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Arts

Wish you were here

Originally published on qathet Living

Simply put, COVID gutted audiences in mid-sized and large venues here and across Canada. If we don’t collectively start coming back to our theatres and the arena, qathet could lose the defining arts and sports scene residents have been building for generations.

In the middle of September, actor Jeffery Renn came back to his hometown to perform At Your Service: The Life and Yarns of Robert Service – My Glorious Youth, at the Max Cameron Theatre. It’s an internationally-touring one-man show. 

But in the 400-seat theatre, just 28 people filled seats that Saturday night. Afterwards in the lobby, Max Cameron Theatre manager Jacquie Dawson said that in the three-night run, no night attracted more than 30 people. 

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Arts

Community choir leader reflects on over a decade of gathering in song

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Dayna Davis, leader of the community choir Isle Sing, has witnessed a natural evolution of her group’s involvement in the larger community on Cortes Island, BC since its beginning around 2009.

In the last few years, the choir has been called on to sing with and for locals in their last days before passing and to lead songs as an integral part of burials. The group has performed at various events and always acknowledges members’ birthdays, as well as the arrival of newborns with a song or two.

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Arts, History

Photographer captures grain elevator images as they fade away on the prairies

By Nicole Goldsworthy, Humbolt Journal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

NORTHEAST – Tim Lockhart has made it his passion to photograph as many prairie grain elevators as he can find. 

Lockhart was born and raised in Alberta and his dad was a manager at an Old Dutch potato chip plant. When he travelled with his father he gained a passion for grain elevators as each small town they pulled into had one.

About two and half years ago, he saw how many were rapidly being torn down. What every small town in Saskatchewan had was slowly vanishing. Lockhart decided to start documenting as many as he could find throughout the prairie provinces. To date, he has taken pictures of 465 elevators in the three prairie provinces — 275 of them in Saskatchewan alone — with 25 still to document.

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Arts

Pottery studio opening encouraging to local artists

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Potterer Mary Clare Preston held a successful collaborative open house and sale at her Foxglove Pottery studio in Mansons Landing, BC.

She welcomed the public over two Saturdays (Dec. 10th and 17th) to appreciate and purchase the work on display, including that of two guest artists — stone carver Donna Naven and fine woodworker Hannu Huuskonen.

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Arts, Communications

TruthTelling with Rex Weyler & CIA students on [email protected]

Learn more about the role of journalist as truth teller and change maker with Rex Weyler, pulitzer prize nominated journalist and co-founder of GreenPeace on Folk U radio this week. Rex Weyler was a repeat special guest this year at the Cortes Island Academy and joined host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and student guest hosts from the CIA to talk a bit about his experience as a journalist over the years.

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