Singer-songwriter Missy Knott and writer and interdisciplinary artist Meredith K. Hoogendam (Katie/Merkat) will be featured at ‘Spotlight Series 4’ at the Art Gallery of Northumberland on November 17, 2022. (Photos courtesy of the Art Gallery of Northumberland)
Award-winning singer-songwriter Missy Knott from Curve Lake First Nation and Cobourg-based poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist Meredith K. Hoogendam (Katie/Merkat) will be featured at the Art Gallery of Northumberland on Thursday, November 17th, for the gallery’s Spotlight Series 4 annual arts education fundraiser.
This is the second instalment of the fourth Spotlight Series, which brings together music, multimedia, poetry, performance, and the visual arts. The series returned in June as an in-person event featuring Port Hope musician and award-winning author Ted Staunton and Quinte Symphony concertmaster and touring violinist, fiddler, and composer David Shewchuk.
“The return of Spotlight Series to an in-person event in June was such a success and everyone who attended could feel a real sort of invigoration in the room,” says Olinda Casimiro, executive director of the Art Gallery of Northumberland, in a media release. “The Art Gallery of Northumberland is excited to welcome our fall instalment with two extremely talented performers.”
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Missy Knott (Singing Wild Rice Girl) is an award-winning singer-songwriter known for her rich vocal tone and blend of country, pop, and folk, whose 2021 single “Our Song Acoustic” made it to #3 on the Indigenous Music Countdown on Sirius XM. She is also a mother, business owner, educational assistant, and active member of Curve Lake First Nation. In 2018, Knott founded her Wild Rice Records label in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough and then accepted jobs as an afternoon drive and weekend live radio personality at ELMNT FM in Ottawa and Toronto.
Meredith K. Hoogendam (Katie/Merkat) is a published poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Cobourg. She has also been a high school teacher and a local community radio host and producer. She holds B.A.s in English, Communicationsl and Education and an M.A. in English and Film Studies. Folklore, feminism, archetype, and the natural world informs her work, which has appeared in publications across the U.S. and Canada including Room Magazine, Geez Magazine, Mutha and catapult, and more.
At November 17th Spotlight Series 4 event, both Knott and Hoogendam will transform a one-hour ‘blank slate’ into a unique presentation of their story, passion, and process. There will be an intermission between the performers and an interactive question-and-answer session with the audience at the end.
All funds raised from ‘Spotlight Series 4’ on November 17, 2022 will go towards specialized arts education community programming for children, adults, and seniors. (Poster courtesy of the Art Gallery of Northumberland)
Tickets are $25 (including HST) and are available now at eventbrite.ca/e/448728277357. All funds raised from the event will go towards specialized arts education community programming for children, adults, and seniors.
Light catering and refreshments will be included. Organizers say health and safety precautions will be implemented and ask those who do not feel well to stay home.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland is located on the third floor of Victoria Hall at 55 King Street West in Cobourg.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
