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24 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 Kevin Farley Glaswegians, Londoners and other animals May 10-June 6 For the month of May, Irene’s Pub will be exhibiting a series of paintings by Kevin Farley. They depict the colourful characters of the artist’s English and Scottish family. Kevin’s two principal artistic interests are painting people and abstract painting. He loves capturing a personality within a face, and the connection he makes with the subject. Abstract painting offers a different challenge, that of creating something exciting and beautiful out of infinite possibilities. In this, his first public show, he attempts to bring together these two styles. The result is bright, colourful and rich with personality. Kevin’s paintings come from a deep well of emotion, but don’t take themselves too seriously. He finds inspiration in the people close to him. “Throughout my life I have been surrounded by family and friends that have shown incredible strength and optimism in the face of serious illness. I hope that some of this positive spirit comes out in my paintings. I want to create art that is uplifting”, he says. Kevin grew up in Bishop’s Stortford, England and studied physics at the University of Bath in the UK, and Penn State University in the US. Kevin began painting in 1999, after immigrating to Ottawa. Previously a student of Bhat Boy, and having studied at the Ottawa School of Art, he works predominantly in acrylic on canvas, but likes to experiment with other media. Come and meet the artist at the vernissage on Tuesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. For further information you can contact the artist at 613-565-1176, or kevinfarley@sympatico.ca. Irene’s Pub 885 Bank Street, Ottawa 613-230-4474 www.irenespub.ca Note: New fashions weekly. May not be exactly as shown. “Suit up” for less... Strolling the neighbourhood or enjoying Mother’s Day brunch we have something perfect for you. Moschino print jeans: $30. Taupe leather Maxima jacket: $75. Blouse: $12. 16 Pretoria Avenue (613) 565-0588 Linen Nygard jacket: $30. Lace top: $13. Banana Republic skirt: $50. Necklace: $10. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE FOR YOUR PET ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Whatever your style, size or budget. It’s fun to shop at... www.theclothessecret.com Mon. - Wed.: 10 - 5:30 • Thurs. & Fri.: 10 - 7 • Sat.: 10 - 5 • Sun.: 12 - 4 613-730-9039 1136 Bank Street (1 1/2 blocks south of Sunnyside) Ottawa ON K1S 3X6 Vaccinations Dental Care Medical & Surgical Care Nutritional Counseling our business hours OUR BUSINESS HOURS Monday to Thursday 8:00am - 7:00pm Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays 8:00am - 7:00pm Friday 8:00am - 6:00pm & saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm Fridays 8:00am - 6:00pm Saturdays 9:00am - 12:00pm celebrating 11 great years in the glebe ART Donna Randall Colour My World March 28-May 2 Donna Randall immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe with her Polish parents and has carried the culture and colour of two continents throughout her life. She has been involved in creating art since her youth. She discovered figurative sculpture in Ottawa in 1977, using wood and clay and then moved into painting with acrylic and mixed media. In 1997, Donna became a fulltime working artist. She has studied at the Ottawa School of Art, Algonquin College and with various Canadian and British artists. Donna has exhibited and sold her art work in and around Ottawa since 1998 and her paintings reside in collections around the world. She maintains a studio in Bates Hall in Sandy Hill where her work can be viewed by appointment. “I love to paint in vibrant colours that expresss the joy and freedom of the open spaces. My work comes primarily from my imagination and I often start with no set image in mind. I let the paint and colours inspire me and I work with my instinct. I have been told that my colour combinations are “happy.” The abstract nature of my paintings, whether land or waterscapes or florals, is what feeds my soul and hopefully brings some joy to the viewer as well. I often paint with both brush and palette knife as this provides the texture and looseness that I feel is so important to the feelings in my work.” For further information you can contact the artist at 613-241-9236, or visit www.ydrandall.com. “Heartland” by Donna Randall “Horizon” by Donna Randall The Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Avenue, Ottawa If you are interested in showing your work at