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ROYAL OAK FUNDRAISER FOR KYLE ANDRADES – The Royal Oak Orléans is holding a fundraising event for the Kyle Andrades Memorial Bursary. This event will include live music by the Jasen Colson Duo, a silent auction, raffles and BBQ!! Come help us hit our $25K goal.

NAVAN LIONS WALK FOR DOG GUIDES​ – Meet under the domes on the Navan Fairgrounds. Registration begins at noon. 3km walk around the beautiful streets of Navan begins at 1 p.m. Stay after for Yappy Hour and free BBQ. Family-friendly event. All dogs must be on a leash.

ST. HELEN’S FINE ART FAIR from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Helen’s Anglican Church, 1234 Prestone Dr., Orléans. This year’s art fair is supporting the Young Artists Initiative. You can view the artists’ galleries at sthelensartfair.ca and follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sthelensartfair.

GRANDMAS AIDING GRANDMAS will be holding a Plant & Garden Sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., corner of Bearbrook and Innes in Blackburn Hamlet. Annuals, perennials, houseplants, crafts, baking and raffle. All proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign, supporting African grandmothers raising a generation of children orphaned by
AIDS.

THE ORIGINAL NAVAN MARKET returns with over 200 different vendors at the Navan Fairgrounds including several new vendors. Gates open at 9 a.m.

TBLACKBURN FUN FAIR – Pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fun Fair parade 10 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Midway 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. BBQ from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Little Ray’s Reptiles 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the arena. Bouncy castle, face-painting and Dunk Tank from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stage show 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Beer Garden 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. Cake cutting at 1 p.m. Paint party 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fireworks show at 10 p.m. Visit www.blackburnfunfair.ca for a complete schedule of all the activities and events.

 

Plenty to see and do at the Shenkman Arts Centre this fall
Star Staff
Sept 15, 2022

The Shenkman Arts Centre will be welcoming several new productions as well a number of new art exhibits over the coming weeks.

On Wednesday, Sept. 21 the Arts Centre will host another in its Matinée Café series with a performance by Colores Andinos – Latin American Music. This will be a lively and authentic performance featuring more than 20 instruments, including bamboo flutes, string and percussion instruments from modern and traditional Latin American heritage.

From Mexico to Argentina, evoking regions such as the Andes, Central America, and the Caribbean islands, Colores Andinos blends traditional and contemporary rhy-thms and songs, offering a genuine and wide panorama of the past and present of Latin American culture.

“Isn’t He Lovely”, a tribute to Stevie Wonder featuring Canadian entertainer Tony Nolasco will take to the Arts Centre stage on Saturday Oct. 15 with nine of Canada’s finest world class musicians and singers.

On Oct. 21 the Arts Centre will host the No Borders Arts Festival – an exciting annual event featuring artists, musicians, poets and performances.

Each year the NBAF brings together people from all communities. This year will bring two collaborative community groups together, the No Borders Community Voices who will perform a series of songs composed by indigneous composer, Beverley Mckiver, and the Toronto Jumblies Performance troupe, who will share film and lead panel discussion groups. No Borders is inviting local artists and musicians to join in the festivities and share their experiences.

On Friday, Oct. 28 the Northern Happiness Tour will make a stop at the Shenkman Arts Centre featuring performances by the Pursuit of Happiness and the Northern Pikes, two of Canada’s favourite bands.

“Rumours: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show” will take over the Harold Shenkman Hall Stage on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

The following evening, on Wednesday, Nov. 9 the Arts Centre will be the site of a blues celebraton on as two of the leading females blues musicians in North American take the stage in Miss Emily and Jenie Thai.

Miss Emily was a triple Maple Blues award recipient in 2020 taking home top prize for Female Vocalist of the Year, New Artist of the Year and Sapphire Blues Video of the Year.

Her most recent album “Defined by Love” is described as “a 12-song meditation on deception, pain, resilience and finding strength among the ruins of heartbreak.”

Jenie Thai is a triple Maple Blues Awards nominee who has been entertaining blues fans for more than a decade.

For more information and to purchase tickets visit shenkmanarts.ca.

 
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