ArtwordList

Artword Theatre’s production of Tobacco Troubadour, a new musical about growing up in tobacco country and its lively dance hall scene, based on the songs of J.P. Riemens, with script and direction by Ronald Weihs,
playing at Backstage Capitol Theatre, 93 King Street, Delhi, Friday July 3 at 8 pm, Saturday July 4 at 3 pm and 8 pm.
Tickets: 519-582-7272 www.BackstageCapitol.com 
Infosite: www.tobacco.artword.net

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Sat June 27, 2009 at 8 pm
New Dance New Music: Artword Theatre presents a one-night festival of performance adventure. Feel the excitement of real-time collaborative creation. No one knows what will happen next. Be there!
performed at The Pearl Company 16 Steven St, Hamilton. $10 at the door. For info, call Artword’s office 905-548-0341
New dance, new music collaborations and improvisations, featuring: More »

Eddie Versage is a gambler whose luck has run out. Holed up in a Casino Hotel room Eddie scrambles to find the money owes before the Riverman comes calling.
Written & Directed by David B. Fraser.
Featuring Nea Reid, Caroline Concordia, Carl Gambacourt, and Richard Archer.
SAT 18 JULY 8PM, SUN 19 JULY 930PM
MON 2O JULY 730PM, WED 22 JULY 6PM
FRI 24 JULY 9PM, SAT 25 JULY 330PM, SUN 26 JULY 130PM
Location:    Bank of Montreal Space, Jackson Square, King & James, Hamilton, ON

Upcoming events at Oakville Galleries:

Conversations on the Porch: An Evening of Trees
Wednesday 15 July, 7:30 pm, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
Cost: $5 (includes refreshments)

Join us for an evening of conversation on Gairloch estate’s lakeside porch. Hosted by a guest writer, participants will be engaged in dialogue about trees as both landmarks of memory and environmental priorities. All participants are invited to bring personal stories and photographs to share. More »

Family abstracts and the familiar on view at Oakville Galleries

Micah Lexier: Two Parents and Three Children
While the search for identity has always been paramount to Lexier’s practice, his work has never fit easily into the genre of traditional portraiture. Unlike most portraiture, Lexier does not rely on the appearance of the sitter, but rather a refined sense of materials that are everyday and familiar. Two Parents and Three Children focuses on the artist’s portraits of his immediate family. Seen within the context of Gairloch estate, this exhibition allows the artist to explore more fully a familial discourse. Curated by Marnie Fleming. More »

The AGH film series screens Libero, a dramatic film of moving performances, on Thursday, June 25 at 7:00 pm at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, downtown Hamilton.

Libero replaces the previously scheduled Dino Risi double bill of A Difficult Life and The Easy Life.

Special to the evening is guest speaker Franco Gallippi, Professor of Italian language and literature, McMaster University.  Refreshments and cash bar will be available at the screening. More »

Thursday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. – Carmina Burana
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
National Academy Orchestra conducted by Boris Brott; Leslie Fagan, soprano; John MacMaster, tenor; Peter McGillivray, baritone; Arcady Singers, Brott Music Festival Choir
Carl Orff’s choral masterpiece Carmina Burana stuns the senses and runs the musical gamut with bawdy drinking songs, exquisite soprano solos and the overwhelming O Fortuna chorus.
Canadian tenor John MacMaster opens with three great tenor arias.  The 2009 Festival and NAO take their final bows with Richard Strauss’s virtuosic tone poem Don Juan.  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Sunday, August 16, 3 p.m. – High Tea with Valerie Tryon
St. John’s Anglican Church, 272 Wilson St. E., Ancaster
Pianist Valerie Tryon, a Festival favorite, performs an all-Mendelssohn program to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. She has selected Variations Sérieuses, Songs Without Words, Andante and Rondo Capriccioso and other works to perform.  Traditional High Tea served at intermission.  $40 | $35 seniors and students

