Activities to beat the heat
- elainebac1
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Events:
Shakespeare in the Park is back.
“The Winter’s Tale” on stage this season for Shakespeare in the Park. We speak with the director of this year's Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Winter’s Tale”. The co-founder of UnCannon Theatre (working in collaboration with Repercussion Theatre), Lydie Dubuisson, says this layered and complex play combines tragedy, mystery and romance. She also talks about the cast of all Black and Brown actors.
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Mona Rutenberg’s solo show - I have been working very hard to create 27 new sculptures for a solo show at Melt Studio and Gallery in Picton, Ontario called Rooted in Steel. (info below) If you should be in that area of Ontario, do visit! July 9 - August 2.
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See this on the roof of the Adélard Arts Centre in Frelighsburg in the Eastern Townships.
We speak with artist Stina Baudin, whose art installation is on the roof of the Adélard Arts Centre in Frelighsburg in the Eastern Townships. Stina talks about how she made the quilted panels with more than 2,000 little mirrors to honour the Black community in the Townships.
The Sky Still Carries the Stories is a monumental exterior work commissioned by Adelard.
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On CBC Gem – Ten highly-skilled artists from across the world compete to build their dream home in miniature form. In painstaking detail, room by room, they’ll shrink life-size objects down to 1:12 scale.
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Photography:
From the PhotoEd Blog - PLAY IN PHOTOGRAPHY: When was the last time that you truly just played with your camera?
More fun to check out:
Also - Mindful Eye Photography – Anna Willson: Through the Lens of Presence.
Mindful photography is not just about what we see, but how we see. It’s a contemplative way of slowing down enough to experience presence.
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Sayuri Ichida spent years photographing her sister after their mother died. Then she refused to let a computer anywhere near the results, hand-printing every image using a 150-year-old etching process instead.
Phoka #001, 2022 (Image credit: Sayuri Ichida. Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery)
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Heritage Montreal news:
L’enseigne de Farine Five Roses : le phare qui veille sur Montréal.
PHOTO DAVID BOILY, LA PRESSE
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Books:
Whether you love them or hate them, for some reason a lot of people have strong feelings about cats. We speak with historian and Carleton University professor Rod Phillips about his book, “Cats, A History”. It looks at the shifting attitudes and relationships between cats and humans over the centuries.
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