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Trillium Funding Presentations: The Ontario Trillium Foundation announced three
funding to support the Infrastructure Development,
specifically the administrative operations of
Sheatre. This award of $75,200 will enable the
company to hire ongoing staff for the first time
in its 21 history, developing the company’s
stability and ability to respond to community
needs.
Photo #18: Joan Chandler (Artistic Director),
Bill Murdoch (MPP), Liz Fry (Trillium Foundation)
| The Ontario Trillium Foundation also awarded
$20,000 to Sheatre in support of the new Grey
Bruce Cultural Network. |
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| The Grey Bruce Cultural Network
Steering Committee: Joan Chandler, Anne Frost,
John Harrison, Judith Glover, Paul Conway,
with Liz Fry (The Trillium Foundation) and
Bill Murdoch. |
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The Grey-Bruce Cultural Network (GBCN)
is a new, developing regional arts-and-culture
service organization in Grey Bruce, organized
by regional artists and arts-and-culture professionals.
Its purpose is to encourage and support arts-and-culture
people, projects and enterprises throughout the
region, with a heavy emphasis on the technical,
marketing, business and community development
aspects of the sector. It is not yet incorporated.
Its business is being governed by a Steering Committee
which functions as its volunteer board of directors
to guide its organizational development. The funds
support the creation of a website, currently under
development.
The resources of the Grey Bruce Cultural Network,
at this stage, are the experience and expertise
of its directors and members, assisted by whatever
funding we can obtain. The funding is usually
specific to projects, but the experience and expertise
are available upon request to arts and culture
people, projects and enterprises in Grey Bruce.
The Steering Committee consists of: Joan Chandler,
Sheatre, Kemble Paul Conway, Voyageur Storytelling,
Northern Bruce Peninsula Project, Anne Finlay-Stewart,
Rhymes with Orange Public Relations & Promotions,
Owen Sound Anne Frost, Jackson Judith Glover,
Owen Sound Little Theatre John Harrison, Tempo
Foundation, Owen Sound. The GBCN’s offices
are c/o Sheatre, RR 1 Kemble, Ontario N0H 1S0.
fall season
Sheatre (pronounced like “theatre,”
of course), a community-based company serving
Grey and Bruce Counties and beyond, continues
to offer a wide array of issue-based and locally
relevant theatrical events this fall.
Performances of “Far from the Heart,”
an interactive show for students about date rape
and how to deal with it, take place in Wiarton
at the high school on September 29th and at OSCVI
in Owen Sound in October, date to be confirmed.
This show will be broadcast by Rogers Cable to
other schools in the Bluewater Board. Students
from across Grey and Bruce will interact with
the young actors to find alternatives to the scenes
presented. What might the characters have done
differently to avoid the problems shown in the
play?
Date rape happens, but no-one wants to talk about
it – here’s a way to get at the issue
and get around the “eeeeew” factor
to create some positive results.
And in an entirely different theatrical
vein – Sheatre is touring a musical show
about Tom Thomson this fall to area venues.
Featuring renowned musician David Sereda, performances
of “Songs in the Key of Tom” take
place in Elora on October 20th and in Sarnia on
October 27th. A showcase of the songs will also
be performed in Sarnia at “Ontario Contact”
on October 26th, for engagers from all across
Ontario who are looking for touring performances
to book for their 2007-8 seasons.
From November 3nd to 5th the script for “TOM”
a new Canadian play about the life and legend
of Tom Thomson, will be featured in a workshop
and reading at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto,
with professional actors including Martin Julien.
This reading before an audience gives the playwright
a chance to see the show “on its feet,”
and to make changes to the pace and sequence of
the script before the show is mounted for a full
production. The play is an outcrop of the “Brush”
workshops. Tarragon Theatre, with this partnership,
continues its long history of nurturing and developing
new Canadian work.
And, in order to prepare for school
touring performances of Sheatre’s shows
about Tom Thomson, Sheatre will publish
an Educational Guide this fall, in conjunction
with the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery in Owen
Sound. This guide links the shows to Ontario curriculum
in order to make sure that teachers are able to
make the best use of the opportunity to have students
see Sheatre’s performances, and potentially
participate in workshops like the ones that were
used to develop the show.
For more information about any of these announcements,
please call 519 534 3039.
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