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King MOSAiC is published by Arts Society King www.ArtsSocietyKing.ca

EDITORS editors@kingmosaic.ca Judy Craig Sue Iaboni

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DESIGN PRODUCTION Penny Gilbertson

WEBMASTER Robert Pointer

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Influenced and Inspired by Patterns Jane Geard

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Biologist at the Table Spuds: to scrub or not to scrub?

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Richard Serra's Shift: The remarkable sculpture hidden in our backyard

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All aboard!

Virginia Atkins

Helen Hermanns

Ken Bell

George Holancin

Sharon Bentley

Sue Iaboni

Jack Brooks

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Kay Brooks

Dorita Peer

Robert Brown Photography

Susan Phillips

Connie Clearwater

Richard Serra

Gordon Craig

Eleanora Schmied

Judy Craig

Grazyna Tonkiel

Christopher Creighton

Toronto and Region Conservation

Visna Cuturic

Cheryl Uhrig

Sonia Dhir

Barry Wallace

Simone Estrin

Dianne Wear

Bob Field

Jack Wear

Carol Field

Rachel Weiner

Jane Geard

Dr. Arthur Weis

Penny Gilbertson

David Woodhead

Teri Hastings

Tom Wray

The mission of Arts Society King is “to establish and maintain an organization in King Township that fosters inspiration, understanding and appreciation for the arts, heritage and nature.” Our primary objective is “to provide support services to the arts, heritage and nature communities in King Township for the purpose of enhancing communication, education and the promotion of their respective activities.”

Distributed four times a year (December, March, June, September) to all households in King and some in Aurora.

Other Distribution Sites in King Township: Kettleby – Dorios Kettleby Italian Bakery; King City – Arts Society King Office, Country Day School, Engels & Volkers York, King City Dental, Kingcrafts, Locale Restaurant, Oak Ridges Trail Association - All Saints Anglican Church, Seneca College, Villanova College; King Township – U of T's Koffler Scientific Reserve, Libraries, Municipal Offices, Museum; Nobleton – Cold Creek Gate House, Dreamwood Furniture, Nobleton Physiotherapy, Specialty Meats; Pottageville - Intentions Yoga, Pathways to Perennials; Schomberg – Anchiques, Artista Custom Framing, Richvale Saddlery, Sheena’s Kitchen, The Grackle.

Distribution Sites Outside of King Township: Alliston - Gibson Centre, South Simcoe Arts Council; Alton - Alton Mill; Aurora - Caruso & Company, Library, St. Andrew's College, The Aurora Cultural Centre, York Region Arts Council; Bolton - Forster’s Book Garden, Library, Naked Vine; Newmarket - Covernotes tea & coffee house, Ici Arte! Gallery, Library; Richmond Hill - Burr House Craft Gallery, Covernotes tea & coffee house, Library, Mill Pond Gallery; Rosemont - Dufferin County Museum, Simcoe Arts Web Design; Toronto - Toronto & Region Conservation; Tottenham - A Taste of Freedom Restaurant, Century 21 Gallery; Vaughan - Library; Woodbridge - Traditional Door Design & Millwork.

Alexis Rockman (American, b. 1962) Adelies, 2008, oil on wood, 172.72 x 203.2 cm Collection of Robin and Steven Arnold

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Captures the Fierce Beauty of Alpine and Polar Landscapes and What They Reveal about Climate Change

Going BIG at the Schomberg Fair 12

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A Model Farmer George Holancin

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Vanishing Act: McMichael's Latest Exhibition

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Influenced and Inspired by Patterns

As a visual artist and printmaker, Jane Geard is constantly intrigued by patterns and textures.This becomes apparent when one visits her studio in the hamlet of Lloydtown, King Township, where she has lived with her husband Ron since 1973.

(While Jane’s reputation as a respected artist is widely known, the house they moved to has a bit of a reputation of its own. According to Ron, it is rumoured to be the place where Jesse Lloyd hid during the rebellion of 1837).

“Art has been an integral part of my life since I was 4 years old; my mother bought me a pair of scissors and crayons and I created colourful costumes and dolls,” says Jane.

Growing up in Montreal, Jane was enrolled in Saturday morning classes organized by the Museum of Fine Arts. There she met Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven who had set up these classes. While she was studying at Queen’s University to become an occupational therapist she took art lessons. Later on in Toronto she satisfied her creative urges when she worked with a plastic surgeon where she made specialized hand splints out of coat hangers and plaster for rehabilitation purposes.

“In 1995 I lost my job due to funding cuts. At that point I felt very fortunate to be able to focus on my art full time. One door shut and another one opened up,” says Jane with a smile. Initially her art included watercolour and oil painting; she coloured sheets of paper just to rip them up and create awe-inspiring collage work in the form of landscapes and flowers.

After being inspired by patterns and designs from travelling and living in Southeast Asia, over the past ten years Jane has integrated her experi-

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ences and ideas into her artistic endeavours.

“Some of the ancient techniques have been lost to modernization, but as a printmaker using manual techniques, I fashion designs by making a matrix substrate.This substrate or plate can be made of various textures adhered to a solid surface called a collagraph.* Or I mark a solid surface with a tool to make a dry point.Taking the process further is making an etching. Then the plate surface is inked and printed on paper either with a roller or manual printing press,” says the artist.

Jane uses two processes for her collagraphs: Intaglio – rubbing the ink in all the grooves, nooks and crannies of the plate and then wiping off the parts she wants highlighted. She created a whole series in black and white in this fashion by gluing feathers on the board to create interesting textured patterns.

Relief – taking a roller charged with ink, skim-

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ming just the surface of the plate, and then transferring the image on paper.

The colour choices depend on the mood of the artist; Jane enjoys working with the lights and darks of black and white, without the values of colour. She prefers to use Japanese mulberry paper for its translucency and Thai silk for its rich texture.

The cover of this magazine, titled BUA MOSAiC (Lotus Flower), is a pen and ink drawing on mitsumata paper prepared to be etched by sunlight onto a solar etching plate. When exposed to sunlight, this steel plate with a light-sensitive coating transfers the image to the plate’s surface. Ink is then applied to the etched plate. When passed through a manual printing press, the image is printed onto paper.

One of Jane’s uniquely creative pieces, a Kebaya (national costume of Indonesia) was on exhibit at

the Aurora Cultural Centre in the fall as part of the 2014 Cutting Edge Collaborative. After looking at traditional woven costumes, Jane created the Kebaya, sarong and slippers, by first printing design and texture on eight metres of mulberry paper. This costume is influenced by the Balinese and the sarong is a typical skirt worn by many Southeast Asians. The slippers, fashioned on wooden shoe trees which Jane found at a local flea market in Canada, brought her full circle from her travels where she gathered global patterns and inspirational ideas.

Jane’s work is recognized for its play of texture and sensitivity of material, and is inspired by nature. Using different media from printmaking to collage, her pieces are conceptual. She likes to work on several pieces at the same time; that way she sees them in a different light. When asked where she saw herself going as an artist she replied, “I want to do more three-dimensional work, or go with the whim creativity gives me.”

Jane Geard is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Society of Canadian Artists, and the Colour and Form society. Jane has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of New Brunswick and studied at the Haliburton and Southampton Art Schools with prominent Canadian and American artists and printmakers. She shares her knowledge by teaching; offering a spring class at the Aurora Cultural Centre and summer courses at the Southampton Art School. M

*The term collagraph refers to a collage board where the materials are assembled on a flat base or plate (matrix) to form a relief block with different surface levels and textures. The board is sealed before soya-based ink is applied.

Editors’ Note: Jane Geard will be part of the Arts Society King Studio Tour on April 25-26.

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BIologISt At the tABle the life your food leads before it reaches your table

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to scrub or not to scrub?

Not long ago, while reminiscing with my sisters about our mother, I remarked what a wonderful ethnic cook she was. Kaye and Margaret looked at me like I was crazy, until I pointed out that her cooking epitomized “Upper Midwestern Catholic” cuisine. Remember that molded thing made with lime Jello, cottage cheese and canned pineapple? My mom’s was the best. Meat loaf, fried pork chops, beef stew, canned peas, canned corn, and canned green beans were common weekday fare. Fish sticks on Friday.

