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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e sd a y July 3, 2002 - C3 Photos by Tyrel Featherstone Special to the Beaver PROUD TO BE CANADIAN: Cynthia Parker, 2, of Oakville carries around a number of Canadian flags at Coronation Park on Canada Day where she was celebrating the nation's 135th birthday with her family. Meanwhile, Wieslaw Chmielewski provided some of the afternoon lineup of entertainment at Coronation and in Bronte. The birthday party celebrations included a birthday cake, a parade and wrapped up with a street dance in Bronte. Oakville's Canada Day celebration was for the 21st year, sponsored by the Halton Multicultural Council (HMC) and its new partner, the Bronte Village BIA. Artist to spend the summer at Gairloch By Liz Campbell S P E C IA L T O T H E B E /V E R S u m m e r t im e B ooks Bookers Bookstore, 172 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville · 844-5501 bookers@sympatico.ca S u iia ia a o i* 1. A SEASON IN DORNOCK by Lorne Rubenstein 2. WORST CASE SCENARIO HANDBOOK GOLF, by Joshua Piven 3. WOMEN'S GOLF. by Nick Wright 4. THE DON'T SWEAT GUIDE TO GOLF, by Richard Carlson 5. A COOK'S TOUR, by Anthony Bourdain 6. HOW TO GRILL. by Steven Raichlen 7. WILLIAMS-SONOMA COLLECTION: GRILLING, by Chuck Williams 8. SUPER YACHTS. by John Julian 9. WOODEN BOATS, by Michael Ruhlman 10. LITTLE BOOK OF FLY FISHING, by Tom Davis 11. THE KID'S COTTAGE BOOK byJane Drake 12. COTTAGE GARDENS, by David Squire 13. GARDEN MASTERCLASS, byjohn Brookes 14. NATIONAL PARKS AND OTHER WILD PLACES OF CANADA by Blake Maybank 15. TENDING THE EARTH, by Lorraine Johnson Itlv W tts We tend to think of a piece of art as static, unchanging. But Ron Benner's garden project at Gairloch Gardens will change continually as the summer pro gresses. It provides an opportunity not simply to appreciate its beauty, but to learn something of our world. Benner started life studying agricul tural engineering, so it's not unusual that he is intrigued with plants and their origins. He has worked as a radish picker, in a supermarket artd on the railway to support his art. But since 1975, he says, he has "been involved with art that deals with the analysis o f food or animal hus bandry". After he created a garden installation at the University of Western Ontario, he was invited by Mamie Fleming, curator o f contem porary art the Oakville Galleries to create something similar at Gairloch Gardens. That installation followed com from its home in South America to India and Peter C. McCusker · Oak\'ille Beaver China. The Gairloch Gardens project is part Artist Ron Benner's garden project at Gairloch Gardens of a larger work that looks at European will change continually as the summer progresses and explorers like Cabral who went from that's because it's a work in progress at the Lakeshore Portugal to Brazil. Africa and India in Road venue. one journey in 1500 A.D. Through their travels, they took the plants they some of the same fruits and vegetables in a encountered from one continent to another, speeding market in Paris, France. It's a poignant con the natural process and creating whole new economies trast. Under it all is a statement about colonialism and farming practices in the process. For example, papayas, guavas and com are all and the arrogance of explorers who took for grown in Africa today and are integral to the diet in granted their right to uproot ecosystems in their search for new foods and spices and of course, these places. But these first came from South America. Many precious metals. Benner has done installations in museums people think that potatoes are indigenous to Ireland as well, usually with dried food crops and pro and Europe. Yet these too have been grown in the Andes for duce boxes as well as images. He speaks passionately about his work. 6,000 years and were taken to Europe by Spanish "I make art to change people's minds," he explorers. says in a description that's provided of his B enner's installation is called Trans/mission: African Vectors and this work focuses on that conti installation. "My work is about ways o f thinking nent. about European and Large photographs appear to be the sails of a ship about the world North Am erican ways o f thinking in partic whose deck is a garden. The photographs, all labeled, tell a clear tale of the ular, but not exclusively - ways of thinking movement of plants and their integration into African that converge and im pinge upon other peo p le 's w ays, and cause dam age," says life. Below the enormous pictures grow the indigenous Benner. "I 'm concerned with how other cultures North American plants which have spread so far and done so much to nourish so many other parts of the think and behave," Benner added. Because this is an ever-changing exhibit, world. The photographs show us scenes in Tanzania and visit it frequently with the whole family and see how the garden grows. Kenya in East Africa and Ghana in West Africa. And says Benner, he wants people to under They are images of daily life with a focus on the stand the origins of the plants and appreciate food and the plants which provide that food. And as a counterpoint, there are photographs of them. Is your bad hair day entering month number 2? . , Athena Kokonakis A th e n a , I h a te th e c o lo u r o f m y h a ir. I t's d u ll a n d b o r in g . I h av e a n olive sk in to n e a n d I th in k I w a n t to h a v e h ig h lig h ts . B u t w h a t c o lo u rs w o u ld lo o k b e s t o n m e? -O live D e a re s t O live, O live sk ins h a v e a w id e ra n g e o f c o lo u rs to c h o o s e fro m . I f y o u d e s ire a lig h te r s h a d e try u s in g c o o l o r n e u tr a l c o lo u rs. 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OUR CANADIAN GIRL: ANGELIQUE, by Cora Taylor (Children) B est Bets pro vid ed courtesy o f B o o Ic e r s c lu b s (905) 845-5321 ta o o k a t o r v a iD v o lo l o 'd s r i - b o o k