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The Elora Community Theatre (ECT)
is pleased to present its final show of the season,
Hay Fever
by Noel Coward
following up on the success of its first two shows ��Anne of Avonlea and Brighton Beach Memoirs. More »

Wayzgoose
Saturday April 30, 2010 from 9 am � 5pm
In the Carnegie Commons, Lobby, the Studio & the atrium of the library

Wayzgoose is our celebration of the art of the handmade book! Each year on the last Saturday in April practitioners of traditional book related crafts including letterpress printers, printmakers, paper makers and hand bookbinders gather at the gallery to present their work to the public, renew connections with colleagues and share their expertise with the next generation of artists and artisans. More »

Peggy Baker Dance Event � Sunday May 22, 2011

The Burlington Performing Arts Centre invites you to a wonderful dance event with the award winning dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker.
Peggy will be coming to Burlington on Sunday May 22, 2011 to present�

Inside the Art � The Power of Gesture

To attend this workshop please register ASAP. This amazing opportunity will fill up quickly. Don�t be disappointed, register today! More »

Diana Panton, Jazz Vocalist, Coming to the Grimsby Public Art Gallery!! Order your tickets now!!

Steeped In Music Concert Series

Her latest album, �pink�, earned Diana Panton a nomination as the Favorite Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2010 Canadian Independent Music Awards (The Indies) and was a triple nominee at the 2010 Hamilton Music Awards winning for Best Female Vocalist and Best Jazz Album of the Year. Most recently, Diana was awarded the Silver Disc Award for Best Vocal Recording of 2010 by Japan’s Jazz Critique Magazine.

An evening to celebrate the launch of Hamilton’s newest independent monthly journal!
Come mix and mingle with contributors and friends – and grab an advance copy of the debut issue before it hits the stands!
Feel free to invite friends! All welcome!

Saturday, April 30 � 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Acclamation Bar and Grill191 James St. NorthHamilton, ON
Created By Martinus Geleynse

Introducing an amazing collection of 20 artists in 10 studios,
all on the West Hamilton Artist’s Tour
May 7-8, 2011 10am-5pm

Visit 10 studios/locations and meet 20 acclaimed artists working in various fine craft and visual art mediums from Hamilton and the surrounding region. This year�s lineup includes 11 returning artists and 9 artists who are new to the tour � from painters to potters, to sculptors and jewelers, to artists working with glass and mixed media. This tour is nestled under the Niagara Escarpment in picturesque West Hamilton which has become a major destination for art in Ontario. Make a day of it and enjoy one of the local restaurants or caf�s while you visit. More »

Please join us APRIL 30 for A TOUR OF THE NEW PEARL THEATRE SPACE
and the announcement of the
PEARL COMPANY CANADIAN THEATRE FESTIVAL

6 � ONE ACT PLAYS AUGUST 18-27 More »

Check out this excellent video from ACTRA, “The Audition”. It features our good friend Spirit Synott, as well as�Jeff Parazo, David Sparrow and Wayne Robson.

The Audition

CHARLIE HUNTER � Wednesday April 20 � This Ain’t Hollywood
w/guest Sam Klass

17 highly distributed albums including Natty Dread, Ready Set Shango, Pound For Pound, Steady Groovin, Mistico, + new CD, Public Domain ||

has worked with everyone from Michael Franti, Dave Ellis, Jay Lane, Les Claypool, Norah Jones, Stanton Moore, Skerik, Bobby Previte, Christian McBride, D’Angelo, and John Mayer More »

Art Gallery of Hamilton�s T.N.T. (Thursday Night Talks) presents
Restore, Repurpose or Replace:
What happens when a building gets old?

The timely topic of architectural heritage is up for discussion as the Art Gallery of Hamilton T.N.T. (Thursday Night Talks) series presents Restore, Repurpose or Replace: What happens when a building gets old? on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00 pm at the AGH, 123 King Street West, downtown Hamilton. More »

The Aldershot Players Present
Bedtime Stories

By Norm Foster
Directed by Rozz Woodcock, �Produced by Linda Sutton
Dinner & Show: April 29, 30, May 6, 7, 13, 14, 2011 Dinner 6:30pm – Curtain 8:00pm
$35.00 per person
Show only: May 5, 2011 Curtain 8:00pm $18.00 per person More »

Handel�s MESSIAH,�featuring ARCADY
under the direction of the acclaimed composer/director Ronald Beckett
special Spring series including: Neil Aronoff, Gabrielle McLaughlin, Paul Earle, Lesley Bouza, Heather Plewes,
Christopher Fischer

Ronald Beckett, conductor More »

