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Sonic Orchard music festival

July 15, 2008

 

Music. Art. Ecology
Part experimental art show ,part kick ass concert, part feast , part field party.
For us, all of us. You, me, our friends, strangers for now, kids, families. Build community.
A music line-up like the best mixed tape you ever crafted…covering the sounds from channel to channel on the airwaves.
Intimate crowd, wide open spaces. Land and love. Sound. Sound. Sound.
Commitment to the best in eco conscious festival practices, commitment to enjoying life without lectures.
Balance. In the moment, the experience, the friendship, the living.
Music. Art .Ecology.

This is Sonic Orchard
Sonic Orchard 2008 takes place at Kimbercote Farm, a 110 acre environmental education and social activism facility located in the Beaver Valley , part of the breathtaking Southern Georgian Bay area. The valley is part of the Niagara Escarpment – a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and home to the meandering beauty of the Beaver River. Established in 1959, Kimbercote Farm functions as a retreat, an organic farm ,a laboratory for intentional community research, and an environmental education outreach centre .The site is graced with immense natural beauty best explored by the numerous hiking trails and also is home to a stone labyrinth and a straw bale demonstration building.

www.kimbercote.org

Featuring;
SunParlour Players, The Fembots, Run with the Kittens, Bullmoose, The Stables,Samba Elegua, Psychotropical Orchestra, Swiss Dice, Everything All the Time, Peter Project,Bocce, The Chameleon Project, Dave Lauzon, Escalate, Diesel Dog, The Fat Cats,Sean Macdonald Band, Canteen Knockout, The Luckless, Rural Alberta Advantage,Boys Who Say No, Nick Zubeck, Robert Hedge, Devin and the Dark Light, Grande Fir,Scott Cook,Jawbone, The Funky Truth Harmonic Tide, Blobject, Suburban Smith, Mustashat,…and more!!!

Acoustic Singer/Songwriters stage TBA

Free Vegan Meals * Bus Shuttles * Free Workshops
Children’s Activities * Art Installations * Marketplace and MORE!

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Written by Jesse · Filed Under The Area, Sustainability, The Arts, Concerts, Music, The Environment 

Making Our Mark

June 20, 2008

SUMMER’S COMING, TIME TO MAKE YOUR MARK with MAKING OUR MARK!

Sheatre presents a totally new workshop for youth this summer, MAKING OUR MARK!

Art and mural-making with Trevor Pfeffer

Theatre and improvisation with Joan Chandler

Creative writing and poetry with Kateri Akewenzie-Damm

Songwriting and voice with david sereda


Learn by doing: learn techniques from professional artists as you make your mark with

a mural you design,

a scene you write and act in,

a poem you create and perform

and a song you write and sing.


You can focus on one art form you’re most drawn to, or experience something you’ve never done before: attend part or all of this multi-arts workshop. What we create will spring from two points of view: 1) kids today and 2) the Metis people in Owen Sound.


You’ll work with other youth aged 12-20. No previous experience or special knowledge is necessary!


MAKING OUR MARK IS A COLLECTIVE PROJECT. We’ll work on a lot of the project together as a group, and some things will be created by just one person – but together we’ll decide which particular themes and stories we’ll focus on. We’ll explore these stories and ideas using visual art, theatre, poetry and music. Our idea is to let these arts come together in an exchange, and to enrich each other — just like the participants with different interests and backgrounds will come together and enrich each other. What we create will be developed and linked together into a staged presentation onsite. Here’s how we’ll do it!


GETTING INTO THE STORY: At the beginning of the workshop, Joan Chandler (theatre), david sereda (music) and Trevor Pfeffer (mural artist) will kick things off with the group, playing cooperative games, telling stories and deciding just what this mural is going to be about. Special guests will talk about Metis history and current status as a culture within Canada. We’ll brainstorm ideas for themes and stories that best represent our community as a whole now and in the past. We’ll play with themes of “community” and “heritage” and “your culture”. Then we’ll create a storyboard for the project. Participants will present their ideas to the United Way and the Metis Association for approval, since the murals are in their building and office space.


MAKING OUR MARK WITH MURALS

July 2 – July 25

Led by Trevor Pfeffor, students will create graffiti style murals from sketches to full two-storey wall-size paintings. If you ever wanted permission to draw on the walls or to cover them with graffiti – this is it!!!

 

MAKING OUR MARK ON THE PAGE

July 7 – 11

Kateri Akewenzie-Damm leads the group in creative writing and poetry and performance technique. Some of the poetry will be included in the murals.

 

MAKING THE MURALS COME TO LIFE

July 21 – August 2

Joan Chandler and david sereda will lead this stage of the workshop, where participants respond to the stories in the murals by creating theatrical scenes and characters and songs, and by integrating their poetry.


We’ll culminate in a public unveiling and performance on August 2 that brings together the best of everything we’ve developed over this month-long exploration.

 


DATES: The workshop runs from July 2nd until August 2nd (Monday through Friday) at the United Way and Metis Centre located at 380 9th Street East in Owen Sound.


COST: FREE! (donations are accepted)

 

WHO CAN ATTEND? Youth 12-20.


Making our Mark is brought to you by Sheatre in partnership with The United Way of Bruce-Grey and with the support of The Metis Nation of Ontario.

 

TO REGISTER, contact:

Francesca Dobbyn, United Way at 519 376 1560

 

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

david sereda, Associate Artist, Sheatre at 519 372 2888

or Joan Chandler, Artistic Director, Sheatre at 519 534 3039


Sheatre, Grey-Bruce’s only professional community arts and arts education company, is funded in part by

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Written by Jesse · Filed Under Youth, The Area, The Arts, Participation, theOwen 

2008 Cops for Cancer Shave Off this weekend

May 30, 2008

The 2008 Owen Sound Cops for Cancer Event
Saturday, May 31, 2008
11 am - 3 pm
shaveMix 106 parking lot - downtown Owen Sound

Come out and enjoy an afternoon of fun and excitement.

For more information please call (519) 376-6011 or The Salon at (519) 372-9398. To register, please stop by The Salon at 897 3rd Ave East in Owen Sound or at the Canadian Cancer Society office at 163 8th St. East or call (519) 376-6011 or to register online at Cops for Cancer in Grey and Bruce County.

To date, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cops for Cancer program has raised more than $28 million across Canada!

Funds raised help the Canadian Cancer Society fund the most promising research projects in the country, provide information services and support programs in the community and advocate for public policies that prevent cancer and help those living with it.

For a recap of last years event we invite you to check out Follicle Follies, a short video we produced last summer that followed our own intrepid reporter, Adam Reese to the shaving chair.

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Written by adam · Filed Under The Area, Participation, theOwen 

Composting Gathering

May 14, 2008

May 24, 2008
11:00 amto12:00 pm

Join us for a composting get together on Saturday May 24th as theOwen presents Composting 101: a hands-in-the-dirt knowledge sharing family event. Interested in urban agriculture or trying to a way to divert compostables from landfill sites? Want to compost but don’t know how? Looking to meet and share with others interested in sustainability and gardening? We’ll be presenting composting tips and techniques (care to share ideas or present?), building a composter, and having a blast. You’ll find us at 925 2nd Avenue West (across from the police station) in Owen Sound at 11 o’clock am.

Lotsa compost.

We are looking for contributors for this event, so if you know anything about composting, gardening, or urban agriculture, please get in touch!

It is hoped that this will be the first of a series of events dedicated to urban agriculture. If you have a thought, idea, or want to be part of this effort, we’d love to hear from you.

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Written by Ryan · Filed Under The Area, Sustainability, Owen Sound, Gardening, Conservation, Get Out, Participation, Community, Events, The City, The Environment 

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