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Calendar of Events 2010
For more information about the following events, please contact the DCMA toll free at 1.877.941.7787 or by email at events@dufferinmuseum.com. Some event times and details may be subject to change. Please check this listing regularly or contact the DCMA for updated information.
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Tree ID - What Tree Is That Anyway? Saturday, July 10, 2010 9am - noon Join us on a leisurely walk in the Dufferin County Forest (Little Tract (west side of Airport Rd, 12 km north of Hwy 89) and learn how to identify various species of trees, shrubs, and a few plants. Cost: $5 for adults; children free. Pre-registration required, spaces are limited to ensure a high quality experience for all participants. For more information or to register, contact the County Forest Manager, Caroline Mach at 705-435-1881.
Summer Workshops for Kids Tuesday to Thursday in July and August 1:00 to 4:00pm Cost: $20.00 per child / $15.00 per child for two or more Suitable for ages 8 to 12 Participants are responsible for bringing their own water bottles and wear clothing according to the weather of the day. Afternoon snack will be provided. Pre-registration required. For more information please call the DCMA 1.877.941.7787
An Afternoon of Games July 20, 21 and 22, 2010 Come join us for an afternoon of fun and laughter that will be filled with playing nothing but games. We’ll be playing games that originated back in the 18th century to present times, like Graces, walking on stilts and Victorian Parlor games. We may even throw in a couple rounds of musical chairs or Fireman. Do you know how to play Desert Island? Who knows, you may even get wet in one of the relay races.
Victorian Afternoon August 3, 4 and 5, 2010 The afternoon will be filled with Victorian activities such as baking cookies in a wood burning cook stove and dipping candles. We will also play Victorian Parlor games and learn all about proper table manners along with doing some light children’s chores. We do encourage those that sign up for the Victorian Afternoon to dress as a Victorian child would have dressed.
Music, Art & Dance "Open Space Creativity" with David Rankine August 10, 11 and 12, 2010 Open Space Creativity workshops focus on exploring inter-connected forms of group and individual expression. Each workshop contains: group singing, dancing, music making and art activities that develop attentive listening and observational skills and that also focus on intentional communication skills. It is a process-oriented workshop that avoids expectation, thus opening a space to amazing group and individual works of art. It is process that allows students to see themselves as artists, dancers and musicians- capable of working together in a spontaneous way to create complex multi-modality performances.
Annual Golf Day Fundraiser (offsite) Saturday, August 7, 2010 Support your community Museum while you spend the day on the links at a beautiful Mulmur Township golf course. $50.00 Ticket price includes golf, barbeque & door prizes. Proceeds to DCMA. Call the Museum for more information and to register. Limited space, pre-registration is required.
Live Auction Sale Sunday, August 22, 2010 Join DCMA for a live auction sale at Corbetton Church on the Museum grounds. Auction items include antiques, collectibles and other household items, which members and friends of the DCMA have donated for this popular fundraiser. Proceeds to Dufferin County Museum and Archives. All bidders must register on-site. Cash, credit, debit and personal cheque accepted. Preview at 9am. Auction starts at 10am sharp.
Annual Summer Concert Series The Dufferin County Museum and Archives is pleased to present renowned symphony musicians performing classical and contemporary favourites in this series of concerts in Historic Corbetton Church on the Museum grounds. Please note that the first two concerts in the series take place in the evening, while the last concert takes place in the afternoon, and will feature a Hat Workshop, Concert and Hat Festival & Contest.
Brief reception with light refreshments follows each performance. Tickets $10 each or $5 for DCMA members. To order or purchase tickets, please contact DCMA.
Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 7pm Afendi Yusuf, Clarinet
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7pm Kimberly Sartor, Soprano
Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 2pm 2010 Concert series concludes with concert, hat workshop and hat festival.
Join us on Sunday, August 15th for a special afternoon concert to be held at 2:00pm. Wear a Hat and automatically be entered in our Hat Festival Contest. Admission is $5, and if you wear a hat, you are eligible to enter our contest, in the category of your choice and enjoy the concert for free. Don't have a hat? Create your own at home, or come to the Museum early and for $5 you can either buy one of those we have on hand, or make one from the materials we will provide in a workshop, beginning at noon. Hat categories to include: Adults, Male & Female and Children, Tallest, Oldest, Craziest, People's Choice --- maybe others. And you can enter more than one category, if you want. Guest judges to include DCMA Curator, Wayne Townsend and Anne Laurier. Master of Ceremonies, Neil Dainard. Performances by Roseanne and Lucy Warren, on flute and violin, accompanied by DJ Needles on piano.
