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i Museum Goes High Tech with New Computer System & € : IS S*4 -g) The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, February 2,1994 21 Photographer Learns to "Paint with Light" ■ - ; -, y is • . ■ : 1 if f ■ ■ ; ;:V- The Bowmanville Museum entered the age of electronic communications on Friday afternoon, Jan. 21. The computer information network called "Trillium" was set into motion by Ontario Museum Association Association computer expert Jim Leonard and Curator Charles Taws. Trillium provides complete and cost- free electronic mail services, direct access to documents, and data bases for only eight dollars a month. Taws said Trillium will cut down on long-distance telephone calls and basically "opens up a whole world of information" at one's fingertips. Bowmanville Drama Workshop Performs "The Cocktail Hour" Lorraine Manfredo As a girl, Trina As tor was content to carry her father's camera cases and film. That is, until she got the idea she wanted to get her hands on the camera herself. That first look through the viewfinder viewfinder more than 20 years ago convinced convinced her to forget her ambition to become a home economics teacher and follow instead her true calling ... photography Since then, the one-time Bowmanville Bowmanville resident has established a reputation reputation for creating wedding and family portraits with a painterly-style. In fact, what she does can be described described as "painting with light." A portrait of children by Trina might be taken during a picnic by the shore. "I make the setting and then I put the children in it and I let them react with each other." Her clients wind up with the most natural and revealing expressions and interactions captured forever. She likes to view her subjects with artist's eyes, so she can soften the insensitive insensitive honesty of the lens with her kinder, more humane vision. When her work brings tears to people's people's eyes -- which happens more often often than you might think -- she knows she has done a good job. These days, she is considering relocating relocating back to Bowmanville where her father ran Astor Studios in the 60's and 70's. What perhaps might be viewed as a first step back east is her rekindled interest in the Bowmanville Museum, which she chooses as one of her favorite favorite backdrops. The possibilities at the 1847-built home with its Regency-style begin- 8 nings and Provincial Italianate additions additions are endless, indoors and out, Trina Trina says. She envisions some children playing on the verandah or a family casually seated around a table in the sitting rooms pouring tea, or an individual individual quietly reading a book. People derive tremendous pleasure being able to trace their personal history history through photos, which underscore the value of family. Without the link to our relatives and community, we risk losing our sense of belonging, she says. Trina quotes one of her teachers who was fond of saying: "If you forget forget your past, you have no future." "I like to portray the family as it iB v Trina Astor really is. I like family portraits where you're able to tell something about the people in them. It's not really just taking taking photos, it's preserving memories. And that ties in nicely with the Bowmanville Bowmanville Museum, which also is an expression of our heritage." Even the trend in home decor has been leaning toward nostalgic images. People have been snapping up prints and pastel paintings that show Victori- an-era themes. But why not create portraits using your own community and your own family members, she suggests? The heritage is right here at the Museum. "I like to create portraits that people people would hang on their wall as if they were paintings and that can give atmosphere atmosphere to the home for years." Delaying a trip to the photographer year after year because the family is "not perfect yet" is almost robbing the family of precious memories. An assembly of relatives for a special special occasion such as anniversary or religious ceremony is the ideal time to have the portraits taken, she says. The experience can actually be quite enjoyable, as the photographer does all the work. That work includes relaxing the nervous, enticing the reluctant reluctant and bringing out the best in all her subjects. Bringing out the best happens during the sitting and afterwards afterwards in the art table. Even infants need retouching, she confides. So, instead of planning to go see a movie, people can be a star in their own set right here at home at the Bowmanville Museum, Trina says. "It can be fun," she added. "I try to make it a happy experience, It's an event, where they can go to dinner afterwards." afterwards." How would YOU like it if your son wrote a play about you and your way of life? This is what Bradley faces faces in the Bowmanville Drama Workshop's Workshop's latest production THE COCKTAIL COCKTAIL HOUR. The play is set in the' seventies and revolves around an upper middle-class family. The parents, parents, Ann and Bradley, arc in their seventies and have three children, Nina, John and Jigger. The conflict starts when John, a publisher who spends his time writing plays, comes home to ask his father's permission to put on a play about the family. Directing THE COCKTAIL HOUR is Jean Sheridan, whose name is synonymous with the Drama BLOCK PARENT Workshop. Jean has directed several plays, including AND MISS REARDON REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE, and CALIFORNIA SUITE among others, and usually helps in any number of capacities on most productions. She is a fan of A. R. Gurney, who wrote THE COCKTAIL HOUR as well as THE DINING ROOM. THE COCKTAIL COCKTAIL HOUR is a serious play about the generation gap and how parents see things differently from their adult children. Despite the family conflicts, there are some very funny mordents in the play. The comedy ends on a definite upnotc. A cocktail party is a public, social event while the cocktail hour was a private, personal familytime, familytime, spent relaxing and unwinding at the end of the day. Ironically, the play THE COCKTAIL HOUR is a battleground of family conflict. John, the middle child, has felt neglected all his life and manages to get the attention attention he craves by "stirring things up", most dramatically by writing his play. Ann and Bradley are from the generation that chose appearance over substance. They want everything everything as pleasant as possible and no conflict. Nina is a typical forty-year- old housewife who devotes her time PATRICK 6. 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Call Today for more Information Catalogues Available f 90 S I 983 9695 1 BOO 461 1988 to her family, and her various charities, charities, instead of doing what she would really like - working with seeing-eye dogs. Jigger, whose name, interestingly, interestingly, refers to a shot glass, is not seen at all in the play, yet is still unusually unusually present in most of the discussions, discussions, There is a great deal for the audience audience to relate to and think about. As with all BDW productions, the audience audience will have a great time as well as something interesting to discuss during their own "cocktail hour". The COCKTAIL HOUR can be seen on March 3,4, and 5 at 8 p.m. at the Bowmanville High School Theater. Theater. For tickets call 623-4790 or 623- 2059. Adults $7.00, Students $5. 1- 8x10 2- 5x7 • Photographer's Hours: 2 DAYS ONLY! 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