Ontario Community Newspapers

Barrie Examiner, 14 Jul 1979, p. 6

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Square dancers from Barrie and the surrounding area turned out In force Thursday night for special evening of dancing at Centennial Park The twohour dance sponsored by the recreation Calling all square dancers departments Parks Are For People program was Tut show to By SIIIIIIEN GALER Of The Examiner When the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit comes to the Art Gallery of Ontario on Nov its expected to reach the widest audience of any single cultural event in the history of Tanada 800000 people from across the country will view the 55 artifacts from the tomb of the Egyptian king Judith John publicity and promotion coordinator for the exhibition has been working on the show since last October She visited Barrie on Thursday to talk about the Tutankhamun exhibit and how the ticket distribution will work Starting Aug over 450000 tickets for the show will becotne available Order forms for public tickets will be distributed by retail outlets throughout Ontario and across anada lii Barrie 1000 order forms will be available at the Sears store in the Georgian Mall Each person may order up to four tickets at $350 each $1 service charge will be added to cover the costs of handling and postage The customer will indicate set visit led by caller Al Calhoun The next park concert in the series is Tuesday when folk musicians from the Performance House coffeehouse will perform at Centennial Examiner Photo In New York City close to 15 million people saw the show during fourmonth run The AGO has seen its membership shoot from 17000 to almost 40000 people in just few months More than 6000 people offered to fill the 1500 volunteer positions for the show including Tutankhamun en thusiasts from as far away as Montreal Whats the reason for the popularity of the Tutankhamun exhibit Miss John offers several reasons HUMAN SCALE The human scale of the Tutankhamun show makes it easy to relate too The show of fers an intimate look at delicate objects And Egypt has always been popular In the 1920s when the first discoveries were made there was the same fascination as today Its partially the gold but also because the workman ship of the artifacts is in credibly sophisticated Many look like designs of the past 10 years Although the exhibit is not large one tremendous amount of work has gone into Directors elect new symphony president Ian McConkey former chairman of the Huronia Sym phonys artistic committee was chosen Thursday night to succeed Noel Stephenson as president of the symphonys board of directors Also elected to the symphony executive committee were Jim Paul vicepresident Dave Croft treasurer Phylis Burgin recording secretary and Mary Calling correspondence secretary McConkey said hes pleased with the progress shown by the orchestra in recent years Were in good financial posi tion he said Were better off now than weve ever been Concerts have shown an in crease in attendance and theres more awareness of the orchestra in Barrie The mall concerts have helped Some people think that sym phonic music is boring but its great fun and theres wealth of good music that the average person should be exposed to said the new symphony presi dent regional orchestra should do two things allow people who like to play this type of music chance to perform and help people in smaller communities enjoy the music And think the orchestra is doing it ad mirably COMMITTEES Also elected Thursday were the following committee chairmen Rid Groves artistic committee Bruce Rowland BEE GEES FEATURED NEW YORK CPI 90 minute television special trac ing the career of the Bee Gees from their youth in Australia to their recent disco fame will be shown on NBC during the fall season EXPLORE finanCiai committee June Cowan program committee Dan Pypher orchestra com mittee Audrey McConkey au dience development and Jim Paul publicity The Huronia Symphony Or chestra directed by Arthur Burgin will perform park concert at Sunnidalc on Aug on Oct 28 the orchestra travels to Alliston to perform pops concert to help local organiza tion Contact raise money for its activities The symphonys regular season of three concerts gets underway Nov 18 with concert featuring pianist Des mond Maley and violinist Donald Reed On March 1980 the or chestra joins forces with the King Edward hoir for cone cert at entral ollegiate Diane Loch mezzosoprano from Ottawa will be the guest artist for the symphonys final concert on May ll IAN NINKE symphony president DALE CARNEGIE COURSE HERB ROSENECK INSTRUCTOR BARRIE CLASSES NOW FORMING FOR INFORMATION 726I 550 Presented by CRONE ASSOCIATES the examiner Saturday July 14 979 gs sights and sounds Muskoka art show Barrie watercolor artist Graham Scholes will be among the artists rom Ontario and Quebec featured in the 17th an nual exhibition and sale run by Muskoka Arts and Crafts this weekend The twoday show running today and Saturday from to am to pm is held dt Williams Memorial Park in Bracebridgc Over 130 displays will present work ranging from paintings to weaving blown glass and pottery special feature on Saturday will be entertainment by Newholms Greatest Jan Band Student examinations Seven accordion siuuenis in narrie have recently passed music exams conducted by the Canadian Accordion Teachers Association Leanne Carr and Lisa Wass com pleted their Grade exams Erika Sajnovie and Stanley Sa jnoVic pass their Grade exams with honors Shane Weistra passed the Grade exam Anglea iergeer passed the Grade exam with honors and Melanie Weistra passed the Grade EMMA 7269944 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER POSTER BROOKS RUTH BUZZI MEL TILLIS PAUL LYNDE The gold mask of King Tutankhamun is one of 55 artifacts in the exhibit coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario Nov world of exotic wildlife Including Lions Tigers Le0pords Buffalo Camels Zebra Flamingos Llama Deer and exotic birds Large petting zoo See animal trainer wrestle with Smokey the wed III 0f Ruffle the show To protect the display cases from vibration metal rods were attached to the con crete 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