April 17, 2024 Volume 2, Issue 4

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TIFF OnScreen at the JET

Don't miss the final film in the Spring TIFF Film Circuit lineup! Tickets are $12 and available for purchase at the JET box office in-person or online. This screening is presented in partnership with TIFF Film Circuit, its sponsors and supporters, Create Halton Hills and the Halton Hills Public Library.

Living

April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the JET

In this remake of the 1952 film Ikiru, director Oliver Hermanus teams with Nobel- and Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro to renew a classic. Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy) is a buttoned-down, pinstripe-and-bowler hat- clad stereotypical English gentleman in 1952, with a mid-level bureaucratic job in a postwar London county council. One day Williams receives a dire diagnosis from his doctor and soon the tightly held reins of his very prosaic life begin to loosen.

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What's on at the JET

April 18 - April 21: Georgetown Little Theatre: Over the River and Through the Woods
April 24: Halton Hills EcoFilm Fest: Common Ground
May 19: Festival of ARTFUL Communities: Heather Bambrick Trio
May 23: Halton Hills EcoFilm Fest: Blueback - Biodiversity

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Connect with us about

Culture Days

Welcome Cultural Services Assistant, Emma Forbes! Contact Emma to learn how you can host a Culture Days event this year. Other opportunities include sponsoring an activity or by joining the volunteer Youth Committee for students in grades 9-11.

This annual national celebration of arts and culture will return to Halton Hills from September 20 - October 13 and the 2024 theme is '50 Years of Halton Hills: Visions for the Future'. Last year, Halton Hills Culture Days celebrations ranked 3rd in the country with 118 free and by-donation activities for the public.

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Culture by

the Numbers

Data from the Halton Hills Culture Days Survey 2023

100%

agree arts & culture helps

improve Canada's economy.

72%

agree that arts & culture creates new opportunities for people.

What's on at the

Helson Gallery

Norval Studios & Gallery: Anniversary Exhibition

On display until April 28

Upper and Lower Sisnett Lobby

Check out local Halton Hills artists from Norval Studios & Gallery. This exhibition celebrates their first anniversary as a cooperative located in the historic St. Paul’s Anglican Parish Hall at 16 Adamson Street South in Norval. These artists create and display original works of art in this charming old heritage building once frequented by famous Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Photo: Barb Tate, Magnolia Morning, oil on canvas

Florence McGillivray: Her Story and Influence on Canadian Art

On Display until May 26 in the Helson Gallery

Discover the journey of Canadian artist Florence Helena McGillivray (1864 - 1938), best known for her post-impressionist style capturing the Canadian landscape. With loans from notable private and public collections, this show is co-curated by researcher and author Bill Allen.

Photo: Florence Helena McGillivray (Cdn.1864 -1938) Untitled, Boats and shore near Percé, ca. 1919. Oil on board. On loan from a private collection.

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Calls for Artists

Strictly Local

Last chance! Submit your work by April 29

In celebration of the Town of Halton Hills’ 50th anniversary, this year’s annual local artist exhibition's theme is Strictly Local. Artworks by local artists responding specifically to the Halton Hills context are eligible.

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HBHAS 2024 Emancipation

Art Exhibition

Deadline: May 22 at 12 noon

The Halton Black History Awareness Society and the Helson Gallery are pleased to present this juried exhibition for the 7th year. Artwork in any medium representing the theme 'Emancipation' are eligible.

All artists will receive an honorarium. Prizes will be awarded for artworks that best reflect and articulate the Black Experience.

Photo: Komi Olaf, Cairo

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