Jonah: Live at Sydenham Street United & Casting Call

Jonah

Sydenham Street United Church is looking forward to hosting Canadian
environmental composer R. Murray Schafer. On April 17th, the youth group Many
Gifts One Spirit is presenting the composer’s musical play, Jonah.
Jonah is a musical based on the well‐known bible story of a man named Jonah who is
running from God, from responsibility, from what he knows to be true in his heart.
The play is an intergenerational effort, with parts for men and women as well as
children. Jonah will be presented in the magnificent sanctuary of SSUC on Saturday
evening, April 17. Artistic direction will be by the composer: Murray Schafer will
meet the cast in mid‐February (date to be confirmed) to discuss his vision of the
play. He will entrust weekly rehearsal to artistic director Sarah Gibson Bray and
musical director Marie Anderson. Schafer will be present in the final week of
production to add his unique creative spirit to the production. This is a Sydenham
Street United Church endeavor and we are welcoming anyone who is interested in
exploring the Jonah story. Solo roles and chorus parts are available for youth, ages
nine and up, and adults. Any children ages four to eight who are involved in the
Sunday morning Many Gifts One Spirit will also be involved. There will be a limited
number of spaces available. Enthusiasm, willingness to take direction, and creative
openness are more important than previous dramatic and musical experience. This
is a rare opportunity to work with Canada’s renowned composer R. Murray Schafer.
The Canadian Music Center quoted Yehudi Menuhin who spoke of Schafer saying,
“His strong, benevolent, and highly original imagination and intellect, a dynamic power
whose manifold personal expressions and aspirations are in total accord with the urgent
needs and dreams of humanity today.”

Mr. Schafer will meet the cast to discuss the presentation on Sunday, February 20 at
2 pm. Rehearsals begin on Saturday morning, March 6 and continue every Saturday
until the production. For information, call Marie Anderson, 613‐531‐0814 or email
m.annendale@gmail.com.

Casting Call

For Singers, Actors
By R. Murray Schafer
With Composer R. Murray Schafer
Sunday, February 21 at Sydenham St. United Church, 2:30 pm
Director: Sarah Gibson Bray Musical Director: Marie Anderson
Performance Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
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This is an intergenerational musical play with parts
for men, women and children.
For information phone Marie Anderson 613-531-0814 or
Sydenham Street United Church 613-546-9616

CFRC FUNDRAISING DRIVE INFO

CFRC 101.9fm, Kingston's only campus and community radio station, wants
to be your Valentine this year.
CFRC celebrates its fifth annual Funding Drive this February 5-14!

As a not-for-profit, volunteer-based, listener-supported station, CFRC
relies on contributions made during the Funding Drive for a significant
portion of its operating revenue. The goal for this year's campaign is
$25,000, to be raised during 10 days of special on-air programming and
exciting community events including:

-a rare performance by Montreal's DaZoque! alongside Kingston's Swamp
Ward Orchestra and Peter Deachman at 9pm on Saturday, February 6 at the
Mansion, 506 Princess Street

-a live performance and broadcast of "A Windy Radio Drama," written and
produced by CFRC volunteers and staged for the first time in Wallace
Hall, John Deutsch University Centre, Queen's at 8pm on Wednesday,
February 10;

-a local indie showcase with PS I Love You, The Gertrudes and others at
the Time to Laugh Comedy Club, 394 Princess Street starting at 7pm,
Thursday Feb 11th;

-a Soul Shakedown dance party featuring CFRC djs at the Time to Laugh
comedy club on Saturday, February 13 at 10pm;

-a heartwarming hour of RadioGrams broadcast on Sunday, February 14 at
8pm, featuring messages from CFRC supporters to their loved ones.

These are just a few of the many special events this year's Funding
Drive has to offer listeners and the community.
For complete events and programming details, please visit www.cfrc.ca.

