Arts Scene

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Choral camps

Brochures are now available about choral camps in Berwick that are organized by the N.S. Choral Federation.

Child, youth and adult camps will be held during August. They run from Aug. 10–23.

www.nscf.ns.ca )

Conductors include Laurence Ewashko, Marie Anderson, Kellie Walsh and Julia Davids. The Institute of Choral Conducting runs Aug. 11-15 with Davids. The choir in residence will be the Canadian Chamber Choir.

www.nscf.ns.ca)

Adult session

CentreStage Theatre presents an adult acting workshop Wednesday, Aug. 13 and 20 for the adult actor who wants to dust off his or her acting skills, brush up on improv and play.

These two evenings will focus on connecting thought to body and remembering how to communicate with honesty. The sessions will be led by Cynthia Myers.

Cost: $15 for one night/ $25 for both (members’ discounts available). They run from 7-9 p.m.

Hit flick screens

Fundy Summer Films screens Son of Rambow on Sunday. A boy raised in isolation among a puritanical sect that forbids music and movies encounters a pirated Rambo flick, and is soon shooting his own madcap action epic with a new chum.

While hiding the project from The Brethren, the young filmmakers are catapulted into popularity at school because of it. A hilariously fresh, visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age.

It will screen at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, Sunday, July 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes before screening. For more, visit www.fundyfilm.ca or call 542-5157.

Hurrah for Sheree

One of Canada’s most loved children’s writers has turned her hand to adult fiction. Multi-award-winning writer, speaker and educator Sheree Fitch will be in Valley next week to launch Kiss the Joy As It Flies.

On Tuesday, July 22 she will be at the Inside Story Bookstore 
in Greenwood for a reading at 7 p.m. Then on Wednesday, July 23, Fitch will read to children at
11 a.m. at the Wolfville Memorial Library. At 7 p.m., she will read for adults at the Box of Delights Bookstore
in
Wolfville.

Afternoon with Glenn Ells

Author, historian and local farmer Glenn Ells will spend the afternoon July 26 at Noggin’s Corner Farm in Greenwich to sign books, meet, greet and talk about his book, Starting Over: Acadian and New England Planters in Nova Scotia in the 1760s.

Music at the pergola

During July and August, every Thursday evening, weather permitting, there will be live music on the pergola at Domain de Grand Pre.

On July 24 singer Sheva Solomon will perform. The Hupman Brothers are set for July 31 and John Tetrault performs Aug. 7. The music starts at 7:30 p.m.

Coming up

Until July 25

Snow White, Centrestage Theatre, Kentville

July 26

Heavy Metal Meltdown with Children of Eve, Subspecies, A Call for Submission and Eco-Shock; Berwick town hall

Port George Country Jamboree - 11 hours of country music, Admission $4, children under 12, free. www.countryjamboree.ca or 765-3225

Until July 27

Two Planks presents Our Town @ Ross Creek, 6 p.m.

Now on

Blomidon, Image and Word exhibit & 100 years of Scouting, Randall House Museum, Wolfville

Aug.1

Devon Lee-Barclay, CentreStage, Kentville, 8 p.m.

Aug. 17

Jazzette (a little jazz) concert, CentreStage, with Cynthia and Tom Myers, 8 p.m.

Until Sept. 5

Memory, Space and Heritage, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville

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