Island Mosaic Arts Festival

SUNDAY AUGUST 8th

MINERS BAY PARK – MAYNE ISLAND

Free – All ages welcome

Noon ‘til 6 PM

SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS

Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society

& the Trincomali Community Arts Council present

an Eclectic Mix of Music & Literature at the 2nd Annual

Island Mosaic Arts Festival

SUNDAY AUGUST 8th

WRITERS READING

Grant Buday, Leanne Dyck

Amber Harvey, Toby Snelgrove

Bill Maylone, David Burrowes

and special guests, mystery writers

Lou Allin, & Shirley Skidmore.

Plus lots of music & story-telling too.

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Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society

& the Trincomali Community Arts Council present

an Eclectic Mix of Music & Literature at the 2^nd Annual

Island Mosaic Arts Festival

SUNDAY AUGUST 8^th

WRITERS READING

Grant Buday, Leanne Dyck

Amber Harvey, Toby Snelgrove

Bill Maylone, David Burrowes

and special guests, mystery writers

Lou Allin, & Shirley Skidmore.

Plus lots of music & story-telling too.

Noon ‘til 6 PM

MINERS BAY PARK – MAYNE ISLAND

Free – All ages welcome

The Trincomali Community Arts Council [TCAC] on Mayne is partnering with Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society to add a literary component to this year’s Island MOSAIC Arts Festival, Sunday, August 8th, noon ‘til 6 PM at the bandstand in Miners Bay Park.

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The Trincomali Community Arts Council [TCAC] on Mayne is partnering with Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society to add a literary component to this year’s Island MOSAIC Arts Festival, Sunday, August 8^th, noon ‘til 6 PM at the bandstand in Miners Bay Park.

Writers Reading at the Island MOSAIC Arts Festival are Grant Buday,

Leanne Dyck, Amber Harvey, Bill Maylone, Toby Snelgrove and David Burrowes. We also welcome two special off-island guests, mystery writers

Lou Allin and Shirley Skidmore.

Writers’ Round Table event MI author and TCAC member Leanne Dyck is also organising several of the literary participants in the festival, in an informal writers’ round-table discussion—“The Next Step in Your Writing” . This free event will take place in the meeting room at the Mayne Island Reading Centre, Miners Bay Park in the morning prior to the start of performances in the bandstand.

Any interested person is welcome to attend the discussion. The event runs from 11-noon, Sunday August 8^th, 2010. For more information please contact Leanne at 250-539-2752.

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There is much more in the Music Box than music this month.  It is full of summer energy – creative people are out of the woodshed and into the public places.  One of the most energetic events to grace the Southern Gulf islands this year is the second annual Island Mosaic Arts Festival on Mayne Island on August 8^th, at Miners Bay Park.  Do you know how easy it is for  Penderites to get to Mayne Island for a day?  Keep reading and I will tell you.

Ptarmigan’s Island Mosaic Project has been successful for the past three years in celebrating, honoring, teaching and showcasing the arts of the Southern Gulf islands. The Island Mosaic Arts Festival this year is the product of a beautiful partnership between Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society, and the Trincomali Community Arts Council on Mayne—the TCAC.

The Canada Council for the Arts has also recognized Ptarmigan with a small grant to create a collaborative multi-disciplinary story-telling project. The Island Mosaic Arts Festival will be the occasion for a workshop version of the project’s first work. Bring your own lawn chair to sit back and sink into mesmerizing story telling by First Nation’s master carver and story-teller, Victor Reese, with First Nation’s film-maker, and multi-disciplinary artist Sharon Jinkerson Brass, Pender’s own Patrick Smith, musician, and artistic director of Ptarmigan, Tina Farmilo of Mayne Island, story-teller, painter, theatre artist, writer, community activist and a fine impresario in her own right, and singer songwriter Oona McOuat of Salt Spring. These five artists will explore with an interdisciplinary method, the theme of Ocean and Healing.

The Island Mosaic Arts Festival will also include musical performances by Zeellia, directed by Beverly Dobrinsky, a collective of skilled musicians who offer a passionate mix of instrumental and vocal harmonies in the style of ancient and contemporary Slavic ‘soul music’, Pender’s Celtic folk group, Calliope, Vox Trium, the à cappella trio of Mayne, Victoria’s Jess Thom (Zen Clown), a poet, artist and musician, round out the lush musical program.

Readings will also be done by a number of very talented, award winning, Mayne Island writers. Writers Reading include the well known MI author Grant Buday, and published writers Leanne Dyck and Amber Harvey. Terrill Welch Edward Gale, Bill Maloney, Toby Snelgrove, and David Burrowes will also read.  Special off-island Mystery Writers Lou Allin and Shirley Skidmore will be reading from their works, and also taking part in the informal Writers Round Table discussion “The Next Step in Your Writing” that same Sunday from 11 AM in the MI Library next to Miners Bay Park, before the Festival begins. Everyone welcome. The Library will also stay open through the afternoon so Festival goers may enjoy the TCAC Summer Group Show of artworks on display there.

There are too many artists and volunteers to name but there will be a lot of creative energy whipping around Mayne Island that day.

The Festival will present to islanders and visitors a compendium of creative talent which bridges the arts, the ages, the heritage, the culture of the islands, in one place all in one day. The Island Mosaic festival is an ambitious and brilliant undertaking, a multi-faceted creative celebration of the heritage, the myths, the dreams of these islands we call home.  We do have an identity, we do have a culture unique to Canada; it is valuable and worth preserving and using as a basis for our creativity.

From Pender Island on Sunday, August 8th you can board the BC ferry at 11:05 AM direct to Mayne Island, arriving at 11:30 A.M.  From the Mayne terminal it is a short hop to Miners[TF1] Bay Park in ‘downtown’ Miners Bay.  To return to Pender Island the same day, you can catch the 4:30 PM ferry or the 8:30 PM ferry back to Pender.  Easy peasy.

The Island Mosaic Arts Festival is free, and all ages welcome—especially youth, in the hope that they too will join in the fun in the future.  The festival begins at noon and frolics until 6:00 PM.  Sounds like a perfect Sunday!  See you there.

Ptarmigan’s Island Mosaic Arts Festival in August

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Ptarmigan’s Island Mosaic Arts Festival in August

The Island Mosaic project is a creative bridge-building initiative sponsored by the Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society here in the Southern Gulf Islands since 2007. The project supports creative engagement and community development by providing opportunities for local and visiting artists to engage creatively with islanders in local school and community situations. Last year Ptarmigan hosted the first Island Mosaic Arts Festival on Mayne Island one lovely sunny August afternoon—a multi-faceted creative celebration and a free, all ages event. It was so much fun that we are doing it again this summer—Sunday August 8th from noon ‘til six PM in Miners Bay Park, Mayne. It’s easy to get over to Mayne for the day. BC Ferries will bring you from Otter Bay to Village Bay at 11:05 AM, return sailings back at 4 PM or 8:30 PM.

The festival is very grateful for financial support this year from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council and the BC Gaming Commission. Many thanks to our local supporters: the MI Lions, the MI Parks Commission and the MI Music Society.

Musicians at the Festival—This year’s roster of musicians performing at the Festival include special guests and long time Gulf Island favourites, Zeellia, from Vancouver. Under the direction of talented singer and composer Beverly Dobrinsky, this collective of skilled musicians offer an intense musical experience with their passionate mix of instrumental and vocal harmonies and unique repertoire of both ancient and contemporary Slavic ‘soul-music’! Other musical artists include Pender’s own traditional Celtic folk trio Calliope, and Mayne’s eclectic and compelling à cappella trio Vox Trium . The festival also welcomes Victoria performance artist, poet and musician Jesse Thom—Zen clown.

Creative Collaboration—In April Ptarmigan was fortunate enough to receive a Canada Council grant for an exciting new creative initiative. For the last three months Ptarmigan’s artistic director, musician Pat Smith [Pender], has been meeting together with inter-disciplinary artist Tina Farmilo [Mayne], singer-songwriter and performer Oona McOuat [Salt Spring], 1st Nation’s story-teller and master carver Victor Reece and film-maker and multi-disciplinary artist Sharon Jinkerson-Brass [Pender]. These five Southern Gulf Island artists are working to develop an inter-disciplinary story-telling collaboration with the goal of creating a number of locally derived story-telling events and multi-disciplinary performances.

The group is drawing on themes suggested by the myriad of stories, histories, memories, myths and dreams of these island communities we call home. The first storytelling work for the collaboration explores the theme of ocean and healing. The group is presenting a workshop version of the Ocean story at the Island Mosaic Arts Festival, August 8th. The collaboration will eventually present its multi-media storytelling work on all the participating Gulf Islands, over the course of the project. Currently the collaboration is looking for volunteers to help on this first of our interdisciplinary story events. To learn more or to participate please contact Tina Farmilo at 250-539-2402 [a local call to Mayne] or Patrick Smith at 250-629-6219 [Pender].

Writers Reading at the Festival—This year the Trincomali Community Arts Council [TCAC] on Mayne is partnering with Ptarmigan to add a literary component to the Festival. “Writers Reading” at the Island MOSAIC Arts Festival are Grant Buday, Leanne Dyck, Amber Harvey, Edward Gale, Bill Maylone, Toby Snelgrove and David Burrowes. We also welcome two special off-island guests, mystery writers Lou Allin and Shirley Skidmore.

Writers’ Round Table event—MI author and TCAC member Leanne Dyck is also organising several of the literary participants in the festival, in a writers’ round-table discussion, “The Next Step in Your Writing” . This free event will take place in the meeting room at the Mayne Island Reading Centre, Miners Bay Park in the morning, prior to the start of performances in the bandstand. Any interested person is welcome to attend. The event runs from 11-noon, Sunday August 8th, 2010. For more information please contact Leanne at 250-539-2752.

Everyone Welcome—Festival Performances run from noon ‘til six PM in Miners Bay Park, Sunday, August 8th—please bring your own lawn-chair! Festival volunteers are most welcome. Contact Tina Farmilo at 250-539-2402 or Patrick Smith at 250-629-6219 for more information about how you can get involved.

Notice is given of the Annual General Meeting of the Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society to review the activities and financial statements for the fiscal year Aug. 1st, 2008 to July 31st, 2009. Stakeholders,  Ptarmigan members and the public are invited to attend on Sat. November 14th, 2009, 1pm. The Pender Island Community Hall 4418 [...]]]> The Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society

Notice is given of the Annual General Meeting of the Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society to review the activities and financial statements for the fiscal year Aug. 1st, 2008 to July 31st, 2009. Stakeholders,  Ptarmigan members and the public are invited to attend on Sat. November 14th, 2009, 1pm. The Pender Island Community Hall 4418 Bedwell Harbour Rd.Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M1. A reception and Party will be held after the business meeting.

We are looking for someone to share our beautifult office with us at Hope Bay. $150-250 per month depending on use. Includes phone, desk, photo copier. Internet negotiable. Lots of privacy can be arranged. Great for a writer, consultant or artist. Contact numbers below.

The free after-school guitar class by Pat Smith and Glen Biagioni will begin on Tues. Nov. 3rd, 3:30 to 4:45 on the stage. This is a continuation of last spring’s program. This will be a class for guitars, basses and vocals for intermediate players who already know the rudiments of their instruments. Loan instruments available. Call or e-mail Patrick Smith for information,

During the last 2 years, we’ve launched our Island Mosaic project which has been a tremendous success. Island Mosaic is a community arts project celebrating the cultural heritage of the Southern Gulf Islands. Pender, Mayne, Saturna and Galiano Islands. Salt Spring Island will join the project this year. 2009-10 will be the third year for this ongoing arts program involving: artists from these five Islands; community arts and cultural groups; and children from the schools of the five islands. By the time year two ends in Dec. 2009, more than 30 Gulf Island artists will have delivered more than 1000 hour of arts programs in storytelling, song-writing, animation, music (instrumental & vocal), kodaly music instruction, drumming, dance, fiddle group, pottery, film-making, painting, drawing, paper mache, murals, music therapy, drama, environmental education, astronomy & local history. We collaborated with  schools,  community centres, Parks Canada, one museum, one conservancy society, one first Nations Theatre Co. & two community music societies. Every school did an activity with at least one other school, some with two. We held summer arts camps on 3 islands.

The core funding for Mosaic was provided by $25,000 in grants from the Victoria Foundation and Legacies Now to support the program through its first 2 years. That funding is now used up and cannot be applied for again. The program was a terrific success and made a very great contribution to the Southern Gulf Island communities. We are now launching an extensiver fund raising campaign for the continuation of this very innovative, community building program. We need your support. We can give charitable tax receipts for donations that can be sent to the address below.

The fall season of our Music for People with disablities program with Pat Smith and Glen Biagioni was begun on Salt Spring Island at the Gifts Centre in Ganges in October.

Our Taking Flight music program for seniors was active in August and  September with music sessions delivered to Seniors’s Residences in Victoria by Alison Vardy, Pat Smith and Bryce Woollcombe. The scheduling was arranged by Alison, our Victoria Office manager and harpist. Both the seniors program and the disablities program were subsidized by grants from the BC Gaming Commission.

At the heart of our creativity lies the seed of healing. Best regards.

Patrick Smith, Artistic Director
Ptarmigan Music & Theatre Society
PO Box 46, Pender Island, BC
V0N 2M0
Office toll free 1-866-859-0634
Res, 250-629-6219
Fax, call first
ptarmigan@gulfislands.com
www.ptarmigansociety.org

Ptarmigan is proud to announce the MOSAIC Showcase Music Festival at Miner’s Bay Park on Mayne Island, Sunday, August 9 @ 11:30 – 5:30. This showcase is free to attend and all are welcome.