Art Shows:
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Dufferin’s Renaissance Man An Exhibition by Artist Hal Henry June 20, 2010 to August 29, 2010 Lodge Gallery Hal Henry is an accomplished artist, blues musician, architectural designer and elementary school principal: the rare combination of creative heart and gifted mind. 2010 marks fifty years since Hal began to find expression through art. Employing oils, acrylics, pencil and water colour, his portraits of country landscapes, buildings, people and animals are often influenced by his rural Ontario heritage. Hal’s prolific and award winning artistic career has included numerous exhibits at art shows and galleries in Ontario, as well as studies and commissions in Europe. His pieces are held in private collections in Canada, England, France and New Zealand. Darrell Keenie, Manager of Dufferin County Museum and Archives, says “Hal has a fascinating story. He’s kind of ‘Daniel Boone meets Rhodes scholar meets poet meets Delta Bluesman.’” Indeed, this retrospective of five decades of his work shows Hal Henry to be that and more. Join us to celebrate the exhibit’s opening on Father’s Day, Sunday June 20, 2010 at DCMA. Special guests will include Larry Kurtz, a fellow blues musician and founder of the Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival. – Jeff Rollings
Gumboots and Drawing Board; Fields and Streams of Mono Hallie Watson July 11, 2010 to August 22, 2010 Silo Gallery "My parents bought Bobbie Holmes’ place on the 25th sideroad when I was five. Ever since then my heart has been in Mono. I am a hybrid. In the week I would go to school in Toronto; on the weekend we would come to the country. Because of this I am a lucky girl, because I know equally what the country is and what the city is. When I think of myself at the farm as a kid I think immediately of being in rubber boots. In rubber boots one can do anything. I loved to squoosh around in puddles, walk thorough dewy, grassy fields and wade in the stream. A favourite game was to wade in the river and see how deep I could go without getting a soaker. Gumboots are a passport to interesting country possibilities. When my parents bought Bobby Holmes’ farm house, it was fabulously rustic. To my child eyes everything was different as could be from how things were done in the city. Life was an adventure. There was no furnace, so sleeping was under a mound of blankets. No plumbing, so the toilet was a potty affair in an unfrequented hall. There was an enormous wood stove. Baths in a tin tub. Out in the barn, in the beginning, Bobby still had his animals. There were chickens that laid their eggs all over the place in a wildly undisciplined manner. The cows lived in the dark in the lower part of the barn, and the white work horses lived in a stable in the upper part. Periodically they’d fall through parts of the floor. There was an enormous wooden box of cow sculls. Life was a mysterious, fascinating, unexpected thing. Anything could happen. Outside, swallows swooped in the day, bats at night and the river was filled with fish hiding in the dark grassy overhangs. There were secret places and all the time I was reading, reading books of adventure and possibility, which might take place on this new and interesting stage. Gradually I learned about the inter-relationship of the creatures with the growing things. Life was always gently and imperceptible changing. The seasons moving on, the expectant green spring turning to lush, vibrant summer, turning to orange and yellow fall, then to sleeping winter. I have a place in all of this. I am a small piece of the wildly complicated puzzle. I still wade through the tall grass in my gumboots, then take them off and sit in a field drawing. In this way I settle in to the quiet turning of life.”
Coming Soon ... The Leighton Farm Project Peter Adams September 12, 2010 to November 14, 2010
Lodge Gallery
A Woman’s Touch - Canadian Women Artists 1890-2000 Historic Art Exhibit September 12 to December 12, 2010 Silo Gallery A unique historical art show featuring the works of over 30 women, visitors will see the progression of the recognizable Canadian style by lesser known listed artists. Prior to the turn of the century, Canadian women artists were almost nonexistent. After 1900 more women were attending art schools but there were few female art teachers and even fewer making a living as an artist. The world of art was male dominated and the success and growth of the now recognizable Canadian Style was driven by the success of the Group of Seven. The works of women however have shown the same growth, strength and beauty as their male counterparts but until the last few decades little has been recorded about their biographical and professional history. This exhibit shows the progression of Canadian style up until 2000. The show includes works on loan from private area collections, primarily oils and watercolors. Artists represented include Isabel McLaughlin, Gertrude Spurr Cutts, Mary Digman. Euphemeria McNaughton, Mabel May, Francis Anne Johnson, and Mary Wrench. Unusual works by such diverse Canadians as Irene Senecal, a professor at École Des Beaux-Arts and Matilda Samuels show the diversity of styles of the Canadian Art Movement. Both landscapes and still life works are included. This is a rare opportunity to celebrate the beauty of Canadian Female artists and to appreciate their talents and understanding of what being Canadian really means.
Check back to this page often for event details as they become available or contact the DCMA.
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