Umbrella Summer 2019

Umbrella Summer 2019

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Spotlight on Canadian National Photographer Mark Hopper Prince Edward County Jazz Festival Sara Holton International Scholarship Announced

Visual I Performance I Literary I Arts Calendar I Education

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair Past chair Treasurer Member

Member Member Member Member Honorary member Honorary member

Jenny Woods Dan Atkinson Laurel Hoard Christopher Bennett Bob Blanchard Andrea Kerr Debbie McKinney Maury Flunder Lise Lindenberg Anne Cunningham

STAFF Janet Jarrell, Executive Director gm@quinteartscouncil.org Adam Gray Creative Director qac@quinteartscouncil.org

Jenny Woods, Chair

Fiona Campbell Director of Communications & Outreach communications@quinteartscouncil.org

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Poetry editor: Darren Moore Design: Andrew Gray Production: Carol Bauer Published by: The Quinte Arts Council 36 Bridge St. E., P.O. Box 22113 Belleville, Ont. K8N 2Z5 613-962-1232 Printed by: Mr. Print, Belleville, Ont. Deadline for the fall issue: July 16, 2019

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The QAC just keeps moving forward! Our Executive Director, Janet, welcomes new staff Adam and Fiona, a new focused strategic plan is in the works, and now something you have all been waiting for - the Umbrella magazine. Our team is strong, vibrant, energetic, and full of new ideas with a high capacity to succeed, driven by the love of the arts. Thank you to all of our members, partners and donors for your patience and support through these many changes.

The warmer weather allows for strolls through the Gallery District in downtown Belleville – drop in and support the amazing and talented artists in this community! I look forward to celebrating with all of you at the AGM this June. I hope this season is filled with new growth and wish you all a wonderful art-filled summer.

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Mary Shipton

This issue is dedicated to one of our very own special and long-time QAC supporters, Mary Shipton. Mary sadly passed away in February 2019. Carol Bauer shared with us: “Mary Shipton had a curious mind, a big heart and a positive spirit. She was a true-blue lover and supporter of the arts, and for that, and many other reasons, we will greatly miss her.”

Table of Contents Photograph by Mark Hopper

Stag & Doe

Murder in the Chapel

QAC Expressions 2019

Sara Holton Scholarship

Photography Spotlight on Canadian National Photographer Mark Hopper

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Theatre Stag & Doe: A truly Canadian comedy coming to Tweed

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Film Trenton Filmmaker Sean Scally

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Music Prince Edward County Jazz Festival Night Kitchen Too is coming to Corbyville Women On the Verge

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Literary Murder in the Chapel Poet Mark Lesage

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Fine Art QAC’s Expressions 2019 Visit the Parrott Gallery this Summer Belleville Art Association turns 60!

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Heritage Pandemic: Unmasking the Spanish Flu

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Art Education QAC’s Bursaries Fund Guitar Workshops & Blues in the Schools Sara Holton International Scholarship Announced The Arts - Training Youth for Success

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#villagewings Volunteer Corner Arts Calendar QAC Business Members and Donors

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Spotlight on Canadian National Photographer Mark Hopper

By Lin Parkin

Photographer

Mark Hopper is no stranger to accolades, including

those from Robert Bateman (an inspirational artist to Hopper) who told him, “Mark, you have a stunning array of photographs that lean towards the artistic side rather than being just a record shot.”

Hopper’s artist CV is equally impressive: his photos have appeared in Canadian Geographic, National Geographic, Toronto Life Magazine, Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Weather Network, Explore Canada Tourism, and many more publications. He was 1st Runner-up in Royal Ontario Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2018), 1st Runner-up in Canadian Geographic’s Landscape Your Riding (2018) and City of Quinte West photo contest winner in March 2019.

“People say I’m lucky, but, no, I’m just always ready” Self-taught, Hopper has been honing his signature style over the past 13 years. With an almost ethereal quality, his photos elicit a mood captured by the aura of his subject. “There’s no secret because I don’t use a lot of software,” says Hopper. The art isn’t what happens after the photo is taken, it’s what’s happening in the scene. It’s the right camera angle, the right filter, and always being prepared to capture that perfect moment.

“People say I’m lucky, but, no, I’m just always ready,” he says. Sometimes great shots find Hopper spontaneously while at other times he sees how he wants a photograph to look days, sometimes weeks in advance of arriving at his destination. It’s a vision of sorts. One that he says feels a bit divine.

Getting noticed on a national level has been an enormous honour for Hopper, but his proudest achievement so far came in 2017 when he was invited to do a solo exhibit at Belleville Public Library’s Parrott Gallery. The event attracted hundreds of art enthusiasts from across the province: “Coming to the point of doing my own show has been one of the greatest highlights. It was one thing to get to that level, but selling out the show was another.”

Although he doesn’t regularly exhibit his work, those interested in purchasing his photos can do so while supporting a good cause. Each year, Hopper designs a calendar using 12 of his pictures, and Belleville Cemetery donates the cost of producing the calendars. Proceeds from the sale of each calendar go to the Quinte-area Christmas Sharing program. Last year they raised $1,900 for the cause. The calendars are typically released in October and are available at the main office for the Belleville Cemetery. @hoppermark on Twitter | @Hoptheshark on Facebook | @hoptheshark on Instagram

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Outrageous country comedy Stag & Doe coming to the Marble Arts Centre in Tweed this July

Stag & Doe: A truly Canadian comedy coming to Tweed

By Tim Porter

Tweed

& Company Theatre came out of the gate swinging. Their 11th season of live professional theatre is one of their largest and most varied yet.

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Earlier in February, they played host to two winter carnival events.

The comedic Play of Swords SwordPlay by Sex T-Rex was the highlight; the troupe then went on to win Best of the Fest at the Toronto Sketchfest a couple of weeks later. Then in April, Canadian theatre icon Shawn

Are you sensing a theme?

