2008
September 11
Marjorie Porter memorial Dinner & Lecture
This annual event is a popular chance to hear speakers on different topics. This year we have Dr. Rae B. Fleming, editor of “The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919,” will be this year's guest speaker.
This popular annual event was moved to September from March due to the municipal strike and because the topic ties in with the inspiration for the September exhibit, Letters Home by Linda Finn.
The Dinner Lecture tickets are $50 per person and include Appetizers & Cash Bar at 6 pm at Hobart's in Kent Place Mall, dinner at 6:30 pm (choice of steak or chicken), and dessert and the lecture in the Gallery. Tickets are available at the Gallery on a first come basis. Seating is limited at Hobart's.
In addition, there is also an afternoon lecture at 1:30 pm in the Gallery followed by light refreshments. Tickets are $20 per person.
October 17
Art a La Mode Dinner
Mark your social calendar for another fun-filled evening on the Friday following the Thanksgiving weekend.
This is the Gallery’s major fundraising event of the year, and tickets go quickly for this popular event too. Seating is limited to 120. Parties of eight can request their own table. Tickets are available at the Gallery.
The ticket price of $60 includes complimentary appetizers during the cocktail hour and dinner at 7pm.
There is both a silent and live auction. This year, there will be a wide variety of attractive items to choose from. Max Radiff will again be the auctioneer.
November 27
Canvas Confidential
Thursday, November 27 at 6 pm at the Lindsay Inn
Admission is free to this event. The 8½ x 11” original works of art are sold for only $20 each to the lucky attendees whose names are drawn. Consequently, the Gallery last year was packed with eager ‘wannabe’ purchasers and the overflow crowd (and claustrophobics) spilled out into the hall.
This year, this event will be held at the Lindsay Inn on Lindsay St. S. at ground level with lots of available parking and more seating for guests not anxiously waiting at the display walls for their name to be drawn.
Many artists contribute their talents to produce these unique canvasses, but their names are a mystery to the viewers. It is only when you become a lucky purchaser of one and you get to open the envelope on the back of your masterpiece that the name of the artist is revealed to you.
If you want a chance to choose a canvas to purchase for only $20, you place your name into the draw when you arrive. Then, when and if your name is called, you get to go to the wall and select a canvass from the remaining works of art on display. Last year, there were many more guests than canvasses! Great fun and entertaining for everyone!
It is anticipated that there will be at least a hundred canvasses to choose from this year. These works of art can be viewed at the Lindsay Inn from 2 pm to the time guests’ names start to be drawn at 8 pm. Cash bar opens at 6 pm. Complimentary light refreshments (nibbles) will be served.
Artist Members are reminded to drop by the Galley and pick up a blank canvas as they are going fast. In September, the remaining canvases will be offered to local high school artist students.
THREE GREAT SUCCESSES!!!!!!
DAMES Golf Tournament
Our annual DAMES Golf Tournament, held on June 21, 2008 at Eganridge Golf & Country Club, was another great success, raising over $5000 for the gallery’s ongoing programmes.
We congratulate the Tournament Winners: Pat Ford, Connie Friar, Anne Flynn and Joanne Graham. The 50:50 Draw was won by Donna Banks.
We are very grateful for the assistance of our Hole Sponsors, Cart Sponsors, Prize Donors and other contributors. A thank-you ad was published in the Lindsay Post July 5. Choices boutique put on a great Fashion Show during lunch. We also want to thank Pat Clarke, Margot Fawcett, Claire Fisk, Connie Jacobs and Mary Jeffery for their organizational help with the event.
4th Line Theatre
Forty-eight people joined us for the Lindsay Gallery Night on Tuesday Aug. 12th which included a picnic supper catered by Black Honey and the play “Schoolhouse,” by Leanna Brodie. The rain stayed away and the evening was great fun. Look out for next year’s show!
Summer Art Camp
Kids and Instructors had a FUN ART-FILLED week! Thanks to all the parents and grandparents who committed to getting their child(ren) to this programme and to the Instructors who made the week such a success! Make sure to book early for our next camps!
Recent Past Events
AGM Meeting held at William Place
The AGM was held at William Place Retirement Residence at 140 William St. N, Lindsay on Thursday, March 20th.
Mary Jeffery presents Life Membership Awards to Audrey Bailey, Connie Blasco and Janet Smith for their long service to the gallery
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007
Over 50 members were present at the Annual Meeting of The Lindsay Gallery on Monday, March 26, 2007 to receive Committee reports, approve the 2006 Financial Statements and to elect a new Board. The Nominating Committee recommended the following nominees, who were all elected by acclamation -- Jane Ash, Margot Fawcett, Doris George, Brenda Graham, Marg Istchenko, Mary Jeffery, Barb Kelly, Ann MacLeish, Sheila Mayville and Gord Wilson.
Six of the nominees were members of the previous Gallery Board and were standing for re-election. Brenda Graham, one the four members new to the Board, served on the Gallery Board in the 1980s.
In her remarks, the retiring President, Janet Smith, made special mention of the contributions of the retiring Board members – Dawn Amott, John Humphries, Peter Maitland, Ann Neale and Moti Tahiliani,
A GIFT AND RECEPTION IN HONOUR OF RETIRING PRESIDENT
Janet Smith was also retiring after 25 continuous years as a Board member during which time she had served as Secretary, Treasurer and President. At the conclusion of the annual meeting, Marion Larocque, a founding Gallery member, presented Janet with a commemorative painting from the members. Ric McGee, Mayor of the City of Kawartha Lakes, presented her with a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of her many years of service. Lois Smith Brennan, an early Gallery President, in her remarks, noted that her own fifteen years on the Board paled in comparison to Janet's record. The painting, by artist Wayne Moore, is now in a place of honour in Janet's home.
A reception in honour of Janet Smith followed the end of the annual meeting. Many members stayed for cake and refreshments and to personally thank Janet for her years of devoted service to the Gallery.
Marion Larocque, a founding member, presents Janet Smith with a
gift
of a paintinting, in recognition of her 25 continuous years on the Board.
Janet Smith cuts into her cake for two other retiring Board members,
Ann Neale and John Humphries
More founding and former Board members admire the painting by Wayne Moore,
l to r. Sandra Ackert, Janet Smith, Marion Larocque, Brenda Milner and
Lois Smith Brennan, a previous gallery President.
Gord Wilson and Jane Ash were both re-elected to the Board.
Two founding members, Lloyd Larocque and Dorothy DeNure, enjoy a visit