Kings arts scene - as of Jan. 3

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

Kings County Register

Call to artists

The Annual Acadia Art show is in its 17th year and focuses on the arts in this community.

Acadia Art Gallery director Laurie Dalton says she and volunteers are looking for visual expressions that have been produced recently - paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramic art, sculpture and video.

“In addition,” she says, “we’re also looking for individuals who might want to present a performance, play an instrument or present a poetry reading.”

Entry forms with submission guidelines are available at the Acadia University Art Gallery and on the gallery’s website.

Works may be submitted Jan. 11 to 17 during gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Exhibition dates are Jan. 25 to March 28, with an opening reception Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.

Night Kitchen

Andy Flinn and Ariana Nasr have lined up another Night Kitchen concert for Jan. 5 at 8 p.m.

The talented line-up includes: Caleb Miles, Adam Bazinet, Jamie Loughead, Donna Holmes, Jesse and Liam Potter and Paul and Delores Boudreau, Avard Woolaver, Anthony Wood, Jeff MacLean, Linda Fuller and Chris Robison.

It will unfold at Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville. Tickets are $10 ($7 in advance) at the Just Us Café.

Close to Home in Berwick

January 6 at the Lions’ hall in Berwick., the Annapolis Valley Bluegrass and Old-time Music Association presents Close to Home

From the South Shore area of Nova Scotia, this award winning bluegrass band has been entertaining fans for over 25 years. A favorite at many maritime festivals, Close To Home has also appeared at venues in Ontario and Maine.

Close To Home recorded itsfirst album in 1988 and won Recording of the Year at the Eastern Canadian Bluegrass Music Awards. The CD, All in Good Tyme, was released in the spring of 2003 and their long awaited gospel CD, One Sunday Morning, was recorded in 2005.

Over the years, Close To Home has won numerous Eastern Canadian Bluegrass Music awards including Band of the Year, Vocal Group (on four occasions), and in 2005 lead singer Kevin Baker received the Male Vocalist award for the fifth time.

Band members include Gordon Hubley on banjo, Richard Hubley on bass, Jim Bollivar on guitar, and Kevin Baker on mandolin. All members lend their voices.

Opening act is Ron Deadder and Acoustic Country; 2 p.m. Advance tickets are $8; at the door, $10.

Winding down

The Minas Basin: Elements of Light exhibition at the Acadia Art Gallery will close Jan. 9.

Geri Nolan-Hilfiker has created images with a handcrafted pinhole camera that uses neither a lens or a viewfinder. She uses a simple box with a black interior and a tiny hole at one end.

This exhibition features work of the familiar shoreline and waterways near her home along the Minas Basin.

Book club flick, Fundy Film settles in for winter series

Fundy Film begins its Winter Main Series with The Jane Austen Book Club.

Life imitates art in this adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s bestselling novel about a book club reading the work of Jane Austen. Each member of the group is at a different stage of life and they discover the writer’s work is just as relevant in the 21st Century as in the 19th Century. The film succeeds largely because of the strength of its terrific cast.

It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville Jan. 6 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Jan. 7 at 7 p.m.

Fundy Film begins its Winter Edge Series with No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), who may have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Their faithful adaptation of McCarthy’s much-praised novel features a stellar cast (including a never-better Tommy Lee Jones), great cinematography and a gripping and tense story. This thriller might very well be the Coen brothers’ finest film. At the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville Jan. 13, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

For information, see www.fundyfilm.ca or call (902) 542-5157. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes prior to the film.

Arts series

January 19 at 8 p.m., Festival Theatre in Wolfville will have a Halifax dance troupe onstage.

Mocean (pronounced: motion) Dance seeks to bring audiences work that engages, provokes thought, involves the emotions, and enhances the appreciation of dance.

Their appearance is part of the Acadia Performing Arts Series.

Coming up

Jan. 6

Close to Home, with opening act Ron Deadder and Acoustic Country; Berwick Lions Hall, 2 p.m.

Until Jan. 9

Geri Nolan-Hilfiker photos, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville