Whitby Free Press, Wekiesday. Fobruary 2, 1994, Page il Shoestrînge","rs make 'Footprînts on the Moon' Durham Shoestring Performers 2th season continues with « Footprints on the Moon' by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter, a thought-provoking drama of human relationships noiinated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. Performances directed by Ann Syme will be presented Feb. 25, 26, March 3, 4, and 5 at the Arts Resource Centre, Oshawa City Hall complex, curtain 8 p.m. An exhibition of drawings by Ajax artiet Simon Gaslkins will open at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery on Feb. 3. The public is invited te meet the artiat at a reception on Thursday, Feb. 3 froni 7 to 9 p.m. The works of the exhibition have been inspired by Gaskin's recent travels. He says: "The work wbich 1 arn currently involved in bas been triggered by the travelling I have done. "The firet thing wbich I become aware of in another culture different to that which I ain used to, I feel the need to, edit and change myself', so that I fit in. In turn, I become more aware of my surroundinge. "This new self-consciousness makes somne of my memnes of places I have been and experiences I have had very vivid. "kt is as though these p laces have frnprinted on me and 1have become a different person because of them." SOS on Saturdays Stages on Saturdays (SOS), a theatre workshop prograin, will be held from Feb. 5 to April 30 for ageâ 7 to 17 in Whitby, Oshawa and Bowmanville. SOS is a 10-week prograrn that combines theatre instruction and fun. lasses -for juniors (ages 7 to, 10) and intermediatos (ages il to 13) take place in the morming, while senior (ages 14 to 17) sessions run in the afternoon. Stages offers a mimi-prorarn (10 hours) during springr break, March 14 to 18, for ail age groups in Oshawa and Whitby. Stages also offers a challenging but non-competitive aduit session on Wednesday evenings fromn Feb. 16 to March 16 in Oshawa for both the eager beginner and the' seasoned pro. Stages brochures are available at area libraries, comnmunity information centreg or by calling 623-8657. st tc ai (P' hi Ri Thfe play o pens at the train (played by Heather Sessions) and tation, Rose Coulee, in a prairie Duc Carr (played by Vance îwn wbere Joanie's life is about Dick) try to help ber cope with ibe revealed. the evepts that follow ber Joanie (played by Heather daughter's return. ïarkentin) is eagerly Moentickets for Footprints on the nticipating the arrivaI of ber Music are $6 available at Walters 6-year-old daughter Carol-AnnMui Centres, 349 Kfing St. W. layed by Angie Bassano) who and Information Oshawa, as been in Toronto visiting her executive tower, suite 204, trpd fatherBoone (played by Osawa Centre. ýon Getz). For further information, calI Joaie' bet fien Beylproducer Carolyn Wilson at Group of Seven exhibition planed The Robert McLaughlin Gallery has been awarded a $20,000 grant fromn the museums assstnceprgraiDepartment of Communications to plan an exhibition in 1995 ta, mark the 75th anniversary of the Group of Seven. The exhibition, 'Tom Thonmson: The Last Spring,' wiil feature 38 paintings fromn the lait spring of Trhomson's life (he died in August 1917). The exhibition will travel to, several other galleries in the country. Thom son regarded the works done in the last spring of his life as bis <records' of the advancing spring and summer. "The sketches of Thomson's last spring have a quiet resonance whicb serves to deny any thought that he committod suicide, one of the ideas which some had in 1917 about bis death," says McLaughlin director Joan Murray of Whitby.' 1His work has an optimiani, an earnest desire to grasp reality, which suggests that he wanted to do more, as he said in bis last letter to bis father, and even that he had corne to realize who he was as an artist." In 1971, Murray curated the retrospeetive 'The Art of Tom Thomson' at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. She has been working on a catalogue raisonné of Thomson's work for 23 years. TIhe Whitby Public Library and Town of Whitby parks and recreation departmnent will present Juno Award winner Charlotte Diamond and zany pal Paul Gitlitz for a return engagement on Friday, April 8. The event will take place at Heydenshore Pavillçn from 6:30 to 7:30 pan. Tickets are $6. per person or $20 for a family of four, and are available at all branches of the library. Tickets are limited. Ron in England in 1966, Gaëkins obtained an bachelor of fine arts honours from the University of Toronto, and bas worked and studied in Competa, Spain. He bas conducted art workshops for children and continues as a volunteer at the Markhani Hiterical Museumi. In 1991-92, Gaskins served an arts adîninistrator internship at the Art Gallery of Northumiberland, Cobourg. He bas exhibited bis works in several group and solo exhibitions since 1989. Bis mont recent solo exhibition was beld at the Cedar Ridge Gallery in February 1993. The exhbition will continue until April 3. G GIVE ur RRSP YO a CheckmUp,,',,ff --------------- - - - --------- -------- ---- p February 3rd, lOth & l7th - 12 noon February 2nd, 9th & l7th - 7 pm R RSP Selection andSrtg Seminar Highlights: *z Paless tax and have hetered growth " Use the balanced appoch to enhance your R R SPreturns. 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