Tweed & Co. has developed the reputation of having an eye for talent, premiering popular and award-winning productions and performers before they are launched to super stardom across the country. Even in-house Artistic Director Tim Porter boasts a successful acting career with Canada’s second largest theatre company, Drayton Entertainment.

Creative Director Tricia Black is a celebrated Toronto comedian currently appearing at the worldrenowned Second City in the smash hit, long-running show She the People. General Manager Emily Mewett is also a sought after stage manager, currently on a cross-country tour with Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre. And they all started right here in Hastings County and in the Quinte region.

Wright brought his one-man show Ghost Light to packed houses at the Marble Arts Centre. This show has since been programmed at major theatres across the country.

Most recently, up-and-coming pop superstar Jessica Wilson headlined the Tweed Summer Season Kickoff Party hosted by Tweed & Co. shortly after her second win of the People’s Choice Award at the Niagara Music Awards.

The momentum continues with Stag & Doe, which runs for six performances from July 10 to 14 at the Marble Arts Centre. This show is one of many box office smash hits by newish playwright Mark Crawford.

Crawford’s award-winning comedies about rural Canadian life have become audience favourites across the country. Don’t miss this hilarious comedy about love, life and our most important moments, directed

by Thomas Alderson and featuring an all-star cast of Canadian talent, including Porter. Tickets are $15$25 and are available on our website at tweedandcompany.com, or in person at the Tweed News.

Join in the fun before the show with classic Stag & Doe games, cash bar, silent auction, and more.

Crawford’s award-winning comedies about rural Canadian life have become audience favourites across the country.

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Aug 13-18 tickets on sale now! pecjazz.org

Trenton Filmmaker Sean Scally

By Peter Paylor

Trenton

filmmaker Sean Scally

was born in a tiny mining town. “I was pretty much raised by my grandmother,” he says, “and her biggest fear was that I would stay right there.” An impulse to create and a small scholarship to the Ontario College of Art looked like a way out; when that didn’t pan out, he joined the military instead. He’d just turned eighteen. It not only got him out of his home town, it allowed him to see the whole world up close. It also set him up for a good job when he got out and a chance to retire at the ripe old age of fifty-two.

“I knew that if I was going to compromise just to avoid criticism, I wouldn’t be making the film I wanted to make.”

“I wanted to show that what Max was doing, anyone could do. I left it in. I knew that if I was going to compromise just to avoid criticism, I wouldn’t be making the film I wanted to make.”

“I love storytelling.”

“I love history,” says Scally with more enthusiasm than one might expect those words to muster. “I read historical stuff all the time, I always have.” When the opportunity came to produce three short films for the Cramhae Historical Society, Scally jumped at the chance. One of those films, a profile of Charles Smith Rutherford VC, brought Scally the Best Local Film Award at DocFest in 2017. “There’s something about the research and the process,” he says. “It leads to getting to know the person, or to think you’re getting to know the person. It’s storytelling. I love storytelling.”

He found that the creative impulse was still there. “It was just postponed,” he says. Photography led to slide shows which led, naturally, to video. “A project fell into my lap,” he says, of his first foray into documentary filmmaking, a short film about community-supported agriculture. That led to Max’s Greenwheels, a film about Belleville urban farmer Max Valyear, Scally’s first entry into Belleville’s Downtown DocFest in 2016. Scally recalls an important lesson he learned making that film. There is a brief scene that he contemplated editing out for fear of making the subject look less than perfect. He anticipated criticism if he left it in. “But we’re all imperfect,” he says.

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His latest film, Playing with Fire, is storytelling at its finest. It’s a riveting look at the 1918 explosion and fire at the British Chemical Company in Trenton. “The films I make are meant to teach people about history, but people don’t want to know that they’re being taught anything, especially young people. I always look for a fresh approach. Something new.” In the case of Playing with Fire that “something new” is the addition of live action animation alongside more traditional documentary techniques. It works. Playing with Fire garnered Scally his second DocFest Award this year, this time for Best Documentary Feature.

Scally is currently putting the finishing touches on Lumberbaron, a film about the Gilmour Lumber Company in Trenton.

He also has three new documentaries in the works along with his fifth fiction film, The Osprey’s Nest, a collaboration with first-time screenwriter Orland French. At seventy-five, French seems to be taking a lesson from Scally who says: “It’s never too late to follow your calling.”

Archival photograph of Trenton, Ontario

Prince Edward County Jazz Festival

By Andy Sparling

For the 19th consecutive year,

the Prince Edward County Jazz Festival will turn the County into a jazz lover’s heaven for a whole week between August 13 to 18.

Against all odds, this “little festival that could” has staged no fewer than 125 main stage performances by some of North America’s most in-demand artists: a list that includes multiple Grammy and Juno winners and nominees. That’s a total of 18 weeks of world-class cultural artistry—right here in our very own neighbourhood.

Aug 13-18 tickets on sale now! pecjazz.org Five-time JUNO winner Jane Bunnett and Maqueque (pro: Mah-kay-kay) will provide a spicy bite of contemporary jazz

“It’s an amazing week of music in one of the most beautiful parts of the country”

Colleen Allen, Saxophonist

But what are the odds against it?

First, no nearby major urban markets to draw audiences. Second, no government grants; this is strictly a pay-as-you-go operation, courtesy of an impressively devoted group of sponsors and volunteers. Lastly, this is a stubbornly “all-jazz-all-thetime” festival, still resisting the urge to sweeten its marketability with performances in other musical genres.

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This summer’s main stage shows are a lively mix of contemporary and traditional; fresh and wide-ranging performances involving current Juno and Grammy winners and nominees, big bands and small, new faces, and a pivotal year when transcendent albums shook jazz to its foundations.

The all-star cast of performers is simply Canada’s best and includes: five-time Juno winner and Grammy nominee Jane Bunnett and the spicy Cuban rhythms of Maqueque (pro: Mah-kay-kay); a brand new celebration of the year 1959, when Miles, Mingus, Brubeck and Coltrane changed everything; the Brian Barlow Big Band shining a light on Oscar Peterson’s Canadiana Suite and on Duke Ellington’s music at the Newport Jazz Festival.

The festival likes to bring back its Rising Young Star award winners as festival performers The featured artist this year is Vancouver-based bassist Jodi Proznick, who will present her 2019 Juno-nominated album Sun Songs on the main stage. Like many others, she loves performing in the County.

“It’s an amazing week of music in one of the most beautiful parts of the country,” says Proznick. “I am thrilled to be back performing again and excited to share my Sun Songs project with the wonderful PEC festival audience.”

The festival likes to bring back its Rising Young Star award winners as festival performers as part of

Jodi Proznick, Bassist

its commitment to the development of a new generation of jazz stars.

Last year’s winner, Emily Steinwall, has a return engagement, as does singer/pianist Hannah Barstow of Napanee, who will be showcased

in a satellite performance with the Belleville-based Commodores Orchestra.

Visit pecjazz.org for more information. Tickets at theregenttheatre.org

2019/20 FILMS TO BE CONFIRMED: RED JOAN • September 11 (UK, starring Judi Dench)

PAPI CHULO • September 25 (Ireland, starring Matt Bomer)

LE GRAND BAIN • October 9 GET YOUR MEMBERSHIP ONLINE TODAY! THE EMPIRE THEATRE: 2:00 AND 7:30 PM

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(France, starring Mathieu Almaric)

FIRECRACKERS • October 23 (Canada, starring Michaela Kurimsky, Karena Evans)

Gin Sexsmith and Rawa Brant perform in Night Kitchen at the Pinnacle Playhouse in Belleville

Night Kitchen Too is coming to Corbyville

By Gary Magwood

For six years,

Night Kitchen Too (NKT), Bel-

leville’s Acoustic Musical Variety Show, has brought together a diverse group of performers who present their music, poetry or spoken word on the stage of the Pinnacle Playhouse in the downtown core.

Each evening’s format consists of 12 to 14 invited performers who are allotted 5 minutes on stage to entertain the always friendly and appreciative audience. A feature entertainer gets 15 minutes on stage. Every performer gets a stipend depending on the number of audience attendees, usually enough to cover travel expenses and maybe a coffee or two.

On most evenings, an open jam will follow the show.

The season’s fun-filled finale on June 22 will be at Henry’s Place in Corbyville adjacent to The Signal Brewery. This is the first time NKT will have travelled outside of the downtown core.

The price of admission is still $10 and tickets are available at Artists and Artisans Gallery on Bridge St. or at the theatre when the doors open at 7:30pm. Shows get underway at 8pm. If you would like to perform, please contact Joe Callahan joecallhan48@gmail.com.

Our FB page always has much more information including the lineups for each show and lots of photos of past performances.

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experience of women caught in this turmoil.” Lebel has set, found and collected words from over 140 news articles describing events of displacement; in particular, words to describe women, which were then mapped onto an essay by Rebecca Solnit, The Blue of Distance, using erasure techniques on her text. The premiere took place in March 2018 at the Canadian Music Centre and raised over $400 for the Prince Edward County Syrian Refugee Fund.

WOV has now toured Blue of the Distance throughout Alberta and Washington State, as well as London, UK, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Paris, FR and, have been featured on Classical King FM in Seattle, WA, all with the support of the Canada Council.

Elizabeth McDonald, Emily Martin, Kathryn Tremills

Women on the Verge

By Elizabeth McDonald

The trio Women

on the Verge (WOV) is winding up a successful 2018-19 season that included receiving $20,000 in Canada Council funding. WOV was formed in 2016 by American soprano Emily Martin, Canadian soprano (and QAC member) Elizabeth McDonald and Canadian pianist Kathryn Tremills. WOV was created with a focus to tell the stories of women in song. Their own personal roles of performers, academics, and mothers have shaped their artistic choices

as a trio by choosing musical stories that are relevant to contemporary culture, not just in music, but in society—politically, socially, and culturally.

Their past season was centred around their first commissioned work Blue of the Distance by Canadian composer and Toronto Symphony Orchestra associate composer Emilie Lebel. The text of Blue of the Distance for two sopranos and piano “explores themes of migration, displacement, and the Umbrella Summer, 2019 - 11

In addition to performing, the members of WOV have offered master classes in voice and piano as well as lecture-recitals on arts entrepreneurship at universities in the cities they tour, including the Universities of Calgary and Lethbridge, and Pacific Lutheran University (Seattle), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (UK), Bucknell University (PA), and the Iceland University of the Arts.

WOV also work to encourage the performance of new classical works. In Toronto, they recently hosted the first Canadian songSlam, which encourages composers to write a five-minute song for voice and piano to be premiered in a competition setting with prizes totalling $2,000.

Make sure to follow WOV on Instagram and Facebook (@womenonverge) for an inside view of their work and for exciting announcements for the upcoming seasons.

You can also find them online at womenontheverge.ca

Murder in the Chapel

By Janet Kellough

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Picton. Photo by Adam Gray

New York Times

best-selling author Joy Fielding will be joining a stellar line-up of authors at the 2019 Women Killing It Crime Writers’ Festival in Prince Edward County on Labour Day weekend, a multi-event festival that promises lots of fun—and lots of opportunity for readers to talk with their favourite crime and mystery writers.

A wide range of authors who write everything from cozies to police procedurals, thrillers to domestic suspense, join Fielding in this year’s line-up. Readers will have a chance to meet Ausma Zehanat Khan, Brenda Chapman, Ginger Bolton, Iona Whishaw, Hannah Mary McKinnon, local author S.M. Hurley and best-selling author Vicki Delany, who is also one of the Women Killing It organizers.