Salad was iceberg lettuce and sliced carrots, dressed with Mazola corn oil and Heinz’s cider vinegar.

My fondest mom-food memory is of Easter dinner, which invariably featured a roast leg of lamb. And surrounding that fine hunk of meat, on

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mom’s fanciest platter, came my absolute favourite—twice-baked potatoes. These bundles of buttery goodness, with a drizzle of lamb gravy, were the highlight of my gastronomic year.

Potatoes are one of those things that make me marvel at the foolhardiness of Homo sapiens. There are dozens of wild potato species, growing natively from the southwest US down to the tip of Chile. These all make small- to medium-sized tubers, and all of them are poisonous. The wild tubers contain harmful levels of chemicals called alkaloids. These substances come in a wide variety of forms, produced by a wide variety of plants, with a range of neurological effects when consumed. I start every morning with an aqueous infusion of alkaloid-laden

Mom’s Twice Baked Potato Ingredients: 4 large, white baking potatoes; 4 T or more of butter; 1/2 cup milk; 1/4 cup grated cheese (parmesan or aged cheddar, but my favorite is very old Gouda); salt, pepper, ground nutmeg and paprika.

Directions: Bake the potatoes in a 425ºF oven until tender, ~ 1 hr.

When cooled, take a ~1/2 inch slice, lengthwise, off the top of each potato. Using a small knife and a soupspoon, loosen and scoop out the potato flesh into a mixing bowl.

Be careful not to pierce or tear the skin. Leave a thin layer of white flesh adhering to the skin to maintain structural integrity. Place the emptied skins back into the oven to dry and crisp up a bit. Add at least 3 T of butter to the bowl and mash. Add the milk a little at a time until the mixture is smooth, but still stiff. Mix in the grated cheese, a pinch of nutmeg, then salt and pepper to taste.

Retrieve the skins from the oven, and spoon in the mashed stuffing. Top with a pat of butter, maybe a pinch more of grated cheese, and a sprinkle of paprika for color.

Return to the oven until the stuffing browns on top.

I eat the stuffing first and then the crisp skin… with more butter of course. Gravy is optional.

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Art Weis is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, and former director of the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill.

tree seeds…you may know it as coffee.

And as you’ve probably guessed, caffeine is the alkaloid. Poppies yield opium, tobacco yields nicotine, and cannabis gives us cannabinoids, to name a few of the more ‘popular’ alkaloids. The alkaloids in potatoes—solanine and tomatine—are more toxic than most. Like all alkaloids, they arose through mutations in genes that control amino acid construction. The novel metabolic products had the fortuitous side effect of poisoning many plant parasites, disease microbes, insects and larger, furrier animals. And so, the mutations spread by natural selection to become established in the ancient potato lineage.

How did these poisonous tubers ever make it into the Mayan diet? After recovering from eating the first one, who would be foolish enough to try another? No one knows for sure, but a rather interesting idea has been put forward. Up in the Andes Mountains,

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where potatoes were first eaten, live the vicuna and the guanaco, relatives of the llama. They eat potato foliage, which is also laced with alkaloids. But before they do, they lick the heavy clay soil, swallowing a good mouth full of dirt. It turns out that as the alkaloids leach out of the digesting plant material, they adhere to the clay particles.

These then safely pass through the gut and out the other end. Thousands of years ago the local people may have taken the cue from their animals, and mixed potatoes with clay before eating.

No need to scrub them first, I guess.

I’ve read that they sell small bags of clay dust in Andean village markets as a potato condiment.

In the time since, of course, several of the wild species were brought into cultivation. By using the least poison plants for breeding stock, Andean farmers evolved the low-alkaloid varieties we enjoy today. And I’m glad they did.

My mother would never have served us twice-baked potatoes if they had to come with a drizzle of dirt gravy. M

Richard Serra’s The remarkable sculpture hidden in our backyard

Photo Simone Estrin*

Richard Serra, from an interview with Simone Estrin, October 2013.

It’s been over forty years since one of the most celebrated sculptors in the world came to King City and created the mammoth sculpture called Shift.

Despite its importance, few people have seen it.

Richard Serra is best known for his dramatic sculptures made of steel. His pieces can be found in most major art galleries throughout the world, and today, at the age of seventy-five, the art world superstar continues to produce new work at an astonishing rate.

But in 1970 when Serra first came to King City, he was just a young artist with matted hair, bulky overalls and big ambitions. At the time, he was best known for his sculptures made of nontraditional materials such as latex, rubber and lead – materials he was accustomed to working with in the shipyards and steel mills where he supported himself while growing up in California. His early works were less about the final art objects and more about the process of creating them. It was out of these earlier works that Serra came to create his first major site-specific pieces.

Shift was actually conceived as a study for another sculpture that Serra began working on in 1970. This work, entitled Pulitzer Piece, was made in the backyard of the Pulitzer family home in St. Louis, Missouri. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., a bold art enthusiast and collector, had seen several works by Serra included

in a 1969 show at Washington University, and was so impressed that he commissioned Serra to create a piece for his backyard.This show was curated by Emily Rauh, who soon after became Pulitzer’s wife and remains one of Serra’s most articulate supporters.

Since Pulitzer Piece was Serra’s very first landscape commission, he felt overwhelmed and needed to find a space to test out his ideas. So, when Canadian art collector Roger Davidson offered his land in King City for Serra to use, Serra took him up on it. When I had the opportunity to speak to Serra about Shift, he explained, “Being anxious to work and needing to work, I actually asked Roger Davidson if I could have the privilege to use his land – and I gave him three sculptures in order to build a piece on his land, that he would own. That’s how naïve I was!”

Serra came to King City to see if the concept he had for Pulitzer Piece would also apply to a larger piece of land. He travelled back and forth between King City and St. Louis, completing both Pulitzer Piece and Shift in 1972.Together, these are Serra’s most seminal site-spe-

cific pieces. Serra has gone on to create numerous other pieces in landscapes across the world, including in Reykjavik, Storm King Art Center in New York and the Qatari desert to name a few.

To visit Shift is an extraordinary experience. Made up of six concrete walls that zigzag across a farming field, the piece dips and rises with the shifts in the landscape to highlight the relationship between the artwork and its surrounding environment.

But unfortunately, Shift has always been difficult to access because it has always been on private land. Shortly after Shift was completed in 1972, Davidson sold his land to a development company, Great Gulf Homes, which inadvertently became the sculp-

ture’s lawful owner. As a result, Shift is inaccessible, hidden deep within a field, barred off by chain-link fence. Even though King City council voted to protect Shift under the Ontario Heritage Act in June 2013, its future is still uncertain.

Shift is unique because it remains where it’s always been, even though the landscape around it has been forever altered by encroaching housing development. Shift is not only an important piece in Serra’s career, but it is arguably Canada’s most important site-specific sculpture. While it is currently illegal to visit Shift, we must continue to cherish it and fight for it so that one day, we can walk the field as Serra did when he created this masterpiece. M

Photo Barry Wallace

"In terms of my landscape pieces, (Shift) is one of the biggest breakthrough pieces I have ever made.

Those two pieces coupled together, Pulitzer Piece and Shift, they really opened up the possibility of doing other pieces in the landscape...They were initial breakthrough pieces for me. I regard them very very high."

Photo Simone Estrin*

by Simone Estrin

Photo Simone Estrin* Editors' Notes: Simone Estrin is a Toronto-based documentary filmmaker whose current work explores issues in contemporary art. Her most recent film, A Shift in the Landscape (2014), premiered at the Doc Now Festival in June 2014 and has been accepted into the FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art, March 19-29, 2015.

Arts Society King (ASK) in partnership with King Township will show A Shift in the Landscape with Simone Estrin on Saturday, June 27th at the Kingbridge Centre, King City as the kickoff event for ASK Festival King 2015. Following the documentary there will be a panel and conversation with some of Canada's leading art/museum thinkers and professionals: James Adams (Globe & Mail),Victoria Dickenson (McMichael Canadian Art Collection), Rebecca Duclos (Chicago Art Institute) and Andrew Hunter (Art Gallery of Ontario) with moderator Shelley Falconer (Art Gallery of Hamilton and King City resident). Check ArtsSocietyKing.ca for details about tickets in April. *stills from A Shift in the Landscape (2014)

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all aboard!

