Chelsea
Community Events

December 18. Meet
the Artisans.
West Quebec author Katharine Fletcher joins folk musician
Ian Tamblyn at Gerry & Isobel's Café & Boutique, 14 Scott
Road, Chelsea. This event runs from 11am
to 4pm.
For information about it, call 819-827-4341.
Katharine Fletcher is well-known for her books on the
National Capital Region and Gatineau Park (for a list of her
books, three of which were published this year, see our
entry in the Archive for Spring 2004, under General, Books
No. 5). She is one of the ten Women of Distinction listed
in the November 2004 issue of Ottawa Life magazine.
December
19. Meet the Artisans.
Susan Glazer of Chelsea presents Ojime Jewellery.
At
Gerry & Isobel's Café & Boutique, 14 Scott Road, Chelsea.
11am
to 4pm.
For information call:
(819) 827-4341.
Currently
exhibiting:
“Erratics”.
An
exhibition of oil paintings by Chelsea artust Reid McLachlan
at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, 136 St. Patrick Street,
Ottawa. The Gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday, from
10 am.
to
4 pm. The show is sponsored in
part by the City of
Ottawa.
The exhibition features 40 paintings, and offers a
meditation on fear, fate and doubt and the scars they leave
on people. For information call:
(613) 580-2424, ext. 14167.
The exhibition runs until
January 2, 2005.
December 21 and 22.
Christmas Concert at
Chelsea School beginning at
9:15 a.m.
Singing and dancing by the school’s students. Open to parents:
there is a limit of 2 tickets per family.
Ian
Tamblyn,
who lives in Old Chelsea, has released his 25th
independent album under the title Angel`s Share.
The album includes ‘Brush and Paddle’ (the subject is the
painter Tom Thomson) and ‘Built for Beauty’ (about
Wakefield`s reconstructed covered bridge).