Arts Scene

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Mark the date

This year, CentreStage Theatre in Kentville is celebrating its 25th season. On Saturday, July 12 a daylong event is planned to help celebrate this anniversary.

A yard sale, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. will be held in a tent on the theatre site. To book a table, contact Mike at mike.shopper@ns.sympatico.ca. All tables are $5. This event will happen rain or shine.

From 5-7 p.m., there will be a potluck dinner in the tent. There will be a roasted pig, drinks, plates and cutlery. A free-will donation will be taken and anyone who donates $10 will automatically become a member.

RSVP to this e-mail, centrestage@centrestagetheatre.ca or phone 678-3502 and tell us how many will be coming. The deadline for booking yard sale tables or dinner is June 30.

Finally, there will be an adult dance entitled Evening Under the Stars from 8:30-11:30 p.m. The local band, Gin and Sonic, will provide the music.

CentreStage Theatre continues to offer audiences Neil Simon's Chapter Two. The show continues each Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. until July 5. Phone 678-8040 to make reservations.

Come Back From Away

Centreville photographer Marke Slipp will have an exhibition of his photographs from the last five years at the Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum in Centreville, which continues to present local artists at its Legge Gallery.

For the month of July it will exhibit “Come Back From Away”. Slipp collected the images since moving back to Nova Scotia.

The opening reception is Thursday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. The museum and gallery is open daily throughout the summer from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.



Looking for volunteers

Help is needed for Two Planks and a Passion Theatre to create a summer full of theatrical magic. The Canning-area theatre is looking for box office assistants, ushers, canteen leaders, PR and marketing help and many other jobs starting immediately.

For more information and to volunteer, contact boxoffice@twoplanks.ca or artistic director Ken Schwartz.

Music in Pereau

On Thursday, July 3, 7.30 p.m., there will be a musical ‘Tribute to God and Country’ in Pereau.

A concert of sacred and secular choral music with the Cambridge Kiwanis Boys’ Choir and Young Men’s Chorus is set for Pereaux Baptist Church. Free-will offering

Opening concert

This year, for the first time, Wolfville vocal teacher Nancy Denton is opening her end-of-the-year concert to the public. It will take place June 29 at 2 p.m. in Wolfville Baptist Church.

Denton says, “it's a special concert in that we are featuring many of Donna Rhodenizer's songs and all the music is from the East Coast by East Coast writers.”

They include: Allister MacGillivray, Stan Rogers, Beverly MacGillivray, Leon Dubinsky, James Rankin and Denis Ryan.

Audience members are asked to bring a free-will offering for the Wolfville and Area Food Bank.

Summer screening

This weekend, Fundy Summer Films will screen Amal, which is a modern-day fable from New Delhi.

A compassionate second-generation rickshaw driver befriends a jaded billionaire disguised as a vagabond. When the rich man’s heirs find that he has left everything to the struggling driver, plots and counter-plots are hatched.

A “Canada’s Top 10 Films of 2007” winner, it will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, Sunday, June 29 at 8 p.m. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes before screening: www.fundyfilm.ca or 542-5157.

Mini film fest

An international conference in Wolfville called “What’s Working in Community Development” will feature three films. At 4 p.m. June 25, the first film in a mini-film festival will screen. It’s entitled, Black Soil. War Dance shows at 7:15 p.m. and To Play and To Fight shows at 9:30 p.m.

All films are open to the public and everyone is welcome. Admission is a suggested $5 donation per film (or $12 for all three). Proceeds will be donated to the Fundy Film Society’s digital projector fund.

Coming up

Until June 22

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

June 28

Stan Carew, Breeze and Wilson, Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville

Until June 30

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

Until July 14

Rachel Reeve exhibit, Designer Café, Kentville

Send arts items to: welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca