Visions of Love

Do you want to find love?  How many aspects of love is there? Does it come from song? Dance? Silence?  The Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Gala Night will try to expand your visions of love during its Saturday night celebration.
We are thrilled to welcome Tanis Slimmon to our stage and our town. Tannis has won the Canadian Folk Music Award’s contemporary vocalist award in 2008 and has appeared and recorded numerous albums.  She will be joined by her partner in life and love.

The second part of the program will bring dance back into the Celebrations program with MotusO and its company the variations of love through dance and movement.  The best part about a group is what each individual brings to each part of the whole – and in this case this dance company includes a gymnast, a sheep shearer and a figure skater.

They have been performing together since 1990 and have toured throughout North America and the South Seas, bringing with them their innovative and highly visual works.  The troupe have come from many backgrounds, seen and performed in many far flung places of the world and are landing in Uxbridge on the Music Hall stage to entertain us.

Come on – we know that everyone is a lover – find your variation of love.

Where: Uxbridge Music Hall, 16 Main St. Uxbridge
When: Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Time: 8pm
Cost: $25 Tickets can be bought at Blue Heron Books (62 Brock St. W.), La Petite Fleur (43 Brock St. W.), online at http://www.celebrationofthearts.ca/buy-tickets/ and at the door.

Books & Authors

If you have had the chance to attend any of the Blue Heron Book’s many author nights – you will not want to miss this one.  Not only will you have an opportunity to meet and ask questions of some of the most prominent Canadian authors – you may even hear them read from their own new books.  How cool is that?  Well, I guess you have to be a literary geek to say “Very Cool” but it is very cool.

The evening will be in the Uxbridge Music Hall and keep the excitement flowing on the stage, the evening will be MC’d by Ted Barris (a very prominent and excellent author himself).
Joining us this year is:
- Karen Connelly – author of non-fiction, fiction and poetry and her most recent published book The Lizard Cage.
- Neil Pasricha who has catapulted into every bookshelf, briefcase, bedside table and even online on social media – the author of The Book of Awesome and 1000 Awesome Things.
- Peter Behrens is the author of the Governor Generals’ Literary Award-winning novel, The Law of Dreams.

And you will be able to purchase their published books there.

Where: Uxbridge Music Hall, 16 Main St. S.
When: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 8pm
Cost: $15  Can be purchased at the door, at Blue Heron Books OR online at http://www.celebrationofthearts.ca/buy-tickets/

Looking back: 25 on 25th Street Fest

Last year was our 25th anniversary, and we threw a GIANT street party! Check out this video and relive the fun:

Do you really understand Diva’s?

By Rita Jackson

What is a Diva? OH DEAR! as I am theater, boy can I tell you about some Diva’s that I have come across – both male and female (using the dictionary description below of a “haughty, spoiled”):

But also according to the online Oxford American Dictionary, Diva also means – diva noun

a famous female opera singer : your average opera isn’t over till the diva trills her high notes.
• a female singer who has enjoyed great popular success : a chance to create a full-blown pop diva.
• an admired, glamorous, or distinguished woman : the former director of the association is still a downtown diva.

AND that is what you will see on October 1st, 2011 during the last Lunch Time concert during Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts. We have invited two Diva’s to join us – and it is the “Battle of the Divas”.

Sasha Liebich-Tait and Jenniver Neveu-Cook will be performing together at St. Andrews Chalmers Presbyterian Church starting at 12:30, Free Will Offering. And with these two ladies, you will be entertained by wonderful soaring solos and beautifully sung duets.

BUT BEWARE – I would think that there may very well be some fun as well as there will be a strong Diva need for vocal competition, one-upmanship, out-doing, and each of them trying to be the most noticed. That will be the “Battle of the Divas”. That is the part that I am most looking forward to – being a bit of a Diva myself.