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Molly Yimlei Yep is a certified personal trainer, an instructor of Tai Chi, and an accomplished artist. She was also the organizer of this weekend’s successful Queenston Art Show, which was last held in 2018. She hoped for entries from between 40 and 50 artists, and had 45 register — a perfect number for the size of the Queenston Community Centre and Library room … [Read more...] about Queenston Art Show enjoys successful return

A Victoria Street backyard will be transformed into a Bavarian Garten on Monday, May 30 for a fundraiser for Yellow Door Theatre Project (YDTP).  The Niagara-on-the-Lake charitable organization is hosting a Garten Party FUNdraiser at the home of Wendy and Bruce Gitelman that evening. It’s a concept that YDTP founder and artistic director Andorlie HiIlstrom had hoped to … [Read more...] about Yellow Door ‘Garten Party’ fundraising for fall production

Music Niagara Festival returns to St. Mark’s Anglican Church for its 2022 season for the first time since before the pandemic.  Founder and artistic director Atis Bankas made the announcement of the festival’s summer line-up to take place from June 17 to Aug. 20 at a Ukraine benefit show held at Club Roma May 12.  Twelve of the festival’s 15 performances this … [Read more...] about Music Niagara back at St. Mark’s for 2022 season

Though two years ago it may have been a decision made out of necessity, for 2022, Shaw Festival will host a number of outdoor shows for a number of other reasons.  Perhaps top of the list is demand. The vast outdoor program in 2020 and 2021 came about with the spectre of COVID-19 forcing restrictions on indoor gatherings or, in the case of 2020, prohibiting them … [Read more...] about Shaw continues with popular outdoor program

Genial, charismatic, enthusiastic, dramatic. Those are all adjectives often tied to Vancouver-born pianist Jon Kimura Parker, who appears at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s Recital Hall in a Bravo Niagara! Festival performance May 29.  “I can’t speak to charisma,” he laughs on the line from his summer home on Orcas Island, “but I can tell you I am wildly … [Read more...] about Bravo Niagara! presents pianist Jon Kimura Parker