Newsletter for the Arts on the Sunshine Coast

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1 Volume 8, Issue 3 May june 2010 Newsletter for the Arts on the Sunshine Coast Wednesday, May 12 Sunday, May 30, 2010 Transience and Beauty Afuwa Granger & Seasons Susan Fletcher LETHE Afuwa Granger Acrylic on canvas WOOD ELEMENT Susan Fletcher Fibre & Mixed Media

2 A MESSAGE FROM THE executive director Serving the Community in Support of the Arts Box 1565, Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0 Corner of Trail and Medusa tel: (604) fax: (604) ARTS CENTRE Hours Wednesday to Saturday: 11 am 4 pm Sunday 1 pm 4 pm Board of Directors Steve Wright, Chair Dionne M. Paul Linda Williams Jenny Yeske Staff Frances Wasserlein, Executive Director The Sunshine Coast Arts Council, a non-profit volunteer-based organization supports the arts in our coast-wide community and operates the in Sechelt. The facility includes a community gallery and a performance space, and art and music studios. Assistance is received from volunteers who contribute their time and energy, working on all our programs. We also benefit from the assistance of the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Sunshine Coast Regional District, the District of Sechelt, and we acknowledge the financial assistance of the Government of British Columbia. We are also supported by the generosity of our members and donors, along with those who attend and support our fundraising events and our programs. Hello Everyone A message to you all Thanks to the readers of artistry who responded to my pleas in the last issue. We had calls from several people, and we re grateful for their generosity. We do still require help, and I thought running this list again might be a good idea. Volunteers and your work mean a great deal to us here, and we hope to hear from more of you. This list continues our task of recruiting new and encouraging returning volunteers: Gallery Sitters choose Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday. 11:30am 1:30pm and 1:30pm 400pm. Welcome visitors, sell cards and exhibition pieces. Renew memberships, take messages. Artistry needs an editor, to work with our volunteer layout angel. Communications with the other participants in the newsletter is an important task, too. Exhibition Preparation: prepare posters & invitations; coordinate press release and advertising; prepare labels for pieces in exhibition. Help coordinate reception committee, host/s for opening. Two or three people are needed to take care of approximately 3 4 events each. Promotion materials distribution for exhibitions distribution of posters on the Coast once a month. Choose an area: Egmont/Pender Harbour, Halfmoon Bay & Sechelt, Wilson Creek & Davis Bay, Roberts Creek, Gibsons. Data Entry and data updates schedule can be arranged. Quick and accurate will make the time fly! Membership and vendor records; promotional lists; donor records etc. Participate in juries for the Young People s Own Show, Banner Project, Young Artists Awards, Hackett Park Summer Arts & Crafts Faire, the Christmas Fair, and any other juried shows. You may be an established artist [not in the show], a collector, a gallery or other retail operation owner. Love to talk on the phone? Be the reminder for membership renewals. Coordinate process for the SCAC s Awards: Gillian Lowndes Prize, Klein Prize, Louise Baril Prize; organize presentation event, nomination process, and jurying. Mailing crew for artistry, our newsletter. Every other month. We ll show you how. Like to send postal mail? Be the promotions postal coordinator. The Garden spring and winter cleanups, planting and taking care of plants. Hackett Park: Help make the Hackett Park Summer Arts & Crafts Faire a success: Take a shift at one of three gates on Saturday or Sunday [August 14 & 15, 2010]; help the vendors find their booths and keep the grounds clear of litter, booth sit for vendors; sit the Gallery in shifts for the Summer Invitational Show. Statistician, or just a little strange for spreadsheets? Help us keep track of volunteer hours, the fuel for the Arts Council. Literally hundreds of other tasks come up, and need to be looked after. Put yourself on the Volunteer List, with preferences, and do what you can, or want to do. Thanks for your help, I look forward to talking with you. It may take me a bit to get back to you, thanks for your patient generosity. Frances Wasserlein, Executive Director Sunshine Coast Arts Council & Arts Centre 2

