Local artist Asaph Maurer has watched the local arts community struggle for years in finding consistent support and seeing the Windsor area benefit from what the arts can provide.
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Gala a celebration of growing the arts in Windsor
“I’ve been an artist in the area for six years and realized we didn’t have any big galas for the arts community that other cities have,” Maurer said. “Since no one was doing these things, I realized I could do it myself to create an asset for the arts community and people who live here.
“This building is being converted into the home for film and media and I wanted to combine it with my area of focus in the visual arts. I wanted to showcase the property in the best possible light in its new journey.”
Guests were able to view roughly 200 pieces of visual art ranging from professional to emerging talent. The evening also featured live performances including music, movement artists, aerialists and a LightForm show.
“The highlight for me, besides showcasing local talent, was to bring talent from other cities and show how they can be an attraction for this community,” Maurer said. “We have artists from Detroit, Montreal and Toronto. Events such as this can help show the economic driver the arts can be.”
The gala also helped serve as a fundraising event with 50 per cent of ticket sales and event proceeds being donated to MACC.
“The concept for MACC came following years of work with youth and young adults who asked for a central place to learn, network and produce,” said Amanda Gellman, president of the Windsor Centre for Film, Digital Media and the Creative Arts — a non-profit which now owns the building.
“The brain drain of creative to other regions has hurt our community and we were asked by young people who did not want to leave Windsor to help find a solution.
“The other benefit is young people who stay in the region can work together on their dream films, while also producing creative corporate videos that will serve to grow all sectors of the economy.”
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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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