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Cathedral Village Arts Festival returns next week with flair
“It is, I think, a huge part of what it means to be the Cathedral neighbourhood, and to welcome the entire city and beyond into this place that we love.”
The Cathedral Village Arts Festival returns next week, and organizers are more than enthused to welcome thousands back into the streets to indulge in local art, music and community connection.
“The arts is a wonderful way to celebrate that which is treasured to us,” said planning committee chair Cam Fraser.
In the midst of last-minute touches before things get underway on Monday, Fraser took a moment to break down the importance of the theme this year: home.
“For six days, we get to imagine how we want to live the rest of the 349 days of our year.”
The enthusiasm to be back in person is still palpable, he said, even in the festival’s second year rebounding from the switch to virtual through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“So many people have formative experiences of being at home in Cathedral, that are associated with this festival,” he said.
“It is, I think, a huge part of what it means to be the Cathedral neighbourhood, and to welcome the entire city and beyond into this place that we love,” he added. “It’s a beautiful glimpse of the neighbourhood and the world that we want to live in.”
Local artists are arranging a series pop-up galleries in their garages around the neighbourhood, alongside other exhibitions from Slate Gallery, the Art Gallery of Regina and more.
Rock the Block party, hosted at the Mercury Cafe and Cathedral Village Community Centre will return for a second year, with local punk and alternative rock acts to alternate stages all evening.
Various stages throughout the week will host acts including beach punk powerhouse The Definitelays, hip-hop artist Nige B, folk-rock group Andino Suns, Regina-born bilingual four-piece Indigo Joseph and, headlining the weekend, nationally acclaimed hardcore punk rockers F***ed Up.
Overall, the musical talent on the schedule ranges from end to end in genre, added Fraser, from classical mandolins to bluegrass to experimental audio art.
“I don’t know if there is a genre that we don’t have covered,” Fraser said. “We hope that we people will find their new favourite band, new genre that they didn’t know they loved until they heard it here.”
Theatre productions include a provocative exploration of the experience of BIPOC youth, from Luther College High School students, and a play from award-winning theatre company Breaking Down Barriers.
All festival events are free to attend, a core mandate that has prevailed through the event’s 30-year existence. Fraser said the continued success comes down to the willingness of donors, volunteers and performers to make it possible.
A full list of events is available online, and Fraser said organizers are excited to see crowds back on the street of Cathedral next week.
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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.
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