Come Together JUNE 28, 2025 KENTVILLE, NS
11:00 am Pride March
Calling all Nature Lovers & Wildlife Photographers
T
he Blomidon Naturalists Society (BNS) is proud to announce our first ever photo call! We often pull out our phones to capture a cool, intriguing or thought-provoking nature photo. The BNS is hoping you will share that photo so others can also appreciate our spectacular region.
Forty of the photo submissions will be displayed at our Sharing Nature Together Photo Expo at the Benjamin Bridge Winery on November 9th. Other photos will be shared in the Digital Carousel of Local Nature at the exhibition. These photos will also be shared and credited through the BNS E-newsletter, Facebook page, and Beyond The Tides magazine. The first 40 contributors will receive a free 8 by 10-inch colour print of their photo!
Miner’s Marsh
Sensory-friendly area The Red Door
12:00 pm Family Fun Fair, Queer Artisan Market, Music & Resource Fair
And anyone can purchase a beautifully mounted 12 by 18-inch colour print of their favourite displayed image.
Centre Square
4:00 pm Twirl Time: Family Drag Show
What are you waiting for? Anyone and everyone can enter and you don’t need a fancy camera. Send along your favourite Nova Scotia nature photo, or better yet head outside and take a new favourite— perhaps a spectacular sunset, a beautiful wildflower, kids running down a trail, ice swirls on a stream, waves lapping on a beach—anything goes. This is also a great family activity as there will be youth (under 18 years) and adult categories. You’ll be sharing your appreciation of nature and supporting the work of the BNS. Email us at... coordinator@ blomidonnaturalists.ca for the details on how to enter!
Kings Arms Pub
9:00 pm Queer Prom Maritime Express Must pre-purchase ticket ASL Interpretation Free Event
Blomidon Naturalists Society www.blomidonnaturalists.ca email... coordinator@blomidonnaturalists.ca
THE ROAD TO HERE: 34 YEARS OF TWO PLANKS AND A PASSION THEATRE Ken Schwartz
All over the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, we’re surrounded by 34 years of memories. As we prepare for a special exhibit marking the history of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, we’ve been diving into our archives and reflecting on how the company—founded in rural Kings County in July 1992—has evolved. Posters, puppets, costumes, video clips, and old CBC interviews preserved on cassette tapes are among the items we’re reviewing for inclusion in a retrospective exhibit at the Ross Creek Professional Gallery. The exhibit will run through the summer of 2025 alongside our summer theatre season. Some of the treasures we’ve unearthed include a 1996 interview with Peter Gzowski on CBC Radio, a video of our first outdoor performance at Ross Creek in 2007, a poster from our first-ever production (See Bob Run by Daniel MacIvor) in 1992, and costumes from our 2023 staging of The Wind in the Willows, designed by Diego Cavedon Dias. And photographs—so many beautiful photographs. Curated by Ross Creek program coordinator Veronica Madero, the exhibit takes visitors through our journey: from a rurally based company touring Canada in the 1990s and early 2000s, to our transformation into an
outdoor theatre company working within the Ross Creek landscape starting in 2007. It also highlights newer ventures, including the fireside theatre introduced in 2013. While the work we produced in 1992 differs from what we create today, the same values connect it all: a rural lens, a connection to the land, a commitment to simplicity, and a belief in the transformative power of theatre. These threads have run through everything we’ve done over the past 34 years—and still do. The exhibit’s imagery of outdoor performances is a vivid reminder of the beauty surrounding Ross Creek, and the impact that landscape has had on our creative work for 18 years. Its colours, vistas, and even surprise visits from wildlife make every show unforgettable. We’re thrilled The Road to Here will be open to visitors all season. If you’ve followed us from the start, it will be a nostalgic journey. If you’re new to Two Planks and a Passion, it’s the perfect introduction to our story. Come up the mountain, explore the gallery, and stay for our latest productions: Quixote! and The Haunting of Sleepy Hollow. You’ll be glad you did.
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Annual General Meeting June 24 , 2025 7 pm Royal Canadian Legion 310 Main Street Wolfville NS
Valley Hospice Foundation invites the public to attend their 25th AGM.
www.valleyhospice.ca info@valleyhospice.ca
ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT UNDERWAY Wendy Elliott
At Wolfville Baptist Church, temporary partitions covered in plastic have been set up to reduce construction dust as a major accessibility project gets underway across three floors of the historic building, constructed in 1912. The long-envisioned and complex project is being led by architect Don Beaton and the church’s board of management. Roscoe Construction is carrying out the work on the south side of the brick building. Plans include a new entrance on the parking lot side, installation of an elevator, renovations to office spaces, upgrades to the basement washroom to meet full accessibility standards, and the addition of a washer and dryer.
The elevator will significantly improve access to the basement hall. Fundraising events have been ongoing under the leadership of Karen North. The provincial Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage contributed $50,000 toward the work. Additional funds have come from donations, bequests, and community support for the building, which serves many local groups, Beaton said. Board of management member Kathryn Himsl said the project “will transform this space into the all-inclusive, perfect heart of the community.”
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