“Our table-hopping night returns on Friday, August 30,” says co-organizer Janet Kellough. “Each author gets five minutes to tell a table of readers about her book, then they move on to the next table and so on, until they’ve spoken with everybody in the room.

It’s like speed-dating, only with authors, and it’s hilarious.”

“We’re again offering two writers’ workshops, which have been extremely popular in the past,” says Kellough. “On Saturday morning, August 31, Vicki will be giving some hands-on advice on plotting a mystery, while at the Sunday September 1 workshop Brenda Chapman will outline how to use point of view in crafting a mystery novel. These will both be held at Picton Public Library and part of the proceeds will go to the library building fund.”

The next afternoon, four of the authors will get a chance to talk about their books and their writing process at an elegant tea provided by The Friends of Rose House Museum. Both the Friday night event and the tea will take place this year at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Picton.

Tickets for Women Killing It are available online at Eventbrite.ca and at Books and Co. in Picton. Check the WKI Facebook page or email womenkillingit@ gmail.com for links to event and ticket information.

On Saturday evening, the remaining authors will take part in a panel discussion about writing, publishing, mystery, murder and other fun topics. “This year our Saturday night event will be held in the chapel at Glenwood Cemetery,” says Kellough. “We found the combination of mystery and a spooky setting irresistible.”

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Poet Mark Lesage Mark Lesage lives in Tweed,

Ont. A musician, he plays bass with the classic country and rock n roll quintet, the Charlie Bird Band. Mark has been writing poetry for as long as he can remember: “I regard poetry writing as therapy. It allows me to get things off my chest. To put down ideas just to see what they look like in print,“ he says. He is also a regular contributor to First Tuesday Muse, a poetry reading event on the first Tuesday of every month at the Tweedsmuir, the brainchild of Billy Piton and Peter Snell.

The Dancing Serpent

On the Seas

The serpent was the garden’s cleverest his skin was karma, peeled off every new moon, religiously.

His soft eyes drank in the sun and bled with pity; a gift everyone refused.

He danced on two legs and chased his long tail.

“See, I am not that serpent” he said His friends still doubted, but did not say anything, lest it might be true and they would have no claim to fame in their midst Did I say that he danced?

He rocked and he rolled where his hips might have been in another age of revolutionor age of creationhowever you want to look at it.

If his friends could see him they would say he was being shamefully self-indulgent But, the reality is, he was quite invisible.

On the seas on the beautiful seas I ride a boat a dinky dingy with a full mast and a large breasted woman jutting from the prow, I do yoga with the rats Still, it was a bad idea rescuing them (even though I’m breathing very well) because they are gnawing at the ropes my ankles everything Don’t they know how to die with dignity?

There are so many...

Could we not get them to sing as a choir or something?

That would be lovely; a chorus of squeaks and squawks going heavenward Except for the doddlers those picking hemp from between their teeth with the bones of dead relatives.

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QAC’s Expressions 2019

By Janet Jarrell

Expressions 2019 Exhibit at the John M. Parott Gallery

No theme was chosen or necessary

to encourage the artists from the Quinte area to express themselves. Through photography, needlepoint, fibre art, paint and many mixed mediums, the artists collectively pulled together a beautiful show. This year’s show displays a high quality of artistic ability in all areas.

Juror’s Choice Award went to Mandy Bing for Share the Road. Lucy Manley commented, “The subject was handled very well and with good balance. My first impression was what a ‘funky’ idea. It was drawn and painted with expertise; good colour and harmony; aerial perspective led you down the lane and to the shore and back to the sheep.”

Juror’s Choice Award Share the Road

by Mandy Bing

Juror’s Choice went to Stewart Hood for Crystal Lake. Frank Edwards commented “This is a difficult composition, handled successfully. The linear perspective in the upper and lower portions of the painting support each other in leading the viewer’s eye to the distant background vanishing point. In the aerial perspective, the colour values lessen as they recede to the vanishing point. This application of colour gives the impression of distance. Very clever!”

Juror’s Choice Crystal Lake

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QAC Expressions 2019 Artists

Ontario Craft Award went to Marta Mouka for Wood Nymph. Jurors comments, “This piece of art was exceptionally well presented and worthy of an award. It was labour intensive and pleasing to the eye.”

The Quinte Arts Council would like to thank the jurors, Lucy Manly from Keene, Ont., and Frank Edwards from Kingston. We would also like to thank Trevor Pross, Sue Holland (curator) and the staff of the John M Parrott Gallery. Thanks also to our volunteer, Dianne Haggarty, to Maple Dale Cheese for providing the refreshments and to Dwane Barratt of Barratt’s Office Pro for sponsoring the awards.

Ontario Craft Award Wood Nymph by Marta Mouka

Honourable Mention Gazing Beauty

by Chris Finkle

Honourable Mention Evolving

by Niki Mitz Umbrella, Summer 2019 - 15

Honourable Mention Racing the Rumble by Pat Werden

Visit the Parrott Gallery this Summer

By Susan Holland, Curator Susan Holland, Curator of John M. Parrot Art Gallery. Photograph by Brian Choi

We are going to let you in

on one of the best kept secrets in town. It’s time for you to discover, or rediscover, the hidden gem on the third floor of the Belleville Public Library: the John M. Parrott Gallery. First, let’s draw back the curtain to get a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes to make it all happen.

Our collection mandate is to display work by significant regional artists, or, alternately, works with significant regional content.

Every four to six weeks the exhibitions in the galleries change over, but—here’s a fun fact—the work on each show sometimes begins two or more years prior to the exhibit. It starts with planning sessions with the artists, and we collect the publicity images and information about the makers and their work. Next, the work is delivered and inventoried, and then the fun begins.

The work is curated and arranged in a way that emphasizes the strongest points of each piece and ensures the best possible viewing experience.

personal collection and donated by the Parrott Foundation. All of the works in that collection have now been professionally cleaned, and several are on display in the Gallery and throughout the Library.

