spOtlight 2008
spOtlight: Guelph
Friday June 6 to Sunday June 8, 2008
Take on the Bard. Quilt it! Feel the beat. Make music with rocks. Get up and go in Guelph. Visiti Elora, Erin and St.Jacobs!
Event Legend
Event Map
Next to each event listing, you will find a code (G1, G2, etc.) that corresponds with a location on this map. Click here to view the location of each venue
Virtual Open House
Presented by the Guelph Arts Council. Visit guelpharts.ca or
www.wellingtonarts.ca to learn about and celebrate the more than
150 artists and arts groups featured on the site who call
Wellington County home.
By Hand
Presented by Catch 23. Visit the studio gallery and talk with
artists Geraldine Ysselstein, Ryan Price and Tina Newlove. Watch
the artists at work and try your hand at watercolour, acrylics or
printmaking. catch23.ca
Catch 23, Upstairs, 23 Wyndham Street North (G1)
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Fri: 12 pm–9 pm (open studio) |
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Sat: 10 am–5 pm (open studio)
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Sat: 10:30 am–12 pm (printmaking with Ryan Price) |
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Sat: 2 pm–3:30 pm (watercolour with Geraldine Ysselstein) |
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Sun: 10 am–5 pm (open studio) and 10:30 to 12 p.m. workshop (acrylics with Tina Newlove) All ages! |
Improvise Your Life and the Music Will Follow
Presented by Sam Cino & David Celia. Learn to feel the beat,
write your own songs, play them on keyboard and acoustic
guitar and record your very own hit. davidcelia.com
myspace.com/reverandcinoevil
All ages! Feel free to bring your own instrument.
Jimmy Jazz
52 Macdonnell
Throw It on the Wheel!
Presented by the Delhi Pottery Centre. Explore the pottery
centre open house: get your hands dirty throwing clay on a wheel
and come back a few days later to pick up your glazed and fired
masterpiece. guelph.ca/recreation
Delhi Community Centre, 65 Delhi Street (G2)
Do Re MiPresented by the Edward Johnson Music Foundation. Classes
in music and musical appreciation geared towards elementary
school-aged children.
edwardjohnsonmusicfoundation.org
Guelph Museums, 6 Dublin Street South
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Sat: 1 pm-2 pm & 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
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Audience in Action!Presented by First Light Theatre. Love, infatuation, parental
pressure, civilization versus nature, and the meaning of art. The
cast of First Light Theatre’s Youth Production Training Program
invites you to join them onstage. Through warm-up drama games
and tableaux techniques, you’ll create stage pictures that relate
to the themes of William Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Stay with them after the workshop for a full 2-hour
performance by the talented cast.
firstlighttheatre.ca
Riverside Park, 709 Woolwich Street
(G3)
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Sun: 12:30 pm–1:30 pm; performance begins at 2:00 pm |
Behind the ChoirPresented by the Guelph Chamber Choir. The Guelph Chamber
Choir and seniors’ choir The Village Singers invite you to an open
rehearsal of their work, followed by a short concert.
guelphchamberchoir.ca
Harcourt Memorial United Church, 87 Dean Avenue
(G4)
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Sat: 1 pm–3 pm. All ages!
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Kids Can’t Stop Moving!Presented by the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival and
Guelph Youth Dance Training Program. Creative movement for
kids ages 4–13, including special dance classes for boys and
people with disabilities.
guelphcontemporarydancefestival.comguelphyouthdance.ca
Temple Studios, 42 Quebec Street
(G5)
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Friday Schedule:
12:30 pm-1:15 pm (Senior Modern Technique, 14-18 years)
1:15 pm-2 pm (Senior Creative, 14-18 years)
2 pm-2:45 pm (Intermediate Modern Technique, 11-13 years)
2:45 pm-3:30 pm (Intermediate Creative, 11-13 years)
3:30 pm-4:15 pm (Dance Training for Sport) |
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Saturday Schedule
12 pm-12:45 pm (Creative Dance, 4-5 years)
1 pm-1:45 pm (Creative Dance, 6-7 years)
2 pm-2:45 pm (Adapted Dance for children with disabilities, 5-10 years) |
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Sunday Schedule:
12:30 pm-1:15 pm (Junior Modern Technique, 8-10 years)
1:15 pm-2 pm (Junior Creative Dance, 8-10 years) |
Pre-registration recommended. Call 519-780-2220 or email gcdf @ bellnet.ca
Try Your Hand at Conducting!
