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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-07-03, Page 212$ IE RLVTH..$:k! ; e firSt Smile ; that greetS. you as you entep, the • admintstratien ,Oftice at tite 'Illyth Centre for the Arts, :Barbara Huget's, Barbara, back for her second year in Blith; will be working as. box office assist- ant this, summer. . Last' y?ar, working with the children .WerkShOp pro- graPilK Barbara -said' she get, itivolVed, voltniteering her time at the ,box 'office last season while ,waiting for a ride home with the box office manager, , ; Originally from Ottawa, Barbara is entering her third year at York UniVersity in Toronto studying theatre production and design. "To break into; design is really difficult'", . id ---Barbara explaining, her piaii .; •after' graduation in prep "- " construction' and design, . :Another ,field she has'. Considered entering -is' the- , atre adrninistratiOn, "I think arts administri ti,en, is teally, added Pirbara. She explains her jab as box' office assistant as ."a lot of' • meeting ani dealing with the public.", • When the eason open Barbira saki she will he handling most evening ticket sales. 1VIANAGER 'Anne Mann wilt . be working as box office manager for her first season with the Blyth &unmet Festival and her first time in the box office, Born: in Sarnia, but now living- in•-Lucknow, -about,20 s, 411111•1111I Blyth Festival .Best wishes on your 61h year s When visiting Biyth:stop in for your gift or hardware.needs.. FREER'S Blyth, Ont. aHARDWARE —.A313-4246 PrOrn* left;- Kneen P.,eflauffer, Brenda. tionork'keith , ROolatoni Anne Mann' and. Barbara , minutes outside, of Ammo has a degree in nutri- tiOn from the University of Guelph. She explains her- -job--in Myth as "selling and keep- ing track,of tickets, plus book -keeping for the theatre." Anne will be handling distribution of tickets to all ticket outlets' for both productions with. country suppers, along with organi- zing bed and breakfast. accomodations for tourists. Looking ,at her new job as box office manager, and her background as a nutritionist, Anne said, she has enjoyed both equally. She added she may consider going back to school for her masters in nutrition in the next few years but has made no definite plans. Originally from Belleville, Karen Wetlauffer will be spending her first summer in Blyth working as office 'Tree Trunk 5 Main St., Seaforth [formerly Crich'sj assistant. t . Just coMpleting her first year at Niagara College in theatre arts, Karen said she •doesn't- plan to return school but rather hopes to - find a job as a scenic painter or props persons this fall. . She said her interests in • scenic painting began in high school where she discovered how much art appealed. to her. Theatre work, she said, •appeals because of all the iravel involved. "I've always wanted and loved to travel and I knew that was part of the job when t- I got into h.": ' , Included in her arts interests are sketching, painting with oils and Water colours and sculpting. • As office assistant,_ Karen • describes her jobTa doing a little, bit of everything, "including promotion work, box office work and typing." 'BI t is -apprpac Sq : The Bslyttl &Writer Festival iS theatre 40 has never 1?OrrOyerl Oe local people, said Brenda Donero festivsi publiciat. ; ' . , Back' for her third ,iear in Myth, Otenda explainS - there is' an• extretnely, pessitive reaction from .local •- citizens about the summer theatreand becatise ef that, they make up aboat, 70 per ,cent of the audience base, ; • ,4,An iinportant thing for.thislheatre heir* inn small -plate,- is that it proves net everything centre s aretInd , Toronto +" said Pren0a-' - plays'deal' With themes. ._surrennding, the: community"„. she added, "They're often new themes • Which mean something to 'them.", ; In the pas t six years since the -theatre's Orst season itt 1975,.Brenda' said there has* been 17' new Canadian, , cri"fltth Pttsprodeunctre5lessh'inBylYthaw frOtn'ne-w'scrlpts because they can be a financial risk," she said, • Brenda describes, Blyth theatre as infertriali "veiy • nmeh approachable,': . • " "theatre shouldn't be it place you have to dress, up for • with your nose itt the air, We've prbved 'nit* • audiences want this type of substitute."' Brenda, who grew 'up in Timmins, studied theatre --with-options-in -management -at --Yerk-UnlyerSity-in--; , •, • Beginning her job' in May, ;Brenda ,sahl' she writes news releases and features' which are distributed to. Ontario papers, handles all print material, handles all ''..contacf with the press, and dealin public relations 'with the public and Community at large. "My job is to fill the 'seats .in- the theatre," - Said Brenda., Different from her job as publicist, this -past Winter, Brenda had been working in a field she said has interested her since high school. She managed an apartmentbuilding for mentally handicapped adults in Stratford. • , "Workingin the theatre can be limiting because it is so all involving," said Brenda. . Looking towards the ,future, Brenda said there is room for expansion with public touring, She said by touring the area, the theatre will expand its audience, range and popularity. 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