What’s happening in the Flin Flon/Creighton/Denare Beach area in the next few weeks? Well, let me tell you!
The NorVA Centre has a new exhibition on display until late in November and features two local artists, Noelle Drimmie and Mike Spencer. Drimmie takes astonishing photographs of the variety of performers who entertain at Johnny’s Social Club but this exhibit features some of her abstract works. Spencer is showing both prints and pottery that demonstrate his newest artistic interests. He has been working as an artist most of his life and his New Works represent his loosening of some of the rules in earlier work.
NorVA is also offering another educational experience for the budding or even formed artists in our community. Jan Modler and Karen Clark will teach Wax and Dye techniques on a series of afternoons in November: Wednesday, Nov. 8, Sunday, Nov. 12, Wednesday, Nov. 15 and Sunday, Nov. 19. The cost of the series, which includes 100 per cent cotton material, all waxes and dyes, as well as the expert instruction is $110.
The Flin Flon Arts Council presents its annual fundraiser on Nov. 4 in the Christmas Arts and Crafts Sale. There will be over 70 tables of beautiful hand-made crafts from Manitoba and Saskatchewan artisans and foodstuffs for sale. There will be many one-of-a-kind items for Christmas, gifts or just because you need them! Lunch is provided in the Seniors Room, courtesy of the Flin Flon Seniors Association. Santa will also be there to pose for photos with the kids in the Winter Wonderland from 12 pm to 1 pm and 2 pm to 3 pm. The cost for this will be $10. The sale takes place in the R.H. Channing Auditorium at the Community Hall. Please come and support your Flin Flon Arts Council.
At the Arts and Crafts Sale, the Flin Flon Arts Council will also have tickets for sale for the next great Amisk Tour. Leaving on Jan. 24, 2018 and returning on Jan. 26, take a luxury coach ride to Winnipeg to see the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Come From Away. The Broadway musical theatre smash hit is set in Gander, Newfoundland in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. It tells the story of how Gander, a town with a population under 10,000, met the challenge of 5,000 people landing in airplanes after the United States grounded all flights headed for their airports for five days.
Amisk Tours will provide motor coach transportation with entertainment, food and other treats, two nights at the Inn At The Forks hotel in Winnipeg, dinner before the show on Saturday evening and a post-show reception back at the hotel with spectacular hors d’oeuvres. Sunday will see you heading back home in the comfort of the bus, with more treats along the way. The cost for this fabulous weekend is $600 per person, based on double occupancy.
Home Routes presents Suzie Vinnick, a wonderful roots and blues singer-songwriter, on Nov. 22 and again on Nov. 25. There will be another column before that date but there will also be a JSC show to talk about then and we need to give our dear friend Keith Reed time to do his research! Suzie Vinnick has won a Maple Blues Award ten times – six times for Best Female Vocalist, twice for Best Songwriter, Best Bassist, and Best Acoustic Act. She has been nominated for three Junos for her albums in the Roots and Traditional Album of the Year category as well as Blues Album of the Year category. Suzie has also won the International Songwriting Competition in the Blues category, twice, for her songs “The Honey I Want” and “Sometimes I Think I Can Fly.”
Originally from Saskatoon and now based in Toronto, her music has been heard in commercials and TV show soundtracks. Suzie has toured nationally with Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café, the John McDermott band and with Girls Sing Boys. She performs as a solo artist and contributes to variety of band projects, including The Marigolds with Gwen Swick and Caitlin Hanford, Vinnick Sheppard Harte (with Kim Sheppard and Elana Harte) and as a duo with
Rick Fines.
You really should come out to see this wonderful concert, your friend and ours, Keith Reed will tell you so! Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for tickets, only $20.
