The Buzz - October 2021

Lindsay

Leading with love

Senator Francis firmly holds that we all have a personal and collective responsibility to heal and to be healed. He reminded me that we all have personal power and responsibility to break cycles that no longer serve us. “We are responsible for our own lives and even if the path is difficult, we need to keep walking it.” Our conversation together clearly showed that Senator Francis is now a role model to many others, the way others were for him when he was younger.

Senator Francis worked through many different positions and levels in the government over 22 years and eventually ended up in Senior Management with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. From this experience and with the direction from his community, he became the Chief and Band Administrator of the Abegweit Mi’kmaq Nation, a position he held for several terms. “If you don’t step up to the plate when you’re called upon, you can’t complain if someone else does it instead.”

“I feel fortunate that my community trusted me to be in that role for several terms and I continue to bring our points of view and needs forward in my role as Senator”.

Like many Indigenous people, Senator Francis’ life and work are a testament to and a reflection of his connection to community. “As a Chief, I was able to bring back to my community the things that I learned outside of it while working in the government.”

Senator Brian Francis grew up on Lennox Island First Nation where he attended Indian Day School, but he left home at a young age knowing that he wanted more than the church-run schools o ered.

Senator Francis was a trailblazer and pioneer from the start: he was the first Mi’kmaw journeyman carpenter on PEI and the first to receive inter-provincial red seal trade certificate. He switched gears and started to study social work at Dalhousie University. Though he didn’t complete the program because he focused his attention on raising his family, these foundational pieces of education have helped shape the gentle leader that he has become.

“It’s all about the family and community, and I knew that life would give me what I put into it. So, I worked hard and continuously found ways to improve myself.”

Senator Francis’ first job in the public service was in the mailroom as a clerk.

“I think it was the lowest level job you could get in the federal government and that’s where I started,” he said, “but it was a stable job with a decent salary which allowed us to take care of ourselves and our family.”

“A strong family support network has been instrumental for me, and it is for everyone.” One of the ways that the Senator cares for himself and connects with his family is through physical activity. His son is a trainer, and part of how they bond is through working out together.

Listening to a humble Senator reflecting on the journey that led to his successes and accomplishments was endlessly inspiring. “I didn’t know what I was doing when I first started working in the government so I surrounded myself by role models in public service who would help me learn the ropes.”

Despite hardships and external factors that impact all of us in different ways,

In October 2018, he was appointed to the Senate, marking the first time a Mi’kmaw person from PEI held that role. In the time since then, Senator Francis supported the creation of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (fulfilling a call to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission), observed as a national holiday for the first time on September 30, 2021.

“Indigenous people carry the heavy burden of the emotional and mental labour that is required to continually educate others; non-Indigenous people can step up in self-directed learning to help alleviate this burden on Indigenous people.”

I asked Senator Francis if his younger self working in the mail room could have imagined this time, where a national commission has happened and the country is observing a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: “No, I couldn’t have imagined it then but now here we are. Now we can continue imagining and visioning forward about what else we think isn’t possible yet but can become possible if we just keep working on it together.”

Pro le: The Hon. Brian Francis by Julie Bull

Reunion concert

First performance of the season at Confederation Centre

The PEI Symphony Orchestra (PEISO) returns October 17 at 2:30 pm with Reunion, the rst concert of their 2021–22 season. While the organization had been presenting chamber music events during the pandemic, this concert marks a gradual return to orchestral performances, featuring an ensemble of 24 musicians and a featured soloist.

The show, which takes place at the Confederation Centre Mainstage Theatre in Charlottetown, will feature clarinetist and former PEISO Music Director, Dr. James Mark, who will be performing the Clarinet Concerto of Aaron Copland.

Mark is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, the Hartt College of Music, and the University of Michigan where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Music in London, England, winning the Arthur Somervell Prize for Winds, presented by the Queen Mother. He has been Principal Clarinetist with the Royal College of Music First Orchestra, the Berkshire Symphony (Massachusetts), Symphony New Brunswick, and the PEI Symphony, and Eb Clarinet with the U.S. Air Force Band, appearing as concerto soloist with all of these orchestras.

Other works on the program include, “a neo-Baroque dance suite by Respighi, the elegant classicism of Mendelssohn, a sizzling Piazzolla tango in tribute to the composer’s

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100th birthday, and a powerhouse rediscovery by Black English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,” says PEISO Music Director, Maestro Mark Shapiro, who will be returning this season to conduct the orchestra. Additionally, the concert will open with Elgar’s Elegy for Strings—a tribute to the lives lost to the pandemic.

Season subscriptions and single-show tickets are being handled by the Confederation Centre Box Office. Subscribers gain access to the lowest available pricing, invites to members-only events, and guaranteed seating, should a show sell out.

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Featured soloist Dr. James Mark, clarinet

PEI Symphony Orchestra

HARBOURFRONT

Confederation Centre Art Gallery

Bronson Jacque mural

Honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Charlie A’Court & Witchitaw..................................Friday, October 1st

Chad Matthews - Gospel Show..............................Sunday, October 3rd

Twin Flames......................................................Friday, October 8th

Best of the Fest ..................................................Saturday, October 16th

Cirque Alfonse Circus: Animal, A Farm Story..........Saturday, October 23rd

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Lunch at Allen’s ..................................................Sunday, October 24th

Classic Albums Live performs Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes............................................Wednesday, October 27th

An Evening with Kaleb Dahlgren Sharing His Resiliency as a Former Humboldt Bronco................................................Sunday, November 7th

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A new work of art on display at Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown puts a face on people whose lives have been forever altered by family members and friends who have gone missing.

“We have unveiled a very precious piece of art that is both substantially moving and memorable,” says Aboriginal Women’s Association of PEI (AWAPEI) President Matilda Ramjattan. “This is not just a project; it is ground-breaking work and sacred art that will help heal those affected by missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. I get tears in my eyes every time I think about this project and the lives that were taken.”

Inuit artist Bronson Jacque was commissioned by AWAPEI to create a painting honouring not only missing and murdered Indigenous women, but the family and loved ones left behind. “It was very important to me to show that these missing and murdered Indigenous women are still here with us, in the hearts and minds of their families and loved ones,” explains Jacque. “That’s why each person in the mural is holding an object that

belonged to their loved one, or a photo. But beyond that, I wanted the piece to reverse the colonial gaze… to take the power back, which is why each loved one is looking directly at those who gaze upon them.”

The as-yet-unnamed mural is on display in the gallery entrance stairwell until December 31.

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Mural (as-yet-unnamed) by Inuit artist Bronson Jacque

Bronson Jacque (and Loki)

Frontline and Centre

Fall season pays tribute to the Island’s frontline workers

LIVE @ The Centre makes its return to the Mainstage at Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown this October. With a diverse line-up that includes some of the region’s most talented and acclaimed artists, the fall season will pay tribute to the Island’s frontline workers, who despite the risks, are keeping our province running through the pandemic.

“We are deeply grateful to the many thousands of Islanders who remain on the front lines as we continue our battle against COVID19,” says Director of LIVE @ The Centre Darcy Campbell. “Frontline and Centre is a way to say thank you for their ongoing dedication, and we will be giving away a number of pairs of complimentary tickets to each of our LIVE @ The Centre performances this fall.”

Frontline workers can enter a draw via the Confederation Centre’s website for a chance to win a pair of tickets. Each draw will take place approximately one week prior to the specified show.

The season gets underway on October 15 with a performance from Island singer-songwriter, Scott Parsons. A veteran of the Island’s music scene, Parsons combines his musical talent with messages of social justice and inter-cultural understanding.

October and November will also see performances from JUNO Award winner Rose Cousins, Classic Albums Live with their rendition of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ album, Damn the Torpedos, Menopause the Musical, Vince the Messenger, and guitar virtuoso Don Ross.

In December, LIVE @ The Centre will kick into high gear with holiday-themed events including performances by Lennie Gallant, Matt Andersen, and The East Pointers; LIVE’s traditional choral performances with the Confederation Singers and the Confederation Centre Youth Chorus; and dance umbrella’s rendition of The Nutcracker

For information on the full LIVE @ The Centre line-up, and to purchase tickets, visit confederationcentre.com.

The winter/spring season will be announced later this year.

Ross Family Ceilidh

The Guild—Sept 29 & Oct 6

The Ross Family Ceilidh has been on stage weekly at The Guild in Charlottetown this fall. Their final shows will take place September 29 and October 6 at 7:30 pm.

The PEI brother-sister group features Stephanie Ross (vocals, guitar, percussion, dance), Danielle Ross (vocals, fiddle, dance), and Johnny Ross (piano). Together, they explore Celtic and Acadian roots music, with driving fiddle sets and stepdancing choreography, keeping the audience entertained between the Maritime song staples, originals, and haunting ballads. Expect detours when the siblings let loose and veer off the main route. theguildpei.com

Scott Parsons opens the season

Matt Anderson takes the stage in December

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New Works Festival

Kings Playhouse—Oct 14 to 17 (postponed from September)

Kings Playhouse, Young at Heart Theatre, and Desert Island Theatre company will launch the first annual Fresh From the Island New Works Festival, now running October 14–17 at Kings Playhouse in Georgetown.

Fresh from the Island will provide audiences with the chance to immerse themselves in the creative process by witnessing public presentations of two new works by Island playwrights—

Continuing Care by Melissa Mullen and What’s Eating You? by Jay Gallant— which will be undergoing an intensive development process with professional dramaturgs from across Canada.

The public is invited to take part in the creative environment with four days jam-packed with events, presentations, workshops and readings by artists from a range of writing disciplines, including Scott Parsons, Julie Bull, Dave Stewart and Julie PelissierLush. Kicking off the weekend will be a reading of Melissa Mullen’s play The Man Who Saved the Songs, which tells the story of PEI poet Larry Gorman. kingsplayhouse.com

Review by Sean McQuaid

Rice-capades

Cottagers & Indians Watermark Theatre, North Rustico September 11

A long time ago in a province far, far away, I spent nearly a year living and working on a remote northern First Nations reserve. It was an eye-opening, educational experience in many ways. One minor detail I recall from that period was being surprised, at rst, by how many of my Indigenous neighbours routinely referred to themselves and each other as Indians, despite that being a rather politically incorrect term even then.

In a recent CBC interview about his 2018 play, Cottagers and Indians, award-winning Ojibwe playwright Drew Hayden Taylor says the term “Indian” is still common parlance among his people and even retains legal weight via lingering government terminology like the Indian Act. Folks uncomfortable with the word, he says, are “usually white people;” regardless, Taylor uses the term somewhat ironically in his play’s title as a twist on the old cowboys-and-Indians phrase.

An even more potent and ubiquitous word in Taylor’s play might be manoomin, a.k.a. wild rice. Taylor based his play on a real-life dispute between Indigenous activist James Whetung and the cottagers of Pigeon Lake in Ontario. Whetung has been planting and harvesting manoomin in the area’s waters for years, promoting the crop’s culinary, nutritional and medicinal merits as well as its Indigenous cultural and spiritual significance; however, some cottagers feel the tall rice plants are spoiling their views, undermining swimming and boating safety, and lowering property values.

Taylor’s gently comedic, occasionally bitter two-hander dramatizes the controversy via a clash of two fictional proxies: jokily folksy yet scrappy Whetung stand-in Arthur Copper (played here by Gordon Patrick White), and well-heeled, oh-so-white cottager Maureen Poole (Geneviève Steele), radiating clueless entitlement.

While Taylor’s real-world sympathies openly lie more with Whetung (whose fictional surrogate Copper gets most of the best lines and has more compelling cultural grievances than Poole), the play does make both characters multi-layered and sympathetic as we learn more about them. Taylor’s quarrelers are more alike than either cares to admit, including a shared

gently comedic, occasionally bitter two-hander

myopically self-righteous streak that makes it hard for them to find common ground.

Co-directed by Jay Northcott and Watermark artistic director Robert Tsonos, Cottagers and Indians is the first show to reflect Watermark’s recently revised mandate, which now includes contemporary plays as well as vintage classics, seeking to offer a more diverse range of perspectives. This show marks a reasonably solid debut for the new programming format. It’s a smart, funny play, but it’s also largely low-key and low-stakes, with a rather subdued energy perhaps stemming from the fact that much of the show is delivered as monologues with the characters only occasionally interacting.

The creative team makes the most of the material. White’s oft-dry comedic delivery and sly storyteller cadence evoke the late, great Stuart McLean; Steele’s amusingly uptown, uptight vibe is pleasantly reminiscent of Jane Curtin; and Cory Sincennes’ half-concrete, half-impressionistic set, with a dock that recedes into the simulated distance and morphs into a chimney-like component of the cottage behind it, provides a simple but appealing backdrop. It’s not the most moving or memorable play of Watermark’s 2021 season, but Taylor’s nuanced, witty rice war offers plentiful food for thought.

Amazing Tales

The Guild—Oct 29

Amazing Tales of the Atlantic continues at The Guild in Charlottetown, October 29 at 8 pm. Each performance of the live radio play anthology series features three new chapters of three ever-evolving tales—The DDT Detectives, The B’ylight Zone, and Anne of the Green Planet.

Past tales are available anytime on the Amazing Tales of the Atlantic Podcast at anchor.fm/ amazingtalesoftheatlantic. theguildpei.com

Twin Flames

Indigenous duo performs pay-what-you-can show—Oct 8

Chart-topping Canadian

Indigenous duo, Twin Flames, featuring husband and wife Jaaji (Inuk and Mohawk) from Nunavik and Chelsey June, métis (Algonquin Cree) will be on stage at Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside on October 8 for a special pay-what-youwill performance presented by Harbourfront Theatre.

Building bridges across cultures, continents and styles, Twin Flames brings together a richness of personal history and musical experience. Their songs tell stories of courage and survival written in English, Inuttitut, and French. Honouring their ancestor’s history and representing their Indigenous backgrounds, Twin Flames has become a powerhouse couple.

Harbourfront Theatre executive director Kieran Keller shares, “Pay-What-You-Will shows are all about tearing down the barriers that may cause someone to be unable to come to a theatre. They also easily allow people to try something they’ve never tried before.”

The pay-what-you-will format will allow the public to book tickets for Twin Flames at no cost in advance of the show and then pay for their tickets at a price each individual sets for themselves after the performance. Visit harbourfronttheatre.com for tickets and more information.

Classic Albums Live

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes

Classic Albums Live returns to PEI this fall to perform Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 1979 album Damn the Torpedoes. Performances will take place at Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside on October 27 and Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlotteown on October----. Showtime is 7:30 pm at both venues.

Classic Albums Live recreates the greatest albums from the 60s and 70s live on stage, note for note—cut for cut.Each album calls for a new group of musicians. Members of Nelly Furtado, Moist, Jesse Cook, Honeymoon Suite, David Usher and the Headstones have all taken part in the performances.

“All of our focus is put into the music,” says series producer Craig

Martin. “We perform the works of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers the same way an orchestra performs the works of Mozart. We don’t bother with imitation or impersonation.”

