Local Arts

It will be the first time local artist Karen Holden has exhibited at the Hand Wave Gallery in Meacham.

On July 13, music of the Romantic era filled Assumption Church in Marysburg when pianist Richard Konrad gave a recital of works by Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt and Bartok. It was the closing concert of the 2011 Marysburg Festival of the Arts.

Barely a scrap of leftover metal goes to waste on Wilfred Mollenbeck's farm near St. Gregor. There are samples of his metal creations all over the yard, but the one that sticks out the most stands over 40 feet high.

The day was stormy, the crowd was large, and the performance was memorable. About 200 people came out to Assumption Church in Marysburg on a stormy evening to take in a performance of the Saskatoon Children's Choir.

Take a break some afternoon in the near future to experience the newest exhibition in the Main Salon of the Chapel Gallery. "Meditations" features works by painter Jean E. Sonmor and will be on display until Aug. 30.

The crowd was small, but the sound was large at the second concert of the 11th season of the Marysburg Summer Festival of the Arts.

It took blood, sweat, tears, and more hours than he could count, but he's walking out of the IA classroom with something he can strum. Last fall, Christopher Struck, a Grade 12 student at Lake Lenore School, had an idea.

He's Mr. Junior CanDance. And he lives in Humboldt. Dawson Keller, the 12-year-old son of Dayna and Al Keller, recently attended a dance competition in Regina.

A LeRoy-born filmmaker has claimed an award at a prestigious Saskatchewan film festival. Maury Loeffler has won a Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for best drama for his film, "Pooka.

Humboldt's historic courthouse was once again the stage for one of the most important trials in the history of Canada last week.