Posted Thursday, July 31, 2003 by ggower CRIME: Suspicious Death - Quinte-West -Public Assistance Appeal Officers from the OPP and the Quinte-West Police Service are continuing their investigation into the discovery of a body on Saturday July 26th, 2003. Officers from the Quinte-West Police Service had been called to an address near Bonisteel Road, Sidney Township, City of Quinte-West, at approximately 4:00 p.m. after a local resident found the body. The body was transported to the Chief Coroners Office in Toronto, where the victim has been identified through dental records as Deborah Kimberly LARIGEE, 45, of Aikens Rd., Sidney Township, City of Quinte-West. Further Forensic testing will be required to determine the cause of death, however we are treating this as a suspicious death investigation. Police are appealing to the public for assistance in this investigation. Investigators are attempting to trace the whereabouts of Deborah Kimberly LARIGEE during the last two weeks. Officers are particularly interested in talking to anyone who saw or had contact with the victim between July 16th and July 26th, 2003. LARIGEE is described as 5'8", 100 pounds, long blonde hair and blue eyes. A photograph is available at WWW.OPP.CA or by visiting http://files.newswire.ca/156/larigee.jpg. Anyone with information concerning this investigation is urged to call the Quinte-West Police Service at (613) 392-3535 or Crime stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. The investigation is continuing under the direction of Detective Inspector Steve Rooke of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch, Investigation Bureau.
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2003 by ggower SPORTS: OTTAWA SENATORS TO ANNOUNCE DETAILS TO HONOUR ROGER NEILSON The Ottawa Senators and Senators Foundation will hold a news conference on Friday, August 1 at 11 a.m. at the Corel Centre to announce details of their plans to honour Roger Neilson and an update on "Roger's House".
What: Announcement of details surrounding the Senators plans to honour Roger Neilson during the coming months and 2003-04 season as well as an update on "Roger's House"
Who: Roy Mlakar, Ottawa Senators president and CEO Dave Ready, Ottawa Senators Foundation president Mike Fisher, Ottawa Senators forward Garry D. Cardiff, CEO of Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
When: Friday, August 1 at 11 a.m.
Where: Coliseum Rooms A/B, Corel Centre Enter through Gate 2
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2003 by ggower SPORTS: Ontario's top lifeguards are coming to Ottawa The 2003 Ontario Provincial Lifeguard Championships and Ontario Provincial Junior Lifeguard Games are coming to Ottawa this summer.
The Lifeguard Championships will be held from August 13 to 15, 2003, and will be followed by the Junior Lifeguard Games on August 16. Both events take place at the Nepean Sportsplex, where an estimated 350 participants from across the province are expected to compete. Teams of various sizes will vie for team championship titles, as well as event and overall titles geared to water rescue, First Aid and physical competitions.
Participants in the Junior Lifeguard Games must be under 16 years of age, have the ability to swim 50m freestyle and tread water for one minute. They must also be a member of a Junior Lifeguard or Lifesaving Club, hold a current Lifesaving Society award or currently be enrolled in a Lifesaving Society program.
Senior competitors are required to be at least 16 years of age and must hold a current National Lifeguard certificate. Competitors in the Masters category, who are required to have earned a Bronze Medallion, must be at least 30 years of age in order to compete.
The Provincial Lifeguard Championships and Games are sanctioned by the Lifesaving Society, a national, volunteer organization and registered charity whose mandate is to educate the public on drowning prevention and water-related injuries. The Lifesaving Society, which has sponsored lifesaving races since the 1930's and has organized lifeguard competitions since the late 1960's, is the Canadian governing body for competitive lifesaving, a sport recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
For more information on the Ontario Provincial Lifeguard Championships and Junior Lifeguard Games, call 831-1169, ext.224.
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2003 by ggower EVENTS: The Central Canada Exhibition Concert Line up for 2003. Friday August 15 TOM COCHRANE Doors open at 7pm.
Concert begins at 7:30
Saturday August 16 APRIL WINE Doors open at 7pm.
Concert begins at 7:30
Wednesday August 20 BIF NAKED
opening: Closure Doors open at 7pm.
Concert begins at 7:30
Thursday August 21 THEORY OF A DEADMAN
opening: High Holy Days Doors open at 7pm.