A puff of steam and the melodious sound of the whistle signals the departure of a shiny black locomotive from a quaint country train station surrounded by tall pines and maples, its wood exterior lovingly painted in pale yellow and moss green trim.

The conductor, his hat unmistakable, is visible through the open window of the passenger car, while, in the cab of the locomotive, the engineer waits for the conductor to shout ‘All aboard!’ Another journey begins. A young woman in a blue dress, blond hair fastened with a matching bow, stands on the now-emptying platform, waving goodbye as the train leaves the station, a small dog barking by her side. From the busy passenger car, its windows open on this warm, cloudless summer day, a man and a child wave back. Certainly a charming, picturesque scene; however, this station is not much bigger than a shoebox, the train stands about 3 inches tall, and the woman, well, of course, she’s smaller still.

This is the magical, evocative world of model train enthusiasts. A love of regional history, the exciting age of steam, and the romance of life in a bygone era bring these specialized model makers together to commemorate a special time in railway history. And 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of a particular yearly celebration of these dedicated creators of miniature worlds. The Ontario Narrow Gauge Show, the only event of this type in Canada, is presented every April in Schomberg’s Community Hall on Main Street by the Narrow Gauge Madness Gang, a small group of dedicated model railway enthusiasts founded and co-run by Schomberg resident Christopher Creighton, owner of Schomberg Scale Models. Narrow gauge rail-

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another journey begins The 10th Anniversary Narrow gauge Show

will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the Schomberg Community hall, 325 Main Street, Schomberg. visit their website at www.narrowgaugemadness.com or reach them at 905 939 0694.

Admission is $8 for adults. In order to encourage a new generation of train enthusiasts, the show offers a special $12 family rate (one or two adults with up to two children).

ways, those whose gauge -- or distance between the rails -- is less than the modern standard of 4 feet, 8 _ inches, were once common in North America and around the world but are much less common today. While ‘gauge’ is the distance between the rails, ‘scale’ is the mathematical reduction from full size and modellers generally have their favourites, from 1/160 (very small) to 1/12 (very large).

Upon entering the Community Hall, visitors are greeted by a variety of perfect miniature worlds: landscapes with startlingly real trees and exquisitely constructed period-perfect buildings depicting realistic scenes from the steam age. Locomotives glide past, hissing and snorting, so authentic that only the smell of coal smoke is missing. The Narrow Gauge Show offers an assortment of these realistic layouts or displays, alongside vendors of supplies and accessories, specific clinics, workshops and competitions, with an emphasis on small and often quirky

mini-layouts of uncommon scale and gauge combinations.The local Lions Club provides refreshments at the show.

The Ontario Narrow Gauge Show draws from several modelling communities with interests in different scales and themes and boasts a quality of model-building exemplifying a strong tradition of excellent craftsmanship in Southern Ontario.To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Narrow Gauge Madness Gang, and their sponsors have planned some special events, featuring a ‘Best of the Best’ Model Contest, in which the various contest category winners from previous years will compete for a one-time-only award, offering a spectacular display of top-tier models. Despite (but quite possibly due to) its small size, the Schomberg show has gained an impressive reputation among railway modellers in Southern Ontario and the Northern United states as a ‘must-do’ event for model railway enthusiasts. M

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Vanishing Act: McMichael’s Latest Exhibition Captures the Fierce Beauty of Alpine and Polar Landscapes and What They Reveal about Climate Change

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Set amid 100 acres of conservation land, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is uniquely placed to witness first-hand some of the environmental changes that are being experienced in Vaughan and on a wider scale. In recent years, washed-out trails in the Humber River Valley and the destruction caused by the 2013 ice storm have served as visible reminders of erratic weather patterns and a shifting climate. A key part of the McMichael’s mission is to explore the intersection between art and nature, drawing connections between the artwork on the walls and the natural environment that surrounds the gallery. Therefore it seems fitting that until April 26, 2015, the McMichael will display the exhibition Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 17752012, which seeks to promote conservation by building appreciation for some of the Earth’s most remote and fragile ecosystems.

Characterized by a unique interweaving of art, science, and history,Vanishing Ice brings together seventy works by artists, writers, and naturalists spanning a period of more than 200 years. While visitors will likely recognize the work of famed Canadian painter and Group of Seven member, Lawren Harris—whose iconic canvases Mt. Lefroy and Mount Robson are both featured in the show—the exhibition is international in scope, comprised of works by artists from twelve countries, including England, Finland, France, India, Norway, Peru, and the United States.

The idea for Vanishing Ice grew out of curator Barbara Matilsky’s doctoral dissertation, written thirty years ago about the sublime landscapes of French artist-naturalist-explorers who were among the first to depict the poles and mountain glaciers. As Matilsky became aware of the increasing number of contemporary artists who were venturing to the Arctic and Antarctic, she saw an opportunity to compare historical and contemporary depictions of these rapidly changing landscapes, epitomized by the juxtaposition of Arthur Oliver Wheeler’s 1917 image of the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park and Gary Braasch’s 2005 photograph of the same location. Viewing

these two photographs side-by-side, the dramatic decline in the glacier’s volume and reach over the course of less than 100 years is shockingly apparent.

“I am hoping that Vanishing Ice will stimulate a new appreciation for alpine and polar landscapes by revealing their significance for both nature and culture,” said Matilsky, Curator of Art at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington. “In the past, artists and naturalists expanded the public's awareness of Earth's icy frontiers.

Today, artists continue to collaborate with scientists, motivated by the belief that art will help people to visualize the accelerating effects of climate change.

They awaken the world to both the beauty and increasing vulnerability of ice, which is critical for biological and cultural diversity. Their work will hopefully inspire activism on the regional and national levels to make the requi-

site policy changes that will bring Earth back into balance.”

As a complement to Vanishing Ice, the McMichael has organized a second special exhibition that focuses specifically on Canada’s relationship to the North, with particular attention to the lives and experiences of the Inuit.

Northern Narratives, curated by McMichael Assistant Curator Chris Finn, is comprised of seventy works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints that address the cultural interchange between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in the North.

Also included are two film excerpts documenting Lawren Harris’ 1930 trip to the Arctic.

Works by members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, including Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frederick Varley, and Sir Frederick Banting, represent the perspective of first-time, non-

Aboriginal travellers who were driven north by a sense of the Arctic as an imagined, powerful place, while carvings and works of art on paper by Inuit artists such as Tim Pitsiulak, Kananginak Pootoogook, Pudlo Pudlat, Pitseolak Ashoona, and Napachie Pootoogook, give expression to traditional Inuit narratives about the land as a source of sustenance, spirituality, and interconnectedness.The exhibition is on display until May 17, 2015.

“Canadians have always felt a powerful connection to the North. It is part of our story, who we are,” said Victoria Dickenson, Executive Director and CEO of the McMichael. “Northern Narratives considers the various impressions and representations of the Arctic expressed by some of our country’s most important Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists.Their works have shaped and continue to shape our ideas about the North and our identity as Canadians.”

Vanishing Ice and Northern Narratives offer visitors a beautiful glimpse of some of the world’s most remote and fragile ecosystems, and serve as a call to action on what many people hold to be the defining issue of a generation.

Images: Alexis rockman (American, b. 1962) Adelies 2008 oil on wood 172.72 x 203.2 cm collection of robin and Steven Arnold Lawren S. Harris (canadian, 1885–1970) Mt. Lefroy 1930 oil on canvas 133.5 x 153.5 cm Purchase 1975 McMichael canadian Art collection 1975.7 Above: Arthur oliver Wheeler (canadian, 1860–1945) Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park 1917, printed 2013 Black-and-white photograph 35.6 x 50.8 cm courtesy of the National Archives of canada Below: Gary Braasch (American, b.1950) Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park 2005 Archival inkjet print 35.6 x 50.8 cm courtesy of the artist, Portland, oregon

For more information about the McMichael’s exhibitions and programs, visit mcmichael.com.

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t is February, and the first black foal has already arrived. Black on white.Thick snow still blankets the Lipsett Farm west of Schomberg.

