Sylvia Carscadden
Sylvia Carscadden, founder and director of the Kampana Handbells, received the inaugural Joan Mantle Music Trust Community Award at the International Dinner in support of the Trust on Saturday, April 5, 2014.
All proceeds from the dinner will go towards the purchase of new instruments in Rainbow Schools.
“Sylvia Carscadden shares Joan Mantle’s passion for music education for all ages, which makes her an ideal recipient for this award,” says Ralph McIntosh, Chair of the Joan Mantle Music Trust Steering Committee. “She has had a positive impact on music in the community, promotes lifelong music education, and has served as an inspiration to others through her musical contributions and accomplishments.”
Carscadden founded the Kampana Handbells in 1975, serving as director until their final concert in December 2013. She spearheaded the only handbell group in northeastern Ontario, one of the few non-church and non-school based handbell groups in the province. An Honorary Fellow of Huntington University, she is a Charter Member of the Ontario Guild of English Handbell Ringers.
The unexpected gift of English handbells from her retired music-teacher mother would be the start of a legacy that would teach music and performance skills to dozens of children, teens and adults for close to four decades. Sylvia Carscadden’s passion for handbells grew into concerts for local audiences in support of many not-for-profit organizations and workshops on chime playing for elementary teachers. In the process, she inspired the creation of handbell/chime choirs in area schools and churches, and launched one of her daughters on a career as a professional handbell soloist and ensemble director.
Sylvia’s first choir was made up of her four children and their friends. While she was a competent pianist, she’d never seen handbells before, let alone played them. So she read and experimented and went to handbell workshops in Canada and the United States to figure out what to do with this uncommon gift.
As the children moved on and she came into her own as a gifted ringer and director, Sylvia – with characteristic enthusiasm and generosity – invited newcomers into successive Kampana choirs. Members honed their music reading skills and gained the self-confidence that comes from performing in public, and being supported by a “can do” attitude.
Over the years, the Kampana Handbells have been guest performers at many concerts in the Sudbury area, including the Bel Canto Chorus, Sudbury Chamber Singers, Heart & Soul Singers, Bell Park Gazebo series, Market Square Festival of Trees, and other city-based events. They have played at school concerts, fundraisers, dinners and meetings.
With her passion for nurturing musical ability in young people, Sylvia Carscadden made a point of inviting young musicians to perform as guests at Kampana concerts, including the Chime Choir from Copper Cliff Public School, which was founded by a former Kampana ringer. Children were always admitted free of charge and were encouraged to ring the bells and chimes after the concert.
The Kampana Handbells regularly entered the Sudbury Kiwanis Festival. Their involvement prompted the creation of a new category at this annual celebration of music, which provided an opportunity for more children and youth to be exposed to the unique sound of handbells. The Kampana Handbell choirs have also released two CDs.
About the International Dinner
Rainbow District School Board’s third International Dinner and Silent Auction in support of the Joan Mantle Music Trust will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 6 pm at the ParkSide Older Adult Centre, 140 Durham Street, in Sudbury. All proceeds will go towards the purchase of new instruments in Rainbow Schools.
Tickets are $50 per person (with a $30 tax receipt provided upon request) and tables of eight are $400 (with a $240 tax receipt provided upon request). Tickets can be purchased at the Sudbury Theatre Centre, 170 Shaughnessy Street, 705-674-8381. Tickets are also available at area Rainbow secondary schools or by contacting Ralph McIntosh at 705-674-7551, ext. 6850, email [email protected].
The menu will feature a wide variety of foods including dishes from Mexico, Greece, the Ukraine, Italy, Thailand, India, Germany and Finland. Musical entertainment will showcase talented students from Rainbow Schools.
About the Joan Mantle Music Trust
The Joan Mantle Music Trust was established in the fall of 2008 to help refresh, modernize and revitalize school music programs in the Rainbow District School Board. The Trust allocates funding for musical instruments and equipment to selected schools on a rotating basis. The Trust also accepts the donation of new and used musical instruments and allocates them to schools in need. This ensures that there is an ongoing improvement in the condition of musical equipment throughout the Board, allowing for students to achieve more in their musical studies together.
For more information about the International Dinner and the Joan Mantle Music Trust, visit www.rainbowschools.ca.
Donations to the Joan Mantle Music Trust are always welcome. Cheques should be made payable to Rainbow District School Board. Receipts will be provided for all donations of $25 or more.
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Visit the site for more info and an application form: https://www.killarney.com/painting_competition.ph
Recently, a program has been launched by the Northeastern Ontario Tourism Association to celebrate and promote the Group of Seven landscape painters, the most recognized art movement in Canada. In conjunction with the Group of Seven Festival at Killarney Provincial Park, Killarney Mountain Lodge would like to invite landscape painters to participate in a contest by submitting a painting to be judged in a juried competition. Prizes will be awarded for the paintings that best interpret the northern landscape that inspired the Group of Seven.
The lodge is offering a first prize of four complimentary days for two persons at the lodge in 2014 that includes accommodation, all meals and two excursion cruises. A second prize will also be awarded offering a similar package for two persons for two days.
Rules
1. All paintings must be received by Killarney Mountain Lodge by June 1st 2014.
2. Paintings must be ready to hang and be a minimum size of 10 x 12 and no larger dimension than 4 feet. All paintings submitted must have been completed within the last three years.
3. All works chosen by the jury will be displayed in the lodge for the remainder of the tourist season.
4. Painters may then choose to price their paintings for sale. Killarney Mountain Lodge will charge a 20% commission on any such sale.
5. The paintings must be removed by no later than Friday October 17th, 2014.
6. All artists will be responsible for the expense of delivery and return of their work.
7. Artists may submit up to two paintings. Each painting will require a separate entry form.
8. The jury panel will announce the names of the winners at Killarney Mountain Lodge on Saturday afternoon, July 19, 2014. The three members of the jury panel are: Ed Bartram, internationally recognized painter and print maker and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and the Ontario Society of Artists; Pierre Sabourin, noted landscape painter and resident of Killarney; Rob Stimpson, acclaimed outdoor photographer and teacher.
To obtain a copy phone toll-free 800-461-1117 or email www.killarney.com
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Martin Lajeunesse’s and Vicki Gilhula’s opening remarks announcing Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loARS9nFsjM
Mayor Announces New Annual
Celebration of the Arts
SUDBURY, ON — Greater Sudbury Mayor Marianne Matichuk today unveiled a new annual event spotlighting and celebrating the city’s growing professional arts and culture sector.
The first annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts, presented by the Sudbury Arts Council, will take place May 1 at the Laurentian School of Architecture in Downtown Sudbury.
The inaugural event will celebrate the work and achievements of the diverse artists across Greater Sudbury, including the 21-member Creative Consortium, a coalition of local professional arts organizations.
“Greater Sudbury’s vibrant arts community brings excitement, energy and creative spirit to our city,” said Mayor Marianne Matichuk. “I’m looking forward to celebrating the best our great city has to offer with our many partners.”
Two special awards, established for the annual event, will be presented by an independent jury to local artists who have demonstrated outstanding creativity and advancement in their chosen artistic field.
The Award for Exceptional Achievement in the Arts will be presented to a professional artist for his or her exceptional contribution to the arts, through an extensive body of works in one or several disciplines, as well as through her/his contribution over time to the development and betterment of the Greater Sudbury arts community.
The Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist will be presented to a young professional artist for excellence and creativity of her/his artworks or performances.
The first annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts begins at 5:30 and will feature live entertainment as well as catering by Speakeasy.
Tickets for the event are $50 and are available through Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario by calling 705-525-5606, x4 or visiting their web site at https://www.letno.ca/billetterie/ or through any of the Creative Consortium organizations.
The Sudbury Arts Council wishes to thank our generous sponsors: the Sudbury Credit Union, sponsoring the reception of May 1, and our marketing benefactors, Studio 123 and Copy Copy.
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More about the Sudbury Arts Council
Sudbury Arts Council’s mission is to connect, communicate, and celebrate. We connect local arts with each other and their audience, we communicate as an umbrella organization, ensuring artists have a voice in Greater Sudbury and that the arts remain relevant to the community. We publish a monthly newsletter and maintain a comprehensive website. We celebrate the arts with events such as Arts After Five, Wordstock, Culture Days and the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts.
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Connect
In 2013, SAC Arts Junction Subcommittee received a grant from Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation to do a study for its artists’ co-op project for Wembley Public School. When the Rainbow Board puts the school up for sale in a year or two, SAC wants to be ready with a viable proposal so that this landmark building does not get sold off to a developer for condos before artists have a chance to make a viable proposal for reuse. We have received support from influential individuals and groups for this project. (More CHMA funding in 2014 available pending successful completion of Phase 1.)
Visual artists want to be seen. SAC has a subcommittee working to find proper places for exhibitions.
Artists’ work should be appreciated and not just used to decorate restaurant walls where the lighting is poor. We are currently having conversations with a downtown main street property owner sympathetic to the arts regarding an “arts centre,” with office, theatre, and exhibition space.
During 2013/2014 SAC hosted monthly Arts After Five events at various locations where local musicians had a chance to introduce their talents to a new audience. In most cases these artists were paid for their time in our effort to support our talented resources. Events included an evening of poetry at the MacKenzie Library in February to celebrate 200th birthday of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevencko. Average attendance was 50 people.
There was a good turnout of about 40 people at the September Annual General meeting where six new board members were elected by the paid membership. This is the first time in many years that the board was not acclaimed. The board has 12 members and can expand to 15.
SAC attends the city’s monthly Arts and Culture strategy meetings. We also send representation to Creative Consortium meetings.
The SAC board held a vision meeting in November to update its mission and values. This helped the executive plan strategy for the 2014/2015 year.
SAC had a representative on the Poet Laureate selection committee, winter 2014.
Communicate
SAC emails a monthly bulletin of news and events to more than 500 subscribers.
We improved and continue to improve our social media presence with more than 600 FACEBOOK friends.
The website was redesigned, updated and launched in February 2014.
We send out regular press releases to the media regarding our activities.
We also maintain a Wordstock Sudbury FACEBOOK page and website.
Celebrate
Sudbury Arts Council is taking the leadership role in establishing the Mayor’s Celebration for the Arts May 1, 2014.
SAC subcommittee organized and hosted a successful literary festival in June 2013 at the Sudbury Theatre Centre. Many Sudbury and area English and French writers were featured. All writers were paid an honorarium. Cabaret featured Sudbury’s Patricia Cano and Tomson Highway, A second event is planned for 2015.
SAC hosted a Culture Days event with musical performances at Theatre Cambrian in September 2013.
SAC organizes regular art exhibitions of Sudbury artists work at the South End Library. These exhibits usually change every two months.
SAC board members attended and supported numerous arts events at SSO, AGS, Theatre Cambrian and STC in the past 12 months.
We advertised in the NLFB and SSO programs to support these organizations and we sponsored one piece of art at the AGS’s annual December exhibition.
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The Sudbury Arts Council co-ordinates the ARTSPACE wall at the South End Library.
This month, paintings by the late Sonia Sawchuk are featured.
There is no charge to exhibit at ARTSPACE. Apply by sending an email to [email protected].
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Linda Cartier, Secretary of Arts Council admiring work at one of Arts Crawl locations on March 20th a great success. Congratulations to the organizers.
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Link to March ebulletin : https://eepurl.com/OJxc1
Special news https://eepurl.com/N5D0r
Link to February ebulletin https://eepurl.com/LJ-Lj
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Vicki Gilhula, [email protected]
The Sudbury Arts Council is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2014.