Concert begins at 7:30
Friday August 22 MATTHEW GOOD Doors open at 7pm.
Concert begins at 7:30
Saturday August 23 SHAWN DESMAN
opening: In Essence, Keshia Chante Doors open at 7pm.
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2003 by ggower YO LA TENGO, "One of rock's last true visionary bands", at Zaphod Beeblebrox. Related Artists: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, SONIC YOUTH, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, SEBADOH, SPIRITUALIZED, PAVEMENT, R.E.M., GUIDED BY VOICES, FLAMING GROOVIES, THE KINKS.
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX PRESENTS...
"One of rock's last true visionary bands." - USA Today
Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock From Hoboken, New Jersey Matador/ Beggars Group Recording Artists YO LA TENGO
+ THE AISLERS SET
Saturday, October 4 (Doors 8pm)
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada. Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 1. Tickets: $20 in advance from Ticketmaster and Zaphod's
"So frequently compared to the Velvet Underground that they even portrayed the legendary group in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, the Hoboken, New Jersey-based unit explored the extremes of feedback-driven noise-rock and sweetly melodic pop, shading their work with equal parts scholarly composure and fannish enthusiasm; prolific and mercurial, Yo La Tengo ultimately transcended its myriad influences to ensconce itself as a beloved institution of the indie community." - All Music Guide
Information: YO LA TENGO - Beggars Group Canada (416) 362-1377 canada@beggars.com THE AISLERS SET - aislersset@yahoo.com ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawaAThotmailDOTcom http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2003 by ggower Workshop on solidarity with South African grassroots groups Date: Friday August 8th Time: 7PM Location: Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Elgin Street
Anti-capitalist Community Action (ACA) is hosting a speaker from the South Africa Solidarity Network who will provide information about the current grassroots struggle in South Africa and ways that anti-authoritarian, social justice groups in the global north can act in solidarity with activists in South Africa.
============ Background ============
The South Africa Solidarity Network supports anti-authoritarian groups in South Africa who are challenging the neoliberal agenda of the ANC. Privatisation of basic services, evictions and an increase in state and police repression have led to new groups being formed, and new strategies being used, to fight back; The Network aims to facilitate the flow of knowledge, support (and money) between anti-authoritarian, non-hierarchial groups in North America with parallel groups in South Africa. We're in the beginning stages of building the Network, most of the work so far has been giving video showings and talks outlining the current situation in South Africa and the groups involved in grassroots struggles there.
SCATALOGUE : 30 YEARS OF CRAP IN CONTEMPORARY ART Artists include: Yuri A, Laetitia Bourget, Eric Cameron, Corinne Clapham, Steven Cohen, Julie-Renee de Cortet, Wim Delvoye, David Diviney, Mario Doucette, Pat Durr, Karen Finley, General Idea, Gilbert & George, Hannah, Ursula Hodel, Gary Kibbins, Hoolboom, Kurt Kren, Paul McCarthy, McGraw, Mikiki, Ron Noganosh, Pier Pasolini, Richard Purdy, Don Simmons, Howie Tsui and John Waters.
ART STAR Video Art Biennial August 28-September 1, 2003 The event will feature 10 screenings by 10 national and international artists. Notably, the biennial will be showing the work of Isaac Julian (London, UK), Arnait Video Collective (Igloolik, Nunavut), General Idea (Toronto / New York), Valérie Mréjen (Paris, France) and Tawfik Abu Wael (Tel Aviv, Israel).
The Ottawa Art Gallery:
Friday August 1 @ NOON Firestone Gallery Façade: Facing the Canadian Landscape Curator's talk with Emily Falvey
Friday August 8 @ NOON Contemporary Galleries 3: Eliza Griffiths, Alexandre Castonguay, Frank Shebageget Artist's talk with Frank Shebageget
Independet Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa (IFCO): Thusday August 7th Gala Premiere 6:30pm - 8:30pm: Arts Court Studio Wine and Cheese for annual Gala Premiere of new IFCO films 9:00pm - 11:00pm: Bytowne Cinema Screening of new IFCO films Tickets: 564-7240
Posted Monday, July 28, 2003 by ggower Ottawa Int'l Jazz Festival Wrap-up Media Release The American Express Foundation's Ottawa International Jazz Festival broke new ground and set a new artistic standard for itself this year. Despite some disappointingly rainy evenings, festival audiences for most performances met or surpassed those of previous years, and reviews were through the roof.