The season of waiting quickens into the relentless demands of spring, summer and fall. Preparations are already underway for the Schomberg Fair, the year’s first outing for Glencal Farms’ shiny red wagon and mighty percherons. Heavy horses are iconic of the glamour of farm life. Behind the scenes, reality means gritty work and inescapable routines. Feeding and cleaning up after animals. Atttending matings and foalings. Doctoring the ailing. The tall, handsome man parks his straw-laden pitchfork for a moment. Calvin Lipsett, fils, is well behind schedule. The forty big, black horses or their tadpoles are almost exclusively in his care. It is a oneman show, until it comes to show time, when a motley crew is assembled from among fans and relatives eager to relive the legacy once under technology’s gun.

“Know what’s good about the good old days?” Calvin asks.

We’ve only just met, but I know he’ll pull no punches.

“They’re gone.”

He’s a no-frills philosopher without nostalgia, accepting the natural phenomenon of change like weather. There are twenty-two hundred acres of crops to sow, defend and reap. Corn, wheat, soybeans, hay. There are cattle to raise and fatten.When farms were smaller, horses made sense.

“It still works for the Amish.”

Big machinery does the heavy work for the Lipsetts, but the percherons are not just an extravagant hobby. Along with the other products, the horses are expected to make a capital contribution to the farm. Shows are vital in promoting sales and marketing the stud services of Final Count, their star stallion, and the new kid, D & D’s Gordy. Competition requires the quality control that shows ensure. With what prizewinning percherons command, sometimes forty or fifty thousand, looks like

big horses are big business.

Heavy horses are presented much differently from when I was child in awe at ringside, I note.

“That was then. This is now,” Calvin confirms, leaving the analysis to me.

Heavy horses, once leaned into their collars and plodded the day long. Their job today is to carry their heads and knees higher, flashier for a few minutes of glory and a fine trophy if all goes well.

It takes little coaxing for Calvin to show rather than tell. Now he’s in his element. His movements are methodical, fluid. His commands expect and get respect.Without throwing tack around, in no time flat, two huge young mares stand harnessed and cross-tied short to the barn ceiling, waiting patiently as they have been taught. More used to the puttering around of one-horse owners, I admire the no-nonsense. Now everything Calvin reveals is laced with just pride. That the mares are very green.

That it is a new pairing. That they have not been worked for some days. Outdoors, the mares act fresh and fidgety as he hitches them to a stone boat, but they balk at gee and haw. The runners are frozen to the ground. Calvin levers them free.

“Hop on,” he says.

My entire view from aboard is of two enormous rumps and an expanse of unfenced prairie. For this ride, a lot will hinge on trust. Me of Calvin. He of the horses. The horses of him. Off we go. Calvin is quiet, but he does not coo to them. His reinsmanship is gentlemanly, fine-tuned to the needs and moods of his team. He rates their speed and calibrates their turns.The ladies are not out for mere exercise. They are in school, and being tested. Half the teams in the coming year will be new, he says, individuals taken to a review. When a roadside volley of cars suddenly causes a spook, Calvin nips their flight in a heartbeat. He’s not always been able to avert near disaster. All that horsepower and two thin life lines of leather! I opt to focus on the spritely hock action so

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effortless, even through deeper drifts. If a mare is unsure, he gives her a flick with the whip, but no more than necessary.With a jolt, she clears her mind and steps up to the task. She might soon have to cope with the sights and sounds of a fairgrounds.

We arrive safely, serenely back at the barn, cheeks glowing bright red, not just from the biting cold or the effort. The mares whinny to their friends.The black

flanks are steaming.

Schomberg is a beautiful little town whose residents connect not only to industry and commerce, but on point of pride, also to its history, and that includes agriculture. Progress has been squeezing the Schomberg Fair for space, but odds are that there will always be room for twelve high-stepping tons and a shiny wagon. M

Editors’ Note: Don’t miss the 2015 Jeff Hodgson Memorial Six Horse Hitch class at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 30th at the Schomberg Fair. This class is part of the N.A. Classic Six Horse Hitch Series - annual point program, 175 shows across Canada and U.S. Also, watch for the Essa Canadian National Draft Horse Exhibition on August 1st & 2nd at the Essa Fairgrounds just north of Thornton, Ontario.

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events Now until March 29 - Exchange Program: ASK Studio Tour King and Richmond Hill Studio Tour. Ten artists from the Arts Society King's Studio Tour will have some of their works on display at the Burr House Craft Gallery & Tea Room, 528 Carrville Road, Richmond Hill. Open Saturdays and Sundays from 12:30 to 4:30 with tea, scones and zucchini bread served from 1 to 4 p.m. Call 905 884 0327.

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MARCH 7 - Maple Syrup Festival at Cold Creek Conservation Area, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Start your day right with a delicious Pancake Breakfast and learn about syrup tapping, evaporating, filtering and the rich history that brought us this sweet treat. $10/ Car (includes breakfast & all activities). ColdCreek.ca March 7 to April 5 - Creative Women of Georgina. Opening Reception & Performance March 8th from 1-4 p.m. at the Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery. 149 High St., Sutton. Celebrate the talents of women who live or work in Georgina. 905 722 9587. gacag.com March 7, 8, 14, 22, 28, 29 April 4, 6 May 2, 3, 30, 31 - Archetype Sustainable House Tour, at The Living City Campus at Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley Dr. Guided tour of a model home with state of the art sustainable technologies. Registration required.

Call 905 832 2289. Kortright.org

Now until April 6 - TRCA Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival, at Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley Drive. Weekdays 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekends 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Demonstrations, wagon rides, live entertainment and pancakes & maple syrup! Adults $10, Children/Seniors $6.50, children 4 and under free.

MapleSyrupFest.com 416 667 6295.

March 13 to 22 - Canada Blooms, Direct Energy Building. Mon to Sat - 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sun - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CanadaBlooms.com March 13 to April 22 - ASK Art Show & Sale "Spring Emergence" at the King Township Museum, 2920 King Road, east of Jane St. Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit these creative works by several ASK artists.

ArtsSocietyKing.ca

Now until April 26 - Vanishing Ice, Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775 - 2012.

McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Tuesday to Sunday and Holiday Mondays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

An extraordinary diverse collection of artworks, that draws on the rich artists legacy of the planet's frozen frontiers. Through drawings, prints, paintings, photographs, videos, and installations this exhibition offers a unique take on the timely subject of climate change and showcases the fragility of alpine and polar landscapes. Adults $15. Seniors/Students $12.

Members free. McMichael.com Now until May 15 - Grand Opening Show of Ici Arte! Gallery. 415 Davis Drive (west entrance), Newmarket, Welcome to this dynamic new gallery in a comfortable century home a short walking distance from the downtown core.

Gallery Hours: Thursday & Friday 3 to 8 pm, and Saturday 1 to 6 pm and by appointment.

Cheryl Uhrig, our MOSAiC illustrator (see page 6) and David Kempton of Schomberg are two of the 11 artists in the first show. Others - Q. Giasi, M. Nikitsenka, Z. Zarsanj, T. Folmeg, M. Gurr, O. Platonova, F. Parsons, K. McManus, C. Beattie. IciArte.com or Tina Beat, 905 898 9090.

Now until May 17 - Northern Narratives, McMichael Canadian Art Collection. The show features 70 works, including drawings, paintings, sculpture and prints that address the cultural interchange between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in the North. Included are two film excerpts documenting Lawren Harris' 1930 trip to the Arctic. McMichael.com

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March 21 - Maple Syrup by Lamplight. Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley Drive. 7 to 9 p.m. Adults $12, Children/Seniors $6, Family $30. MapleSyrupFest.com. Advance tickets required. 416 667 6295.

April 18 - 10th Anniversary Narrow Gauge Show. Schomberg Community Hall. See article on page 8. Admission $8 adults and $12 family.

Call Christopher 905 939 0694. NarrowGaugeMadness.com

March 23 - Roses - Queen of the Flowers for all Gardens with Shari Lynn Safir. Nobleton King City Horticultural Society’s general meeting at 7:45 p.m. at the Nobleton Community Hall. All welcome. Members free. Guests $3. Contact Deborah at fireflies52@hotmail.ca

April 20 to 30 – South Simcoe Arts Council's 12th annual Music Festival associated with the Ontario Music Festival Association (OMFA).

