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ARTSCENE Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 5559) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: nerred@hattonsearch.com W l I ) \ l S D A Y . \ I . \ K ( I I 2 7 . 2< X >12 Tempus singers return to the roots of their youth By Melanie Cummings S P E C IA L T O T H E B E A V E R While the word `youth' isn't part of the Tempus Choral Society's name anymore, youthful might as well be. It has been 30 years since the members first discovered the joy of singing together. Back then the choir consisted of 60 local high school students who followed the direction of music teacher Brian Turnbull. Now, the group has been reincar nated with Turnbull again facing a pack of 30 energetic, spirited voices. About one-third of the Tempus Choral Society members are from that original group and. as if history is repeating itself, they meet exactly as they did then, on the same day, at the same time and place, which is every Tuesday night at 7:30 pm, at St. John's United Church in Oakville. John-Frederick Cameron is one of the original youths who has come back to sing. He joined two years ago and is encouraged to see many new faces joining the ranks of the music lovers who find joy in singing. Members come from Hamilton, Toronto and communities in between. He said the attraction is due to the wide repertoire of music per formed. Everything including jazz, swing, gospel and classical music is selected. "We're not locked into a specific genre of music and we're always open to song suggestions from members," said Cameron. Already there is audience demand for the choral group with well-attended spring and Christmas concerts. This spring's show fea tures music from the movies. Like the group's youthful prede- Catherine DeKorte is a member of the Tempus Choral Society. Additional singers are being sought cessor, Cameron is hoping to recap ture its international, award-winning status again. To start are plans to par ticipate in an upcoming jazz festival in New Orleans. National perform ances are also in the works. "Our voices are blending well together, our sound is `there'," said Cameron. But he's eager to enlist 10-20 fresh additions, specifically tenors and bass voices, although there are still openings for altos and sopranos. A love of singing is all that is required -- and a $50 membership fee -- so there's no need to feel intimidated by this very relaxed, easy-going and fun-loving group of singers, assured Cameron. St. John's United Church is located at 262 Randall Street, near Trafalgar and Lakeshore Roads. For more information call JohnFrederick Cameron at (416) 9925033. Otherwise, just show up at the church for choir practice. Brian T\imbull, above, conducts the Tempus Choral Society during a recent rehearsal at St. John's United Church. Right, Tamara Kraszewski, Karen Armstrong, Karen Tench, Catherine DeKorte and Lynn DeLuca add their voices during rehearsal. Photos by Peter C. McCusker Gwen MacGregor exhibit at Gairloch opens April 6 Toronto's Gwen MacGregor is the next artist to be featured at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens from April 6 - June 2. MacGregor is preoccupied with seeking alter native ways to chart and experience events, exploring the realities of time, space and memo ry"I'm moving forward while thinking back ward. or is it moving backward while thinking forward? Either way my work has push-me/pullyou relationship with time." Such concerns are the subjects of three sitespecific installations that occupy each of the three domestic spaces of Oakville Galleries' former estate home. The "living room" serves as a receptacle of the year 2000, containing a newspaper from every day of the year. Rather than merely placing the newsprint within the gallery space, MacGregor has rolled them into granny knots (knotted newspapers used for starting fires), thereby linking and intertwining the days that each represents. A video projection in the "dining room" underscores the minute by minute march of time through the manipulation of the speed of various commonplace actions. While some actions have been sped up, others have been slowed down in order to contain time within a frame work. Connecting these two rooms, and their mate rialization of time, is a third room that MacGregor treats as a passageway, a site of tran sit, or an in between space. On the walls are texts about things she's forgotten - a movie star in a film, the name of a shop o f something she forgot at a grocery store. But herein lies the rub. As the texts are writ ten in glow-in-the-dark material - that quickly disappears after the lights go out - it is left up to us to remember what it was that we just read. MacGregor engages us in the process and out come of memory. The events and images MacGregor uses are most ordinary. There is a generosity in the use of the familiar, but there is an unsettling quality, too. The artist gives us pause to think about very sim ple transactions. There is something direct, uni fied and clear in her work even while she is bent on escaping the enclosures of ill-fitting rules. The Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Road East. Admission is free. An opening and reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, April 19 at 8:30 p.m. and MacGregor will talk about her work on Tuesday, April 23, at 8 p.m. A family and friends workshop is slated for Saturday, May 4 from 2-5 p.m. % o u a z z { J r u jL tz d to the 36th Annual /lA K V IL L E ^ { O C I E T Y ~RT ^ fu a to n Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, 120 Navy St. April 13 at 7:30 p.m., doors open 7:00 p.m. for preview and Silent Auction bids. a n S v m in c j & o f E x c itz m m t ESL Microsoft Word and Word Processing Afternoon Class: Starts April 2nd, 2002 Monday to Friday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Ends June 28th Starts April 3rd, 2002 Monday and Wednesday 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Ends June 26th (date may be extended if necessary) CO M E 5 H A K E A FEW PAWS O N E A STER W EEKEN P# ## S id z ita in m m t as you add to your corporate & private art collections from some of these artists: Robert Bateman: limited edition litho, Twin Otters portrait Helen Hendry: o il · Micheline Likas: pottery Kjell Oniing: watercolour · Gordon M iller watercolour on cotton The late Tom Chatfield: acrylic · Joyce Kellock: oil Leslie Cochrane: oil · Michael Young: stone sculpture Arlene Saunders: watercolour · Karen Walker: oil Marguerite Broten: stoneware · Allan Kingsland: watercolour Lilah Lewis Irving: acrylic · Gisele Comtois: oil William Biddle: watercolour · Baoxing Zhang: Chinese ink Peri Jolley: mixed media mono print, AND OVER 70 MORE. 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