PLAYWRIGHTS READING SERIES BEGINS

THE PLAYWRIGHTS ARE COMING! THE PLAYWRIGHTS ARE COMING!

 

Prince Edward County, ON, (March 5, 2010): Festival Players is having the writers over for tea and a chat - and you’re invited! First up is Robert Chafe, whose play Tempting Providence is playing as part of the 2010 season. The reading takes place Sunday March 28, at 2pm at Books & Company in Picton. Admission is free and refreshments are provided.

 

Robert Chafe’s work has been seen across Canada, the UK, and Australia. He is the author of fifteen stage scripts and co-author of another ten. He frequently collaborates with Siminovitch Prize winning director Jillian Keiley. Two of his plays (Tempting Providence and Butler’s Marsh) were published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama. Tempting Providence, directed by Keiley and produced by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, is entering its eighth year of national and international touring, and has been nominated for two Betty Mitchell Awards (Calgary), a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto) and was recently awarded the Capital Critics Circle Award for Best Production after its run in Ottawa. Chafe has been writer in residence at Artistic Fraud, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre and Forest Forge Theatre, Hampshire, UK, and a guest instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and the National Theatre School of Canada.

 

Tempting Providence is a story of courage and strength told with simple elegance. Myra Bennet, a young British nurse, arrived on the rugged shores of Newfoundland in 1921. No roads, no electricity, no doctors for miles. She signed on for a year and stayed for a lifetime. Her legendary service took her all along the rugged 320 kilometer Northern Peninsula, in all kinds of weather, travelling on foot, on horseback, by dogsled and by boat, to deliver babies, set bones, extract teeth and more. She was known throughout Newfoundland and Labrador as “Florence Nightingale of the North”. A spell-binding tale of strength and heroism told with humour and elegant simplicity.

 

Tempting Providence was commissioned by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador in 2000 and since its premiere production has played over 370 times in over 90 communities across Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland and Australia, and this year will add the US to its touring schedule. Festival Players is delighted to bring this production to our community.

 

Admission to the Playwrights Reading Series is free. Light refreshments available. For more information: 613.399.5677 or www.festivalplayers.ca

 

Playwrights Reading Series Sunday March 28, 2pm

With Tempting Providence playwright Robert Chafe

Books & Company, 289 Main Street, Picton

 

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Contact: Yorrick da Silva, Festival Players of Prince Edward County         

613.399.5677 or yorrick@festivalplayers.ca

Royal Wood with Melissa McClelland at Live Wire!!

Attention Live Wire Supporters!!!

 

We hope you have your tickets for the fabulous concert coming to the Octave on Sat. March 27 with the acclaimed Toronto multi-instrumentalist Royal Wood with an opening set by the supremely talented Melissa McClelland.

 

Both these artists are currently on international tours. Royal is playing to sold-out houses in Europe, the U.K. and Ireland while Melissa (with her husband and bandmate Luke Doucet) is in Austin Texas and is just back from a Caribbean cruise where they were part of the entertainment package along with Emmy Lou Harris, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Steve Earle! 

 

Here are the details:

Royal Wood with special guest Melissa McClelland

Sat. March 27 8 pm

Octave Theatre - 711 Dalton Ave. Kingston

Tickets $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if available). On sale now at Brian's Record Option (613 542-2452 for phone orders), Renaissance Music and Tara Foods.

www.livewiremusicseries.ca www.royalwood.ca  www.melissamcclelland.com

Royal Wood's music has been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks; including the HBO series Regenisis, the CBC series This is Wonderland, the CTV movie Playing House, the film The End of Silence starring Sarah Harmer, and the Warner Music Canada soundtrack to the Food Network’s The Surreal Gourmet (with other artists including Feist, Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Moby, Aretha Franklin) and more.

"Wood is on his way to establishing himself alongside the Canadian royalty of artists such as Sexsmith and Wainwright. " - EXCLAIM MAGAZINE

Melissa McClelland - "It is the timelessness and sheer beauty of McClelland’s voice that holds our hand throughout her spectacular 2009 release "Victoria Day", courting us with the colour of its countries. Beyond the vintage guitar tones and retro feel of the album, it is Melissa’s classic, ageless, brazenly genre-flouting voice that enraptures. Her impressive on-stage backing vocal history attests to this pure talent; Melissa has been invited to sing with Jesse Cook, Sarah McLachlan, and Luke Doucet, and was the single guest vocal appearance on Blue Rodeo’s lauded Live at Massey Hall (2008)."

ArtDocs: Antony Gormley: Making Space, Thurs 11 Mar, 7 pm @ Agnes Etherington Art Centre

ArtDocs

Antony Gormley: Making Space (2007, 48 minutes)

Thursdays 11 March, 7 pm

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre’s series of free film screenings, ArtDocs, features the contemporary British sculptor Antony Gormley on Thursday 11 March at 7pm. In Antony Gormley: Making Space (2007, 48 minutes), director Beeban Kidron follows Gormley as he prepares for a significant exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. Gormley wrestles with the technical challenges of three ambitious new works, and speaks thoughtfully about his aims and process. Acknowledged for his re-imagining of the human body, Gormley is well known for The Angel of the North, a huge steel sculpture that looms over a highway in north-east England, and his controversial project involving ordinary Britons standing on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.