Young musicians are given performing and competitive opportunities and assessed by professional adjudicators. Winners of local festivals with Conservatory Grade 7 and up are eligible to proceed to the Provincial Music Festival.

SouthSimcoeArtsCouncil.com/Music_Festival.html

March 24 – Pollinators and their Importance with Andre Flys, Pioneer Brand Farm.

Schomberg Horticultural Society’s general meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Schomberg Community Hall, 325 Main St. All welcome. Contact Jill 905 939 2781.

March 26 - King Travel Diary Series - I always wanted to go there at 7 p.m. at the Schomberg Library. Namibia & Capetown with Silvia & Steve Phillips. A five week, 4000 km camping trip of Namibia through coastal landscapes, mountains, sand dunes & desert to the Okavango Delta in Botswana. ArtsSocietyKing.ca and KingLibrary.on.ca March 26, April 23, May 28 – Write Now @ King! Meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at the King City Library. All writers, aspiring and sometimes published, welcome. Explore and share writing techniques. Call Sue at 905 833 0490.

March 28 – Don’t Forget Earth Hour at the Dufferin Marsh, Schomberg, AND at Memorial Park, King City. 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Turn off your lights and come out and enjoy a bonfire and hot chocolate! Free. DufferinMarsh.ca and/or King.ca

March 14 – 11th Annual "drive yourself" Farm Tour. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $10 per car. Tickets (with maps) available the day of the tour at the Schomberg Community Hall on Main Street or the week before at other sites. The farm tour offers families and friends a chance to feel the brisk air, enjoy the countryside and tour some of the farms in and around King Township. See newborn animals and learn some of the basics of a farm operation. Call Janet 905 859 0834 or visit SchombergFair.com March 14 - What's in the Night Sky? 7 p.m. at Cold Creek Conservation Area. FREE Moonlight Snowshoe. Guest speakers will discuss "What's in the sky this month?" Snowshoes provided, registration required. coldcreek@king.ca to reserve a pair. See Coldcreek.ca for April and May dates.

March 16 - Cooking for One with Chefs Janet and Ian Rogers. 1 p.m. at the King City Seniors Centre. Limited to 20 people. $10. Call Marlene 905 833 9841.

March 28, April 18, May 30 - Youth Art Workshops offered by Arts Society King (Jr. Int.) and King Township Museum (Sr. kids). 10 til noon at the King Township Museum, 2920 King Road (just east of Jane St.). Free. March - Print Making. April - Mixed Media. May - Abstract Painting. ArtsSocietyKing.ca or call 905 833 2331.

APRIL 4 - Easter Egg Hunt at the Pottageville Park. This annual event brought to you by the King City Lions and the Nobleton Lions attracts close to 200 children with their parents, grandparents and friends. A truly family event.

Contact Ken at 905 833 6691.

April 9 to June 22 – South Simcoe Arts Council presents “Spotlight on the Arts 2015” Alliston, Beeton & Tottenham.

SouthSimcoeArtsCouncil.com April 18 - Clean Up Day in King! Take part in the Clean Up Challenge and work on parks, streets and/or neighbourhoods! The Township will provide gloves, garbage bags and trash pick-up locations. Register your group today.

King.ca or EnvironmentalStewardship@king.ca.

artssocietyKing.ca

April 22 - Cirque Ziva - Golden Dragon Acrobats. King City Seniors Centre Travel Group.

Leave 9 a.m. Sanderson Theatre in Brantford.

Cost $104 (includes bus). Contact Jane 905 833 5870.

April 25 - Wildflower & Pollinator Workshop.

Join King Township and Toronto and Region Conservation in planting wildflowers and learning the importance pollinators play in our ecosystem. Registration required.

ColdCreek.ca or sgirot@king.ca April 25 & 26 - 10th Anniversary of the ASK Studio Tour King, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission. Visit 17 studios/sites throughout scenic King; meet 28 acclaimed King artists & guests, and browse for that perfect piece! Maps available at the KT Museum, KT libraries, and online at ArtsSocietyKing.ca April 27 - Backyard Composting with Trevor Barton. Nobleton King City Horticultural Society’s general meeting at 7:45 p.m. at the Nobleton Community Hall. Contact Deborah fireflies52@hotmail.ca April 28 -Trees - from Whips to Warehouse with John Mansz of Brookdale Treeland Nursery. Schomberg Horticultural Society’s general meeting - CELEBRATING 80TH ANNIVERSARY! at 7:30 p.m. at the Schomberg Community Hall, 325 Main St. Guests free! All welcome. Contact Jill at 905 939 2781.

April 30 & May 2 – Nature Evenings - Frog Night Out - Family Friendly! at 8 p.m. April 30 - Cold Creek and May 2 - Dufferin Marsh. Learn about and listen to the frogs. Discover the threatened Chorus Frog and what we are doing to protect its habitat.

Coldcreek.ca and DufferinMarsh.ca MAY 1 - Opening Day at Black Creek Pioneer Village - 55th season. 1000 Murray Ross Parkway. BlackCreek.ca or bcpvinfo@trca.on.ca or 416 736 1733 May 1 to July 31 - ASK Art Show & Sale "Summer Bloom" at the King Township Museum, 2920 King Road, east of Jane St. Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit these creative works by several ASK artists.

ArtsSocietyKing.ca

May 2 - Community Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Trisan Centre, Schomberg.

Indoor community yard sale hosted by the Township of King. $20 per table or two for $35. Participants may also donate unsold items to Goodwill at the end.The Schomberg Lions will be serving refreshments and BBQ. Contact jbell@king.ca

May 20 - King Travel Diary Series – I always wanted to go there at 2 p.m. at Pine Farms Orchard. (N.B. different time and place from the usual). Pam & Elliott Romeril present Brazil Coastline - downwind kite safari and jotting in and out of fishing villages, sand dunes, coconut groves and farmland.

ArtsSocietyKing.ca and KingLibrary.on.ca

May 2 - Electronics Recycling Day. Batteries or electronic waste. Please don't put them in the garbage. Depots at King City Arena, Trisan Centre Schomberg or Dr. William Laceby Nobleton Arena. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

King.ca or EnvironmentalStewardship@king.ca

May 25 – "Hostas" with Bob Leask.

Nobleton King City Horticultural Society’s general meeting at 7:45 p.m. at the Nobleton Community Hall. Contact Deborah at fireflies52@hotmail.ca

May 2 & 3 - Four Winds Kite Festival. Kortright Centre for Conservation. Great family outing where you can see professional kite flying demonstrations and enjoy wind themed interpretive hikes.

Kortright.org or 905 832 2289.

May 7th – Community Showcase (6:15 to 7:15 pm) & Volunteer Appreciation Evening with Ceremony at 7:30 pm at the Trisan Centre, 25 Dillane Drive, Schomberg, Contact tbarresi@king.ca May 7– King City Secondary School Music Night, at the Markham Theatre, 7 p.m. Come and see the Senior and Junior Concert Bands, Jazz Big Band, Stage Band, Jazz Improv, Singsations and various small ensembles perform. Everyone is welcome.

Cost $12. Reserved seating.

Call Mr. Tom Walker at 905 833 5332 x419 May 9 – Schomberg Horticultural Society’s Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Community Hall on Main Street, Schomberg.

Annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs.

Perfect gifts for Mothers’ Day. Call Jill 905 939 2781.

May 9 to September 6 - Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. McMichael Canadian Art Collection. In 1973 seven artists of the PNIAI (aka Indian Group of Seven) came together to collectively fight for the inclusion of their work within the Canadian mainstream. These pivotal artists led to the acceptance of an Indigenous art discourse and the recognition of Indigenous artists as a vital part of Canada's past, present and future identity. McMichael.com May 17 & 18 – Nobleton Victoria Day Fair.

Sunday - Midway and Food! 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Nobleton Arena grounds. Monday - Events all day, Nobleton Arena grounds.

Parade starts at library at 11 a.m. Nobleton Village Association in partnership with the Township of King present live entertainment, GTA Midway, face painting, clowns, lots of food and an array of vendors with everything from clothing to candles. Reptilia brings their exotic critters. Nobleton King City Horticultural Society’s Plant Sale, all afternoon. This fun-filled day ends at dusk with the greatest private fireworks display in Ontario by the Nobleton Fire Department.

