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Artscene The Wiz kids 33 · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, March 27, 2009 Young Peoples' concert Scandinavian Landscape, the sixth concert of the Young People's Concert Series, European Tour, takes place on Sunday, March 29 at 2 p.m. at the Royal Botanical Gardens Auditorium, 680 Plains Rd. W. in Burlington. The music of Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius will be presented in song, on piano, and in a piano and cello duo by young musicians. The event will feature pianist Alice Yoo, cellist Erika Nielsen, soprano Jennifer Sullivan and pianist Samuel Deason. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for students/seniors or $35 for a family of three or more. For information, visit www.youngpeoplesconcerts.com. Intensive writing West Side Writers will hold a nine-week course called Intensive Creative Writing. GRAHAM PAINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER The course runs Thursday afternoons from 12:45 to 3 p.m. from AT HOLY TRINITY : Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School's production of The Wiz runs March 30,and April 1and 2 at 7 p.m. Here, Chelsea Smith who plays Dorothy, holds onto her magic slippers as she's joined by Paul Falkowski as the Scarecrow, Maxim Onichtchouk as The Lion and William Charlton as March 31 to June 23 at St. Cuthbert's The Tin Man. Originally staged on Broadway in 1974, The Wiz by Charlie Smalls is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, but is not the typical Anglican Church, 1541 Oakhill Dr. journey down the yellow brick road. Dorothy is once again searching for a way home to Kansas after landing in the magical land of Oz and finds out along This intermediate-level course is for the way that if she knows her heart, mind and courage, she can find home anywhere. This year's drama department production includes efforts from stu- people working on their own writing. To register, contact Diana Revelins dents in all grades and features some juniors in starring roles. Tickets cost $10. The school is located at 2420 Sixth Line and doors open at 6:45 p.m. -- the at 905-823-6637 or e-mail Brian curtain goes up at 7 p.m. Henry at brianhenry@sympatico.ca. Recognizing authors, animators and artists at Sheridan By Tanya Kostiw SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER "Did I do it for the students? Probably not," said professor Vladimir Kabelik after he was recognized for a compilation of student documentaries he produced. "I should have said yes it was done for the students, but I think it's more of a collection for my colleagues, for teachers," he said. Sheridan College recognized the filmmaking professor along with about 15 other published authors from the School of Animation, Arts and Design recently. Kabelik's Anthology of Documentary Filmmaking features 15 student projects he considers to be "unusually good." They range in topic and length. One project entails footage from when the college went into lockdown last year because a student was reported to have been carrying a gun. The gun was actually a tripod and the student was, ironically, working on a documentary about security versus privacy. "This is proof how life works in mysterious ways," said Kabelik, who then told the student, "you have to bring your story into the story of the film." Another project called Positive Relationships compares how HIV is handled in Canada and in India. "In Canada, we have the money and the medicare and we are extending the lives of these affected people," he said. "But in India, a much poorer environment, they don't have the money, but they have a social network that supports them." For example they don't talk about death, but they encourage HIV positive people to marry each other, he said. "They extended their lives not through medications and vitamins, but through psychological care." Other documentaries looked at privatizing Canadian prisons, solar-powered robots that paint, and a businessman who was captured in Iraq. Animation professor Nancy Beiman was recognized for her book that examines animation storyboard, Prepare to Board! "I wasn't sure if it was going to fly," she said. "I fully expected it to die." The book was her Master's thesis at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Beiman considers storyboard to be the most important part of a film. "I discovered there was a huge gap in the literature. There was no really good book on animation storyboard." She consulted notes that date back to 1975, when she was a student at the first class of the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. One of See Authors page 37