Don’tmissthis
Brunches are Sundays at Trailside Music Cafe’ & Inn, Mount Stewart. The Grace Notes (Bridgette Blanchard, Nick Doneff, Mark Geddes) and Brunch Prophets (Cam MacDuffee, Karen Graves) perform on different Sundays. Go to www. trailside.ca or call 902-394-3626.
“Down with Demon Run – Stories and Songs of rum Running on Prince Edward Island” is Sundays at The Haviland Club. Doors open at 5 p.m.; show and supper are at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are at ticketwizard/ca or at the door.
Feast Dinner Theatres presents “Shucked” at Summerside’s Brothers 2 and at Rodd Charlottetown. Call 902-629-2321 (Charlottetown) or 902-436-7674 (Summerside) or visit www.feastdinnertheatres.com.
“Weak Shove of Talent” is the dinner theatre production at the Tignish Legion, Tuesday and Thursday nights. Tickets are at 902-853-6698.
“V’nez veiller” dinner-theatre production (in French) is at the Acadian Musical Village in AbramVillage, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m., to Aug. 30. Tickets must be reserved at 902-854-3300.
THEATRE/COMEDY/ DANCE
“Anne & Gilbert” is at The Guild in Charlottetown. Go to www. theguildpei.com or contact the box office.
“Anne of Green Gables – The Musical” is in the Homburg Theatre, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown. Go to www.confederationcentre.com or 1-800-565-0278.
“Atlantic Blue” is at The Guild in Charlottetown, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Contact the box office.
“Barefoot in the Park” runs to Aug. 26 at the Watermark Theatre, North Rustico. Check out www. watermarktheatre.com or 902963-3963.
“Bubbles & Bells” is Wednesdays, 10 a.m., to Aug. 9 at The Guild in Charlottetown. This interactive show for babies and toddlers is full of music, movement and bubbles.
“Bittergirl - The Musical” is at The Mack in Charlottetown to Aug.
26. Contact the box office of Confederation Centre of the Arts.
“Dot and Ada’s Bucket List” plays Thursdays until Aug. 31, 8 p.m., at the St. Peter’s Court House Theatre. Call 902-961-3636, check www.courthousetheatre.ca or email info@courthousetheatre.ca.
Dramatic Dressing Room is an escape room activity at St. Peter’s Courthouse Theatre. Call after 10 a.m., Monday to Friday, 902-9613636.
“Dreamworks Madagascar A Musical Adventure Jr.” plays at The Guild in Charlottetown. Contact the box office.
“For the Love of the Island”, featuring Treble with Girls (Jolee Patkai, Maxine MacLennan, Sheila MacKenzie, Norman Stewart), is Wednesdays at the Kings Playhouse in Georgetown. Contact the box office.
Glenda’s Kitchen plays in Studio 1 of Confederation Centre of the Arts on selected dates until Sept.
1. Contact the box office.
“If it’s All Right with you – The Life and Music of My Father, Gene MacLellan” is at the P.E.I. Brewing Co., Kensington Road, Charlottetown. For tickets, contact the venue.
“Ireland Meets Scotland”, a celebration of Celtic heritage, music and dance, is at Orwell Corner Historic Village, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., to Aug. 25. Contact the Orwell Corner Historic Village.
“Million Dollar Quartet” is in the Homburg Theatre, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown. Go to www.confederationcentre. com or call 1-800-565-0278.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession is at the Watermark Theatre, North Rustico. Contact www.watermarktheatre.com or 902-963-3963.
“On a First Name Basis” is at the Victoria Playhouse. Contact the box office.
“The Dream Catchers”, Confederation Centre of the Arts Young Company, performs in the outdoor amphitheatre at noon until Aug. 19.
“The Four Tellers – Top Hats and Tall Tales” is at the Kings Playhouse in Georgetown, select performances at 7:30 p.m., featuring Alan Buchanan, Dennis King, Gary Evans and David Weale. Contact the box office.
“The Island Summer Review” is at Harmony House Theatre, Hunter River, featuring Mark Haines and Patrick Ledwell. Contact the theatre box office.
“Seusical Jr.” is at The Guild in Charlottetown. Contact the box office.
“Searching for Abegweit” is at the Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside. Contact the theatre box office.
“Signatures - A Canadian Spectacle Under the Stars”, a free outdoor multimedia experience, is presented daily by Discover Charlottetown, Confederation Centre of the Arts and Graphics eMotion in celebration of Canada 150. It will run until Oct. 1. Roma at Three Rivers Pioneer Festival is Aug. 4-6.Call 902838-3413 or check out www.roma3rivers.com or email roma1732@gmail. com.
QL’exposition agricole et le Festival acadien youth talent competition is Aug. 14, 7 p.m. To register, email Eric at ericrichard@ eastlink.ca or call 902-315-2593. Old Home Week youth talent competition is Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Eastlink Centre. To register, email info@oldhomeweekpei.ca or call 902-629-6623.
QCOMPETITIONS CLUB LISTINGS
Joe Hynes – Main Street Pub, Montague, Aug. 4, 8-11 p.m.
