Arts Culture Heritage Newsletter - Fall 2013 / Winter 2014

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ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE

“Arts and cultural activities

are at the heart of

communities - they make

communities more

attractive places to live,

they help bring community

to life, they define a

community's unique

characteristics, they

attract tourists and they

help communities compete

economically around the

world."

- The Canada Council for

the Arts

In This Issue

Museum exhibits.

New Community

Museum Mobile App!

Roaring ’20s Party.

Holiday Market—

November 23rd, 2013.

Municipal Public Art

Collection.

Heritage Quilt

fundraiser. Guests smile for the camera at the Roaring ’20s Party on July 20th, 2013 atThe Legion. Photo Credit: Lianne Gerber Finn.

What a great summer & fall! Hello Arts, Culture & Heritage enthusiasts! This has been a booming year

for the Sioux Lookout Arts & Culture scene. In order to share our

excitement with you, we’ve compiled this newsletter so that we may keep

you up to date on past, present and future events. Read on and enjoy!

Museum Update

The Museum and its community partners have accomplished a lot in

2013. From the development and launch of a new smartphone and tablet

app for the Museum, to multiple fundraising and outreach events during

this past summer, it has been a very busy and successful year!

You may have attended the Roaring ’20s Party, seen our exhibits at the

Public Library, visited the Museum’s table during National Aboriginal Day,

or maybe you attended our Partnership Launch Party with the Sioux Look-

out Creative Arts Circle during the Blueberry Festival. We have been

working hard to make the Museum relevant and accessible to the people

of Sioux Lookout and its surrounding communities and we are lookingforward to even more exciting plans in 2014. Stay tuned!

- Stu Finn, Museum Coordinator.

Municipality of Sioux Lookout Arts, Culture & Heritage Newsletter Fall 2013 Winter 2014



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Museum exhibits

If have you have visited the Sioux Lookout Public Library anytime during

the past several months, you may have noticed one of our exhibits on dis-

play. We are grateful to the Library for inviting us to display artifacts in

their beautiful new display case and we have featured exhibits on the El-

liott Brothers, Shoes of Sioux Lookout, School in Sioux Lookout, and Pho-

tography & Music. We hope to continue using this space and we have lots

of ideas for new exhibits in the months to come. Keep your eyes peeled!

Our new mobile App! We are so excited to share the Museum’s beautiful new mobile app,

which was officially launched during the 2013 Blueberry Festival. The app

was developed with funding from the Government of Ontario’s Museums

and Technology Fund and with support from the Municipality of Sioux

Lookout. The app allows the Museum to share select exhibits with any-

one, anywhere in the world. There are currently four exhibits showcased

in the app, with new content coming soon. It is available free for iPhone,

iPad, iPod Touch, and Android phones and tablets.

Roaring ’20s Party

On July 20, 2013, the Museum and the Sioux Lookout Creative Arts Circle

held a Roaring ’20s Party at the Royal Canadian Legion. The event fea-

tured 1920s dance lessons, projections of ’20s dance movies, and ’20s

themed music and food. Almost everyone who attended was dressed in

1920s-era costumes! The party raised more than $800 for Arts, Culture

and Heritage programming in our community. We are so grateful to every-

one who participated and to all of our volunteers and event sponsors!

Sioux Lookout Community Museum Exhibit “The Music and Photography of SiouxLookout”. Photo Credit: Reilly Scott

What we’ve been up toin 2013

Mobile app development.

Exhibits & Local History Day at

Library.

Community outreach & fundra

Roaring ’20s Party.

National Aboriginal Day.

Partnership Launch Party.

And much more!



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The HolidayMarket—

November 23rd,2013 at theCentennialCentre &HeritageRailway Station.

* A huge thank you

to all of the HolidayVendors and to thededicatedcommunityvolunteers whooffered their time insupport of thisevent. The Marketwould not have

been possiblewithout you!

- Reilly Scott, Arts & Culture Coordinator

Vendors Maja Martin & Sara Rea offer shoppers a variety of homemade holiday treats.Photo Credit: Geoff Shields, The Sioux Lookout Bulletin.

The 2013 Holiday Market The Holiday Market, which took place on November 23, 2013 at the Heritage

Railway Station & Centennial Centre, welcomed 46 vendors from across the

Northwestern Ontario region. A large percentage of the Market’s stations wereprovided by local vendors, offering a diverse range of goods including items such

as handmade quilts, clothing, knitwear, vintage crafts and bath products as well

as specialty food items such as local free range meats, cheeses, baked goods

and loose-leaf tea (to name a few). This Municipally-run market (coordinated by

the Arts, Culture & Heritage Committee) was an initiative that began in 2012 in

an effort to accommodate vendors who, due to increasingly high demand, were

unable to participate in the Annual Christmas Craft Fair, taking place at the Sioux

Lookout Recreation Centre. The Market ran from 10am-3pm and welcomed hun-

dreds of attendees from the Sioux Lookout and Dryden areas.

Donating Artifacts

Do you have a piece of Sioux Lookout’s history? The Sioux Lookout Com-

munity Museum is always looking to expand our collection. We are anticipat-

ing new facility and upgraded storage spaces in 2014 and we will be actively

looking to expand the Museum’s vast collection of artifacts, photographs and

archives. If you have any items that may be of historical significance to our

community and our region, please consider contacting Stu, Museum Coordi-

nator at 737-2700. ext. 2296.



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Contact Us

Please don’t hesitate

to contact us for more

information on the Sioux

Lookout Community

Museum and/or Sioux

Lookout Arts, Culture &

Heritage.

Municipality of Sioux

Lookout

Box 158, 25 5th Avenue

Sioux Lookout, ON.

P8T 1A4

(807) 737-2700

Reilly Scott

Arts & Culture Coordinator

[email protected]

Stu Finn

Museum Coordinator

[email protected]

We are currently in

the process of devel-

oping an inventory of

the Municipality’s

Public Art Collection,

which is located and

displayed in various

Municipal buildings

throughout the com-

munity, including the

Municipal Offices, the

Sioux Lookout Fire

Hall, Centennial Cen-

tre, the Public Library

and several locationsin Hudson. Sixty-three

pieces in total have

been photographed,

documented and

recorded in database

format in an effort to

track and maintain

these valuable seg-

ments of our commu-

nity’s cultural history. The artistic works are by a variety of local, regional

and national artists including Ahmoo Angeconeb, Mark Anthony Jacobson,

Carl Ray, Glen Keesic, Eve Ford and Candace LaFrance.

Municipal Public Art Inventory

Portrait of Marc Spade by Honduran artist,Dermel. Location—Centennial Youth Centre.Photo Credit: Reilly Scott

The Heritage Quilt FundraiserThe Heritage Quilt was produced by a team of dedicated volunteers,

to benefit arts and historical programming. The quilt was raffled off

in partnership with the Sioux Lookout Creative Arts Circle, raising

approximately $800 that will be used for Arts and Culture program-

ming in 2014. Thank you to everyone involved with this project!

Museum Coordinator, Stu Finn and Quiltco-creator Sharon Schinke proudly dis-play the Heritage Quilt.Photo credit: Sandra Turner

New Museum Location

We are in the midst of finding a new, more permanent home for the

Sioux Lookout Community Museum. Municipal Council is the pro-

cess of determining its preferred location. More to come in 2014!

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Arts Culture Heritage Newsletter - Fall 2013 / Winter 2014