{"id":4758,"date":"2013-11-27T21:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:32:53","slug":"give-yourself-a-treat-check-out-the-cultural-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/give-yourself-a-treat-check-out-the-cultural-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Give yourself a treat, check out the Cultural Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cultural Centre has been an enormous cultural addition to Aurora. It has provided our Town with a wide range of concerts from folk to classical throughout each year, performed by accomplished artists.
\nTo see them in Toronto, ticket prices would be much higher, plus gas and parking charges.
\nOther opportunities it provides are theatre performances, ballet, historical displays like the use of the Town\u2019s historic artefacts to create a memorial for the Town for Remembrance Day and play readings in which actors read out new plays, making audiences able to feed their reactions to the writer.
\nThere have been exhibitions of varied paintings, metalwork, pottery, from modern to more traditional, that are open to everyone \u2013 and free. This is a great opportunity to introduce children to these subjects that may give them a lasting interest in this creativity or promote a wish in them to create themselves.
\nWhen we took our grandson to galleries, I\u2019d ask him to look through a room and then name his five favourites each time. It made him study them more deeply. I remember a show that was powerful about how the Japanese in Canada were treated during the war, with many letters from them or their children. There are also art classes for children or adults and writing courses.
\nLast year, I asked the Centre if they were interested in staging a small exhibition of our daughter, Melinda\u2019s art work and letters between us but also from the slant she had extreme bi-polar disorder.
\nThe staff welcomed the opportunity, but staged it in the Aurora Room, renamed \u201cMelinda\u2019s Room\u201d for the six weeks it ran. They displayed her work skillfully and were sensitive to our request. When the exhibition closed, we were given the guestbook in which the majority of visitors had written a paragraph of how it had moved them or brought forward their own struggles with mental illness.
\nFor those of you who have never visited the Cultural Centre, go soon and give yourself a treat.<\/p>\n

Dierdre Tomlinson
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