PAGE 4, The Herald, Monday, June 26, 1978. Culture will be found at the Games as well as competitive sports By GLENN COLE EDMONTON (CP) — Most of the attentionnwill be focused on- the athletes the Commonwealth Games, but nonsporting enthusiasts will be able to find something to keep them entertained. Festival 78, the first-ever Commonwealth Arte Festival, is major arta and culture program designed to complement the Aug.3-12 Games.on “This is the first time a major cultural program has been organized for the Games,’ said Robert Dubberly, program co- ordinator. “We will have at least 26 countries participating in the be sending athletic teams, ‘We had a letter from Sri Lanka saying that they would not be sending an athletic team here and asked if they could send a cultural delegation. The program grew from there.” Dubberly, who has been involved in several cultural events across Canada, said the festival was a difficult thing to organize because thera were Do preconceived “We decided that we didn’t want to get into ticketed at-' tractions,” he said. "We wanted to make as many events as possible easily accessible to the public.’’ North display w AIMED © AT ED. MONTONIANS The program was aimed at Edmontonians, although visitors will be made well aware of what is happening.n “We know our audience will be made up mostly of the people of Edmonton. We plan to publish a: special-events guide and it distributed free to everybody's mailbox in Edmonton. “Tt will be a 52-puge guide that will tell them everything that is going on. Both of the daily newspapers plan special sections on the cultural activities.” : Shopping mails will be the main yenues for the Com- monwealth Carnival. The carnival will bring together approximately 350 per- forming artists, companies and craftsmen in late July and early August. Three major downtown de- partment stores will par- ticipate innthe festival. One will mount a salute to native Indian people, another will feature a lor ~=Canada le the third will have the diverse cultural heritage of Canada as ita theme. STARS PERFORM There will be seven con- certs in the city featuring top . Canadian perdormers, in- cluding Andre Gagnon, Buffy. St. Marie, Moe Kaufman and Hagood will be” Several art exhibitions have been arranged, in- cluding Certain Traditions, a display featuring severa) emerging artists from Canada and Great Britain. Also on display will be an exhibition Y ofeAuatrallar aboriginal painting sculpture and artifacts of the last 200 years, Modern Art in Canada, a retrospective look at Canadian ar? from the Group of Seven to 1970, will appear during July and August at the Edmonton Art Gallery. There will be displays of Canadiannsport art from mid-July to mid-August and a Commonwerith children’s art exhibition. Several leading sculptors from Commonwealth countries will participate in the first Commonwealth sculpture symposium, Thesculptors are expected to create a number of major works in commemoration of the 1978 Games and the public will be able to watch them at work. TheCommonvwealth Games Foundation will turn the sculptures over to the city, which has promised to maintain them. - “We've tried to turn the city into an art gallery and “museum,” Dubberly said. NEWS IN BRIEF ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Georgia state Senator Julian Bond, a major figure in the civil-rights movement ‘during the 1960s, has decided he would rather remain a politician than become a television commentator. Bond, who had said earlier this year that he was negotiating with ABC television for a job as a host on a projected magazine- type program, announced Wednesday that be will seok a third term in the Georgia senate, The $¢-year-old lawmaker drew national attention in the 1960s when he became the first black person ever offered as a possible vice- presidential candidate of a major political party. He declined to be nominated be- cause he had not reached the required age of 95, DROUGHT IN HAITI . PORT AU PRINCE (CP) ‘— After three years of spar e rainfall, Haiti is suffering a prolonged drought that has brought severe deprivation to about 80 per cent of the island’s 5.3 million people. There has bean almost no rainfall during the annual rainy season and thousands are on the brink of starv tion. BUSIKESS DIRECTORY TOOVEY SERVICE CANAVENTURE MERCURY (boats) YAMAHA (outboard motors) (chain saws) Hours: Mon, - Sat, a . Dealer Licence A846 Greig Number o2n —*6 36-5929 RENTALS. 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