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‘The people,
dy, was probably
culture.

Today, thiese sane Beople—_who live in various centres of the uni-
verse like L.A. or Toronto—are saying ‘the: appeal of Conledtatis, is on
the wane because of market over-saturation::'

However, despite. all the cable and vid
funny as Night’ at the Improv can be,
comedy television would never allow fot

And in a place that’s not quite the ‘

comedy availa and as
’s, always an ‘edge to live

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Adult beginner & intermediate’
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365-7458 evenings 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Registration:

‘Sept. 18th - 421 13th Ave.
Portuguese Centre 3:00 - 6:00 pm

Class sizes are limited — classes start Sept. 30/91

[CASTLEGAR
ARTS COUNCIL

+ W.K.N.E.C - until Sept. 29 - Figure Paintings
by Christina Lake, painter Richard Reld.
Jacqui Reed - Nelson sculptor offers stone
and clay work with mythological echoes. t
+ Kootenay Art Club meets every Wed., starting Sept. 4,
w 7-10pm. inthe Senior Sirens Hall. "Sept. instructor Is
Alan W All levels wel-
come. Annual dues $20.00. ‘infor 365-6816 or 365-7450,
4 * Arts Council may ad' their i free
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_ September 6; I 29 i

ater-Tra! Comrinunity Cente
(Cedar. Ave: Quadran:

residents can ‘still catch some ot fhe coat 8 best barrpp sei once

aweek,

After almost a year’ ‘Ss absence, the ‘Hie “Arrow pub has ‘bre

yght live

_ comedy back to Castlegar. ” The’ new shows started one month ago and,
* because the pub only. books one fnonthi at a time, September might well
: decide whether stand-up comedy will survive.

The hotel's general manager, Evin Shaw, says he intends on
ing with the Edmonton agency: he's currently booking through, "

tinu:

oping | to © tap, ing. is the Selkirk, Cotege

Be é
crowd. ‘The new month of somes: 5t

‘Rack to school. .

SHARLENE IMHOFF

1 and power

Sun Editor

van and house lifts,

Papa alds, medical

Castlegar’ resid ‘Chris

, “The next show start: ats 5; 30 p.m.,'

»
-gomig. named Don n Hambley: ai
ig to

Comedy Factory. At least for the next ‘month, ,
“Until the clientele tell us they d don’t want it,” he says, “After exich

month we make sure this is the direction we feel comfortable going.”

Tuesday evenings, normally a quiet time for night clubs, {have been

busier than usual because of comedy night but, like

most of the busi-

ness community, Shaw hopes the dispute at Celgar ends quickly,

He says workers at the mill kee,

p many of his seats filled. 7
“The first two nights were‘more successful but we expected this ‘,

em off,” she said.

at the Comedy, Factory, Hambley is,
£One of the best aprenescninie in Canada.” He does an hour and a half

impressions of more. ‘than 300 characters,,‘‘I couldn't even begin to
“Bu

any famous name. or cartoon you can think

“Hambley, 6 on ‘September 10, Bob Hanson,,a 30-year stand-up

Veteran billed as the.*Old Pro”, will headline

eadline after Rick Reed,

oc The, following week, a, comedian billed, as, “Rufus” will be in.and
then on September 24, the, final acts of. fhe eae contract will be

‘Todd Sawyer and Carl Banks...

Two-woman show slated to open at
Nelson Museum on September 5

NELSON - A two:womian °

show by Shona Rae’and\ Yvontie *
Munro opens at the ‘Nelson -

on Th
September 5, and continues until
September 30.

The exhibition of sculpture
and painting is entitled;
“Between the Pillars,” and cole
brates the dance of life, .

By borrowing Greek i images
and designs, the artists in: paint
and clay push their egos off
pedestals and give expression to
the}experience of feeling and
being alive.

Shona Rae, whose work has
recently been seen in Nelson's
Artwalk “91 and in exhibitions in
Alberta and at the coast, has beert
inspired by sculptor Joe Faffard,
potters Andrew Wong and Gord
Riesig, and most recently by
Audrey Fatkin and Ed Bamiling.

She was formerly a student at
Fraser Valley College and a
member of the Fraser Valley Pot-
tts Guild before her move to the

with her two child.
Ree ‘mond and Ivy.

She likes to explore clay in
freedom,, drawing: on her deep
sense" of, MotherHarth and ‘her’
own motherhood and woman-

mYvonné Munro makes her

oodbye for. now” to Nelson
” with this exhibition of her paint-
ings, for she | be continuing
her studies'at: the University of
Victoria Fine Arts Department
this year.

ne former pe of Emily
Carr Outreach in! Castlegar and

Nelson, ‘Yvonne’s ’s: paintings

recently: featured in “Artwalk "91, ‘91,
and in'the “Women of Nelson:
1880 ~ 1950" exhibition of which

-she- was the -designer--and --
‘ researcher...

