THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY IS IN NEED OF VOLUNTEER DRIVERS!

At the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), we know that cancer changes people. But we believe that a cancer diagnosis doesn’t have to define who they are. We are committed to helping people live longer and enhancing the quality of life for all of those affected by cancer.

For 1 in 5 cancer patients in Ontario, transportation to treatment is just one of the many challenges they face on their road to recovery. You can help provide safe, reliable rides to life-saving appointments by becoming a driver with the Wheels of Hope Transportation program.

“As a volunteer driver for the Canadian Cancer Society, I have seen firsthand that the Wheels of Hope program truly eases the burden of the patient and their families. Whether their concern is making it to different cancer-related appointments, rearranging work schedules to get their loved ones to and from these appointments, or not having the means to get back and forth - I haven't run into one patient that wasn't grateful for Wheels of Hope and the drivers.” – John Campbell, Volunteer Driver for the Canadian Cancer Society for 6 years.

Join John and the volunteer drivers at the Canadian Cancer Society today! Together, we can ensure our family, friends & neighbours focus on getting well, not on how they will get to treatment.

Contact the local office for more information by phone at 519-254-5116 or email theresa.blondin@ontario.cancer.ca.

The AGW is thrilled to present its fall exhibition program including the feature exhibition SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut touring to Windsor from The Rooms, Newfoundland. This ground-breaking exhibition is on its final stop in Windsor and AGW is the only Ontario venue. From the AGW collection is also Northern Narratives: Cape Dorset Prints, Recent Acquisitions and the 60th Anniversary: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Cape Dorset/Kinngait WBEC Studios.

“It has been some time since the AGW has presented an in-depth look at Inuit art” notes AGW Executive Director, Catharine Mastin. “This exciting program is one of the many ways that the Gallery continues to recognize the rich artistic expressions within Indigenous communities. In the feature exhibition, visitors can expect to discover a world virtually unknown to them. In collection exhibitions visitors can expect find some well-known art works and many new ones.”

SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut (pronounced saw-KEE-eye-ook), curated by Dr. Heather Igloliorte is the first major exhibition on the art of the Labrador Inuit. SakKijâjuk — meaning “to be visible” in the Nunatsiavut dialect of Inuktitut — provides an opportunity for visitors, collectors, art historians, and art aficionados from the South and the North to come into intimate contact with the distinctive, innovative and always breath-taking work of the contemporary Inuit artists and craftspeople of Nunatsiavut.

Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work.

Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and wood for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and ceramics, while also working with traditional materials in new and unexpected ways.

Dr. Heather Igloliorte is an Assistant Professor of Aboriginal art history at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests centre on Inuit and other Native North American visual and material culture, circumpolar art studies, performance and media art, the global exhibition of Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of colonization, sovereignty, resistance and resilience.

Northern Narratives: Cape Dorset Prints drawn from the AGW collection includes print images from 17 Inuit artists published by the Kinngait Studios Cape Dorset during the late 1950s and into the 1970s. This project focusses on stories of traditional Inuit life exploring themes of hunting, travel, wildlife and the spiritual power of Canada’s North.

Recent Acquisitions features a selection of historical, modern and contemporary art showcasing key areas in which the collection has been developed. Collecting areas include art by artists of Anishnaabe and Inuit ancestry, and art from the Windsor-Essex region and western Canada.

The exhibition, 60th Anniversary: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Cape Dorset/Kinngait WBEC Studios includes prints and a selection of catalogues documenting the Annual Graphics Collections produced since 1959 by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative’s Kinngait studio in Cape Dorset. The West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative was established in 1959 in Cape Dorset. The first annual Cape Dorset print collection was released the same year, containing images produced by Inuit artists in the region.

SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is presented in Windsor with the support of Rochelle & Bill Tepperman.

Fridays Live! is the official launch for all fall/winter exhibitions on Friday, October 18, 2019 from 7:00–10:00pm. The event is FREE for AGW members and $15.00 for non-members. For more information on the opening weekend events, visit www.agw.ca.

Transit Windsor’s service to Detroit will be altered tonight, Thursday, October 17 due to the tunnel closure that starts at 9:00 pm.

The Detroit Windsor Tunnel Corporation will be closing the tunnel from 9:00 pm to 5:00 am to continue their ceiling maintenance, and tonight is the first of four consecutive Thursday night closures. The tunnel will close between the hours of 9:00 pm and 5:00 am on October 17, October 24, October 31 and November 7.

During the closures, the last regular Tunnel Bus service to Detroit will depart from the Windsor International Transit Terminal at 8:00 pm, and the last bus from Detroit to Windsor will depart from the Detroit Tunnel Plaza (Mariner’s Church) at 8:39 pm.

For any special events, the Tunnel Bus will take passengers to the event and the Ambassador Bridge will be used for the return trip home. Passengers are requested to return to the bus stop immediately following the event.

For more information on Transit Service, visit www.transitwindsor.ca, and for information on the tunnel work, visit www.dwtunnel.com