Brooke MacArthur - Brothers Two, Summerside, Aug. 4.
Cynthia MacLeod and Jon Mattehws - Old Triangle, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Dave Doyle - RCAF Wing, Summerside, Aug. 4.
Ryan Merry - Next Door@The Merchantman, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Renegades - Charlottetown Legion, Aug. 4.
Saul Good Duo - Hunter’s Ale House, Charlottetown Aug. 4.
Muddy Buddy and Flycore Peakes Quay, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
The Fall Guys - Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, Summerside, Aug. 4.
Dekz is at Fishbones, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Julia Bentley - Marc’s Lounge, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Terry Dunsford - Dundee Arms, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Funky Friday Dance Party - Charlottetown Beer Garden, Aug. 4. Roger Ahearn Band - John Brown Richmond Street Grill, Charlottetown, Aug. 4.
Spirit of the Wildfire, Why Anything, Sound Drown, Years on Repeat – Baba’s, Charlottetown, Aug. 4
Live music - Olde Dublin Pub, Charlottetown, Aug. 4-5.
Kim Albert - Carr’s Oyster Bar, Stanley Bridge, Aug. 5, 4-7 p.m.
Tribe Royal, Willow Creek Revival, Dan Kelly - Baba’s Lounge, Aug. 5
Fallback - John Brown Richmond Street Grill, Charlottetown, Aug. 5.
The Misty Water Band - Old Triangle, Charlottetown,
Aug. 5.
The Dunsfords – Charlottetown Legion,
Aug. 5.
Not! - Hunter’s Ale House, Charlottetown Aug. 5.
Julia Bentley - Next Door@The Merchantman, Charlottetown, Aug. 5.
Alan Sonier - Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, Summerside, Aug. 5.
My Son the Hurricane - Charlottetown Beer Garden, Aug. 5.
DJ is at The Factory, Charlottetown, Aug. 5
DJ Hype is at Fishbones, Charlottetown, Aug. 5.
DJ Savory - Peakes Quay, Charlottetown, Aug. 5.
Beaconsfield Historic House, a P.E.I. Museum site, is in Charlottetown. Call 902-3686603.
Bedeque Area Historical Museum is in the William Callbeck Centre, Central Bedeque, featuring a number of exhibits. Contact http:// www.bedequemuseum.ca.
Bideford Parsonage Museum, a designated Historic Place of P.E.I., was built in 1878, on the North Cape Coastal Drive, 784 Bideford Rd. (Route 166). It is open daily.
The Canadian Potato Museum is in O’Leary. Contact 902-859-2039 or 1-844-849-1470 or go to www. canadianpotatomuseum.info.
The Croft House, site of the Selkirk Scottish Heritage Centre in Eldon, is open with a selection of Scottish clan items, jewelry and books, including a new and updated “Macleod’s of P.E.I.”, as well as local author Margaret Westlie’s Selkirk historical fiction and more.
Elmira Railway Museum is in Elmira, a P.E.I. Museum and Heritage site. Call 902-357-7234 or go to peimuseum.com.
The Farmers’ Bank of Rustico Museum, a bilingual National Historic Site, is on Route 243, Rustico. Check www.farmersbank.ca or call 902-963-3168.
Green Gables Heritage Place is located in Cavendish. There is no charge to visit this year as part of the Canada 150 Celebrations. Contact 902-963-7874.
Green Park Shipbuilding Museum & Yeo House is in Port Hill, a P.E.I. Museum and Heritage site. Call 902-831-7947 or go to peimuseum.com.
The Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace Museum is in
New London. Call 902886-2099 or go to www.lmmontgomerybirthplace.ca.
The MacNaught History Centre and Archives is at 75 Spring St., open year round. Admission is free. Call 902-4321332 or 902-432-1298.
Orwell Corner Historic Village is in Orwell Corner, a P.E.I. Museum and Heritage site. Call 902-6518515 or go to peimuseum.com.
The P.E.I. Regiment Museum is at the Queen Charlotte Armoury, 3 Haviland St., Charlottetown. Call 902-368-0108 or check www.peiregimentmuseum.ca.
The Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead in Orwell is open. Call 902651-2789.
St. Andrew’s Chapel, three km east of Mount Stewart on Route 2, is a reconstruction of the first church built at St. Andrew’s in 1805. Connect with the early settlers of P.E.I. and learn about its builder, Angus Bernard MacEachern, the first Bishop of Charlottetown who lies buried in the adjacent crypt. A dance is Thursdays, 8-11 p.m., at the Centre BelleAlliance, 5 Maris Stella Ave., off South Drive, Summerside with 1950s/’60s music by Fallback (Scott White, Dale Gaudet, Johnny Ross, Steve Guy, Tom DesRoches, Wayne Robichaud). Admission is at the door.
LITERARY EVENTS/ READINGS/ PRESENTATIONS
Five Objects Telling the Story of Canada is Aug. 7, 7 p.m., at the Bedeque Museum, Central Bedeque. This history circle is in association with the P.E.I. Community Museums Association. Refreshments are provided; there is no admission charge but donations are welcome.
