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SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1976 Page Seventeen
Farmer's Market big attraction
It started as a means of
disposing of surplus garden produce,
but the Farmer's Market is a
big factor in the summer activities
of Salt Spring Jstand.
The stalls in Centennial Park
are mostly formed by the vehicles
which bring vendors to the park.
Some use display tables and others
use the paved ground.
It was originally a market place
for garden produce and little else.
That's all changed.
You visit the market in the
heart of Ganges against the fence
uj itie Centennial Park, tirst stall
against the fence is selling books
and odds and ends. It stands as
sentinel at one end of the line and
at the other end is a vendor of
cedar blinds. In between are
clothing displays, eggs, garden
produce and many other commodities.
Honey stands alongside the
surplus from the vendor's garden
and two children are proudly
selling surplus kittens. It was a
buyer's market.
These pictures show different
scenes from the event on Saturday
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Summer theatre '76
program announced
BY DAVID FITCHEW
At last week's meeting of the
Salt Spring Players, details of the
Summer Theatre '76 were announced.
The programme promises
to be an exciting one.
Opening August 17, the first
productions have emphasis on
Children's Theatre and the Axis
Mime Group and Carousel Children's
Theatre from Vancouver will
be performing. Axis Mime was one
"Better Days Better Knights"
directed by Ray Logie, which will
have previously been playing in
Harrison Hot Springs Festival. Ray
Logie is well known to members of
the Salt Spring Players as drama
consultant to the B.C. Drama
Association for the last two years.
He has made many trips to Salt
Spring giving workshops and advice
on Players' productions. An
exciting theatre personality, he will
be giving instruction in stage
direction this summer.
The second week of the season
heralds the return of Stuart'Margolin
to the Island. Stuart needs no
introduction to Salt Spring residents,
as in previous summers he
has presented exciting stage productions
and is well known through
his many TV appearances.
His contribution this year is a
double bill: "Typists" and "The
Tiger" by Murray Schisgal. With
STUART MARGOLIN
of the groups performing in the
recent Habitat Festival and received
great reviews. The actors have
all studied in France, the home of
mime. The Carousel show is entitled
"Strings & Things" and is
about marionettes who come to
life. There will be three performances
and workshops in mime, stage
make-up and children's theatre.
At the end of the first week
there will be a production of
him will be actress Mary Carver
who will give workshops in the
Method school of acting. Opening
on August 25, "Typists" and "The
Tiger" will run five nights to
Sunday, August 29.
On Monday, August 30 there
will be a poetry reading by two of
Canada's major artists, Roy Kiyooka
and Daphne Marlatt.
Roy recently had a retrospective
exhibition at the Vancouver Art
Gallery coinciding with the publication
of his letter-poems "franscanada
Letters", his other works
being Kyoto Airs and "Stoned
Gloves".
Daphne Marlatt is one of the
editors of "Capilano Review"; her
impressive documentary poem
"Steveston" has recently been
joined by a prose publication
"Steveston Recollected", an aural
history of the Japanese community
of Steveston. Her other works
include "Frames" and "Sea Haven"
Ṫhe final offering of the summer
will be. Gilbert & Sullivan
productions by the Four Seasons
Musical Theatre of Victoria, with a
cast of six actors and basic sets and
costumes. The emphasis is on first
rate singing and acting, revealing
the brilliant political and social
satire of Gilbert & Sullivan. Director
is Peter Mannering. musical
director is Alan Magee.
Season tickets for all performances
will be available at a
special rate. Watch the Driftwood
for further details.
Members of the Salt Spring
Players are busy handling the
varied administrative details involved,
and true to form. Charlotte
Keeping is at work on a skyline
backdrop of New York for Stuart
Margolin's production.