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