NobletonVictoriaDay.com May 19 - The History of Georgina Island and its People with guest speaker Elder Barb McDonald. Georgina Historical Society, Noble House, 26557 Civic Centre Road, Keswick. 905 476 4301.

GeorginaHistoricalSociety.com

May 25 to 28 - Vaughan Film Festival.

Founded by Ienco & Pagliaroli of Reel Film Pictures this 3rd edition showcases multigenre short films providing independent film creators here and abroad another platform to show their work. VaughanFilmFestival.com info@VaughanFilmFestival.com May 26 – Perennial Plant Combos for Continued Seasonal Success with Angie Allen from Pathways to Perennials. Presented by the Schomberg Horticultural Society. 7:30 p.m. at the Schomberg Community Hall, 325 Main St. Contact Jill 905 939 2781.

May 28 to 31 - 165th Schomberg Agricultural Spring Fair. “Past, Present, Future.

165 and still we thrive” theme – midway, children’s entertainment, livestock, home crafts (antiques, horticulture, schoolwork, art & photography shows, agricultural exhibits), Fair Farm, Horse Pull, food and vendors. Thurs 28th: Toonie Day - Every ride is a toonie. Opens at 6 p.m. Fri 29th: Gates open 5 p.m. with Demolition Derby at 7 p.m. Sat 30th: Pay One Price Midway Gates open at 9 a.m. Mammoth Parade at 11a.m. Great local talent throughout the day and evening. Arena opens at 11a.m. Bavarian Garden at noon. Six Horse Hitch at 1:30 p.m. Announcement of 2015 Ambassador on Main Stage at 5:30 p.m. Lots of entertainment family fun!! Sun 31st: Dufferin Marsh Bird Walk at 6:30 a.m. Meet at the pump house on Dr. Kay Dr. and then enjoy the Lions Pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Community Hall. Fair and Arena open at 10 a.m. Family Fun Day, Baby Show, Pet Show, Dog Show, Three legged races and Bubble Gum Bubbles. Contact Manager Cathy 905 939 8283 or SchombergFair.com May 30 - Schomberg United Church Roast Beef Dinner at The Fair. $15 adults, $8 children (5 to 10 years) and free for 4 years and under. Contact Linda at 905 939 2069 or Kim 905 939 2992.

May 30 & June 27 - Free Birding Walk & Talk at Cold Creek C.A. Meet in the Education Centre at 8 a.m. Join us for the return of spring songbirds with bird enthusiast Steve Owen. ColdCreek.ca June 6 & 7 - Quilt Show "Quilting Among Friends". 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Alliston Curling Club, 52 Albert St. W. Admission $5. Free parking. Over 100 quilted articles: bed quilts, wall hangings, quilted apparel. Plus raffle, mini auction, merchants mall & tea room.

Contact Irmgard at irmgardjacob@sympatico.ca JUNE 7 - Aurora Chamber Street Festival from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Yonge Street will close in the heart of Aurora to allow full access to over 500 vendors, entertainment, and great food. Contact 905 727 7262 or info@aurorachamber.on.ca

June 13 to October 17 - Schomberg Farmers' Market. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Every second Saturday in the Schomberg Fairgrounds.

SchombergFair.com June 13 – The Moraine for Life, Adventure Relay. Non stop 160km team challenge from Gores Landing to north of King City. Run, hike, bike, paddle. Up to 15 people per team.

MoraineAdventure.com June 13 – King City Craft Beer Festival, King City Memorial Park. Fun-filled afternoon of live music, vendors and food. Noon - 9:30 p.m. Contact Jon at jbell@king.ca or KingCityFestival.ca June 19 - Looking, Drayton Festival Theatre, King City Seniors Travel Group. Cost $95 (includes bus). A comedy about finding love

by Norm Foster, directed by Marti Maraden.

33 Wellington St. S., Drayton, ON. Contact Jane 905 833 5870.

June 19 to 21 - 32nd annual Tottenham Bluegrass Festival.

June 21 to October 11 - King City Farmers' Market. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Alternate Sundays. King City's All Saints Anglican Church, 12935 Keele St. KingCityFarmersMarket.ca June 28 – Schomberg Horticultural Society’s Garden Tour.

Contact Jill 905 939 2781.

June 27 to July 12 – ASK Festival King 2015. ArtsSocietyKing.ca June 27 Kickoff Event for ASK Festival King: King Township premiere of the documentary film A Shift in the Landscape - Richard Serra's renowned sculpture - Shift!

Kingbridge Conference Centre. 6 to 9:30 p.m.

Wine & hors d'oeuvres; intro by Simone Estrin of her documentary accepted at Montreal's FIFA 2015; and panel of some of Canada's leading art/museum thinkers and professionals: James Adams (G&M), Victoria Dickenson (MCAC), Rebecca Duclos (Chicago Art Institute) and Andrew Hunter (AGO) with moderator Shelley Falconer (Art Gallery of Hamilton).

ArtsSocietyKing.ca and King.ca.

Oak Ridges Trail Association Hikes for March, April and May. See schedule OakRidgesTrail.org for details. All hikes are graded slow, moderate, fast; show length; approximate time to complete; and the Hike leader with contact info. Hikes in and around King include Seneca College (King campus), Marylake, Happy Valley, Palgrave Forest, Jokers Hill, Humber Valley Heritage Trails, and E. Humber River (Mill Rd.) ORTA welcomes Marianne Broome of Schomberg as their newest hike leader. She is a well known artist, photographer & one of the founding members of Arts Society King. One of her first hikes will be March 28 at 1:30 p.m.

King-Humber Trails C.A. (Mill Rd.): moderate, 6+ km., 2.5 hours. Well behaved dogs welcome. Contact 905 939 7007. spring 2015

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A Model Farmer

by Sue Iaboni

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Photo Ken Bell

eorge Holancin has had three different but equally intriguing careers. He has overseen a large farming business; grown a career in modelling, and sculpted discarded farm implements into art.

George came with his parents and 10 siblings to the Holland Marsh in 1949.They settled on a farm along with a lot of other Europeans whose life’s work had been farming. Their main crops were onions and carrots, as well as food to feed their large family. Dad and his sons did the farming and soon their business was thriving. They began packaging their produce and selling to large grocery chains such as Sobeys and Loblaws.

But due to farming’s seasonal nature, there was lots of spare time in the winter months. For a while George worked in a uranium mine in Elliot Lake. But a more interesting opportunity came along when he met the owner of a modeling agency, Molly Petty, (mother of Dini Petty).

She told him he was photogenic and she could find him work as a model. He worked in Toronto for four years but then New York called to him. One of his early assignments in New York was doing commercials for Parliament cigarettes; he went on a two-week photo shoot on a sailboat in Nassau where the background for photos made the product more appealing. George’s modelling career also led him to his wife, Lydia. A fashion model from France, she met him on a photo shoot, and they did many more shoots together in New York.

All was going well until George got a call from the brothers back in the Holland Marsh; the 50-acre farm next door was for sale and did he want a piece of the action? Lydia had never been involved in farming, but baby Anna was portable, George was enthusiastic, and so they came home.

Editors’ Note: If you would like a chance to meet George and maybe purchase one of his unique sculptures while he is still in King, come to the ASK studio Tour, April 25-26. You can also see his work on his website at sculpturesinmetal.com

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They managed to combine both careers; George, having learned a lot about marketing from selling himself as a model, took on the marketing aspect of the family farming business.

And he and Lydia got occasional modelling jobs in Toronto.

And so things progressed for many years.

Then in the 1980s George began to notice all the old rusty broken farm implements lying around on the farm. He saw this environmental issue as an opportunity. He says the “wind blew him” towards his next career when he visualized a bird in some of the metal pieces. He was drawn to birds, he says, because of their fanciful lines. His first creation was a heron which he designed to sit beside his pond.

George has all the tools necessary to create amazing art; he is a skilled welder, he has an inventory of metal parts, and he “sees” things: a spider in a rusty tractor seat, a bird’s plumes in a hay rake, an ostrich in an old fender. He has expanded from birds to whimsical frogs and bugs, local flowers and even a couple of playful skiers. His recent grouping of musicians garners a lot of attention at his studio in Kettleby. Eight different musicians made of railroad spikes, cultivator hooks, farm discs, and brake drums stand on the lawn playing piano, trumpet, accordion, guitar, xylophone, drums, clarinet, and saxophone.

