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Confederation Centre is excited to welcome Kelly Dawson as our new Chief Operations Officer.
With over 20 years of experience, Kelly has spent most of her career in senior management roles serving organizations in various industries including Municipalities, Utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and, most recently, Higher Education.
Give her a big welcome if you see her around our building!
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No doubt about it. Ward 16 is the city’s embarrassing problem child. That doesn’t stop long-time incumbent City Councillor Jamie Cox from scheming and planning and doing whatever it takes to make Ward 16 the best it can be.
Partly scripted, partly improvised, Meanwhile in Ward 16 (A Charlottetown Soap Opera) is a six-part comedy serial playing Saturday nights this summer at The Guild. Following the exploits of some of the ward’s more eccentric and odd characters, each episode features its own plots and twists while also encompassing a larger season-long story arc. Come for one show, come for them all; every episode is different, and all are sure to entertain.
Featuring Graham Putnam, Rob MacDonald, Nancy McLure, Kassinda Bulger, Cameron MacDonald, along with weekly special guests. Meanwhile in Ward 16 is proud to have McLean’s Overhead Garage Doors as title sponsor.
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JULY 26 & 27 – 7:30 PM at the Harbourfront Theatre
All Seats: $45.00 (tax & fees included)
Please Note: Contact Box Office at 902-888-2500 if you’d like to put your name on the wait list.
Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy:
An Acoustic Night with Their Children
For the first time ever, Natalie and Donnell take the stage for a concert with their children! Although the kids have appeared many times during a Natalie and Donnell performance, this marks the first night they will be fully integrated into the show.
The multi-talented MacMaster-Leahy’s return to Harbourfront Theatre after two sold-out performances in the summer of 2018.
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Beyond The Regalia is a series of photographic portraits of Mi’kmaw women from my traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki. With these images, I want to bring honour back to the Mi’kmaw women. When I see our Women, I see; beauty, dignity, strength and sacredness.
It is my hope that visitors to the show will make the connections: that they will cease to make assumptions about these women, and see beyond the images created by the media or that the justice system have formed. The many First Nations women who were murdered, or listed missing, are human beings, and similar to the portraits I am creating of living Mi’kmaw Women, I want their stories told. My hope is that viewers get to know us, see who we really are, or were. I want these visuals to start conversations; to make people feel, think, understand, and perhaps walk away with new perceptions, new beliefs about First Nations, and about themselves. It is also an opportunity to bring awareness to the MMIWG, and to honour their memories. It is my belief, this is one step towards reconciliation, another step toward new understandings, and another step toward pride and honour for each of the women that I photograph.
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This summer The Charlottetown Festival is thrilled to have Spinning Yarns at The Mack this summer. Set in Newfoundland in the early ‘80s, this one-man production brings to life a world of raucous adventures, death-defying escapades, and dubious childcare.
The hilarious evening of story and song is a fictionalized biography written and performed by Festival favourite, Stephen Guy-McGrath (‘Bill’ in Mamma Mia!; ‘Sam Phillips’ in Million Dollar Quartet; ‘René in Evangeline). Sponsored by Key Murray Law/Meritas, the production runs July 20 to September 28 at Confederation Centre of the Arts. Featured are traditional Newfoundland fiddle tunes and well-loved songs such as ‘The St. John’s Waltz’ by Ron Hynes, ‘Wave over Wave’ by Jim Payne (popularized by Great Big Sea), and more.
To learn a little more about this production, which Guy-McGrath has presented in multiple other theatres, Centre staff sat down with the author and performer himself for a ‘Q &A’:
Question 1. What is the origin story for ‘Spinning Yarns’?
Stephen: More than 20 years ago I was getting started in the industry and there were not a lot of opportunities for me, but I had lots of enthusiasm and, frankly, pre-wife and kids time! I started trying to come up with a project for a pal and myself to work on. We threw out tons of ideas and the whole time I was telling her stories about growing up in St. John’s. One day she said, “This is the show!” She was right.
Q2. What is the show about?
It is really a love letter to my family and the world I grew up in. A lot of fun is made with it all, but it’s all done with great affection. Also, small children get stuffed in large appliances…
Q3. How did this production make its way to The Charlottetown Festival?
The festival is always looking for the ‘right’ show for The Mack. It needs to be fun, have music, and be affordable to produce for a small house. (Producers) Adam (Brazier) and Dean (Constable) knew about the show and had seen snippets that I had done in The Maud Whitmore Benefit Concert. They approached me and we talked about it as a possibility; and I think it just fit this year. Tara MacLean’s Atlantic Blue (playing at The Mack August 2 to September 27) is the perfect show to share the stage with. Atlantic Blue is “a lot of song and a little story” and Spinning Yarns is “a lot of story and a little song”. We are good companions!
Q4. What can people expect from your show?
