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Artscene “Connected to your Community”

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Oakville’s Forest Grove Preschool Academy of Arts and Technology held an art fundraiser on March 6 in support of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Clockwise, from top left, are Chase Christian, Caitlyn Kirkpatrick and Connor Vainio selling mustaches, bracelets and hand made soccer balls; Aaron Dean holding

an Origami bird he made; Claire Kirkpatrick and her daughter Caitlyn posing with their fancy masks; John McCoy, Gabby Beram, Camila Oller, Alexa Peterson and

Cindy Wang holding up their handmade crafts. | photos by Chantal Ayotte – Oakville Beaver

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Blame Canada! is making its way to a Toronto stage Monday (March 24) after an appearance on a Broadway stage at 54 BELOW in New York on March 17.

The musical concert will be held at Hugh’s Room, 261 Dundas St. W., beginning at 8:30 p.m.

Advance tickets cost $20, or $25 at the door.

The show features Sheridan College Mu-sic Theatre alumni and faculty, including Jenny Weisz, Joel Gomez, Chilina Kennedy, Dana Jean Phoenix and Jeff Madden.

It will also feature songs and mu-sic by established and emerging Canadian musical theatre writers,

including some with connections to Sheridan College, such as Jona-than Munro, Jim Betts, Neil Bar-

tram, Brian Hill, Nicky Phillips, Irene Sankoff, David Hein and Robert Gontier.

New musicalsThe concert is pro-

duced in partnership with The Canadian Music Theatre Project (CMTP), which helps develop new musicals by Canadian and in-ternational compos-ers, lyricists and book-writers. CMTP is the brainchild of Michael

Rubinoff, the Associate Dean at Sheridan College for Visual and Performing Arts.

The evening will also celebrate the launch of a like-minded organi-zation the Canadian Musical The-atre Writers Collective (CMTWC), which was founded by Landon Braverman and Joseph Trefler.

The new national organization is devoted to supporting and promot-ing the work of Canadian musical theatre writers both at home and abroad.

“Sheridan and the CMTP con-tinue to be the leaders in the devel-opment of new musical works in Canada,” said Rubinoff in a news release.

“Blame Canada! and our support of the CMTWC is another way to promote and celebrate our excep-tional talent and writers.”

For more information, visit www.hughsroom.com/2014/02/blame-canada.

Michael Rubinoff

Blame Canada! concert in Toronto features Sheridan alumni

B E L L Y U P A W A R D E D

Ala Nar dance ensemble from Oakville’s BellyUp BellyDance Studio won top prize for Best Canadian Star Bellydance Troupe at the first-ever Star Bellydancer Canada competition held at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto last month. From left are Veronica Stoneman, Leianne Vergara, Joharah Kolishenco, Liane Dozois and Laura

Varga. | submitted photo