Arts Scene

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Fezziwig auditions

Auditions for the next Fezziwig Family Christmas Frolic will take place June 4 and 5 between 6 and 9 p.m. at the Wolfville Fire Hall.

The Fezziwig Society seeks children and youth ages nine to 18, both sexes. Auditionees should prepare one song from the musical theatre repertoire no more than two minutes in length. Accompanying movement is also welcome.

Please bring sheet music for the song or a CD to sing with. An accompanist will be provided. To arrange an audition time, call 678-1700.

Festival dance

The Village of New Minas will host a new event for this spring’s Apple Blossom Festival. The Sentimental Journey Apple Blossom edition is a social and a dance for seniors (50+) with Loran Fevens.

The dance will be held Tuesday, May 27 at the New Minas Volunteer Fire Hall from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and is expected to sell out by attracting 180 seniors from the Annapolis Valley and province.



Award-winning Valley voices

The Annapolis Valley Honour Choir's year-end concert, Watching the Apples Grow, will be held at Acadia University's Manning Memorial Chapel June 1 at 3 p.m. A freewill offering is requested toward the choir's trip to Europe this summer. The choir is currently preparing for a performance tour to Paris and Prague in July.

The AVHC is a 60-voice, auditioned youth choir that presents concerts, sings at churches and various community functions. It travels locally, nationally and, on occasion, internationally.

Members are Annapolis Valley students entering Grades 7-12 in September. Generally, the choir performs about once a month, with three major concerts a year in December, February and May.

Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings at New Minas Elementary School. Each choir member pays a $90 membership fee and is also expected to help fundraise.

Auditions will be held between 6-8 p.m. Monday, June 2 at the Middleton High School band room and on June 4-5 at New Minas Elementary School.

At the audition, students are asked to sing a prepared song (an accompanist is provided, or they can bring their own), sing scales, imitate rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Audition application forms can be obtained from school music teachers or by calling the choir director Bill Perrot at 825-4946 or Krista at 679-2341.

Deadline for audition applications is Monday, May 26.

Group voices

Wolville music teacher Susan Dworkin is organizing two special vocal workshops for this summer. Along with Dworkin, Masami Suzuki will act as accompanist and Robert McCarthy will be lecturing.

Two weeks have been set aside - either the week of July 28 or Aug. 4 - for the week-long intensive classes for high school, university students or adults interested in improving their singing technique.

Register before July 7 by phoning 542-0649.

Orchestra visits

On Saturday, May 24 the Four Seasons Community Orchestra from Windsor will be in concert at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville. Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $10.



On screen

Fundy Film screens Up the Yangtze next week. Director Yung Chang dramatically documents China’s damming of the mythic and majestic Yangtze River and the effect the Three Gorges Dam mega-project has on the people who live along its banks.

It will screen in Wolfville, Wednesday, May 21 at 7 p.m.

Fundy Film will also screen The Savages about close-knit, bickering middle-aged siblings. Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman take on the care of their estranged father (Philip Bosco).

A script of barbed wit, irascible humor and bittersweet family dynamics provides a strong vehicle for exceptional performances. It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville Sunday, May 26: 4 and 7 p.m. and Monday, May 27 at 7 p.m.

Tickets at $8 will be available 30 minutes before screening. Visit www.fundyfilm.ca or phone 542-5157.

Coming up

May 24

Smokin’ Entertainment spring fling with Tara Lee Combs, the Cuban Assassins, Subspecies; KAPS Lounge, Kentville, 8 p.m. Advance tickets $5, 691-4747

Until June 22

Tony Myers’ exhibition, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts near Canning

Until June 30

Acadia Print Series’ from the permanent collection, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville