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Wednesday, October 4, 2000 2000 United Way of Oakville Campaign Total THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B5 . O UR GOAL *2.7 million *830.581 Unitea Way For m ore info: 845-5571 Arts & Entertainment Enjoy ethnic extravaganza Carousel o f Nations, Oakville's ethnic extravaganza, is coming up soon. Do you have your passport? On Saturday, Oct. 21st from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. and on Sunday, Oct. 22nd from 1 to 8 p.m., the United Way of Oakville will present this second annual event that attracted over 8,000 visitors year last year. This two-day cultural celebration will consist of eight pavilions each showcasing one ethnic group's her itage through a variety of music, food, crafts, educational material and live entertainment. The pavilions will be located in various locations around Oakville: Caribbean at Oakville Town Hall (1225 Trafalgar Rd.), Latin America at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School (124 Margaret Dr.), Portugal at St. James School (255 Morden Rd.), G reece at St. M atthew 's School (1050 Nottinghill Gate), Hawaii at St. Bernadette School (1201 Heritage Way), Philippines at St. Ignatius Loyola Secondary School (1550 Nottinghill Gate), Arabic Nations at Our Lady of Peace (391 River Glen Blvd.) and Italy at Famee Furlane Oakville Ital ian Club (2026 Lower Base Line). Passports, which offer unlimited access to all events and locations, are available for $7 at the door or for $6 in advance at participating TD Banks, Royal Banks, Banks of Montreal and Canada Trusts, as well as at the Oakville Chamber of Commerce, Sobeys (Bronte location) and the United Way of Oakville office. Children under aged 12 are admitted free. * Oakville Beaver E ntertainm ent Editor: Carol Baldwin 845-3824 (Extension 254); Fax: 337-5567; E-mail: baldw in@ haltonsearch.com ` ' * * . Photo by Riziero Vertolli Alice Popovich sits in front of the millennium mural she painted at Brantwood Public School. A first for the school and the artist By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Alice Popovich learned to colour at Brantwood Public School. It was a m illennium project for the mother o f two and she passed with flying colours - colours that range from bold and bright to soft and relaxing to dark and intriguing. The 41-year-old artist is a portrait painter who works in pencil because she prefers the softness that blackand-white bestows on a face or a building. So the colourful, 43-foot, floor-toceiling mural that she painted on the school wall was a challenge in colour, content, size and medium. With the help of 13 school volun teers, who assisted with the back ground painting, Popovich completed the mural in one year. And she, the staff and students are delighted with the final five-panel painting that reflects the past, present and future of the school, the community and the world at large. As a form er landscape architect, Popovich feels com pelled to complete a blueprint or sketch before she puts pencil to paper, or in this case, paint brush to wall. So, she mapped out a plan, deciding on the subject of each panel before com m itting them to the concrete canvas. "It's my first oil painting. I've never painted in oils before," said the self-taught artist. "I was challenged. The challenge was, right from the very beginning, what to paint. I want ed something that was interesting to the children, prim arily...and to the community." So, beginning in the left comer with a tornado swirling over farm land - inspired by last year's school production of the Wizard o f Oz Popovich worked her way towards the future - a panel featuring a space ship, a shooting star, the sun and moon, the planets, etc. "A tornado is an awesome experi ence - something that happens in nature over which we have no con trol... Natural disasters have so much effect on our lives," she said, explain ing that she wanted each image to challenge the children's minds. Con sequently, the tornado, which creates a turmoil in the environment as well as in the mind, is swirling a cow, pig, and picket fence through the air, along with a television set, a stop sign and even a year-2000 math test. "I wanted to incorporate the mil lennium year into the m ural...and (See `Mural' on page B4) THE 2000 LITERARY SEASON Bookers Bookstore, 172 Lakeshore RcL E., Oakville · 844-5501 · bookers ©sympatico.ca ^ Q P F A Q 1. 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