RCL Branch 594 is closed today because of the storm. Will open tomorrow regular hours.

As part of our Black History Month celebrations, The Bloomfield House is hosting Gospel in the Black Box. Come out on February 17 and enjoy an evening of Gospel Music featuring local gospel singer, R. Jones. The event will take place inside Open Space Art Studio, located inside The Sandwich Teen Action Centre, 3735 King Street. We ask a suggested donation of $10 to attend the event, all proceeds support the grassroots community outreach efforts of The Bloomfield House. Seat are limited, please RSVP to thebloomfieldhouse@gmail.com

March 3rd, 1 pm to 4 pm

Ham Shoot...5 darts for $4.00

Hosted by the "Ladies' Auxiliary"   All welcome

The Department of Dramatic Arts presents student-directed and performed one act plays in a festival program.

Pay what you can. Viewer discretion is advised. Mature content.

Date: Saturday March 24 and Sunday March 25

Time: 7 pm

Location: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

Limited paid parking nearby.

Encore! Professional Concert Series presents: Pat & Emilia: A Mixed-Media Chamber Opera

Pat & Emilia is a new mixed-media chamber opera based on the lives of two Windsor, Ontario artists - photographer Pat Sturn (1910-2011) and opera singer Emilia Cundari (1930-2005). Act One, created by Tara Sievers-Hunt, features opera arias from Emilia's repertoire alongside monologues inspired by newspaper interviews given by the singer from the 1950s to 1970s. Act Two showcases new music by Canadian composer Jeff Smallman with text by Windsor Poet Laureate Marty Gervais.

Friday March 23, 2018

Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Partridge Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, 250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

Tickets: $28.50† adults; $22.50† seniors/students; $12.50† child (14 and under); $5* eyeGo program. General admission. † Includes the $2.50 FOPAC Cultural Capital Improvement Fund (CCIF); other applicable fees and taxes are extra. *No CCIF applied; other applicable fees and taxes are extra.

Order tickets from the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Box Office: 905.688.0722 or Long Distance Toll Free: 1.855.515.0722; online: firstontariopac.ca

Presenting the selected works of graduating Brock University Visual Arts students.

Opening Reception: Friday Mar. 23 at 7 pm

Exhibition: Saturday Mar. 24  to Sunday Apr. 8

Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am to 9 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12 pm to 5 pm

Location: Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, ON

This is a free community event, however admission is by donation ($5 suggested), free to members and students.

A panel conversation and workshops on the theme of Tensions of Engagement in the Canadian Immigrant Theatre Context. This event will look at how theatre has been used to create collaborative opportunities with immigrants and refugees in Canada, and what struggles lay ahead of us to bridge the divide between settler Canadians and newcomers.

featuring Lina de Guevara of Puente Theatre (Victoria) and Ruth Howard of Jumblies Theatre (Toronto), with Yasmine Kandil of Brock University (Niagara)

All events take place at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines, ON

A free community event but please register for the workshops on Eventbrite.

Limited parking available. Contact Dr. Yasmine Kandil ykandil@brocku.ca for more information.

PROGRAM:

Friday March 16 at 7:00 pm

PANEL Discussion in the MIW THEATRE: 
Tensions of Engagement in the Canadian Immigrant Theatre Context

This panel, moderated by Dr. Natalie Alvarez (Brock University), will feature three of Canada’s applied theatre artists who have devoted a large portion of their creative work towards working on issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and creating opportunities for immigrants and refugees to explore their narratives of settlement through theatre.

This comes at a crucial time, as our society is witnessing an awareness of the insidious racism that exists in our country, as revealed by the Angus Reid Institute report of October 2016.  Our panel will discuss how applied theatre with immigrants and refugees in Canada has evolved over the past few decades, and whether there has been a positive and tangible impact that this medium has had on this community, and on settler Canadians.

Panelists

Lina de Guevara

Lina de Guevara was the first immigrant artist to establish a theatre company in Victoria that solely focused on promoting the narratives of immigration and settlement with the purpose of bridging the gap between this minority group and the predominantly white culture of Victoria.  Her work has spread to other provinces in Canada since she began her Canadian journey almost 40 years ago.

Ruth Howard

Ruth Howard is the founder of Jumblies Theatre, based in Toronto.  Her work on issues of diversity has won her many awards. Jumblies Theatre is known for its work with minority groups, and especially of creating theatre that engages non-artists and a larger spectrum of participants through community-based theatre.

Dr. Yasmine Kandil

Yasmine began her immigrant journey in Victoria, BC, where she worked on multiple projects exploring celebration as a means for immigrant youth to claim a space in their new Canadian home.  She is presently engaged in the second phase of devising a theatre piece that examines narratives of immigration and settlement for Brock students and local immigrants and refugees in relation to expectations, obstacles, and assimilation.

Saturday March 17      

WORKSHOPS:  STUDIOS B and C

Workshop STUDIO B

10:00-12:00pm (Ruth Howard)

This workshop will explore Jumblies’ recent Four Lands touring project, which brings together settler, newcomer, Indigenous residents of all ages and backgrounds in a gentle exploration of different perspectives on a place.

http://www.jumbliestheatre.org/jumblies/about/staff/ruth-howard

Workshop STUDIO C

1:00-3:00pm (Lina de Guevara)

This workshop will explore the different tools used to do research related to immigrant and refugee narratives: interviews, storytelling of personal stories, image creation, forum encounters, audience participation, etc.  Lina will share the tools that she uses and those she avoids.