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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, June 5, 2015 | 24 Local artist Mark Zelinkski tells visual story with Earth From the Field Oakville artist Mark Zelinski wants to tell local residents a visual story of life on Earth From the Field. Zelinski's latest exhibit will have large canvas photographs on display until July 7 at CJ's Café, 2416 Lakeshore Rd. W. There is a Meet the Artist event for the show at the Bronte café Sunday (June 7) from 2:30-4 p.m. The exhibit is "an intimate, visual story of the trees and rocks, the oceans and animals. It is also a document of the human condition spanning a 35-year period across seven continents of Earth," said Zelinski. "I've experienced many societies that lack the basics that we take for granted -- and children are always the most vulnerable," he continued. "I think we need to see the human race as a family, and it's exciting for me to use my photography books as a gift for children and a tool for charities who work to help people every day around the world." Donated books to charities Zelinski has donated 7,000 copies of three of his seven photography books to 100 charities throughout Canada and around the world, including in Haiti, Chile, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Togo, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Trained as an artist and a designer at The Ontario College of Art and Design, Zelinski has had a diverse career as a professional A meet the artist event was recently at CJ's Café featuring Earthbound: A photo exhibition of Outward Bound by photographer since 1977, and is also a pub- Mark Zelinski. At the event, Zelinski showed his Grade 3 teacher Donalda Fordham his photography book One lisher, writer, painter, lmmaker and winner Small Flame, while behind him are two of the photos part of the Earthbound exhibit -- Mt. Kilimanjaro in Kenya of the Canadian Governor General's Medal. (on the left) and the mountains of Oman (the cover of the book he is holding. Zelinski has his latest exhibit, For more information, visit www.markzeEarth From the Field, on display at CJ's (2416 Lakeshore Rd. W.) until July 7. | photo by Graham Paine ­ linski.com. Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or www.facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) N O T - S O - N O B L E K N I G H T S Sometimes the princess has to do a knight's job. That was the case in T.A. Blakelock's recent staging of Three Not So Noble Knights, after the knights go on an adventure but are unsuccessful. At left, from left, Chloe Cubric, Shaumar Turner, Lisa Davenport and Marley Higgs act out a scene. Above, from left, are: Noah Whitehouse, Maddie Drexler, Klemons Wawrzynczyk, Lisa Davenport, Cubric, Spencer Festeryga, Daniel Ingriselli and Higgs. | photos by Eric Riehl ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog New style, New life, New you 905-582-3933 Oakville Place Lower level, Next to Sears (Walk-ins and Appointments) ModelS Still needed! You could end up with a brand new look with a value of over Model Search Candidates must be willing to have a recognizable change in haircut, color, or both. For further information email Bob at bobrshop@bellnet.ca College Park Plaza 1534 Queensbury Cr. (Upper Middle Rd East & 6th Line) 905-338-6465 | www.bob-r-shop.com $250.00 for frEE!