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SUBMITTED

PERFORMANCE

Oct 1, 7:30 pm

Charlie A’Court & Witchitaw

When Country Get The Blues Tour. Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 1, 8 pm

Adam MacGregor & The Foes

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 2, 1–4 pm

Tuning Into Nature 2.0

A musical trail walk with PEISO. Historic St. Mary’s, Indian River

Oct 2, 2 pm

Got Blues Matinee

With special guests Katey Day Reick and Doris Mason. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 2, 7:30 pm

The Serenades

The Guild, Charlottetown

Oct 2, 7:30 pm

Charlie A’Court & Witchitaw

When Country Get The Blues Tour. Kings Playhouse, Georgetown

Oct 2, 8 pm

Nudie

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 3, 7 pm

Chad Matthews Gospel Show

With special guest Jenna-Marie Gallant. Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 6–9, 7:30 pm

Tuesdays & Sundays

Watermark Theatre, North Rustico

Oct 7, 8 pm

Tara MacLean

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 8, 7:30 pm

Twin Flames

Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 9, 7 pm

Thomas McCallum

St Mary’s Anglican Church, Summerside

Oct 9, 8:30 pm

Andrew Waite album release

With The Firm and Joce Reyome. PEI Brewing Company, Charlottetown

Oct 10, 7 pm

Thomas McCallum

St Peter’s Cathedral Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 10, 8 pm

Nick Done ’s 4th Annual

Tribute to John Prine

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 13, 8 pm

Adyn Townes

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 14, 7 pm

Grant Edwin

Music at the Manse, Marshfield

Oct 14–15, 8 pm

Séan McCann

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 15, 7 pm

Janet McGarry & Serge

Bernard

Glenaladale House, Mount Stewart

Oct 15

Scott Parsons

Confederation Centre, Charlottetown

Oct 15–16, 8:30 pm

12th Annual Evangeline Country Music Festival

Friday night: Peggy Clinton, Randy Murray, Cory Gallant, Chad Matthews. Saturday night: Sandra Jones, Jordan LeClair, Larry Campbell, Jonny Ray Arsenault. Acadian Musical Village, Abram-Village

Oct 16, 2 pm

Got Blues Matinee

With special guest Dan Doiron. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 16, 7:30 pm

Best of the Fest

Presented by Halifax ComedyFest. Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 16, 8 pm

The Moneygoround

With Jenina MacGillivray. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 16, 8 pm

Rum Running Festival: The Speakeasy

With Jon Rehder Quintet. Tracadie Community Centre, Mount Stewart

Oct 17, 2 pm

Rum Running Festival: Ceilidh

Hosted by Mike & Shane Pendergast. Glenaladale Estate, Tracadie Cross

Oct 17, 2 pm

Gordie MacKeeman

Children’s Matinee

Folk for Little Folk album launch. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 17, 2:30 pm

PEI Symphony Orchestra: Reunion

Confederation Centre, Charlottetown

Oct 17, 8 pm

Scott MacKay Band

With Rube & Rake. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 20, 8 pm

Matt Hannah

With Vince the Messenger. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 21–22, 8 pm

Logan Richard

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 23, 1 pm, 8 pm

Women’s Network 6th Annual Fundraiser

Hosted by Irish Mythen. Matinee: Kierrah, Alicia Toner, Kinley Dowling

Evening: Rachel Beck, Joce Reyome, Catherine MacLellan

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 23, 7:30 pm

Lunch at Allen’s Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas. Confederation Centre, Charlottetown

Oct 23, 7:30 pm

Cirque Alfonse: Animal, A Farm Story

Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 23, 7:30 pm

Luminos Ensemble

The Phantom of the Opera. Florence Simmons Performance Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 23, 8 pm

Popalopalots

The Guild, Charlottetown

Oct 24, 10 am, 1 pm

Dolly Parton Brunch & Tribute Show

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 24, 7 pm

Spook Organa!

With organists Don Fraser, Leo Marchildon, Tom Loney, Ann Francis and Jason Chen. St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown

Oct 24, 7:30 pm

Lunch at Allen’s Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas. Harbourfront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 24, 8 pm

The Burning Hell

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 27, 7:30 pm

Classic Albums Live

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers–Damn the Torpedoes. Harboufront Theatre, Summerside

Oct 27, 8 pm

Lawrence Maxwell Band

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 28, 8 pm

Absolute Losers

With Space Bud. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 29, 8 pm

The Ellis Family Band

Celtic Performing Arts Centre, Summerside

Oct 29, 8 pm

Amazing Tales of the Atlantic

The Guild, Charlottetown

Oct 29, 8 pm

The Love Junkies

Halloween Party. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 30, 2 pm

Got Blues Matinee

Halloween Show with Mark Haines. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Oct 30, 2:30 pm, 7:30 pm

Atlantic String Machine

St. Paul’s, Charlottetown

Oct 30, 4 pm, 7pm

Spookyfest

The Guild, Charlottetown

Nov 2, 8 pm

Dylan Menzie

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Nov 3, 8 pm

Comedian Ryan Doucette

With special guest Shawn Hogan. Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

Nov 4, 8 pm

Nolan Compton

Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown

EXHIBITS

Acadian Museum of PEI

View the permanent exhibition and video

The Island Acadians: The Story of a People Acadian genealogy resources available to researchers. A PEI Museum and Heritage site. 23 Main Dr. E, Miscouche. museeacadien.org

Confed Centre Art Gallery

BGL: Two Thumbs Up Arts and Crafts to December 5; Bronson Jacque’s as-yet-unnamed mural, honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, until December 31; and A Life’s Work: Canadian Artist Robert Harris (1849-1919) to January 16, 2022. 145 Richmond St, Charlottetown. confederationcentre.com

Cornwall Library Art Gallery

Surrendering to the Unknown by Christine Thibaudier-Ness to October 22; and the annual fall group art show from October 26–December 3. Contact the library for info on displaying in the gallery. 15 Mercedes Dr, Town Hall, Cornwall. 6298415, library.pe.ca

Eptek Art & Culture Centre

Cabinet of Killer Curios from October 8–31;

paintings and carvings by Doreen and Lowell Huestis; and the permanent exhibit on the history and architecture of Summerside. Admission is by donation. A PEI Museum and Heritage site. 130 Heather Moyse Dr, Summerside. 8888373, peimuseum.com

Gallery @ The Guild

Re-Woven by Renee Laprise to October 3; and Interior and Exterior Worlds by Lisa Bulman Taylor and Deb Murphy from October 8–November 3, with opening reception October 13, 7 pm. 111 Queen St, Charlottetown. theguildpei.com

Kings Playhouse Gallery

On view to November 6, Settle Down, Settlers! by Julie Bull. 65 Grafton St, Georgetown. kingsplayhouse.com

Lefurgey Cultural Centre

Rug Hooking—Now and Then by the Lady Slipper Rug Hooking Guild to October 8 and My Favourite Things by Rita Arsenault from October 14 to November 30 Free admission. 205 Prince St, Summerside. culturesummerside.com

Receiver Co ee Co.

this town is small presents Traces and Traverses by Doug Dumais to October 10 and Gathered by Sara Austin from October 13–November 21. 128 Richmond St, Charlottetown. thistownissmall.com

Watermark Theatre

Tuesdays & Sundays

The “Tuplin Play” returns to Watermark Theatre—Oct 6 to 9

Kitbag Theatre’s hit show, Tuesdays & Sundays, will return this October to tour the Maritimes. The show will take the stage at North Rustico’s Watermark Theatre from October 6–9 before touring to six other venues throughout Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Written by Canadian playwrights Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn, the play is inspired by the true story of William Millman and Mary Tuplin, and the tragedy that shook the community of Margate, PEI in 1887.

Though it has been toured extensively across Canada and internationally, Kitbag’s initial production of Tuesdays & Sundays at the Watermark Theatre in November 2020 was the play’s PEI premiere. It became known locally as the “Tuplin Play.”

Tuesdays & Sundays stars Jacob Hemphill and Melissa MacKenzie,

and is directed by Rebecca Parent. Hemphill, MacKenzie, and Parent are co-founders of Kitbag Theatre. For ticket information and the full tour schedule, visit linktr.ee/kitbagtheatre. Follow on social @kitbagtheatre for updates.

Melissa MacKenzie and Jacob Hemphill star in Tuesdays & Sundays

2021 Symons Lecture

A focus on immigration, the pandemic and the law

One of Canada’s most experienced international law experts will give her take on the state of Canadian Confederation on October 29 as the recipient of the 2021 Symons Medal.

The Honourable Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former Supreme Court Justice, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and is currently leading an external review of sexual misconduct in the Canadian military.

“Madame Arbour is one of Canada’s most respected and sought-after national and international law experts, and a most deserving recipient of the Symons Medal,” says Robert Sear, Chair of the Fathers of Confederation Buildings Trust. “We look forward to hearing her views on how our country has changed, and what may lie ahead as we navigate our rapidly changing world.”

The Symons Medal Lecture provides a national platform for a distinguished Canadian to discuss the current state and future prospects of Confederation. It provides all Canadians an opportunity to reflect upon their country and its future. The medal ceremony and lecture is held each fall on the Mainstage of Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.

The title of Madame Arbour’s lecture is DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM, or “They Desire a Better Country,” which is the motto of the Order of Canada. It will focus on the transformation of Canadian society

through immigration, the pandemic, and the law.

She follows a formidable line of Symons Medallists, including the Right HonourableBeverley McLachlin, The Honourable Murray Sinclair, and the HonourableBob Rae.

The 2021 Symons Medal Lecture takes place on the Mainstage of Confederation Centre of the Arts on October 29 at 7 pm. The event will also be live-streamed on Confederation Centre’s Facebook page.

Tickets will be available for Confederation Centre Members on October 9. To become a member and take advantage of priority ticket booking, visit confederationcentre.com/ membership . Tickets will open to the general public on October 13. To book seats visit confederationcentre.com, or call the Box Office at 1-800-565-0278.

The Honourable Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ

Luminos Ensemble returns

PEI’s professional choir

Luminos Ensemble, under the direction of Artistic Director Dr. Margot Rejskind, returns for their fifth season which includes a live score with silent film event, a concert exploring the works of women composers across history, an all-local concert of music by Atlantic Canadians, and a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem

The season begins with Phantom of The Opera, and will feature the classic 1925 silent film with a new score by Toronto composer Andrew Downing, performed live-to-film by Luminos Ensemble. Director Rupert Julian’s adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra stars Lon Chaney as the hideous Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House. Considered one of the best silent horror films ever made, it remains famous for Chaney’s ghastly, self-created make-up, which is said to have made audience members scream and faint at the premiere. Downing has created a new jazz-inspired score that breathes fresh life into the story, using text from the film itself. This one-of-akind event will take place October 23

Spook Organa!

Whether it be phantoms haunting the crypts of the Paris opera houses, vampires lurking in cobwebbed castles, or ghostly apparitions eerily floating throughout gothic mansions, such images in film are often accompanied by spooky organ music emanating from somewhere beyond those stone walls. This long standing tradition of scary Hallowe’en music will be celebrated October 24 at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Charlottetown, when the Royal Canadian College of Organists presents Spook Organa!, an evening of spooky organ music—fun for all ages.

Organists include Don Fraser, Leo Marchildon, Tom Loney, Ann Francis and Jason Chen, and will feature such macabre classics as Funeral March of a Marionette (aka The Alfred Hitchcock Theme), Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, A Night on Bald Mountain, and of course, Phantom of the Opera.

Between the musical performances there will be creepy tales to make the hair stand on end and make the audience think twice about turning out the

at Florence Simmons Performance Hall in Charlottetown.

The season will continue in 2022 at St. Paul’s in Charlottetown with Renaissance Women (February 6), Locavore’s Delight II: The 100-Mile (Choral) Diet (March 27), and Verdi’s Requiem (June 5) to close the season.

Luminos will also join the PEI Symphony Orchestra as the professional core of the choir for their performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on April 24.

Info/tickets: luminosensemble.com

bedroom light before going to sleep. The one hour program starts at 7 pm and admission is by free will offering. Attendance is limited to 50 and based on a first come, first serve basis. Children 12 and under are asked to bring a canned good for the food bank. Those who come in costume will receive a complimentary treat bag.

St. Peter’s Cathedral is located at 7 All Soul’s Lane, Charlottetown.

Atlantic String Machine

Atlantic String Machine’s first concert of their 2021–22 season, titled Celebration, will take place October 30 at St. Paul’s in Charlottetown. Concertgoers can experience Halloween String Machine style. Performances will take place at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets can be reserved online or purchased in-person at the door.

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St. Peter’s Cathedral—Oct 24

Artistic Director Dr. Margot Rejskind

Flavours ingrained

Exploring the basic beer ingredients, part two—malt

We recently took a look at water and how it plays a major part in the brewing of a well made beer. Water’s chemical composition and attributes have a great e ect on how the beer is nished. But in order to create beer, we need to utilize grain to create a sugary liquid that will go on to be fermented by yeast.

There is a lot of archaeological evidence showing that both the farming of grain and the production of a beer-type beverage played a tremendous role in seeing humans moving from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to a society where agriculture and permanent settlements took shape. Nearly 7000 years ago, people in ancient China were producing fermented beverages. The first written mention of beer coming from ancient Mesopotamia 4000 years ago. The consumption of alcohol has long been part of people’s lives.

In the modern era, brewers predominantly use barley that has been malted. These malted grains are created by Maltsters, people who carefully process the grain getting it ready for beer production. It used to be common for the malting and brewing to happen at one facility, but this practise rarely occurs these days. Other grains like corn, wheat and oats can also be used in brewing. Maltsters begin by soaking the grain, causing it to start germination, once they reach a certain stage in growth, the Maltsters quickly dry the grain that now has a plumped endosperm rich in starch that is crucial for brewing.

Maltsters in different regions have a variety of methods to take a simple grain and turn it into something truly special. After malting, roasting the malted barley at low temperatures further developed the sweet grain and provide the deep red tones that we see in amber lagers and red ales. By roasting the malt at higher temperatures we get deep chocolate and coffee-like flavours you find in stouts and porters.

Brewers go on to carefully crack this malted grain, exposing the plumped endosperm that is full of starch. This cracked grain is then steeped in water that is in the 55 to 70 degree celsius

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range, this process is called mashing. The hot water activates enzymes that have been dormant in the grain. These enzymes then break down the starch molecules into a variety of sugars, some that yeast can ferment and others that are not fermentable, but leave a pleasant sweetness in the finished beer.

The brewer then goes on to carefully separate the sugary liquid from the solid material left over in the mash, then rinses the remaining grain to extract as much sugar as possible. The rinsing of the grains is called sparging. From here the brewer collects the sweet sugary liquid in their kettle and prepares to boil it. At this stage we get ready for our next ingredient, hops.

Okto-beer-feast

PEI Brewing Company’s Oktoberfest event will put a PEI twist on tradition and feature two days of local beer, food and festivities, October 8–9, in Charlottetown.

The Okto-beer-feast celebration will include German-inspired food stations, live entertainment, and activities like washer toss, cornhole and axe-throwing at PEI Brewing Company.

