 |
Header image: Coming Home, painting by Zoey Wood-Salomon |
News & Notes, Honors & Accolades
Last updated: October 1, 2009
Bayliss Book Clubs
Bayliss Public Library is forming a book club for adults in conjunction with this year’s selection of the 2009-10 Great Michigan Read, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, by Bich Minh Nguyen. The book, about a Vietnamese immigrant’s coming-of-age, is the first of the three scheduled books on the theme of immigration. Book club members will receive a Stealing Buddha’s Dinner readers’ guide.
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner wll be discussed at 7 p.m. October 6th, with retired LSSU professor Dr. Diana Pingatore as the facilitator. Please note that you may need to place a hold on the book. (The book is available at Barnes and Noble on line for $11.20 in paperback; $28.99 on CD.)
Future book club selections are Digging to America, by Ann Tyler, November 3rd and The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, December 1.
The Brown Bag Family Book Club will hold its first meeting Saturday, October 3, at noon. Children, ages 8 to 12, along with an adult, will meet to discuss the club. Participants may bring their lunch; the library will provide a snack and a drink. The plan is to discuss Loser, by Jerry Spinelli on November 14; Masterpiece by Elise Broach on December 19, and Joe Pigza Swallows the Key by Jack Gantos on January 23. Contact Children’s Librarian Debbie Lehman for more information (632-9331 or debbiel@bylisslibrary.org).
Murder at the Kewadin Casino
Enjoy dinner and help solve the “who done it” presented by the Chippewa Theater Guild. The event will raise money for the local mediation center—the EUP Community Dispute Resolution Center (the ECD, which services Chippewa, Luce and Mackinac counties). Activities start at 5 p.m.; dinner is served at 6. Tickets are $30, on sale October 1, at the Kewadin Box Office. For more information, call 906-253-9840.
St. Joseph Church Bazaar
The St. Joseph’s Ladies Guild will hold its Annual Bazaar and Salad luncheon on Saturday, October 3, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the church hall, 1101 Minneapolis in the Sault. The bazaar features attic treasures, baked goods, crafts, holiday decorations and jewelry. The salad luncheon array includes eight varieties of salads, homemade rolls, dessert and beverage. Cost of the luncheon is $6 for adults and $2.50 for children.
Over the Rainbow
Passports for the Over the Rainbow Children’s Entertainment Series are available in Sault, Ontario at the Sault and District Arts Council Office (705-945-9756—369 Queen Street East, Suite 104A), Kiddie Cobbler in the Station Mall, Once upon a Child on Great Northern Road, the Grand Theater, and Kevanna Fine Photography on Wellington Street East. Tickets for the series of four concerts are $50 and admit one child and one adult. Tickets for individual concerts are $10 for children and $15 for adults. The concerts are: Freddy Fusion, on October 14. Dufflebag Theater on November 18. Norman Foote on February 17. Bam Percussion on April 23. All performances take place at the Grand Theater, 641 Queen Street East, at 7 p.m.
Golden Dragon Opens Cheboygan Opera House Concert Series
On Tuesday, October 13, the Golden Dragon Acrobats from China will open the Cheboygan Opera House Concert Series. An Evening with Jeff Daniels plays the Opera House Tuesday, December 8, and Kathy Kosins presents The Ladies of Cool, a tribute to Julie London, June Christie, Anita O’Day and Chris Conner on Friday, February 12. Series tickets are available from the Opera House box office: 231-627-5841 or 1-800-357-9408. Tickets for all three concerts are $70 for adults and $35 for students. Tickets for individual performances are available at slightly higher prices.
Finger Style Guitar
If finger style guitar fits your style, then October is the month for you. The Erickson Center for the Arts in Curtis hosts Tim Thompson, last year’s International Fingerstyle Guitar 1st Place winner, on October 2nd. Thompson mixes jazz, folk and some bluegrass, and performs with his son, fiddle player Myles Thompson, 15. The Minnesota born Thompson is based in Nashville where he has produced and played on countless records as well as on movie and television sound tracks. For more information, check his web site at www.timthompsonguitar.com.
On October 16, Don Ross and Brooke Miller will perform on the Soo Theatre stage. Don Ross is a Canadian finger style guitarist noted for the emotion and intensity of his playing as well as his use of extended texnique. He borrows from blues, jazz, folk and classical music. Miller, also a Canadian, is a singer who began as a punk band singer and mellowed.
Two other productions featuring the guitar are part of the Algoma Fall Festival in Sault, Ontario: Pavlo on October 2, and the Canadian Guitar Quartet on October 28.
Check date listings for ticket information on these events.
