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HAFT to roll out numerous IPM art projects
Rick Sickinger and the Huron Arts
and Heritage Network (HAHN) have
brainstormed a number of ways to
display the county's artistic side this
September at the International
Plowing Match (IPM) in Walton.
While the focus of the IPM will be
on the province's largest agricultural
showcase coming to Huron County,
Sickinger, cultural development
officer with Huron County, says that
HAHN is hoping to take that
heritage theme and put a bit of a
twist on it in a creative way that will
live on in the county for decades
after the match.
Over the five days of the match,
Sickinger says, a variety of Huron
County artists will be on hand to
help those passing through the
county's tent to create four -inch -
squared tiles that will be part of
several murals to commemorate the
match.
St. Anne's Band wins nat'l gold
Gold medal winners
The St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School Concert Band recently won a national gold medal
at the Music Fest Nationals in Niagara Falls. The win capped off an important year for the band
that involved plenty of memorable moments. (Photo submitted)
The St. Anne's Catholic
Secondary School Concert Band
travelled to compete at Music Fest
Nationals in Niagara Falls late last
month and achieved a Gold
Standing. The national music
festival, which was held at the Scotia
Bank Convention Centre, sees the
best bands in the country gather to
perform over five days. In order to
attend this competition, bands must
qualify at a regional festival. The St.
Anne's band qualified to attend
nationals at a festival at Oakridge
Secondary School in London earlier
this spring.
The 55 -member St. Anne's
Concert Band travelled to the
festival on Tuesday, May 16
performing three challenging pieces
on the festival stage for an audience
and adjudication panel. Following
the performance component of the
festival, each band receives a
workshop from an adjudicator. The
St. Anne's band was awarded an
"Excellence in Clinic" award for its
phenomenal job during this
workshop session. Grade 12
saxophonist Ben Luelo received the
ensembles Honour Award for his
performance and leadership in
preparation for Nationals.
The St. Anne's Concert Band
practises two morning per week at
7:15 a.m. from September until the
end of May. Music teacher and band
director Josh Geddis says, "Over the
last nine years at St. Anne's we have
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had some amazing concert bands.
This particular band is very special. I
have never had a group that I have
pushed so hard. The band this year is
also unique as over half of them are
junior (Grade 9 or 10) students and
our concert band usually consists of
a higher ratio of senior students.
Both the junior and senior students
really stepped up and the entire
school along with myself and Mrs.
St. Onge (Choral director, Band
Assistant and Educational Assistant
at St. Anne's) are extraordinarily
proud of these students."
In addition to the concert band's
performance at nationals, Joshua
LeBlanc -Demers, a Grade 11
student at St. Anne's from Goderich
was accepted (based on audition) to
the National Wind Ensemble and
National Percussion Ensemble.
Joshua performs as a member of the
St. Anne's Concert Band and Jazz
Band. He studies percussion
privately with Jeff Christmas and
Dave Robilliard and teaches private
percussion lessons as well in
Goderich.
These national honour ensembles
are audition -based bands that hand
pick the best musicians from various
high schools from across the
country. While at nationals, Joshua
was involved in nine hours of
rehearsal per day for a full week
with world-class conductors playing
extremely difficult repertoire. The
National ensembles closed out the
festival on Friday Night with a
performance for over 1,000 audience
members.
"We are extremely proud of Josh's
accomplishments both in and out of
school. He is the first St. Anne's
musician that has performed as a
member of the National honour band
at Music Fest. He is a great talent
and is learning a lot through this
experience," says Geddis.
These performances wrap up a big
year in the St. Anne's music
program. Students had many
amazing opportunities which
included a workshop with Dr.
Richardson at the University of
Western Ontario Don Wright
Faculty of Music as well as a drop-in
performance by Canadian Juno
award winner and multiple East
Coast Music award winner Joel
Plaskett.
qtaduatian,
Gary and Jane McCutcheon of Brussels
proudly announce the graduation of their
daughter, Hannah, on the Dean's Honour
List from the University of Waterloo's
Bachelor of Science Kinesiology Co-
operative Program with a Minor in
Rehabilitation Sciences. Hannah
completed four work terms and held the
position of Don in Waterloo's Residence of
Life Staff for 5 terms. She volunteered for
numerous university events and competed
on the varsity flag football team. Hannah
plans to write her Certified Exercise
Physiologist and Registered Kinesiologist
exams. She is currently employed at the
Ontario Aerobics Centre in Breslau
working in cardiac, pulmonary and sports
rehabilitation under Dr. J.P. Schaman.
Sickinger says that he hopes those
who create panels will use different
types of media. Those tiles will then
be put together by Huron County
artists to create murals that will be
displayed throughout the county
after the match and for years to
come.
While locations for the murals -
he thinks there will be three by the
end of the match - have yet to be
finalized, Sickinger says he thinks
one will be placed in Seaforth at the
Huron East municipal office and
another will be displayed at the
Huron County Museum.
He hopes that the projects will
help commemorate the IPM, but also
help to mark Canada's 150th
anniversary.
During all five days of the match,
Sickinger estimates that between
1,000 and 2,000 individual art tiles
will be completed, which means a
number of murals will be created.
The second project being taken on
by HAHN is the creation and
painting of the nine lower -tier
municipality barns for the county
tent.
Jenna Ujiye recently presented her
plan for the Huron County tent to
Huron County Council, detailing the
two sides of the tent - one
representing the countryside and the
other representing the coastline -
and the artistic boardwalk that will
run between the two sections.
On one side of the barn will be
nine barns and silos, each
representing one of the county's
municipalities.
Those will be artistically created
and then made available to the
municipalities after the match.
In addition, the boardwalk for the
centre of the tent is all being sourced
by sustainably -harvested wood from
Huron County forests.
Sickinger says that while the IPM
will focus on agriculture and the
farming families for which Huron
County is famous, he's hoping that
agriculture can provide the
inspiration for some of the art being
created for this year's match.
The first meeting for the project
has already taken place, he says, and
the ideas have been great.
With the talented visual artists
living and working in the county,
Sickinger said, he anticipates great
things coming from the work
being done in anticipation of
the match.
Sickinger says HAHN is still
looking for artists interested in
lending their talents to the IPM and
HAHN's project. If interested, artists
are encouraged to call him at 519-
482-5457, extension 2730.
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