3 doris crowston gallery Exhibitions & Receptions may june, 2010 Gallery hours: Wednesday Saturday: 11 a.m. 4 p.m. and Sunday 1 4 p.m. Festival of the Performing Arts continues to May 5, 2010 Young Peoples Own Show Secondary continues to May 9, 2010 Transience and Beauty Afuwa Granger Acrylics & Seasons Susan Fletcher Fibre & Mixed Media Wednesday, May 12 Sunday, May 30, 2010 reception wednesday, may 12, 7 p.m. 9 p.m. National Aboriginal Day Wednesday, June 02 Sunday, June 27, 2010 reception wednesday, June 2, 7 p.m. 9 p.m 2nd Annual Sunshine Coast Ceramics on the Edge wednesday, june 30 - Sunday, july 25, 2010 reception wednesday, June 30, 7 p.m. 9 p.m Sonja Kobrehel celebrated a successful opening in the Gallery March 3. From August 20 22, 2010, the intimate setting of the School of Music in Madeira Park will once again resound to the enchanting strains of chamber music. The Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival opens on Friday afternoon with a free concert donated by the musicians. Chamber Music Doesn t Bite offers the opportunity to experience this genre of music in a relaxed hour of entertaining music and information. The world-renowned Gryphon Trio, Vancouver-born Corey Cerovsek and our outstanding artistic director, Alexander Tselyakov open the first ticketed event on Friday evening. This concert, celebrating the birth of both Frederik Chopin and Robert Schumann 200 years ago, offers two selections from each of these marvelous composers. Then, on Saturday afternoon, works from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries are on offer, so that there is something for every musical taste, from Beethoven to Ravel. The late afternoon event, Intermezzo, features an interview by Bill Richardson and is sure to be of great interest. Saturday evening promises to be another night of variety and appeal to music lovers with performances of works by Bach ranging through to modern Canadian-based composer, Kelly-Marie Murphy. The weekend is rounded out on Sunday afternoon by pieces by modern composers Joaquin Turina and Astor Piazzolla, and a performance of Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, narrated by Bill Richardson. The musicians are outstanding, ranging from seasoned performers such as the Gryphon Trio, Trio Verlaine, Jeanette Jonquil and Alexander Tselyakov, to the young violinist Corey Cerovsek and emerging young artists, Daniel Tselyakov and Anthony Blackman. Tickets will go on sale on June 4th at Harbour Insurance, Madeira Park, Sechelt Visitor Centre, Sechelt, and at Gaia s Fair Trade in Gibsons. Tickets may also be purchased online at sure to purchase your tickets early as the concerts are sure to be extremely popular. - Barbara Storer. 3

4 SPRING Reading series wraps up with Robert Kroetsch please note the change of date for this event One of Canada s most distinguished authors, Robert Kroetsch is known to many of you for his 1969 Governor General s Award winning novel, The Studhorse Man. He is returning to the Coast June 26 at 8 p.m. at the Arts Centre to read from his latest book of poetry, Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-portrait. Admission to this reading is free, thanks to the generosity of the Canada Council for the Arts. guitarist steve dawson brings his trio to pender harbour... one of the most innovative resonator guitar stylists in North America... Toronto Star... one of a handful of steelstring players who can create magic... Vancouver Province Steve Dawson specializes in strings: guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, banjo, to name a few. His amazing work has garnered 5 Juno awards, 8 Western Canada Music Awards, and a Maple Blues award. He brings his slide guitar to Pender Harbour for an intimate afternoon of outstanding music on Sunday, May 16 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20, available at Harbour Insurance, Madeira Park; John Henry s Marina, Garden Bay; Sechelt Visitor Centre, Sechelt; and, Gaia s Fair Trade, Gibsons.The concert is sponsored in part by the Sunshine Coast Credit Union. Unfortunately the concert scheduled for June, Tango Paradiso, has been cancelled. Steve Dawson Traditional Cedar Bark Weaving with May Silvey Weaving Class by Greta Picard Come learn how to weave a seamless bag. Saturday, June 12, :00am 4:00pm $150 per person First 8 participants will enter the date above and a waitlist will start for a second class Contact Dionne Paul, the Sechelt Nation Cultural Arts Instructor, at to sign up! Space is very limited so call today!! Saturday, June 19, :00am 4:00pm $150 per person First 8 participants will enter the date above and a waitlist will start for a second class Contact Dionne Paul, the Sechelt Nation Cultural Arts Instructor, at to sign up! Space is very limited so call today!! 4

