‘Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 30, 1992 — Page B1

arr steer enicnr’ Wee Se On a re

WHAT’S
UP

The Terrace Standard
‘offers What’s Up as a
public service to its
readers and community
organizations.

This column Is intended
for non-profit organiza-
tions and those events for
which there is no admis-
sion charge.

To meet our preduction
deadlines, we ask thai any
item for What’s Up be
submitted by noon on the
FRIDAY preceding the
issue in which it Is to ap-
pear,

For contributed articles,
the deadline is 5 p.m. on
the preceding THURS-
DAY.

Wealso ask that all sub-
missions -be typed or

‘ printed neatly.
‘ OCTOBER 2 — NOY, 1, 1992

— Terrace Art Gallery presents

~: ‘Abstract Art’. Curated by Ed-

ward Epp, this show will feature

" abstract art by local artists and

from private collections. This

‘type of show hasn’t been seen
locally in several years. Come &
challenge your senses!

Uh tok ik
OCTOBER 2:3, 1992 —The

_ -Prince George Family History
society is holding it’s annual
seminar at the Prince George

Multicultural Center. Guest

.. speakers will cover 3 different -

aspects of researching family
history, including how to

: start.Register. in advance or at

the door at.6:30 pm. For more
info call’ Marion. at 561-7225

" (eves) or 561-4311 (days) or Fax
562-0841. :

kkk
OCTOBER 5, 1992 —Terrace

- Pipes and Drums Society Annual
General Meeting will be held at

7:30 pm in the Terrace Kinsmen
Complex {behind Heritage

Park). For information phone:
- Audrey Kerr at 635-3726 or
. Barry English at 635-5905

Aue ES ee Be eee ae!
OCTOBER 6, 1992. —, All

-members of L.A., Branch 113 to

Royal Canadian Legion, please

- attend monthly meeting on Oc-

tober 6/92 al 8 pm.
' hk kkk

- OCTOBER 6, 1992.—The Ter-

race Breastfeeding Support

_ Group will meet at 8:00 pm in the

educaLion room of Mills

. Memorial. Our discussion will be

on introducing solids. For fur-

“ther info call 638-0359,

kh kik
OCTOBER 5, 1992 —Northwest
Community College Board
Board Meeting will be held at
7:30 pm in Room 208, Admin.

“- building, at the Terrace Centre.

The public is welcome.
- kkk kk
OCTOBER 14, 1992 —The 37th

__Annual General Meeting of the

Kitimat General Hospital Society

_ willbe held at 8:00 pm in the
“hospital: cafeteria. Call the
‘ hospital for information.

reek
OCTOBER 18, 1992 --Nor-
thwest Development Education
Association Annual General
Meeting from 10am-12noon. Ex-
isting members and new comers
are-encouraged to attend, 4506
Lakelse Ave, 2nd floor. Call
635-6233 for info.

kkkKkr
OCTOBER 18, 1992 —Nor-
thwest Development Education
Association Board Development
Workshop, Britta Vunderson-
Bryden of the B.C. Coalition for
International Co-operation will
be discussing program develop-
ment strategies and volunteer
board development, Call Mary at
635-6233 to register.

kaki
OCTOBER 26-31, 1992 —Kxim
Ghan Ada Arts and Crafts fall
native art show will be in the
Houston Mall. Artists reception
is Oct, 26 evening. For more info
call 845-7537,

ke khke

TERRRACE & KITIMAT NOR-
THERN SINGLES: Events for
Sept. Every Tues, 7:00 pm. Mr.
Mikes for coffee. Sept. 10 coffee
at Northern 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 13,
picnic Red Sand Lake 1:30 p.m.;

Sept. 20 Ski Hill for coffee 1:30-

p.m.; Sept, 26 bowling 7:30
p.m.; Sept. 30 swim at pao! 8:00
p.m. For info phone 635-3238 or
632-3547,

kk kek
WITH OVER 50 VOLUNTEER
positions at a: variety of com-

munity organizations to choose

from, we can help you find the
vohinteer opportunity to: match
your interests and skills. Visit

-our office at 4506 Lakelse

weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and
“4:30 p.m. Terrace Community
Volunteer Bureau & Senoirs In-
formation Access, '
keke
EVERY MONDAY — Tertace
Intermediate Youth Choir. Now
accepting registration for 1992
-1993, Age: 12 - 18 plus years.
Time: 7 - 8:30. p.m. Moridays.
Location: T.B.A.: Music Direc-
tor: Mrs. A Kebernik 638-1230.

Accompanist: Mrs. S Doughty

RUE to form,
Tania Mackenzie
plays a ballet
teacher in Terrace

Little Theatre’s next play. In

this case it’s no act — it’s art

imitating life.

“I get to speak with a Slavic
accent and wave my cane
arqund,”’ laughs Mackenzie,
the Northwest Academy of
Performing Arts’ new ballet
instructor here. .

She has taught ballet to com-

‘petitive gymnasts here for the

past three years, but this fall is
the first time she has taught
regular ballet dance classes.

She has three classes of stu-
dents ranging from five- and
six-year-olds up to 14- and 15-
year-olds,

Mackenzie isn’t —sihere
permanently. She’s replacing
previous ballet instructor
Laura Flynn, who. is undergo-
ing two years of further traini-
ing in Winnipeg. ,

Her credentials, however, are
impressive,

Mackenzie, herself, started
ballet at the age of eight.

For many the discipline of
ballet — several years of
strength training is required
before yoing girls can go on

. point shoes — is too.much.

But to Mackenzie, it’s..a
passport anywhere: in the

. world of dance.

“T— you know ballet, it’s
endless what you can do with
body movement,’” she says.

