This year’s AFMHS Fall Fair will be bigger & better than ever-with more Vendors/Community Groups and FREE Activities, Displays & Demonstrations- set-up throughout the 14acre site and 2 more hours to explore the fair! Kid Friendly
Brunch + Word Lovers + Poetry Reading = One Great Event! __________________________________________________ Saturday, September 9, at 9:30 a.m., at La Fromagerie Entry fee $20 (includes brunch & 1-year membership in Wordstock Sudbury) __________________________________________________ Everyone is invited to Wordstock Sudbury's 1st Annual General Meeting. Over brunch, you'll hear from the Board of Directors of Wordstock Sudbury LIterary Festival, get the details on this year's Festival lineup from Festival Director Heather Campbell, AND be treated to a poetry reading by visiting poet Sarah Pinder. Sarah Pinder is the author of Cutting Room (Coach House Books, 2012) and Common Place (Coach House Books, 2017). Her writing has been shortlisted for the Expozine Small Press Awards, and included in magazines like Geist, Arc and Poetry is Dead. A long-time zine-maker, you can also find her work in Montreal’s Distroboto art vending machines. Originally from Sault Ste Marie, Sarah now lives in Toronto, Canada.
12pm Afro Madness Drum Troupe 1pm Sarah Craig + Sunnyside Jazz 2pm Loco Zydeco Join us with your family as we bring live music into the heart of the City as we welcome local as well as terrific out-of-town guest acts to enjoy a fun-filled day for the entire family! Food vendors and kids activities onsite!
JAZZ WALK The Nickel City Dixie Stompers will lead a New Orleans style parade between venues 1pm LU Jazz Combo @ Fromagerie Elgin 2pm Eric St-Laurent Quartet @ Red Fang Tavern 3pm Laila Biali @ STC Cabaret The Jazz Walk is back !! Get up close and personal and interact with some of these year's headlining acts in some of Sudbury's favorite landmark downtown venues as local dixieland band NCDS leads you on a musical parade through the street of Sudbury's downtown core. Catch the ever-evolving musical prowess of Sudbury's rising stars as school is in and the LU Jazz Combo kicks things off at Sudbury's favorite cheesery and cafe. Parade your way into some Afro-Cuban Rythms and some bluesy influences as Eric St-Laurent and his bandmates treat you to infectious grooves, plenty of interaction and a musical adventure. Finally, dixie stomp your way down the road to the Sudbury Theatre Centre Cabaret as Award-Winning Vocalist and Pianist Laila Biali takes to the baby grand piano to provide us with an elegant fusion of pop and jazz vocals. This veritable musical buffet will feel like an appetizer and you can bet you'll be joining us for the evening concerts at the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre.
Join Up Here's mural coordinators, Nico Glaude and Alexandra Berens-Firth, on a walking guided tour of the murals downtown. Up Here festival and We Live Up Here have created and curated over 20 pieces of public art in Sudbury since the summer of 2013. Tour leaves at 2pm in front of Tracy Baker's Stay Wild mural in Memorial Park. Tours can be done in both French and English upon request. PWYC Pay what you can! Suggested donation of $5 that will go towards the tour guides and future We Live Up Here projects. UP HERE APP Download the Up Here app to enhance your tour experience. Follow along to dive deeper in the artists' work.
World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) takes place every year on September 10th, which is a date recognized internationally as a day to bring awareness to suicide prevention and postvention, and to also recognize those lost to suicide and those left behind. The North East Suicide Prevention Network’s 4th Annual WSPD event will take place again this year at the Elizabeth Gazebo, Bell Park (off Elizabeth St), on Sunday, September 10th, starting at 4:30 p.m. This year's event is being held in partnership with the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra and the N’Swakamok Kweok Hand Drummers. Our 1 hour concert will be part of the "Mysterious Barricades" coast to coast concert series, raising awareness about mental health and suicide. This free, live streamed via the internet concert will be 21 hours long, featuring 15 Canadian cities/locations, beginning at sunrise in Newfoundland, and ending with sunset on the British Columbia coast. More information about the Mysterious Barricades concert can be found at http://www.mysteriousbarricades.org/, including a short video of last year's concert. As we have done every year, we will also have our free BBQ, and our butterfly release....butterflies to be sold for $10 each on site, on in advance at the Canadian Mental Health Association office on Elm St in Sudbury. The release of butterflies is a beautiful way to remember and honour the lives of those we have lost. We hope you can join us!
The proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico is almost 2000 miles long. Imagine if the massive distance of this wall was re-conceptualized and re-contextualized not to divide, but to include. Instead of wall, a concrete line, to keep people out, what if lines of yarn became 3,500,640 yards of blankets to welcome people in? The Welcome Blanket project was started by Jayna Zweiman, cofounder of the Pussyhat Project. Let's show our U.S. neighbours some solidarity and join in on the Welcome Blanket project. Join us to make a welcome blanket for a new immigrant to the United States. Let’s build a project of inclusion together! Welcome Blanket allows us to connect locally and build positive community— and share this connection nationally and globally. A welcome blanket is traditionally created to lovingly mark the arrival of a new person into the world. In the Welcome Blanket project, each handmade blanket is a physical manifestation of this celebration of new refugees and other immigrants: “Welcome to the United States and your new life here! We are so glad you have arrived.” The blankets you make, along with your enclosed notes, will be displayed together in an inaugural show at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago until December 17. After the show's close, the blanket packages will be distributed to refugees and other immigrants through resettlement organizations. The Smart Museum catalogues the blanket and the note, and posts it to our website www.welcomeblanket.org/gallery so we can watch the distance of inclusion grow! When: Monday, September 11 and Monday, October 2, 6-8pm Cost: $5- will be used to help pay postage to ship the blanket(s). Supplies: Please bring 1 or 2 colours of washable (super wool or acrylic) bulky weight yarn and size 8mm/US11 straight needles or we will...
As a parent, I've learned (the hard way sometimes) that being prepared is half the battle. I know that many of you would be very interested in making healthier, more natural choices if only it was quick, easy and affordable. I have always loved natural options, essential oils, saving money and diy projects. Now I'd like to share some of what I've learned, and some new things, with you. So, what are our options as parents to support healthy immune systems, focus and concentration, positive moods and good sleep patterns? For my family, we turn to essential oils as our first and primary option. My kids have learned to ask "mom, is there an oil I can use for ...?". Now that they're a bit older, they'll even text me when I'm out so I can check my app and report back. They know where the oil kit is and how to use them. They even take oils to camp, sleepovers and to school when they need them. Once you know some basics that are safe for kids, you can equip them to take a more active role in their own wellbeing too. If you would like to learn more about how to keep your family clean and healthy while reducing harmful chemicals in your home and environment, please join me for this FREE class. Please bring a friend. If you or your friends aren't available on these dates, why not host a class? It's fun, informative and a great way to learn, grow and support one another.
You know the deal! 3 rounds of 15 questions, and one bonus question per round. Pages are marked a-la grade 5 math class by passing them to a friend. 8pm until ~11, teams of 2-8, --> Get there early seats fill up and we don't take reservations! $5 per person. Prizes for 1st place overall Last place over all Along with prizes for Sportsmanship, and Awesomeness! Winner takes home bragging rights and some awesome prizes are awarded throughout the night! BOARD OF AWESOME: Points scored for being awesome and promoting awesome things! Find a funny answer on someone's card, even if its not the right answer you can still nominate them for an awesome star. We also reward jokers and pranksters and all those who don't cheat!
Nutella pizza, chocolate risotto, chocolate kale salad..... Celebrate World Chocolate Day at Verdicchio! Let us add a little sweetness to your day with either - or all – of these items. Chocolate not your thing? The pizza oven will be open and roaring at lunch and dinner, so enjoy a pie from our regular pizza selection. But really, do we need another excuse to enjoy chocolate? Call 705-523-2794 to reserve.