Arts & Entertainment

Local residents filled the Listowel Memorial Park Amphitheatre on Aug. 10 to hear renowned home-grown talent Sarah Pratt-Parsamian fill the evening air with classical music on her violin. The event was hosted by the Listowel BIA, and raised approximately $1,000 for the local food bank.

The Aug. 20 Backyard Living Tour, hosted by the Walkerton and District Optimist Club, offered the perfect excuse to do a bit of visiting and get some ideas on how to celebrate summer outdoor living at its best, while supporting a great cause.

With the province in stage three of its reopening plan, it remains unclear when in-person performances will resume at the Drayton Festival Theatre.

The Mill Pond is an elegant art gallery with a distinctly Bruce County atmosphere – the scent of fresh paint is in the air, the floors have character, images of the county in all its rural glory grace the walls, and visitors wander through licking ice cream cones.

Landscape photographer Rick Schmidt is still a bit puzzled by his latest success. An athlete in his youth, he’s never been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles — but that’s the direction his photography and fine art business is taking him. And the pandemic, he thinks, is part of the reason.

The sounds of live music will soon be emanating from Memorial Park’s amphitheatre. The Listowel BIA is sponsoring a free concert on Tuesday, Aug. 10, featuring Listowel native Sarah Pratt-Parsamian.

Brian Rogers has always been a “doodler.” As a youngster in his early teens, Rogers would spend hours drawing. Whether it was in class, at home or work, he found time to doodle on anything he could find.