Kicking off with an incredible double bill that featured the 22-piece drum group Samba Squad out of Toronto, and the high-energy Latin jazz of Rumba Club out of the Eastern U.S, the festival scored a record-sized audience for the ten-day event's opening night. International flavours were a highlight throughout the festival as the Jazz Meets the World series made its debut for the festival's weekend afternoons to rave reviews, capturing the hearts of new and regular festival audiences. A terrific showing by Ottawa's diverse ethnic communities were made at Confederation Park for concerts by such artists as Oliver Mtukudzi, Hassan Hakmoun, Mariza and Bembeya Jazz.
Sarah Onyango, host of CHUO's Black on Black and Afrika Revisited radio shows remarked, "The inclusion of a world music component is an excellent way to attract audiences who might not otherwise attend traditional, mainstream jazz concerts. Including such a well-loved African icon in the festival as Oliver Mtukudzi sends a message that the festival is ready to cater to a wider, more diverse audience. And once they're in the gate, you can interest these communities in the other various aspects of the jazz festival program."
Record audiences turned out for concerts by such artists as critically acclaimed jazz guitarist John Scofield, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and the inimitable Sergio Mendes with Brasil 2003. Other festival highlights included jazz violinist Billy Bang and his Vietnam Aftermath Band, the piano trios of Bill Charlap and Dena DeRose, and the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - described by many as the artistic highlight of the entire festival, despite performing under a steady drizzle and occasional downpour. Rounding out the Concerts Under the Stars series, the festival went out on a sunny high note with a double bill that included the Joey DeFrancesco Trio and the J.Geils/Gerry Beaudoin Quartet.
Both the Connoisseur Series and the NAC Studio Series were great successes this year, drawing sell-out audiences for such renowned artists as Susie Ibarra, John Stetch, Pat Martino & Jim Ridl and Guido Basso & Chase Sanborn. The Great Canadian Jazz Series was also very well received, as the festival put the spotlight on some of the most outstanding jazz artists from across the country, including the David Braid Sextet, Rémi Bolduc and Richard Underhill, among others. The final Saturday of the series featured the culmination of a four-day workshop led by Ottawa saxophonist Rob Frayne with the seven-member National Youth All Star Jazz Ensemble. Their knock-out concert was followed by the presentation of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award to 16-year-old Simon Millerd of Salt Spring Island, BC. According to Rob Frayne, "Simon Millerd is a musical force: thoughtful, fitting into and shaping the groove, playing trumpet in a musical and very jazzy way! My job was made easy with all of these talented young musicians. They had a sense of music and groove well beyond their years."
Another highlight of Jazz 03 was the festival's focus on Women in Jazz, as it featured such modern, distinctive acts as the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, Dena DeRose, Susie Ibarra, and many more of the most talented women involved in the jazz world today. The festival also held a well-attended panel discussion on the final Friday at the National Arts Centre's 4th Stage, moderated by CBC Radio's Alan Neal, and consisting of national and international jazz experts, including conductor Maria Schneider, musicians Christine Jensen, Jeri Brown and Tena Palmer, CBC Radio Jazzbeat host Katie Malloch, jazz writer James Hale, and the National Library of Canada's Randall Ware.
Posted Monday, July 28, 2003 by ggower Centretown Movies screens Amelie The life-affirming French film that is Amelie comes to Sparks Street this Saturday, August 2!
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film about a carefree young woman living in Paris stars French actress Audrey Tatou as the imaginative Amelie, who glides through life discovering minor miracles. The twilight show for the evening will feature entertainers from the Ottawa International Busker Festival, Canada's second largest busker festival.
This week's screening will start at 9:00 p.m. Patrons are encouraged to bring their own chairs, blankets, food and drinks. Alcohol is absolutely not allowed on-site. This year, the Centretown Movies outdoor film festival makes its home on Sparks Street between Metcalfe and O'Connor.
Centretown Movies is an outdoor film festival, for the community and by the community, that makes use of underused land in Ottawa's downtown core. The summer of 2003 marks the festival's third year. Centretown Movies is supported in part by the Trillium Foundation.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, receives annually $100 million of government funding generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative. The Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, recreation, environment and social service sectors.
