The 23rd Annual Sterling Awards, an accolade to Edmonton’s theatre directors, actors, playwrights, designers, musical directors and composers, was held Monday, June 28 at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre.
Of the 25 awards recognizing excellence, three had St. Albert connections. St. Albert Children’s Theatre alumna Vanessa Sabourin, founder of production house The Maggie Tree, garnered the Outstanding Independent Production Award for Folie A Deux, a true story of two mentally unstable 15-year-olds who commit murder.
And Ryan Sigurdson, former St. Albert Children’s Theatre music director, received an award as Outstanding Musical Director for Teatro La Quindicina’s Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s. For the same production, Sigurdson, in partnership with Farren Timoteo, received another award for Outstanding Score of a Play or Musical.
As an added bonus, St. Albert resident Sarah Sharkey, a 2010 graduate of the University of Alberta BFA acting program, was acknowledged as a newcomer to the local theatre community.
A complete line-up of recipients is available at www.sterlingawards.com.
More than 100 advanced handbell ringers from across the continent are in Edmonton to perform at Classic Bronze 2010, Canada’s only advanced handbell festival. St. Albert’s Kathy Zalasky will be there to ring in the festivities.
The festival, a four-day event of workshops and sessions, ends with a free public performance at the Robert Tegler Centre at Concordia University College on Sunday, July 4 at 2 p.m.
Directing this mass choir is international composer and director Kevin McChesney, a Colorado Springs resident. He has composed more than 400 arrangements and original works. In addition to directing handbell choirs, he wears many hats as composer, arranger, keyboardist and guitarist.
For more information about Classic Bronze visit www.classicbronze.org.
Edmonton’s E-Ville Roller Derby’s all-star travelling team strikes again.
The E-Ville Dead are in a fight to the finish at a regional challenge against Seattle’s Rat City Roller Girls today at the Edmonton Sports Dome.
The E-Ville Dead are undefeated this season. And ‘Coach Pauley’ has stepped up the training and taken the team to a whole new intensity level.
But Rat City plans to give Edmonton a run for its money. The American team is currently ranked fifth in the West Division of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.
The action-packed mix of sport and spectacle will be anyone’s game as some of the two countries’ best roller derby skaters battle it out.
The game starts at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m. The Edmonton Golf Dome is at 10104 – 32 Ave. Tickets are $15 at the door. More information about E-Ville schedules and events (including a junior team) is found online at www.e-villederby.com.
