| March 20th, 2011 | ||
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CONFIRMATION : ” La Bande à Jaco ” WILL BE PLAYING in the Radio Village Hall on March 20, 2011
Next Sunday March 20th, we are having a show at Radio Village Hall featuring local talent, La bande à Jaco, with their very own take on Spanish flavoured music. Admission is $10. The show starts a 2 pm. With the price of admission you become an RCM member. Future shows will be offered to all members at reduced rates. (La Bande à Jaco: site).
Tags: La Bande à Jaco
a re-print from “The Record”
OK, I know it’s the “Ides of March”, which thankfully is past, but the whole month has been somewhat strange so far. Good news is the clocks went ahead and the days are longer, but we lost an hour of sleep.
We’ve had several spring-like days only to be followed by yet another snowstorm and then huge ice chunks and avalanches of snow come crashing down off the roofs.
Things in general were strange. Call a company and request service in English, you get French (or vice versa). A couple of times our newspaper wasn’t delivered. My blender broke. Our cat got into a fight with a stray. Maurice went to see a client but there was nobody there because they forgot. People at the bridge club were bidding out of turn, making insufficient bids or playing the wrong card, not quite being in their right minds. A friend meant to give me a waffle-iron she no longer needed since she had bought a new one, but she mixed up the boxes, pitched the waffle-iron in the trash and gave me an old telephone instead!
Tags: Yvon Grondin
a re-print from “The Record”
So many “Special Days”. This past week we had International Women’s Day as well as Shrove Tuesday (also known as Mardi Gras or pancake day), all causes for great festivities and celebrations.
Coming up next week is St. Patrick’s Day. There is Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Black history week and the Gay Pride Parade and numerous other “days” in honour of this and that.
At CIDI we have plenty of women. Holly Bailey is a producer, a co-host of the “Stop!” show on TV and she also has her own program, “The Bobcat Sessions”. Marie-Christine Dean does the horoscope show. Shirley (aka Marian) has a program called “Showtime!” featuring old Broadway hits and show tunes. Marie and Lucie Fortin came up with many Chronicles” shows before deciding to take a break.
Then we have many women behind the scenes such as Marilyn Durrell who is always ready, willing and able to help cater the parties and often provides home-made muffins for the staff. Denise Butcher who comes in to clean but also goes out of her way, donating a door-prize for our piano competition.
Tags: Christiane Lamarche
Christiane Lamarche presents: Eat and lose weight
My name is Christiane, I am a naturotherapist and nutritional coach. A few years back, while working as a landscaper, I noticed that my energy level was not up to par, so I therefor became quite interested in nutrition. I gradually changed my eating habits and regained my energy. As a bonus I also lost a few pounds. Following this success, I made nutrition my passion and turned it into a profession.
The goal of my program is to share with you the results of my research, so that you can also benefit from my findings. Weight loss and energy. Banish from your vocabulary that most dreaded word DIET.
Eat and lose weight with me!!!
To listen to the latest episode, select it under the section “(CL)Mangez et Maigrissez” (on your right) or click the link hereunder to subscribe to the podcast:
And, for your comments or if you want to contact me by e-mail, use the form here-under (you can also leave comments under each episode).
Tags: (CL)Mangez et Maigrissez, Christiane Lamarche, naturothérapeute, nutrition
| March 6th, 2011 | ||
| 14:00pm | to | 16:00pm |
DAVE & THE BLUE SHADOWS in the Radio Village Hall on March 6 2011 at 2:00PM. Admission $10.00 (RCM Members $5.00)
a re-print from “The Record”
As Alice fell down the hole into Wonderland, she had no idea what adventures awaited her. Neither did any of us know what to expect as we plunged into the CIDI radio project. “I’m late” said the rabbit, and so were we often late with paying the rent or filling out applications. The Cheshire Cat kept grinning, appearing and disappearing at will. So did some of our volunteers. “Eat me, drink me” and as a result grow bigger or smaller: we’ve had those decisions to make many a time.
At the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, the guests just enjoyed themselves, made a mess of things and moved on to a new seat. We’ve seen that happen. The Queen of Hearts wanted to do away with everyone. Yes, certain people have said bye-bye to CIDI.
How did Alice survive, how can we?
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Tags: CIDI, Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, radio project, Radio Village Hall, STOP!
RCM Announces Radio Play Winners
by Doug Hooper
At last year’s Knowlton WordFest, The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards were established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.
Patron Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and her husband Michael Whitehead, offered their encouragement and financial support for the first prize winner. The Townshippers’ Cultural & Research Foundation provided a grant to help organize this Competition.