Presented by the Guelph Symphony Orchestra. Youth in
Performance: A Conducting and Concerto Workshop with the
symphony orchestra. An open rehearsal, a discussion of conducting
techniques, and a chance to conduct. guelphorchestra.ca
Harcourt Memorial United Church, 87 Dean Avenue (G4)
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Sat: 9 am–10:40 am (rehearsal and discussion); 11 am (concert) |
All ages! Registration and some ability to follow music are
required to participate in the conducting workshop, but all
observers are welcome.
Exhibition Tour: A Painter’s Life
Presented by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Join Flora
Spencer, daughter of painter Evan Macdonald, as she leads a tour,
first through the exhibition of his work, sharing her memories of
her father, then through the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. www.msac.ca
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon Street (G6)
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Sat: 4 pm–5 pm, 12 pm–5 pm (Gallery and Sculpture Park open to the public) |
Kids Create!
Presented by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Take part
in exciting visual arts workshops for youth ages 6–12 led by
talented Guelph artists Susan Detweiler and Don Russell.
msac.ca and donrussell.ca
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon Street (G6)
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Sat: 12:30 pm–2 pm (Susan Detweiler), 2:30 pm–4 pm (Don Russell) |
Ages 6–12.
Found Objects
Presented by NUMUS Concerts. Join Jesse Stewart, NUMUS
Artistic Director, for a discussion and performance about using
found objects in his work as a percussionist, composer, instrument
builder, and visual artist. Try various found-object percussion
instruments. numus.on.ca
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon Street (G6)
Shot-Gun Artist Talks
Presented by Ehryn Torrel. Join local artists Susan Dobson,
Kenneth Doren, Margaret Flood, Phil Irish, Janet Morton, Ryan
Price, Ehryn Torrell and Pearl Van Geest to learn about their work
and inspirations and chat with them about their arts practices.
jnt_morton @ yahoo.cam, susandobson.com, digitalopera.org,
philirish.com, catch-23.ca, ehryntorrell.com
pearlvangeest.com, margaretflood @ gmail.com
The Bookshelf eBar, 41 Quebec Street (G7)
Make Your Mark
Presented by Whitestone Gallery
Contribute your vision to a large collaborative canvass, or work with an artist member of the Gallery to create your own personal mini-masterpiece.
Whitestone Gallery, 80 Norfolk Street
spOtlight: Elora
Flicks From the SticksPresented by Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Celebrate the
versatility of video art. Join Wellington County’s own filmmakers
Eliza and Megan Crosland, Sterling Johnston and Allen McInnis
as they screen a selection of their works and discuss their varied
practices.
edvideo.org
Gorge Cinema,
43 Mill Street West, Elora
spOtlight: Erin
Inside the Cover: Learn How Books Get MadePresented by Porcupine’s Quill. Please join award-winning artist
George A. Walker at Erin’s own printing house, the Porcupine’s
Quill, for an exciting workshop about the arcane craft of
wood engraving. Find out about printmaking and letterpress.
sentex.net/~pql
Porcupine’s Quill Incorporated,
68 Main Street, Erin
spOtlight: St. Jacobs
How to Make a Canadian QuiltPresented by Joan Hug-Valeriote. Pick up a needle and join a
community quilting circle and make your own patches to create
five quilts that will be donated to local shelters, hospitals and
charities. Participating quilters include Helen Hughes, Lyn
Barrett-Cowan, Norah McGuire MacLeod and Deborah Beirnes.
horizonsquilting.caThe Quilt Gallery, The Mill,
1441 King Street North, Third Level, St. Jacobs