Entertainment Listings

Greater Sudbury entertainment listings for the week of May 6. To post your listing, e-mail [email protected], phone 673-5667 ext. 373, fax 673-4352. Include high-resolution images, minimum 500 kb. Post your listing online.

Art

Sudbury Art Club Spring Show and Sale, over 50 artists with watercolour, acrylic, pastel, oil, mixed media and photography, May 7, 7 pm, wine and cheese reception; May 8, 10 am-4 pm; CNIB Hall, 303 York St. Phone
674-5806.

Sudbury Basin Potters Spring Pottery Sale and Tea, May 8, Church of the Epiphany, 85 Larch St., 10 am-4 pm, free admission, free will donation for church’s outreach missions, 585-3773.

Blaire Flynn works with found material to create media art, show until May 31, opening reception May 8, 6-9 pm at Fromagerie Elgin, 5 Cedar St. Contact [email protected].

Willisville Mountain Project, 45 artists present art of Willisville landscape, to May 16, at Art Gallery of Sudbury, 251 John St.

Ukrainian Seniors’ Centre presents The Soviet Story, award-winning film by Latvian director Edvins Snore, at Ukranian Seniors’ Centre, 30 Notre Dame. Phone 673-7404.

Picture Our Lakes Photography contest, deadline to submit photographs June 11, details at Artists on Elgin, 168 Elgin St., 674-0415 or www.artistsonelgin.ca.

Literature

Le Salon du livre, French book fair with 100 authors, takes place at Sudbury Arena, May 6-8, $6/day, $18/four-day pass. Visit www.lesalondulivre.ca.

Book signing for Healthy Thinking in Times of Trouble, by Gisèle Guénard, May 8, at Chapters, on the Kingsway, 2-4 pm. Contact 585-0872. $1 per book donated to charity of choice.

Book signing for Go Where You Are Planted, by Valerie Morse, May 8, at Coles, 1-3 pm, collection of short stories of her moving from the city to the farm. Phone 897-2449.

Poetry competition for Sudbury literary e-zine, theme My Sudbury. Submit up to six unpublished poems, 180 lines maximum, by May 21 to [email protected].

Music

Free concert hosted by Warmhearts Palliative Caregivers Sudbury/Manitoulin, May 4, at Glad Tidings auditorium, features award-winning music educator Bev Foster. Contact 677-0077.

Bel Canto Chorus spring concert, St. Andrew’s Place, 111 Larch St., May 4 and 5, 7:30 pm. Tickets $12 at Black Cat and at door.

Peter Katz in concert with Stef Paquette, CANARYS Local 6500 strikers Benefit concert, May 4, Croatian Centre, 571 Kathleen St., 7 pm, minimum $10 donation, free for Local 6500 strikers and their families. Phone 674-9433.

Hamilton band City Sirens, at Little Montreal, 182 Elgin St., May 6, 10 pm. Tickets $5. Phone 905-296-5301.

Singer-songwriter keyboardist Yann Perreau, May 6, 8:30 pm, at Grand Night Club. Part of Grande Slague du Carrefour francophone’s concert series. Tickets $25/adults, $15/post-secondary students and seniors, $5/high school students. Available at Théâtre du Nouvel Ontario, 21 Lasalle Blvd., and by phone 525-5606 ext. 4.

Rock This Country, Country Legends Tribute Show, May 7, 1500 Pub, 1500 Regent St., 9:30 pm; also at Highway Tavern, Wahnapitae, May 8, 9:30 pm. Tickets $10 advance at Records on Wheels, $15 at venue. 522-8900, or www.sudburyeventplanner.com.

Rush tribute band, Assumed Control, at Steelworkers Hall, 66 Brady St., May 8, 9:30 pm, charity food drive for Steelworkers on strike, $5 at door.

Allison Lickley of Sudbury/Montreal house concert, May 8. Tickets $10. For reservations contact 522-2488 or [email protected].

