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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, April 17, 2015 | 30 `Moodivational' author hosts book-signing Artscene "Connected to your Community" Author Carole Bertuzzi Luciani has Erma Bombeck and the Chicken Soup penned a few stories for readers in book series. hopes of lightening the mood. "As a professional speaker for the The local author and professional past 29 years, I have been collecting speaker, known as the `Moodivator', is my stories, which I draw from for my hosting a book signing Sunday (April presentations," she said. 19) for the third volume in her book "I am mostly a talker who records series, I have a story for you... Musings stories in the same manner I would tell of the Moodivator. them." "There are three books in the seThe rst volume in Bertuzzi Luries... that all follow the same style," ciani's book series sold close to 6,000 said Bertuzzi Luciani. copies, earning her the status of Cana"Each one is a collection of my own dian Best-Seller. true, short stories guaranteed to get The book-signing event takes place you `moodivated' -- in other words, at Artisano Bakery Café, 353 Iroquois Carole Bertuzzi Luciani to trigger responses of mostly smiles Shore Rd., from 2-4 p.m. and laughs. The underlying message is if you pay atFor more information on the author or her book tention, there is humour in most situations." series, visit www.carolebertuzziluciani.com or www. She likens her series to "a little bit of" humourist ihaveastoryforyou.com. Spotlight on HDSB faculty in Front of the Class Halton District School Board (HDSB) faculty members will be presenting their sixth annual Secondary School Visual Arts Faculty Show. Titled Front of the Class, the show is hosted by ArtWorks Oakville, a non-pro t volunteer organization dedicated to promoting and showcasing visual arts in public spaces in locally. Approximately 20 art teachers from secondary schools across Halton, such as White Oaks, Craig Kielburger, Garth Webb, Oakville Trafalgar, T.A. Blakelock, Iroquois Ridge, Milton District and Syl Apps School, will have their works showcased. "The work on display is produced by the teachers on their own time, in their own home," stated a media release. "It is a chance for teachers to shift focus from teaching to creating and to connect with each other and members of the wider community." The exhibit will be on display from Monday (April 20) to Friday, May 29 at Town Hall's North Atrium, 1225 Trafalgar Rd. For more on the show, visit www.frontoftheclass. ca. Seventeen-year-old Oakville artist Nicole Duff stands next to one of the paintings currently on display at Aroma Espresso Bar. The Grade 12 Oakville Trafalgar High School student's works will be featured there until the end of the month. | submitted photo King's Christian Collegiate goes for baroque with concert King's Christian Collegiate is hosting a concert tonight (Friday) featuring music from the baroque period. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Ferenc Farkas will be played by Janos Ungvary on the baroque recorder, Ronald Greidanus (harpsichord) and Andras Weber (cello). Also performing during the concert will be mezzo-soprano Rebecca Cuddy as the event's featured young artist. Oakville Wind Orchestra OT student's artworks on display at Aroma café by John Bkila Oakville Beaver Staff Cuddy is an alumnus of King's Christian Collegiate and has a bachelor of music with honours in vocal performance, voice and opera from Western University. The 7:30 p.m. show, part of the King's Concert Series, takes place at the 528 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. independent high school and includes complimentary wine and cheese. Tickets cost $30. Call 905-257-5464 for more details. The Amazing Time Machine May 3, 2015 -- 2 p.m. Tickets: with Musical Director Chris Arthurs presents: Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts 130 Navy Street, Oakville $20 adults $15 students & seniors available at OCPA box office or online at oakvillecentre.ca Follow Oakville Beaver staff on Twitter @Oakville_ Beaver @NewsHooked @DavidLea6 @IHReporter @BeaverSports @herbgarbutt For information visit: www.owo.ca or follow us on Twitter @OWO1866 Grade 12 Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) student Nicole Duff is getting the chance to display some of her works at Aroma Espresso Bar this month. The 17-year-old says she has been painting ever since she could walk and talk, and began working with acrylics and drawing in pencil. "When I became seriously interested in visual arts, I began to experiment with different mediums, such as watercolours, pastels, charcoal, ink," said Duff. "But oils is what really stuck with me. I love the diversity of them." The graduating OTHS student, who will be studying painting and drawing at Montreal's Concordia University in the fall, said her pieces at Aroma range in subject matter. "I thought it would speak to a wider range of people that way," Duff said. "I included a series of paintings of different types of lights, pieces of different places in Europe I've travelled, pieces of people, food and even some abstract. I used a lot of them for my university portfolio application." When Duff was younger, she took part in various summer art camps, but two piqued her interest -- one at Crackpot studios where she learned hand-building and how to use the potter's wheel, and another at Art on Location, which is taught by her now mentor Dawn Angela Seeley. "I learned colour theory, and how to train my eye to see contrasts, shapes and lines," said Duff, who took after-school painting and drawing classes for a couple of years with Seeley after the camp. Duff also took part in a gure drawing summer camp for teens at Sheridan College, where she developed her talent for capturing a model's character more see Teen on p.31