Yvonne and her two young

children have been in ‘Nelson for ;

five years, | 4
’ The opening reception on

Reid and Reed at

_ CASTLEGAR - ‘The West

centre’ S. apenining shows
(August 29 - September 29) offer
the public a chance to sce work
by two Kootenay-based artists
working in a figurative vein but
doing so in different media—and
with very different objectives.
Painter Richard Reid is well-
known in the Kpotenays, his
work respected nationally in
Canada and beyond. Though
some in the Nelson/Castlegar
area will know Reid as the dedi-
cated director of the Grand Forks
+7 Art-Gallery, he was already-a
highly. ‘accomplished paintérvatid
art instructor before he took'that
post. He has continued to paint.
Concerning his current work,
Reid reveals, “the sensuous
nature of paint, line, shape,
colour, texture and layering
become a metaphor ‘for human

of the Young Commonwealth
Artists, He taught in the faculty
of the UBC Fine Arts department
from ‘71 - 79 (where he chaired
the B.A, program for a number
of years), and since then has
taught through the Emily Carr
College of Art

Thursday, September 5 is open to
the public from 7:30 -.9:30 p.m,
and exhibition: hours are-1 to 6
p.m. daily through out the month.

‘Exhibitions at-the Nelson
Museum are assisted financially
by the City of Nelson and the

BC. government. A small admis-
sion fee is charged to those who
- are not members of the museum.

the NEC

Jackie Reed, an up-and-com-
ing Nelson sculptor, will also
show figure studies at the NEC—
ones whose difference from those
of Richard Reid is only slightly
accounted for by the difference in
their chosen media. While solidly

Settling with his wife in
Christina Lake, Reid has guided
the Grand Forks Art Gallery

* since 1984: He has been‘a distin-

guished juror for many exhibits
in, among other places, the
Okanagan, West and East Koote-

nays, and Northwestern Ameri-

tos: ‘Reid -has:shown hig.

Y own-wWorkTimertiationally, and
‘has had solo exhibitions in

Toronto, Vancouver and Win-
nipeg.

Reid's offering at the NEC
will consist of recent figure
paintings. Another renowned

* Canadian’ painter, ‘Tony’ Onley,..**

experience in my

' and expression of the ‘human fi ig-

:ure.”

Born in Regina, Reid Tece: ed
his B.KA: from the University.of
Manitoba School of Art in, 1955.
After living and painting in:San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he
became a painting instructor in
‘the UBC Extension Department
in 1959. While living: and paint-
ing in Europe, he served as chair-

man of the- exhibition: committee

has. imed Reid‘an original

“ who has remained trué.to his -
‘ vision, shunning art-world trends.”

remain aloof is to be lonely,”

* Onley remarked concerning.

Reid's stéadfast personal com--
: mitment, “Richard Reid’s works
‘ are involved with a transfigura-

tion, into landscape, of the

" human figure. But he ‘differs :~
from ther artists of similar pre-
occupations in that his works are -

: warmly and invitingly erotic.” "

d in the study of the
human figure, Ms. Reed's
approach involves an implicit
lism,“ expressed through an
unbridled imagination.

Her current works are figures
in stone or fired clay, with human
bodies and the gently realistic
heads of deer, lop-cared rabbits,
fish, boars, or coyotes. Reed says
‘that she started makiiig‘intages
like these in high school, but that
the current series goes back about
four years. She has shown her
work in the Kootenays and Van-
couver,

Reed hasn't created her unusu-
‘al images’ simply‘to.be chaning
“or off-beat. There is a philosophy
behind them. ‘You and I are part

cs Oa Bauch larger fully than just

the human speci
“Unfortunately, as saan
go by, we see less and less of our
non-human relatives.” Against
this fact, Reed sets a quote from
arts-essayist John Berger, who
assured us: “the animals: of the
+ mind are not so easily di:
Reed's works seem to symbol-
: ize'a coming together of human
sympathies with. non-human
* species, a development thankful-
--ly gaining momentum in industri-

+ al societies .as things get ever

more desperate -for’the natural
systems of our planet. But it isn’t

* this insight that first: strikes one

:.on looking at her work. Rather, it
is something in the object itself.
Reed's finesse with form and

ith her materials reveals'a sen-

Poe sil ity.to the movement and pro-

“portions of. the human: body
. Similar to that of the’ artists of
Classical Greece: or India. It is
this “realism” that, when coupled
with the non-human heads,

. miles ber Bloets eo cngegin

Be

Her creafures, with their casu-

al. postures: and well-weighted

limbs, appear peculiarly believ-
able. See for yourself,

~ The ‘NEC. welcomes all to

attend an ‘opening-reception with

~ the artists on August 29; Starting

at 7:00 p.m. The National Exhibi-

ion Centre
the Castlegar

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