the Glebe Community Centre, please e-mail GCCArtShows@gmail.com. Kids create original artworks at ORIGINALS ORIGINALS, the spring craft sale is coming to Lansdowne Park, April 15- 18. Designers and artisans from across the country come to Ottawa to exhibit their amazing, unique pieces, including fashion, jewelry, accessories, home and garden décor, unique pieces of art and delicious tasty treats. This year the show is encouraging junior artisans to participate by offering a fully supervised, hands-on crafting activity for children ages four and up. Throughout the four-day show “Mrs. Create” (Miriam Kilby) of Kids Create, assisted by Algonquin College Early Childhood Education graduates, will lead 30-minute interactive crafting sessions, where children can create using recycled items. Parents can drop their children off at the crafting centre and enjoy a half hour of worry-free shopping while their little Picasso is introduced to the world of eco-crafting. Kids Create classes are limited to eight children per session. Although dropins are welcome, space permitting, parents should pre-register online at www. originalsshow.ca to guarantee a spot. The $5 per child registration fee (payable on site) will be donated to The Children’s Wish Foundation. Representatives from The Children’s Wish Foundation will be on site throughout the weekend with gorgeous spring floral bouquets available for sale. Kids Create will be set up in the Market Bistro section of Aberdeen Pavilion, Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Friday, 4-7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Originals – The Spring Craft Sale runs from Thursday, April 15 to Sunday, April 18 at Lansdowne Park. Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for seniors (65+) and students (13-17) and free for children 12 and under. For more information, please visit www.originalsshow.ca. Complete home medical equipment Solutions complete products walkers/rollators • wheelchairs • scooters lift chairs • canes/crutches • seating systems stairlifts • vehicle lifts • braces and support adjustable beds • bedroom safety • pillows bathroom safety • aids to daily living complete service in-house service department • free in-home assessments • delivery/set-up options free in-home trials • rental program Unit 27A - 194 Robertson Rd, Ottawa (613) 721-2733 • 1-877-537-3287 ottawa.medichair.com
MUSIC St. Matthew’s spring concert by Frances Berkman Saturday, May 15, at 7:30 pm, the combined choirs of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe, under the direction of Stephen Candow, will present their spring concert of music by J.S. Bach and G. F. Handel. Featured soloists will be sopranos Martha Coulthart and Clare Jackson, countertenor Kevin Hassell, tenor Michael Ruddy and bass Philip Holmes.The choir will be accompanied by a string orchestra, continuo and oboes. The concert will open with Bach’s Cantata No. 179, Siehe zu, Das Deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, followed by Bach’s Missa Brevis in G major. The second half of the concert will feature Handel’s Chandos anthem No. 9, O Praise the Lord with One Consent. Cantata 179 was originally written for the 11 th Sunday after Trinity in 1723, shortly after Bach moved to Leipzig to assume the post of director of choir and music. That year, along with his duties of teaching and organizing and rehearsing the music for services at the four main churches of Leipzig, Bach undertook the task of composing a new cantata for every Sunday and feast day of the year. The cantata would be integral to the church service with the text based on the set readings for the day. For Bach or other Lutheran composers of his time, a missa brevis or short mass consisted of the Kyrie and Gloria. Bach wrote four missae breves, all of which are known as parody works, that is works based on pre-existing music. While it was not uncommon to compose music based on well-known folk or popular songs, Bach used music from his own earlier works for each of his short masses. In his Missa Brevis in G major composed in 1735, Bach reworked some of the musical themes from Cantata no. 179 into the mass setting. In this concert, the earlier work and the “parody mass” have been paired – see if you can recognize the “recycled” material The final piece, Handel’s O Praise the Lord with One Consent is based on texts from Psalms 135, 117 and 148. This is one of 12 anthems composed from 1717-1718 for the Duke of Chandos, while Handel was composer-in-residence at his estate outside of London. These anthems, which combine choral and solo movements, were quite