Newsletter for the Arts on the Sunshine Coast

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1 Volume 6, Issue 4 July August 2008 Newsletter for the Arts on the Sunshine Coast In the Gallery July 9 July 27 Quilters Out of Bounds On Firm Ground, Laura Mann Michaela Cochran Porcelain

2 Dear Members, A MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-PRESIDENT Serving the Community in Support of the Arts Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Box 1565, Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0 Corner of Trail and Medusa tel: (604) fax: (604) sc_artscouncil@dccnet.com ARTS CENTRE Hours Wednesday to Saturday: 11 am 4 pm Sunday 1 pm 4 pm Board of Directors Kit Artus, President Tracy Wright, Vice President Chris Reid, Treasurer Dave Allen, Secretary Members at Large Jan Adaskin, Joe Hatherill, Dionne Paul, Wendy Simmonds, Linda Williams. Staff Frances Wasserlein, Executive Director Tammy Williams, Administrator/ Facility Manager The Sunshine Coast Arts Council, a non-profit volunteer-based organization supports the arts in our coast-wide community and operates the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 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. My name is Tracy Wright and I have assumed SCAC presidential duties while Kit Artus is temporarily out of commission. I know I speak for everyone when I extend warm wishes to Kit and say how much we ve missed her dedicated, efficient presence around the Arts Centre the last few months. (Not to mention her kindness and excellent sense of humour.) It will be nice to have her in the fold once again. Summer is indeed upon us now and with it comes our favourite summer event: the Hackett Park Craft Fair! Yes, it s back, and will take place on August 16 and 17 which coincides with the Festival of the Written Arts. As always, we need volunteers to make this event a success. Please contact the Arts Centre if you would like to help out and remember, the universe smiles on volunteers. Things are going very well with the two fabulous staff members we have hired this year. With Frances as ED and Tammy as Administrator and Facility Manager, the Arts Centre is absolutely humming with activity. Tammy and Frances put their hearts into their jobs, and we are lucky to have them. The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre continues to be a great venue to view art, display art, take courses, hold events, and learn about our community s arts and culture scene. Please come visit us this summer. Tracy Wright Vice President Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Arts Centre HACKETT PARK ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR The jury has looked at all the work submitted for the 21st Annual Hackett Park Arts & Crafts Fair. The selections have been made. We re working to make sure that all the details are looked after to make a wonderful and successful fair for everyone. If we can, we ll make weather arrangements, too. Mark your calendars with the dates, Saturday & Sunday, August 16th and 17th. The Fair will be open on Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Volunteers are needed to help with the Craft Fair. Please telephone the Arts Centre at , or send an to sc_artscouncil@dccnet. com. We ll need help at the gate, with staffing the Arts Council table at the Fair, and with setup and take down. Please help us make the Fair a success. The Fair helps the Sunshine Coast Arts Council operate the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, and to support the arts and artists in our community. BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS COUNCIL We acknowledge the support of the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council To everyone who helped make our recent Art Auction a success: Auctioneer Alan Stewart, Joan Payne, Jo van der Veen, Kit Artus, Jan Adaskin, Linda Williams, Sheila Page, Tuesday Chamber Music Players, Spence on the Coast, Kim Foster & Aligning Productions, Nancy Dobie, all of the Gallery Attendants who SPECIAL THANKS helped taking in the work we received, Steve Murdoch for all his work on the follow-up telephone calls to the artists. Monica Robb & Dorothy Fraser, along with other volunteers who assist them in arranging for and serving refreshments for receptions and other events at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. 2

3 Gallery hours: Wednesday Saturday: 11 a.m. 4 p.m. and Sunday 1 4 p.m. First annual National Aboriginal Day Exhibition June 18 July 6 The First Annual National Aboriginal Day show features contemporary weavings, paintings, fashion design and sculpture by ten up-and-coming Sechelt and other First Nations artists. Traditional works will be part of the exhibition. Curator: Dionne Paul. Michaela Cochran Radiance porcelain & Quilters Out of Bounds Quilting Song & Poem fabric arts Sechelt Arts Festival Exhibition & Workshops August 1 August 10, 2008 doris crowston gallery Exhibitions & Receptions july september 2008 Kay Bonathan Wisdom of the Lotus porcelain,stoneware, collage & acrylic & Vasi Petoussis Full Circle acrylic & oil on canvas September 3 September 28, 2008 Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 3, 7 pm 9 pm July 9 July 27, 2008 Opening Reception: Wednesday July 9, 7 PM 9 pm Leonie Croy Chalice & Totem Celebrating Spirit oil, acrylic, pen & ink & Niebergall Family Visions & Fantasy porcelain & stoneware August 13 August 31, 2008 Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 13, 7 pm 9 pm Mark your calendars, and invite your off-coast friends! SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL 21st Annual Summer Arts & Crafts Fair August 16 & 17, 2008 Saturday 10 5 & Sunday 10 4 Hackett Park, Sechelt Under the trees at Hackett Park, over 4000 local and off-coast visitors enjoy the Sunshine Coast Arts Council s annual juried Craft Fair in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Quality work by participating artisans, food for the hungry Craft Fair visitor, live music, and children s activities ensure the Craft Fair is a fun event for everyone. This is also the weekend of the Festival of the Written Arts. See you there! 3

4 GALLERY ATTENDANTS 4 th Annual August 15 17, 2008 School of Music, Madeira Park, BC ARTS NEWS FROM PENDER HARBOUR The Harbour Gallery, in downtown Madeira Park adjacent to the School of Music, is now exhibiting its Summer Show. Fifteen artists have contributed paintings, stained glass, jewellery and photography. Open Saturdays 11 4 until July 1st weekend, and then DAILY in July and August, Contact Wendy ( ) or June ( ) Wendy Simmonds solo show, penderscapes, is on at the Scotia Gallery, 2501 St. John Ave., Port Moody, sponsored by the Port Moody Arts Council. Hours are 10 5 from June 7 July 27, 2008, closed Sundays. We are seeking to increase the number of Gallery Attendants who are working as volunteers welcoming visitors to the Gallery, counting visitors, accepting memberships and operating our small retail area. This is very valuable work for the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Art Centre. We also need your feedback about how we can provide an attractive and respectful exchange for the contribution you make to supporting the arts and artists on the Sunshine Coast by giving your time to the position of Gallery Attendant. We are also looking for someone who can help us with Gallery Attendant scheduling. Talk with Tammy Williams, or sc_artscouncil@dccnet. com. artistry SCAC Going Green! Going green means that we save on printing costs, mailing and postage costs. Going green means that you receive an with the link to the colour edition of artistry, and you can read at your leisure. Please send us an with your address, and tell us that you want to receive artistry by . Then make sure we ll get through to you with artistry by putting our address [sc_artscouncil@dccnet.com] in your address book. PERPETUAL CALENDARS Fall Blooms by Wendy Simmonds We have beautiful Perpetual Calendars for sale at the Arts Centre. For $15, you can be reminded of the Arts Centre every time you look at the calendar, as well as repeating dates in your personal, family or business life. Slightly less high tech than a calendar program on your computer, but very helpful in reminding you about birthdays and anniversaries. The calendars are part of our fundraising work supporting programs and services for artists and our community. 4

5 Pender Harbour diva heads music society s season Summer is usually a planning period for the Sunshine Coast Music Society. This year though, SCMS has a new relationship with Powell River and its great, international, choral Kathaumixw in conjunction with Gibsons United Church. (Kathaumixw Coast Salish: a gathering of the people ) Kotori, the Japanese children s choir s concert at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse June 30, 2008 is the first flowering of this biennial summer collaboration. SCMS s newest director, Paul Pedlar, attended the Ladner Band Festival earlier in June. From ten different bands he recommended the Delta Concert Band as our prospective visiting ensemble for Festival of Wind Music The Delta ensemble is considered among the best in the lower mainland. SCMS s 2008/09 season starts earlier however, and we are thrilled to open with Rose Ellen Nichols in recital at Sechelt s Raven s Cry theatre September 28, We presented Rose Ellen at the Heritage Theatre April 9, 2006 in our Soundwaves and Friends concert. Since then, Rose Ellen has moved on from a Bachelor of Music degree to graduate May 7 at UBC with a Master of Music, specializing in opera. Her work with the UBC Opera ensemble brought her back to the Sunshine Coast in April 2008 as Lady Sybil in excerpts from local composer Lloyd Burritt s The Dream Healer which premiered at the Chan Centre March 2, Rose Ellen successfully auditioned for the Vancouver Opera Association in May and will make her VOA debut in the Association s production of Eugene Onegin in November She is quite familiar with the opera having sung the part of Olga in the UBC Opera Ensemble s Russian language presentation of the opera. Other parts have included Prince Orlovsky in Johan Strauss s Der Fledermaus and the Sorceress in Henry Purcell s Dido and Aeneas. In January 2009 she will join three other singers, a pianist and a stage director in Jack Pine, a newly commissioned opera for Vancouver Opera in Schools. SCMS plans to present this touring production at a Sunshine Coast School in partnership with School District #46. Allan Crane School of the Arts This could be the start of something big! Kevin McEvoy, B.Ed., Instructor is offering classes for jewellers and wantto be jewellers. Classes will be in July 2008, see schedule below or online at Kevin has been teaching the visual arts, silversmithing, and glass lampworking for 12 years at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt, BC. McEvoy s work can be seen in the foyer at Chatelech, and in many other locations on the Coast. He also owns and operates Blue Mountain Graphic Editions, a handprinting atelier, specializing in the production of small handmade editions for local artists. McEvoy will offer classes in Lampworking, Lost Wax Casting and an Introduction to Precious Metal Clay in July. Each class will take place at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in the Art Studio. Lampworking classes are limited to two students, Lost Wax Casting will be offered for six students. Introduction to Precious Metal Clay will be offered for 12 students. Each jewellery course costs $149 and all supplies and use of required equipment is included in the fee. Greta Guzek s work is well known on the Sunshine Coast. Her distinctive style, her colours, and the view she gives us of this beautiful place are outstanding. She will teach a Beginners Acrylic Painting class. Acrylic paint will be supplied by Greta Guzek for her painting class, however students must bring their own canvas. Telephone Keven McEvoy at or kevin_mcevoy@hotmail.com for registration and other information. Class Instructor # of Students Day/Date Time Cost Lampworking McEvoy 2 Saturday, July 5 10am 3pm $ 149 Beginners Acrylic Painting Note: Paint supplied. You must bring canvas. Guzek 12 Saturday, July 12 10am-3:30pm $ 50 Lost Wax Casting McEvoy 6 Tuesday, July 15 & Thursday, July 17 7pm 9pm $ 149 Lampworking McEvoy 2 Saturday, July 19 10a 3pm $ 149 Introduction to PMC [Precious Metal Clay] McEvoy 12 Tuesday, July 22 & Thursday, July 23 7pm 9pm $ 149 Lampworking McEvoy 2 Saturday, July 26 10am 3pm $ 149 5

