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The Citizen, 2005-09-29, Page 27THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005. PAGE 27. Entertainment Leisure __ Radio personality, singer celebrate men ERIKA RITTER Dishes on men Writer and CBC Radio personality Erika Ritter and jazz vocalist Carol Warren team up to celebrate men in Blyth with a special performance of Ladies’ Men on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. Ritter delivers the goods on guys - and the occasional bad boy - from her latest book The Great Big Book of Guys: Alphabetical Encounters with Men. Along the way. Warren adds her notes on the subject with sizzling songs of love, longing and the men who go away - sometimes with much too much. Musician Steve Kennedy (saxophone player with Lighthouse, Motherlode and Dr. Music) will round out the evening by playing a few numbers with the women. Ritter uses her radio and writing experiences to give audiences a fresh look at the world they think they know, in ways that are surprising but recognizable. Reading the signals men and women send each other - whether in what they choose to wear or what they put in their coffee and their office e-mails is, in her view, as timely as attuning the ear to what word choices say about who we are. Ritter has been the host of CBC Radio's Ontario Morning as well as (he voice of The Arts Report and the frequent guest of many book festivals. Her published works include a number of plays including Automatic Pilot (1980); two collections of humour Ritter in Residence (1987), Urban Scrawl (1984) and a novel. The Hidden Life of Humans (1997). She was also the Stratford Festival’s first playwright- in-rcsidence in 1985. “Erika and Carole performed this great show of words and music to sold-out crowds in Owen Sound last year.” says Jane Gardner, general manager of Blyth Festival. “Bringing these two fun performers together on stage promises lots of laughter, great music and memorable stories about men and women,” added co-presenter, Mary Wolfe of The Village Bookshop. Tickets to Ladies' Men are SI6 each and are available at the Blyth Festival Box office or The Village Bookshop in Bayfield. Call 519-523- 9300 or 1-877-862-5984 toll free, or visit the website at www.blythfestival.com Ladies' Men is a Blyth Festival fundraising event. The Brubachers of Ethel Restaurant & Bakery Real Home Cooking z—_— Try our Cinnamon BunsQ Alon. - Fri. 7-6:30; Sat. 8-6:30, Sunday Closed 887-8659 Blyth Festival to present award-winning children’s play Blyth Centre for the Arts presents the award-winning children’s play Morgan’s Journey by Robert Morgan and David S. Craig to children JK to Grade 5, Oct. 4 and 5. When the curtains are pulled back, everyone is anxious to see what is in the large colourful bag sitting centre stage bearing a tag with the words "For Everyone.” Within seconds of reading the instructions that say a baby clown is waiting to be born, the bag begins to move. Finally Morgan is born and begins to explore his body and its limitations. Children in the audience shriek when he clumsily takes his first steps. Quickly the clown grows and learns to speak. With the help of the children in the audience he learns the difference between you and me - in fact the children in the audience are instrumental in teaching Morgan some important lessons about life. When Morgan blows out the candles on his birthday cake it becomes clear that he has wished for happiness. Then, discovering his many birthday gifts he is aware that each present makes him feel more happy and so he wrongly believes that more presents will make him happier. When Morgan discovers the last present “Fred”, he doesn’t think much of the gift until it comes to life when Morgan attaches a tiny heart onto it. Fred teaches Morgan and the audience that the most valuable lesson of all - that true and lasting happiness comes from friendship and love, not from things. For the past 10 years the Blyth Festival has been presenting a special Theatre-for-Young- Audiences production in October. A total of 53,034 students, parent and teachers have attended the very popular productions. Robert Morgan, founding artistic director of the Children’s Peace Theatre and founding artistic co­ director of Roseneath Theatre co­ wrote and performs in this critically- acclaimed hit produced by Prologue to the Performing Arts. Tickets are available for the general public on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 1:15 p.m. at $7 per person. Call 519-523-9300(local) or 1-877-862- 5984 (toll free). Oct. 23. Stratford’s Grand Night Tickets went on sale Monday, Sept 26 for A.Grand Night for Stratford, the fifth cancer fundraiser produced and directed by actor David Hogan, choreographed by Dayna Tekatch and featuring Cynthia Dale as host. The event, to be held at the Festival Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m., is the fifth Grand Night. “Grand Night will be filled with singing and dancing from musicals inspired by Shakespeare,” said Hogan. This year’s event is a tribute to Festival founder Tom Patterson, who died earlier this year and who lost his voice to cancer earlier in his life. All proceeds from this event are split equally between the Canadian Cancer Society and the Stratford General Hospital Foundation, which supports Stratford’s chemotherapy unit. Tickets are $50. The evening features more than 100 Festival actors and musicians donating their time, supported by another 200 volunteers from the Festival’s backstage, creative, front- of-house and administrative staff. For the second year, Grand Night will also feature the Grand Bears auction. These bears, handmade and dressed in miniature versions of costumes from the 2005 plays by volunteers from the Festival’s wardrobe department, will be available for viewing starting Oct. 1 at Bradshaws, 129 Ontario St. in Stratford, as well as on-line at the Stratford Festival website. Each bear has also been signed by the actor on whose character the bear outfit is based. The Walt Wingfield bear (actor Rod Beattie) will be the prize for a raffle draw and the Prospero bear (actor William Hutt) will be sold at a live auction held during Grand Night. To order tickets for A Grand Night for Stratford, visit the Stratford Festival Theatre box office, call the box office locally at (519) 273-1600 or, for out-of-town patrons, call 1- 800-567-1600. Open House for friends & neighbours JEAN POTTER Celebrating 80 years young Saturday, Oct. 1st 2-4 pm Trinity Anglican Church Hall Dinsley St., Blyth Best Wishes Only r V7/ ^au'te invited to- a 90 th SHitfiday 'if AT Edythe vacant Sunday, October 2 2-4 pm at the Betty Cardno Memorial Centre 317 Huron St., Clinton Special invitation to former students fBe&t uiisHes only 7 W7 Tr/T W/X AV7T A? forthcoming Marriage & *D<se for Tyler Stewart & Heather Campbell Saturday, October 1 Blyth Community Centre Music by D.J, 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Lunch Provided $5.00 in advance $6.00 at the door For tickets call 523-4342 or 523-9448 , It is with great pleasure we announce the forthcoming marriage of Sherry Bernadette daughter of Barry and Karen Iloegy to Eric Gardner Delay M.I). son of Russell and Sue Delay of Killen, Alabama The wedding will take place on October 8 at Ayden United Methodist Church Ayden, N.C.