Arts Scene

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Valley arts history

The Alliance of Kings Artists (AKA) believes the many Valley arts communities have deep and diverse cultural roots, but relatively little history has been collected.

Working with the Annapolis Regional Community Arts Council (ARCA) and the Acadia University Art Gallery, AKA has begun to shape a popular history about individuals who played a significant role in the arts and crafts disciplines.

Entitled Scratching The Surface, the initial project featured preliminary profiles on about 20 individuals representing a wide variety of cultural areas.

Bob Hainstock at AKA, Laurie Dalton at the Acadia University Art Gallery and Janet Larkman at ARCAC led a morning exploration on arts history recently in the Valley. Suggestions of names of people who may have played an important role in Valley arts and culture history were collected and a discussion about web resources was conducted at the Wolfville session.

AKA, the regional arts council for the eastern Valley, has received some provincial government support through its cultural affairs division and will be looking at a second phase of the project.

Sunday concerts

The Acadia University Alumni-sponsored classical chamber music concert series, Sunday Music in the Garden Room, returns for its 2008-2009 season of free afternoon concerts Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. in the Garden Room of the Irving Centre in Wolfville.

This concert will be an all-Johannes Brahms concert featuring three works for piano and strings. The players will be Jennifer King, popular faculty accompanist in Acadia’s School of Music, and three first desk players from Symphony Nova Scotia: concertmaster Robert Ushida, principal viola Susan Sayle and principal cello Norman Adams.

Their concert will include: Sonata in F Major, Opus 99 for cello and piano; Sonata in F Minor, Opus 120, No. 1 for viola and piano; and Quartet in C Minor for violin, viola, cello and piano.

Sunday Music in the Garden Room will present five more concerts during the academic year. The next one will be Kristen Mueller-Heaslip, soprano, winner of the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramaté Competetion, Sunday, Oct. 26. The final concert of the fall term will be Darrett Zusko, piano, who is currently on the Debut Atlantic Tour.

www.acadiau.ca

Seeking a trio

CentreStage Theatre is currently looking for three men of any age for the upcoming musical Lucky Stiff. The only requirement is performers should be able to carry a tune.



The show runs Friday and Saturday nights from Nov. 7 to Dec. 13, with a preview Nov. 6 and matinee Dec. 7. For more information, respond to centrestage@centrestage.ca or phone 678-3502 and leave a message.

Fiddles aplenty

Deep Roots is cooperating with Troy MacGillivray in presenting him and others Thursday, Oct. 2 at the Al Whittle Theatre. 'When Here Meets There' with Troy MacGillivray, Shane Cook (Grand Master Fiddle Champion), Ray Legere, Skip Holmes, and Sabra MacGillivray on stage Thursday, Oct. 2, Al Whittle Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 ($12 in advance at the Just Us Cafe in Wolfville)

At the Whittle

Fundy Film screens Fugitive Pieces this Sunday. Lyrical and complex, Jeremy Podeswa's adaptation of Anne Michael's acclaimed novel builds into a breathtaking mosaic of past and present, revealing the inner depths of a man and the ghosts that haunt him.

It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville Sunday, Sept 28, 4 and 7 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 29, 7 p.m.

Then Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov brings the life and legend of Genghis Khan to the screen in Mongol, a stunning historical epic.

Bodrov blends action and emotion against some of earth’s most arresting terrain to deliver a tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages. It also screens at the Al Whittle Theatre Sunday, Oct. 5, 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets at ($8) are available 30 minutes before screening. Visit www.fundyfilm.ca or call 542-5157.

Reading here

The Vaughan Memorial Library and The Porcupine’s Quill will present Ian Colford reading from Evidence, his first collection of short stories.



The reading is set for Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Quiet Reading Room, Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University. Refreshments will be available.



Grant on stage

Jenn Grant will give a concert in Wolfville Oct. 10. Her special guest for the evening is Amelia Curran.

The concert is set for the All Whittle Theatre in Wolfville. Tickets are available at the Just Us Café.

Book Launch

From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World is being launched in Wolfville Oct. 1 with editor Mark Fried.

The launch is set for Wednesday at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, from 7–9 p.m.

Take up ukulele

Kentville musician John Kavanagh is teaching ukulele at the town's recreation centre. He says, "drop-ins are absolutely welcome. "

Any questions can be directed his way by calling 678-3225 or e-mail: parlourukulele@gmail.com

In Windsor

Cowgirl’s Sweetheart: A Tribute to Wilf Carter will be staged at The Mermaid Imperial Performing Arts Centre in Windsor Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m.

The life and music of Canadian music pioneer Wilf Carter will be brought to life by Nathan Tinkham in songs and stories. He will be accompanied in the show by well-known fiddler Gordon Stobbe and bassist Greg Simm. Tickets ($15 adult/$12 for students) are on sale now at Moe’s Place Music Sales in Windsor. Call 798-5565.

Coming up

Until Sept. 30

Linda Moyer exhibition, Annapolis Art, Wolfville

Until Nov. 8

Edward Burtynsky’s photos, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville

Until Nov. 27

Erma Walker, Valley Regional Hospital Art Gallery, Kentville