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B4 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER W ednesday, February 16, 2000 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Sheridan students win top awards Students from the jo in t Sheridan/U T M (U niversity o f Toronto at M ississauga) T heatre and D ram a S tudies program w alked aw ay with top prizes in the U o f T D ram a F es tival held last month. The annual festival is held at H art H ouse on the St. G eorge cam pus o f U o f T. Som e 10 entries rep resenting eight colleges, three cam puses, and a student body o f 60.000 com peted over three nights in a fes tival adjudicated by R obert C rew o f The Toronto Star. T h e inaugural ed itio n o f the R obertson D avies Award for Best P layw right w ent to Bobby D el Rio (third year) for his original script. When Children Fall. Del Rio direct ed his ow n play w ith A lison Jutzi (third year) assisting. T he show, w hich included a lighting design by S h erid an /U T M A rt an d H istory first-year student Jennifer Taylor, also took the prize for O utstanding Technical A chievem ent. A lso m ounted largely by T heatre and D ram a Studies students under the banner o f the E rindale D ram a Club w as a production o f M ichael O n d aa tje's intense p oetic dream Billy the Kid. T he Award for Best Perform ance in the festival w ent to Rick D uthie (second year) in the title role, and the acting o f S am an tha Jones (second year) w on an Aw ard o f M erit in the sam e play. Bookers Bookstore, 172 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville *844-5501 · bookers ©sympatico.ca LO V E ASSORTMENT 1. 2. ENCHANTED LOVE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON DON 'T SWEAT T H E SMALL STUFF IN LOVE RICHARD CARLSON 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. \1ED L\TA TI0N S O F LOVE . SISTER WENDY BECKETT ALL ABOUT US P h o to by P e ter C. M cCusker PHILIPP KEEL SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE G erry Tym stra and a seven-piece band will perform at St. J o h n 's U nited C hurch on M arch 4th. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE LOVE POEMS O F RUMI Concert in support of Ian Anderson House C o m p o ser/p ian ist G erry Tym stra will be giving a concert in St. Jo h n 's United Church at 7:30 p.m. on M arch 4th in support o f Ian A nderson House. Tym stra, an O akville m usician, is a pianist with the ability to play by ear. Consequently, he has com posed over 60 original tunes that, he says, he hears in his head." H e has tw o C D s to his credit, and one o f his claim s to fam e is that the Canadian S now birds aerial team flies to one o f his songs - The R ed M aple L e a f from T ym stra's G arden o f Eden CD . He refers to the m usic on that p ar tic u la r C D as " so o th in g , relax in g m usic." ^ T he en sem b le at T y m stra 's O akville concert will consist o f seven m u sician s play in g keyboard, grand piano, base, guitar, violin, trum pet and drum s. Tym stra will also be accom pa nied by the T em pest C hoir from St. Jo h n 's U nited Church. T ickets to the concert are available through the church at 262 Randall St. (845-0551) or by calling (416) 3781728. DEEPAK CHOPRA IF LOVE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT 8. CHICKEN SOUP FOR T H E COU PLE'S SOUL JACK CANFIELD 9. FALLING IN LOVE AYALA MALACH PINES 10. SINGLE NO MORE ELLEN KREIDMAN Eager, knowledgeable staff (Continued from page B5) HARDCOVER N O N -FIC T IO N 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. HURRICANE JAMES HIRSCH G A B R IELLE ROY A L IF E FRANCOIS RICARD THE G IR L IN T H E PICTURE DENISE CHONG WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK MODRIS EKSTEINS MICHAEL PALIN'S H EM IN G WAY ADVENTURE MICHAEL PALIN 6. 7. NO LOGO NAOMI KLEIN CULTURE JAM: THE UNCOOL ING OF AMERICA KALLE LASN 8. STOREYS BASIC COUNTRY SKILLS STOREY BOOKS 9. TUESDAYS W ITH MORRIE MITCH ALBOM 10. THE ROCK SAYS JOELAYDEN PAPERBACK FICTION 1. C ID ER HOUSE RULES JOHN IRVING 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS DAVID GUTERSON NOTES FROM A BIG COUNTRY BILL BRYSON BLINDNESS JOSE SARAMAGO GIRL IN TER R U PTED SUSANNA KAYSEN BE COOL you need to be rich to own original art. She said becom ing a collector does not necessarily take a lot o f money. The best advice she gives people w ho have decided they w ant to trade in their posters for the real thing is to spend a great deal o f tim e educating them selves by going to different galleries and art open ings. Zigrossi said A bbozzo is firmly com m itted to art education and feels it is one o f the gallery's main services. Last fall A bbozzo offered a lec ture series, w hich included such topics as H ow to Look a t A rt With out F ear and Flow to D evelop a C ollection, and also arranged a bus trip to M cM aster Art Gallery, w hich included a tour o f A llen F lin t's print studio and ended at a winery. M aking art accessible and fun is som ething Z igrossi strives for. Her love o f art, som ething she describes as a long-tim e "personal passion", perm eates the atm osphere o f the gallery. She has deliberately chosen staff w ho are