Posted Monday, July 28, 2003 by ggower Local Hunger Concert +++Local Hunger+++ Date: August 14th, 2003 Location: Bumpers (580 Bank street, Ottawa) Age: 19+ Bar On Location ~Bands~ - Modern Dilemma - Nemesys - Kenoma - Dead Wait Doors open @ 7:30pm Cost: $8.00$ ($5$ if on VIP list) Raffle @ end of night after Dead Wait performance!!! Prizes Include: - Nemesys CDs - Dead Wait CDs - Modern Dilemma CDs - Kenoma CDs - Hybrid Harmony passes - 40$ cash prize For more information, contact f8shaded@hotmail.com or visit http://www.4thsyde.tk which is updated frequently.
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie Radical Frosh OPIRG- Carleton is organizing an alternative to Orientation Week for this September by implementing "Radical Frosh." As with any event, the interests of all students cannot be met, and thus, OPIRG is developing a program that reaches out to a group of students that are often ignored in mainstream events.
Radical Frosh will be a week of events concentrating on social justice and environmental issues, with a focus on anti- oppression. This orientation program will run the first week of September. Many of the workshops will also be open to the wider community. Radical Frosh provides approximately 50 incoming Carleton students with the opportunity to meet other students with similar interests and explore a range of social justice issues and organizations. Radical Frosh has a packed line-up of activities - including workshops, radical tours of Ottawa, live music, and more.
Radical Frosh 2003 runs from August 30th - September 6th, 2003. Groups and individuals are encouraged to contact OPIRG- Carleton if they are interested in putting on a workshop, contributing to our frosh bag, or would like to volunteer.
Volunteer Frosh leaders are needed to lead groups and help out in workshops. There is mandatory training session which will take place during the week of August 23- 28th. (TBA) This training will include anti- oppression training as well as a general explanation of the RadFrosh program. At this time, you will be able to sign up for shifts and learn what your specific role as a volunteer entails. Please note that to be a volunteer you do not need to be a student!
If you are interested in volunteering, please reply to this message and fill out the form below. The information that you provide below will be kept confidential. If you have any questions, comments or requests, please include them at the bottom.
If you are interested in putting on a workshop please contact us!! We still have some time slots available.
Also if you or your organization is interested in contributing to our frosh bags, please let us know. By providing a pamphlet from your group or free products from your store, you will be reaching students with an interest in activism and a desire to get involved in the community!
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Thanks! Kelly Fritsch
OPIRG-Carleton 326 UC, Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa ON, K1S 5B6 (613)520-2757, fax: (613)520-3989 opirg@carleton.ca www.carleton.ca/opirg
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie Nashville's BONEPONY stomps joyfully into Zaphod Beeblebrox ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, THE OTTAWA SUN & HERITAGE BREWERIES PRESENT...
Bluegrass, Stomp Rock, Roots Rock, Folk Rock, Country Rock, Americana From Nashville Super Duper Recording Artists BONEPONY
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada. Age 19+/ General Admission Tickets: $8 only at the door
"It's all about happy feet, funky rhythm and joyous soul with this Nashville trio. If they don't make you move, you're made of lead." - The Tennessean.
"Jubilee, from the word "jubilant", is a perfect description for the music of Bonepony...a blend of acoustic/electric instrumentation and a combination of a myriad of traditional influences that make for a joyful noise indeed." - All Music Guide.
"...this record (Jubilee) is exultant, reveling in the interplay of mandolins, banjos, guitars and Scott Johnson's southern-fried vocals. The title track is a gumbo of funk, southern rock and joyful tent revival testifying." - Music Row Magazine.
Bonepony's debut CD, Stomp Revival, was released by Capitol Records in June of 1995. Soon after, the band leapt on tour with such venerable acts as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Rusted Root, Wide Spread Panic and Santana. In the summer of 1996, they played for more than half a million people while on tour with Bob Seger. But their relationship with Capitol Records was not as memorable and the band left the label while working on their second CD. The band locked themselves away in a lake house in rural Tennessee for most of the following winter and released Traveler's Companion in April of 1999. The record was picked up by Americana radio stations across the country and charted for most of the summer, reaching #15.