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM) has just announced the winners of its Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010. The distinguished panel of judges, Alex Paterson, Frances Gallagher and Jefferson Lewis met recently to select the winners.
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Tags: Doug Hooper, Kate Wisdom, Radio Drama Writing Awards, The Chawkers Foundation
| March 7th, 2011 | ||
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Canadian Club of the Yamaska Valley meets on Mon. March 7 with Jody Robinson, archivist at Eastern Townships Research Centre, Bishops University at 2 pm at Auberge West Brome. Topic Keeping it in the Family, tracing your family’s roots and preserving your family papers. Non members $10. Information 450 243 6524 (Meredith MacKeen)
Tags: Auberge West Brome, Canadian Club of the Yamaska Valley, Jody Robinson
Marie Christine Dean presents: Planetarium
Native to the Brome Lake region, Marie Christine Dean is a certified astrologer with a substantial experience base on the study of astrological theory and charts that have been carefully verified through real life practice.
She became engulfed by astrology at a very early age, and after many years of study and observation, she has developed a sufficiently reliable and proven methodology of interpretation that allows her to uniquely advise her clientele.
Since the beginning of her astrological career, Marie Christine has resolutely established as a guiding principle that our knowledge represent less that which appears to be obvious, and more that which is yet to be discovered threw observation and hard work. With time, the results she has achieved have quickly exceeded her aspirations, and today her discoveries reveal themselves constantly.
As an experience astrologer, Marie Christine recognizes the importance of acknowledging those who have helped her to develop her talent. Principally, Marie Christine owes a debt to Anne-Marie Chalifoux D.N. under whom she has studied and whose methodology and philosophy can be found in her own analytical approach.
Knowing full well that astrology does not exist to solely dictate the path one takes, but rather serves to illuminate that which may lie ahead. Marie Christine Dean believes that the practice of astrology allows us to prepare for the fates that await each and everyone of us.
So please join me every Monday morning at 8h00 am and at 18h30 for your astrology predictions on my weekly program Planetarium.
To listen to the latest episode, select it under the section “(MCD)Planetarium EN” (on your right) or click the link hereunder to subscribe to the podcast:
And, for your comments or if you want to contact me by e-mail, use the form here-under (you can also leave comments under each episode).
Tags: Marie Christine Dean, Planetarium
RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards
A flagship program.
a re-print from “The Record”
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi is having too much fun! Last summer we initiated the first annual RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards competition and today are pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 contest.
The distinguished panel of judges for the competition – Alex Paterson, Frances Gallagher and Jefferson Lewis – have completed their review of the entries. They met recently to select the winners and reached a unanimous decision that the prizes should be awarded as follows:
Tags: David Grenville, Kate Wisdom, La Bande à Jaco, Louise Penny, Radio Village Hall, The Chawkers Foundation, the Town of Brome Lake, the Townshippers Association, The Townshippers’Cultural & Research Foundation
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010
Announcement of Competition Winners
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM) is pleased to announce the winners of its Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010. The distinguished panel of judges for the competition – Alex Paterson, Frances Gallagher and Jefferson Lewis – have completed their review of the entries. They met recently to select the winners and reached a unanimous decision that the prizes should be awarded as follows:
Alex Paterson, Chair of the Panel, said that the judges had been impressed by the quality of the entries and commented that “the entries proved once again that our community is blessed with a variety of talented writers whose style and imagination can produce interesting material. Hopefully by contributing to the 2010 competition, our contestants will encourage more entries in 2011.”
Patron Louise Penny thanked all the entrants for deciding to enter this new Competition and for the commitment and effort that they had dedicated to writing a new play. She went on to congratulate the winners and commented “It’s thrilling to have radio plays about the Townships being written and produced. And such a high calibre! As someone who also writes about the Townships, I know what a rich canvas it is. And now we’re discovering, thanks to CIDI, ever more artists, ever more writers, ever more voices – and more stories to tell about a place we cherish.”
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi plans to launch Radio Drama Writing Awards 2011 next summer at WordFest in Knowlton. Its goal is to promote new radio plays about some aspect of life in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, past or present, and to increase awareness of the possibilities and scope of radio in the field of drama. The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards have been established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.
RCM acknowledges with deep appreciation the encouragement and generous support of the Competition’s Patron Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and her husband Michael Whitehead. It also thanks The Townshippers’ Cultural & Research Foundation for its grant to help organize this Competition.
RCM is grateful to The Chawkers Foundation for providing the enabling grant to launch the new program “Townships Radio Theatre”. This will make it possible to invite Sunshine Theatre Productions to mount a professional production of one or more of the winning radio plays from the Competition.