YOU CAN PARTICIPATE by attending one or more special events or by making
a pledge in support of the station's ongoing work. You can pledge or
donate over the phone by calling 613-533-CFRC between 8am and 1am,
February 5-14. Online donations via credit card are also accepted at
https://www.givetoqueens.ca/cfrc. You can mail a cheque payable to
"CFRC" (or "Queen's" if you desire a charitable tax receipt) to CFRC
101.9fm, Lower Carruthers Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
K7L-3N6. Or drop by our offices and studios in Lower Carruthers Hall at
Queen's to make a pledge or payment in person. Phone, mail and in-person
contributions are eligible for either a charitable tax receipt or
thank-you gifts that include organic cotton CFRC tote bags and
long-sleeved shirts as well as CDs and gift certificates. Online
contributions are eligible for charitable tax receipts only.

On behalf of the 5 staff and 180 volunteers at CFRC, thank you for
supporting community radio!
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Stone Mill in Delta - Call for artists

The first annual Frontenac Arch Biosphere Fine Craft Show is being sponsored by the Old Stone Mill in Delta this June as part of the Mill’s bicentennial celebrations.

Attached is a call for entry and an application form that may interest you or those you know in the field of fine crafts. Please post this or forward it to those it may concern. Thank you.

Get the call to entry form here: Old Mill Call For Entry

Louise Mantha
305 B Coons Rd
Elgin ON K0G 1E0
613 359-9972
louisemantha@ripnet.com

Doubt - Domino Theatre Production

playbill 6x8*__*

*_Press Release_*

*_DOMINO THEATRE INC._*

*_For immediate release:_*

*_Feb. 03, 2010_*

Domino Theatre's fifth play of the season is "Doubt" written by *John
Patrick Shanley*. For his script for the movie, /Moonstruck/
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonstruck>, Shanley won the Academy Award
for Best Original Screenplay.

Set in a parochial school in the Bronx in 1964, "Doubt" concerns a
school principal, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers
offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels
students need to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of
sexually abusing a young student, she is faced with the prospect of
charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his
career, as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help
from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion
challenged, and the mother of the student, who is protective of her son,
the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas.

*"Doubt"/ /is directed by Frances Berry. The cast consists of Sandie
Cond, known for her many highly praised theatrical performances in
Kingston, Chris Sleeth, last seen heading up the cast of "/A Thousand
Clowns",/ Sara Harrison, a newcomer to Kingston with a wealth of acting
experience, and Tamara Thomas, a second year Queen's drama student. *

* "Doubt" is Domino Theatre's entry into the Eastern Ontario Drama
League Festival to be held in Peterborough from March 24^th - March 27^th .*

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* ***"Doubt"/ /opens at the Baby Grand Theatre on February 25^th and
runs Thursday to Saturday until March 13^th , with an additional show on
Tuesday, March 9^th . Tickets are $18, plus a Grand Theatre surcharge,
and can be purchased in advance through the Grand Theatre at 218
Princess Street or by calling 613-530-2050. Any remaining tickets will
be on sale the night of the performance at the Grand Theatre box office
until show time at 8 pm. Tickets on Thursday nights for members, seniors
and students are $14, plus a Grand Theatre surcharge, at the box office,
subject to availability.

*SEE IT LIVE*…/at the Domino!/

For further information check or website http://www.dominotheatre.com/
or to arrange interviews and/or photos contact Bob Brooks at
613-544-3928 or "schellbrooks@cogeco.ca <mailto:schellbrooks@cogeco.ca>".

CANTABILE CONCERT march 6

white waves on the water

Sparkling melodies and shimmering harmonies... Cantabile’s welcomes world-renowned British composer & conductor, Bob Chilcott

 

For Immediate Release – February 3, 2010

 

On Saturday, March 6 the Cantabile Choirs’ fourteenth season, “Living Colours of Song” continues with “White Waves on the Water” featuring the Cantabile Girls’ Choir, Young Men’s Chorus, Youth Singers, Men’s Chorus, and Women’s Chorus and guest composer/conductor Bob Chilcott. 

 

Bob Chilcott is one of the most sought-after and celebrated composers and conductors in Britain today. He has been involved in choral music most of his life - he was a chorister in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers, the most recorded and broadcast vocal ensemble in history.  He has been a full time composer since 1997. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers, with whom he works regularly in studio recordings and concerts, and he has also guest conducted the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin.   His busy international career takes him as guest conductor for major choral festivals across the globe.  His impressive catalogue of works is published by Oxford University Press.