Bonepony's touring strategy changed for their second release. This time instead of short opening sets for established bands, they would sweat it out in the clubs, playing a nearly four hour set most of the time. The band also concentrated on colleges, playing schools close to their hometown like Western Kentucky, University of Tennessee, and University of Virginia. Music festivals became a vital showcase for Bonepony and they were asked to perform at Farm Aid, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Kentucky Bourbon Festival and many others.
Bonepony released their third CD, Funhouse, on December 31st 2000. A live CD, it was recorded primarily in their hometown of Nashville. Like Traveler's Companion, it was packaged in industrial HEMP. Environmental issues are important to the band, so alternative packaging for their CD was a priority. "We want to leave as light a footprint as we can".
With the recent release of their much anticipated studio record in four years, Jubilee, Bonepony has been garnering praise from the critics, from Billboard to Music Row Magazine, and in 2003 Bonepony will be seeing new places and playing their brand of stomp music for people everywhere.
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie Paint and ideas set to flow at Sandy Hil l Arena Local artist Pat Thompson is bringing his interactive urban 'performance painting' style to the Sandy Hill Arena on Thursday, July 31. 'Performance painting' is a form of art inspired by a unique blend of multi-media, imagery and music involving youth participation.
Before the event begins, the City's Arts Animation Team will be on hand from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to entertain children with multidisciplinary arts activities. Pat Thompson will then take over and bring participants on an exciting artistic journey until 3:30 p.m. Mr. Thompson encourages youth to stretch the limits of traditional painting by exploring and encouraging a spontaneous and free flowing approach.
His painting session is a part of "Skate Jam", an all day event celebrating youth and skateboarding. The skateboarding park will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. While X-FM dj's spin some tunes, youth can test their throwing strength and accuracy with the Ottawa Lynx baseball club's speed pitch game.
The event is organized by the City's Community Arts Program and Parks Seasonal Program, both of which share the goal of showcasing some of Ottawa's most talented performing and visual artists. As a part of the lunchtime performing arts series, similar events are occurring in city parks throughout July and August.
Residents can call the Parks info line at (613) 580-2590 for more information.
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie GORD PELL JOINS SENATORS SCOUTING STAFF AS HEAD WESTERN SCOUT The Ottawa Senators Hockey Club today announced the appointment of Gord Pell as the team's head western scout.
Pell, 32, comes to the Senators after working for the Edmonton Oilers for the last three years as an amateur scout based out of Quebec and Ontario. Before working for the Oilers, Pell spent two years working for NHL Central Scouting.
With the Senators, Pell will primarily be responsible for evaluating players, teams and games in the Western Hockey League (WHL).
The Toronto, Ontario, native played three major junior hockey seasons, from 1989-90 to 1991-92, with Cornwall, Belleville and Hamilton in the Ontario Hockey League and part of a season in Portland (WHL). He then spent part of the 1993-94 season playing in the Colonial Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League and Central Hockey League.
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie Meetings at Ottawa City Hall next week The following Council, standing committee and board meetings are scheduled during the week of July 28, 2003, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West. Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have been highlighted.
The agenda for committee meetings and related reports will be posted on the City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective meetings.
Posted Sunday, July 27, 2003 by julie NACO, August 8: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico to produce "Modern Masters: Canadian Composers" An evening of works by Canada's most exciting contemporary composers kicks off the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's "Modern Masters" series. Highlighted are four fascinating modern Canadian composers - Denys Bouliane, Gary Kulesha, Alexina Louie, and Chan Ka Nin - whose works will be performed on Friday, August 8 at 18:00 at St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts. Three of these four composers (Bouliane, Kulesha and Louie) are winners of the $75,000 National Arts Centre Composer Awards under its New Music Plan announced in 2002. As such they are working closely with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra and its Music Director Pinchas Zukerman over a four-year period, creating new works and working with the Orchestra on a number of educational activities including its Young Composers Programme.
"Modern Masters: Canadian Composers" is produced jointly by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Canada's National Arts Centre. Every August the NAC Orchestra's Music Director Pinchas Zukerman performs and mentors at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico of which his longtime friend and recital partner Marc Neikrug, a pianist and composer, is the Artistic Director.