A good time! It’s very informal. I tell these stories to you as if you were sitting at my kitchen table. The bar will be open, the tunes will be rocking, the laughs will be coming. What could go wrong?
Q5. And the final, most important question. Ahem, in the battle of the best island: Newfoundland or P.E.I.?
This is like Sophie’s Choice for East Coasters. All I can say is that I love each island in its own way. It’s like having a second child: your love is not divided between the two, as your capacity to love doubles!
Spinning Yarns opens on Saturday, July 20 at the Mack, with preview shows on July 15 and 16. The production is directed by Adam Brazier and was originally produced by Strange/Momentum Theatre Projects. Tickets can be found online at confederationcentre.com, by calling our Box Office at 1(902)566-1267 or 1(800)565-0278, or by visiting our Box Office.
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Shannon hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia and has been performing as a fiddler/vocalist for the past 16 years. In 2016 Shannon won Roots Traditional Album of the Year & New Artist Recording of the Year at the Music Nova Scotia Awards, and has also been nominated for two Canadian Folk Music Awards. For the past two years she been touring internationally with the award winning Scottish group ‘The Paul McKenna Band’. This has included many international performances in the United States, England, Scotland, Germany as well as the Netherlands. Some of Shannon’s past performances have included being featured with Cirque Du Soleil and The Chieftains as well as being a featured soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia. She’s also performed with the award winning group ‘Down with Webster’ at Massey Hall and was a featured violinist for the ‘We Day’ concert in Halifax at the Metro Centre, performing for over 10, 000 people. She has also been a featured performer at the ‘Music City Roots’ concert as well as Bluegrass Underground concert; both in Nashville and both broadcast live on WSM radio. Shannon released her third album ‘Watchmaker’ – a modern celtic concept album, based on the painting ‘The Watchmaker of Switzerland’ in January 2019.
Shannon Quinn is at the Victoria Theatre on July 8.
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Discover the magnificent ruins of ancient Greece in their tranquil Mediterranean settings. This comprehensive journey explores Greece’s most important ancient monuments, like the famed Temple of Zeus, archeological site of Olympia and ancient artifacts of Delphi. Explore Athens your way – choose a tour of the incredible Acropolis, or embark on a walking tour of some of the city’s hidden gems. Visit a local farm in the countryside to see how olive oil and wine are produced. Learn how to cook traditional Mediterranean cuisine during a cooking demonstration. Wander the winding streets, vineyards, marketplaces and beaches of Mykonos and Santorini. Explore the excavations of the ancient city at Akrotiri, the most important prehistoric settlement found anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. In Athens, enjoy traditional cuisine, wine and entertainment at a family-owned taverna in the lively Plaka district. Learn the history of this fascinating country from local experts on guided tours of Athens, Meteora, Delphi, and Olympia.
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For the 2019 season, the Watermark Gallery installation is a celebration of traditional rug hooking with a very creative nod to the lobster fishing history of North Rustico. The bows, gates and other pieces from old lobster traps have been used to showcase the hooked pieces. Some of the art pieces tell a story and others are PEI and seaside memories.
Rug hooking as we know it today may have developed in North America, specifically along the Eastern Seaboard in New England in the United States, the Canadian Maritimes, and Newfoundland and Labrador. In its earliest years, rug hooking was a craft of poverty. The vogue for floor coverings in the United States came about after 1830 when factories produced machine-made carpets for the rich. Poor women began looking through their scrap bags for materials to employ in creating their own home-made floor coverings to cover up their cold floors. Women employed whatever materials they had available. After 1850 their hooked rugs were created on the burlap of used old grain and feed bags. Every scrap of fibre that was no longer usable as clothing was put into rugs. Yarns and wools are now usually used in the making of the pieces.
Today rug hooking or mat making as it is sometimes referred to has been labeled in Canada as a fine art. “…we call it painting with wool…” says rug-hooking instructor Linda Marchbank of Travellers Rest, who has been immersed in this art for the past decade. The art of rug hooking has made an amazing comeback with large rug hooking groups all over North America, in Australia and England. In 2006, the Hooked Rug Museum of North American Society was incorporated and opened in Hubbards/Queensland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Visitors can enjoy the creative work of the Island Matters Rug Hooking Group and Friends, curated by Shelagh Lindley of The Plum Tree Studio, PEI in our lobby all summer long.
Official Opening of the Gallery is on July 10th from 2:00PM to 3:30PM.
The Gallery is open Monday to Saturday from 2:00PM to 7:00PM, Closed on Sundays.
Open until August 31st.
Watermark is a proud member of the PTN – Professional Theatre Network of PEI
For more information please contact Andrea Surich at 902-963-3963 or generalmanager@watermarktheatre.com
Watermark Theatre
57 Church Hill Ave
North Rustico, PE C0A 1X0
www.watermarktheatre.com
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