One of our core values is the ARTS play in a vital role in a healthy livable community. Without the arts, a city has no heart or soul.
SAC is delighted to announce a new arts event, the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts.
The Sudbury Arts Council, with the co-operation of the city’s Creative Coalition of 21 Arts organizations and ROCS, a group of eight Francophone arts and culture organizations that are working to establish Place des Arts, want to establish a way to honour Sudbury artists and heighten the profile of the arts in the community while raising money for arts bursaries. Mayor Marianne Matichuk has kindly added her name to this event to increase its profile.
There are TWO cash awards: One is a lifetime achievement, the other is for an emerging artist age 35 or under.
The Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts will take place Thursday, May 1, at the School of Architecture Thank you to Laurentian University for donating the use of this beautiful building, which as many of you know has been built on the bones of one of the city’s oldest buildings and is located on Sudbury’s first four corners.
The organizers hope the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts will become an annual event and is modeled on similar successful events across Canada. The first year will be a simple event of food, friends and music.
Tickets are $50 each, available at the TNO box office.
Some artists have asked about how the first two awards will be presented in 2014. Here is the background:
The SAC sub committee (three SAC members, Lynne Reynolds, Mark Mancini and myself with Creative Consortium member Callam Rodya and ROCS members Paulette Gagnon and Martin Lajeunesse) felt there was not enough time in Year One of this event to have a nomination process which would take about six months (to promote, process and judge based on my experience with the Community Builders Awarda). That is of course, in addition to the work it takes to raise money, plan an event, etc,
So, we arranged for an independent jury of five people who are have broad knowledge of the arts community to met, put forward names, vet and then make select three finalists in each category. The SAC representative is Paddy O’Sullivan. He is also the facilitator of the process.d.
No one on SAC, except Paddy, and no one on the SAC subcommittee has any input or information on the winners.
I would stress, that the “lifetime” achievement award is as much about one’s contributions to the community and arts community if not more than about the “quality” of one’s work.
Next year, or perhaps in December 2014, there will be a call for nominations to the Celebration awards for the 2015 event, and perhaps there will be enough money raised May 1 to have several more cash awards. The money for the awards is not coming from SAC, the mayor’s office, or the city hall. It is being supplied by Corporate donations.
I hope that you will attend the May 1 and support this initiative and help us raise money for artists. This is a fundraiser for artists. The tickets are $50 and I would love to sell you one or two.
If you would like to donate work to the silent auction at the celebration, the organizers are returning HALF of the bid paid to the artist. Please email me at vgilhula@gmail,com,
Northern Lights Festival Boréal (NLFB) is currently accepting
vendor/crafter/artisan applications for the festival. The festival will
take place July 4th, 5th and 6th at Bell Park, Sudbury. The festival
traditionally hosts numerous food vendors, artisans, crafters, retailers, as
well as non-profit and environmental exhibitors. The festival usually attracts
anywhere between 10,000 and 15,000 patrons from Northern Ontario and
beyond, and is host to 40+ musical acts. Vendor application forms and
information regarding fees, logistics and more can be found online
at: www.nlfbsudbury.com/vendors.
Vendors will be selected through a formal application process and can
expect to hear back by May 30, 2014 at the absolute latest. Originality is
certainly an asset, as NLFB organizers seek to preserve the eclectic and
diverse atmosphere the festival has become known for.
“We had a great diversity of vendors and non-profit displays last year, and
we seek only to expand on this for 2014,” says Max Merrifield, Executive
Director of the festival.
NLFB is Canada’s longest continuous running music festival and
celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011. Over the years NLFB has grown from
a one day event called the ‘Northern Lights Folk Festival’ into a seasoned
presenter of Canadian roots and modern music. The modern NLFB
experience can be described as, ‘a roots music festival that loves modern
music,’ or ‘a modern music festival that’s in love with its roots.’
For more information, please contact the Northern Lights Festival Boréal
office at [email protected] / 705-674-5512