‘She studied under” former
Russian dance great Boris

‘Volkoff in Toronto at the Rus-
sian ballet director’s Royal

Academy of Dance during the
1960s, mS
~ She joined two other dancers

to start. a- ballet studio, in -

Toronto.’ of

They decided Canadian fig-
ure skaters needed ballet train-
ing to compete at the Olympic
level. Canadian skaters Maria
and Otto Jelinck were among
their first students.

She later moved to Van-
couver, teaching at numerous
skating clubs there. One of her
pupils at that time was future
world-calibre figure skater
Karen Magnusson. !

Mackenzie was later asked to
assist the national Olympic
gymnastic team with ballet
choreography. After that she
began teaching’ pure ballet in
Vancouver in the late 1970s.

“Then I got married and
moved to the Queen Charlotte
Islands and had kids,’’ she
says with a laugh. .

She taught modern dance
and ballet together with anoth-
er dance instructor in Masset
for a number of years, before

BALLET students Victoria
Chemke, Angela Beaupre
and Marika Maikapar
(above) now learn from the
experience of local  in-
structor. Tania Mackenzie

(right).

moving with her husband —
Father Jan Mackenzie, an
Anglican Church minister. —
to Greenville.

‘*The shock was incredible,”
Mackenzie recalls. ‘I’m, from
Toronto — I’m not used to
living in the bush.” 7

She moved here with her
family 10 years ago and in that
time has spent more time with
her four children — 20-year-
old Doug, 19-year-old TJ,
17-year-old Tori, and 16-year-
old Samantha.

“Of course we want to have
the Terrace Ballet Company,”’
she jokes. ‘‘One day.””

|

“be relying on volunteers to staff

_ of those hours has to be staffed

‘Rabu. .

formance Tonight. . . Piaf.

English and French.

Astoria in 1961,

stage.

and seniors."

ace
‘

Magic of Piaf
comes to life

Legendary Parisian songstress Edith Piaf
is back on stage — in the person of Joélle

Rabu, a rising star on the Canadian
stage, brings -her portrayal of. the dis-
integrating 1940s era French singer to the
R.E.M, Lee Theatre in her powerful per-

The performance — a blend. of drama
and concert — will include songs both in

Rabu tries to distil the essence of Piaf’s
tragic life into one great farewell concert

— a final, fictional encounter with her
American public at New York’s Waldorf

The cancer-stricken Piaf, recovering
from recent abdominal surgery, defies
doctors’ orders and staggers onto the

She played to rave reviews in her last Ca-
nadian tour of Piaf in 1990. And she'll
likely be no less impressive this time.

Tonight ... Piaf, with Joélle Rabu, plays ie
Saturday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in the R.E.M, Lee —
Theatre, Tickets are $18, $12 for students ON STAGE

at the —.E.M. Lee Theatre this Saturday is J
portrayal of French chanteuse Edith Piaf.

aell

e Rabu in her

638-0509. :

GALLERY
OUT OF
MONEY

As of this week, the Terrace Art
Gallery is out of money and wil

the shows.
The gallery’s has run out of

“money to pay its regular gallery
attendant, says board member Ed-
ward Epp, and grants that gave
the gallery a paid staff of three
through the summer have run out,

“We've applied: for funding
from the arts council,’’. he said.
“But that funding won’t be allo-
cated until the middle of Novem-
ber.” ee

Until then the gallery will sun
onvolunteertime. - .

_ Hours will be Tuesday through
Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. and
To 9pm. =

Those honrs are reduced from
the gallery’s summer schedule.

“Tes regretful that we're open
so few hours a day, but every one

by a volunteer,’” Epp said.

The gallery has also released its’
new vision for the future. Its
planks call for: .

* Using the gallery as an educa-
tional forum in collaboration with
other organizations, such as the
schools and college.

* Exposing local people to
regional and national. artists as.

welh. oe

* Giving a forum for expression
to the various cultural and ethnic
groups in the community.

“We'd like to have more in-
volvement from the native com- -
munity in particular,” he said.

‘He said the gallery is slowly
trying to make the transformation
from a very ad hoc local organi-
zation to something more profes-

sional.
ke kke

A series of fall workshops com-
ing up at the Terrace Art Gallery
includess 9 -

* “] Can’t Draw” workshop
for adults Oct..14 to Nov, 14
from 7 to 9 p.m.: aa -

* Exploring Abstraction with
Edward Epp. Saturday, Nov. 14
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

* Making Note Paper with
Joanne Thomson, Saturday, Nov.
14 from 1 to 3 p.m.

For more information on those
workshops call Joanne Thomson
at 635-7445,

Farmer's

Dig out those snow-shovels, gas
up the snow blower, and put on
that parka. ; ;

Fears of a cold winter, spawned
by our nippy Autumn weather, is
confirmed in the font of all such
knowledge — the Old Farmer’s
Almanac.

“November through March is-
expected to be colder than
normal,” the newly released
1992-93 Almanac says on its sec-
tion for Southen B.C., “with
well above normal precipitation
and snowfall.’’ ue

The Skeena valley is near. the
northern boundary of what the
Almanac calls ‘Southern B.C.’

“November will have several
mild spells with “more seasonable
weather in between,” it says.
“‘Wintry weather will set in with
cold waves at mid-December and
at Christmas, with frequent pre-
cipitation,”’

“Severe cold periods, with fre-
quent snow are anticipated during
January and through the first
week of February, ‘after which
more seasonable temperatures
with considerable precipitation
will prevail, except for a cold
mid-March. :

And what’s the payoff for all
this anticipated miserableness? A
decent summer next year?

April through June is predicted
to be colder and drier than
normal. oy

‘July through September may
be slightly warmer than normal,
with below normal rainfall.”

However it gocs on to warn of
possible cool perlods with heavy
rains before mid-July and: “‘at the
beginning, middle and end of Au-
giist.’” BN he Pe