6 If the newest work of these three Sunshine Coast authors could be compared to bottles of fine wine all three would rate a place of honour on gourmet tables, for indeed, they are fine vintage volumes. Deanna Lueder, who refines her prose until it flows as smooth as silky Chablis, is a white wine woman whose short linked stories have long legs. Although each tale stands alone, the chapters follow a fine structured and linked whole that is extremely satisfying. She digs into the dark loam of the social work profession where grief and abuse can be found, then climbs the green stalk of hope where she unfolds masterful tales of rescue and hopefulness, tales A CRATE OF CREATIVES Local Authors are a Rare and Desirable Premier Cru with the ring of truth that illuminate a career that can be both frustrating and rewarding. No Easy Answers published by Women s Press. Jancis Andrews writings pour like a deep rich chateau burgundy allowed to develop in the estate cellars. Another masterful author whose depth of feeling comes alive on the page, there is a touch of oak, of sunlight and flowers overlaying the struggles she describes so well. Her lively characters have been tended with insight and compassion. Jancis vineyard of vocabulary has resulted in volumes that will delight connoisseurs of fine fiction. Released this summer, Walking on Water, published by Cormorant Books Is Gwendolyn Southin s offering a ripe cream sherry or bubbly champagne? If there were such a thing as an intelligent, venturesome vintage, it would describe Gwen s third volume in the Margaret Spencer mystery series. The homey, honey-flavoured character, Maggie,is a woman determined to live a full-bodied life despite the crushing societal mores of the period setting. Sweet but not cloying, full of humour but not silly, Gwen s mysteries are dangerously addictive for they make you yearn for just one more sip. Death on a Short Leash, published by Touchwood. Heather Waddell RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS These bulletins appeared in the last issue of artistry but we just wanted to remind you: The Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival is coming up in August and the Coast Recital Society s new season begins in October, continuing into What better way to lift your spirit than to indulge in a weekend of sublime music in the idyllic setting of Pender Harbour? From baroque to contemporary, rich and mellow to rhapsodic and playful, Artistic Director Alexander Tselyakov has selected another varied and harmonious programme. He has invited a well-rounded group of chamber musicians to join him. The Lafayette String Quartet from Victoria BC is an all-female chamber ensemble, who have performed together for over 20 years. Also from Victoria is violist Yariv Aloni who, along with violinist Joan Blackman and flutist Christie Reside from Vancouver and cellist Tanya Prochazka from Edmonton, will 6 August 15 17, 2008 share the stage with Mr. Tselyakov and the Quartet during the weekend. This year the musicians gift to the community, a free concert entitled Chamber Music Doesn t Bite, moves to a new day and time, launching our Festival on Friday afternoon. This is an opportunity to bring the whole family to enjoy an informal musical hors-d oeuvre. Our first feature concert on Friday evening will showcase music for the flute, with J.S. Bach s Sonata for flute and harpsichord (piano) in G minor and Debussy s Syrinx for solo flute, followed by Szymanowski s Sonata for violin and piano in D minor. Then follows our introduction to the Lafayette String Quartet, playing Schubert s masterpiece Death and the Maiden. On Saturday afternoon, we have a chance to hear from all the musicians in a programme that leaps the centuries, from Mozart s Flute Quartet in D major to R. Murray Schafer s String Quartet No. 11 and Cesar Franck s Sonata for violin (cello reduction) and piano in A major. Following the Saturday afternoon concert, we have two new offerings. Intermezzo the Lafayette String Quartet in conversation with CBC Disk Drive personality Jurgen Gothe will begin at 4.30 pm. After that, why not wander down to enjoy Picnic in the Park a fundraiser hosted by the Seniors Housing Project before the evening concert? Saturday evening s candlelight concert will focus on two classical treasures: Tchaikovsky s Souvenir de Florence for string sextet and Rachmaninoff s Trio Elegiaque. Sunday afternoon s concert will bring the festival to an elegant conclusion with another eclectic sampling: Beethoven s Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D major and Reinhold Gliere s Eight Duos for violin and cello. Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor will provide a fitting finale to the festival. Tickets go on sale May 17. Visit our website at ca for more information and updates.