distinct from earlier English church music and in fact are similar in style to Bach’s church cantatas. St. Matthew’s, the Anglican Church in the Glebe, has two active choirs which take part in sung services. The Men and Boys’ Choir, founded in 1956, practises twice a week and sings 3-6 services a month. The Women and Girls’ Choir, founded in 1990, practises once a week and sings 1-2 services each month. The choirs will combine forces for major feast services and for our two annual concerts. The choirs provide an opportunity for children from the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and beyond to receive musical training and to learn to sing a wide variety of liturgical music throughout the year, as well as the chance to sing with a full voice choir and orchestra in concert. For a number of choir members, singing with St. Matthew’s is a family affair, with children singing with siblings, parents and even grandparents. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $15 for students; they are available at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church office (217 First Avenue, 613-234-4024), CD Warehouse and Compact Music. The Men, Women, Boys’ and Girls’ choirs hope you will join us May 15 for an evening of beautiful and uplifting Baroque music. Photo: Sim-Canetty-Clarke Celtic North Gerald Finley nominated for a Juno Glebe Report April 16, 2010 25 Lois Siegel, Dan Perkins and Marie Deziel who make up Celtic North all started playing together at the Glebe Community Centre in 1999 as part of the Celtic Slow Jam. Recently, they performed on “Daytime” at Rogers TV with future dates to be confirmed. In their group as on this CD, Lois Siegel plays fiddle, spoons and bodhran; Dan Perkins sings the vocals and plays guitar, Irish bouzouki and bodhran and Marie Deziel plays the accordion and fiddle. Canadian baritone Gerald Finley began singing as a chorister at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe before completing his musical studies in the UK at the Royal College of Music, King’s College, Cambridge and the National Opera Studio. This month he was nominated again for a Juno in the category of “Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance” for his Songs By Ravel, on the Hyperion label. Three years ago, he returned to Ottawa from the United Kingdom to perform at St. Matthew’s 50 th anniversary concert, a highlight of the Men & Boys’ Choirs’ reunion weekend. After his initial appearances at Glyndebourne in the Mozart baritone repertoire, he now appears in a variety of leading roles at the world’s opera houses including London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Salzburg, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. His Don Giovanni has been seen in Vienna, Prague, Rome, New York, Paris, Tel Aviv and London. He has created the lead roles in major premieres: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic), Harry Heegan (The Silver Tassie), Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Jaufre Rudel (L’amour de loin). He played Owen Wingrave in the Channel 4 film. His most recent engagements include playing Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic) at the Lyric Opera Chicago. The Juno Awards will be presented at the St. John’s Convention Centre on Saturday, April 17 and can be watched on CTV the following day. Recordings of St. Matthew’s 50 th anniversary concert are still available. Photo: Gordon Metcalfe T h e O t t a w a F o l k l o r e C e n t r e 1 1 1 1 B a n k S t . a t s u n n y s i d e 6 1 3 - 7 3 0 - 2 8 8 7 Play...just play ofcmusic.ca Tel. (613) 234-5000 e-mail: info@douvris.com
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Page 3 and 4: EVENTS 25 th anniversary for the Gr
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Page 7 and 8: NEWS Glebe fires: déjà vu by Juli
Page 9 and 10: FOOTBRIDGE UPDATE Midtown footbridg
Page 11 and 12: CITIZENS INITIATIVES Hands off our
Page 13 and 14: BIA Glebe BIA protecting our villag
Page 15 and 16: GLEBE HISTORY Heritage spaces, not
Page 17 and 18: BUSINESS BUZZ Alana leads one of he
Page 19 and 20: NEWS The Glebe: A healthy neighbour
Page 21 and 22: HEALTH Keeping drugs out of our dri
Page 23: Community parks of the Glebe by Car
Page 27 and 28: FOOD By Karen Wallace-Graner Apple,
Page 29 and 30: ENVIRONMENT Keeping the Glebe green
Page 31 and 32: SCHOOLS Some updates from the board
Page 33 and 34: SCHOOLS Sustainability initiatives
Page 35 and 36: TRAVEL Glebe artist explores South-
Page 37 and 38: COMMUNITY Winners of Awesome Author
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