Shows at the National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage, 53 Elgin Street, Ottawa. 8.00 pm. Doors open at 7.30 pm.Tickets available at the N.A.C. Box Office, Monday to Saturday, 10.00 am. to 9.00 pm. (no surcharge).By telephone: from TicketMaster, at (613) 755-1111, on line at www.ticketmaster.ca and in person at all TicketMaster outlets (surcharges apply).

Regular event. Every Saturday night until May 13 an Old Time Dance is held at Bryson Lions Hall.  Music is provided by The Brysonnaires.  Door opens at 7.30 pm.  Round and square dancing 8.30 pm. to 12.30 am. Hot lunch at 11.30 pm. Admission: $6.00 .  Everybody welcome.

Pontiac Artists Association receive grant of $4000 from  The Québec Minister of Culture and Communications. Madame Line Beauchamp, recently announced the money will be used for two projects: the publication of a promotional leaflet about the 2006 Pontiac Artists' Workshops Tour, which will take place in June; and the event known as Art in the Park, in which the public is invited to join the professional artists in creating a mural. These annual events are regularly announced in this Cultural Bulletin.

Radio Wakefield Radio Wakefield offers a medium of communication and artistic expression to the community.

Established in November 2005 with web space funded by Rotary International as part of the Radio Free Network Radio Wakefield has been operating as a shell streaming 35 tunes picked by Paul Symmes of the Black Sheep Inn.  Founder Brian Sanderson, of Rupert, says the station is now ready to received blogs, music, works in progress, critiques and agricultural news.  It can be a portal to the World Wide Web and a marketing tool for local business people.  Sanderson says: "The components are there -- the web, the hosting, the server -- it's up to the community to grow it."
Visit http://radiowakefield.ca to register, or contact brian@radiofreenetwork.ca
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The Shawville Talespinners meet at the Archives on the first Friday of the month at 2.00 pm. (summer months excluded).  Formed by Venetia Crawford, one of the founders of the Archives, this group brings together local people who can remember the personalities and events of the past.  At the first meeting Ms. Crawford used the topic of "school days" as a starting point, and related her own experiences as a teacher in Otter Lake in the 1960s;  other participants, including Reverend William McDowell and Betty Shore, contributed to the same theme.  Among the future topics will be mail delivery, war heroes and ghosts.   Ms. Crawford would like to see more people participate, and suggests that those who participate come to the Archives in advance to search the newspaper clippings for background to stories.  The Archives are open Tuesday to Thursday, 9.00 am. to 4.00 pm., and Saturday, 10.00 am. to 2.00 p

The Pontiac School of the Arts will be holding its second annual session from July 8 to July 16, at Portage du Fort.  Workshops will include papermaking, silk screen, printmaking, printing, elementary drawing, free-lance writing, digital photography, video, and portraiture. For information call (819) 647-2291, or call Dale Shutt at (819) 648-2441, or send email to daleshutt@sympatico.ca
or raymond@sanderregier.com For  more information

Advance Notice August 4-5-6.  Riverside Jam at Carleton Place, Ontario.

Gail Gavan is on the program, which also includes Ricky Skaggs, Lise Brokop, Amanda Wilkinson, Aaron Pritchett, Aaron Lines, George Fox, Ambush and Ronnie Prophet..
Visit the website at www.riversidejam.com or call (613) 226-9178.