All Entries in the "Arts & Culture" Category
21 Jump Street, very clever and funny
It’s been a good year for Jonah Hill. Actually, it’s been a good seven years. He started writing while he was in drama school in New York. He made friends with Dustin Hoffman’s kids who just happened to be in his class, and Dustin took a liking to him and had him make prank calls […]
PEC Author’s Festival continues Saturday
More than 430 students from Prince Edward County elementary schools showed their delight at hearing Marie Louis Gay and David Homel read their stories using the theatre screen as a backdrop. The Authors Festival event was presented by the Library and the Regent Theatre. Events continue all day Saturday. See schedule below. Marie-Louise Gay: […]
Finkelstein’s Life Inside the Music Business highlights PEC Authors’ Festival
Bernie Finkelstein, one of the all-time greats in Canadian music, will launch a memoir of his life in the business during this week’s Prince Edward County Author’s Festival. As a producer, record label owner and manager of great singer/songwriters and bands, Finkelstein has played a pivotal role in bringing great Canadian music to the rest […]
Musicians raise the roof to help ‘Raise the Antenna’
By Bill Samuel Entertainers Emily Fennell, Jamie Stever and Alex Hicks belted out their best at the Acoustic Grill Sunday night to help the “Raise the Antenna” for a new community radio station. The Prince Edward County community radio initiative is operating as a non-for-profit corporation, notes Treat Hull, who is lending his talents to […]
Maple in the County a sweet start to first harvest of spring
The line ups were long but the service was swift at Prince Edward County sugar shacks serving up pancakes covered with the sweet first harvest of the season. Maple in the County’s 11th annual event salutes the production of maple syrup and invites visitors to learn about one of the oldest agricultural traditions in Canada. […]
County child actor nominated for ACTRA award
Prince Edward County’s Robbie FitzRoy was honoured at the 10th Annual ACTRA Awards held in Toronto last week. The eight-year-old Grade 3 student at St. Gregory’s School in Picton was nominated for an award in the category of ‘Outstanding Performance – Voice’ for his role as “Owen” in Disney Jr.’s Stella and Sam episode “Box […]
Artists united ‘For the Love of Theatre’ gala
Sonja Smits, well-known Canadian star of stage and screen will emcee The Festival Players’ ‘For the Love of Theatre Fundraising Gala’ an elegant Valentine-themed evening filled with romance, good food, County wine and live entertainment. The Festival Players’ first event of 2012 is set for Saturday, Feb. 11 at The Waring House. The gala will […]
‘Educating Rita’ opens to rave reviews
Prince Edward Community Theatre opened its second show this season, “Educating Rita” to a sell-out crowd Saturday Feb. 4th. Theatre-goers showed they were thrilled with the performances by actors Hilary Fennell-Hunter and John McCarthy, rewarding them with a standing ovation and applause that called them back to the stage for a second bow. Similar sentiment […]
Educating Rita opens Saturday
Prince Edward Community Theatre will take Educating Rita to the Mt Tabor stage, then to the Eastern Ontario Drama League Festival in the spring. The play tells the tale of a young, working class hairdresser pursuing higher education and her relationship with Dr. Frank Bryant, a middle-aged alcoholic university lecturer, over the course of a […]
Ready for something completely different?
Performance poet Ryan Bradshaw and Andrew Binks at Poetry Live! The County of Prince Edward Public Library & Archives presents an evening of poetry with two special guests on Friday, January 20 at 7 p.m. at the Picton branch library. Ryan Bradshaw is a published writer of short fiction, non-fiction and poetry currently based in […]