 

Since his first appearance with the Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, Bob Chilcott has become an honorary patron of the organization.  He is deeply impressed by the high standard of singing, the enthusiasm and dedication of the Cantabile choristers and looks forward to working with them through several days of workshops leading up to the concert. 

 

The concert features the world premiere of ‘Dream Land’ by Mr. Chilcott commissioned by the Cantabile Choirs.  Several other of Chilcott’s memorable works will be highlighted on the concert, including “Making Waves”, “Like a Singing Bird” and the powerfully moving “In the Heart of the World.’ His rousing rendition of the traditional Irish folksong “Mairi’s Wedding” has become a favorite of the Youth Singers and audiences alike. 

 

The Men and Women will be featured in a number of combined works including the exquisite romantic masterpiece “Lay a Garland” by Pearsall and rousing spiritual “Jesus Met the Woman at the Well” by Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield.

 

Tickets are available at the Grand Theatre Box Office – in person at 218 Princess Street – by phone (613) 530-2050 – or online www.kingstongrand.com

 

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For more information please contact Dr. Mark Sirett, Artistic Director, Cantabile Choirs of Kingston

msirett@cantabile.kingston.net

Julie Andrée T. Solo Performance at Modern Fuel

Julie Andrée T. Solo Performance at Modern Fuel
Artist’s Talk: Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 7pm
Performance: Thursday February 18, 2010 at 7pm
Where: Modern Fuel Gallery, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

For Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, performance artist Julie Andrée T. will be exploring the possibility of using the body as a canvas, to create a moving drawing suggesting a changing landscape. Without a stable point of reference, the performer oscillates between being a body with an identity and a body-object. Inspired and fascinated by tragic moments, Julie Andrée T. is searching for a universal language while telling a story. She asks, “What if the story is just a deviation to walk towards abstraction?”

The iconoclastic Julie Andrée T. dazzles audiences with disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable performance pieces that deploy an astounding transformation of the body. She has had outstanding success with her unsettling and fascinating works that are a hybrid of performance-installation and theatre. “Not Waterproof” and “Rouge,” for example, will play the Festival TransAmériques this June in Montreal. Julie Andrée T. is now returning to performance presented in the “traditional” way in the experimental space of alternative art galleries, as she explores a new series of performances dealing with the body and drawing.

Join Julie Andrée T. for a discussion of her artistic practice on Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 7pm, and attend the performance on Thursday February 18, 2010 at 7pm.  Both events are at Modern Fuel.  Admission is free.

Julie Andrée T. is an installation and performance artist whose works have been shown in Canada, U.S.A, South America, Asia and Europe. >From 2008-2009 she taught Performance Art as a guest artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA). She is also on the programming committee at Inter/Lieu (Quebec City) an artist run center dedicated to Performance and Installation.

Image: Julie Andrée T., "climbing the sky," Open Art Festival (Beijing), 2009. Photo by He Chengyao.

For further information, contact:
Michael Davidge or Bronwyn McLean
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

Pumpkin Pie Reminder - Feb 6

*James Wannamaker and Friends*

*This is a new band whose members have played around town with such
bands as Filet of Soul, The Elfmen, Baru's Harp, Taguchimonster, Jenica
Rayne and the Rain Makers, Jeanine Noyes and Mike Myers to name a few.*

*This band plays an assortment of jazz, blues, funk and originals, with
Noah St. Amand, acoustic bass; Sean Jensen, drums; James Wannamaker,
saxaphone*

*We have added an opening performance by singer/songwriter Annete
McCaffrey.*

*Presented by: Pumpkin Pie Coffee House*
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*Date / Time: Sat., Feb 6, 2010 - 7:30 PM*
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*Advance tickets are $12 ($15 at the door), available at: *

*Battersea General Store, Battersea*

*Naish's Country Store, Sunbury*

*Brian's Record Option, Kingston*

*Venue: Battersea United Church Hall*

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*For more information please contact:
Alvin or Donna Wood
613-353-2889*