The David Festival in Port Perry

I know that you will forgive me for advising you about a very exciting event happening in the community next to Uxbridge - Port Perry, when you hear how wonderful the "David Festival" will contribute to the arts and learning.

The David Festival will be offered on Saturday, March 27th and there are different opportunities to be involved - choral music, children's choral music and poetry. This is the second year of this festival, and recently it was written - "The vision of the Festival is to encourage, enable, engage and equip folks to glorify God through music and the arts among and through the churches of Scugog."

The day starts with D.S. Martin, an award-winning Canadian poet, will lead the Saturday morning poetry workshop, being held at the Anglican Church of the Ascension from
10 a.m. - 12 noon.

Also happening in the morning, a children's choral workshop will be held at St. John's Presbyterian church led by well known and respected director, festival adjudicator, vocalist, composer; Mark Ruhnke. Mark will then lead the adult choral workshop in the afternoon at the Port Perry United Church. Mark will take the group (reported to already be over 100) through a number of pieces including one that he will have composed for this weekend.

Now if you can't join in on the workshop, you are invited to see the wondrous results of all of these workshops by listening to the mass choir of over 120 voices, at 7pm on Sunday March 28th at Port Perry United Church.

This is the ultimate opportunity to breath the art that you love, and to be able to learn from some individuals who not only love art - but live it.