Avalanche
of cloudʼs moody smoulder,
Careens
over snow-fleeced hills.

Adult Creative Crafts is a fun social afternoon where we spend a few hours, away from the house, doing our own favorite craft or hobby in the company of others. We frequently have knitters, scrapbookers, beaders and quilters. The cost is nominal ($5) and we bring a savory or sweet to share for potluck lunch and snacks, and the kettle is always on for endless cups of tea.

Everyone is welcome and we'd love to see what others are working on. Please feel free to drop in anytime to see what we are doing.

We meet once a month on Sunday afternoon between 12 and 5:30 (our Winter/Spring schedule is January 22, February 26, March 25, April 22, June 24) and hope to see some new faces soon, the more the merrier! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Marsha MacKay, phone 604-921-9090

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When I was a lad, many, many, years ago, I attended a high school in Ontario that required its male students to be members of the Canadian Army Cadet Corps. We were issued uniforms and shoes and wooden cut-outs of rifles with which we performed fancy close order drills.

We had a brass band and, once a year, would march through the streets of town with our wooden rifles to the stirring refrain of the “Thunderer” and other military tunes. Today, this imperative would, no doubt, be viewed with horror but back then no one thought it to be particularly outrageous. Quite a bit of school time was spent in practice – marching, mostly.

Summer lies blanched
By thermal Persuasion;
Redolent with mythic fishing tales.
Endless words babbled to
Lost horizons, erased by subtle mist.
Sifting days sweating in
Hourglass of Time.
Youthful dreams:
Baffled tomorrows.
Splintered planks rasped by
Double-edged scimitar of
Sand-blasted winds.
Tussocks of grass shouldering
Aside etiquette; pointless debate:
Philosophy sung
By drones of bees,
Flits of butterflies.
Canvas triangles:
Trinity of letters
Suspended beyond slumbering
Logs.
Spangled waves:
Melting shadows
Adrift on rainbow kites.
Shimmering hours
Softened by
Kneading sun and
Gusting breeze.

Bill Kimmett will be reading a selection of poetry at the Lions Bay Library during Artscene 2011, October 1 between 1:00pm and 2:00pm

Do you have an interest in art?

Be sure to check out this year’s Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. The 2011 Annual Print Collection from Cape Dorset is dedicated to Kananginak Pootoogook, who passed away November 24, 2010. His final six images are included in the collection, signed posthumously by Kananginak’s son, Johnny.

Kananginak’s stylistic range and great popular appeal as a graphic artist is captured in the images in this collection. Historian, storyteller, naturalist and even abstractionist, Kananginak closed his remarkable life and...