Kings arts scene - as of Feb. 20

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

Kings County Register

Artistic garden

Twelve artists who belong to the Alliance of Kings Artists, will be showcasing their work for sale this week at the Women of Wolfville (WOW) production.

When art is purchased at the Festival Theatre, a portion of the cost will be returned to the artist and a percentage will go toward the various WOW charities.

Make your own art

The Acadia Art Gallery is holding a Community Art Day Saturday, Feb. 23 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Materials will be set up for still life, portrait and landscape projects to create your own work of art. A suggested donation of $2 will pay for supplies.

Art enthusiasts of all ages are invited to visit the 17th Annual Acadia Art Show to see the visual creativity in our community.

Show opens

Harvest Gallery presents Press, an exhibition of work by select Nova Scotia printmakers. The opening is set for Feb. 23 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Opera presenting

The Magic Flute by Mozart will be performed twice this weekend at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville.

Show times are Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 24, matinee only at 2 p.m. Tickets for $20 for $20 and children are $12, available at Just-Us Cafe or Light and Shadow Video in Wolfville.

At Fundy Film

Fundy Film continues its Winter Edge Series with Emotional Arithmetic.

In our troubled times of polarized politics and debilitating war, this extraordinary Canadian film asks how we will heal emotional wounds that linger after great upheaval. Emotional Arithmetic is about personal transformation and places extraordinary demands on its actors. Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow are more than equal to the task.

It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes prior to the film.

The society continues its Winter Doc Series with In the Shadow of the Moon.

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. Their riveting firsthand testimony is interwoven with visually stunning archival material, re-mastered from the original NASA film footage – much of it never used before. The result is an intimate epic that vividly communicates the daring, the danger, the pride and the promise of this extraordinary era in history, when the whole world literally looked up at America.

It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville Feb. 27 at 7 pm. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes prior to the film.

For information, see www.fundyfilm.ca or call 542-5157.

Writer here

The Authors @ Acadia series will present J. R. Carpenter: Mapping a Web of Words Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at the Irving Centre at Acadia University.

Carpenter is a poet, fiction writer and hypertext web artist originally from Nova Scotia, now based in Montréal. Since 1993, she has explored the web's ever-expanding potential for non-linearity, intertextuality and the integration of image and text. She has exhibited internationally and given talks at MIT and the Banff Centre.

Coming up

Feb. 21 – 23

Psst: Wanna Know a Secret? Women of Wolfville, Festival Theatre, Wolfville

Feb. 23

Community Art Day, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville, 1-4 p.m.

Feb. 23-24

The Magic Flute, Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville

Until March 20

Death of the Party, art exhibition @ Ross Creek Centre, near Canning

Until March 28

Acadia Art Show, Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville