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Christmas comes Providing access to all Continued from page 24 25 · Wednesday, December 14, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER TO SCHOOL: Glenburnie School students performed a Christmas concert last Thursday evening. Pictured here are the primary students rehearsing their North Pole Musical performance. The concert also featured a presentation put on by the Kindergarten students. But, once he found the right performers, everything else went smoothly, he said. At a cost of $24 per person, Wright understands this may be too expensive for some families. "Even at a vastly reduced price to the one downtown, I know even then some families are not going to be able to afford it," he said. So he is donating 10 per cent of his available tickets to various organizations, including the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton, Hamilton and Peel, Kerr Street Ministries, United Way, Salvation Army and Home Suite Hope. "This is a chance for me to give back to the community that I'm part of and to share the Christmas spirit. Everyone needs to have something to look forward to at Christmas, no matter who you are," he said. The Meeting House has a bit more than 1,000 seats, and Wright said everyone one of them is a good one. He encourages all families, espe- cially those with younger children. "To try and get a kid to sit through The Nutcracker r is not easy," he said. "Getting a kid to sit through a pantomime requires no persuasion. You don't need them to sit still and be quiet because the louder they are, the funnier the show is." He said the show is full of great characters, including the two ugly stepsisters. "The ugly sisters are fun, jolly characters," he said. "It's these two guys dressed as women who think they are beautiful and think they're the top of the high-class society." The show is also full of song and dance. If the show is successful, Wright said he would take it on a tour next year. The show has a number of performances, including several on some nights. For information and tickets, visit www.pantomime.ca. Dominik Kurek can be reached at dkurek@oakvillebeaver.com or can be followed on Twitter at @ DominikKurek. Oakville comeand will include dian Glen Foster, guests Clifford also known as That Myers and Canadian Guy, is Rhiannon Archer. putting on a special Foster is a recChristmas-themed ognizable figure show in Burlington in the comedy Thursday, Dec. 15. world, having Foster and other appeared on CBC, comedians will Glen Foster Just for Laughs, appear at A Very Prickly The Debaters, Comedy Club Christmas show, at the 54, The Comedy Network and Burlington Performing Arts Sun News. Centre. The show starts at 8 p.m. The event will be hosted by For tickets, visit www.burlHumble Howard Glassman ingtonpac.ca. Canadian Guy Christmas Zeuce release Victorian Christmas Oakville's Marlon Swyer, who goes by the stage names of Marlon Souler and Zeuce, is releasing his latest mix tape online. The album, titled 1050, will be available for download as of Dec. 15 through YouTube and Swyer's personal blogsite. It is the first of three mix tapes set for release and follows an album release from earlier this year, titled Left Brain. "Every song on this album is my feelings, as you can tell by skimming through my YouTube, all of my music is about real life situations and not about typical rap scenarios," he wrote in an email, describing the new album. "I feel like artists shouldn't have to put on this thug facade just to appeal to a general audience. All of my music is about things that I encountered in my life." The new tracks will be available at www.youtube.com/MMTSmusic and www.richmiseries.tumblr.com. Escapism with Arrogant Worms The Arrogant Worms will celebrate Christmas by providing a little tuneful and silly escapism for all who need it. The music group will perform at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Dec. 15. The group says this is the time when people need escape and an Arrogant Worms Christmas is the place for it. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $42.99. For tickets, visit www.oakvillecentre.ca. JAMES HOGGETT / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER EXPLAINED: Renowned Toronto actor and director John Huston was the keynote speaker at the Canadian Federation of University Women's Oakville Holiday Dinner at the Harbour Lighthouse Banquet & Conference Centre. Huston spoke about how Victorians invented Christmas.