Add on a ticket for the live Andrew Waite Album Release Show taking place after the Octo-beer-feast celebrations on October 9 at 8:30 pm. Waite will be joined by his full band, the Firm, and opening act, Joce Reyome. peibrewingcompany.com

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Saturday, Oct 9 - Sunday, Oct 17 9am - 6pm

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Oct 1 & 2, 8 & 9, 15 & 16

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In the Café lunch daily ‘til Oct 17

Galleries open evenings during Fall Feast

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The Dunes will cover the HST on Eve’s Jewellery and Island Art Gallery Artwork

Autumn in Georgetown Shows at The Guild

October

The Serenades will be on stage at The Guild in Charlottetown, October 2 at 7:30 pm.

Enjoy the glamour, glitz and big sound of Caron Prins and Lori Linkletter as they serenade the audience with their versions of modern music in a steamy twist.

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Performing their make-it-up-on-thespot sketch comedy, Popalopalots will be on stage at The Guild in Charlottetown on October 23 at 8 pm.

Popalopalots will have the audience laughing when they succeed, and laughing even harder when they fail. In this world of uncertainty, where the biggest desire is a return to normalcy, Popalopalots Improv Comedy heads in the opposite direction with a night of the unknown and abnormal.

Spookyfest

October 30

The Guild Musical Theatre School will present Spookyfest on October 30 with performances at 4 pm and 7 pm.

A celebration of all that is Halloween, the one hour show will “trick or treat” the audience with performances of “Thriller,” “The Monster Mash,” a ghostly rap, and more Halloween favourites. This will be a dark and stormy night of fun for the whole family.

Tickets are available at the box office 111 Queen Street, Charlottetown, 620-

A variety of activities at Kings Playhouse in October

October at Kings Playhouse in Georgetown will bring vibrant art, country and blues music, puppetry, haunted walks and more.

Charlie A’Court and Witchitaw: When Country Gets the Blues will be on stage at the Playhouse on October 2 at 7:30 pm. When Country Gets The Blues celebrates two beloved and distinct styles of musical expression.

Julie Bull’s solo art exhibit Settle Down, Settlers! will continue throughout the month, encouraging visitors to actively engage with and make meaningful steps forward in truth and reconciliation. The exhibit will be on view to November 6.

Educational programs beginning in October include: KP Sprouts (ages 2-5); KP Kids (ages 6-13); Let’s Get Creative Art Club with arts educator Ryan MacAdam-Young (ages 7-13); Cooking Together culinary classes with Creative Kitchen’s Chef Jen McKenna (ages 7-13); and a broad variety of workshops for seniors including Close to Home: Islander Stories, a series of storytelling workshops with Young at Heart Theatre.

For the Hallowe’en season, a family friendly, choose your own adventure digital storytelling event will be offered on both October 29 and

All Together Now!

The Guild’s Music Theatre School in Charlottetown will join thousands of theatrical organizations around the globe by producing their own local production of All Together Now!: A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) created the musical revue for theatres across the globe to use as a local fundraising event

Maskmakers will have the opportunity to increase their puppet building skills

30; Haunted Georgetown, a haunted walk through the historic town, will take place October 30 at 7 pm; and on October 31, the Haunted Parade will showcase the puppets created throughout the month.

Throughout the month, a weekly drop in session between 3–5 pm on Wednesday afternoons will introduce the art of puppet building; creating large scale, harvest and Hallowe’en inspired puppets.

For more information about shows, programs or events, visit kingsplayhouse.com or call 1-888-346-5666.

performed over the same weekend in November. The Guild’s performances will take place November 12–14.

All Together Now! features a selection of songs from MTI’s catalogue of musicals, including Rent, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Matilda, Hairspray, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof, Once on This Island, Little Shop of Horrors, and Mamma Mia! Tickets are available at the box office 111 Queen Street, Charlottetown, 620-3333 or at theguildpei.com.

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Harbourfront Theatre

Best of the Fest

Halifax ComedyFest brings tour to Summerside—Oct 16

Music Theatre School

The Guild Music Theatre School in Charlottetown offers weekly performance, dance and singing classes for children and youth to Dec 6. Performance classes are available in junior, intermediate and advanced. Tiny Tappers explores movement through dance (with a focus on the basics of tap dance), coordination and performance skills, as well as proper technique. In Tiny Tunes, an introductory group singing class (ages 5–7), students discover their voices in a collaborative manner, singin a variety of music styles and performing together in annual recitals. Info/register: theguildpei.com

Performing arts classes

Kings Playhouse in Georgetown offers weekly performing arts classes for children and youth. KP Sprouts classes begin October 2. The six-week, play-based session (ages 2–5) on Saturday mornings will cover music, dancing, and theatrically inspired play. KP Kids classes for youth (ages 6–13) on Thursdays begins October 7. kingsplayhouse.com

The ComedyFest has been bringing laughter to the stages of Halifax for over 25 years, and now they’re bringing some of Canada’s best comedic talent to Summerside’s Harbourfront Theatre in Best of the Fest on October 16 at 7:30 pm.

With performances from comedians

Pete Zedlacher, Leonard Chan, Travis Lindsay and Patrick Ledwell, organizers promise this show will provide much-needed laughter.

“What we all need right now is a good laugh,” says Harbourfront executive director, Kieran Keller. harbourfronttheatre.com

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Animal, A Farm Story at Harbourfront—Oct 23

Animal, A Farm Story—a contemporary circus performance by Cirque Alfonse— is coming to Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside on October 23 at 7:30 pm.

With Animal, A Farm Story, Cirque Alfonse takes the audience on a journey of discovery through a series of slightly surreal farm fables served up with a touch of irreverence, impressive virtuosity and the company’s familiar comic touch. In this re-invented agricultural world, the farm is turned upside down and the barn turned inside out.

“We’re excited to welcome Cirque Alfonse to Harbourfront this fall,” says Kieran Keller, Harbourfront’s executive director, “Contemporary circus is becoming a favourite among our audiences.”

Cirque Alfonse has favoured its multidisciplinary approach where circus, song, dance and theatre all come together, driven by original live music. harbourfronttheatre.com

Sandstone Theatre notice Sandstone Theatre Company’s production of Dating by the Book, orginially scheduled for October, has been postponed until November.

Pete Zedlacher is one of the comedians performers at Best of the Fest

Best Sellers

September 29–30

14A, mature themes, coarse language. Dir: Lina Roessler, Canada/ USA, 2021, 100 min. Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Michael Caine.

“The Card Counter is a spellbinder with a deep core of personal insight. Following 2018’s classic First Reformed, the film finds Schrader, 75, at the top of his artistic game as he explores the dizzying space between sin and redemption... Oscar Isaac gives an implosive, indelible performance as a gambler who calls himself William Tell, after the 14th-century crossbow ace who shot apples off heads and tyrants off thrones... He learned card counting during a long prison stint after being court-martialed for his role as a U.S. military interrogator... Cards are a method for William to order his life, often pathologically as he checks into hotel rooms whose furniture he wraps in sheets that he carries in his luggage with an obsessive-compulsive attention to detail. As a gambling agent who calls herself La Linda, Tiffany Haddish brings a sexy, romantic chaos into William’s structured half-life... Mistaking his OCD for a gambler’s cool, La Linda tries to recruit William for a poker tournament. But a big win holds no interest. What does is Cirk, a kid that Tell mentors. For a while, Schrader gives his movie the propulsive energy of Paul Newman teaching Tom Cruise the ropes of pool in The Color of Money... At a hotel conference for correctional officers, Cirk recognizes Maj. John Gordo (a scary, sensational Willem Dafoe) from the unit in which his father and William served. Cirk blames Gordo for his dad’s suicide and wants William to join him in taking revenge. In a lesser movie, reprisal would be the easy end-all. But Schrader doesn’t make lesser movies... He is a worldclass filmmaker whose work is as playful as it is profound. It’s all there in The Card Counter, a hypnotic and haunting provocation about a man of conscience struggling with his guilt about surviving in a godless, modern world. Hope floats at the edges of Schrader’s dangerous, possibly redemptive game of chance. Place your bets.” - Peter Travers, ABC News

Falling for Figaro

October 14–21

Rating TBA. Dir: Ben Lewin, Australia, USA, UK, 2021, 104 min. Danielle Macdonald, Hugh Skinner, Joanna Lumley.

Millie is a brilliant young fund manager who leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming ‘Singer of Renown’ contest. What begins as a brutal competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more…

Charlottetown Film Festival

October 22–24

Lucy Stanbridge has inherited her father’s boutique publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing Young Adult titles and bad reviews. When she discovers the company is owed a book by Harris Shaw (Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map, she looks to him for one last stab at salvation, both commercial and critical. Her timing couldn’t be more perfect. Harris owes money and he happens to have a new book - which he hates. Lucy’s ecstatic until she finds out Harris’s old contract stipulates that no one edit his work. However, in exchange, he must tour the book. And so is born the book tour from hell - where fame doesn’t equal fortune, and the legacy you’re trying to uphold might be born out of lies the past can’t contain.

The Card Counter

October 1–6

14A, nudity, coarse language.

Dir: Paul Schrader, USA, 2021, 112 min. Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe.

I’m Your Man

October 7–13

14A, sexual content, coarse language. Dir: Maria Schrader, Germany, 2021, 104 min. Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller. In German with English subtitles.

delivers big performances and intriguing plot twists... with Ryû Hamaguchi as co-writer, Kurosawa has created this excellent wartime mystery thriller... Yû Aoi is outstanding as Satoko, a movie actor in 1940 Kobe in Japan, married to Yûsaku, a prosperous international trader whose liberal politics and contact with foreigners makes him frowned upon in increasingly nationalist Japan. Yûsaku is visited by his old school friend Taiji, who is now in police uniform, and caught up in the new fascist enthusiasm. A gulf between the two is opening up, despite Taiji having not got over his erstwhile crush on Satoko. Something sinister is in the air, and when Yûsaku comes back from a business trip to Japanese-controlled Manchuria, he is stunned by evidence of war crimes carried out there by Japan’s Kwantung army. Disgusted by his country, he plans to pass on details to the international community and chiefly the Americans: Satoko realises that this makes her the wife of a spy and the question of her own personal and political loyalties, and her husband’s, are a tense enigma to the very end.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Classics at City Cinema

Presented by Laurent Gariépy

“Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens gives a sparkling performance in this bittersweet romantic drama. The British actor shows off his linguistic and comedic talents playing Tom, a humanoid robot finely calibrated to be the dream man of scientist Alma. Though cynical of his merits, she reluctantly agrees to test Tom out for three weeks, and determines not to fall under his mechanical spell - even as he tidies her flat, draws her baths and makes her breakfast. Director and co-writer Maria Schrader follows up her Emmy award-winning stint on Netflix series Unorthodox with an offbeat love story that’s both witty and charming, yet anchored in the reality that loneliness and longing are a vital part of the human experience.” - Ann Lee, Radio Times. “Frequently hilarious and genuinely moving.” - The Skinny

Welcome to ChFF21! The Charlottetown Film Society presents the 7th Annual Charlottetown Film Festival from Oct 22–24 at City Cinema. The festival is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating films from and about Atlantic Canada. We warmly welcome filmmakers and film fans to screenings, receptions and industry events when we gather, as best we can, in October. charlottetownfilmfest.com for full schedule and ticket info.

Wife of a Spy

October 25–30

Rating TBA. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2021, 115 min. Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide

In Japanese with English Subtitles Venice Film Festival 2020 Winner, Best Director.

Independent of City Cinema’s regular programming, CACC will resume an initiative that was put on pause two years ago: Showing, in addition to the cinema regular schedule, a wide variety of classics! Starting this October, just in time for Halloween, we will screen horror classics like David Lynch’s Eraserhead, Cronenberg’s The Fly, Tony Scott’s stylized horror film The Hunger starring David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon, Romero’s Night of the Living Dead as well as a matinee of the ‘91 version of The Addams Family. There will also be Herzog’s Nosferatu with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, and John Carpenter’s Halloween on October 31. We will also include modern classics like the original Japanese version of The Ring and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook that William Friendkin, the director of The Exorcist, named as something as important as Psycho and Alien.

”One of Kurosawa’s most purely enjoyable, internationally accessible entertainments.” - Variety. ”Kurosawa’s old-fashioned drama

We also want to mark the passing of one of the most beloved figures of European cinema. Jean-Paul Belmondo left us on September 6 and to pay tribute to him we will present Pierrot Le Fou, the last of the three films he shot with Jean-Luc Godard and Victorio De Sica’s Two Women, in which he played a second role with Sophia Loren who became with that role the first Oscar winner for a non-English language performance.

Welcome to City Cinema from The Charlottetown Film Society

City Cinema is owned and operated by our non-profit Society. We will continue to present a diverse mix of films and welcome your suggestions and support. Become a member, bring friends, share feedback!

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Advance Tickets

Our new website citycinema.ca is live. We now accept all major credit cards online and both debit and credit at the cinema. Seating is limited—advance tickets are strongly recommend.

Limited Seating

We’re selling a reduced amount of our 70 seats per show, with checkerboard seat arrangement for distancing.

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To help with social distancing we created a one-way traffic system, just follow the arrows!

Masks

Please wear a mask when not eating your delicious popcorn. We have paper masks available free.

Subject to change

Film availability, showtimes and provincial COVID-19 guidelines are subject to change. Please check our website and book tickets in advance of show dates.

Rent City Cinema

City Cinema is available for rent for private film viewings! We provide the projectionist and will have the the canteen and bar open for your group. Info/rates: chtownfilm@gmail.com.

Admission

Regular $11.00

Member $8.00

65 and over $8.00

14 and under $8.00

We now accept credit cards online and both debit and credit at the cinema

Annual Memberships–$25.00 citycinema.ca

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The 7th Annual Charlottetown Film Festival (ChFF21)—the little film festival of big dreams—will once again take place at City Cinema, PEI’s only independent cinema, October 22–24.

New Festival director Mary-Helen McLeese and ChFF21 will shine a spotlight on the growth of the Island’s film sector—thanksto the FilmPEI Production Fund which has created more opportunities for Island stories to be filmed locally, allowing PEI’s creative voices and unique landscapes to be shared with the world. Like last year, ChFF21 will have both in-person and virtual events.

ChFF21’s opening night on October 22 will be a celebration of works by Island filmmakers, highlighting music videos and shorts including Justin O’Hanley’s The Wraith of Rustico Vale and Kelly Caseley’s Sorry, Mommy both Film4Ward Incubator Program recipients. Feature film, A Small Fortune by Adam Perry, will anchor the evening. Perry’s film is making its Island debut after premiering at FIN Atlantic in September.

Ticket holders will be treated to an day of documentary screenings on October 23. Short docs include Alan Lau’s Here We Stay, which follows immigrants who chose Atlantic Canada as their home, and Jeff Eager’s PEI Climate Stories, which follows a shepherd in South Melville, PEI. October 24 brings dramas and comedies.

Other films from the Atlantic region cover topics such as the pandemic challenges, transgender impacts on family, using creativity to address serious health issues, and how surfing has come to North Preston, Nova Scotia.

Seventeen out of the 40 filmmakers who will be featured at ChFF21 are from PEI, and they range from young up-and-comers William Wright (Rat Race) and Logan Fulford (Yeti), to established filmmakers Millefiore Clarkes (The Last Renaissance Man), Susan Rodgers (Then Sings My Soul)

and John Hopkins (Pituamkek: A Mi’kmaq Heritage Landscape).

