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Three to See Saturday: Sherwood Park art, free science at TWoSE and … not Ahsoka?
Ni’kmaq and Resilience: Two engaging new exhibitions are up in Sherwood Park, Nelson White’s Ni’kmaq — My Family, and Margaret Witschel and Delio Delgado’s Resilience. White is a Mi’kmaq artist and member of the Flat Bay First Nation Band (No’kmaq Village) in Flat Bay, Newfoundland, sharing stories of the strong bonds formed within extended families and communities. Witschl’s paintings, meanwhile, serve as her navigational tool for supporting her own mental well-being amidst life’s challenges, while Delgado’s large-scale abstract paintings provide a glimpse into his reflections on mortality and healing. Artist reception is 6:30 p.m. Sept. 6, mark it!
Details: Runs through Oct. 7 at Gallery@501 (#120 – 501 Festival Ave.), free admission
Free science for evacuees: Telus World of Science has announced free admission for families displaced by wildfires. The offer includes access to the six permanent Exhibit Galleries and the Zeidler Dome theatre. “In 2016, my family and I were forced to leave our home in Fort McMurray because of wildfires,” notes TWoSE’s president and CEO Constance Scarlett. “I know the stress and worry these families are facing. If free admission to the Science Centre can help raise their spirits, even a little, then we must do it.” Families just need to show their government-issued ID at the box office to get in — IMAX screenings, laser shows and Art of the Brick not included.
Ahsoka (2023): Normally this space would encourage engagement for positive reasons, but the first episodes of the new Star Wars series Ahsoka are so gratingly dull and badly written, it’s kind of worth watching them just to join the conversation about what went wrong. Rosario Dawson is absolutely stiff as the no-fun lead, and the dialogue and stakes are just shy of pointless. Warless Star Wars? Watch Foundation instead!
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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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