We also are caretakers to a very large permanent collection of artwork, including approximately 80 Manly MacDonald paintings that were Jack Parrott’s

The other collections and individual works by regional artists in our care are also rotated for display throughout the building. Our collection mandate is to display work by significant regional artists, or, alternately, works with significant regional content. We will always gratefully consider any offers of donations.

Throughout the year, we offer a wide variety of programming for visitors’ enjoyment as well. Art talks

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John M. Parrot Art Gallery on the third floor of the Belleville Public Library. Photograph by Brian Choi

and workshops, life drawing and doodling, and several music performances each year round out the gallery experience. If you have any ideas about what you’d like to see happening here, we’d love to hear from you!

The Parrott Gallery Shop showcases and sells the work of our uber-talented regional artisans. From fibre to wood, glass to ceramic, there is something for everyone. The shop is one of Belleville’s hidden treasures, but not for long. We’d love to see you during your visit to the Library and Gallery. bellevillelibrary.ca | @bellevillepubliclibrary on Facebook

Expressions collection. Photo by Adam Gray Umbrella, Summer 2019 - 17

Belleville Art Association Turns 60!

By Author

Belleville Art Association Turns 60!

By Renee Hiltz

The Belleville Art Association. Photograph by Adam Gray

There’s a new gallery

in the District. Can you believe the Belleville Art Association (BAA) is 60 years young? The anniversary of the BAA has included many special events, most importantly the move to our new location at 208 Front Street in the Gallery District of Belleville’s revitalized downtown core.

Art gives you a sense of purpose, builds your self esteem, keeps your brain flexable and improves your mental health.

From the early days starting in the basement of the King George School, the BAA has always dreamed of having its own gallery.

The founding members include a prestigious list of local artists such as Barbara Whelan, Bea Williamson, Muriel Andrews, Dolly Cain and Madge Whitfield to name a few.

Joan Reive, Claudette Boulanger and Claudia McCabe are just some of the professional artists that are part of this group. Members enjoy social opportunities, including luncheons, show openings and seasonal celebrations. Members can participate as art ambassadors for the BAA by helping out in the gallery.

Artistic pursuits can often be a solitary activity, but being part of the BAA provides an opportunity to be part of a vital, thriving, artistic community.

Art gives you a sense of purpose, builds your self esteem, keeps your brain flexible and improves your mental health. BAA members enjoy these benefits and more. Membership is open to anyone working in any medium with any level of expertise or experience.

Fellowship, friendship and mentorship are integral parts of this unique community. There are artists just emerging in their artistic practice, as well as established artists with international reputations.

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Archival photograph of Belleville General Hospital

Pandemic: Unmasking the Spanish Flu

By Melissa Wakeling

A new travelling exhibition

on the world’s deadliest influenza pandemic is coming to Belleville. Pandemic: Unmasking Influenza will make one of its first tour stops at Glanmore National Historic Site. The exhibit is produced by Ingenium in partnership with Canadian Geographic and the Museum of Health Care at Kingston.

The Spanish Flu swept across Canada between 1918 and 1919. With no effective vaccine or treatment, the virus infected Canadians at an alarming rate, resulting in at least 55,000 deaths; most were young adults. By the fall of 1918, the pandemic had gathered an intensity the world had never experienced before. During its peak, some reports stated that approximately 1,000 Canadians were dying each day. In extreme cases victims died within hours.

The exhibition looks at a wide range of themes: the First World War and the spread of the virus; the heavy toll the Spanish Flu took on Canada’s indigenous communities; measures taken to prevent the spread of the disease; and the Spanish Flu as a transformative event in public health and Canadian society. Glanmore National Historic Site will be adding local artifacts, newspaper reports and photographs to show how Belleville and the Quinte Region were impacted by this global pandemic.

Historic photographs courtesy of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County.

Pandemic: Unmasking Influenza will be on display from August 9 to September 29, 2019. A special opening reception will be held at the museum on Thursday, August 8, 2019 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. All are welcome. glanmore.ca

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QAC’s Bursaries Fund Guitar Workshops

By David Reed

Matt Smith plays at Eastside Secondary

Spring

was an exciting time

in the Eastside Secondary School Music Department, thanks to the generous support of the Quinte Arts Council.

On Wednesday March 2, local blues musician Matt Smith was a special guest in the guitar classes. He shared his journey in music, the history of the blues, and demonstrated some amazing musicianship through performance on the guitar, National Steel and mandolin. Students also learned about slide guitar, open tunings and Smith even played a bit of harmonica and sang. After a month of students working on their skills, Smith returned for a second session on April 3, and the students played some blues with him. These workshops were generously funded with a Quinte Arts Council bursary.

Hanlon shared his thoughts on technique, and some truly inspiring solo and duet On Wednesday March 20, guitar students were treated to a special performance and workshop with Queen’s University guitar professor Jeff Hanlon. The class learned about the history of classical guitar and heard Hanlon play a variety of traditional and modern repertoire, along with second-year guitar student Lucas. Hanlon shared his thoughts on technique, and some truly inspiring solo and duet performances.

This workshop was made possible with funding from the Eugene Lang Bursary for classical music in the classrooms.

Blues in the Schools

By Ian McKendry

On Thursday, April 25 blues rock guitarist Michael Schatte led grade 7, 8, and 9 students at Centennial Secondary School on a musical journey with his Blues In The Schools performance. Michael Schatte explained various guitar techniques and music history to the students, but it was his virtuoso guitar playing that wowed the audience and inspired an engaging question period toward the end of the show. Staff and students at Centennial Secondary School would like to acknowledge and thank Blues In The Schools, the Loyal Blues Fellowship, and the Quinte Arts Council for supporting this special event.

