ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE

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

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, weve compiled this newsletter so that we may keep you up to date on past, present and future events. Read on and enjoy!

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

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 Museums table during National Aboriginal Day, or maybe you attended our Partnership Launch Party with the Sioux Lookout 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 looking forward to even more exciting plans in 2014. Stay tuned! - Stu Finn, Museum Coordinator.

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 at The Legion. Photo Credit: Lianne Gerber Finn.

What weve been up to in 2013

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

Mobile app development. Exhibits & Local History Day at the Library. Community outreach & fundraising. Roaring 20s Party. National Aboriginal Day. Partnership Launch Party. And much more!

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 display. 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 Elliott Brothers, Shoes of Sioux Lookout, School in Sioux Lookout, and Photography & 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 Museums beautiful new mobile app, which was officially launched during the 2013 Blueberry Festival. The app was developed with funding from the Government of Ontarios Museums and Technology Fund and with support from the Municipality of Sioux Lookout. The app allows the Museum to share select exhibits with anyone, 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 featured 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 everyone who participated and to all of our volunteers and event sponsors!
2

The Holiday Market November 23rd, 2013 at the Centennial Centre & Heritage Railway Station.
* A huge thank you to all of the Holiday Vendors and to the dedicated community volunteers who offered their time in support of this event. The Market would not have been possible without 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 Markets stations were provided 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 hundreds of attendees from the Sioux Lookout and Dryden areas.

Donating Artifacts
Do you have a piece of Sioux Lookouts history? The Sioux Lookout Community Museum is always looking to expand our collection. We are anticipating new facility and upgraded storage spaces in 2014 and we will be actively looking to expand the Museums 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 Coordinator at 737-2700. ext. 2296.
3

Municipal Public Art Inventory

We are currently in the process of developing an inventory of the Municipalitys Public Art Collection, which is located and displayed in various Municipal buildings throughout the community, including the Municipal Offices, the Sioux Lookout Fire Hall, Centennial Centre, the Public Library and several locations in Hudson. Sixty-three pieces in total have been photographed, documented and recorded in database format in an effort to track and maintain Portrait of Marc Spade by Honduran artist, Dermel. LocationCentennial Youth Centre. these valuable segPhoto Credit: Reilly Scott ments of our communitys 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.

Contact Us
Please dont 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 rscott@siouxlookout.ca Stu Finn Museum Coordinator museum@siouxlookout.ca

The Heritage Quilt Fundraiser

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

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 process of determining its preferred location. More to come in 2014!
Museum Coordinator, Stu Finn and Quilt co-creator Sharon Schinke proudly display the Heritage Quilt. Photo credit: Sandra Turner