Northern Ontario director Darlene Naponse will premiere a new feature length film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival in Utah this month.
A component of the official festival program announced by the Sundance Institute, Cradlesong is an 80-minute feature film written, directed and produced by Naponse.
Cradlesong is a journey through the implications and realities of life in a rural native community. The plot climaxes with one character?s moment of madness. Cradlesong is an independent Rez Style film shot in DVcam, in real-time on location at Whitefish Lake First Nation with a budget of $75,000.
Naponse is an Ojibway woman from Whitefish Lake. She is a writer, director, producer and poet.
Laura Robinson, journalist, author, and former national-level cyclist and Nordic skier, will present a public lecture entitled Confronting the Nightmares of the Past: The Story of 10 Indigenous Runners, Monday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 pm, in Laurentian University?s Governors? Lounge, 11th floor of the R.D. Parker Building. Admission is free and everyone is invited.
During her stay on campus, Robinson will meet students in human kinetics, English, theatre arts, Native studies, sport psychology, women?s studies, communications and in the Interdisciplinary M.A. program.
One of Canada?s most respected and forward-thinking sports writers, she is the author of Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality and Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada?s National Sport (1997), and she is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, Explore, and Chatelaine.
Former Northern Life columnist and hard-working supporter of the arts, Jan Carrie Steven, is now the re-integration program community chaplain. She can be reached at OverComers, 124 Cedar St., Suite 202, Sudbury or by phoning 698-4042. Steven has been an active member of the Sudbury Arts Council for many years.
ServiceMaster Clean recent recognized Tony and Tracy Nutt, owners of ServiceMaster of Sudbury, as winners of the Achiever Award at an international convention held in Memphis.
Recipients must meet a variety of criteria in order to be nominated, including a minimum revenue amount, a minimum growth of 10 per cent and a nomination by their regional office.
The winners honoured at the recent convention in Tennessee represented the top performing franchise owners from over 4,000 businesses world-wide.
ServiceMaster Clean is consistently named as one of the top franchise companies worldwide by industry publications. For more than 50 years, ServiceMaster Clean has been a leader in the restoration and cleaning industry. ServiceMaster Clean, a subsidiary of The ServiceMaster Company, has more than 4,000 franchises world wide and more than 12 million customers in Canada and 40 countries around the world.
More information is available at www.servicemasterclean.com.
David Rogers, one of Canada?s leading musical talents who has starred in productions ranging from Broadway revues to major musicals, is coming to Sudbury to put on what is being billed as an unforgettable Broadway experience at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.
Rogers? show Broadway Heroes, A Salute to Great Leading Men, will be performed Jan. 17 and 18 at 8 pm
Tickets for this STC fundraiser are available at 674-8381 at $18 for students and seniors and $25 for adults.
Rogers plays tribute to such leading legends as Al Jolson, Gordon McCrae, John Raitt and Richard Kiley and to current leading men such as Mandy Patinkin, Colm Wilkinson and Michael Crawford.
The program will include numbers fromCarousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Showboat, Annie Get Your Gun, Man of La Mancha and My Fair Lady.
