2008 - March Niagara News
MARCH BREAK IN THE NIAGARA REGION
Spring Break, March Break, label it as you wish, but get planning now!
There seems to be a sort of unwritten rule that the name “Fort Lauderdale” has to come up in any discussion of March Break. Older students may be heading for the southern U.S. or to Mexico, Whistler, or St. Moritz for their Spring holiday, and that’s jolly nice, but I’m focusing here on Elementary School and High School students and their families. There’s another rule in these discussions along the lines of: March Break is more about recovering from Winter Frazzles than engaging with the looming Springtime. I’m not completely convinced about the veracity of that rule, but it has a certain ring to it. [Read More]
HOW GREEN CAN YOU GO? ST.PATRICK'S DAY IN NIAGARA
Yes - What Would James Joyce Do? Whenever things of an Irish nature crop up on me (and little is more Irish than St Patrick’s Day) I ask myself that question. And if, this year, Ireland’s late great master of literature returned to Earth in the Niagara area for the St Paddy’s Day festivities, I can tell you what I think he’d do.
First of all he would whinge about being used as a framing device for a web article. “And about Naomh Padraig of all t’ings,” he’d moan in stage-Irish. Second, he’d enlighten me as to what little we actually know about Naomh, er, St Patrick. Third, he’d make sure he’d be able to make it to Niagara-on-the-Lake for supper on Monday and make reservations for a wine tour Monday afternoon. Then he’d arrange to sneak off to Buffalo for the big parade Sunday afternoon. [Read More]
CAROUSEL PLAYERS PRESNETS BLUENOSE
Pirate-clowns or Clown-pirates? In either case, they’re the ones with the red noses in Emil Sher’s Bluenose, which receives its latest staging for children and families on March 29, thanks to Carousel Players and director Pablo Felices-Luna.
Katie Bowes plays Ku, who has a blue nose. The pirates (Spatt, Ratt and Knat; Mark Crawford, Conor Green and Deanna Jones) can’t wrap their heads around that - Ku must be kidnapped. And Ku knows that not all is quite right with piratical behaviour. So we’re set for a romp of a play with a message. [Read More]
