbara Cameron
Bob and Barbara Jo Clute
Ian Stock
Mike Malachowski,
Funk & Grüven A-Z
McDougall Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Ross McDougall
Hugh & Donna O’Neil
Audrey Williams
Benefactors
Advanced Electrolysis and Laser
Hair Removal, Susan Nurse
Advertising in
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AD PRICES
QAC Members - $4 per square inch
No charge to design
Non-members - $5 per square inch
If we design, add 50% of ad cost
Buy an ad in 6 consecutive issues
(ads do NOT have to be the same in
each issue):
QAC members - $3.50 psi
Non-members - $4.50 psi
Gerry and Bev Boyce
Dorothy Brown
Hans & Lenneke Buré
Carol Feeney
Claire Grant
Kathleen M. Hallick
Penny Hendricks
Marilyn Holden
K. Jane Hull
Diana Koechlin
Ken and Jennifer Madison
Gary Magarrell and Barry
Brown
Mary-Lynne Morgan
Jack Press
Quinte Living Centre Concert
Band
Elizabeth Scott
Mary Shipton
Wilkinson & Company, Dan
Dickinson
Patrons
About Framing, Judy Leeson
James Alexander
Mary-Lou Ashton
Travel
Specifics
Dan & Cathy Atkinson
Mary Bould
Diane Burley
Donna Campbell
Jennifer Chanter
Jeannette Cornelissen
Marilyn Coulter
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Cronk
Anne Cunningham
Marjorie Finlay
Tim and Cynthia Fort
Leo and Mary Jo Fortin
Lois Foster
Julie Brown Hale
Grant Harrison
Lori Huff Johns and Earl
Johns
Lee and Eleanor Jourard
Charlotte Kuntze
Ann Lawrence
Florence Lennox
Don and Tommie Leslie
Suzanne Lowther
Bob and Cathy McCallum
Sharon McConnell
Don McKay
Judith McKnight
Jessica Melchiorre
Mavis Milton
Elizabeth Mitchell
Vera Morton
Linda Mustard
Paul & Judith Niedermayr
Mary O’Flynn
Lindi Pierce
Lola Reid Allin
Elaine A. Small
Jacqueline Staikos
Lyle & Sharon Vanclief
Sid Wells, Swell Productions
Margaret Werkhoven
Douglas and Mary Wilson
Bill and Bev Yeotes
Honourary Members
Sandra Colden
Peter Davis
Manfred Koechlin
Mary-Lynne Morgan
Lynda Wheeler
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Umbrella is a great vehicle
to help spread your message
Advertising in Umbrella is an
easy and cost-effective way
to reach an important audience.
And... despite the rising costs of production and
distribution, we’ve kept the rates affordable. The
newspaper is 20 to 28 pages and is printed on a
high-quality white paper (Premium 80). We print 5,000
copies and mail more than 1,000 directly to people
who request it. The other 4,000 are distributed
throughout Quinte and across the province.
Join the Quinte Arts Council and receive a huge
discount (more than 25%) on the price of your ad as
well as other benefits of membership.
For more information, call us at 613-962-1232 or email
[email protected].
The deadline for ads, articles,
spotlights and Calendar items for the
March/April Issue is, February 3.