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The St. Marys Children's Choir took part in the opening resource
centre session of the Four County Arts Seminar held from April 12-
14 in Clinton. The opening resource centre also allowed seminar at-
tenders the opportunity to browse through 20 exhibits and displays
relating to the arts. The St. Marys Choir was led by Eileen Baldwin
with Carol Bailey on the piano. (Anne Narejko photo)
•Small but successful arts seminar
CLINTON - Only one quarter of the an-
ticipated crowd registered for the three day
Four County Arts Training Seminar.
However, organizers were not discouraged
as they felt the 22 people who did attend
received quality information.
The event, held from April 12-14 at the
Clinton Town Hall, was a result of months of
planning by the Four. County Arts Commit-
tee and seminar co-ordinator Karen Scott -
Booth. The committee is composed of Clin-
ton Recreation Director and chairman of
the committee, Kevin Duguay, Dave Shep-
pard of the Huron County Playhouse in
Grand Bend, Lynda Lentz of the Blyth
Festival and Muriel Kew of the Stonetown
Arts Group in St. Marys.
"I felt it (the seminar) was received ex-
tremely well. I was disappointed with the
low registration, but the people who were
there enjoyed and benefited from it," com-
mented Ms. Scott -Booth who noted that the
town hall facilities were "wonderful. Ac-
tually a lot of out of town people commented
on the facilities."
Participant, Margaret Chapman of
Bayfield attended the seminar with two peo-
ple from her pottery group. On April 16 she
phoned the News -Record to express the
trio's satisfaction.
"It was a .super effort. It was so well
organized and the speakers were highly
recommended; anyone off the street would
have benefited because they were so open
with their generoud ideas."
The seminar opened on April 12 with Nan-
cy Biggar, who on behalf of, Ministry of
Citizenship and Culture Minister Susan
' Fish, congratulated the committee.
"Cultural organizations play a major role
in our societand it is very exciting to see
arts groups from smaller communities get-
ting together in this way to learn and share
ideas. The networking system that you build
up over the weekend will also prove' to be
very valuable."
Guest speaker Maggie Mitchell, executive
director of St. Thomas -Elgin Art Gallery
also, felt art seminars and workshops are
beneficial.
"This is what we must do (combine a wide,
range of creative fields) to promote the
arts."
The weekend consisted of 11 workshops
covering topics ranging from corporate and
community fund raising to administration
of an arts organization. During the after-
noon of April 13, a performance by the St.
Marys Children's Choir and 20 exhibits set
up by various arts organizations, provided a
brief change from the Workshops. The ex-
hibits also offered information on organiza-
tions such as the Ministry of Citizenship and
Culture, the Ontario Arts Council and Music
and Youth Canada, to name a few.
Wesley -Willis United Church members
provided lunch for the seminar participants
on April 13 with St. Paul's Anglican Church
members providing the lunch the following,
day.
The seminar concluded with an open
forum at which time it was decided that 'a
network system should be set up between
the arts organizations, therefore a meeting
between the Four County Arts Committee
and ministry consultants will take place in
approximately two weeks at the Clinton
Recreation Office. At this time further
discussion on the seminar and evaluation
forms filled out by the participants will take
place.
"Each participant was given a evaluation
form. We will be going over them and
hopefully we Will be able to establish a net-
working system," explained Ms. Scott -
Booth. She also added that the area which
the networking system will encompass will
be , one of the topics discussed at the
meeting.
Mr. Duguay added that within one to two
months, evaluation notices will be sent out
to those who participated and the next step
would then be determined.
Despite the low registration, participants
and organizers felt the event was a success
due not only to the quality of the workshops,
but everyone who contributed their time
enabling the ground work for a networking
system to be established.
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