Community Drama added to sen Lili Soleil is teaching seniors how to play. In a project she calls Rainbows, Miracles and Magic, the Sidney Tesident brings her imagination and box of props into nursing homes. From the small group of patients gathered in the recreation room, Soleil casts a play. Cardboard masks and simple props transform the patients, many of whom are in wheelchairs, into familiar charac- ters from childhood fairy tales. | =. PERSON ATeED Then, prompted by Soleil, the ) SERVICE newly-cast performers present a je Ri S well-known fairy tale to their : 6P, peers. Last Thursday at Sidney Inter- OMe 6 | mediate Care Home, the seniors 6655 TRUDEAU TERRACE enacted Little Red Riding Hood. BRENTWOOD BAY, B.C. “Oh, I am so sick,” moaned resident Elizabeth Stensholt, get- ting into character as the Grand- mother. “I am not well at all.” WS TR A former nurse at a care facility, Heme of iho Wed Fes &s Soleil knows many of the residents . jj are chronically ill. But the fun of <== - = doing the play often overrides their GROWL LIKE A WOLF Lili Soleil instructs Bill Hocking in a NEW HOURS disabilities. program Thursday at Sidney Intermediate Care Home. Sun., Tues., Wed., Thurs. “A lot of them drop their ail- 4:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ments and get into it, getting outof explained. “The miracles and Among her stars Thursday was Fri. & Sat. their heads and in to playing,” she magic are them.” Bill Hocking, who growled 4:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. through the role of the wolf while Closed Monday leaning on Soleil. Edith Sumpton, NEW EXPANDED MENU resplendent in a velvet cape, waved ‘ cae wand’ as’ the magic -Wedgies, Chicken & Burgers : FREE DELIVERY AFTER 4 PM. © Soleil did her first improvisa- > tional performance at Malaspina 9816 4th St. 6 56 53 3 1 ay Lodge in Nanaimo, where she Sidney, B.C. = This column by Dianne Cross, secretary of the Sidney and North Saanich Community Arts Council, will be printed every second week. Submissions of upcoming arts related events and news are invited. Please submit items to Dianne Cross at 656-4201. COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL: The annual general meeting of the Arts Council was held on Wednesday, January 29. Besides electing the 1992 Board of Directors, the CAC set a number of goals for its 1992 activities. These include some classical music concerts, a juried art show, a search for a storefront office and a heritage art festival which we hope will include street art and art show. The 1992 Board of Directors are: President: Chris Doman (Visual Arts) Vice-President: Betty Ott (Visual Arts) Secretary: Dianne Cross (Fibre Arts) Treasurer: Judith Radford (Visual Arts) Directors: Sid Clarke (Theatre); Lotte Zonnenberg (Visual Arts); Ann Cullen (Music); and Janet Remmer (Visual Arts). lors lives worked before moving to Sidney last fall. As a nurse, she found she was too busy meeting patients’ physi-_ cal needs to devote much time to entertainment. _ Even when entertainment pro- grams were brought into the lodge, she noted patients usually pas- sively watched the display. “Theyre entertained but theyre not involved,” she said. Drawing on her experience with a Duncan-based dinner theatre group, she decided to develop an improvisational theatre program for nursing home residents. “It’s kind of getting back in TeReview Wednesday, February 19,1992 — AI6 Dorman’s Carpet Cleaners « CARPET CLEANING ° UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Owner Wilf Dorman and son give personal attention to all orders 9570 Norihlawn Terrace, Sidney, B:G. JUST US FREEESTIMATES Phone: 656-4754 - 30 Years Experience *x UPHOLSTERY * ANTIQUES * DRAPERIES *ETC. = eae ke FATHOM’S LOUNGE is pleased to announce This week’s winner in our weekly BUSINESS CARD DRAW! Enter to win LUNCH for TWO! APPY HOUR - 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Weekdays $ Free Appetizer Plate with your First Drink the waterfront. 2537 Beacon Avenue \e Sidney, B.C. The CAC would also like to see a writer’s luncheon this year, See Soe child in idiney. 656-1131 however we need help from a writer to act as the convener. Contact = : Il ea od h WHARF DINING ROOM Dianne Cross at 656-4201 if you can help. Be ee ee = Membership and information sheets are available at the library Pee a ae Sere ees == CRARY== 64 and at Pat Bay Potfery on Wesi Saanich Road. Ut sor Cscovered Wsimaons 62% PAPERMAKING COURSE: had noone) to Olen pefonness: BEAR ry CAT _—_“ACut Above Robyn Quaintance has planned another exciting papermaking for Tne ae pee The BEST” workshop for March 7, 1992, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the course will anerand * alin TAOHE Ah 2 | BPS, re Br cost $30. Call 656-4444 for further information and to register. Se ee! § y ee wall be Hualiee 19 6%. On a volunteer basis, she has wi? ae Fey S SPAC will be looking for corporate sponsorships for this year’s Dees eee Oa P a : ae Y May show. the club is investigating the idea of a preview showing Prog : g ‘ 2 out the south island. RZ