friendly, know ledgeable and alw ays eager to talk about art work. "A nyone can com e in, brow se and ask questions. We will spend hours and hours talking about art," said Zigrossi. C ustom ers can also bring in art w ith a value they are not sure of, since A bbozzo now has a resident licensed appraiser, Ken Forsyth, w ho is also its Corporate Art Con- sultant. D espite her obvious enjoym ent o f the gallery, Zigrossi alm ost let her dream go when she becam e pregnant with quadruplets a year after opening. "I had a lot o f people telling me to sell it," she recalled. But now Zigrossi said she is glad she did not listen. H er quads - three boys and a girl - are now five years old and have learned to love and respect art. She said they frequently have art shows o f their own at home. And in the m idst o f all the beau tiful pieces o f art surrounding her, Zigrossi displays a m other's pride as she hauls out a red crayoned "sketch" o f a truck that one o f her sons has created. The simple enjoym ent she gets from her child's art represents the same enjoym ent that Zigrossi said custom ers should get from the art they purchase. "The art should speak to you, it should m ove you," she said. "T here should be some exhilaration as you m ake that leap o f faith and buy som e art. "W hen people say I'm so thrilled with the art w ork we bought, that is when we know we are m eeting our m andate," she said. Zigrossi is quick to point out, however, that the gallery never sells under the prem ise that a piece o f art work is going to appreciate in value. "We d o n 't sell on investment. We ju st say we offer good art work from full-tim e artists." `Birthday Reminder' artist (Continued from page B6) ELMORE LEONARD CLOSE RVNGE ANNIE PROULX COLONY O F U N REQ U ITED DREAMS The children, she says, are, perhaps, the m ost excited about the exhibition she is planning in May. All her students are encouraged to put one or tw o paint ings in the art show and to invite fam i ly and friends. W hile m ost o f the art w ork will be for sale, m any o f her stu dents are too fond o f their w ork to part with it. F or S tam m 'ler, te ach in g has becom e a very rew arding experience. "I d idn't realize it would be so m uch fun," she says. "It feels like w e're friends after a few m onths." A selection o f S tam m 'le r's paint ings can be found in The B irthday Rem inder, a calendar-like invention of her d au ghter's that has no days or weeks blocked off, ju st a page for each month featuring a Stam m Ter painting and a vertical list o f each date from 1 to 30 (or 29 or 31). O w ners can write birthdays, anniversaries, and other spe cial occasions on the line beside the appropriate date. Since the rem inder, w hich has sold alm ost 3,500 copies to date, has no days o f the w eek listed, it can be used year after year. The B irth day R em inder is sold for $15.95 at all Chapters bookstores or ofi the internet at am azon.com . ' S tam m 'le r's artw ork incorporates m any bold colors, w hich she claim s is a reflectio n o f h er personality. "Colour, colour, colour. I ju st love colour," she exclaim s. Yet years ago her paintings w ere more subdued. H ow ever, her daughters suggested that those initial paintings did not reflect their mother. So, she says, she decided to do one painting with "w ild" colours, w hich she entered in a ju ried show. It won an award. " I have g one w ild w ith co lo u r ever since," she says. A good deal o f S tam m T er's paint ings are abstract and are quite often part o f a series. T he unique life she has led also influences a lot o f her artwork. For exam ple, her series on A frica reflects the 11 years she spent in Tan zania, K enya, Sw aziland and Nigeria. T hese visual m em oirs are painted from memory, since she never painted dur ing her years in A frica. "T hat was the face o f a w om an in the m arketplace," she says o f one o f her paintings, "I painted it from my im agination." Sym bolism plays a m ajor role in m any o f her abstracts. For instance, in m any o f the paintings in her em bryo series, the im age o f the em bryo is not even visible at first glance. And one painting in a series on natives show s a w arrior w ith the tw o birds he has had to kill in order to recognized as a w ar rior. T he O akville artist adm its to putting a lot o f tim e and thought into her art. "People ask me how long it takes to paint one o f my paintings, and that is difficult to say," she explains. "The thinking process takes a long time. S o m etim es I d o n 't sleep at night because o f it." She also suggests that she never know s how a painting will turn out because her art reflects how she is feel ing. A nd since she prefers bold colours, she adds, "I w ait for the bold days." S tam m T er's adult classes take place in her hom e studio on Tuesdays and T hursdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and on W ednesdays from noon to 3 p.m. To register or for m ore information, call her at 337-0639. WAYNEJOHNSTON 9. ANGELA'S ASHES G R EEN IN G 'S Custom Framing & A rt Gallery Inc. Trap For A Lonely Man FRANK MCCOURT 10. 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