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Projects“People and the Land” will be launched at an open-air event in downtown Owen Sound in May, 2004, with puppetry, pageantry, music, and street theatre. The celebration will continue throughout the summer with events produced by the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Sheatre, Billy Bishop Heritage Museum, Marine & Rail Museum, the Georgian Bay Folk Society’s Summerfolk, the Owen Sound Celtic Festival, and others to be announced. Tom Thomson Days are a week-long celebration around the artist’s birthday on August 5th, including this year a community campfire, a country market and art show and sale, concerts by artists such as the Penderecki String Quartet, and lectures by artists, academics and celebrities such as Patrick Watson, David Silcox and others. The Limestone Barrens Project is an artistic exchange between the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery in Cornerbrook, the Art Gallery of Sligo, and the Limerick City Art Gallery in Ireland. Visual artists and writers from the three areas will create an exhibition and publication documenting their relationships with each of the landscapes, communities and public collections, to be featured at the Gallery in the fall of 2004. Sheatre (rhymes with “theatre”) is a local, community-based, professional theatre company, whose “Brush” project will match professional artists like musician David Sereda with workshop participants to collectively create and perform a new play with music about the world of the legendary painter Tom Thomson. Students from the Sheila Milne School of Dance and local First Nations youth will be part of the creation of the piece. The Billy Bishop and Marine & Rail Museums will offer interactive displays, programs and materials for Guides, Scouts, 4-H Clubs, and summer programs through the Family Y and other agencies. The museums will also feature the contributions made by Owen Sound’s visible minority groups to the history of the area. Marine & Rail Museum exhibits will highlight the prominent role of Black Canadians in the shipping, railroad and other industries along the Owen Sound Harbour. Many Blacks have served in Canada’s armed forces, and the Billy Bishop Heritage Museum will feature their contribution in its annual exhibit honouring our local veterans. The Georgian Bay Folk Society’s performance space in the Old Courthouse Arts Building will be the venue for local professional musicians to work with youth, offering music and business workshops, including tips for CD production, potential introductions to recording studios, and how to showcase for potential engagers. Young participants may showcase at the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Conference in 2004, and at the Summerfolk Festival. In September the Owen Sound Celtic Festival, a three-day annual extravaganza of music, dance, storytelling and crafts, expands its heritage and educational programming. Tradition Alive is the Celtic Festival's new school and community program of workshops, classes, demonstrations and performances in traditional and contemporary Celtic arts.
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