By Wendy Elliott
welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
NovaNewsNow.com
Camp Triumph benefit
Wolfville native Jordan Sheriko, who is finishing his first year at Dalhousie Medical School, has a group of his fellow students lined up to perform You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown May 10–11.
The class of 2011 Dal Med Players will be on stage at Sheriko’s old school, Horton High, for one evening and one matinee performance. All proceeds will benefit Camp Triumph.
The May 10 show is at 7 p.m., while the matinee starts at 2 p.m. on May 11.
Tickets range in price from $10 to $50.
Country music special
A special concert of country music is slated for the Canning Lions hall Saturday, May 3.
Among those on stage will be MC Jim Crowell, Jim Richard and Rusty Cage, Rough Edges, Chet Brown, Gordie Giles, Graham Moorehead, Ralph Conrod and Carl Dalrymple.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame. Dalrymple was inducted in 2004 and Brown two years ago.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m., with the show starting an hour later. Tickets are $8.
Quebec flick
Fundy Film screens Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil, which is about the inexplicable disappearance of a businessman affecting four disconnected people and setting off a chain of events.
Québec’s Stéphane LaFleur’s dazzling directorial debut is remarkable for a deadpan style, distinctive visual look and profound sympathy for its hopelessly lost subjects.
It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, Sunday, May 4 at 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 and available 30 minutes before the screening.
www.fundyfilm.ca or 542-5157.
A celebration
The Box of Delights Bookshop in Wolfville is hosting a celebration of poetry and prose, performed by notable authors and poets, to mark the culmination of a year’s fundraising for the Unicef Girls’ Education Fund.
The invitation is for Wednesday, April 30 at 7 p.m. at the Main St. bookstore. Enjoy offerings of story and verse from Kelly Redcliffe, Christy Ann Conlin, Blanca Baquero, Sophie Berube and Ami Mckay.
Lucas in concert
Lucas Porter, a Grade 12 student at Horton High School, will take part in a benefit concert shortly for the school’s Safe Grad program.
In addition to Lucas on piano, the concert will feature the Horton String Ensemble and Horton Choir. The concert is set for Wednesday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
It will take place at the Performance Centre at Horton. Tickets are available at the school or at Cochrane’s Pharmasave in Wolfville. They cost $10 for adults and $8 for students.
Cape Breton Square set
This year’s fifth annual Cape Breton Square set dance will be Saturday, May 10 at the Wolfville Lion’s Hall. Doors open at 7 p.m. for a “how-to” lesson with Christy Hodder and Cape Breton fiddler Dara Smith.
The dance officially gets under way at 7:45 p.m. and there will be a break in the middle of the evening for a mini Ceilidh.
Tickets are $8 per person or $35 for large families. Contact Christy Hodder for the fiddle workshop with Dara Smith at 542 – 3416.
Hear Bluegrass
A Bluegrass and County Music Show is set for Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wolfville Legion on Main St.
Entertainers will be Dearman Sisters, Gerald and Elsie Wood, Bill Sherman, String Fever, James Brown and Co. Emcee is James Brown. Admission is $5.
Coming up
Until May 17
Don’t Dress for Dinner, CentreStage Theatre, Kentville, 8 p.m., preview show April 3, matinee May 11 at 2 p.m. Reservations 678-8040.
Until June 30
Acadia Print Series’ featuring 18th and 19th century prints from the permanent collection, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville
Send arts items to: welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
