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Keep yourself informed about entertainment and
cultural performances in your community by tuning into the CKUA ARTS & CULTURE
GUIDE. Twice each day, we run down the list of upcoming events around Alberta. The
ARTS & CULTURE GUIDE with Chris Allen...Monday through Friday at 9:56am and 3:28pm,
Saturdays at 8:56am on CKUA.
Friday, March 12
Former Edmontonian, guitarist Mike Rud, will be at Edmonton's
Yardbird Suite, at 11 Tommy Banks Way tonight and tomorrow
night. Tilden Webb and Jodi Proznick from Vancouver and Edmonton's
Dan Skakun play with him. The show starts at 9:00 PM. Call
780 432 0428.
The Alberta Printmakers' Society presents an opening reception
tonight for About Tiananmen, recent work by Montreal artist
Rene Donais, inspired by his experiences as a foreign student
in Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen Square events. It's on
display at the Artist Proof Gallery, 2010F 11th St. SE. The
artist will offer a free lecture on Saturday, March 13th at
1:30 PM
Corrupt detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson investigates a
murder in Filth; a black comedy about sleaze, power and the
abuse of everything. The play by Irvine Welsh, adapted by
Harry Gibson is presented to March 20th by Sage Theatre at
Pumphouse Theatre, 2140 Pumphouse Ave. SW in Calgary at 8PM
with a 2PM matinee on the 13th and a midnight performance
on the 19th. Call 403 263 0079, ext. 2.
As part of the Rendez-Vous de la Francophonie, the Société
Edmonton Chante presents "Rêverie" by Canadian
pianist, composer Marie-Andrée Ostiguy with The Artémuse
String Quartet, at the Arden Theatre in St. Albert tonight
and at the Winspear Centre in Edmonton, tomorrow night at
7:30 both evenings. Her original compositions for piano and
string quartet from her recently released album range from
romantic to tango and jazz music. Call the Arden at 780 459
1542 and the Winspear at 780 469 4401. Sunday, March 14th,
at 2 & 7:30 PM, the Stettler Variety Showcase Association
presents Ostiguy and the quartet at the Stettler Performing
Arts Centre. Call 403 742 2058.
Saturday, March 13
The young Calgary area brass players who were the winners
of the 2010 Brass Idol competition, and the Foothills Brass
Quintet perform at the Brass Idol concert this Saturday, March
13, at 8:00 PM. in Scarboro United Church, 134 Scarboro Ave
SW. Get tickets at the door.
Northern Canada Collective Society for Writers launches its
second issue of NorthWord magazine this afternoon at 1:00
in the Fort McMurray Public Library at 151 MacDonald Dr..
The event will feature a poetry theme, with group haiku, list
poems, and ransom note poems and for poems on demand. Poets
and writers will also offer random readings. Call Kiran at
780-791-8971
The Imani Winds play music from jazz and Latin to Middle
Eastern influences as well as classical repertoire. Their
concert for the Edmonton Chamber Music Society tomorrow at
2 PM will include music of Maurice Ravel, Jason Moran, Elliott
Carter among others. It takes place at Convocation Hall in
the Arts Building, on the University of Alberta campus. Get
tickets at Tix on the Square and The Gramophone.
The 2010 Rosebud Theatre in the hamlet of Rosebud presents
Dario Fo's comedy We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! to May 15th
at Rosebud Opera House. Two housewives revolt against the
high price of groceries and their husbands are entangled in
a net of police inspectors, funeral directors and looming
fatherhood. Call 1 800 267 7553.
Pop/rock singer/songwriter Diana Stabel performs tonight
at Jeffrey's Café and Wine Bar at 9640 142 Street in
Edmonton. Call 451 8890.
The CKUA Arts and Culture Guide is heard twice daily,
Monday through Saturday and is compiled by Chris Allen and
Judith Johnson. If you have an arts or cultural event taking
place in your area, email us at least two weeks in advance
at artsinfo@ckua.com.
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