Our Calendar of Events
EHAC offers workshops and concerts each season, creating opportunities for artistic expression and skill development. Based on a curated mix of genres and popularity, and mindful of our superb acoustics, up and coming musicians are invited to perform in our extraordinary space. Workshops are offered whenever teaching professionals visit the Bight and express interest in sharing their craft. Or perhaps an artist in residence will offer a class. Every season is different. Have a look at this season's offerings.
Events for June 2014
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Jun 27
Traditional Glaze Oils with Kathy Marlene Bailey
10:00 a.m. to June 30th, 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $400.00If you want to learn how the old master painted, how paint and colour can work for you, and you want to do it in four days...well this is the course for you. This condensed course will teach you colour mixing skills, colour value, and fine colour perception, and is suitable for beginner and very advanced students.
Four day workshop 10-4 Friday, June 27 - Monday, June 30
$400
A materials list will be provided to registrants, or materials can be purchased on the first day of the workshop, approximately $100.
Kathy Marlene Bailey lives in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the University of Toronto in Art Education and Sheridan College in Creative Arts. She has had an active practice in art-making since then, especially since 1995. She has participated for many years in commercial galleries, public exhibitions and juried shows, winning many awards for her work. Her media choices have primarily been traditional glaze oil painting and fine porcelain sculpture.
Both her parents were artists and her childhood summers were spent at a cottage in Haliburton County with a large and closely knit extended family and grandparents. Nature left an indelible mark on her through this experience, as she became fascinated with everything in it with all its complexity and diversities. Water held the most amazing qualities. Kathy has always been spellbound by it - as a small child, incessantly trying to catch its rhythm and its magic with her eyes - and then later as an artist, with both her eyes and paint.
Kathy is one of a handful of artists in Canada who works in the highly specialized field of traditional glaze oil painting. This extremely old method of painting is an ideal medium for exploring water. With it, Kathy is able to record astounding levels of subtle detail. The method has limitless usages to tweak and pull colour, value and colour quality. In her paintings, transparency, translucency, opacity, light and dark, vivid and quiet colours dance together in rich harmonic melody, dancing to her eyes and soul.
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Jun 29
Cponcert in the Harbour with Terry Penney
Once again Terry Penney will fill the arts centre with songs and stories of long ago times in English Harbour, and help us to prepare for Newfoundland's Memorial Day.
$15 8 PM
Terry has close family connections to English Harbour: his Dad's family was from English Harbourand and our venue was actually the church his family attended. Terry's great Uncle Steve Penney ran a General Store in English Harbour. And Terry has received strong accolades for his song "Shells" which is on his latest album: the main character in the song, a World War I veteran, is from Trinity Bay. This song was chosen as a Folk Song finalist at last year's Kerrville Folk Songwriting Competition in Kerrville Texas.
Terry Penney is a Newfoundland singer/songwriter whose songs are so vivid and image-driven they have been likened to "3-minute movies". He is a world class storyteller and performer with the uncanny ability to "put you there" in his songs and for the past decade he has done just that. Penney is an old soul who has always had a penchant for the past. Consequently, his songs are often set in a by-gone era when little boys dreamed of helping the Lone Ranger and World War veterans still walked the streets as young men.
Not surprising, the first music Penney was drawn to as a child were records from his parents collection: Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits, Elvis, and The American Graffiti Sound Track. These discoveries started a lifelong appreciation for artists from that era. "There's just something about the rawness and honesty of those early recordings that I've always been drawn to and those are elements that I strive for in my own music." From there he gravitated towards artists like Steve Earle and John Prine, and it's with the afore-mentioned that Penney aligns himself stylistically. "All my favorite artists today are mavericks who don't neatly fit into one genre of music."
Terry Penney is a commanding artist with five full-length albums that have garnered numerous awards and honors, including 2012 Music NL Country Artist of the Year. His extensive touring experience includes major events like the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Nova Scotia, US tour of Maine and a UK tours in Ireland and England. Penney's fifth album, The Last Guitar, was released on February 14, 2012 to critical acclaim (4 Stars, Maverick Magazine, UK).
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