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DUSTIN |
QUEZADA

| Fall back

J DON'T forget to turn your clocks back
~ an:hour this weekend. Daylight savings ~
time goes it into ‘effect at 2 a.m. Sunday,

Oct. 29.”

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‘boxes, whose Contents were donate
and students. - "DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

Hope and love i in a box

OPERATION CHRISTMAS Child is back with
‘its shoebox program: ‘and the Terrace community
has a lot to live up to.

Through the generosity of individuals, schools

. ing gifts for needy children were sent out from

Christmas project. It proved to be the most ever
dispatched from here.

ter last year’s number because she feels so strongly
“for.the cause.”

“dren of the world,” Froese said. “Every box, isa
gift of hope and love.”

The drive provides. Canadians with a practical

way of sharing love with children living in coun-

|. tries ravaged by war, famine, extreme poverty 7

_or natural disaster. Boxes sent from Terrace this

mala, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Safeway and Greyhound Canada and at the Alli-
ance Church,

303-1269, Froese locally at 615-3253 or visit
www. samaritanspurse. ca”

ry : :

@ Mighty feat —
MIGHTY Moe, left, is joined by father —
Terry Brock at the Happy Gang Centre’

Oct. 4 in celebrating 39 years of sobri-
ety. DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

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churches and businesses, 1,165 shoeboxes bear- |

Terrace, as‘ part of the world’s largest. children’s ©
‘Local coordinator Eleanor Froese, hopes to bet: .

“Thave real compassion for thé real needy chil: .

- season will reach Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guate- —
The “decorative shoeboxes ‘are available for -

pick-up and drop-off at corporate sponsors Canada _

. Residents have ‘until mid- November to pack’
and drop them off. For information, call. 1-800-

“By DUSTIN QUEZADA

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practise it.

‘ring or a skydiver without
a parachute, carvers need

work. °

~’ searching for a long time.for

* cultural and IT coordinator,”
. said Robert Stanley Sr., who
- was’contacted a year and a
half ago before the carving

- _ Bust Riverboat Days.
Located in the basement
of the George Little’ House,

their emerging creations.

‘no place to work at home,”
Stanley said.

being met.

carving without this place,”
| _ said Darold Gray, 47.

_-in apartment blocks or base-
ment suites ~ you get wood
chips everywhere.”

Gray had stopped carv-

- ing altogether: for. five -years
but since Stanley alerted him
about .the shed-his artwork is
back on track.

It ‘started with visits to
the shop, just watching other
people, said Gray.

Once he got back at it,
he’s been working every
day, from anywhere between
10 and 14 hours a day.

“Once I started, that’s it,
there goes the day!” Gray
said. “Once you eet focused,

. By DUSTIN QUEZADA

FOR TWO. decades; the
Quebec-based dance-theatre
company Danse Sursaut
has forged its, identity as
entertainers for young and
family audiences.

And it’s that audience
it’ll target this Saturday af-
térnoon when it performs
Family Portrait, the second
show of the Terrace Concert
Society’s new season.
manager says audiences —
rary dance.

“We have a different style

— it’s not introspective, con-
temporary dance,”
Dymbutt said.

Dymburt, who met the

group’s artistic director,

: national ,circus school, says
circus and acrobatics are all
influences for the troupe’s
~ work,
“It’s their athletic and~
physical . style that keeps
. people’s attentions. —
“We put on a show that’ s
interesting to watch, we try
to reach the audience by
showing something: beauti-
ful,” added Dymburt.
_ Family Portrait has no
’ storyline or dialogue, rather
it’s presented in scenes and

snapshots...
The portrait is of a fam-
ily, apparently _ ordinary,

but behind appearances are
dreams, imagination, desires
_and memories.

“{t’s about what can’
‘happen in a family,” said

moods and different snap-

-IMAGINE HAVING a>
‘passion and “no place to

_ Like a painter without a”
canvass, a boxer without a °
wood, tools and a place to,

|... That’s why the Terrace 7
Nisga’a Society had been"

a suitable. place. where Jo- ©
cal carvers could gather and .
work, says’ the coordinator .
of the Nisga’a carving shed...
_. “[-was hired bythe Ter- .;
race Nisga’a’ Society ‘as ‘a’ ”

shed opened during the Au- |

it’s a space that houses artists ©
and carvers hunched over _

“This area here is leased.
from the City of Terrace to «

_ provide a work area for art-,
" ists’ —.not just carvers — with - -

“And a’ visit with’ some
of the’ artists’ working: there
_proves the’ society's goal, is. §

“probably wouldn’ tbe -

-“You can’t be doing this

Danse Sursaut’s general.

need not expect contempo- °
Adam

Francine Chateauvert, at a,

-Dymburt. “There are many -

DAROLD Gray works on amiask he says is something he came up with'after stop- :

ping.carving for five years. He’s one of many up and coming and established First
Nations carvers now working | at the Nisga’ a carving ‘shed. DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

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iv s where your mind goes.”
ot Ss: much the same story

for’ the” younger ‘Glen Wil-
son, who is carving a raven .

mask.

