Category: Art Columns

Prairie women remembered in dance

“Modern dance” and “prairie pioneer life” are two phrases that don’t get used together very often. This weekend at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, however, they’ll merge, under the direction of local dancer and choreographer Tracy Houser.   On the Edge: Prairie Women , presented Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 2, at …

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The Viewpoints method of acting

Just as (at least according to the old saying) there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way to approach the craft of acting–and lessons in one new approach are about to be offered in Regina. Probably the most famous method is usually called, capital letters and all, …

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A virtual tour of Regina’s art galleries

My wife and I share an interest in art–we make a point of visiting galleries wherever we go. And now, thanks to the Web, we can visit galleries even in places where we don’t go, as more and more of them make their presence felt online. Regina’s art galleries are no exception. Visiting them online …

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Art and science at the Saskatchewan Science Centre

Art and science are too often thought of as opposites, when in fact they are anything but. What is science, after all, but an attempt to make sense of the world, to detect the order lurking in apparent chaos (and sometimes, the chaos lurking in apparent order)? And what is art, but exactly the same …

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The McIntyre Gallery turns 15

What could be more natural than artwork hanging on the walls of a house? At the McIntyre Gallery, that’s exactly what you get: outstanding work by Canadian artists, hung on the walls of an old house in the Transition area, so that a visit to the gallery is a lot like visiting the home of …

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Composer David McIntyre

Regina composer David McIntyre, whose first symphony was premiered by the Regina Symphony Orchestra February 12, set his sights high from the moment he began writing tunes. David, who is originally from Calgary, started piano lessons with his uncle when he was four. “I heard my uncle talk about the big names, like Mozart and …

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Alison Lohans

When Regina author Alison Lohans was four, she spent hours pretending to read to her little sister. At five, she discovered that just because you stop dreaming when you wake up, the dreams don’t have to end: she’d lie awake continuing the dreams in her head. When she was seven, her father let her use …

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The Assiniboia Gallery

The Assiniboia Gallery is 23 years old this year. So is its new owner Mary Weimer, who took over from the founders John and Monica Kurtz, in September. Running one of the city’s best-known, established art galleries was hardly what Mary had in mind when her mother called her one day in 1998, while she …

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In praise of the amateur

“Amateur” is a word with a split personality. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. Many of the world’s top athletes are “amateurs,” and nobody suggests they’re not as good as the “professionals.” In fact, I’ve heard many people say they’d rather watch amateur figure skating than professional skating, because the amateurs put more into it …

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Ars longa, column brevis

Welcome to the newest feature of inregina.com, a weekly column on the arts. Which arts? Why, all of them. Music, mime, fiction, film, painting, poetry, drawing, dancing–if it involves human creativity in the pursuit of beauty, truth, or just a good belly laugh, then this column is interested in it. OK, OK, “this column” can’t …

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