A lecture by the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Arts Centre, Peter A. Herrndorf, will introduce the concert. The first recipient of the William Kilbourn Award for lifetime contribution to the arts in Toronto, Mr. Herrndorf's career includes outstanding contributions to journalism, broadcasting, education, and the arts in Canada. He has been an active leader in many community and industry activities in Canada, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pinchas Zukerman Musical Instruments Foundation for the National Arts Centre Orchestra. In June of 2000, the Canadian Conference of the Arts awarded Mr. Herrndorf the "Diplôme d'honneur" for his outstanding service to the arts in Canada.
Alexina Louie (b. 1949) owes much of her style and creative impetus to the fact that she is the daughter of second-generation Canadians of Chinese decent. Ms. Louie is renowned for such major compositional accomplishments as O Magnum Mysterium: In Memoriam Glenn Gould and the film score, written with her husband, Alex Pauk, Last Night. The festival will perform Louie's Bringing The Tiger Down from the Mountain II (1991, 1996), which was commissioned by the Canadian Music Competitions in 1991. Reflecting Ms. Louie's lifelong interest in Eastern influences, this work for cello and piano will test both aspiring virtuosos and established artists alike.
Chan Ka Nin was born in 1949 in Hong Kong and moved with his family to Vancouver in 1965. Twice winner of the Juno Awards for Best Classical Composition, Cha Ka Nin has had his works performed by ensembles such as the Miró Quartet, the National Arts Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. His opera Iron Road recently won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical. He will be represented at the festival with Among Friends for Clarinet, Cello & Piano (1989), which, in the words of the composer, "reflects the highs and lows of any human relationship.... Friendship, like music, will last only through the test of time."
Not yet 50, Gary Kulesha (b. 1954) is one of Canada's leading musicians. Active as a composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher, Kulesha has been Composer-in-Residence with both the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as having guest-conducted the Toronto Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, and numerous others. His works have been performed in Canada, the United States and Europe. His Trio No. 2 in F minor for Violin, Cello & Piano (2000-01), which will be performed at the Festival, was originally commissioned by the Gryphon Trio, with the financial assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.
Denys Bouliane (b. 1955), a native of Grand-Mere, Québec, started out playing guitar in an amateur rock band, but after a short time took the artistic road less traveled: he engaged in studies in piano and violin, eventually receiving his Masters in composition in 1979. Mr. Bouliane studied with György Ligeti from 1980-85. He is the founder of Série B, a group dedicated to extending acoustic possibilities through new electronic instruments. He currently is the director of the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble. The festival will present Trois Petits simiodrames for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Percussion (1990, rev. 1999). The piece filters selected jazz and dance idioms through Bouliane's sophisticated metrical and timbral treatments.
In addition to the Canadian composers, the Festival presents a number of outstanding Canadian artists. Performing this evening's concert: Amanda Forsyth, Principal Cello of the National Arts Centre Orchestra; violinist Jessica Linnebach, the 2000 recipient of the Sylva M. Gelber Music Foundation Award, and now a member of the NAC Orchestra; and Bryan Epperson, Principal Cellist of the Canadian Opera Company. Joining them are several superb local and national musicians: Jacquelyn Helin, L.P. How, Kirsten Johnson, Todd Levy, Steven Osgood and David Tolen. Included in the general programming of the Festival are Canadian residents Pinchas Zukerman, celebrated violinist and Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra; Donnie Deacon, Principal Second Violin of the National Arts Centre Orchestra; Jethro Marks, Associate Principal Viola of the National Arts Centre Orchestra; and Stewart Goodyear, an accomplished young pianist who recently made his London debut with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra, and Anton Kuerti, one of today's most recorded artists and Officer of the Order of Canada.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is supported by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; the New Mexico Department of Tourism; and grants and gifts from the Brown Foundation, Inc., McCune Charitable Foundation, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, Chamber Music America, Cudd Foundation, Wells Fargo New Mexico and numerous New Mexico businesses and individual donors.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents five weeks of classical masterpieces, jazz and world music, performed by the world's best musicians, at two historic venues in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Festival's 31st season, July 20 - August 25, 2003, includes 43 concerts, presented at St. Francis Auditorium and the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Programming includes a celebration of Schubert; works by composers ranging from Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Britten, Lutoslawski, and Takemitsu; world premieres of works by Morton Subotnick and Charles Wuorinen; four jazz concerts; world music with Portuguese fado singer Mariza and First Nations trio Ulali. Artists include Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, Garrick Ohlsson, Ralph Kirshbaum, and the Orion, Miró and Johannes string quartets. Community events include free youth concerts, master classes, and daily open rehearsals.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, PO Box 2227, Santa Fe, NM 87504. TEL: 505-983-2075; FAX: 505-986-0251; E-mail: info@sfcmf.org; website: http://www.sfcmf.org.
