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Two Drama League Festival awards for PEC Community Theatre
The Prince Edward Community Theatre troupe has just come home with two of four acting awards presented at this year’s Eastern Ontario Drama League Festival. PECT was among theatre companies from Belleville, Cornwall, Lindsay, Northumberland, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa and Merrickville in the competition adjudicated by Dennis Johnson, an educator and director with 25 years experience […]
Windows on the World is 25th annual student art exhibition
Art by former PECI student Brett Forrester invites viewers to the 25th annual Prince Edward and Hastings Counties Regional Secondary School Student art exhibition – Windows on the World. Forrester is completing his first year of art studies at OCAD in Toronto. The public display of works by secondary school students in Hastings and Prince […]
March Break activities wind down at libraries with Idle No More talk
Following a full week of activities at all the branches of the County Public Library, children’s entertainer Tabby Johnson had everybody dancing and singing to special songs and stories she told to appreciative audiences Friday at the Wellington and Picton branches. The part-time County resident is known from childrens’ television shows such as The Polka […]
Celebrants find voices, discover choices
Prince Edward County residents celebrated achievements of women both locally and globally, at an International Women’s Day event Friday night in the Prince Edward Collegiate auditorium. “We have plenty to celebrate,” noted Fran Donaldson adding she was pleased to see an increase in attendance, due to “the younger women joining in with us older ones […]
County stops traffic in One Billion Rising campaign
Prince Edward County residents stopped traffic Thursday night in support of a global movement to end violence against women. About 100 participants met outside the Picton Branch Public Library and danced, carried placards or watched in support of the One Billion Rising event organized by Christine Renaud. Rallies were held in 203 countries. The One […]
Community Theatre supports community
During the recent run of the play Tuesdays with Morrie, Prince Edward Community Theatre volunteers also went to work raising funds for community organizations. “Morrie presented a very true message of ALS and with this in mind, the PECT felt it was important to help ALS Canada in their efforts,” said Jennifer Goodman, co-publicity rep […]
Forty County dancers featured in The Nutcracker
The County School of Dance brought classic Christmas fare to Picton’s Regent Theatre, in the delightful form of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Monday, Dec. 10th in a matinee and evening performance. Forty young dancers, from all across Prince Edward County, ranging in age from 3 to 14 were joined in the cast by 22 dancers age […]
Father daughter memoir shares Quinte area stories
Having pride and fondness for one’s home area is a passion shared by long-time journalist Jack Evans and his daughter, Cyndi Crowder and one they have detailed in a new book called “Growing Up Quinte.” The regional title is particularly appropriate for this book as the daughter was born in Belleville, and raised in Prince […]
County Theatre Group stages “A Christmas Carol” at the Regent
In celebration of Charles Dickens’200th birthday, The County Theatre Group returns to Picton’s Regent Theatre with the novelist’s classic, “A Christmas Carol.” The Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation features innovative theatrical staging and a cast of 38 County actors led by John McCarthy in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. “What better way to start the holiday […]
Forty County dancers featured in The Nutcracker
The County School of Dance is bringing classic Christmas fare to Picton’s Regent Theatre, in the delightful form of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, on Monday, Dec. 10th in a matinee and evening performance. Forty young dancers, from all across Prince Edward County, ranging in age from 3 to 14 will be joined in the cast by […]