“T basically had no place
to carve before,’ ” _ Wilson
said.

: The 31-year-old has been
carving for 13 years but still
has, to work to pay his bills.
He carves on the side but

with a space to Keep honing

shots —like a real family.”
‘Naturally, .

the show because with a big
audience he. says people feel
_more free to react’ the way
they want to.

Not only would he like to

see lots of people in the seats

but he’d like to see’a lot of .

children and their families.

- The typical Danse Sur-

saut crowd ranges ‘in’ age

from 4- to 12-year-olds and .
“adolescents that are open to.

art. had

— there’s always a reaction,”
Dymburt said. “Kids ‘don’t
have. preconceived notions

“Younger crowds
react -
always a reaction.”

~~Adam Dymburt

iu

of how to react.”
‘Dymburt, who also per-

forms in. the production, . |
adds he’s confident people.

will find the show interest-
ing.

* “The goal is to touch

people and make them come
away with.a nice moment in
life.”

Concert society shows
are normally presented in

the evening but due to the |

family-oriented show, the
Saturday start time at the
Dr. R.E.M. Lee Theatre is 2
p.m.

For ticket details, go to
page B2.

“ full-time’ gig.”, fae
“These guys are making _

Dymburt : ,
hopes for a-large turnout at .

“Younger crowds © react

there’s

_ his skills,- ‘he hopes , the time
‘will come when. his. art,

their own jobs by doing what

they’re doing,” Stanley said.

=“They’re very good carv-_
ers, you can see their dedica-
tion takes. up alot of time, life . -

and energy,” added Stanley.

“It’s no wonder ‘people. want 7
to buy. their wor fetes
_ The high, level of. work

Circus-like dance.cc

Sursaut Performances.

coming. ror, the artists, has .
t: Stanley spends’ more:
“atime on his own’ work, too.

dis duties. as ‘coardinator -
- case “for art,”

. have him. assigning ‘desks to
“the artisans and it’s‘a good

thing, ‘because he- has. eight
pieces on the go. —

“edge with his peers.

. DANY Fortin, in ‘amily Portrait; ciplays the athleticism that i isa feature of Danse

"the way tradition has always

. Stanley,::who fearned,” his

older ‘brothers, along. with
_ his regalia-making, mother. .

people wanted * eo see, so’.
Stanley.
© she’s’ other success story”
. because. :it.has been’ attract-

-ing ‘tourists to ‘see: ‘the - art.
a take shape..

i °the scent of cedar, shavings

'. ists drawing,” carving: “or

SS ‘lot of tourists are e looking for
: carving | sheds.”

train. "passengers, walk-in *
“tourists from area’ hotels and oy

_ tawski said.

. ately. rented
’ Rupert and returned.

gets to see that art here be-
-* fore it’s:sold.?"
Asan accomplished carv- > Follow. the: sign’ that. i im-

er, he also shares his Knowl-

: Stanley was - previously.

pent - ine walk in). to ‘see °
doing essentially the same re

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thing. i in Kincolith for three
years, Where anyone 10 years~
and older was welcome to
come watch and learn.
Watching and. learning is:

been passed on in First Na-
lions culture and carving: is
no different. |. ;
Stanley feels he has been ‘
‘a teacher of sorts. since he
started making designs and
carving 25 years ago. .
It was only. natural for

skills watching his dad and:

- “As soon-as.-; T -Jearned;.

cry

was . showing them,

‘said ;

And that’s” the, carving

It’s © authenticity, ‘witl

-strewn on the: floor: and art-.

sanding, is unquestioned."
.“Tt’s. drawn ‘lots of. péo-
ple,” said Debbie Letawski, “
the house coordinator. “A

Letawski . “says. stopping 7

locals. are catching on,
» She says -what’s. special :

about the carving shed. isthe soe
_ whole arts and culture expe- J |
“ piences ©). ee

“[People} “actially get 7
to speak to the artists,” Le:

One train passenger was
so:taken with his: brief, stop,’

Letawski, said’-he iinmedi-

“Ts a really good show=' ”
“added” Le-
tawski. “Otherwise, nobody

plores visitors (First Nations
carvers working/Y’ es; we are —

FRANGOIS LAFRANCE PHOTO:

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