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Sara Holton International Scholarship Announced

By Jane Gardner

Sara Holton & Stephen Allan in Sleeping Beauty. Photo Bob House

The first recipients

of the Sara Holton International Scholarship have been announced

by Catherine Taylor, Artistic Director of Quinte Ballet School of Canada (QBSC). Katie Baird and Daryk Richards, current students in QBSC’s professional training program and Grade 11 students at Centennial Secondary School, will each receive a scholarship to attend the Royal Danish Ballet Summer School in Copenhagen for three weeks in July.

“When Sara came to the Quinte Ballet School of Canada in Grade 7, it was immediately clear that this young girl loved to move and to dance, and was smitten with

ballet,” says Taylor. “With every year in her training at QBSC, we saw steady and excellent progression in Sara’s dancing. She loved the city of Copenhagen as much as she loved the ballet program she attended in July 2018.” Sara hoped one day to audition for the Royal Danish Ballet; however, she was never able to as she died on Sept. 23, 2018, at the age of 17, just a few weeks after returning from Europe.

family, in particular, her grandfather, who saw first-hand how important it was for her to attend international summer dance training programs.

To honour Sara, a long-standing student of QBSC, her grandfather, Rolfe Morrison, along with family members and friends, donated funds to establish a scholarship in her memory. Her love of travel was shared with her extended

Baird adds, “one of the many things I loved about Sara was her excitement towards dancing. She had a tremendous impact on me; she was an amazing dancer and friend.”

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Richards says, “Sara inspired me to work hard and made me want to do even more with my dance. She always liked new experiences. She was totally committed to her dance and I want to try and replicate her passion.”

The Cast of Beauty and the Beast (2018), directed by Ken MacDougall.

(L-R) Heather Jones, Avery Kearse, Gabrielle Quesnel, Nate Meakins, Kai Evoy, Joy Chorolovski

The Arts: Training Youth for Success

By Ken MacDougall

After

I left theatre school,

I started working in a series of part-time office jobs.

I noticed that many of the required skills were similar to those I learned in school. The ability to communicate effectively, teamwork and empathy are the foundations of the rehearsal process in theatre, not just skills for the workplace.

I also noticed that many of my classmates didn’t pursue theatre as a career, but ended up in a wide variety of other jobs and businesses.

Theatre school has helped me as the Artistic Director of the Stirling Festival Theatre (SFT). I have carried my skills as an actor and director into the day-to-day running of this business. The takeaway is that participation in theatre teaches much more than just the basics of performing in front of a live audience. There are valuable lessons to be learned from the arts, both in life and on the job.

Our SFT Young Company offers youth, ages 10 to 18, professional theatre experiences. Under the mentorship of professionals, youth have the opportunity to work on full-length musicals. Besides on-stage experience, they can also work backstage as assistant stage managers, or follow spot operators and costume assistants. Realistically, most won’t choose the

arts as a career (some will and already have) but they all obtain early training that they can apply to their future vocation. And some former members even return to the Young Company as professionals, which happened in our 2018 production of Beauty and the Beast. The Young Company’s next show is Shrek the Musical running from August 8 to 24.

Summer also marks the SFT’s annual theatre camps: two weeks of song, dance and improvisation for 8 to 12 year olds in July and August. Each five-day camp winds up with a Family and Friends Showcase on the main stage.

For those looking to try out a musical instrument, a new Musical Instrument Lending Library (MILL) opened on January 9. The Stirling MILL, located at the Stirling-Rawdon Public Library, has more than 40 instruments ready to lend. With an annual $30 membership fee, this is a great way to introduce youth to the magic of music. Local Yokels, a fundraiser for the MILL, will be held in the Burrell Hall at the Stirling Theatre on July 27, and features some of the area’s finest musicians, as well as young musicians who have benefited from this programme. stirlingfestivaltheatre.com | @stirlingfestivaltheatre on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

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#villagewings Chantelle Dinkel stands in front of her interactive mural

Come take a selfie in front of the new interactive mural

on 30 Bridge Street East in the heart of the village in downtown Belleville. Tag your photos at #villagewings and show us your pics.

The mural is proudly sponsored by Paulo’s and Dinkel’s restaurant, Dulux paints and the artist Chantelle Dinkel who donated her time and talents.

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You can find more of Chantelle’s work at chantelledinkel.com and follow her adventures around the world on Instagram @ChantelleDinkel or her murals @Swanahilt.

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Volunteer Corner Dedication to the Moira River

By Debi Nelson

Sitting on the banks of the Moira River, watching through watery eyes as childhood memories roll on by. For the love of yesterday’s where the laughter of children could be heard, fun-filled days, when splashing was the name of the game in the cool waters of the Moira River.

The river seems like an ocean when you’re five and learning to swim. Mom hollering to Cathy “keep your sister’s head above water.” Oh, to relive those memories along side and inside the Moira River.

Thank you Lord for the gift of memory, allowing us to step back in time and recall, even for a moment, the best days of our lives. For me, I was five, living on the Moira River. Nothing stands still like the flow of the water, but the picture remains the same for the gift of childhood memories along the river.

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Arts Calendar ------------------------- JUNE ------------------------MAY 1 – JUN 26: Arts on Main Gallery: Backroom Show “Earth” 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Arts on Main Gallery in Picton MAY 31 – JUN 28: Oil Painting For Beginners 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, The Baxter Centre Working on a manageable 8×10″ canvas each week, students will learn the basics, starting with sketching out an idea, transferring a sketch to the canvas followed by step by step instruction on paint mixing and application. Teaching is by demonstration and one-on-one instruction. Dates: Fridays – May 31, June 14 and 28 Cost: $90.

JUNE -- AUG: Loyalist College Summer Arts 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Loyalist College The Summer Arts 2019 programming includes a variety of workshops and courses featuring local artists Lori Meeboer, Donna Bonin and Ron Pickering. Also feature classes taught by Douglas J Purdon, Valerie Kent and Hi Sook Barker.