“We are excited to showcase an Island-rich film festival where half of the festival is made of filmmakers from PEI and 45 percent are made up of female directors,” says McLeese. “Since we began this festival in 2015 we’ve been steadily increasing the amount of local films submitted. We are hoping to see more off-Island attendees and with a ScreenWriters Bootcamp ‘industry day’ being held at the Haviland Club the day before the festival [October 21], we hope this creates another reason to attend the festival.”

Tickets go on sale October 1 at charlottetownfilmfest.com with virtual weekend passes and in person options.

Lunchtime lm series at Eptek

The Friends of Eptek Centre’s Lunchtime Film series will resume October 14 and continue to the end of April. The films, mostly travelogues, will be screened on Thursdays at noon.

The October screenings are Scenic Railway Journeys of the World: From the Pyramids to Down Under (55 min) distributed by Readers Digest on October 14, Never Too Old: Aging is a Normal Part of Life (45 min) distributed by CBC Television on October 21, and Discovering the USA (79 min) distributed by Reader’s Digest on October 28.

There is no charge for the film presentation. The Friends will screen some new films as well as some from their late Friend, Blanche Hogg.

Eptek Art & Culture Centre is a PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation site and is located at 130 Heather Moyse Drive on the Summerside waterfront.

A still from Adam Perry’s feature lm A Small Fortune

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Arts grants open

PEI professional artists are invited to apply for funding during the fall 2021 round of arts grants to support their growth and creativity. Applications for funding can be submitted online at princeedwardisland.ca/artsgrants for three types of grants: creation, dissemination, and professional development. The deadline to apply is October 13 at 4 pm. Successful applicants are selected by a six-member jury of their arts community peers, which is modeled on the practice followed by the Canada Council of the Arts. There is $50,000 available in this round of funding, with another round of $50,000 in the spring. Since the fall of 2016, the Province has supported 154 projects by Island artists with grants totaling $575,000.

PEICC workshops

Upcoming PEI Crafts Council (PEICC) workshops include Breadbasket weaving with Nora Richard on October 16 and Pottery with Joan Bruneau from November 5–7. Visit peicraftscouncil.com for details.

Eptek gallery games

Looking for something fun and educational to do with the kids? Eptek Art & Culture Centre offers exhibit related

scavenger hunts. Drop-ins are welcome but visitors are encouraged to call ahead. Admission is by donation. Open Tuesday–Friday from 10 am–4 pm and Sunday 12–5 pm. Closed October 3 and 10. Follow on FB for upcoming activities.

130 Heather Moyse Dr, Summerside. 8888373, peimuseum.com

Festive Wreath contest

The annual Festive Wreath Contest and Exhibition will be held this holiday season at Confederation Centre in Charlotttetown. All are welcome to participate—adults, youth, businesses and groups. Create a wreath and drop it off at the Richmond Street entrance between 1–3 pm on November 20 and 21. Categories include traditional, green living/recycled, “Off the Wall,” children solo, children group and business/ groups. There is a small entry fee, along with prizes to be won. Wreaths will be on display throughout the festive season. This is a project of The Friends of Confederation Centre of the Arts. 6286141, friends@confederationcentre.com

Artist and artisan jury

The next artist and artisan jury at Artisans Waterfront in Montague will take place on October 7. Drop-off is at 10 am with pick-up at 5 pm. Join their artist-run gallery. After a successful opening season, they will reopen on June 1, 2022. For more info call 838-4387 or email artisanswaterfront@gmail.com. 1 Station Street, Montague.

Ink drawing by artist Sara Austin

My Favourite Things

Sixty Days of Fame series at Lefurgey Cultural Centre

Culture Summerside’s Sixty Days of Fame Series at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre in Summerside will feature the first solo exhibit by St Timothy artist Rita Arsenault, titled My Favourite Things.

A founding member of La Palette Cooperative, Arsenault first started painting using oils about 25 years ago with artist Emily Durant. After retiring from her 35-year career as a teacher-librarian at Evangeline School, Arsenault returned to painting and explored new techniques and styles using acrylics with her teacher Lise Genova. Over the years, she has also participated in workshops with artists Annie Morin, Sandi Komst, Henry Purdy and Arno Freitag.

Arsenault’s favourite pastimes, including gardening and nature walks, often serve as inspiration for her paintings. She loves to capture the beauty of nature in her work, be it through flowers, birds or landscapes. Another fun subject is capturing special moments of her three young grandsons.

Featuring 15 paintings, My Favourite Things will be on view October 14–

November 30, Monday–Friday from 9

Julie Bull exhibit

Settle Down, Settlers! on view at Kings Playhouse

am to 4:30 pm, in the Lefurgey Room. Many of the works are for sale. Contunuing until October 8 is the Lady Slipper Rug Hooking Guild’s exhibit Rug Hooking—Now and Then, a collection of recently completed work by Guild members. Organized by Linda Marchbank, the exhibit also features a continuous slide show displaying images of rugs from the past that have been collected through the PEI Heritage Rug Registry. Lefurgey Cultural Centre, 205 Prince Street, Summerside.

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Ever wondered what dangers lurked behind Victorian splendour? Or heard the tale of a missing coffin carrying a famous actor? Want to know the gruesome history of the barber pole? Explore the Cabinet of Killer Curios exhibition at Eptek Art & Culture Centre to find answers, and maybe more questions. Catch this exhibit before it vanishes; on display from October 8 until All Hallows’ Eve, October 31.

Also on view are paintings and carvings by Doreen and Lowell Huestis, as well as the permanent exhibition on the history and architecture of Summerside. The on-site gift shop carries a variety of Island art and craft, as well as books on local themes.

Eptek is a site of the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and is located at 130 Heather Moyse Drive in Summerside. Open year-round, the hours of operation in October are Tuesday–Friday from 10 am–4 pm, and Sunday from 12–4 pm. Closed October 3 and 10. Admission is by donation.

Info: 888-8373, peimuseum.com, facebook.com/eptekcentre

Health PEI’s Virtual Care Clinic, an online platform offered through Maple, has been extended for another 12 months to support Islanders without a primary care provider. To access the program, patients must be on the waitlist for a primary care provider.

Info: princeedwardisland.ca/UVC.

Julie Bull’s exhibit Settle Down, Settlers! continues at Kings Playhouse in Georgetown until November 6.

Bull’s show is, above all else, a call to action. It explores themes of (de) colonization, queerness and identity, Indigeneity, and sovereignty. Settle Down, Settlers! aims to encourage the viewer to actively engage with and

Painting by artist Rita Arsenault

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Eptek Centre Book Club

Members of the Eptek Centre Book Club will meet on October 7 at 7 pm to discuss the book Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan. Eptek Art & Culture Centre is PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation site. 130 Heather Moyse Dr, Summerside. 888-8373, peimuseum.com, @EptekCentre

Richard Lemm book launch

The UPEI Winter’s Tales Author Series will resume on October 7 at 7:30 pm with the launch of Richard Lemm’s memoir, Imagined Truths: Myths from a DraftDodging Poet, at The Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent St, Charlottetown. The event will feature CBC Main Street host Matt Rainnie in conversation with Lemm, as well as short readings. Register in advance at eventbrite.ca.

Ann Thurlow book launch

My PEI Cabbage Cookbook by Ann Thurlow with illustrations by Rebecca Ford will launch on October 16 from 11 am–2 pm at MacKenzie Farm’s roadside stand (10971 TCH) in Stratford. The cookbook is a fundraiser for the Little Free Pantry, which provides snacks and personal care items to people who need them. Warm socks (not tube socks) will be collected at the launch. Along with the cookbook, cabbage chocolate cake will be sold while it lasts, as well as cabbage earrings and, of course, lots of fresh cabbage so that everyone can make the recipes.

Katherine Dewar book launch

Author Katherine Dewar is launching a new book, We’ll Meet Again: Prince Edward Island Women of the Second World War, in Charlottetown on October 23 at Trinity United (222 Richmond St) and in Summerside on November 7 at Eptek Centre (130 Heather Moyse Dr). Both events begin at 2 pm. Space is limited at Eptek, call 888-8373 to reserve a seat.

Reading and workshops

As part of UPEI Winter’s Tales readings and workshops, Anne Simpson, novelist

and poet, will read from her new novel and poetry collection on October 28 at 7:30 pm at Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown. She will also lead two workshops at UPEI on October 30. Visit Winter’s Tales on Facebook to register and for up to date information.

Olivia Robinson book launch

The PEI launch for Olivia Robinson’s debut novel, The Blue Moth Motel, will take place on November 18 at 7:30 pm in The Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent St, Charlottetown. Presented by UPEI Winter’s Tales Author Series, the launch is co-sponsored by Bookmark and the UPEI English Dept and Dean of Arts. Admission is free.

Govern Like a Girl

Ontario author Kate Graham’s new book Govern Like a Girl features former PEI Premier (and later Senator), Catherine Callbeck. The book delves into the lives of the twelve women who served as Premier of a Canadian province or territory, and the only one who served as Prime Minister. Graham details the challenges of navigating the political landscape as a woman, as well as the inspirational successes these powerful women had across their careers.

National literacy honour

Construction Association of PEI, a Charlottetown-based organization, recently earned a $5000 honourable mention Canada Life Literacy Innovation Award for their Youth in Trades program. They will be formally recognized at a virtual Awards ceremony in October. The Award honours innovation in the creation and delivery (or in the development, implementation and delivery) of adult literacy or adult-integrated family literacy programs delivered by a community organization. The adult-focused literacy program makes a positive contribution to the lives of the participants as well as the community and could serve as a model for other organizations to adapt. There is one top award of $20,000 and up to four honourable mention awards of $5000 each.

Ian Carr earns literacy award

Ian Carr was the PEI recipient of the 17th annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award, announced by Canada’s Premiers on International Literacy Day, September 8.

Created in 2004, the Award is presented to learners, educators, volunteers, community organizations, and businesses in each province and territory. The award celebrates exceptional achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy. It also celebrates adult learners who undertake literacy training, as well as the valuable contributions made by Canadians in the field of literacy—including family, Indigenous, health, workplace, and community literacy.

As an educator and lifelong learner, Carr has devoted his career to education. Retiring early from the classroom, he has worked with Workplace Learning PEI (WLPEI) for over 20 years. Since 2016, he has been an instructor at WLPEI’s Workplace Essential Skills Program. The success of this program is in no small part due to Carr. When asked what he does, Ian responds that he “teach[es] people confidence.”

Carr’s skills as an educator; wisdom, professionalism, and sense of humour, make him an effective learning coach and role model within the classroom. His ability to accurately respond to individual learning needs has helped many learners reach their goals. From Carr’s perspective, the world is a classroom rich with opportunities to make learning come alive.

The Council of the Federation comprises all 13 provincial and territorial Premiers. Each Award recipient receives a certificate, signed by the Premier of their province or territory, as well as a Council of the Federation Literacy Award medallion.

Ian Carr receives honour for PEI

A gift of Island Poetry

GREAT-GRANDMOTHER’S GARDEN

Pansies have the faces of lost children. Iris unfurls its violet ag for my son churned into the mud of France. Foxglove, it heals your heart. Lilies in their Easter vestments. Never clip the dead buds of roses like the neighbours do, you will hear their roots cry all night in the soil. Columbines have women’s mouths, women who spend their last years alone. Tulips? The souls of those knowing love in such agrant splendour they died wanting more. Falling from heaven the asters. Blue spikes of lupine nail the earth in place. Moon hides in chrysanthemums. Morning glory winds around me each day I awake. And when I die blow softly, release the dandelion seeds.

Richard Lemm. Prelude to the Bacchanal. Ragweed Press, 1990.

Each month Deirdre Kessler selects a poem by an Island poet for The Buzz

SALES

Apple pie sale

The Stratford and Area Lions Club’s deep dish apple pie and bagged apple sale continues every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am–5:30 pm until October 30. The Lions Club members make nine inch deep dish apple pies. They are available to purchase fresh baked, unbaked frozen, and frozen baked. Five and ten pound bags of apples are also for sale. Located by the Stratford roundabout. Info: stratford.area.lions@ hotmail.com

Multi-family yard sale

A multi-family yard sale will be held from 9 am–3 pm on October 9 at 22 Glencove Drive in Stratford. “Marjo’s Original Christmas Brew” will also be available for sale and samples. The sale will take place rain or shine.

Irish library at the BIS

George O’Connor’s dream is now a reality

Annual Kirk Ceilidh

The Kirk Ceilidh, a fall fair hosted by St. James in Charlottetown, will take place October 30 from 10 am to 1 pm. The annual fair will offer jams, jellies, preserves, baked goods and more, as well as handmade crafts, books, jewelry and other treasures. St. James is located at 35 Fitzroy Street in Charlottetown.

PEICC Craft Fair vendors

Sign up to be a vendor at the PEI Craft Council Craft Fair, taking place November 26–28. Visit peicraftscouncil. com for details.

NOVEMBER

BUZZ DEADLINE

Friday, October 15

It required more than a decade but many volunteers have finally brought the dream of an Irish library to fruition.

More than a decade ago, the late George O’Connor had the dream to create a library focused on Ireland and the Irish diaspora. He and some folks developed the concept—the library would include books by Irish authors, books about “the auld sod,” and books by descendants of Irish emigrants and the places where they settled.

The group got permission to dedicate a room as the library at the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) and found the funds to build the shelves on three walls. Slowly, O’Connor and his volunteers filled a few shelves with donations from BIS members. There were novels, history books, back issues of magazine subscriptions, genealogical material, and a lot of coffee table books. There were also a lot of empty shelves and the room remained closed most of the time.

Two unrelated events reinvigorated the project. Dr. Brendan O’Grady, supporter and long-time volunteer at BIS, had also passed away and his family donated the bulk of his personal library to the BIS—a collection numbering in the hundreds. At around the same time, the new BIS president, Mary Ellen Callaghan, put out a call to the former library committee and other BIS members to move the library project forward.

With technical support from volunteer Peter Grant and coordination assistance from Paula Kenny, a core group came together to catalogue the growing collection of books that had been further boosted by significant donations from members Patrick Fitzgerald, Michael Hennessey and BIS patron George Mullally. By the summer of 2020, almost 1700 books had been entered into the digital catalogue.

This little library was crying out to be shared with the public and so, the BIS members’ browsing library became a circulating library for the general public. The behind-the-scenes volunteers needed to be augmented by several hospitable volunteers who could greet visitors and assist them with their library loans. The team grew to eight and the library opened to the public two days each week for a total of four hours. This grew to being open daily this past summer thanks to a student employee funded by SkillsPEI. It was unthinkable to return to opening only two days a week after the summer, so the volunteer corps grew again to support what had been achieved by all these volunteers.

At least 99 percent of the Irish library books are in English and arranged like any library, with a fiction and a non-fiction sections, which includes a category for Irish language and books in Gaelige, history (both of Ireland and the Irish diaspora), biographies, drama, poetry and travel, as well as some Irish humour and music.

All are welcome to borrow or just browse the library. Borrowers do not need to be BIS members but membership is now open to anyone with an interest in Irish culture. Non-members should have identification to show to begin using the library. There is no fee to borrow books. Access to the digital library is available.

The library is fully accessible and open on weekdays from 10 am–1 pm, except on Thursdays, when it is open from 3–6 pm. Located in the Edward Whelan Irish Cultural Centre, 582 North River Road, Charlottetown.

Additional volunteers are always needed. If interested, contact Paula at 629-0340.

— Submitted by Paula Kenny

PAULA KENNY

Volunteers Judy Donovan Whitty (left) and Denise Carriere are shown with some books in the circulating library at the Benevolent Irish Society in Charlottetown.

BOOKS PEI

We’ll Meet Again: Prince Edward Island Women of the Second World War

Katherine Dewar

Canadian Nurses Association for her contributions in recording PEI women’s history.

The book is published by Island Studies Press and designed by Ruby Square Graphic Design. A launch will be held in Charlottetown on October 23 at Trinity United and in Summerside on November 7 at Eptek Centre Arts & Culture Centre. Both events will begin at 2 pm. Space is limited at Eptek; call 888-8373 to reserve a seat. For info about the book, contact Bren (566-0386, ispstaff@upei.ca).

My PEI Cabbage Cookbook

Ann Thurlow

Illustrator Rebecca Ford

includes short profiles of three farms that grow cabbage, essays by others about great cabbage experiences, illustrations by Rebecca Ford and, of course, lots of recipes.

“It particularly pleases me to see recipes from so many countries and to know they were contributed by people who live right here on PEI,” shares Thurlow. “I think people are going to be really surprised by what they see.”

The cookbook is a fundraiser for the Little Free Pantry in Charlottetown which provides snacks and personal care items to people who need them. Warm socks (not tube socks) will be collected at the launch on October 16 from 11 am–2 pm at the McKenzie’s roadside stand (10971 TCH) in Stratford. Cabbage chocolate cake will be sold while it lasts as well as cabbage earrings. And of course, lots of fresh cabbage will be for sale so everyone can make the recipes.

The Spirited Mrs. Pringle

Jillianne Hamilton

The Magic Toothbrush Marlene Bryenton

Illustrator Leanne Bowlan

We’ll Meet Again: Prince Edward Island Women of the Second World War by author Katherine Dewar shares the incredible stories of women from PEI who served in the Second World War— from fire-watching during bombing raids in blacked-out London to surviving the sinking of a transport ship in the Mediterranean.

Drawn from interviews, diaries, letters, community histories and archival research, Dewar demonstrates how the experiences these women had in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps, the South African Military Nursing Service, and Red Cross tested their stamina, their courage, and their compassion.

An appendix lists over 700 women from PEI who served in the Second World War, many of whom had never left the Island before attending basic training. They welcomed their new roles and responsibilities as cooks, drivers, nurses, writers, parachute packers, and entertainers. Many made lifelong friendships. A few of them even found love. After their return, many women continued to serve as public health nurses, dieticians, homemakers, and volunteers, making a lasting contribution to their communities.

Dewar is the author of two other books, Those Splendid Girls and Called to Serve, which chronicle the lives of the military women of PEI. She has been honoured by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, the City of Summerside, the PEI Community Museums Association, and the

Ann Thurlow will launch My PEI Cabbage Cookbook in October. Compiled and written by Thurlow, the book is an ode to the author’s love for the underrated vegetable.

“I started out to do a straight-ahead cookbook,” Thurlow said. “But a friend convinced me to make it a little more personal, so that’s what I’ve done.”

The idea for the cookbook came in the spring of 2020. Cabbage farmers Greg and Tania MacKenzie were worried about selling their large cabbage crop because so many restaurants were closed and no one was making cole slaw. Thurlow is an avid cabbage cook and knew there was a lot more to cabbage than slaw and cabbage rolls. She started a Facebook page to share her favourite recipes and then others started sharing too.

As well as Thurlow’s story of her love affair with cabbage, the book

Island author Jillianne Hamilton recently released her fourth novel, The Spirited Mrs. Pringle. Set in 1888 London, self-involved social climber Cora Pringle is left destitute after the sudden death of her husband. When her paramour turns out to be penniless imposter, Cora becomes a séance-performing spiritualist and gets a taste for the life of a celebrity.

Suffragist reporter Amelia Baxter is denied the opportunity to cover the horrific Jack the Ripper murders and, instead, pours her frustrations into bringing Cora’s deceptive and manipulative act to an end.

Signed paperback copies of The Spirited Mrs. Pringle are available for purchase at Bookmark in Charlottetown and ebook versions are available online.

Learn more at jilly.ca.

The Magic Toothbrush, a new storybook by author Marlene Bryenton and illustrator Leanne Bowlan is now available for purchase. The book was edited by Judy Parsons with formatting and photography by Chris Wilkinson.

This is Bryenton’s third storybook, following Anna’s Pink and Purple Glasses and Jaya’s Magic Wheelchair All three are about her grandchildren, Anna and James, and feature medical topics, like optometry, physiotherapy and dentistry.

The Magic Toothbrush is about empathy, awareness and dentistry. The story aims to allay the fear of a child going for a dental visit and stresses the importance of seeing a dentist at an early age. It also encourages brushing and flossing and eating healthy food. The educational story weaves dentistry and magic together and encourages children to use their imaginations. The stars of the story are Bryenton’s grandchildren, with illustrations of Bowlan’s father Eric Bowlan (Mr. Magic), as well as Dr. Brad Campbell and Dr. Magdalena Herrera, who provided consultations during the research.

Copies are available for purchase at local bookstores and several Murphy’s Pharmacy locations, as well as Proude’s Shoes, QEH gift shop, Sherwood Pharmacy, Jewell’s Country Market and more. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Camp Gencheff for each copy sold.

Follow Marlene Bryenton Children’s Author on Facebook.

Living Full Circle: Living with Balance and Intention Inspired by Medicine Wheel Teachings

Jenene Wooldridge

Mi’kmaq leader and L’nuey Executive Director Jenene Wooldridge will release Living Full Circle: Living with Balance and Intention Inspired by Medicine Wheel Teachings, a 52-week undated planner based on the teachings of the medicine wheel, on October

15. The planner is published by Acorn Press and will be available where books are sold.

Wooldridge created the planner to share her insights and personal experience on how she incorporates teachings of the medicine wheel to live her life and achieve success. The planner teaches the importance of balance and living with purpose by using tools like contemplation, preparation and goals.

Living Full Circle will help the user learn how to get from where they are to where they want to go. The planner includes 12 themed months and 52 weeks of guided reflection. The user can track their progress and learn useful tips and inspiration as they grow.

Wooldridge is the daughter of former Mi’kmaq Chief James (Jim) and Carolyn Sark. She comes from a long line of leaders, including hereditary and elected Chiefs. She has worked in senior management positions for First Nation communities and organizations over the past decade and is committed to ongoing personal and professional development. The owner of Segewa’t Consulting, she was recently recognized as one of the top 25 Powerful Women in Business 2021 by Atlantic Business Magazine. She lives with her husband and two children in her ancestral home of Epekwitk (PEI), territory of the Mi’kmaq, and part of Mi’kma’ki.

Winter’s Tales

Author series continues with Oliva Robinson book launch

Olivia Robinson

Olivia Robinson was born in the Annapolis Valley, NS and moved to PEI with her family. She blossomed as a creative writer not among the Valley’s orchards, but on the Island and at UPEI, and then at Memorial University and in the Newfoundland literary community.

That cultivation has yielded her debut novel, The Blue Moth Motel, from Newfoundland publisher Breakwater Books. The UPEI Winter’s Tales Author Series will present the PEI book launch on November 18 at 7:30 pm in The Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.

The Blue Moth Motel, set mostly on PEI and also in London, England, is a haunting and evocative exploration of the meaning of family and home.

Robinson earned a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at MUN, working with celebrated author and mentor Lisa Moore. One of Olivia’s short stories will appear next year in Hard Ticket: New Writing Made in Newfoundland, edited by Lisa Moore. She will return to PEI this fall to join the Bookmark team.

The book launch is co-sponsored by Bookmark and the UPEI English Department and Dean of Arts. Admission is free.

The UPEI reading series began in 1969 and was renamed “Winter’s Tales” in 1995.

American Mahjong lessons

Learn to play American Mahjong on Tuesdays from 1–4 pm at the Benevolent Irish Society, 582 North River Road, Charlottetown. Call or text 519-495-1941 for more information.

Online grief support

Online monthly Grief Support Group meetings take place via Zoom on the third Thursday of each month at 7 pm. To register, contact the Hospice PEI Grief Coordinator at 330-3857. Telephonebased support with Hospice trained grief support volunteers is also available. Visit hospicepei.ca to learn more about Hospice PEI programs and services, and how to get involved.

Study & Stay PEI

Student applications are now open for the Study & Stay PEI program. International students in their final year of study at UPEI, Holland College, and Collège de l’Île are encouraged to apply. Program participants receive free exclusive access to networking, career supports, immigration resources and more. Visit studypei.ca for more information. For application assistance, email studyandstaypei@upei.ca or visit UPEI Robertson Library, Room 225, on weekdays between 10 am–12 pm or 1–3 pm.

Island Build Awards

Applications are being accepted for the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of PEI’s Island Build Awards. Recognizing excellence in residential construction across PEI, Award categories include Best Kitchen Design, Net Zero Ready Home, Best New Home Under 2500/square feet, Best New Home over 2500 square feet, and Most Transformative Renovation. The application deadline is October 22. Apply online at chba-pei.ca Sponsored by Atlantic Home Warranty, the Awards will be presented at a gala in November at Clinton Hills. Visit chba-pei.ca for info, tickets, and sponsorship opportunities.

CFPEI scholarships open

Applications are being accepted at the Community Foundation of PEI for scholarship funds. This fall, the Foundation will award up to $56,000 to PEI students who are pursuing post-secondary education. The St. Andrew’s Society Scholarships have $50,000 in total scholarships available. The PEI Protestant Children’s Trust Bursary has $5500 in total scholarships available. Scholarship requirements and online applications can be found at cfpei.ca. The application deadline is October 31.

Fire ghter recruitment

The City of Charlottetown’s Fire Department launched its volunteer firefighter recruitment campaign in September. Application packages are available until October 29 at the Charlottetown Fire Department Station 1 at 89 Kent Street (24/7) during the recruitment campaign and at Station 2 at 152 St. Peters Road between 10 am–2 pm on weekends. All volunteer firefighters in Charlottetown receive training

COMMUNITY

and leadership development, insurance coverage, fellowship, and annual honorariums. Completed applications are due by November 19 and must be returned to Station 1. The City’s two fire stations include a roster of volunteers who perform several duties, including: rescues, fire response, vehicle and equipment operation and maintenance, and assisting with fire prevention and education programs. 629-4083, charlottetown.ca/fire

Meet & Greet Socials

PEI Sociable Singles is a non-profit, non-denominational, social group, which began in Charlottetown in 2000. Members are ages 40 and over. The group provides the separated, divorced, widowed and unmarried with an opportunity to get out of the house and participate in healthy group and social activities such as dances, potlucks, movies, walks, hikes, card games, dining out, barbeques, games nights and many other activities with other singles. Sociable Singles is not a dating club. Come meet compatible people who are unattached and in similar circumstances. Weekly Meet & Greet Socials are held at Hillsborough Park Community Centre on Tuesday at 7 pm. 199 Patterson Drive, Charlottetown. sociable_singles@yahoo.com

Sexual violence survey

The PEI government is creating a strategy for a coordinated approach to prevent and address harm associated with adult sexual violence in the province. As part of the strategy, individuals who experienced adult sexual violence and service providers who support them, are invited to complete an anonymous survey to gather information about accessing support services on PEI, barriers to accessing support services, and ways to improve access to support services. The survey does not include any questions on personal experience with adult sexual violence and all responses are anonymous. To participate in the online survey and for more information on supports, search Supports for Adult Sexual Violence at princeedwardisland. ca or request a paper copy at 368-6494 or justicepolicy@gov.pe.ca. If you or someone you know is experiencing sexualized violence, reach out for support by calling 2-1-1 or the Island Helpline, 1-800-218-2885.

Short-term rental report

The City of Charlottetown’s Planning and Heritage Dept has released a technical background report outlining the community impacts of short-term rental (STR) properties, feedback received from the public during the consultation phase, and STR regulatory options based on best practices across the country. Council will receive the technical planning report and the Planning staff recommendations through the official process and will use their October meeting to discuss the

content and determine whether they wish to go to a public hearing later in the month to receive input on the recommendations. In the interim, residents can access the report, as well as other documents relevant to STR’s in Charlottetown at at charlottetown.ca. The report is intended to provide all interested residents and stakeholders with a baseline of information prior to a potential public hearing.

Study seeks participants

A UPEI Master of Nursing student is seeking participants for a research study about living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants should be English-speaking residents of PEI who are at least 18 years old with a diagnosis of COPD. Participants can choose to be interviewed by phone or in person on the UPEI campus. The interview will take about one hour. Info/register: Cheryl Curley, 940-7874, cedmunds@upei.ca

Program seeks participants

Students from UPEI’s Kinesiology 3430 class are seeking participants to take part in a four-week exercise training program, plus pre- and post-assessment sessions for six weeks total. Students will create personalized exercise training programs for each participant, based on their fitness, skill level, and personal interests. Participants must be between 30–70 years of age. This program is directed towards individuals who are looking to become more physically active in their day-to-day lives. Participants will meet in person with their student trainers once a week, with additional training sessions occurring independently. No previous experience is necessary. Info/register: Tyler Baker, 620-5038, tpbaker@upei.ca.

Hilda Ramsay Bursary

The NDP PEI Hilda Ramsay Bursary of $500 will be granted to a female identifying student who exemplifies excellence in pursuing study at UPEI or Holland College. Find the application at ndppei. ca. Preference will be given to a student in financial need with a demonstrated interest in social justice, women/diversity studies, Indigenous, environmental studies, political studies, or trades. The application deadline is November 1.

A Course in Miracles

A group meets for an in depth study and discussion of the text A Course in Miracles online via Zoom every Friday at 7 pm. The meeting ID number is 458 306 483. Info: 566-1859, ching2tu@yahoo.com

COVID Warrior nominations

Nominations are being accepted for the COVID Warrior Award program until October 15. As part of the program, Her Honour the Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of PEI, will

award a limited number of specially made COVID Warrior Coins, originally commissioned by Dr. Trevor Jain, to recognize Islanders and PEI organizations who have made a significant contribution in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June, a call for nominations was made to Island municipal councils requesting three nominations from each community. The program is now being expanded to allow Islanders to nominate a friend, co-worker, family member, organization or business, to be recognized for their contributions during the pandemic. The nomination form is available online at lgpei.ca. Submissions will be reviewed by an independent committee when nominations close.

PEERS Alliance programs

Several PEERS Alliance programs resumed this fall. Meet new pals and have fun at the PEI Queer Youth Collective meetings. They take place weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6–8 pm in Summerside on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Youth Engagement Centre (381 Notre Dame St.), and in Charlottetown on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at Murphy’s Community Centre (200 Richmond St). 2SLGBTQ+ Adult Drop-In meetings, with new themes and activities every meeting, are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 6–8 pm in Charlottetown at the Haviland Club (2 Haviland St). A supportive, non-judgmental space for parents and caregivers of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals of all ages, the Roots & Shooots programming takes place on the last Wednesday of each month from 6–8 pm in Charlottetown at the Haviland Club. Visit peersalliance.ca to register and to learn more about this organization and their programs and resources.