Posted Friday, July 25, 2003 by ggower SENATORS RE-SIGN JOSH LANGFELD AND WADE BROOKBANK The Ottawa Senators Hockey Club today announced they have re-signed forward Josh Langfeld and defenceman Wade Brookbank to multi-year deals.
Langfeld, 26, split the 2002-03 season between Ottawa and the Club's American Hockey League affiliate, the Binghamton Senators. In 59 regular season games with Binghamton, Langfeld recorded 35 points (14-21) and 38 penalty minutes. He also contributed another eight points (5-3) in 13 AHL playoff games.
Langfeld was recalled to Ottawa once during the 2002-03 season, appearing in 12 games from Feb. 5 to 28. He recorded his first career NHL point, an assist, against Florida on February 20, and also registered four penalty minutes and a +2 rating in his time with Ottawa.
Brookbank, 25, appeared in three pre-season games with the Senators, recording 11 penalty minutes, before being assigned to Binghamton on Oct. 2. In eight regular season games with Binghamton before a season-ending right knee injury on Nov. 2, Brookbank recorded 28 penalty minutes without recording a point.
JOSH LANGFELD, Right wing, Shoots right, 6'3", 216 lbs. Born: July 17, 1977 (Fridley, Minn.) Drafted: Ottawa's second 3rd-round choice (66th overall) in 1997
WADE BROOKBANK, Defenceman, Shoots left, 6'3", 216 lbs. Born: Sept. 29, 1977 (Lanigan, Sask.) Drafted: Not drafted Acquired: Signed as a free agent on July 27, 2001
Posted Friday, July 25, 2003 by ggower Info session: Collective Kitchens/Cuisines Collectives Get cooking in your community! An infomation evening about collective kitchens (What are collective kitchens? How can you get involved?)
When: Thursday July 31st, 2003 Time: 6-7pm Where: Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, 221 Nelson Street Room 107 For more information, contact Patricia at 244-2815 or pharewood@sandyhillchc.on.ca
Cuisinons dans notre communauté! Session d'information sur les cuisines collectives ( Qu'est-ce qu'une cuisine collective? Comment participer?)
mercredi le 30 juillet, 2003 (en français) 18h00 - 19h00 Centre de santé communautaire Côte de sable, 221 rue Nelson Pour plusieurs renseignements, veuillez contacter Patricia au 244-1815 ou par courriel à pharewood@sandyhillchc.on.ca
Posted Friday, July 25, 2003 by ggower DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL pre-release party at Zaphod Beeblebrox ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & TVT RECORDS PRESENT...
PRE-RELEASE LISTENING PARTY for the new CD "A Mark, A Misson, A Brand, A Scar"
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
Win limited edition vinyl and other swag Watch live performance footage Hear the highly anticipated new album before it hits the stores
Sunday, August 10 (Doors 8pm)
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada. Age 19+/ General Admission Tickets: FREE
Come to Zaphod's to hear the highly anticipated release from Dashboard Confessional and win limited edition vinyl of "A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar" and much more.
Dashboard Confessional has earned a legion of notoriously loyal and passionate fans of bandleader Chris Carrabba's universal lyrics, melodic tunes and charming sensitivity.
Dashboard Confessional's first full length CD "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most" was released in 2001and soon gained critical acclaim. The band toured relentlessly, the venues they played grew larger, and the crowd started to sing every word to every song. Over the next 12 months, Dashboard won an MTV2 award voted by the fans at the 2002 VMA's, graced the cover of Spin magazine in March of 2003, released a MTV Unplugged program that included a DVD of the entire MTV performance, toured constantly and continued to write songs for the much anticipated release of their new studio album.
"A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar" features the stellar single "Hands Down", and includes a bonus 60 minute DVD of live performance footage. "A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar" is in stores on August 12th.
