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38 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday February 9, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Multi-media artist examines growing up in Oakville Anna Jane McIntyre's three-part exhibit is currently showing at the Oakville Galleries store in Gairloch Gardens. As the multimedia artist puts it, "This is a show about heartache and return. It is about growing up in Oakville, leaving and still dreaming about Oakville as home 14 years later. It is about identity as a work in progress." The first section of the show, The Fifteens, is a series of 15 dolls made using papier mache and other pieces McIntyre has collected over the years. "The dolls were created for several reasons, one of them being the need to reconfigure the bits and pieces collection into a more manageable mass," says MacIntyre. "I grow desperately attached to these superfluous items and so can consequently never throw them out." Cracker prizes, photographs she's taken or found, old clothes, buttons, ribbons and faux fur are included in this collection of bits and pieces. The second section of the show is a collection of etchings "featuring illustrated exerts from my life," says MacIntyre. That includes Nightmares on Digby Road, Oakville, aerial views of Oakville Place, daydreams and family life. Lastly, the third section is a wood and metal sculpture of a bird with teeth holding fridge magnets that illustrate MacIntyre's story, Insects I have been. "All three sections collaborate to create the externalization of my inner world, both imagined and real," she said. The three-part exhibit runs to March 4 at the Oakville Galleries Store in Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Rd. E. Store hours are Wednesday to Sunday, from 1 ­ 5 p.m. Author examines a week that changed the world Continued from page 36 Saturday, February 17th at 6pm Enjoy a delicious gourmet meal, bistro style, prior to the 28th annual Live Auction. Reception Ticket includes complete meal, wine and admission to Live Auction. Cost: $100.00 per person Call 905.632.7796, ext. 304 or for complete details on the Auction, visit www.BurlingtonArtCentre.on.ca London where Aminata becomes an outspoken advocate of the abolitionist movement in England. March 25 will mark 200 years since the British took the lead in putting a stop to the slave trade. The historic meeting in 1972 between America's most controversial president Richard Nixon and Chinese chief negotiator Chou En-lai, has been captured by Provost of Trinity College and University of Toronto history professor Dr. Margaret MacMillan in her latest book Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World. "It's a play by play of two world leaders," said MacMillan. Its intrigue is supported by a cast of equally fascinating people from both sides of the world. It sets cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-tung against flamboyant statesman Henry Kissinger and Nixon's unhappy wife Pat against Mao's wife, small-time actress Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao's riotous third wife. It is a book that examines the players and the politics behind a world power's first move in a crafty political chess game that set the stage for the end of the Cold War and the Vietnam War. China was considered a mysterious land in angry isolation of itself and rid with contempt for the rest of the world, but the meeting captured world attention through its television coverage and was a start toward its unraveling. MacMillan drew on newly available material from the United States and China, as well as from interviews with all major survivors. Dr. Margaret MacMillan "Today it is still a complicated relationship between the two nations and in the process of researching and writing it, I found myself changing my mind, a lot," said MacMillan. Featuring Artists such as Robert Bateman, Chris Bacon, Sharane Gilbert, E. Robert Ross, Kayo O'Young. To view selected works visit BurlingtonArtCentre.on.ca For the Love of the Arts Festival Sunday More than 300 performers and nonstop shows are on tap for Oakville's third annual For the Love of the Arts Festival. The event, hosted by Music and Art Shared Space (MASS), is Sunday, Feb. 11 from 1 ­ 6 p.m. at Oakville Town Hall, 1125 Trafalgar Rd. Choirs, orchestras, ensembles, local cultural groups, art demonstrations, exhibits, a silent auction and craft activities for children are just some of the planned festivities. The For the Love of the Arts Festival will also celebrate Oakville's 150th birthday with a birthday card contest ­ entries can be created and submitted at the festival ­ and the Oakville Wind Orchestra and Oakville Choral Society will lead the singing of Happy Birthday to Oakville at 3 p.m. The MASS event is intended to show how the organization's goal of an Oakville Art and Music Centre would be used if it was granted. MASS, which is supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, has a plan to build a facility to house meeting, rehearsal, studio, performance and exhibit space for local non-profit groups and individuals. Groups included in the Feb. 11 festivities include Artworks Oakville, Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton, Canadian Music Competition, Circle of Harmony Chorus, Halton Youth Symphony, Marjorie Carberry Hooking Guild, Masterworks of Oakville, Oakville Art Society, Oakville Association of Knitters and Crocheters, Oakville Camera Club, Oakvlle Chamber Orchestra, Oakville Children's Choir, Oakville Choral Society, Oakville Entertainers, Oakville Scottish Country Dance, Oakville Scultpors and Wood Carvers, Oakville Spinners and Weavers, Oakville Ring of Tatters, Oakville Stitchery Guild, Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Oakville Wind Orchestra, Oakville Suzuki Association, and Tempus Choral Society. Admission to MASS' third Annual for the Love of the Arts Festival is a free-will donation at the door. For more information, visit www.musicartsharedspace.ca. General Admission Auction Tickets: $35, BAC Members; $30 Previews (free admission) Thursday, Feb. 15 · 7-10pm Friday, Feb 16 · 12-9pm Saturday, Feb 17 · 12-5pm Presenting Sponsor: Burlington Waterfront Place Branch Media Sponsor: CIBC Wood Gundy is a division of CIBC World Markets Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Member CIPF.