Tags: Alex Paterson, Colin McGregor, Denise Crawford, Drama Writing Awards, Louise Penny, Michael Whitehead, Pauline Clift, RCM, Roger de la Mare, The Chawkers Foundation, The Townshippers’Cultural & Research Foundation
a re-print from “The Record”
A novel concept, having Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s very own Radio Village Hall in Knowlton? Not really. Radio concert halls are prominent throughout the world. A simple Google-search shows that there’s a radio concert hall in just about every country. Radio has been synonymous with concert halls since its inception.
The concept of commercial radio not having such performance spaces has led most people in North America to believe that radio doesn’t need them anymore. The idea is to use the CD and MP3 as a vehicle along with our radios and sound systems to create a concert space in our cars, living rooms and offices, for example. It more or less leads us to believe that we don’t need live performance spaces anymore, only the few required to record the artists in the first place.
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Tags: Knowlton, local talent, Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, Radio Village Hall, serving the community
Some will say : ” Users, Payers! “. Sorry but that is having a very shortsighted view of things. For RCM last November was one of our best web month, lots of our activities were reflected on the web (Piano competition and other events). We had 188,000 pages opened and 688GB of data transfers (videos, radio shows, etc…).
Following the new proposals it could have costs you, visitors, and us, $2,752.00 just to discover a facet of our local creativity hive, at least the one we could showcase. Those proposals to the CRTC were submitted by big distributors such as Bell and other telecoms, I feel it to be more a “tax” on interest they don’t control (bandwidth used on other resources), or a deterrent on what they aren’t ready to offer, to benefit only themselves. If those funds were to be used to better our accesses and develop new user oriented services, it would be an improvement but I don’t see anywhere such a plan. Canada is large, geographically very large, the web allows to fill the gaps, any improvement in that field will be a benefit to local economies. So, why put a cap?
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Henri Laban presents: Openings, a series
Opening: hole, empty space, free place in the soul where the interior and exterior can communicate
An Occupation, a Life
Living is a feat. Talking about it is something of an art.
Invited guests will talk about their life experiences, their professions, what they read, their family or social lives.
A fifteen-part series, organised by occupation, of the life of each guest evoking their years of training, their inspirations, the highs and occasional lows of their professional lives. We’ll follow them as they make chance encounters, we’ll discover the influences that determined their choices and the situations that helped form their careers.
An Occupation, a Life is directed by Holly K. Bailey
To listen to the latest episode, select it under the section “(HL)Un Métier, Une Vie” (on your right) or click the link hereunder to subscribe to the podcast:
An Open Book
A broadcast co-produced by Henri Laban and Francine C. Boivin, directed by Holly K. Bailey
This weekly emission on CIDI will be broadcast at 10 am each Saturday and repeated at 11 pm on Sundays.
Francine (or a different guest) will have read a book that struck her. She will try to communicate her enthusiasm to another participant. In no way will this be a literary review, rather a meeting of two friends who share the pleasures and surprises of reading.
“I accepted the challenge proposed by Henri Laban to discover and enjoy books and authors for the pleasure of reading, or re-reading, in the company of my two cats. We’ve agreed that my choices will include all genres; that I will express my personal points of view, without excluding any doubts or questions. After all, the series is called OPENINGS, so, I’m opening books, paths of thought…
It’s for you to see what you like, what makes you want to go further. And even to find answers to unanswered questions. Or to comment on our interaction. You have simply to write to us to talk!”
Francine C. Boivin, January 29, 2011
To listen to the latest episode, select it under the section “(HL)À Livre Ouvert” (on your right) or click the link here-under to subscribe to the podcast:
And, for your comments or if you want to contact us by e-mail, use the form here-under (you can also leave comments under each episode).
Tags: Francine C. Boivin, Henri Laban, Un Métier, Une Vie
a re-print from “The Record”
The time has come to stand up for what we believe in and start “movin’ on up to the eastside” of 305 Knowlton Road, in the Town of Brome Lake. To be more specific, where Valentine’s Restaurant used to be, right across from the post office. CIDI has been suffering from a lack of visibility and desperately needs attention.
Part of “being who we are” is to be noticed, and it doesn’t really happen when Radio Communautaire Missisquoi is hidden away in a basement. After all, we have to practice what we preach. As everyone knows by now, RCM`s mission statement is “Being Who We Are”, and it doesn’t bode well for us if we are hiding out in the shadows.
How about having a sign in front of our building, for a change, directing people’s attention to where we are located? It seems like a simple enough concept. So, what do we do with the newly acquired space?
Tags: CIDI, Knowlton Road, new reception, Radio Village Hall, RCM, Town of Brome Lake
