Friday, January 9, 1998 ~ North Shore News

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VISITORS to the West Vancouver Memorial Library could be fooled that the paintings on the walls are the work of the Group of Seveti. The brilliance of color, the stark, monumental forms, the celebration of the Canadian fand- scape --- the large, impressive paintings are cerily reminis- cent of the work of Group of Seven founder Lawren Harns. Thev are in fact the works of Donald Flacher. Who was Flather? Flather was a biologist with a PAD in edu- cation and a career with the Vancouver School Board. He was an avid outdoorsman who tended an orchard near Shuswap Lake, where he was raised. And a hobby painter who trav- celled co Baffin Island, the Selkirk Mountains ; and Howe Sound to paint the Canadian land- pea scape. NEWS photo Cindy Goodman Fie was alsa 2 colleague Of Lawren Harris and. in the “40s, national treasurer of the

THE influence of Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris is evident in the large works Conald Fiather painted after a trip to Baffin Island in the 80s. David Flather has organized a show of his late grandfather's paintings at the West Vancouver Memorial Library. See Critics pane 21

199/: THE YEAR THAT WAS

“1 didn’t know there was that much to say abour me.” — North Vancouver musician Roy Forbes said after watching Arts Alive’s tribute to his work at the 1997 EANS award ceremonies.

IME sped by quickly in 1997 — ance it finished downloading. You may prefer the 0-1-2 logic of poet- ic language (where nothing can be reduced to the O-F chythm of che Digital Citws but the recollection of reality beckons. A Jot of things happened on the North Shore arts scene in the past year and, for the

MOST part, we were paving attention.

Presentation House Gallery continued to be one of the most important arc spaces in the Lower Mamland, in theory if net in actual location. Director Karen Love and staffalways put together fascinating exhibits such asdast tals fadian Princesses and Cows irts with puest curators Maclyn Burgess and Gail Guthrie Valskakis. Just imagine what could be accomplished with a larger space. This year the gallery will be part of an international exhibition and symposium The Jiangnan Project which displays the work of 25 Chinese artists front south of the Yangzi River. The exhibit starts in February and runs through April — watch these pages for details,

The North Shore arts community honored tour of their colleagues this vear with annual FANS awards: Puppetecers Arlyn and Luman Coad, masician Roy Forbes and compe ser Jean Coulthaid. Capilano College offtcialiy opened its new theatre with 2 renewed focus on presenting quality theatrical and: musical perfor- mances. Vancouver's fourth television station VV went on the air in September with a North Shore bureau as part of their game plan.

Deep Cove's Janet Pavlik celebrated Camada Dayo at New York’s Carnegie Hall) West) Vancouver's Harmony Arts Festival celebrated community spirit with ifs annual summer showease. Gorden Smith's The Act of Painting, a O0-vear retrospective of the artist's work, opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Ot. 19,

Several North Shore films participated in this vear’s Vancouver Enternanonal Film Festival: Stacy Kirk's Barbecue... A Love Story, Gary Burns” Kitolen Parry, and Mark Tuts Barnoue filmed atter hours at The Keg on Esplanade.

Books that came out this sear ranged from Dorcen Armitage’s history of the Howe Scound-Whister area Around the Sound to Virginia Jones Harper's epic novel ot Vancouver's he:tage Wha of the Raven. Amber Bookshop began a series of readings with local authors. :

Starting on page 25 North Shore News This Week reporters hst some of their favorice work from 1997 in music, film, books, theatre and videos. We also saniple worldwide critics’ ists trom ‘Toronto, London,

Chicago, New York, Boston and Los Angeles to provide a wider picture of what was going on, Canadians NEWS photo Cindy Goodman made seme strides on the international scene and this wall gice some contest for the achievement, LYNN Vailey friends Sabrina Jaffer and Jen Bensley huddle together to ~ jabn Goodman read about the life and death of Diana, Princess of Wales.