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It's been three years since Chris Carrabba first decided to record some of his private songs and released them as the spartan The Swiss Army Romance (the record was recently reissued on Carrabba's own Anodyne Records imprint). It's been over two years since the release of the second Dashboard Confessional album, and the first for Vagrant, the brutal, masterful (and recently Gold certified) The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. As Carrabba toured that record, first solo, then with some friends, and eventually as the dedicated quartet that comprises Dashboard Confessional today, a funny thing happened. The diehards who had packed his earliest shows - when he was just a stage-fright wracked kid alone onstage with an acoustic guitar, improbably sandwiched between hardcore bands - had spread the word about his songs like secrets, and the number of fans doubled, then tripled, and still everyone of them knew all the words to all of the songs by heart. MTV picked up on what was happening and started playing the video for "Screaming Infidelities," then made Dashboard the first non-platinum act to get its own episode of Unplugged (fittingly, the DVD release of the special was later certified Platinum). A summer tour with Weezer followed. Then an MTV Video Music Award - the one, of course, that was voted on by the fans. Chris Carrabba's hair was everywhere in 2002 - playing the songs that made the whole world sing.
And now it's time for Dashboard Confessional v 3.0. A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar was recorded and produced in Chris's hometown of Boca Raton, Florida by the brilliant Gil Norton (The Pixies, Foo Fighters). And it is the sound of a young artist coming into his own. The record begins with a song familiar to anyone with a copy of 2001's So Impossible EP or anyone who attended one of Dashboard Confessional's myriad live shows: "Hands Down." The song is a breathless sprint through the moonlit memories of young love at a high school party. Carrabba used to introduce the song as being about the best night of his life and it was the capper of every concert. Not anymore: now the night's just getting started. Next up is the anthemic "Rapid Hope Loss" and you should realize something by now: Dashboard Confessional is, like, a band. It's not just that earnest young dude - he's there, sure, but he's brought company. Drummer Mike Marsh, Guitarist Johnny Leffler, and bassist Scott Schoenbeck are equal partners in Dashboard Confessional's live dynamic and with A Mark . . . they've made their presence felt on record as well.
A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is earnest and heartfelt. It's also coy, charming, effusive, complicated, warm, in love, in doubt, and ready to live everyday with you from morning until very, very late into the night. Give it a listen. And don't be embarrassed when you start singing along.
Posted Friday, July 25, 2003 by ggower Fri.Jul.25,2pm - Lubicon Embassy opens in Ottawa - You're invited ! Friday, July 25, 2-4 pm, in front of 24 Sussex Drive (otherwise known as the Prime Minister's Residence): Opening of the Embassy in Ottawa of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation.
"We are confident the Prime Minister will act with expediency and decisiveness in keeping his 1993 promise of resolving Lubicon land rights, and in anticipation of that land rights settlement we're opening the Lubicon embassy."
OLS is inviting everyone to the official opening of the Lubicon Lake Nation Embassy. The embassy's interim location is in front of the Prime Minister's residence on 24 Sussex Drive, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.
Visitors will be able to apply for visas to visit Lubicon territory, pick up attractive Lubicon travel brochures, and learn more about the Lubicons and their 64-year struggle to achieve recognition and implementation of their inherent Aboriginal rights. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
In July 1989, the federal government tried to draw members away from the Lubicon community, and decrease any Lubicon land rights settlement, by invoking a clause of the Indian Act that gives the Minister of Indian Affairs the authority to create an Indian Band. Ignoring the Lubicon and dozens of other legitimate Aboriginal societies that had been waiting 50 years or more for recognition of their rights, the federal government established the Woodland Cree Band, complete with 'traditional territory', and negotiated a land rights settlement with unprecedented speed.
Although promised a reserve in 1939, the Lubicons are still without land, adequate housing or running water. An estimated $1-million in resources is extracted from Lubicon land each day.
In September, 2002 the Lubicons and the federal government reached agreement on a capital construction package. Construction of a new community with running water and adequate housing is one portion of an overall settlement agreement. Alberta joined the talks in October. Reserve lands, economic development, compensation packages, and a wildlife and environmental management agreement over traditional Lubicon territory, are some of the elements of a final settlement agreement that will be negotiated.