Saturday, August 15, 7:30 p.m. – Hot Jazz: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Darcy Hepner Jazz Orchestra; Sophia Perlman, singer
Ella Fitzgerald was known as “The First Lady of Song.”  Duke Ellington called Oscar Peterson the “Maharaja of the keyboard.”  Jazz saxophonist Darcy Hepner (www.darcyhepner.com) and his 16-piece jazz orchestra and Sophia Perlman, a singer who scats like Lady Ella, celebrate the legacy of these two legends. From Peterson’s Canadiana Suite to such Ella hits as How High the Moon and Satin Doll, it’s a jazz lover’s dream concert. $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Thursday, August 6, 7:30 p.m. –  Opera Favourites
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Sinead Sugrue and Michele Bogdanowicz, sopranos; Mia Lennox-Williams, mezzo-soprano; Edgardo Ramirez, tenor; Alexander Hajek, baritone
The Festival’s superb selection of the world’s best loved operatic arias and duets has become an audience favourite. Tragedy and ecstasy spring to life in highlights from La Bohème, Carmen and many more. $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. – High Tea with Giampiero Sobrino
St. John’s Anglican Church, 272 Wilson St. E., Ancaster
Famed Italian clarinettist Giampiero Sobrino returns to the Festival, performing Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Rossini’s Variations for Clarinet and Mendelssohn’s jolly Symphony No. 4 “Italian”.  Traditional High Tea is served at intermission. $40 | $35 seniors and students

Thursday, July 30, 7:30 p.m. –  Jeans n Classics: Tribute to Elton John
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Jeans n Classics Band (drums, bass, piano and singer), Jean Meilleur, lead vocals; John Regan, vocals and piano
In an energetic fusion of symphonic rock, the band Jeans ’n Classics (www.jeansnclassics.com) returns by popular demand to perform some of the Rocket Man’s greatest hits, including Tiny Dancer, Bennie & The Jets and I’m Still Standing. Those who attended last year’s Queen tribute know the young and exuberant NAO loves to rock!  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Tuesday, July 28, 7:30 p.m. –  Cerovsek Plays Tchaikovsky
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Sensational violinist Corey Cerovsek makes his Brott Festival debut, performing the scintillating Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D minor. Maestro Brott & the NAO perform Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and a work based on Canada’s only connection to the great Beethoven – his father Alexander Brott’s Paraphrase in Polyphony.  The piece is based on a canon written by Beethoven and discovered on a document signed by Beethoven and dedicated to the Quebec music teacher composer Theodore Molt (1795-1856), who visited Beethoven in Vienna. $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

(A bio on Corey Cerovsek is at www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/cerovsek/co7.htm. The National Library of Canada documents the Molt-Beethoven-Brott connection, with information and a picture of the Beethoven’s composition, at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/301/bulletin_nlc/2003/no4/p2-0403-01-e.html.)

Wednesday, July 22, 7:30 p.m. –  Russian Romantics
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Wonny Song, piano (http://wonnysong.com); Martin MacDonald, guest conductor
Wonny Song (winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and the 2003 Prix d’Europe in Canada) plays Rachmaninoff’s enduringly popular Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor with Maestro Brott and the NAO.  Conductor Martin MacDonald (a former NAO associate conductor) returns from Symphony Nova Scotia to conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Little Russian”).  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Saturday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. – Gilbert & Sullivan Go to the Proms!
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Arcady Singers and NAO; Brian Jackson, guest conductor
British operetta meets Proms highlights and hijinks in arias, duets and ensemble pieces from The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore and other G&S creations.  Guest conductor Brian Jackson leads the Arcady Singers (www.arcady.ca) and the audience in such favorites as Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia.  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 p.m. –  Beethoven’s Emperor
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Acclaimed pianist Sara Davis Buechner (www.sarabuechner.com) performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”).  Boris Brott and the NAO also play Dvorak’s cheery, folk-inspired Symphony No. 8 in G and Michael Parker’s Shanadithit, a 1983 composition inspired by Native Canadian folklore.  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Saturday, July 11, 8 p.m. –  Pictures At An Exhibition
Christ’s Church Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamilton
Mussorgsky’s brilliant Pictures at an Exhibition has inspired 10 new works of art by local artists – one for each of Pictures’ movements. They will be unveiled this evening, and projected behind the orchestra as it performs.  The NAO and Maestro Brott complete the musical tableau with Harry Freedman’s Images and Respighi’s Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych).  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

ART CRAWL NOTE: NAO players will be playing in galleries in downtown Hamilton as part of the James North Art Crawl, Friday, July 10 between 7 and 11 p.m.   Free admission.