The last Tuesday Talk of the season is at the Acadian Museum of P.E.I., Miscouche, Aug. 8, 7:30 p.m. To mark the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, historian Ed MacDonald will give a lecture, in English, about P.E.I. and the road to Confederation. Admission is free; donations are appreciated.
Malpeque History Society talks are Wednesdays, 10 a.m., at the Keir Memorial Museum. On Aug. 9, Ban the Automobile: Instrument of Death will be given by Rudy Croken.
Wednesday Evening with L.M. Montgomery is at the Bideford Parsonage Museum, 784 Bideford Rd. (Route 166), 7:30 p.m. On Aug. 9, Selected Readings from “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery” will be read, as well as “Abel and His Great Adventure” published in ‘Canadian Magazine’ – February 1917 - with guest readers. Light refreshments will follow.
Author Isabel Huggan will hold a writing workshop - Juxtapose, - at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown Aug. 12-13. This workshop teaches writers how to inspire creative projects though the juxtaposition of unlike things. To register or for information, go to https://www.peiwritersguild.com/ juxtapose/.
MUSEUMS, INTERPRETIVE CENTRES
The Acadian Museum in Miscouche features “Miscouche of Bygone Days’’, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the parish of Miscouche (1817-2017), as well as photos and artifacts from the museum’s collection. Call 902432-2880.
The Anne of Green Gables Museum is in Park Corner. Contact 1-800-665-2663 or 902-886-2884 or go to www.annemuseum.com. Basin Head Fisheries Museum is on the Basin Head Road. Call 902357-7233 or go to peimuseum. com. The Tryon Museum features the history of Tryon and Lot 28, the development of radio broadcasting in P.E.I. and information on the life of local carpenter Edward Sharkey, 1867-1970. Call 902-6582009, or visit www.tryonareahistoricalsociety.com.
Wood Islands Lighthouse Museum is open. Contact 902962-3110 or go to woodislandslighhouse.com.
QEXHIBITIONS
Confederation Centre Art Gallery is featuring Gretzky is Everywhere and RE: collection. Call 902-628-6111 or check out www. confederationcentre.com/en/artgallery.php.
Cornwall Library Art Gallery is featuring an exhibit by the artists known as Millie’s Marvels. Contact Giselle Déziel at 902-566-3347 for information on displaying.
Details Past and Present Gallery is on Victoria Row in Charlottetown, 166 Richmond St. Check out www.detailspastandpresent.com.
Eptek Art & Culture Centre features “Art Begets Art: Hooked Mats and the Art that Inspired Them at 130 Heather Moyse Dr., Summerside. Call 902-888-8373 or visit www.peimuseum.com.
Eclectic Belle River, the latest exhibition by artist Wendy Jones, opens Aug. 5 with a reception 2-8 p.m. and the opening of WMJ Cool Cat Studios. The studios will be open daily, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 1828 Trans-Canada Highway, Belle River.
Gallery@The Guild presents A is Angst An Alphabet of Woe by Jenni Zellin. It also houses the Downtown Charlottetown Artisan Market. The gallery is on Queen Street.
Gallery 18 has an exhibition entitled “Thérèse D’Amour - A Passion for Nature. The gallery is at 10686 Route 6, just west of the New London intersection. Call 902-886-3201 or email info@Gallery18.com.
Karen Gallant Studio Gallery in Rustico is on the corner of Route 6 and 243, Rustico Road. Contact karengallant.com.
Kensington Art Gallery is at 27 Commercial St., in the Historic Kensington Train Station yard. Contact 902-886-2395 or sutton@ pei.sympatico.ca.
Maroon Pig Art Gallery and Cafe is at 37 Water St., Georgetown. Call 902-652-2569 or check www.maroonpig.ca.
Plum Tree Studio is at 13 Buffalo Rd., South Rustico. Call 902-963-2622 or 1-778-823-3335.
The Purcell Parlour Gallery in Clyde River is open when the roadside sandwich sign is out on the highway. Call 902368-7526 or go to www. juliapurcell.ca.
MacNaught History Centre and Archives features ongoing exhibits of various Island artists. It is at 85 Spring St., Summerside. Call 902-432-1332 or 902-432-1298.
Lefurgey Cultural Centre, Summerside, features the free 150th Anniversaries Celebration Exhibit. Go to culturesummerside.com or call 902-432-1298.
Meadowbrook Arts, Crafts & Creations is in Crapaud, 677 Route 13. Visit meadowbrookartstudio.com or call 902-658-3171.
Pinhole Photography Gallery is the home studio/darkroom of Charlottetown artist/pinhole photographer, Mary Carr-Chaisson. Call 902-628-1575, email mary@ pinholephotogallery.com or visit www.pinholephotogallery. “The Belle of the Ball” is the English-language production for this year’s “V’nez veiller” dinner theatre at the Acadian Musical Village, Abram-Village Tuesdays, to Aug. 29, 6:30 p.m. Tickets must be reserved in advance at 902-854-3300.