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Events

March Open House - Music!
Come experience our fabulous re-opening to the public with Music Arts Sunday! Lively and full of all kinds of fun for all ages, this month we focus on making music and making instruments, out of found objects, from nature and with the scultpures and instruments at Ross Creek. Bring your own instruments for an informal jam session, play our pianos, explore visual art activities, gallery exhibits, and more! This will be a day to make memories. All open houses run from noon to 4:30 pm with admission by donation (suggested donation $5 per person or $15 per family).
For directions, please click here.

Mind Matters - May 2010
We’re delighted that Ross Creek will be host to a whole month-long series of programs devoted to arts therapy programs and community programs around the working of the mind. Research is clear that arts programs have a tremendous impact on social, physical and mental well-being and we’re bringing these programs to the Creek!
Launching on May 1, we have four weeks each with a different focus.
May 3-9 - Teen Mental Health
May 10-16 – Children and Teens with Autism
May 17-23 – Bipolar Disorder and Creativity and Mental Health
May 24-30 – Senior Moments – Memory and Aging.
Each week will have artists and art therapists in residence, school and professional development workshops and community workshops. We are also planning symposia, performances, films screenings in conjunction with ViewFinders and more, so keep checking our website or contact programs@artscentre.ca to find out how to become involved.

News

Ross Creek Artists celebrated
Ross Creek Fellow, novellist and playwright Ami McKay's novel The Birth House was named as an Indigo Book of the decade.

Allen Cole, creator of Rockbound, was named to the Chronicle Herald Honour Roll for 2009.

Ken Schwartz, Artistic Director of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre is going to Stratford! For more information, click here.

Ross Creek Cuts Pollution equal to a trip around the equator! Supported by O'Regans, The Ecology Action Centre, Conserve Nova Scotia and Michelin, The Ross Creek Centre purchased a van and provided a shuttle service for artists and students this past summer. The impact was...click here to read more!

Resident theatre’s Artistic Director Ken Schwartz Awarded Artist Recognition award
On November 1st, 2008 Two Planks and a Passion Theatre’s artistic director Ken Schwartz was awarded one of five Established Artist Recognition Awards at the 3rd annual Creative Nova Scotia Awards gala held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The $5000 prize was awarded to Schwartz in recognition of his current artistic practice and his role in helping to establish the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
In accepting the award, Schwartz thanked the many artists with whom he has collaborated over the last 17 years, as well as partner Chris O’Neill, the executive director of the Ross Creek Centre, for giving Two Planks such a special place to create and present work.

Ross Creek Centre, Theatre Off The Grid named one of Nova Scotia’s 101 “Musts” in Allan Lynch’s latest book.
The Ross Creek Centre and Two Planks and a Passion Theatre have been named one of the 101 things you Must do in Nova Scotia- we’re listed in Allan Lynch’s latest book Nova Scotia Book of Musts published by MacIntyre Purcell publishing.