Thursday, July 9, 8 p.m. – The Gryphon Trio Plays Mendelssohn
Christ`s Church Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamilton
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; Roman Borys, cello; Jamie Parker, piano
The extraordinary musicianship of the Gryphon Trio (www.gryphontrio.com) is on display in Christos Hatzis’ Old Photographs, Chan Ka Nin’s … and the masks evoke…, Mendelssohn’s Trio in D minor and a seductive selection of Piazzola tangos.  $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

Saturday, July 4, 7:30 p.m. – Manoukian Plays Beethoven
Mohawk College, McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W. (at West 5th), Hamilton
Beethoven continues in Hamilton as violinist Catherine Manoukian (www.catherinemanoukian.com) returns to the Festival to perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto.  Also on the program is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.   $25 | $20 seniors |$10 students

June 27, 7:30 p.m. – Mendelssohn Meets Beethoven
Sunday, July 5, 3 p.m. – High Tea with Shoshana  Telner

The Festival marks the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn’s birth as Hamilton pianist Shoshana Telner (www.shoshanatelner.com) – whom Hamilton Magazine calls one of the city’s “most fascinating people and inspired individuals” – plays the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Boris Brott and the NAO also play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. More »

EXHIBITIONS JUNE 5-28 www.carnegiegallery.org

North gallery MARGARET LOCK  Home of the Beaver-Pastel Landscapes

Margaret Lock is Hamilton born, and currently lives in Kingston ON where she is a self-employed artist and private press printer. She is also an Artist member of the Carnegie Gallery. Ms. Lock has an extensive biography of solo and group exhibitions and publications in the book and printing arts. She has works in many public collections in universities of Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. More »

Hi Judith,
Hope you are well. I was wondering if you could post this for us. 3 of the performers and 1 musician, who played at The Pearl Company last winter with Dave Wilson’s Parahumans as part of Tanis’s show, will be in this summer FRINGE show ‘twentysomethings’. Hope we can get some audiences from Hamilton to Toronto for the FRINGE festival and of course check out our dance show.
Thanks, Kate

The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival and Dance Umbrella of Ontario’s Dance Initiative announce their presentation of the world premiere of AX-S Dance’s new piece “twentysomethings” at Factory Theatre Mainspace choreographed by Kate Nankervis. More »

FACTORY WORKS SCREENING SERIES 2nd Friday of every month
Friday June 12, 2009

Open 7 PM   Screening 7:30 PM
Interactive Artist Q & A and Discussion 8:30 PM
Martin Sastre in person
THE IBEROAMERICAN TRILOGY
The Iberoamerican Trilogy is a short film trilogy about a future period of human civilization defined as the Iberoamerican Era. More »

A seldom-screened Fellini Classic
Juliet of the Spirits
With a post-screening reception

The AGH film series is pleased to screen Federico Fellini’s most personal masterpiece, Juliet of the Spirits on Wednesday, June 10 at 7:00 pm at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, downtown Hamilton. Special to the evening is guest speaker Franco Gallippi, Professor of Italian language and literature, McMaster University.
Admission includes a post-screening wine and cheese reception. More »

Putting on a great theatre production takes creativity, artistic talent and hard work. While there are lots of
up-and-coming artists in our city who have a passion for the stage, there are many things which need to
happen behind the scenes to get a production off the ground. That’s where the Black Box Fire Emerging
Artists Series steps in. More »