Youth on Board program

A new pilot program is offering learning opportunities for up to 20 high school students in rural communities across the province by getting them involved in rural municipality boards and NGOs. The Youth on Board program is offered by the provincial Dept of Fisheries and Communities. The goals are to give young people a chance to be mentored, encourage new members to join rural community boards and groups, and allow the organizations to benefit from the ideas and viewpoints of young Islanders. Organizations interested in mentoring a youth through this program can contact Community Development Officer Sonia Dixon at sddixon@gov. pe.ca. High school students interested in the program can visit princeedwardisland.ca for more details.

Thanksgiving walk

Our Lady of the Assumption

Catholic Women’s League will host a Thanksgiving walk on October 2. The walk will begin at the blue church on the corner of Stratford and Keppoch Roads, from 9:30–11:30 am. Registration upon arrival and a small fee per individual or per family. Proceeds for the Parish, but hosted as an invitation for active community socialization. Bring your own water. Prize draws for five $20 gift cards.

PEI women veterans

Exhibit of uniforms showcases contribution to war e ort

A new exhibit in the Confederation Court Mall in Charlottetown celebrates the service of PEI women veterans in the Second World War. Co-Curated by Captain Greg Gallant and Katherine Dewar, with assistance from Paula Kenny, the exhibit runs until the end of October.

The five uniforms on display showcase the breadth of women’s contribution to the war effort: Lois Wall Brown was a telephone operator in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps; Mary MacNutt MacRae was a nursing sister in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps; Vivian Hardy Phillips was a plotter in the operations room for the Royal Canadian Air Force; Jean Morley MacLean was a cook in Women’s Royal Canadian Navy Service; and Margaret Martin Dumont was a volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross Corps overseas.

Four of the five women are still alive, and all of them are profiled in Katherine Dewar’s new book, We’ll Meet Again: Prince Edward Island Women of the Second World War, to be launched October 23 in Charlottetown and

November 7 in Summerside.

For more info call the PEI Regiment Museum, 368-0108.

In September, Danté Bazard, provincial anti-racism policy advisor, began working with Island residents facing systemic discrimination to drive change in PEI through the new AntiRacism Table. Following the global Black Lives Matter movement, the Black Cultural Society of PEI’s petition calling on government to address systemic racism, as well as the advocacy work of various Island equity-seeking community organizations, the Province has established a new committee dedicated to addressing systemic racism on PEI.

Registration is open for the PEI Marathon, October 15–17. Many options are available to walk, wheel or run. There is also a free kids run. Please note that any necessary changes required by the CPHO office prior to event weekend will be put in place at that time and details will be posted. Register online at peimarathon.ca.

Margaret Martin Dumont is one of ve women whose WWII uniforms are on display

Arts Grants

Changes for Indian River

Festival planning a brand refresh after 25 years

The fall round of the PEI Arts Grants will open applications on September 15th, 2021 at noon and will close on October 13th, 2021 at 4pm.

There are three streams of grants available for artists who are PEI residents:

•Creation grants are for the creation of artistic projects by professional artists

•Dissemination grants are available for professional artists to present their completed works to the public

•Professional development grants are for both professional and amateur artists who wish to advance the development of their career through targeted training or conference

Historic St. May’s

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SOURCE: Health Canada

After 25 years, Indian River Festival (IRF) is looking ahead to the next chapter in its Island concert series. Recent changes to IRF’s operations—including a new executive director, new leadership within the board of directors, as well as increased online offerings catalyzed by the pandemic—have created an opportunity for IRF to step back and reassess its position within the Island and Atlantic Canadian music ecosystem. In the coming months, IRF will undergo a brand refresh aligning with its commitment to present varied, innovative, and high-quality programming to highlight the acoustics of Historic St. Mary’s.

Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, IRF came back strong for its milestone 25th anniversary year. Music returned to the halls of Historic St. Mary’s this past summer with IRF showcasing folk, jazz, blues, roots, classical, choral, traditional and contemporary music.

Indian River Festival began in 1996 as a handful of stand-alone concerts to save Historic St. Mary’s and soon grew into a small concert series called Midsummer Magic. Fast forward 25 years and it has evolved into an internationally-renowned festival.

Reflecting the growth and evolution of IRF as a leader in the Atlantic

Canadian music scene, the upcoming brand refresh will build on the organization’s strength, stability and legacy, and will include changes such as a new logo, brand positioning, name, marketing and more. The organization also hopes to introduce changes to make its operations more accessible, to assess its environmental impact, and to make sure the designated heritage site is properly maintained. Changes will be made in consultation with IRF’s board of directors, stakeholders and patrons, and will have all parties’ best interests in mind.

“Even though some of our brand elements are changing, our core purpose remains the same: to present outstanding performances in our beloved venue, Historic St. Mary’s,” says Executive Director Lindsay Connolly. “After more than a quarter of a century of incredible music, evolution is not only inevitable, but also essential to ensure the Festival is set up to succeed for the next 25 years. We are excited to move forward in a new direction in consultation with our patrons and community. Many of our supporters have been with the Festival since the beginning, and we want to make sure we uphold their legacy while taking actions to make the Festival the best it can be.”

Ghostly pasts

Haunting stories in Summerside, Charlottetown, Georgetown

Lefurgey Cultural Centre

The hope is that the walk-about through Summerside’s historic district, which adds greatly to the experience, will return in 2022.

There will be three show times offered; 6:30 pm, 8 pm and 9:30 pm. Tickets must be pre-purchased by calling MacNaught History Centre and Archives at 432-1332.

October

Wyatt Heritage Properties and Culture Summerside will present their 21st annual Historic Ghostwalk on October 21. The event brings to life the history of Halloween and the stories of a darker side of Island history. Volunteer actors channel the spirits who wish to tell their story. New stories, unearthed in the MacNaught History Centre and Archives, are presented each year.

The format will again be changed for 2021. Rather than a walk through the historic district to meet the spirits, there will be a sit-down show in the Wyatt Heritage Properties garden. The spirits will make their presence known from the veranda of the 1867 Lefurgey Cultural Centre.

Ghostwalk is not about scaring people, but rather about sharing Island and Halloween history in an entertaining manner that will no doubt raise a great deal of curiosity and thought.

Discover Charlottetown’s Street Feast Block Party will take place October 1 (5–11 pm) and October 2 (12–11 pm) on Kent Street in Charlottetown.

The fall street party will feature music, comedy, games, quirky entertainment and BBQ themed street food.

Discover Charlottetown will present the Scarecrows in the City Festival from October 8–24.

Hundreds of scarecrow installations will be on display throughout historic downtown Charlottetown.

Take a self-guided scarecrow tour or a haunted ghost walk, enjoy live music, wine tastings, costumed

The Confederation Centre’s Ghost Walks continue on Friday evenings at 7:30 pm until October 29.

The guided tour is led by a mysterious gravedigger. The spooky stroll is full of tales about Charlottetown’s historic downtown and its dark, mysterious, sometimes haunted past. A family-friendly experience is available on request.

Ghost Walks depart from the corner of Water and Pownal Streets and take about 75 minutes. To book, visit confederationcentre.com or call the box office at 1-800-565-0278.

Confederation Centre Kings Playhouse

Haunted Georgetown, a haunted walk through the historic town will take place on October 30 at 7 pm. For details, visit kingsplayhouse.com or call 1-888-346-5666.

Ateliers

stiltwalkers, scarecrow making workshops, a psychic fair and tarot card readings, horse and wagon rides, and more.

Pumpkin

The Summerside Pumpkin Festival will take place October 22–31.

Presented by La Belle Alliance, the Festival will feature concerts, family activities, workshops and more. belle-alliance.ca

Forest

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wetland returned

American family generously donates back to Islanders

A game-changing cross-border partnership between Island Nature Trust (INT) and American Friends of Canadian Conservation—launched to help American landowners donate their land for conservation purposes— is celebrating its first win.

American ownership is approximately 3.5 percent of the total land on PEI, yet for many years, American landowners interested in donating land for conservation purposes have experienced disproportionate legal and financial barriers. However, thanks to INT and American Friends initiative forged in 2018, significant tax relief is now secured for American donors.

“Americans who love PEI landscapes can now contribute to conservation and receive the same tax recognition that Canadians do. This fantastic cross-border partnership, applied in several other provinces already, allows us to more fully honour this gift of conservation land,” says Megan Harris, Director of Conservation for INT.

The Eppig–Flower Natural Area, a 25-acre parcel in Cable Head East was generously donated by American

donors Peter and Mary Eppig and contains carbon storing peatland-type wetland and forest, both habitats for a myriad of wildlife. The parcel is contiguous with a 495-acre woodland and wetland complex in the area, which contains INT’s Perret–McKinnon Natural Area—providing excellent connectivity to an existing protected space. The diverse ecosystems and services the natural area provides will be protected forever for the benefit of both Islanders and wildlife under the Natural Areas Protection Act.

PEI has long enjoyed a strong bond with northeastern regions of the US. Historically, many families had members traveling back and forth to the US eastern seaboard for work. Those family ties often remain, with cousins, grandparents, or other relations on both sides of the border—many acquiring land or settling on PEI.

It was PEI’s reputation for swimmable ocean water that first drew Molly and Peter Eppig north from New England in 1993. They rented a house in Cable Head for their family vacation and ten years later purchased a property in the same community where they eventually built a home.

“In 2018 we attended an information session hosted by Island Nature Trust and American Friends of Canadian Conservation where we learned that it’s possible for American owners of Canadian property to donate ecologically sensitive land as well as realize tax benefits in the US,” said the Eppigs. “We decided to protect a wooded portion of our property that includes a bog which has been identified as ecologically important. We were so pleased to collaborate to ensure conservation of this property in perpetuity, and we encourage other American owners of PEI property to consider the American Friends of Canadian Conservation organization.” islandnaturetrust.ca

Eppig-Flower Natural Area

Another strange one

The PEI ATV Federation has recently completed and implementated their ATV Environmental Code of Practice (ATVECOP).

The document provides environmental management guidelines for all environmental aspects of trail planning, construction, operation and decommissioning. The ATVECOP also provides a reference to various legislation and regulations applicable to the ATV trails on PEI. Adoption of the ATVECOP by ATV clubs is a condition of their membership and clubs must sign a Compliance Agreement to maintain membership.

Wandering across the Island, there is no shortage of interesting plants. There is a great mix of trees and shrubs in the Acadian forest, orchids galore, and ferns seemingly everywhere. One thing that there is a shortage of is native climbing plants. We have lots of non-native ones—Oriental bittersweet, Virginia creeper, wild grapes, bittersweet nightshade, wild cucumber, even poison ivy. But for some reason a vine is a form rarely found in PEI’s native plants.

The native clematis, known as Virgin’s Bower, is our largest climber, a lovely plant that I will do a future column on. But I recently spent some time with American groundnut in the Macphail Woods native plant arboretum, and I was reminded of the beauty of this climbing plant.

I am not 100% sure that this is actually a native plant. It has long been used as a food source by Indigenous peoples throughout the region, and it could have easily been moved around from other places. Nonetheless, it is treated as one by the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, and that’s good enough for me. It is listed as an S1, noting that it may be of risk. It is a plant that I almost never run across.

Groundnut is another plant that can be used both for food and also as a lovely addition to a landscape. It is not actually a nut, though. It’s a legume (as are beans and peas) and has pink-purple composite flowers that are exotic and quite lovely. It produces masses of flowers in late August well into September, when there aren’t a lot of other blooms around.

As a landscape plant, it will require something to climb on, certainly growing six to eight feet per year on a good site. Groundnut will tolerate

light shading but do well in full sun with adequate moisture. We’ve been growing them for a few years now at Macphail Woods and they appear to do fine without any additional moisture. This year was a great growing season for almost all things, but even with the dryness of 2020, they performed well.

As a food plant, groundnut has such an interesting history. The starchy tubers were eaten by Indigenous peoples throughout North America, fed to the Pilgrims, dined on by Thoreau. They are now grown throughout the world, everywhere from India to Africa. At one time they were thought to be the answer to the Irish potato famine, since groundnut (Apios americana) is unrelated to the potato (Solanum tuberosum) and not susceptible to the blight that caused repeated crop failures in that country. This “great famine” had many causes, including how the English had treated the Irish, but in any case it resulted in a million deaths and another million people emigrating to places that included Canada.

Groundnut was thought to be a suitable starchy replacement. Unfortunately, it is a plant that has proven difficult to domesticate. It has small tubers, up to the size of an egg, and some quite a bit smaller. That means no large tubers that are easy to harvest and make large french fries. The vines are also problematic, as they make the tubers hard to harvest. In addition, the tubers grow entwined with whatever other roots are in the ground.

They seem to be very difficult to propagate from seed, but since they produce quite a few tubers each year, these can be separated and replanted to increase your groundnut patch. Some people do not take well to eating groundnut, but personally I can’t wait to have a big enough patch to do a taste test.

The PEI ATV Federation has also established an ATV Environmental Trail Reconnaissance (ETR) program which pays specific attention to watercourse crossings, connecting trails in buffer zones and segments in wetlands. They have completed recon and assessments on four out of eight Clubs to date.

The Federation is currently the only trail group on PEI, and most of Canada, that has developed and adopted an Environmental Code of Practice.

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Women’s Network fundraiser

Celebrating Island women and non-binary folk—Oct 23

The Board of Directors of Women’s Network PEI will host its sixth annual fundraising event at Trailside Music Hall in Charlottetown on October 23.

Celebrate Island Women & Non-Binary Folk 2021: 6th Annual Fundraiser for Women’s Network PEI will feature two separate celebrations—a matinee at 1 pm with performances by Kierrah, Alica Toner and Kinley Dowling, and an evening show at 8 pm with performances by Rachel Beck, Joce Reyome and Catherine MacLellan. Irish Mythen, PEIbased globetrotting musician and a great friend of the organization, will return as the event’s emcee. Trailside Music Hall is the major sponsor this year.

Women’s Network PEI, a not-forprofit organization founded 41 years ago and incorporated in 1984, is a voice for Island women and non-binary folk, working to improve gender equality in all areas of people’s lives. However, funding sources are project-based and sometimes inconsistent. To ensure

Dancing with the Stars

Hospice PEI’s 9th annual Dancing with the Stars fundraiser takes place October 16 at the Delta Prince Edward in Charlottetown. Contestests (Stars) are paired with local professional dancers to show off their best moves, all while donating their time and talent to help fundraise for the event. In 2019, over $55,000 was raised to help support

uninterrupted year-round operations and programming, the Board of Directors has been organizing annual fundraising events for the Island community.

Tickets are available online at trailside.ca and eventbrite.ca. For more information about Women’s Network PEI and the event, or to learn how to become a sponsor, visit wnpei.org.

Islanders (and their families) living with a life-limiting illness. This year’s couples are: Peter Bevan Baker and Susan Lessard; Melanie Taylor and Jack Lessard; Marsha Doiron and Jordi Segers; Cameron Gordon and Megan Connors; Kimberly Rashed and Kashena Collins; Amila Topic and Dawson MacIssac; and Cameron MacDonald and Lyndsey Paynter. Various genres are highlighted and the Judge’s Choice Award and People’s Choice Award will be handed out. Tax receipts are available. Info: hospicepei.ca/events/dancing-with-thestars, 368-4498.

