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Huntingdon
IN BRIEF
SHARE YOUR Visual Arts
Spaghetti Supper COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION
STORY WITH US
Fundraiser
The Saint-Joseph Parish of Huntingdon AT ALFRED-LANGEVIN HALL
If you have a tip or story you invites all to its spaghetti supper fundraiser.
would like to share with us, The supper will include a spaghetti with meat Mona ROCHON
sauce, garlic bread, salad, dessert, coffee, tea
please write to us at Historically, women artists have collaborated
and fruit punch or milk for children, and costs
redaction@media-sudouest.com, only $12 per person. Available at the parish in many ways. Sometimes through collective
or by phone at 450-371-8051. hall’s dining room, as take out or delivery. exhibitions, women have explored the same
Call 450-264-5293 for reservations. theme together, or they have shared a studio
Everyone welcome! n where they could work and exchange on the
many issues at stake
for women artists.
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Le Suroîte Suroîte Suroît Walsh, a local artist, lities, its sensitivity
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and Jennifer Schuler
to the artist’s touch,
have decided to do.
it’s responsiveness
Over the last three
C E N T U R Y - O L D (19-04/21-06) and its unforgiving
LAND FOR SALE years, they have nature.
DUPLEX with two large worked together on
FARM CASH CROP three bedroom apart- SERVICES each piece in order
‘LAND FOR SALE, 63 ments, fully renovated to create a body of The project also gave the two women an
acres tiled drained with heat pump and air PLUMBER: for all kind work that is unique opportunity to discuss many issues women
South Glengarry, conditioning Call: 514- of jobs, large or small and has its own style. artists have faced in the past, and sometimes
Ontario near Dalhousie, 434-2714 (À Confirmer) Call: (450) 807-0472 They exchanged still face today.
Quebec Ontario coun- M Poirier (05-17/05) their paintings in
try Rd 25 Phone: 613- order to complete Mrs. Walsh recalls how in the early ’70s,
525-1325 (08-22/03 & FOR RENT PAINTING: For barns what the other had galleries in Montreal did not want to house the
5/04/2017) and houses, color, alu- work of female artists. This led some women
Large 2 bedroom apart- minum, tar. Mr Donovan started, sometimes artists, and Mrs. Walsh is one of them, to open
three to four times
FOR SALE ment for rent, new, locat- (450) 264-6616 for a single painting. the Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal.
ed in Ormstown. Heat (22-03/22-11) Nowadays, it is called the Centrale Galerie
SAWMILLS from only pump, air conditioning, Powerhouse. This artists centre was one of few
$4,397. - MAKE MONEY large locker, for semi- Is there a Gambling Both artists have where women could work and exhibit their art,
& SAVE MONEY with retired or retired people. problem in your family? worked with many and collaboration between artists often played
Gam-Anon might
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stock ready to ship. Free confirmer) M. Poirier they chose to use work together was because she missed that
Informations:
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www.NorwoodSawmills. CEDARS FOR HEDGE, 1-866-484-6664 for this collabora- in the Haut-Saint-Laurent, she had to diminish
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6899 ext:400OT. delivery (613) 874-2961 www.gam-anon.org they both used, and
so they chose it for
As for Mrs. Schuler, she came up with the
idea as a way of getting to know Mrs. Walsh
better. “We both teach at the Centre des arts
SPAGHETTI
May 5, 2017 Thursday, May 11th, 2017 de 11 am to 7 pm visuels in Montreal, and I was both intrigued
FOR S.A.B.E.C.
and inspired by the fact she was a founding
member of the Powerhouse Gallery, for which
I have so much respect.” The pair developed a
connection as teachers, and she was curious to
The Southwest News At the Bar du Village 45 Châteauguay, Huntingdon have the utmost respect for women of genera-
see the fruit of such a collaborative effort. “I
tions past who had to work hard and fight for
Ticket for sale at: Bar du Village
gender equality, and knowing I would work
with someone who had dedicated herself to
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this cause was both inspiring and motivating
Take out available

- Welcome to everyone! $ 12 for me,” she said.
The exhibition will be at Alfred-Langevin
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until May 14. n