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Where to run, charge up, and gaze at art BY JOHANNA BERNHARDT
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The show(s) must go on!
The meaning of hockey As it reopens to the public April 7, Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives is offering a thoughtprovoking take on Canadian cultural history. Just in time for NHL playoff season, PAMA has tapped curator and professor Jaclyn Meloche of the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts to examine the art world’s portrayal of one of our Hatshepsut’s Temple, Egypt, 1974, most beloved games. “I was coming by Barrie Jones. Cibachrome print. across a variety of narratives that Collection of the Art Gallery of Windsor all travelled through hockey in Gift of the Artist, 1998 ©the Artist some shape or form, and each were piercing the stereotypes of what we know of hockey today,” says Meloche. Power Play: Hockey in Contemporary Canadian Art reaches beyond dated expectations of gender, race and masculinity, and instead positions hockey as a metaphor for inclusivity within the Canadian identity.
Theatre Orangeville is ramping back up with everything from rural comedy to mesmerizing rock performances. More Confessions from the Ninth Concession by In The Hills columnist Dan Needles features Dan’s all-new (and always wry) guide to country living – until April 10. Up next, local chameleon songstress Leisa Way and the Wayward Wind Band take us on a romp through music history with Rock ’n’ Roll Is Here to Stay from April 27 to May 15. In late spring warm your heart with the new comedy Crees in the Caribbean, written by one of Canada’s foremost First Nations playwrights, Drew Hayden Taylor. It runs June 1 to 19.
The exhibit features 13 artists and more than 40 pieces including sculpture, video, paintings and even recycled hockey equipment. On loan from the Hockey Hall of Fame are items belonging to Bev Beaver, the first Indigenous woman recognized as a professional hockey player in Canada. A companion travelling exhibit, We Are Hockey, from the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, challenges the notion that hockey belongs solely to white Canadians. It traces a timeline of historical hockey moments involving people of colour and calls for an acknowledgment of their hardships and achievements in pursuing the sport.
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Leisa Way as Stevie Nicks in Rock ’n’ Roll is Here to Stay
And dust off your camping chairs – live music is back! Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival unveils its 18th event in early June. After a two-year hiatus, the festival will be bursting with foot-stomping blues and soothing jazz from June 3 to 5.
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