Pow Wow Cafe owner Shawn Adler with his takeout containers. (Submitted by Shawn Adler)
Unreserved7:22Pow wow pivot: How this Indigenous chef has found new ways to keep food on the table
There may be fewer cars on the highways these days, but there s a lot more soup. The back of chef Shawn Adler s vehicle is carrying about 325 containers of frozen Three Sisters Stew (corns, beans and squash), he s cooked and plated on beds of wild rice pilaf. This load, and the two-hour drive that takes from his home in Eugenia to downtown Toronto, are part of his new normal.
Home /AH pens letter of support for arts centre fundraising
AH pens letter of support for arts centre fundraising
By Chad Ingram
The Township of Algonquin Highlands is supporting a grant application by the Haliburton Highlands Arts Centre Foundation for money for a feasibility study for a would-be state-of-the-art performing arts centre in the county.
Councillors heard from Dan Manley, president of the foundation, which was founded in 2018 and granted charitable status in 2019. Its goal is the construction of a modern arts centre in the Haliburton Highlands that would include an acoustically engineered performance space large enough to house an orchestra, a secondary theatre for smaller events, acoustically isolated rehearsal spaces, a centralized box office for performing arts events, and a lobby where alcoholic beverages could be served.
Home /Novel Kinmount puts spotlight on stage
Rod Carley’s new novel Kinmount follows the course of Shakespeare production gone awry. /Photo submitted
News23 December 2020
By Chad Ingram
Kinmount is a humorous take on small-town theatre that draws from Carley’s own experiences.
“The genesis for it happened when I was a young director,” says Carley, who teaches at Canadore College and Nipissing University in North Bay and has previously worked with the Highlands Summer Festival.
“I want to put a qualifier in here – all my experiences with the Highlands Summer Festival were wonderful,” he says.
As Carley explains, going back about 25 years he was working as a freelance director, hired to put on productions in various communities. “I did this all over the province and into the United States,” he says, adding that part of a director’s role is preserving the integrity of a piece of work. “As a director, you’re responsible for delivering the words of