Heritage Social Dance Group

The Heritage Social Dance Group at Beaconsfield began their fall session in mid September. Weekly classes take place Wednesday evenings at 7 pm until early December at Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown. The group focuses on Scottish Country, English Country, Quadrilles and Round dances that are from set dancing traditions popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and still danced around the world today. New dancers are welcome; a partner is not required but always appreciated and no previous dance experience is needed. Info/register: Karen Beauregard (karenbea@live.ca, 569-5877), Chris Scott (scottchrissie@hotmail.com, 724-2278, 303-0124). Registration is limited.

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Clouds

In the Cove we spend a lot of time looking at the sky. Like the sea, the sky is always in motion and I wish I could understand what the clouds are telling me. Cirrus, cumulus and nimbostratus clouds, weather fronts and masses, land and sea breezes—I don’t have a real grip on them. The best I can do is check the barometer to see if it’s up or down, or glance at the weathervane to see which way the wind is blowing.

Here are a few quotes from Eric Sloane’s beautifully illustrated Weather Book (Dover Publications): “The higher the clouds, the fairer the weather… Thinning air is harder to fly in; birds ‘sit it out’ before a storm… Distant shores loom up nearer before rain because of the thinning of the air… Lightning from the west or northwest will reach you, but from south or southeast will pass…” It’s comforting to know that someone has figured out what’s going on.

Thanks to the knowledgeable scientists at Environment Canada we were well prepared for Hurricane Ida, with fresh gas for the generator, jugs full of drinking water, plenty of batteries, candles, pasta, and so on. Fortunately none of these were needed.

I hope as the years go by I’ll get smarter! Meanwhile, I love painting— and looking at—clouds, and I’m not alone in this. Four hundred years ago Shakespeare wrote:

Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?

Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.

Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.

Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale.

Polonius: Very like a whale.

Whether clouds look like camels, weasels or whales, whether they’re

high-flying fluffy party clouds or low grumpy storm clouds, they always make they sky interesting.

The land is pretty interesting right now too. With shorter days and cool nights the hardwood trees are slipping into their extravagant autumn outfits. A maple forest up the hill simply sets the standard for fall color. Is orange in style any other time of year? Squash, gourds, pumpkins, chanterelles, maple leaves, school buses and Hallowe’en all brighten our lives in October. And talk about gorgeous sunsets! If you tried to paint the evening sky you’d be told, “Oh a sky could never look like that.” But yes it can. The problem is that paint is solid but light is, well, light. As an artist you have to do your best with what you have.

Today I felt a sense of accomplishment, having harvested our potatoes, pulled up the baking beans and hung them in the shed to dry, oiled and put away a few bikes… before the clouds rolled in and it started to rain. In the evening it cleared up a bit we went down to the Cove to check things out. Wow, what a downpour! Where we were standing it was dry, but offshore it was raining like mad.

Could you paint something like that? Would anyone believe it? It’s worth a try.

Culinary Institute students return

Culinary students are back in the kitchens at The Culinary Institute of Canada in Charlottetown. The Lucy Maud dining room, Too Tired to Cook catering, and on-site Grab & Go market will be open in October. theculinary.ca

The Cove Journal by JoDee

NEW RELEASES

Back To You

Mat Hannah

Andrew Waite album release

PEI Brewing Company—Oct 9

Andrew Waite will celebrate the recent release of his sophomore album at the PEI Brewing Company in Charlottetown on October 9. The Andrew Waite Album Release Show will begin at 8:30 pm, after the OktoBeer-Feast, and feature Waite’s full band the Firm, as well as opening act Joce Reyome.

PEI songwriter Mat Hannah released his new EP Back To You on September 10. Hannah co-wrote the album with producer Davor Vulama (Loverboy, Joe Satriani, Art of Dying).

“The EP speaks to the feeling of growing up in a world where you’re always catching up, one step behind, having rotten luck in life,” Hannah said. “All of the songs were co-written with Davor. He’s a pro at what he does, which has allowed us to push through the limitations of distance and technology. We wrote these songs through phone calls, emails and Zoom meetings, and it has been super rewarding to put together the project while on opposite sides of the country. The EP is for all the ones who are out there trying their damn best every day, no matter the outcome!”

Hannah is the lead singer for the synth laden, pop-punk Charlottetowbased band, Little Cities. He has written and collaborated with Gavin Brown, Mike Bilenki, James Wilson and Colin Buchanan.

With Back To You, Hannah has started to move from his pop-punk roots to a more pop-oriented sound, featuring songs that are fun to listen to, with unforgettable hooks and a light infectious energy.

Learn more @mathewhannahmusic and @ mathannah93 on social.

“Is She Holding You”

Nikkie Gallant

“Is She Holding You,” the latest single from PEI songwriter Nikkie Gallant was released in September. Produced by Nathan Wiley, the song features Wiley on drums and Kinley Dowling on violin and viola.

On “Is She Holding You,” Gallant reckons with the fear of losing a connection. “For this song, I found myself exploring the acute pain that comes with realizing that you’re aching for

something you thought you already had,” said Gallant.

Gallant’s music and songwriting have earned her multiple Music PEI Award nominations. Her third album Subtle Motions explores a more adventurous sound than her previous recordings. nikkie.ca

“Trapped In My Head” X-plicit

The self-titled sophomore album was released in September and follows the success of his debut solo album Tremors in 2018. Produced by Newfoundland’s Chris Kirby, the new album includes a number of co-writes

Thomas McCallum

Concerts in Summerside and Charlottetown

Nova Scotia singer-songwriter

Thomas McCallum will celebrate the release of his new album, Many a Long Hour, with a performance at St. Mary’s Church in Summerside on October 9 and at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Charlottetown on October 10. Show time is 7 pm at both venues.

Tickets for the Summerside concert are available at the parish office at 74 Summer Street or by calling 888-2234. St Mary’s Church is located at 277 Church Street.

with Kirby and The Trews frontrunner, Colin MacDonald, including his most recent single release, the upbeat sing-along “Full Time, Tryin’ 2 Luv.” Visit andrewwaitemusic.com to watch the music videos.

Tickets are available online at peibrewingcompany.com.

Fresh off placing fourth out of 28 participating artists at Iron Mic Festival’s Iron Mic Championships in Charlottetown this past summer, PEIbased underground hip hop recording artist X-Plycit released her new single “Trapped In My Head” on September 6. Featuring BraedenV, the song was produced by Sean “Nook” Lewis, and mixed and mastered at DNR Records.

X-plicit penned “Trapped In My Head” during lockdown to shed more light on mental health awareness. “I use music as a way to heal and deal with my anxiety which went through the roof during lockdown. I am hoping this track can help someone else get through the day or inspire them to use music as a therapy.”

She is currently working on her third album and volunteering with Mental Health & Addictions PEI.

Listen to “Trapped In My Head”on all streaming platforms. Stay up to date @xplycitmusic and @xplycit on social.

College of Piping

Two shows at the Celtic Performing Arts Centre

The College of Piping is in full swing planning fall and winter events at the Celtic Performing Arts Centre in Summerside. The month of October will see the return of Pendy’s Pub and a performance by the Ellis Family Band.

After a fun run of weekly summer shows, Pendy’s Pub will return to the College of Piping with monthly shows beginning with Spooks and Spirits on October 23. Michael Pendergast and friends will turn the theatre into a pub setting with songs, tunes, stories,

Tickets for the Charlottetown concert are available at St. Peter’s Cathedral Hall, 7 All Souls’ Lane, or by contacting the parish office at 566-2102 or office@stpeter.org.

banter and good cheer.

The Ellis Family Band, local favourites, will return for a performance at the Celtic Performing Arts Centre on October 29.

Stay tuned for more events and the announcement of their Christmas series coming soon.

Contact the College of Piping for showtimes and tickets at 436-5377 or visit collegeofpiping.com.

The Ellis Family Band

Evangeline Country Music

Festival features performers from across PEI—Oct 15 & 16

Acadian Musical Village in AbramVillage will host the 12th annual Evangeline Country Music Festival, October 15–16.

Showcasing some of the top country music entertainers from across the Island, the Festival will present a different traditional Country Music Legend Show each night. Ticket holders can expect to hear the popular music of country legends like Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Stompin’ Tom Connors, George Strait, Mark Chestnut, Willie Nelson and more.

Performing October 15 are Peggy Clinton (Tip to Tip Hoedown), Randy Murray, ECMA and Music PEI Award winner Cory Gallant, and Stompin’ Tom tribute artist Chad Matthews.

Performing October 16 are recording artists Sandra Jones and Larry Campbell, Jordan LeClair, and Jonathan (Jonny Ray) Arsenault of the Evangeline Region.

Back-up music will be provided by Rheal Arsenault, Remi Arsenault, Steve Perry and Victor Doucette.

Showtime on both nights is 8:30 pm. This is a 19+ event. Admission is limited to 200 tickets per show. Tickets are sold in advance and can be purchased online at villagemusical.com or by calling Pierrette Arsenault (8542091) or Paula Arsenault (432-4759).

Holiday Kitchen Party returns

Harmony House in December

A Holiday Kitchen Party featuring Mike Ross, Joce Reyome, Trevor Grant and Alicia Toner will be on stage this holiday season at Harmony House in Hunter River. The performance dates are December 1–4 and 8–11, with show time at 8 pm.

Limited seating available. Tickets are on sale at harmonyhousepei.com.

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Stratford Community Choir

The Stratford Community Choir, under the direction of Kay Linkletter (conductor) and Stephanie Cole (accompanist) have resumed their rehearsals. Folks who enjoy singing and would like to join the choir should contact Almut Lecours at 367-6912 or almutlecours@gmail.com. New members are always welcome and the ability to read music is not a requirement. Rehearsals take place at the Mount in Charlottetown on Tuesday evenings from 7–8:30 pm. All choir members must be vaccinated. The choir is for members 18 years and over.

ECMA Awards submissions

Submissions for Awards and Showcasing at the 2022 East Coast Music Awards: Festival & Conference in Fredericton, NB, May 4–8, 2022, are open until October 8. Login or register for AwardStage at ecma. awardstage.com to start the submission process. For more information on the submission process, refer to ecma.com.

NOVEMBER BUZZ DEADLINE

Friday, October 15

Music PEI funding

The submission deadline for Music PEI Investment programs is October 31. Each program is designed to assist artists and industry professionals at various stages of their careers. musicpei.com

Music PEI Awards submissions

Music PEI is accepting submissions for the 2022 Music PEI Awards until November 12. Artists who have had a commercial release between May 1, 2020 and the nomination period closing date, are eligible to submit to the 2022 Music PEI Awards. There is also a slate of non-recording awards. Visit awards.musicpei.com to review the eligibility requirements and submit for an award. Music PEI Week will take place March 2–6, 2022.

Breaking Down Racial Barriers roundtable

Music PEI partnered with the East Coast Music Association and the three other Atlantic music associations on Breaking Down Racial Barriers (BDRB) in the East Coast Music Industry, a roundtable series with Black music professionals from Atlantic Canadato discuss the realities of anti-Black racism in the music industry. BDRB has held three sessions so far, with Episodes 1–3 available on the ECMA YouTube channel. The fourth episode, taking place in November (date tba), will conclude the series with a presentation of the findings. ecma.com, musicpei.com

Country Gets the Blues

Charlie A’Court & Witchitaw in Summerside and Georgetown

Charlie A’Court & Witchitaw: When Country Gets the Blues Tour will be on stage at Summerside’s Harbourfront Theatre on October 1 and at Kings Playhouse in Georgetown on October 2. Show time is 7:30 pm at both venues. Celebrating two beloved and distinct styles of musical expression, When Country Gets The Blues is a performance concept designed by country-rock ensemble Witchitaw and Blues recording artist Charlie A’Court. Often stylistically compared to Otis

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Redding and Eric Clapton, A’Court is planted at the crossroads of roots and soul with his mighty voice, guitar work and contemporary songwriting. Witchitaw is a four-piece southern country rock band from Annapolis Valley, NS. Their singles, “Posse” and “When Opportunity Knocks” are receiving praise from Sirius XM Canada and Canadian country music radio.

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VENUES

PEI Brewing Co.

96 Kensignton Road, Charlottetown. peibrewingcompany.com

Andrew Waite album release

Joce Reyome Oct 9

Andrew Waite celebrates the recent release of his self-titled sophomore album. The evening will feature Waite’s full band the Firm, as well as opening act Joce Reyome.

Trailside Music Hall

155 Kent St, Charlottetown. Doors at 6:30 pm with music at 8 pm. trailside.ca

Adam MacGregor & The Foes

Oct 1

Charlottetown band and guests.

Got Blues Matinee Oct 2

An afternoon of Blues with Chris Roumbanis, Reg Ballagh, Mike Robicheau, and guests Katey Day Reick and Doris Mason.

Nudie Oct 2 (eve)

Island musician Nudie has toured long and far and played in venues across North America.

Tara MacLean and guests Oct 7

Heart opening music with the PEI-born singer-songriter and guests Kinley Dowling, Nick Doneff and Adam Brazier.

Adyn Townes Oct 13

The alternative indie-pop artist’s unique voice and heartfelt lyrics set the stage for his honest songwriting.

Séan McCann Oct 14 & 15

Got Blues Matinee Oct 16

An afternoon of Blues with Chris Roumbanis, Reg Ballagh, Mike Robicheau, and guest Dan Doiron.

The Moneygoround

Jenina MacGillivray Oct 16 (eve)

R&B grooves, pop hooks, a smooth voice and tasteful blues-tinged guitar licks.

Womens Network PEI Fundraiser Oct 23

The five piece PEI band features Josh Langille, Sam Langille, Dennis Ellsworth, Katie McGarry and Dan Currie. An easy going sound with hints of 60’s psychedelic and jangly folk-rock.

Jenina MacGillivray is a songwriter, performer and filmmaker. Her debut album, Marion, was the 2019 Music NL Factor Album of the Year.

Gordie MacKeeman - Children’s Matinee album launch Oct 17

Afternoon matinee. Doors open at 1 pm.

Scott MacKay Band

Rube & Rake (NL) Oct 17

Matinee - Kierrah, Alicia Toner, Kinley Dowling

Evening - Rachel Beck, Joce Reyome, Catherine MacLellan

Celebrate Island women and non-binary folk. Hosted by Irish Mythen. Funds raised go to WNPEI’s operational costs and programming.

Dolly Parton Brunch & Tribute

Oct 24 (10 am, 1 pm)

Two back to back tribute shows with Kelley Mooney, Laura Morgan and Donovan Morgan.

The Burning Hell

Kelly McMichael Oct 24 (eve)

PEI garage-pop oddballs bring their densely packed lyrics. Newfoundlandbased siner-songwriter Kelly McMichael opens the show.

Lawrence Maxwell Oct 27

The PEI singer-songwriter captures the pain and triumph of everyday life and relates it to the spiritual experience.

