Culture
Arundel
Arundel artists participating in the Journées de la Culture
Photo credit: J.P. Poirier
JOANNA NASH
Visual Artist
Joanna Nash is a career painter, author and experienced art instructor(McGill and Harvard Universities, Halliburton School of the Arts etc.) She lives and works in Arundel, where she offers workshops, individual coaching, and constructive painting critiques to visual artists at intermediate, advanced and semi-professional levels of experience. Nash will exhibit new paintings in the summer of 2015 in the Gallery Georgeville in the Eastern Townships with fellow artist Marjorie Griffin. Her studio is open to the public on the 27 and 28th Sept, and by appt. at other times.
"Here, deep in the hills overlooking the Riviere Rouge valley, I have found my place to reflect and create. Painting helps me understand my place as a temporary tenant in nature"
"Peindre me permet de cerner la place que j'occupe en tant locataire temporaire de la nature qui m'abrite. Je m'efforce de créer des images qui évacuent le sentimentalisme au profit des formes et qui expriment mes qualités humaines autant réalistes qu'abstraites."
Elaine Munro
5 rue du Village
Arundel, QC
J0T 1A0
819-687-8526
ELAINE MUNRO
Visual Artist
“Mother Nature’s" beauty, has always been my inspiration for being able to express my thoughts on paper or board! Expressing what I visualize and feel, comes from my inner spirit, and the end result is being able to share with my viewers what gave me this great satisfaction, and I hope it does the same for you lso! So please stop by and visit my studio in Arundel, QC, and enjoy my journey with me.”
DOMINIQUE NORMAND
Visual Artist
Dominique Normand celebrates the beauty of Canadian Wilderness and its true Spirit. Her paintings speak a vibrant language, they reveal in a daring suggested fashion, simple observations of precious moments in time and draws attention to the sacred gifts of life. Instinctively, she creates her own transformiational path as a practice in living her intentions, a deep knowing of the soul leading the way.
YOLANDA GOULET MARSOLAIS
Visual Artist - Stained Glass
Yolanda Goulet Marsolais is both a painter and a professional stained glass artist since 2000, specializing in work for architectural integration.
With her company Marsolais Vitro Design, Yolanda combines her passion for art to her predeliction for interior design and architecture.
Always on the lookout for new trends and techniques, she seeks to go beyond the conventional with a contemporary vision of
architectural glass.
Member of the Laurentian Council for the Arts.
VICTORIA'S QUILTERS
Textile Art
The Laurentian Branch of Victoria’s Quilts Canada (VQC) in Arundel was established by Mary Sinclair. It is a non-profit organization that makes quilts for people suffering from cancer. In 2009, they moved to the Résidence Vallée de la Rouge in Huberdeau because of more storage room for all of their quilting needs, but now they meet in the hall at Grace church in Arundel.
Now entering their 4th year, they now have 40 volunteers that come as far away as Hawkesbury, La Minerve and Namur. They average from 25 to 30 at their monthly workshops.
They have made so many people happy. The quilts are made of 100% cotton, and each quilt also comes with a bag, which are created by the volunteers at home in their spare time. So much love goes into these warm quilts. They supply mainly the Laurentian area, but also supplu other areas upon request. They have distributed close to 390 quilts since mid 2007, most of them hand delivered.
For more info: Gloria Staniforth 819-687-3955
STEPHEN ANDREW
Tea blender
Tea and Tea Talk: Stephen Andrew will be at the Bistro Chez Victoire between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday; offering samples of several selected teas and information about them and "tea" in general. Stephen is involved with Gryphon, a tea room and bakery in Montreal, where he has been active in tea blending for several years. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and a retired partner of the management consulting practice of KPMG.
819-687-2951
VIVIENNE COURTE-RATHWELL
Violinist
Vivianne Courte-Rathwell has been playing the violin since the age of six. She has done many solo gigs and group concerts.
She enjoys playing any genre, from classical music to jigs,
to waltzes, to Klezmer.
Vivienne is 16 yrs old and attends the Polyvalente Curé-Mercure in the ''concentration musique'' where she plays the oboe.
Always smiling while playing, Vivianne's music is a bright addition to any stage or living room.
VICTOR COURTE
Victor Courte, singer songwriter, native of Harrington Quebec, has developed a style that he claims stems from his roots in rural Quebec. His grandparents on his fathers side of the family fed him french folkloric music while his grandparents on his mothers side nourished him with Scottish, Irish, and English folk music. Hence his album Rouge River Road a collection of songs Victor wrote in and around the community where he grew up. The stories that he tells in song and word give you an exact sense of the past and present day rural Quebec.
RAY SEALEY
Ray was born in England and did a degree in English Literature after emigrating to Canada. He was involved in folk music in his early years but then turned to classical guitar. He eventually taught music at the Universities of Western Ontario and Ottawa. He also worked in radio at the CBC and later in arts management being involved in music festivals, summer music centers and orchestras. He was Executive Director of CAMMAC for several years.
Now, later in life, he has returned from the classical world to his early roots in folk music. His love of poetry and literature and the folk songs that led him to the guitar are now combined in, why not? the new musical directions and discoveries of an older man. He spends summer in the Laurentians and winter in a camper in any part of Florida that looks interesting. And he writes songs and plays them for anyone who would like to listen. His favourite venues are house concerts.
Ray Sealey won the 2014 Third Prize (out of 80 entries) in the Best New Florida Song contest at the Will McLean Music Festival in Florida and performed on the main stage there. The song was Kissimmee Prairie Dream.
ROBERTSON
Mark Robertson, singer, songwriter, guitarist , producer, main instigator behind Montreal’s internationally acclaimed pop band – Bullfrog, currently known as RobertSon. Steeped in funk, rooted in old R’n'B, cool and smooth like jazz and soul, crooning melancholic love songs with tongue in cheek lyrics, romantic as Samba yet subversive as Reggae...
RobertSon has toured internationally as Bullfrog ( RopeaDope/WEA), with KidKoala ( Ninja tunes) , as bassist for Money Mark (BeastieBoys), and with his own One man Show.
Since his 1st EP “Deeper Shade of Green” ( Outside 2004) RobertSon has been turning heads as a solo artist headlining clubs and festivals all over North America and Europe.
RUBBER SHIRT
Oscar Robertson basse,
Arthur Roche Sax/Guitare
Vincent Ménard guitare,
William Dozois batterie.
Jouth jazz-funk band
JEAN LOUIS ET LES ESCROCS
Fabrice Houde et Co.
Nous sommes un trio accoustique moulé à la louche amoureux de chanson francaise . De la java, du swing et des balades de Jacques Higelin a Brel en passant par Lavillier,Gaisnbourg et Boris Vian voila ce que nous vous réservons en toute bonne humeur avec une pointe d'humour et de nostalgie parfois.
