The Oakville Beaver, W ednesday July 16, 2003 - C7 CNE's model Be a part of art history: cast members search open to needed for unique opera project Friday all Canadians Final product to Deadline this Friday The CNE is holding one o f the largest fashion events of the summer, including a model search. Open to all Canadians, male or female, six years old and up, the CNE Model Search aims to showcase the diversity o f Canada and promote people o f all ages, shapes, sizes and ethnic backgrounds. The contest offers cash awards and great prizes from CNE's supporters and of course lots o f fun. The competitors will be grouped by age and special divisions. For those interested, the appli cation deadline is this Friday. To request an application call 416-263-3865 or e-mail fashionevent@ theex.com. The model search will be held Aug. 30 - Sept 1. As part o f the C N E 's 125th anniversary celebrations there will be fashion events held everyday beginning Aug. 15 with CNE Traditional National Costumes Fashion Show. Designers and companies also interested in showcas ing their products at the International Stage should be in contact with the CNE Fashion Event Committee by July ' 25. The CNE Fashion Event 2003 is to promote the fash ion industry and to recognize individuals and companies that contribute to Canada's unique style. For more information visit www.TheEx.com and click on. Fashion Events or contact the CNE Fashion Event Committee at 416-263-3865. Established in 1879, the CNE is one o f the North America's largest annual fairs and a valuable Ontario attraction. It brings in more than $35 million to Toronto each year, and last year The EX welcomed approximately 1.5 million visitors, making it the best attended summer attraction in the city. A visit to The EX costs $10 for gen eral admission and $7 for seniors and children 13 and under. be displayed in Gairloch Gardens By Craig MacBride SPECIA L T O TH E BEAVER The Oakville Galleries needs your help.' It needs to fill the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts with people this Friday. July 18 between 1 - 4 p. m for an upcom ing project - a video opera. Volunteer cast members will act the parts o f delegates at an international AIDS conference, listening to the singing o f an aria. The project, called Fig Trees, will be displayed in Oakville G alleries in Gairloch Gardens and in Centennial Square from November to January. It will be directed by John G reyson. acclaimed in both the art world and the m ainstream Canadian film circle. His film Lilies earned four Juno awards in 1996. Essentially, Fig Trees is a m odem remake o f w riter Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, except with an enor mous twist. Revolving around Saint Teresa and Saint Ignatius, Four Saints in Three Acts, according to Stein, is about the Spanish landscape and the lives of saints. The opera was put to music by Virgil Thomson. First staged in H artford, Connecticut, in 1934, it did rem arkably well and is often thought to be the best work both Stein and Thomson ever did. Stein contrasted saints with activists and reportedly comment ed that to be a "good saint" one has to do nothing, while activists continuously try to do something. Greyson probably knew o f that comment beforehand, as the twist in the opera is the introduc tion of Zackie Achmat, a South African AIDS activist, filmmaker and friend o f Greyson's. The director, in collaboration with m usician and com poser David Wall, has taken a lot o f lib erties with the opera, and explained that Gertrude Stein, who died in 1946, is alive in his version, writing about Achmat and martyrdom. Achmat is one of nearly 5 mil lion HIV-positive South Africans. He heads the Treatment Action Group and has stopped taking the medication he is fortunate to be able to afford until it is affordable to all. He said it could only be achievable if U.S. pharmaceutical companies loosened their patent policies and allowed widespread Jo h n G reyson sale of generic versions of their drugs. The final product o f Fig Trees will be a set o f televisions throughout the gallery spaces, each in different environments, that will take viewers, scene by scene, through the opera and the galleries. Viewers will also be given the libretto so they can more easily follow along. It was the structure o f the O akville G alleries that made Greyson want to do it there. "O f all the contem porary art gal leries," Greyson said, "it was the only place where I could picture going from room to room." Curator of contemporary art Mamie Fleming expects that Fig Trees will take the O akville Galleries to an entirely new level as a contemporary art institution. "Once we get this under our belts, w e'll be able to do any thing," she said. "This is a perfect match for our gallery." It isn't just the enormity o f the video opera either. A book and CD set, along with G reyson's libretto notes and an essay by Bongani N dodana, a South African composer and musical director of Ensemble N oir who now lives in Toronto, will be available. "We really w ant a mobile audience completely consumed," Fleming said. "We want an audi ence of participants." One of the best ways to partic ipate will be to show up at the O akville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St., on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. and become a part o f Greyson and Wall's video opera, and a part of art history. All volunteer actors will become part of the Friends o f the Avant-Garde, Oakville Chapter, and will have the privilege o f fol lowing the creative process o f Fig Trees. To volunteer as a cast member, call 905-844-4402, ext. 23. 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