George Holancin has given much to his community. His artistic creations enhance many of our gardens and ponds. He has made donations to local fairs,The Canadian Cancer Society, CHATS, Ducks Unlimited, and others. His studio was one of the most popular stops on the ASK For a Ride Adventure Car Rally last October. But at age 75 he finds that his large property is too much work, and he and Lydia are looking for a smaller space up north closer to the grandchildren. His home and studio are up for sale. M

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Biodiversity Habitat Fragmentation and Loss Camping, trap shooting and a rifle and archery range were supported. Cold Creek closed in 1990 due to limited finances and a natural recovery of the Conservation Area began. Trails were infiltrated by ground cover, berry canes, shrubs, and trees. Few people visited the site and the natural habitat, once fragmented by trails, re-connected.

The TRCA Cold Creek Management Plan, created in 2002, was designed to bring the Conservation Area back into community use with a new focus on education and nature preservation rather than the intensive recreation utilization of the 1960s and 1970s. Only the peripheral and three connecting trails were re-established. Biological surveys conducted by TRCA in 1997, 2001 and 2002 identified 47 plant community types; 341 floral species with 82 listed as “of regional concern”; 89 species of birds, mammals and amphibians resident in Cold Creek. By 2010 the Cold Creek Stewardship identified 121 birds, both resident and migrating, in Cold Creek.

During 2002 the Cold Creek Stewardship installed 55 song bird boxes in meadows, on forest edges, and 10 wood duck boxes in wetlands that are all monitored and cleaned each winter. As public use of the trails increased and King Township recreational and educational activities became more popular, the use of boxes by birds changed. Bluebirds that had frequented boxes in open central areas did not return; Hooded Mergansers no longer use nest boxes in the wetland; other species that started spring nests, abandoned eggs and chicks as summer visitor activities increased. The impact of increased human utilization of the Conservation Area is evident from reduced bird box occupancy and shows how bird habitat can change in a season.

Habitat loss and fragmentation is happening even now in our neighbourhood as well as in other places of the world. The challenge for Cold Creek, whose purpose is to conserve, preserve and educate, is how to achieve the first two objectives while meeting the third with minimum impact. The Cold Creek Management Plan and newly developed Strategic Plan represent an attempt to do just that. King Township and the Stewardship encourage visitors to respect the fragile side of habitat in Cold Creek by asking hikers to stay on trails and to keep dogs on leash and out of wildlife nesting and forage sites.

Come visit this special place to see the different habitats that are encompassed within Cold Creek and visit ColdCreek.ca for more information on habitat fragmentation and loss. M

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e hear concerns about the loss of species biodiversity as rain forests are replaced by agriculture and mining in far away places. We should be similarly concerned about the continued protection of local wildlife habitats like Cold Creek, Happy Valley, Dufferin Marsh and the Koffler Scientific Reserve.

The preservation of the number and variety of existing habitats increases biodiversity because more species and more individuals can live in those habitats. A habitat that sustains a species provides a physical, chemical and biotic environment for the species to forage and reproduce. Impacts on habitats can include diseases, invasion of competitors and predators, roads and trails, power lines, forest removal, or human activity. Reductions of habitat quality, quantity or changed boundaries will decrease biodiversity. Habitats, like amoebae, expand to fill voids or retract under stress.

Prior to 1842, when Adam Cairns and his family settled on lands now within Cold Creek Conservation Area, the property was covered in forest. Along with residents throughout King Township, the Cairns family cleared the forest for grain fields and raising livestock. The township was divided by a grid of concessions each with ten 100 acre lots. The front 60 acres were for agriculture and the “back 40” woodlot was for fuel and construction materials. In the blink of 50 years, forest was converted to farm fields and wildlife was replaced with livestock. Forest habitat was lost and fragmented; biodiversity decreased and some species disappeared from the area. Today we treasure our natural areas because so little is left from the 1800s.

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) bought the farmlands of Cold Creek in the early 1960s to create a Conservation Area. Trees were planted, a public use area was created around the Cairn's historic barn and two education buildings were constructed. Trails crisscrossed the acreage for hiking, dog sled runs and cross-country skiing.

Bird Box building 2006 with cold creek Stewardship and King city Secondary School environmental club.

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by Gordon craig

References: Toronto and region conservation. 2002.

Cold Creek Conservation Area Management Plan.

Fahirg, L. 2003. Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity.

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 34:487-515.

Franklin, A.B., B.r. Noon and L. George. 2002.

What is Habitat Fragmentation? Studies in Avian Biology 25:20-29.

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You’re invited to join the “SUPeR SeNIoRS” . . . FUN, FooD & FRIeNDShIP at the King City Seniors Centre Photos Dianne & Jack Wear

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The King City Seniors Centre was built in 1988 with the generous support of the King City Lions Club. The beautiful facility includes two large meeting rooms and a fully equipped kitchen.

Lloyd White was the first Chairperson of the centre and our present Chairperson, Carol Field, remembers her mother picking out the china that is still being used today.

Our Centre is a non-denominational, non-political organization, which strives to foster the mind, body and spirit. Come join us and meet friends both old and new. The Centre hosts a wide variety of activities geared to provide something for everyone, and is open to all, 55 and over who live in or around King Township.

Several sports and fitness activities include: badminton, five-pin bowling, gentle motion (similar to Tai Chi), Zumba Gold (keep fit), horseshoes, shuffleboard, carpet bowling, a walking club and the fastest growing sport in North America. Pickleball. To stimulate, intellectually, there is traditional euchre, bid euchre and bridge lessons for beginners, as well as interesting guest speakers at our monthly “39ers” Social Club meetings.

For those interested in developing their creative side, we hold weekly art classes and sponsor a computer instruction class with the King City Library. There are also monthly Potluck Lunches and a variety of other special events such as fashion shows, barbeques, corn roasts and “high teas”.

For those interested in travel, our

busy Travel Club has partnered with Great Canadian Holidays and Coaches to offer worry-free, fun-filled and affordable getaways in comfortable coaches. This year, for example, we will visit St. Jacob’s for a day at the famous farmers’ market, followed by lunch and a live show at the local theatre. There will also be a trip to Brantford to see the Golden Dragon Acrobats, plus a six-day trip to Quebec City, which will include a whale-watching cruise and a tour of that beautiful, historic city.

Check us out! Join us at one of our Friday morning “drop-in” sessions between 10 a.m. and noon. The Centre is located at 30 Fisher Street in King City.

We’ve come a long way since the Centre opened 27 years ago, but our vision of “Seniors Enriching the Community” has never faltered. The King City Seniors Centre will continue to be “Your Circle of Friendship.” M For more information, go to our website KingCitySeniors.ca for a complete listing of activities and a copy of our latest Newsletter, or call carol Field at 905 833 3324.

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Windsor Sculpture Park, Windsor, Ontario

ADREAM OF A PARK

the McMichael Ivan eyre Sculpture Park, Kleinburg, Ontario

in Reykjavik Harbour. Next he visited Cornwall, studying Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture garden at St. Ives.

Her art school pal, Henry Moore, has given the world many splendid sculptures, including ‘The Archer’ outside Toronto’s City Hall, large figures at the Art Gallery of Ontario and another Cosmo discovered on a hillside in Wellington, New Zealand- a surprise Moore piece at the summit overlooking the sea. His next stop was Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Park with its mind-blowing view of Puget Sound and Mt. Olympus framing a monumental sculptural head aptly named ‘Echo’ for a Greek legend.

Waterfront parks offer a palette for artists who use the water’s rippling reflections as background for site-specific installations. Cosmo nearly flipped himself into the St Lawrence River, gawking instead of controlling his bike on Quebec City’s Promenade - a stunning approach to the mighty river. It was a provincial 400th anniversary gift to Quebeckers in 2008.