5 VOLUNTEER PROFILE Sheila Page I had the good fortune to move to the Sunshine Coast in The community was buzzing with growth and change. Locals, then as now, were often surprised by the antics of new arrivals fresh from the city. My husband and I lent a helping hand when the Sunshine Coast Arts Council decided to open a shop in Sechelt to exhibit local arts and crafts. After being absent from the Sunshine Coast for several years I returned to take up a teaching position here. During the next three decades I taught elementary school in various locations on the Sunshine Coast. I volunteered with the Sunshine Coast Teachers Association and the Arts Council which was now in its own building. On the Arts Council board I met community members from Langdale to Egmont who were artists, dancers, musicians, builders and supporters of the arts. Staff members worked creatively and tirelessly with the board to realize programs and exhibitions for the community. I was mentored by more experienced board members and was constantly learning about the arts and my community. My work with the Arts Council was, and still is, rewarding as volunteer work should be. Since my retirement from teaching I have been able to spend time on painting and I am now preparing for two exhibitions this summer. I currently work on the Young Artists Awards program where I meet the younger members of our arts community. I recommend that you consider joining the Arts Council s board or one of its committees to support, celebrate and promote creativity in your life and in our community. Artesia Coffeehouse Series presented monthly by Coast Cultural Alliance DARE TO BE HEARD Friday May 28, 2010 Doors 7:00, showtime 8:00pm A night of readings from many known and unknown talents on the Coast. A very special evening. Tickets $8 $10 at the door. 5

6 CHANGE OF MAILING ADDRESS? Please information or drop off this form at the Arts Centre so we can update mailing lists for all the organizations listed below: Name membership is in New address: RR# and City New Postal Code Update with These Organizations: Sunshine Coast Arts Council Coast Recital Society Coast Cultural Alliance Southcoast Value-Added Co-operative Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts Sunshine Coast Music Society Other Sunshine Coast Arts Council Box 1565 Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0 Publications Mail DO YOU HAVE KEYS? If you have a front door key, or any keys at all, for locks at the Arts Centre, and you aren t going to be using them for the next 60 days, could you please return them to the office? Thank you. DO YOU HAVE ? One of the ways we can reduce our costs is to be able to you a link for each issue of artistry. We post a colour copy of the newsletter online. Printing and postage amount to just under one dollar per copy mailed by snail mail. You can each help us save a buck by sending us your address for artistry. Please consider doing this. Include your first and last name and your current mailing address so we can be sure to have our lists correctly sorted. Please help us with this! SAVE THOSE RECEIPTS! Shopping at Clayton s Heritage Market in Sechelt? Please save your grocery receipts and bring them to the Arts Centre, to the collection box on the information table in the hallway. These receipts help us keep our garden green! SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL Membership Seniors/Students $25.00 Individual $30.00 Family $35.00 Organization $50.00 Corporate $100 Patron/Benefactor $ Memberships may be purchased with cash or cheques made payable to the Sunshine Coast Arts Council by mail, in person or over the telephone by MasterCard or Visa. Box 1565, Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0 artistry Contributors: Sue Milne, Helen Ible, Barbara Storer, Frances Wasserlein, Mary White, Linda Williams, and our wonderful volunteer mailing experts Dorothy Fraser, Elise Buque, Margaret Boyd and Marguerite Kotwitz. Printing & Folding: Coast Copy Centre Next artistry deadline June 15, sc_artscouncil@dccnet.com 6