Entertainment listings

Greater Sudbury entertainment listings for the week of June 22. To post your listing, e-mail [email protected], phone 673-5667 ext. 377, fax 673-4352. Include high-resolution images, minimum 500 kb. Post your listing online.

Art

Pot-pourri - An Artistic Medley, at Artists on Elgin, 168 Elgin St. Paintings, photography and crafts by Ellen Gorecki and Hermina Hubert, until June 23. www.artistsonelgin.ca.

Open Screen Subterranean Blues, projected photography from 4 Sudbury ShutterBugs, June 30, 8-10pm. Creative Spark Gallery, 7 Cedar Street.

33rd annual La Cloche Art Show, July 3-11, at Whitefish Falls Community Centre. Deadline for submissions June 18 and 19. Information and entry forms at www.lacloche.ca.

Jennifer Angus exhibit, Unnatural Nature: Diary of a Mad Scientist and Obsessive Insect Collector, at Art Gallery of Sudbury, 251 John St., to Sept. 6. Open Tues.-Sat., 10 am-5 pm, Sun. 12-5 pm. www.artsudbury.org or 675-4871.

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, 174 Elgin St., features village démocratie: phase 1 by Karine Giboulo. 500-figurine stage, illustrating differences between the developed world and Central American slums. Contact www.gn-o.org or 673-4927.

Music

Dr. Pinkham’s Medicine Show, roots music variety show featuring Manitoba Hal, Allison Brown, June 23, 8 pm, Laughing Buddha. Tickets $10.

Sarah Craig and the Jamie Stever Band, perform at Savour the Street, June 26, 6 pm-12 am on Durham Street. Community Table features 300 seats, extensive dinner menu, from Greater Sudbury Restaurant and Foodservice Association. Tickets $130, available at Kitchen Bits, 1390 The Kingsway, 674-3743. Contact 929-9892 or 626-0040.

Bell Park Gazebo concert series, Bilingual performance of old and new country music by Les Compagnons, June 27, 7 pm. Free admission, outdoors at gazebo. Rain venue Older Adult Centre, 140 Durham St. Phone 522-2854.

House concert with Bill Bourne, multiple Juno Award nominee and winner, June 27, 8pm, Tickets/$20, reserve in advance, Val at 673-1942.

Songwriting and recording boot camp, with Espanola-born producers Terry Sawchuk and Alf Annibalini. Three-day training seminar at St. Benedict Secondary, July 16-18. $200 before June 25, $250 after. 674-9954 or www.thinknorth.ca.

Bell Park Gazebo concert series, Naked Soul, good music stripped down to its rawest form, July 18, 7pm. Free admission, outdoors at gazebo. Rain venue Older Adult Centre, 140 Durham St. Phone 522-2854.

The Holly Springs Disaster (Saskatchewan), Architects (United Kingdom), Structures (Toronto), The Prosthetic Hearts (Sudbury) Aug. 13, 6:30 pm, at The Jubilee Centre. All ages. Tickets $17/advanced, $20/door www.maplemusic.com.

Music On The Grass, Aug. 14, at 300 Elbow Rd., Estaire. The Rivets, Bonita Mercer, Bend of Elbow. Tickets $20/adults, kids under 10 free. Camping by reservation. 695-2798, www.musiconthegrass.com.

Jazz Sudbury Festival, Sept. 10-12, at Science North. Headliners Oliver Jones with Ranee Lee, Alex Cuba, Brandi Disterheft, Manteca. Tickets at www.jazzsudbury.ca.

2008 Canadian Idol winner Theo Tams performs with Adam Crossley, Sept. 12, 7 pm at St. Andrews Place, 111 Larch St. Advance tickets $20/adults, $18/students and seniors, at Black Cat and Jett Landry. $25 and $23 at the door. Phone 523-6200.

Johnny Reid with The Stellas, Nov. 2, Sudbury Arena, 6:30 pm. Tickets $22.50/$43.50/$64.50, available at www.livenation.com or 671-3000 or www.greatersudbury.ca.

Steelworkers Local 6500 and friends Thursday night jam sessions, at union headquarters, 66 Brady St., play, sing or listen, 6-11 pm, musicians and spectators welcome, www.uswlocal6500.ca/news.php.

Literature

Author Jean Lafleur book signing at Coles, June 26 1-3 pm. Children’s book writer of Kevin and Askem: An Awesome Twosome.

Theatre

Thorneloe Summer Theatre presents Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, June 24-26, 7 pm, on the Thorneloe chapel lawn, at Laurentian University. Bring lawn chairs and pay what you can. Phone 673-1730.

Theatre Cambrian’s All Shook Up, until June 26. Tickets $26.50/adults, $21.50/students and seniors, $16.50/children 13 and under, available at Records on Wheels, Jett Landry Music, Azilda Rexall, and Vrab’s Your Independent Grocer. Contact 524-7317 or www.theatrecambrian.ca.

Auditions for Theatre Cambrian’s The Best of Billboard Concert, July 2, 6-9pm., July 3, 1-5pm., July 4, 1-5pm. Must perform one up-tempo song and one ballad. 524-7317 to book audition.

Lock and Keynote Productions theatre camp for children, July 5-16, 9 am-4 pm, Arts North, 7 Cedar St., Suite 203, $325, www.lockandkeynote.com.

Fundraiser for community and school groups, Sudbury Theatre Centre (STC) setting aside 532 tickets for 2010-2011 season to help local not-for-profit groups. Shows include Moonlight, Magnolias, Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, Vigil, I Had a Job I Liked. Applications at www.sudburytheatre.on.ca. Contact 674-8381 ext. 21, or 170 Shaughnessy St.