Country Rock N’ Blues dance with Double Take, May 14, 9 pm, Howard Johnson. Tickets $10 advance at Little Montreal, Jett Landry or venue, $15 at door. Contact 561-1931.

Sultans of String, May 9, at Laughing Buddha, 194 Elgin St., 8 pm, $15; Mother’s Day Fiddle Fire performance with Chris McKhool, May 9, 2 pm, $10. Contact 673-2112, or www.laughingbuddhasudbury.com.

Ontario song writing duo Laugh Rebel, at the Townehouse, May 13, 10 pm. Contact [email protected].

The Undesirables duo, house concert in Greater Sudbury, May 14, 8 pm, $20. Proceeds to the artists. Contact [email protected], or 674-0422.

Three Inches of Blood band from Vancouver, May 14, Serbian Centre, 231 Bloor St. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door, at Records on Wheels, Rock Topic, [email protected].

Chelmsford Fiddle and Step Dance Festival, May 14 and 15, Club 50, 25 Main St., Chelmsford, advance passes $20, $25 at door, G&P Variety, 3577 Errington St., 855-0248, www.fiddleworks.net.

Concert for world literacy, with Canadian R and B singer George Oliver, Philip May, and the Sudbury Saturday Night Orchestra, St. Andrew’s Place, May 15, 8 pm. Tickets $20, at Octave Music, Records on Wheels, Prom Music, Jet Landry Music, Durham Natural Foods.

Let’s Dance 2010 with Jaapuls; five-piece contemporary band from Toronto, Polish Combatant’s Hall, 291 Albinson St., May 15, cocktails at 5 pm, supper at 6 pm, dance 8pm-1 am. $35/person. Phone 693-4373.

Fifth annual dance festival, with Arabesque Dance Company, belly dancing, whirling dervish and others, cash prizes, hosted by Ontario International. Alphonse Raymond Auditorium, Laurentian University, May 15, 8 pm. Admission $30. Contact 671-3000 or www.ontariointernational.org.

Toronto blues guitarist Morgan Davis, May 16, 7 pm; Suzie Vinnick and Rick Fines in concert, June 18, 7:30 pm, at Grumblers Restaurant, 1620 Regent St. Tickets $20 at venue. 523-6200.

French Canadian shock rocker Robert Charlebois, kicks off St. Jean-Baptiste day 2010 festivities, 8 pm at the Grand Night Club, 28 Elgin St. Tickets $48/adults, $38/students and seniors, available at the Theatre du Nouvel-Ontario. Contact 525-5606 or www.letno.ca.

Sudbury Secondary School Dance Program presents Let’s Dance, Sheridan Auditorium, 85 MacKenzie St. May 20, 7:30 pm. Tickets $10/adults, $6/students and seniors. Contact 674-7551 ext. 6836.

Ashley MacIsaac headlines Greater Sudbury Celtic Festival and Highland Games, Parc Sacre Coeur, 261 Notre Dame Ave., May 22, 7 pm, advance tickets $25, includes two-day festival pass, 918-2601.

Theatre

Sudbury Theatre Centre presents The Full Monty, until May 22, at 170 Shaughnessy St. May 6 performance proceeds to Sudbury Developmental Services, tickets $40 (tax receipt issued for $20), phone 674-1451 ext. 237; May 16 performance proceeds to Sudbury Food Bank. All other performances, nightly 8 pm, except May 9, 2 pm. Phone STC at 674-8381 ext. 21. www.sudburytheatre.on.ca.

Habitat for Humanity fundraiser for fifth build in the Sudbury region, with Renaissance Productions’ original piece Stages of Life; performance by local band the Tremonics. Preview performance for Theatre Cambrian’s upcoming musical All Shook Up, May 8, meet and greet at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm. Tickets $15. Phone 669-0624.

Laugh Out Loud comedy festival, May 26-29, a program of Cinéfest Sudbury. For tickets and venues www.lolsudbury.com.