The Hamilton Storytelling Circle will be meeting on April 11th at 7:30, at Temple Anshe Sholom.
Ellen Jaffe requests that you bring a donation for the food bank, which you can leave just inside the front door.
I look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,
Barry

We @ you me gallery #8

Linda Blakney Kathleen Pearson Louise Young Lorraine Darke Tony Voet Dean Gugler Barbara Townsend Katherine Slimman

We@you me is a result of Vjane Gordon�s Dundas Valley School of Art Enhanced Studio class.
This winter semester class is always exhibition focused. Theoretical material from the new project for Documenta 13, �my dog has a culture�, �history is hysterical� has been fuel for artist�s invention. More »

Calls for Submission – Deadline: April 15 2011

The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre is calling for proposals from independent media artists, curators, programmers, and interested others for Factory media arts dissemination & exhibition programming.

Proposals will be accepted to utilize the Factory�s new media gallery. Proposals may be submitted for single events, monthly exhibitions or a series of event/exhibitions. More »

EXHIBITION PROPOSALS DEADLINE: May 31

Solo and group proposals in all designer craft and visual art media accepted.

Solo Proposals: 10 slides or CD images.

Group proposals: 15 slides or CD images. More »

FILMS IN APRIL 2011

MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE
Saturday, April 9 at 1:00 pm
Director: Jean Becker, 2010, France. French w/English subtitles. 120 min. Rated PG
Location: Westdale Theatre
Website/Trailer: myafternoons.co.uk
Co-presented with Le Centre fran�ais Hamilton Inc. More »

Hello all,

DVSA Full-time envites you to our exhibition RE | CON | STRUC | TION. It’s being held at Hamilton Artists Inc and shows the years work by current students, highlighting their lidividual interests and passions. The reception is from 6-9pm on 29th of April. Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

See you soon,

Jessie Giovane

SPLASH ‘N BOOTS” CHILDREN’S CONCERT AT THE GRIMSBY PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Voted Canadian Children’s Group Of The Year (2007 Canadian Independent Music Awards), Splash’N Boots in performance is an dynamic musical experience for audiences of all ages. This vibrant duo has tapped into the energy and creativity that make children and their parents sing, dance and laugh together. Splash’N Boots shows are packed with interactive singalongs, catchy harmonies and hilarious antics.

Sunday, Apr 10, 2 pm.
Grimsby Public Art Gallery
18 Carnegie Lane, Grimsby

Tickets $10
Call 905-945-3246 to reserve
or visit the Art Gallery

The VOC Silent Film Harmonic will accompany “The Lodger” on Friday, April 15th, 8pm at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener. This 1927 classic is Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film and considered his first ‘real’ movie; all the classic Hitchcock traits are there!

Tickets are $15 at the Registry or The Centre in the Square; at the door, $10 with a Food Bank donation. $5 eyeGO tickets are also available. More »

Wedding Singer the Musical
Friday, April 29 – May 7
Westside Concert Theatre
Created By Hammer Entertainment

Broadway’s hit romantic musical comedy comes to Hamilton for the first time. The Wedding Singer is based on the 1998 Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore film that became an instant classic. With a score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980′s, this romantic musical comedy takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room. More »

The internationally acclaimed boy singers of LIBERA are to visit Canada for the first time in April. During their two-week concert tour, the youngsters, who are based in South London in the UK, will perform in notable venues in Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Chatham-Kent, Hamilton and Guelph. If you have never heard the unique, heavenly sound of LIBERA, then prepare yourself for something very special indeed. More »

Dundas Little Theatre closes its 50th Anniversary Season with Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams.

The story takes place at 722 Toulouse Street, a rundown boarding house in the French Quarter of New Orleans circa 1938. The action is concerned with the interlocking lives of the various residents: a tubercular, homosexual painter, a doomed young girl and her coarse lover, two aging ladies living in near poverty, and the eccentric irrepressible landlady, who veers from cruelty to sentiment in her treatment of her charges. More »

Binbrook Little Theatre presents…
And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie, directed By Jason Dick
April 22-23, 29-30-May 1, 6-7, 2011
In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys, on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon, fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. More »

Dear Friends,
Like playing Scrabble? Do you support our vision of a beautiful, newly renovated, refreshed Carnegie Gallery right in the centre of Dundas? Here’s a chance to have fun and help (and maybe win some great cash and other prizes!). Sign up for the Carnegie Gallery’s “Dabble with Scrabble” FUN-draiser, set for Saturday afternoon April 9 beginning at 12:30pm at Christ Church in Flamboro/Dundas. Play Scrabble with friends and supporters of the Carnegie, compete for prizes, and finish up with a pizza party and refreshments! Don’t worry; you don’t need to be an expert player–all abilities welcome. More »