Absolute Losers

Space Bud Oct 28

With sounds of slapback echo, twangy Telecasters and swooning pedal steel, Scott MacKay has an affinity for country music of the 1950s and ‘60s. Rube & Rake is a folk & roots duo based out of St. John’s, NL, with a focus on creating sparse, stripped down songs.

Mat Hannah Band

Vince the Messenger Oct 20

Through story, music, and intimate sharing, McCann will share songs reflected in his personal memoir One Good Reason and more.

Hannah brings his brand new band along for the debut of his new solo project. Joining him will be Charlottetown’s Vince The Messenger.

Halloween show with the Absolute Losers and new band on the block— Space Bud.

The Love Junkies Oct 29

Annual Halloween Bash

Featuring Colin Buchanan, Chris Coupland, Logan Richard, Dennis Ellsworth and Pat Deighan.

Got Blues Matinee Oct 30 (mat)

Halloween Show. Blues music with Chris Roumbanis, Reg Ballagh, Mike Robicheau and guest Mark Haines.

Logan Richard Band Oct 21–22

Joce Reyome

Scott MacKay

Jenina MacGillivray

Rum Running Festival

Weekend celebration of prohibition folklore in Tracadie Bay

The Glenaladale Heritage Trust‘s Rum Running Festival will return this year from October 15-17 with events taking place on and near the historical Glenaladale property in Tracadie Bay.

The Glenaladale House is one of the grandest old properties in the Maritimes. It has a 19th century connection to the MacDonald Canadian business empire and a distinctive 20th century link to the colourful rum running history of PEI during prohibition times. It is this folklore that will be celebrated during the festival with a house concert, Speakeasy night, ceilidh, story circle, and tours.

The festival will open October 15 with an intimate house concert featuring husband and wife bluegrass duo Janet McGarry and Serge Bernard. The concert will begin at 7 pm in the unique setting at Glenaladale Estate (257 Blooming Point Road, Tracadie Cross). Seating is limited. Call or email to reserve tickets. Light refreshments will be available.

Daytime activities on October 16 will also take place at Glenaladale

Music PEI programs

Music PEI is busy implementing programs and workshops this fall, along with offering funding opportunities and microgrants and helping to support Island artists and industry professionals.

The submission deadline for Music PEI Investment programs is October 31. Each program is designed to assist artists and industry professionals at various stages of their careers, with the final goal of creating long term self-sustaining careers. They include the Emerging Music Program, the Export Development Program, the Music Industry Professional Program, and the Career Investment Program.

The Digital Performance Content Creation Fund was developed to support artists with an online performance or showcase opportunity to produce their performance video.

Beginning October 1, Music PEI is extending the program to include the production of any video content. Artists are eligible for up to $1500 per project and the program is on a rolling deadline. Applications will be assessed on their merit.

Music PEI also offers a microgrant

House. Estate tours will be offered at 11 am and 2:30 pm, and UPEI History Professor Dr Edward MacDonald will host a Story Circle at 1 pm. There will be a number of antique cars (Ford Model A’s and Model T’s) on site for visitors to view and perhaps go for a short spin around the property.

The Speakeasy on October 16, featuring live music by Jon Rehder Quintet, an oyster bar, hors d’oeuvres, and rum-based cocktails by Drinks Distilled, will begin at 8 pm at the Tracadie Community Centre (148 Station Rd, Tracadie Cross). Although not required, period costumes from the Speakeasy era are encouraged. Tickets are limited.

The Rum Running Ceilidh, hosted by Michael and Shane Pendergast will mark the final event of the festival on October 17 at 2 pm. Keelin Wedge and Brendon Peters will join the duo on stage. Bar service will be available. Call or text call or text 394-6131 to reserve tickets. Follow @Glenaladale House on FB or email glenaladalepei@ gmail.com for more information.

of up to $300 for aspiring Island artists with the goal of supporting youth (specifically ages 20 and under), women, 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC and other underserved minorities. A program officer is available by appointment to support funding applicants.

Music PEI partnered with the East Coast Music Association and the three other Atlantic music associations on Breaking Down Racial Barriers (BDRB) in the East Coast Music Industry, a roundtable series with Black music professionals from Atlantic Canada to discuss the realities anti-Black racism in the music industry. BDRB has held three sessions to this point, Episodes 1–3 (availabe on the ECMA YouTube channel) have provided overdue, honest and necessary discourse on race relations in the region’s music sector. The fourth episode, taking place in November (date tba), will conclude the series with a presentation of the findings to provide truly sustainable and actionable recommendations for music industry in the Atlantic region.

Finally, a new program is launching this fall—Music PEI’s Producer Mentorship Program. Facilitated by Canadian producer Howard Redekopp, this program was created to assist both established and emerging producers to gain knowledge and learn from one of Canada’s most successful music producers.

musicpei.com

MUSIC LIVE/ONGOING

Bogside Brewing

Oystoberfest (Oct 2) with music by Kiera Loane at 3 pm and Chris Johnstone & Steve Ashton at 7 pm. 11 Brook St, Montague. 838-4384

Brothers 2

Music on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 pm. 618 Water St, Summerside. 436-9654

Copper Bottom Brewing

Lawrence Maxwell every Saturday at 2 pm. Tunes on Tap weekly on Sundays at 3 pm. Nick van Ouwerkerk & Taylor Johnson (Oct 3), Tuli Porcher (17), Tre Sutherland, Tom Gammons & Phillippe LeBlanc (24), Inn Echo (31). Admission is free. 567 Main St, Montague. 361-2337

Close to the Ground Concert Series

Showcasing the roots music of PEI with hosts Fiddlers’ Sons and Keelin Wedge, every Thursday at 8 pm, until Oct 28. Johnny Ray Arsenault (Sept 30), Red Dirt Girls (Oct 7), Shane Pendergast (14), Ellis Family Band (21), Lester MacPherson (28). Shows take place at Kaylee Hall, Pooles Corner. 838-4399

Dunsta nage Ceilidh

A ceilidh takes place at 7 pm on the first Sunday of each month at Dunstaffnage School Centre. Hosted by the Road Masters Band and guest entertainers. Admission at the door. 50/50 draw. 13529 St Peter’s Rd, Dunstaffnage. 626-1698

Gahan House

Acoustic music on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9 pm. 126 Sydney St, Charlottetown. 626-BEER

Hunter’s Ale House

Live music at 9 pm. Alyssa & Corey (Oct 5), The B Team (12), Brad & Griffen (19). 185 Kent St, Charlottetown. 367-4040

Ceilidhs at the Irish Hall

The Irish Cultural Centre is home to the longest running Ceili on PEI. Held on Fridays at 8 pm. Lineup: Tip Er Back with Allan Betts, Clive Curry, Wade Murray and Cynthia MacLeod (Oct 1); Fullerton’s Marsh with Randy Dibblee, Willie Arsenault and Frank McQuaid (8); and Fiddlers’ Dons with Eddy Quinn, John B. Webster and Courtney Hogan-Chandler (15). 582 North River Rd, Charlottetown.

Lone Oak Brewing

Roland Beaulieu & guests every Sunday at 1 pm. Adam MacGregor every Thursday at 6 pm. 103 Abegweit Blvd, Borden-Carleton. 729-2228

Marc’s Lounge

Fridays and Saturdays at 9 pm. Lawrence Maxwell (Oct 1/23), Brooke MacArthur (2/16), Stephen Szwarc (8/29), Brandon Gillis (9/22), Dave Woodside (15/30). 125 Sydney St, Charlottetown. 566-4620

Music Jam Night

A music jam takes place weekly on Wednesdays from 7–9 pm at Parkview Senior Citizens Club, 335 Central St, Summerside. A weekly get together. Open to all. bmorrison@pei.sympatico.ca

Old Triangle Sessions

Sunday Sessions, traditional music with host fiddler Roy Johnstone, weekly on Sundays from 2–5 pm. Schooner Sessions with Ward MacDonald & Friends weekly on Thursdays at 7 pm. 189 Great George St, Charlottetown. 892-5200

Olde Dublin Pub

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 132 Sydney St, Charlottetown. 892-6992

PEI Brewing Company

Acoustic Fridays in the Taproom at 6 pm. 96 Kensington Rd, Charlottetown. 629-2739

Piatto Pizzeria + Enoteca

Piatto Charlottetown, Fridays at 6 pm. Justyn Thyme (Oct 1), Dave Woodside (8), Rodney Perry (15), Lawrence Maxwell (22), Ryan Merry (29). Piatto North River Saturdays at 5 pm. Thatcher MacKay (2), Jamie Crawford (9/16), Dave Woodside (23). 892-0909

Red Dirt Girl Music Room

Live music at 7 pm. Shane Douthwright & Marcel Duplessis (Oct 1), Jason Price & Jimmie Inch (2), Julie & Danny (8), Red Dirt Girls with special guests Jim Collette

Ross Family Ceilidh

The Ross Family Ceilidh takes place at The Guild in Charlottetown on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm to October 6. 111 Queen St, Charlottetown. Tickets: 6203333, theguildpei.com

The Silver Fox

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 pm. Jonny Ray (Oct 1/22), Roland Beaulieu (2/30), Alicia & Aaron (8), Ricky & Barney (9/29), Alyssa & Corey (15/29), Trevor Cameron (23). 110 Water St, Summerside. 436-2153

Summerside Kitchen Party

Kitchen Party every Saturday, from 2–5 pm at Summerside Legion, featuring Rheal Arsenault, Andy Paynter and a special guest each week. 340 Notre Dame St, Summerside. 436-2091

Stay tuned to our website calendar at buzzpei.com for new shows and updates throughout the month!

TRIVIA

Darcy Campbell

Entertainment trivia on Thursday at 9 pm. Hunter’s Ale House, 185 Kent St, Charlottetown. 367-4040

Barry Parsons

Trivia on Thursday at 7 pm. PEI Brewing Company, 96 Kensington Rd, Charlottetown. 629-2739

Andrew Rollins

Music trivia on Sunday at 9 pm. Hunter’s Ale House, 185 Kent St, Charlottetown. 367-4040

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BUZZIFIEDS

HANDYMAN SERVICES!

No Job Too Small! Contact me to help you tackle your “to do” list! FACEBOOK: Joe Mullen Handyman Services. EMAIL: joemullenhandymanservices@gmail.com

VEHICLE DETAILING SERVICE

Do you need your vehicle cleaned or waxed? Don’t have time to do it? Call or text Ben at 902-940-0802 for an estimate.

GLORY ZONE CONSIGNMENT

SHOP. There’s a new consignment shop in Charlottetown. Come see our great selection of collectibles, kitchen items, used books, quality used ladies’ fashions at 199 Prince Street.

SECOND GLIMPSES. Watch for Island Author Kathy Birt’s follow-up memoir, Second Glimpses, coming soon. Just a Glimpse, her first memoir, can be purchased at the Book Mark and Chotto Shoppe at the Delta Hotel.

ORGANIC VEGGIE DELIVERY

Home delivery of fresh local organic veggies, foods, and other natural products. $25 / $40 / $50 Veggie Boxes or custom orders. Aaron Koleszar 902-629-2575, aaron@organicveggiedelivery.com

NOVEMBER BUZZ DEADLINE

Submissions and advertising booking deadline for the November issue:

FRIDAY October 15

Advertising: sales@buzzpei.com

Editorial: info@buzzpei.com

The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the publisher or staff. Compensation for errors in advertising copy which are the proven responsibility of the publisher is limited to a maximum of the cost of the placement of the advertisement.

Little Kit Bag Inc., operating as The Buzz, acknowledges that we are located on and operate on Mi’kma’ki, the traditional unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people who have lived here for many thousands of years, and who continue to live here.

NUMBER 335 • OCTOBER 2021

www.buzzpei.com @buzzpei

Editor/Sales: Yanik Richards

Editor: Michelle Ollerhead

Creative Media: Greg Webster

Partners:

Maggie Lillo (Ruby Square Graphic Design), Carly Martin (Hawthorne House Media)

Contributers: Julie Bull, Bryan Carver, Deirdre Kessler, Richard Lemm, Sean McQuaid, Takako Morita,JoDee Samuelson, Gary Schneider, Lindsay Walker

Office: 160 Richmond Street, Charlottetown

Mail: P.O. Box 1945, Charlottetown, PE C1A7N5

Phone: 902-628-1958

E-mail: info@buzzpei.com

Social Media: @buzzpei

The Buzz is published monthly by Little Kit Bag Inc.

Cover: Yesterday’s Harvest, oil on linen, 64” x 74”

Lindsay Walker is a self-taught artist, who has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. In 2001, he left his goverment job in downtown Toronto, Ontario and returned to PEI—replacing years of city noise with the calm of the woods and the ocean. He has had paint on all of his clothes ever since.

His artwork is a reflection of those surroundings, and of simpler times.

Lindsay’s paintings can be found in a myriad of public and private art collections in Canada, the United States and abroad. He currently lives and works in Cavendish with his wife Jeanette, the dogs and nature. lindsaywalkerart.com

WE’VE CHANGED OUR NAME, BUT THE REST IS THE SAME!

We are pleased to announce that, e ective September 1, 2021, the former KKP Charlottetown is now operating as an independent business under the trade name “ DALMAC Print, Signs, Cresting”

Since original franchisee Dale MacKenzie started the Kwik Kopy Printing franchise in 1984, it has grown to be perennially in the top 10 in North America. Under the leadership of Dale and Marg Mackenzie, followed by sons Shawn and Troy, and now under the guidance of Islanders Ben Parsons and Ben Howard and their team, KKP Charlottetown has grown to become a leading visual communications company in Atlantic Canada. The new DALMAC name is based on the company’s original name and honours the original founders. Thanks Dale and Marg!

The change in name and departure from the franchise will not impact the products and services o ered, or our team members. We will continue to provide the quality products, fast turnaround times, and friendly, reliable service you have always known from Kwik Kopy Printing and KKP.

DALMAC employs more than 30 Islanders at its 21,000 square foot production facility at 91 Euston Street in Charlottetown. Our range of services has expanded over the years and includes:

• Print - o set, digital, printed packaging, bindery, books and magazines, and die-cutting.

• Large Format - decals and floor graphics, vehicle wraps, window, and wall coverings, point of sale displays, posters, banners, and printed signage.

• Labels – rolls or sheets, custom die-cutting and lamination.

• Cresting, Embroidery, & Promo Products.

• Signs - design, manufacture, installation, and service (including LED retrofits) through Sig n Craft Charlottetown and Sign Station Summerside

• Direct Mail – Canada Post Smartmail Marketing Partner.

DALMAC’s new website www.dalmac.ca launched September 1ST and includes a directory of new email addresses for team members. We will maintain team members’ existing @kkpei.ca email addresses active and forward them to their new @dalmacprint.ca email addresses for the foreseeable future. Same general inquiry line 902-892-0156

We look forward to continuing to have the opportunity to serve the Island business community with all of your visual communications needs.

Ben Parsons, CPA, CMA

President

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DALMAC Print, Signs, Cresting

Email: bparsons@dalmac.ca

(P)902-892-0156 | (C) 902-388-8487

DALMAC • Print • Signs • Cresting Phone: 902.892.0156

Email: info@dalmac.ca 91 Euston St. Charlottetown, PE C1A 1W3 www.dalmac.ca