The film will be introduced by Brian Scott, a term adjunct professor in the Department of Art at Queen’s. An artist working in mixed media installation, sculpture, photography, and drawing, Scott studied sculpture at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, England, and has exhibited his work extensively. With work in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S.A., and Europe, Scott also has completed public art commissions in Toronto, Guelph, and Kitchener.

The Art Centre is open until 9pm on Thursdays, until 29 April, and admission is free.

Family Program

Drop In and Discover

Wednesday 17 March, 1 to 4 pm

Thursday 18 March, 1 to 4 pm

Get creative in March Break! Explore the exhibition Poet, Priest, Dauber with our family guide, and then drop into the studio to try a variety of art projects. Suitable for children 6+ with adult accompaniment. Drop in between 1 and 4 pm; registration not required. Free with admission; free for all on Thursdays.

Matthew Hills | administrative coordinator

Agnes Etherington Art Centre | Queen's University | Kingston ON | K7L 3N6

t 613.533.6000 x 77049 | fax 613.533.6765 | www.aeac.ca

Girls Night Out! An International Women's Week Fundraising Concert

There will be no GNO on Saturday, March 13th, however, we hope you will continue to suport local women in music by attending the celebration for International Women's Week (today, March 8th is the actual day!) which will be held this Saturday, March 13th at 8:00 p.m. at The Mansion (506 Princess Street) featuring GIRLZ LIKE THAT!!! Please see attached flyer.

....ALSO....Calamity Janes, Caledonias, Gillian Shields, Samba Maracuja, Shawnee Talbot

All proceeds to go the Kingston Interval House and Sexual Assault Centre Kingston.

For further information please contact: publiceducation@sackingston.com

The regular GirlzNightOut (guyz welcome) will return as usual on Saturday, April 10th - flyer to follow

Kingston Symphony Upcoming Events

Kingston Symphony presents Best of the Big Bands
Friday, April 9, 2010
8 p.m.
Grand Theatre

Back by popular demand, clarinet virtuoso Dave Bennett joins the Kingston Symphony in a performance of famous big band hits by Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.

Tickets: Grand Theatre box office - 613-530-2050 or online at www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca

Kingston Symphony presents Afternoon at the Opera
Sunday, April 25, 2010
2:30 p.m.
Grand Theatre

The Kingston Symphony, along with four of Canada's leading singers, will end their season with a Sunday afternoon at the opera. Enjoy your favourite arias and choruses by composers such as Puccini, Verdi, and Bizet.

Tickets: Grand Theatre box office - 613-530-2050 or online at www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca

Coda Gala
Sunday, April 25, 2010
5:30 p.m.
Italo-Canadian Club

Join the Kingston Symphony for their annual fundraising gala. Enjoy fine wine, a gourmet Italian dinner and meet our musicians.

Tickets are available at the Kingston Symphony Association - 613-546-9729

--  Lesley Adams Office Administrator Kingston Symphony Association 11 Princess Street, Suite 206 P.O. Box 1616 Kingston, ON  K7L 5C8 Phone - 613-546-9729 Fax - 613-546-8580 Email - ladams@kingstonsymphony.on.ca Website - www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca 

A Bench & A Few Good Chairs - The County Garden Show Prince Edward County

 

a bench & a few good chairs 2010 the county garden show…

 

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PICTON, Ontario: April 16, 17 & 18, 2010

A Bench and a Few Good Chairs; The County Garden Show

Visit Prince Edward County and plan for summer – three days dedicated to the delights of the Garden with Artists, Florists, Landscapers...and so much more.

Sponsored by The Edith Fox Life and Loss Centre. 

 

The Crystal Palace, 375 Main Street, Picton

Three Day Admission $10
Visit www.benchandchair.org or call 613-476-1128
for further information.

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Calamity Janes at The Mansion

Kingston's newest all female band is putting on a show at The Mansion in Kingston, ON on Friday, March 12th at 8pm.  The show will feature original tunes by all four women: Jenica Rayne, Lynne Hanson, Danielle Lennon and Les Casson as well as few great covers and even some fiddle tunes.  $5 cover.

Calamity Janes are:   Jenica Rayne - vocals/guitar/bass
                                Lynne Hanson - vocals/bass
                                Danielle Lennon - vocals/violin/fiddle
                                Les Casson - percussion

Calamity Janes have been together for just over a year and have been making a name for themselves playing various shows including: the opening of The Beautiful Women Project in Gananoque, The Red Roof Women's Festival and The Homegrown Music Festival as well as putting on their own shows at bars and restaurants in Toronto, Kingston, Picton and the surrounding area.

The Janes came together in the winter of 2009 upon realizing that they were all fans of each other's work.  So why not work together?  The vast diversity in the musical backgrounds of these four women gives the Janes a different flavour and the ability to play proficiently in countless styles.  Calamity Janes always please their audience and can move gracefully from a longing folk song to a soulful blues, through rock n' roll and right to a rockin' fiddle set.


www.daniellelennon.com