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AMISTAD WEEK
Some events
subject to change... check at 875-1310 for up-to-date schedule
FRIDAY
- AUGUST 14
10:00am
to 12noon - Amistad
open to the Public -
Free will donation
1:00pm-3:00pm
– Music by Killick
Guild Hall – Free & Sponsored by Tim Horton's
1:00pm-4:00pm
- Art
Demonstration:
Local artist Janet O’Connell
demonstrates her line drawings of the Amistad and shows other works. Free
12:30 pm
- “Loyalities”
-
St. Paul
's Church, Birchtown Free
will donation
2:00-4:00pm
Amistad Open
to Public
7:00 pm
- “
Sierra
Leone
Harbour
&
Freetown
”
-
St. Paul
's
Church, Birchtown - Presentation by Dan Colin, Curator, Marine
History (tentative) call 875-1310 for details
SATURDAY
- AUGUST 15
Water
Taxi on Brown-Eyed Girl: Thursday:
Leaves Shelburne at
5:30pm
, returns from Birchtown at
9:00pm
. Saturday: Leaves
Shelburne 9 &
11am
, 1, 3, 5, &
7:00pm
. Leaves Birchtown 10am, 12, 2,4,6,8 &10pm. Round trip to
Birchtown
Bay
is $25.00.
Water
Taxi to Birchtown all day
8:00-11:00am
-
Birchtown Breakfast @
Community Hall - $6.00
9:00am
-
Shelburne-to-Birchtown
March
to Birchtown from Amistad Admission $10.00 (includes water taxi back to Shelburne)
3:00 pm
- Drumming Circle
(bring your Djembe) Birchtown
- Free
4:00-7:00pm
- Birchtown Dinner
- Community Hall - $12.00/adult
$6.00/child
7:00-10:00 pm
Gospel Festival
St.
Paul’s Church, Birchtown featuring
The Williams Sisters and Rhythm &
Good News. $15.00 (tickets at Whirligig & at door)
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ON
THE WATERFRONT…
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Attachment
to Place – art show by Su Rogers at the Coastline
Gallery. Mon-Fri,
10am to 2pm
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-
A
Camera on the Banks: Photography of Frederick Wallace
at
Dory
Shop
Museum
and Muir-Cox
Shipbuilding Centre – Open 7 days
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-
Shelburne
Writer’s Festival: The Osprey… Aug 13-16. Donna
Morrisey and others. Bitter Rose,
a play by
Catherine Banks – Aug 14
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Art
Demonstration:
1:00pm-4:00pm at Shelburne County Museum. Call 875-1414 for
details – Open 7 days
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Museums:
Dory Shop, Ross-Thomson House, Shelb.
Co.
Museum
, Muir-Cox
Shipbuilding Centre – Open 7 days – passes available
Special
Loyalist Stew available at
Sea Dog Saloon each day during Amistad visit ($10 for stew and
fresh biscuits)
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