7 A Unique Opportunity to Showcase Your Talents! Now in its 5th year, the Sechelt Arts Festival is calling on all local artists and performers to submit their work and ideas to this community event celebrating arts, culture and heritage on the Sunshine Coast. Performers in theatre, dance and music are invited to submit ideas for several entertainment venues. Submissions for workshop proposals in any arts category are also being accepted. Please let us know how you would like to get involved. Phone or Leslie Aveling, Festival Coordinator: This year visual artists, including photographers and sculptors, will have the opportunity to display at both the Seaside Centre and the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. Contracts for exhibit space can be picked up at the reception desk of the District of Sechelt office at 5797 Cowrie Street, Sechelt, Monday Friday, 8 a.m. 4 p.m. or download and print from RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS RERUNS A CONCERT FOR ALL SEASONS As keenly anticipated as the warmth of spring, the Coast Recital Society s upcoming season is an abundance of musical delights. We have soloists, duos, ensembles. We have voice, strings, keyboards and a gala, too, says CRS Artistic Director Frances Heinsheimer Wainwright. And more good news tickets are still available. All CRS concerts take place at 2:30 p.m. at the Raven s Cry Theatre in Sechelt. Preconcert chats with the artists start at 1:30 p.m. The season gets underway Sunday afternoon, October 26 with the Acadianborn soprano Suzie LeBlanc. Known for the beauty of her pure vocal sound, LeBlanc has worked with many of the world s leading early-music ensembles in concert, opera and recording projects. Her pianist will be Robert Kortgaard. The Sunday, November 9 recital features the St. Petersburg String Quartet, one of the world s finest. A recent review in the Washington Post raved about the powerful personality, discipline, passion and impetuousness of this ensemble. Celebrate Baroque! is a gala with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of Jeanne Lamon. Scheduled to herald the festive season on Sunday afternoon, November 30, ticket holders are also invited to an afterconcert reception titled Take Tea with Tafelmusik, an opportunity to extend the celebration of baroque and meet the musicians. Please note that this concert is sold separately from the six-concert subscription series. The 2009 portion of the CRS season starts February 1, with the wonderful, creative partnership of Antonio Lysy, cello and Jane Coop, piano, performing an all-beethoven program. On February 22 the CRS welcomes back another audience favourite, pianist Robert Silverman. The 2008 GRAMMY and Juno awards winner, Canadian violinist James Ehnes plays the March 29 recital with pianist Andrew Russo. Ending the CRS season with style and substance is the Russian-born pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, who made his spectacular CRS debut in His return to the Raven s Cry stage is Saturday afternoon, April 4. Subscriptions are still available for the CRS concert season. Call Rosemarie Zoernack at for the six-concert subscription series and also for tickets to the Celebrate Baroque! gala concert with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 7

8 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 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, Box 1565, Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0 artistry Contributors: Heather Waddell, Allan Crane, Tammy Williams, Frances Wasserlein, Mary White and our wonderful volunteer mailing experts Tammy Williams, Dorothy Fraser, Elise Buque, Jo Van der Veen, and Margaret Boyd. Printing & Folding: Coast Copy Centre Calendar Insert: Coast Cultural Alliance Next artistry deadline August 15, sc_artscouncil@dccnet.com 8