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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 27 Children's Choir seeks artists to help Celebrate Oakville Submissions wanted for Please Take Your Seat Celebrate Oakville is set for Thursday, May 11. It's the Oakville Children's Choir's fifth annual Fundraising Gala, and proceeds will support the Choir's education and outreach program. The concert will feature big band sensation, Sophisticated Swing, the OCC Senior Choir and strolling magician, Stephen Elvay. The master of ceremonies for Celebrate Oakville is AM 740's Jim Paulson. Cocktails and catered food will be alongside the event's signature silent auction of original and one-of-a-kind sit-able creations. The Oakville Children's ChoirMs inviting submissions of sit-able works from artists, artisans, design ers, decorators, architects, illustra tors, potters, weavers, lithographers, sculptors, photographers, engravers, jewelers, landscape architects, fash ion and furniture designers, cartoon ists, wood-carvers, crafters and more. Celebrate Oakville and Take Your Seat will showcase the unique and one-of-a-kind creations of local artists as they interpret the chair, stool, bench and all other things sitable to represent the Take Your Seat theme. The Oakville Children's Choir will supply artists with the raw materials for the creation of this original artpiece in the form of a wooden chair, barstool, footstool, child's chair or miniature. Raw materials will be provided by The Oakville Children's Choir on a -first-come, first-served basis. Alternatively, artists are invited to contribute an original piece in the medium of their choice provided that the original artwork provides a commentary on the theme, Please Take Your Seat. All accepted submissions will become the property of The Oakville Children's Choir and will be subse quently auctioned at the annual fundraising event. Artists will receive a tax receipt for the fair market value of their submission in addition to the oppor tunity to attend the event. An artist statement and photo will accompany each item chosen for inclusion in the event. Interested artists should contact Judy ^Boswell, 905-337-7104 to obtain an entry form. All submis sions must be received no later than Friday April 21 so they can be pho tographed for inclusion in the event catalogue. Celebrate Oakville is Thursday, May 11 at 7 p.m. at St. Volodymyr Cultural Centre, 1280 Dundas St. W., Oakville. CIBC Wood Gundy's Chisholm Team is the presenting sponsor and Northgate Minerals Ltd. is the enter tainment and hospitality sponsor of the event. Dress is business casual and tick ets are $75 per person. Reserved tables of 10 are $1,000. Tax receipts will be issued for a portion of the ticket price. To reserve tickets, call Judy Boswell at the num ber above or emaii judy.boswell@oakvillechildrenschoir.org. Oakville's Intrada Brass Intrada Brass explores the world in Ports of Call concert Oakville's Intrada Brass will take the audience on a world tour with their Torts of Call' concert on Sunday, March 26, continuing the band's sec ond season at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. From both sides of the Atlantic and across the South Pacific, the concert will offer a kaleido scope of musical styles. Johannes Hansen's Valdres March from Norway is a craggy and sturdy contrast to the smoldering beauty oiAndalucia by Spanish com poser Enrique Granados. On the other hand, there are Canadian and French pieces that celebrate young female beau ty: Morley Calvert's arrangement of Newfoundland's She's like the Swallow has many similarities to The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by French impressionist Claude Debussy. The highlight of the concert will be music descriptive of Japan by an American composer, Allen Vizzutti. Vizzutti is a trumpet virtuoso who wrote Rising Sun to be a showcase for his own dazzling technique. Originally written with con cert band accompaniment, it has been arranged for brass band by Intrada Brass' associate con ductor, Kevin Norbury, fiiaking it one of the most brilliant - and difficult - scores in the repertoire. Rising Sun will be played by Intrada Brass con cert master Robert Venables, whose performance of the work received a standing ovation earlier this month at Toronto's Festival of Brass at the St. Lawrence Centre. The music requires the soloist to use three instruments: a piccolo trumpet for the first movement, Mount Fuji; a fliigelhorn for Temples of Kyoto (while the band imitates Buddhist monks), and the familiar B-flat trumpet for the concluding Shinkansen: The Bullet Train, which is performed at light speed. Also featured on Ports o f Call will be music from Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the United States. The concept will be conducted by music director Bram Gregson. Tickets from the Oakville Centre box office are: adults $28, seniors and students $22. Call 905815-2021, or visit on-line at www.oc4pa.ca. More information on Intrada Brass can be found at www.intradabrass.ca. Then Again By Marc Grant SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER . I sent you a letter. It was a while back. Did you get it? No? Too late, too late. Now the words escape me and are lost to you through time. I have only rope bums from the lines of communication pulling too quickly through my hands, spooling away from the shadows of all our yesterdays and disappearing into the too bright lights of some vision of tomorrow. The art of communication, like our history, has been sanitized and made anew. Our her itage no longer stands strong in written words and worked wood but now bleeps and burps at us in bits and bytes. Where structures and language were once great, we now accept greatness as it resolves in the ether -- shoved down into the electronic and broadcast in a keystroke. · And who is worse? We, who have accepted these changes, or those who have perpetrated them against us? Or, maybe time itself is the enemy. If there is a rift between today and tomorrow, perhaps mirrors need to reflect the faces of our clocks instead of ourselves. But I must still ask: where is the poetry in phrasing an email, which can be sent instanta neously? Where is the history in destroying and reconstructing, which uses strange composite materials? How far have we slipped as a people in losing what we feel to be solid to accepting what we read to be solid? Until the answers resolve, I'll keep seeking the words to help reconstruct our past. I'll keep looking for structures that render my thoughts into something timeless. So... I sent you a letter. Are you still there? Then, again... do you have an email address? From Jan. 27 - March 25, The OakvilleBeavermWpublish a series of contributed articles for Oakville Addresses, a new public pro gram at Oakville Galleries. We asked a variety of local Oakvillians, both teens and adults, to write a short essay on their favourite art work from Oakville Galleries' permanent collection. Today's article is about ThenAgain, 2001-2003 by Jeremy Borsos. it is written by Marc Grant, a Ward 5 Town Councillor with the Town of Oakville. Marc has worked as a journalist writer, Creative Director and com munications consultant and is presently the Head Scouter with the First Trafalgar Scouts. Oakville Addresses is a complementary pro gram to the exhibition Addressing Oakville, on at Centennial Square 120 Navy St. until March 26.