Events not to be missed as ASK Festival King continues

July 3, 2013 · 0 Comments

Kindred Spirits Orchestra with top chefs/caterers of King. It takes place July 4 at 7 p.m. at Performing Arts Centre, Country Day School. Tickets available at the door for $35, seniors/students are $30.
Enjoy music, art, and food in a beautiful location overlooking a pond – one of two featured events in next week’s lineup for ASK Festival King. The Junction Trio, a three-some of Toronto-based cellist, violinist and flutist, perform an innovative recital of post-industrial classical music, with overtones of nature, reflective of their idols, the Group of Seven painters.
Joining them on Sunday afternoon, July 7 will be celebrated visual artist Doris Pontieri who will create a painting based on the music she hears with her heart. Pontieri’s painting, Northern Birch Trees, was recently shown at the Louvre in Paris and gained her international recognition.
This unique combination of painting and music will be presented in a natural outdoor amphitheatre on a country estate in the rolling hills of King. Following the performance, high tea will be served.
At another outstanding location, the grounds of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Tom Thomson and his life will be explored. Through a tour of his studio and paintings and a screening of West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson, guests will have an opportunity to understand the unique vision of the painter who helped shape our Canadian identity, but who died so young.
At this event on Monday, July 8 participants will be able to wander through the MCAC and visit the new exhibit: Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky. These are world-famous photographers; one who shoots natural landscapes and the other, human ones. Participants will also be served lunch in the newly renovated Cashew and Clive restaurant.
Discover The Creative You Workshops, there is still room left in the following:
Week Three – July 8 to 12: Watercolour on Rock Paper, Negative Painting, Textured Abstracts, Encaustic & Mixed Media, and Fused Glass Intermediate. Note: Sculpture for Everyone and Ceramics for Your Table are both full but we are taking waiting lists for a new workshop (TBD).
Week Four – July 15 to 19: Intuitive Painting – Mixed Media, Have a Gourd Day! Silver Plated Jewellery and Oil Painting for Beginners.
There are two special photographic workshops during Family Nature Days. July 6 from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Thornton Bales CA with Tom Wray and July 13 from 5 to 8 a.m. Adult Sunrise Hike & Click with Garry Conway.