The Citizen, 2019-06-27, Page 19THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019. PAGE 19.
Heritage-focused institute plans to open in Seaforth
The Edifice Atelier Institute
announced last week that it was
establishing a Huron County campus
in Seaforth, providing the school of
heritage contractor sciences to
Huron East and greater Huron
County.
According to a press release from
the institute, it will accommodate a
wide variety of teaching and heritage
craft learning spaces in Seaforth.
At the Huron campus, the institute
also plans to establish a guild charter
of the Edifice Guild, an international
skilled trade and training association
representing skilled and rated
tradespeople, merchants, artisans,
products, services and other
professionals who strive for the
uppermost quality in workmanship
and excellence.
The Edifice Atelier Institute’s
Director of Education Chris Cooper
will be familiar to many Huron East
residents as he has taken on
numerous projects within the
municipality through its economic
development department. Cooper has
been involved with heritage seminars
and numerous video productions in
Huron East, among other projects.
“These two projects are central to
our overall ambition of creating an
environment that truly supports
teaching, research and an unrivaled
student experience,” Cooper said in
the release. “We are delighted to
have been given the green light to
progress these projects and are
excited by the prospect of the
fabulous close-knit, yet diverse
intellectual and creative community
that the Edifice Guild and Atelier’s
staff, students and visitors will
experience upon completion of the
charter for May, 2020.”
The institute’s mandate states that
it’s Canada’s “premier atelier
program in traditional skills”, which
was established in 2002.
“We are actively involved in
developing and delivering a broad-
based demand-led education and
training program to equip
individuals and organizations,
locally and throughout North
America with the knowledge and
skills necessary to meet the current
and future conservation, repair and
maintenance requirements of our
traditional buildings,” the institute’s
website reads.
In regards to the Huron project
specifically, Cooper said he’s happy
to be working again with Economic
Development Officer Jan
Hawley and Mayor Bernie
MacLellan on another exciting
project.
“We’re also so pleased about the
wider contribution of the
Municipality of Huron East and
especially Jan Hawley, Mayor
Bernie MacLellan and the council...
who have been instrumental in
securing space on the third floor of
the town hall in Seaforth for a hands-
on learning environment,” Cooper
said in the release. “We are confident
that these projects and others can
make a positive impact on a small
municipality, especially in rural
Ontario.”
Back by popular demand,
Cakewalk, one of the Blyth
Festival’s sweetest and most
delicious comedies is coming back
to the stage in celebration of the
Festival’s 45th anniversary season.
The revival runs June 26 to
Aug. 10.
Cakewalk, written by playwright
Colleen Curran, centres around a
Canada Day celebration, when a
small town – perhaps along the
shores of Lake Huron – decides to
hold a cake-baking competition and
everyone from the community is
lining up for the chance to win a
dream vacation and county-wide
bragging rights. It’s enough to bring
a local nun out of her habit, send a
mother-of-the-bride running with
five layers (topper and all), and to
unleash the winner-take-all cut-
throat tactics of the town’s normally
dependable Cub Scout troop leader.
The oven mitts are off.
“This play premiered at the Blyth
Festival in 1984 and has gone on to
international acclaim. It’s a slap
down drag’em out classic Canadian
farce full of outrageous rivalries,
implausible coincidences, and
preposterous slapstick love affairs.
In our anniversary year, it’s time for
this clever and funny, Blyth
benchmark to come back home,”
said Gil Garratt, Artistic Director of
the Blyth Festival. “Director Kelli
Fox takes the audience on a journey
back to 1984, to a nostalgic time
when life seemed so much simpler,
but people’s sticky ambitions were
just the outlandish.”
The play features a strong cast of
Blyth Festival favourites, with the
introduction of a few new actors.
Rebecca Auerbach The Pigeon King,
Our Beautiful Sons: Remembering
Matthew Dinning, Catherine Fitch
Pearl Gidley, the Nutalls, If Truth Be
Told, Caroline Gillis Anne, Nathan
Howe Wing Night at the Boot, Mr.
New Year’s Eve and Robert King
Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven
Truscott, I’ll Be Back Before
Midnight will all return to the Blyth
Festival stage for this production,
along with newcomers Lucy Hill and
Rachel Jones.
The creative team for Cakewalk
are Laura Gardner, set and costume
designer; Louise Guinand, lighting
designer; and Verne Good, sound
designer. Stage management by
Christine Oakey and Daniel Oulton.
As part of its 45th season, the
Festival is hosting a cake-baking
contest, complete with a cake parade
on opening night of Cakewalk on
Friday, June 28. It’s all in the name
of fun, with prizes awarded in
professional, amateur, people’s
choice and kids’ choice categories.
There may be prizes awarded for the
best Cakewalk-themed costumes.
The competition is looking for the
best homemade cake prepared by
either an individual or a team, with
contestants invited to submit one or
more entries. All will be judged on
taste and appearance. Also, it is
going to keep the identities of the
judges under wraps so contestants
can’t butter them up ahead of time.
Find complete contest details and
entry forms at blythfestival.com
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Sunday, July 7
1:30 ~ 4:30 pm
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Red Plaid Productions
Presents
MUDMEN
Celtic Concert
Wingham Town Hall Theatre
Saturday, July 13
$28.00 All Ages
General Seating
Tickets at: ticketscene.ca
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Show: 7:30 p.m.
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‘Cakewalk’ set to return to Festival stage
Culture on display
As part of the Huron Multicultural Festival held in the community over the weekend, all sorts
of culture-inspired performances were held including, above, Puro Mexico Ballet performing a
Mexican folk dance. (Hannah Dickie photo)
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