LSSU Superior Festival
The Ninth Annual LSSU Superior Festival takes place on campus October 8 to 10. The three-day performance even and colloquium is hosted by Dr. Gary Balfantz, dean of the College of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences. Festival guest artists and scholars include Bruce Henderson, PhD., Ithaca College, New York; Rebecca Kennerly PhD., Southern Georgia University; and Carol Simpson Stern PhD., Northwestern University. The featured performers are from CMU, EMU, Georgia Southern University, Ithaca College, Oakland Community College and Weber State University. A $35 registration fee is required for participation in the workshops, the luncheon and the festival banquet, but all festival presentations are free and open to the public. For more information and schedule details, go to the LSSU Arts Center website at www.lssu.edu/artscenter or contact Dr. Balfantz at 906-635-2659 or gbalfantz@lssu.edu.
Anny Hubbard Exhibit
“Strong Women of the North”, an exhibit by Anny Hubbard, will be in LSSU’s Library Gallery during October with a reception and poetry reading on Monday, October 5, from noon to 2 p.m. In conjunction with this exhibit, Anny will have a new printing of the book of poetry that inspired the exhibit. The book will be available at the reception, at Alberta House or from Anny (635-9230) for $7 (soft cover).
Strong Women of the North, an exhibit by Anny Hubbard |
|
 |
“Mary Margaret Splits Wood”
|
NEW !! Music at the Corner Downtown
The Downtown Development Authority along with Grooves Music is having a new musical option for the downtown on Friday evenings. Every Friday evening through the fall, until it gets too cold, there will be live music performed at the new Market Corner (the corner of Ashmun and Portage) the music is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. with different performers and groups throughout the fall. There is no charge to come down and listen to the music, enjoy the park and stroll through beautiful downtown, visiting the shops, restaurants and taverns along Ashmun and Portage. For more information about these Friday night performances contact Lee at the Downtown Development Authority office, 906-635-6973.
Algoma Fall Festival
Algoma Fall Festival events begin October 2, with guitar virtuoso Pavlo ($30/29). Singer/songwriter Sarah Slean is scheduled for October 9 ($30); singer/songwriter Dawn Tyler Watson for October 12 ($30); “You Dance”, with the National Ballet of Canada for October 15 ($30/20); jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky for October 16 ($35/20); “Women Fully Clothed” for October 24 ($39); the Canadian Guitar Quartet ($30/20) for October 28; Leahy—eight musical brothers and sisters— for October 29 ($39/25); and Terrance Simien (Zydeco) October 30 ($35).
Tickets are available at the Station Mall Box Office (705-945-7299). More information is available on the Algoma Fall Festival web site at www.algomafallfestival.com.
Featured Artists
If you want to re-read information about artists that have been in previous “Featured Artists” columns or see photos of their work in color and up close, you can now see them on the web. Webmaster Liz Brugman has archived them in a special section. It’s the third heading on the left side menu bar on the home page.
Advertise in Alberta House News
Printing 700 copies of this newsletter is expensive and beyond what it costs us to mail to subscribers, we don’t charge for it, regarding it as a public service. We do gladly accept advertising to help pay the printer.
Yes, we can scan your logo in. Contact Jean Jones at 906-437-5463 afternoons or evenings or e-mail: saac@saultarts.org. We need the information by the 15th of the month preceding the ad.
Give us a hand and advertise to people who care—in Alberta House News!
And don't forget—please patronize our advertisers!
| AHN Ad Rates | ||
Full page |
8-1/2" x 11" | $100 |
| 1/2 page | 7-1/2" x 5" | $50 |
| 1/4 page | 5-1/2" x 4-1/2" | $25 |
| 1/8 page | 4-1/2" x 2-3/4" | $15 |
| Front page banner | 1-1/2" banner across the front page | $50 |
Honors and Accolades
Mary Firack Wins Happy Apple Day Logo Contest
Mary Firack, a ninth grade student, won the Happy Apple Day logo contest, sponsored by the EUP Fine Arts Council, for art students in grades 4 through 12. Her winning design is on the buttons promoting the events, now being sold at events and businesses throughout DeTour Village. Buttons are $2 each and half the proceeds from the sale will go to the Art Department at the DeTour School. The rest of the proceeds will be used to defray event advertising and startup costs. See Exhibits for DeTour for details of Happy Apple Day events.
LSSU Student Publishes Children's Book
The Horrible Huckleberry Hex, a book by LSSU Communications major Alani Michel Weathers, will be published by Ingram Books. Weathers, a senior, is a public relations intern under Dr. Gary Balfanz, Dean of Arts, Letters and Social Science. For more information, see the book's listing on Amazon.com.
Sault Area Arts Council - 217 Ferris Street, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 - saac@saultarts.org - (906) 635-1312