Sharlen Wood will be returning with 3 offerings this year. Classes run weekly May through July.

Register today! The Summer Arts brochure is available at loyalistfocus.com or by calling 613969-1913 x2467

on why they should be considered for the QAC Arts Recognition Award. Awards presented at the Luncheon for the Arts in September. Nomination forms available from the QAC office at 36 Bridge St. E, Belleville and online at quinteartscouncil.org.

JUN 8: Quinte Ballet School of Canada’s Dance of Spring Showcase 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Centennial Secondary School QBSC’s Professional Training Program’s year end performance. For tickets call 613-962-9274 ex 36 (Teresa) or ex 23 (Helen). $12 for children, $18 for student/senior, $22 for an adult JUN 11: Tuesday Workshop with Rachel Harbour 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Parrott Gallery Open Studio! Do you have unfinished paintings at home? Would you like to have a refresher on something we learned? Would you like simply to come out and paint? This unstructured workshop will be open to your questions and painting hiccups, and if Rachel can help you, she will. An Acrylic Pouring corner will be set up for those just wanting to “get messy” and move some paint. Come and play.

JUN 14: Quinte Arts Council’s 52nd Annual General Meeting 5:00 pm, The Belleville Club, 210 Pinnacle St.

JUN 6: Opening Reception, Confabulation of the Imagination & Nocturnal Reflections 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Parrott Gallery Claudia McCabe and her students invite you to their second group exhibition, Confabulation of the Imagination. Artist, painter & printmaker Rob Niezen opens his show, Nocturnal Reflections.

Both run June 6 to July 11.

JUN 18: Tuesday Workshop with Rachel Harbour 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Acrylic: Cloisonné Style Animals. Using heavy black outlines to encase bold, colourful patterns, we will paint simple animal compositions which will look completely at home in any sunny corner of a house...or patio!

JUN 8: Deadline for Submissions – QAC’s Arts Recognition Awards Know someone who has demonstrated support for the arts in Quinte? Send approx. 250 words

JUN 15: Carpe Diem Spring Concert 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Parrott Gallery The Carpe Diem String Ensemble returns for the ever-popular annual Parrott Gallery spring concert.

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Arts Calendar JUN 15: Where the River Flows 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Marmora Curling Club Marmora Friends of the Library and River & Main Theatre Company present one-man show Where the River Flows, a bittersweet comedy by Peter Paylor featuring Bill Petch. Free admission.

JUN 20, JUL 18, AUG 15: Drawing Room 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Parrott Gallery, 3rd floor meeting room. Non-instructional studio sessions to encourage the traditional practice of drawing and painting the human figure from a draped model. Contact 613-968-6731 x2040 or e-mail gallery@bellevillelibrary.ca JUN 21, JUL 19, AUG 16: Doodle Group 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Parrott Gallery Join us for our monthly doodling sessions.

Bring your creations, tools of the trade, and a willingness to share your creativity. Free sessions hosted by Marita Langlois. Contact 613-9686731 x2040 or join the Doodle Group at facebook.com/groups/thedoodlegroup/

JUN 22: Night Kitchen Too 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm, Henry’s Place in Corbyville Belleville’s Acoustic Musical Variety Show travels to Corbyville. Tickets $10, at artists and artisans gallery on Bridge Street or at the doors at 7:30pm.

JUN 22 – JUN 23: Colour Theory for the Figure Painter 10:00 am - 4:30 pm, Baxter Arts Centre Develop your understanding of the basics and the finer points of colour theory and how to apply that knowledge to the painting of the figure. Instructor: Brian Smith JUN 23 @ 2:00pm/JUN 24 @ 7pm: Auditions for “Outside Mullingar” Belleville Theatre Guild Open auditions for Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley at the Pinnacle Playhouse. Show runs from Oct. 3 to 19. Call 613-967-1442 or visit bellevilletheatreguild.ca.

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JUL 7 @ 2:00pm/ JUL 8 @ 7:00pm: Auditions for Annual Evening of One-Act Plays – JUN 21 – JUL 7: Belleville Theatre Guild 26th annual Art in the County Juried Exhibition Open auditions for the Annual Evening of Oneand Sale Act Plays, original works by local playwrights, at 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, The Mess Hall, 206 Main St., the Pinnacle Playhouse. Shows run from August Picton Prince Edward County Arts Council presents 28 to 31. If you’ve ever wanted to try acting, over 100 works by County artists. Admission is $3. short plays are the perfect starting point. Call Free for children under 12 years of age. Free on 613-967-1442 or visit bellevilletheatreguild.ca.

Canada Day! JUN 25: BPL Writers’ Collective 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, The Belleville Public Library, 2nd floor board room The BPL Writers’ Collective meets every 4th Tuesday of the month. Join other writers to chat about your work, get ideas and gain insight on how to improve your writing, fiction or nonfiction.

No registration required, everyone welcome!

Call 613-968-6731 x2037.

JUL 7: The Commodores Orchestra In The Park 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Zwicks Park Bandshell, Belleville. Canada’s longest-operating big swing band in a free concert at Zwick’s Park. The music of Glenn Miller, Basie, Benny, Artie and Ol’ Blue Eyes, and more.

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Arts Calendar JUL 8 – JUL 12: QYU Masterpiece Performing Arts Day Camp 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, Maranatha Christian Reformed Church JUL 15 – JUL 19: Evangel Pentecostal Church JUL 22 – JUL 26: Bethal Pentecostal Church JUL 29 – AUG 2: Madoc Baptist Church Our mission is to give students an opportunity to experience the performing arts in a safe environment based on biblical values. Each week has a theme that is reflected in the artwork.

