-by Anne Finlay-Stewart
"According to Valentine" - a short indie film shot locally – will premiere at Heartwood Concert Hall this Saturday, February 6.
The film is adapted from the award-winning play "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre", which Christopher McGruer directed as part of an Owen Sound Little Theatre night of one-act plays in 2012. McGruer sent a letter to the playwright Allan Knee to ask for permission to adapt the play for film, because "if I were a writer in my New York apartment, I would like to get a real letter in a real envelope." The reply, a clear green light, came by return mail in less than a week.
Although he considers himself primarily a writer, McGruer says he is curious about everything. He read everything he could find about film and filmmaking and knew he wanted to direct. "Film is a director's medium – you decide how the story is told, and the more you learn, the more you have to work with."
And to be successful as a director? "All you have to do is get the best people involved," McGruer says, and somehow he makes that sound easy. Tom Albrecht, a professional actor who appeared as both Hamlet and...
By Cathy Hird
I have been writing this column for a year and a half, and it occurred to me that it might be time to go back to the basic questions I am working on with what I write here.
In this column, I explore the place of "spirit" and "spirituality" in our lives. For me, spirituality explores questions of meaning, purpose and connection--connection to other people, to creation, to the divine. Spirit is the part of us that senses what is transcendent, but also what connects us to people, places and creation. Spirituality is our guide to what is beyond us and between us.
A person is made up of four parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. An older word used for spirit was "soul." Each part of us has
Monkeys are filling the lower studio of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery from now until closing on Sunday, February 7. A show to celebrate the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Monkey has been organized by the Chinese in Grey Bruce Research Project in partnership with the gallery.
The call to artists went out to all local artists, and the pieces represent the work of professionals, art teachers and their students, and those for whom making art is both a solitary and social practice. From milk paint to the traditional Chinese watercolour and brush, felt to flattened cans, the artists have brought the celebration to life.
This year we are honoured to have work by Guangzhou, China artist SuYi Chen, who has been a friend since childhood of one of the event organizers, Xiao Mei Zhu. Her delicate brush paintings on rice paper, mounted...
Owen Sound Poets Laureate Rob Rolfe and Larry Jensen will be hosting a workshop on February 17, 2016 at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library. Called "Pickers and Poets by Chance and for Change", the workshop will be an opportunity for spoken word poets and musicians to work together.
For the last few years Rob Rolfe and Larry Jensen have been developing projects that fuse the spoken word, songs, lyrics and poetry with instrumental music. Rolfe and Jensen are hoping that this workshop will encourage others to follow their lead. "I have found that stepping outside of the traditional ...
A barbed wire barrier was found today at the Grey County-owned Pretty River forest tract in the Town of the Blue Mountains. Fortunately the barrier was removed before anyone was injured. OPP are investigating the incident.
Grey County asks all trail users to be extra vigilant. If you notice any suspicious activity, please contact the OPP and let Grey County know.
The barbed wire was found at the Pretty River Valley forest tract. Entrances to the property are found at
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