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Over 40 films, Festival Pass $20 Advance Tickets available Rainbow Cinemas and Cinefest Office, www.SudburyShorts.ca
May 1
One of Canada’s most distinguished chamber ensembles, the Molinari String Quartet, is coming to Sudbury to give the concluding concert of the 2009-10 season of the 5-Penny New Music Concert series, St. Peter’s United Church, 203 York Street, in Sudbury. General admission is $20 and $15 for students and seniors. The concert will start at 8 pm.Tickets are available at Black Cat, 96 Durham Street, Sudbury, or at the door. Contact: Robert Lemay, Artistic Co-Director, 5 Penny New Music Concerts, 705-523-4167, rlemay@laurentian.ca , www.5pennynewmusic.ca
May 4
Doors open at 7 pm; music begins at 8: The CANARYS present critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter Katz in concert with special guest star and local celebrity Stef Paquette, Croatian Center, 571 Kathleen Street. Free for 6500 strikers and their families; everyone else is invited to contribute a minimum $10 donation. Licensed; all ages. Proceeds go to the 6500 Family Support Group. For more information, please call Stephen at 674-9433, www.peterkatz.com
May 7
Singer-songwriter keyboardist Yann Perreau will perform as part of Grande Slague du Carrefour francophone's concert series. Tickets $25 adults, $15 post-secondary students/seniors, $5 high school students. Available at Théâtre du Nouvel Ontario, 21 Lasalle Blvd., 525-5606. (Venue to be announced.)
May 7
Sudbury fiddler Don Reed, special guest for Fiddleworks dance at Club 50, Chelmsford at 7 pm. Ariel Hyatt will step dance. Tickets $7/person, children 12 and under free. Step dance workshop May 8. Contact 562-7997.
May 14 and 15 Chelmsford Fiddle and Step Dance Festival, Club 50, 25 Main St. Chelmsford, $20/limited advance passes at G&P Variety, 3577 Errington St., $25 at door, 855-0248.
May 16
Nova Scotia Juno Blues Winner Morgan Davis will perform at Grumblers Steakhouse at 7 pm. Tickets $20 at Grumblers or phone Bob at 523-6200.
May 20
7:30 pm: Sudbury Secondary School Dance Program presents Let's Dance, adult $10, senior/student $6, Sheridan Auditorium, 85 MacKenzie St.
May 20
Spring issue of Open Minds Quarterly, Sudbury’s international literary magazine featuring writing of individuals living with mental illness will be available by May 20. In the Spring issue: winners of the 8th Annual BrainStorm Poetry Contest, an essay about an ill-fitting job placement, a short story by one of OMQ’s favourite writers Ken Baikie, and work by local writers Leslie Snowdon-Mikkelson and Anthony Chalk. Order your copy today from Northern Initiative for Social Action for $7, or subscribe for the year for only $24.95. Call 675-9193, ext. 8286 or email openminds@nisa.on.cato order, www.nisa.on.ca
May 22/23
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac will headline the 2010 Greater Sudbury Celtic Festival and Highland Games which will be held May 22 and 23 at Ecole Secondaire du Sacre Coeur. This year's festival will feature Pipe Major Bill Livingstone's Northern Man CD Release, Comissioner's Own OPP Police Pipe Band, and an afternoon of military music on Sunday to celebrate the Canadian Naval Centennial. Other events include A Clan Village, Traditional Vendors, and Free Kinsmen Club Pancake Breakfast, Scottish Heavy Events. Tickets are on sale now at Records on Wheels and Rock Topi
May 22 Sudbury Shorts Film Festival at Rainbow Cinemas Downtown
Northern Lights Program – 1:00 Made in Northern Ontario Films
ReelYouth Program – 3:00 Young Filmmakers
ImagineNative Program – 7:00 First Nations Films
May 26, May 30 & June 3: Auditions for Theatre Cambrian’s ‘Eat Your Heart Out’. Theatre Cambrian is searching for men and women ranging from mid twenties to fifties. To book an audition for the production, call Theatre Cambrian at 524-7317. For more information on ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ or any other Theatre Cambrian production, please visit www.theatrecambrian.ca
May 26 at 6:30pm: Montreal metal band Barn Burner, with Sudbury’s Beyond Within, The Prosthetic Hearts and Before the Black Gates, Serbian Centre, 231 Bloor St. $10 cover at door.
May 26 – 29: Laugh Out Loud comedy festival. For tickets and venues www.lolsudbury.comor 671-3000.
May 29 from 11am to 5pm: Creative Minds Art Association First Annual Art Show and Sale, Fielding Memorial Park, 345 Fielding, Lively (off Highway 17 W). Everyone welcome.
To May 30: Joan Chivot and Liz Peekstok have a joint eclectic art exhibit
at the Maison Vale Inco Hospice, 1028 South Bay Rd.
Picture Our Lakes Photography contest, deadline to submit photographs June 11, details at Artists on Elgin, 168 Elgin St., 674-0415.
33rd annual La Cloche Art Show. Deadline for submissions June 18 and 19. Information is available at www.lacloche.ca . Show is open from July 3 - 11.
Spring is here and Sudbury is looking for poetry to be considered for publication in the Sudbury's, new and still to be named, literary eZine. The theme for the first issue is My Sudbury. Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 21. For more info www.sudbury.library.on.ca
COALITION FOR A LIVEABLE SUDBURYPHOTO CONTEST INVITES RESIDENTS TO SHARE THEIR LOCAL PICTURES, The deadline for entries is September 30, 2010. For more information and contest details, go to www.liveablesudbury.org.
Tickets now on sale for Theatre Cambrian’s All Shook Up- runs June 11-26, 2010. Tickets are $26.50 for adults, $21.50 for students & seniors and $16.50 for children 13 and under. Tickets can be purchased at Records on Wheels, Jett Landry Music, Azilda Rexall, and Vrab's Your Independent Grocer. You may also reserve with VISA or MasterCard at 524-7317
June 17
Mayor John Rodriguez delivers his fourth State of the City address to members of the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce, at the Radisson Hotel, at noon. phone 673-7133 for tickets.
Art Galleries
Acorn Gallery on Oak, 198 Oak St., artwork with a historical theme by artist Oryst Sawchuk. Studio open office hours on weekdays/or weekends by appointment. Phone 674-9633 or 674-3590.
Art Gallery of Sudbury, 251 John St., is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. (675-4871, www.artsudbury.org)
Lampinen Fine Art and Custom Framing, 1350 Regent St. S., original pastels by artist Sue Lampinen, daily except Sunday, from 10 am to 4:30 pm, 522-8068.
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 pm at o 174 Elgin St. (673-4927)
Stopciati Gallery, 153 Applegrove St., displays paintings and prints by John Stopciati, depicting scenic and historical views of Northern Ontario landmarks. Open weekdays from 10 am to 4:30 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm.
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