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Just peek over my shoulder at my ‘Insta-History’ App, and see King Township back in 2015. Pretty raw, you say? Bulldozed farm fields, unfinished buildings, trench excavations for pipes - not like the sophisticated upscale town we now have in 2025 with our unique art park around the corner! The King Daily printed an article recently about how happily the Mayor praised the phenomenal increase in tourist traffic at King’s restaurants and hotels; she attributed this to international attention to the surge in Canada’s creative life. ”King’s a hot-spot,” she declared proudly; “we’ve led the way.” Richard Serra’s concrete ‘Shift’ in a corn field inspired the establishment of our park that became King’s world-wide signature, a famous magnet for art lovers, photographers and the travel-mad collectors of must-see places like our friend Cosmo.

Cosmo claims he’s been everywhere; Holland, where he met Serra’s work for the first time at the Kröller-Müller sculpture park; Iceland, where he got seasick on the ferry to view Serra’s amazing ‘Afangar’ (“Standing Stones”) that dominate tiny Videy Island

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came from over the horizon there and made a country here.

Windsor, Ontario is blessed with a similar riverside park furnished with a bevy of sculptures, maintained by volunteers. The enlightened Cultural Affairs Department’s curriculum guidelines to outdoor and classroom exploration of local history, science and art, give students a lasting sense of ‘place'.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario boasts a sculpture garden featuring nine imposing bronze statues by renowned Canadian artist, Ivan Eyre, scattered amid a spectacular parklike setting. Eyre's sculptures reinforce the gallery's mission to showcase the land as an artistic muse and provide visitors with a deep appreciation of the relationship between art and nature.

Nature partners in defining shapes and colours when sculpture is chosen for an outdoor site. The viewer is challenged to confront the universal puzzle of how we fit in, not with logic, but by sensations.

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Editors’ Note: See richard Serra’s sculpture Te Tuhirangi contour 1999/2001 at The Farm Sculpture Park, founded by Alan Gibbs in Kaipara Harbour New Zealand. The 27 minute video “Seeing the Landscape” shows the sculpting process over 4 years with richard Serra and Alan Gibbs. (gibbsfarm.org.nz/serravideo.php) After 20 years Gibbs has amassed mainly commissioned work by 22 artists from around the world on his 1000 acre, 4 sq. km. private estate, “open to artists, educational institutions, charities and the public, by prior appointment only" .

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Richard Serra builds into his weighty steel constructions that relate to both human scale and the site position. 'Tilted Spheres', his gateway to the sky created for GTAA’s Terminal One, with a message about the space from here to there, prepares the traveller for a journey.

“It is something like our park,” he says, “connecting the viewer to the contours of the clouds, as ‘Shift’ emphasizes contours and textures of the land. We have a greenspace where the diversity of folks in King - all ages and stages - get calm, meet and get acquainted. Just an hour in the park is a real health benefit to people over-stuffed with digital living. An art park actually adds lasting values to our community.

Forget the traffic out there! Relax and admire the landscape; let it remind you of the comfortable pace of those farm villages that began King Township.”

“King’s unique ‘Shift’ carries meaning for all time and all people, which is why it is revered as art worthy of admiration;” as Cosmo declares, “and why it gives King a brand, a distinct personality, a measure of worth beyond money.”

Does our township benefit from its ‘brand’? So many towns and cities around the world are known for the excitement of a unique park within a municipal boundary, like New York’s Central Park and Windsor’s that combine art with nature. King, being one of the top global travel destinations is indeed a world-class magnet. What a difference a decade makes! M

The Humber river commemorated as a canadian Heritage river 2014 marked the Humber River's 15th anniversary as a Canadian Heritage River through the Canadian Heritage Rivers System - a program that was established in 1984 by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to conserve and give national recognition to rivers with outstanding natural, cultural and recreational heritage. Today, there are 42 Canadian Heritage Rivers across Canada, and more are being added to the system each year.

The Humber received its designation as the 26th Canadian Heritage River in 1999. The designation was based on the Humber River’s contribution towards the development of Canada and on the merit of its outstanding human related heritage and recreational value.The designation was a community led initiative that garnered support from municipalities and the province to seek nomination.

Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA), with the support of municipal and community partners installed eleven bronze plaques throughout the Humber River watershed to celebrate its designation as a Canadian Heritage River. This includes five plaques with a map of the Carrying Place Trail, and six

Canadian Heritage River System (CHRS) plaques. Each plaque was cast with a message celebrating the Humber River in three languages: English, French, and one of three Aboriginal languages: Huron-Wendat, Onondaga, or Mississauga.

Heritage Plaques have been in-

stalled at the following three locations within King Township: • King Township Museum • Weston Road and 16th Side Road • Weston Road and Highway #9, Unveilings are currently being planned for more heritage plaques in 2015.

For more information on the humber heritage Plaque Project please contact Sonia Dhir, Humber Project Manager at: sdhir@trca.on.ca

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Celebrating 10 years!

Arts Society King is grateful for the generous support of members, donors and corporate sponsors. Thank you Oak Ridges Retirement Community by Signature for sponsoring the MUSIC IN KING series.

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rts Society King (ASK) was established in 2005 and is a not-for-profit organization that celebrates, supports and promotes the arts in King Township. Initiatives include local artist recognition, programming for children, teens and adults, cultural experiences, art exhibits, festivals and events.

It ‘s an exciting time; what began as the ‘The Arts Group’ back in the summer of 2005 is celebrating 10 years of enriching events and solid community partnerships. Please join us and celebrate with our artists and supporters at the Studio Tour King, ASK Festival King and Schomberg Street Gallery.

Arts Society King is delighted to continue celebrating arts and culture with the King community.

Visit www.ArtsSocietyKing.ca for up-to-date programming information.

Devon and ella get Hooked on Art at the museum.

If you are interested in supporting and sponsoring ASK’S mandate, please contact Teri Hastings, Executive Director at 905-939-9357. Join ASK and help bring arts and culture to OUR community.

Pop-Up Art galleries Arts Society King is exhibiting a collection of original artwork reflecting the seasonal changes that occur in the natural landscapes of King Township. In this series, the audience is guided in an organic passage from cold winter temperatures to a rising spring and full summer bloom. The collection will be displayed in the Main Lobby of the King Township Museum.

February 3 – March 7 ‘Winter Renewal’ March 13 – April 22 ‘Spring Emergence’ May 1 – July 31 ‘Summer Bloom’

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hooked on Art “Hey, you just splattered paint on my face!”

Many playful comments come out of the mouths of our teen-age artists and their tiny counterparts as they get involved in art programs at the Museum.

Our first event of 2015, in partnership with Museum staff, began on a snowy Saturday in January.The older kids met to design and paint large garbage cans whose future, while yet uncertain, may be to grace homes and businesses around the Township. The theme of this particular morning was winter. Teacher and student shared ideas: mixing pure white with blue to create a winter shade, and then applying it with

sponges. Pine trees appeared – white edging on the green base paint of the cans. And the sky? The artists applied a thin layer of black to the upper area. “It’s cool that we decided to go with night,” they declared.

A few sparkly stars completed the design.

Meanwhile upstairs in the Museum a group of little artists worked on individual plastic garbage cans whose destinations seemed to be their bedrooms, or maybe a gift for “gammie and gampie.” First they chose white cans; clean and safe. Tentatively they swirled their brushes in the primary colours and tried out tiny circles and stripes. “Here is...hmmmm...I don’t

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really know what it is yet.” Then fear gave way to enthusiasm, and flowers, trees, even people began to appear. The circles and designs got larger and larger.

Soon the white cans were set aside and the artists called out for purple and turquoise as their next canvasses. They scurried around the room gathering up subjects – a school bell, a globe, some books . They were hooked on art.

Editors’ Note: one of the goals of ASK for 2015 is to reach out to new families and young people in the King community. check our website: artssocietyking.ca for further information, times and upcoming dates on our art programs for all ages, happening one to two times a month on Saturday mornings at the King Township Museum.

Join Arts Society King and celebrate the 10th annual Studio TTour our King.

V isit the celebrated and acclaimed Visit artists of our community. Enjoy one-of-a-kind work fr om fine art, from sculptur e, jewellery, textiles and sculpture, wood art.

Please visit www.ArtsSocietyKing.ca for additional event details and Free artist biographies. Fr ee admission to all sites. Maps and br ochure pr ovided. brochure provided.

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