Snacks and Lunch are provided. Cost is $130 per student. Register at qyu.ca/masterpiece JUL 13 – JUL 14: Pour Your Heart Out Acrylic Pouring Workshop 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Loyalist College Join Valerie Kent as you learn the four basic pouring techniques to help you achieve results that are intentionally unintentional. Using acrylic paint and a variety of interesting additives, you will create a minimum of five canvases. Paint and additives will be provided and are included in the course fee. Level: Beginners and beyond.

JUL 15 – JUL 19: Loose & Lively Plein Air Valerie Kent Workshops 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Loyalist College Working in either watercolour or acrylics on paper and canvas, we will plan composition, choose the “big picture” or the “zoom in” approach. Instruction will focus on quick set up techniques, minimizing materials, selecting a spot for shadow, colour, light or view, and on the value of sketching. Level: Beginners and beyond.

JUL 18: Opening Reception - Quinte Photo Club 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Parrott Gallery The Quinte Photo Club and watercolour painter & children’s book illustrator Thérèse Cilia invite you to the opening reception of their respective shows. Runs until Aug. 22.

JUL 19 – JUL 20: Trenton Big Band Festival 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm, RiverFront Square, Trenton The Commodores Orchestra hosts the 7th annual Trenton Big Band Festival. Tap your toes, snap your fingers, or dance the evening away by the beautiful Trent River in downtown Trenton. Free admission.

--------------------- AUGUST ---------------------AUG 3: A (musical) Midsummer Night’s Dream 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Marmora Memorial Park Marmora Friends of the Library and Driftwood Theatre present “A (musical) Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The Bard’s Bus Tour celebrates 25 years by revisiting Shakespeare’s most magical, musical story. Bring a chair and enjoy theatre under the stars by the Crowe river. Free admission or PWYC. AUG 8: Exhibit Opening Reception “Pandemic: Unmasking Influenza” 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Glanmore National Historic Site The world’s deadliest influenza pandemic, the Spanish Flu, swept across Canada between 19181919, resulting in approximately 55,000 deaths.

Discover how this pandemic profoundly impacted the history of Canada in this new travelling exhibit from Ingenium. Local artifacts, newspaper reports and photographs will show how Belleville and the Quinte Region were affected. Show runs from Aug. 9 to Sept 29.

AUG 15: Hannah Barstow and the Commodores Orchestra 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Wellington United Church The Commodores Orchestra showcases the talents of emerging jazz star Hannah Barstow of Napanee at the 2019 Prince Edward County Jazz Festival. A jazz graduate of the University of Toronto, Hannah will sing, play piano, and lead the band in some of her own arrangements.

Tickets $25 at the Regent Theatre in Picton.

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AUG 28 – AUG 31: Annual Evening of One-Act Plays – Belleville Theatre Guild 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm, Pinnacle Playhouse Don’t miss our 6th Annual Evening of OneAct Plays, featuring six original works by local playwrights Adri Boodoosingh, Ian C. Feltham, Maurice Leslie, Judie Preece, Victor Schukov and Keith Taylor. Not part of our subscription season. Tickets $10. Call 613-967-1442 or visit bellevilletheatreguild.ca.

AUG 29: OPENING RECEPTION 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Parrott Gallery Barry Argyle, Bunny Bates, Trevor Bates and Don Pinder – Four Friends – invite you to their combined show featuring sculpture and painting.

Artist Robert Tokley opens show Slow Moving Pictures of oil on canvas landscapes. Show runs until Sept. 26.

AUG 30 – SEP 1: Women Killing It Crime Writers’ Festival 7:00 pm AUG 30 -- Sept. 1: Various locations Picton 12:00 pm, Meet some of Canada’s best female crime writers on Labour Day weekend! Table-hop, discussions, workshops and more! Visit our WKI Facebook page or email womenkillingit@gmail. com for links to ticket info.

NOTICE TO THE QAC MEMBERSHIP The Quinte Arts Council’s 52nd Annual General Meeting Friday June 14th, 5:00 pm The Belleville Club, 210 Pinnacle St., Belleville Meeting will include: • Election of Board of Directors • Financial Statements • Recognition of the Board • Introduction of new staff • Social time & networking, with snacks & cash bar • Live entertainment

2 weekends in Picton

6 INSPIRED CONCERTS! Gryphon Trio Jamie Parker Julie Nesrallah Robert Kortgaard True North Brass Aloysia Friedman Les Violons Du Roy Charles Richard-Hamelin Jon Kimura Parker New Orford String Quartet

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QAC Business Members and Donors Premier Arts Benefactor

Ron & Betty MacDonald Linda Mazur-Jack Bob and Cathy McCallum Sharon McConnell Judith McKnight Mavis Milton Elizabeth Mitchell Vera Morton Linda Mustard Mary O’Flynn Terry Self Mary Shipton Dennis Stembridge Christina Taylor Wendy Tice Lyle & Sharon Vanclief Diana Ward Margaret Werkhoven Douglas and Mary Wilson Bill and Bev Yeotes

The John M and Bernice Parrott Foundation The City of Belleville McDougall Insurance & Financial

Premier Supporter Anne Cunningham Maurice Rollins Lynda Wheeler Audrey Williams

Partners

David & Theresa Boyd Denmar Farms Elaine Small & Richard Haeberlin Janet Jarrell Ross McDougall Mary-Lynne Morgan Jack Press

Benefactors

Bob Blanchard & Rick Hammond Hans & Lenneke Buré Leo & Mary Jo Fortin Lois Foster Adam Gibson Gary Magarrell Ray McCoy Paul & Judith Niedermayr Susan Nurse Lola Reid Allin Rick & Elizabeth Rolston Jenny Woods

Patrons

Marilyn Andrews Mary Bould Gerry and Bev Boyce Janice Brant Julie Brown Hale Diane Burley Jennifer Chanter Lois Foster Shirley A. French Marilyn Jackson Ann Lawrence Judy Lesson Kim & Glenn Lidstone John Lightbody Suzanne Lowther

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