Last week students from Summerland Secondary presented Dating for Dummies at Centre Stage Theatre. Later this week and next week a number of plays and concerts will be performed at the Shatford Centre in Penticton.
First up is a new group who call themselves the Shatford Players. They are presenting Colleen Curran’s play Cake-Walk tonight, Friday and Saturday in the Shatford Auditorium.
Curran, who some of you may have heard interviewed by Dennis Walker on socountry.ca Monday morning, is a Canadian author who has written an amazing story filled with humour, laughter, jealousy, pain and love.
In Cake-Walk, Curran has developed each of the six characters at different “turning points” in their lives, and throws them together for the annual Canada Day town fair. As so often happens in life, the journey is the most fun – or is it all fun? Watch it and find out.
Next up are the Cawston Players with an edgy black comedy that touches on loaded topics of misogyny, racial prejudice, and homophobia in its comic pummelling of middle class sensibilities.
Please be advised that God of Carnage, contains adult themes and coarse language.
Showgirls, glitz and glamour are at the Shatford Centre June 6 when the Celebration Singers, of Kelowna, present Babes Hit Hollywood and some of the most iconic songs heard on the big screen.
This all-female, auditioned, non-profit singing group invite you to tap, snap, and clap along to outstanding film hits; featuring music from movies such as Pitch Perfect, Saturday Night Fever, Dreamgirls, Dirty Dancing and Slumdog Millionaire.
In addition to drama and music there are several art exhibitions in the next few weeks.
Both of Summerland’s painting groups will be displaying (and selling) their works.
First up are the Summerland Pleasure Painters with their Art Show and Sale this weekend at the St. Stephen’s Anglican Church Hall.
The Summerland Art Club will be holding their annual Show and Sale during the Action Festival weekend when over 20 artists will be presenting new, original works in watercolour, acrylics, oil, pastels and pencil in the lower floor of the Summerland Library on Wharton Street.
For times, prices and more details on these and other cultural events in our area see the Art Council’s website or subscribe to the e-Palette.
David Finnis is the publicity chair and past president of the Summerland Community Arts Council, P.O. Box 1217, 9908 Main St., Summerland, B.C. V0H 1Z0.