Special event for artists and photographers

Calling all artists and photographers! The St. George’s Historical Society is hosting a novel fundraiser especially for you this weekend, so bring your brushes, cameras and other materials, and come on down.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Society’s beautiful gardens will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for you to capture in your favourite medium. A light lunch, compliments of The Supermart, will be provided, and on Sunday at 4 p.m. participants and hosts will meet over a glass of wine in the Society’s gardens.

This is an opportunity to view and work in places not available to the public.

Participants will assemble on both days at the Society’s ‘Featherbed Studio’ on Featherbed Alley (behind the Somers Supermart) at 10 a.m. where they will receive a map indicating the location of the gardens.

Registration is required — telephone Emma Denouk at 297-2468 or e-mail emmajinghamdounouk[AT]yahoo.com — and the deadline is today. Please specify which days you plan to attend. The fee for one day is $35, and for two days it is $50, and includes a picnic lunch at 12.30 p.m., with pick-up at the Featherbed Arts Studio.

This is an opportunity to see and work in places not available to the public in the company of fellow artists and photographers, while contributing to the St. George’s Society in terms of expanding awareness and furthering its goals.

Lunchtime film at BNG today

Today’s film presentation, sponsored by the Ministry of Community & Cultural Affairs, is ‘Riches, Rivals and Radicals, 100 Years of Museums in America’, which describes the rise of the museums in America from the early 20th century to the early 21st — a story paralleling the historic changes in the United States. Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centres of civic pride and prestige, stewards of who and what we are, our shared heritage, good and bad.

The museum story is “filled with many notable and even some notorious characters,” writes Marjorie Schwarzer, chair of the museum studies department at John F. Kennedy University. “How the American museum got to where it is today has required a long journey, sometimes arduous, often fascinating.”

This award-winning, one-hour PBS special was produced to mark the American Association of Museum’s centennial and The Year of the Museum.

Today’s event replaces the previously-advertised presentation by author John Cox on ‘The Urge to Write: Its rewards, Its Anguish’ who is indisposed. His lecture will be rescheduled for a future date.

Starting time is 12:30 p.m. Admission is free for BNG members, $5 for non-members.