ADVENTURES TO PUT SPRING IN YOUR STEP

BY JOHANNA BERNHARDT

TAKE YOUR PICK: HEAVENLY PHOTOS, AN ART BOOK AND AN INDIGENOUS ART SHOW

The Caledon Library ’s Artful Caledon program offers space for local musicians, artists and authors to showcase their work and celebrate the ways in which art shapes and enhances our community experiences. Visit In The Hills photographer Pete Paterson’s ethereal cloud exhibit, Look Up, at the Albion Bolton branch through to summer. The dramatic photos were taken, “here, there, and everywhere,” and captured by just looking up at the right time, says Pete humbly. Submit entries for Artful Caledon at the Caledon Public Library’s website.

Caledon artist Patty Maher ’s new book, Story, takes the reader on a visual journey, offering a view of her subjects through fairy-tale, literary and surrealist lenses. The book is divided into thematic sections, offering poetic commentary on the key influences behind her stark and arresting images.

Museum of Dufferin and Dufferin County Cultural Resource Circle bring us Our Story: Past and Present, an exhibit of Indigenous artworks featuring venerable Ojibwe painter Janice Toulouse and emerging Haudenosaunee/ Anishinaabe artist Sharon Rigby, who works with beading textiles and other media. The show is on display at MoD until March 29. (Another Museum of Dufferin moment not to miss: On March 25 MoD hosts an event exploring climate change from an Indigenous perspective. The event will be hosted by community elder Karen Vandenberg and her daughter, Skye Vandenberg, both of whom have a background in environmental science.)

A Long Ride Home

Monday Night at the Movies will present The Long Rider at Galaxy Cinemas Orangeville on March 20. The film documents the epic journey of former Caledon resident Filipe Leite who travelled 25,000 kilometres on horseback from Calgary to his family’s home in Brazil.

The film’s award-winning director Sean Cisterna will be a guest at the event. He attended Robert F. Hall secondary school in Caledon East with Filipe in the late ’90s. During Filipe’s eight-year odyssey across 12 international borders, he and his horses battled intense heat, drought, speeding transport trucks, nature’s wrath and corrupt border guards on his historymaking ride.

There will be three screenings at 4:30, 7 and 9 pm. Advance tickets are available at BookLore in Orangeville or the cinema on the day of the performance. See the profile of Filipe which appeared in this magazine in 2018 at inthehills.ca