DARBY, SMALLFRY + STORRIER OPEN AT GALLERY AT THE MAC TONIGHT: Cows, Queens + Subconscious Dreams: Three women-friends exhibit new paintings July 26 – September 13, 2010

Linda Darby, Virginia SmallFry and Jane Storrier, three long-time friends who occasionally exhibit together, are doing it again, starting tonight at 7:00 p. m. through to 9:00 p.m. in the MacPherson Playhouse lobby.

The three women have entitled the show ‘Cows, Queens and Subconscious Dreams,’ referring to the subject matter of Storrier, Darby and SmallFry, in that order of reference.

A poster advertising the opening reception shows ‘Queen Clytemnestra,’ an acrylic by Linda Darby, ‘Tea for Two,’ a portrait in oil and mixed media of Virginia SmallFry’s husband James Fry, and ‘Indian Cow,’ an acrylic by Jane Storrier.

The lobby gallery is open during performances in the playhouse, or by appointment: 250 361-0800.

The artists would like to thank the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, the MacPherson Playhouse and the City of Victoria for help in staging their three women’s show.

My wife Dawn Keough and I are looking forward to attending this opening reception with keen interest, to see our old friends once again, and to see what new cows, queens and subconscious dreams they have  brought to their canvases.

– Goyo de la Rosa’ (Gregory Hartnell), Editor

CONCERNED CITIZENS’ COALITION WEBLOG, LA ROSA and ROCKLAND

 

CCC TRANSCULTURAL ARTS PROPAGANDA 2010

Vander Zalm’s FANTASTIC victory over The Liar: 705,643 FIGHT HST petitions signed!

WHEN WILL THE LIAR BE RECALLED?

 

There was a time in the late eighties and early nineties when I didn’t have much use for then Premier William Vander Zalm, because his Social Credit government had a bad plan to privatize a national historic site and designated Provincial heritage building on the edge of downtown Victoria called Saint Anne’s Academy, and the Greater Victoria Concerned Citizens’ Association and the Saint Anne’s Rescue Community Coalition fought that stupid plan in the courts.

But these days, Mr. Vander Zalm is the hero of at least 705,643 of his fellow B. C. taxpayers, including myself and my wife Dawn Keough Hartnell, having amassed that staggering number of signatures on his FIGHT HST petition.

Gordo Campbell, the current lame duck ‘BC Liberal’ premier who is despised  by more than 80% of those polled recently, got the guest editorial slot in the pro-corporate business monopoly paper today, but his arguments are falling on deaf ears.

Hopefully, a last-minute application for an injunction to halt the petition in the courts by a pro-corporate business lobby group will be similarly rejected by a prudent judge.

Most people want to know and can’t wait to see when The Liar himself will be recalled.

The recalls will start, but not soon enough for many of us.

But Mr. Vander Zalm is wise like a serpent, and does not want to hand over all the hard work garnered by the FIGHT HST volunteers to the hapless New Democratic Party (NDP), led by the absent Carole James, as Times Colonist pundit Les Leyne noted in his column the other day.

The former premier will chip away at the pro-tax Liberals most vulnerable to recall (those who forced more than 25% of eligible voters to sign petitions in their ridings).

Bringing down the government now would serve nobody’s interests except those of the NDP, and Billy the Gardener is too smart to do that.

A new party of fiscal responsibility is the order of the day.

Let’s hope that it grows quickly out of this FIGHT HST organization and folds the  stalled and unorganized Conservative Party of BC under its wing, as that party is certainly not the right vehicle to take this movement to the Victoria Legislature to form government.

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, Editor

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition Weblog