This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
ShareBy John Swartz The Orillia Museum of Art and History made out like bandits on Wednesday. They scooped up 50
Read moreShareBy John Swartz The Orillia Museum of Art and History made out like bandits on Wednesday. They scooped up 50
Read moreThe big announcement the youth center’s director, Kevin Gangloff, had last week (the day after the column ran) is that Serena Ryder and Lydia Persaud have a concert at Creative Nomad Studios December 21.
Read moreShareBy John Swartz What a month this has been so far. Mariposa Arts produced and performed fantastically with Jesus Christ
Read moreMany people experienced electrical outages last week, some many times, and the gremlins struck twice at the Orillia Youth Centre fundraising concert at Creative Nomad Studios.
Read moreYup, still on concerts. The Orillia Jazz Festival is barrelling down on us.
Read moreKevin said their fundraising efforts of the past year have been fantastic. Just with concerts this year $16K has been raised. Their Smile Cookie Campaign at Orillia Tim Horton’s raised $97K.
Read moreOf course the main attraction is the Walk The Plank event Saturday at 4 p.m. This is a fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Orillia.
Read moreIf you are anywhere and find out he is doing a gig, you will not regret making time to see it.
Read moreIt seems to me a higher percentage of Native people turn to artistic expression whether it be through music, visual expression, or writing and I think it would be good for the rest of us to pay more attention to the stories they are telling.
Read moreI didn’t really get a lot out of what was being said, oOther than it became clear to me this was music teacher Laura Lee Matthie last concert because she’s retiring.
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