Scheduled to join with the Montreal High Lights Festival for the seventh edition of Nuit Blanche à Montréal presented by Hydro-Québec, this is an opportunity to discover the cultural corridor, its landmarks, cultural venues, and visions of the present, past, and future.
This important but long-neglected district adjacent to Old Montreal and downtown, a hidden treasure of early industrial architecture, will share with the community an array of art, dance, live music, film, discussions, poetry, performances, and presentations on the Corridor, its points of cultural interest, and yes, horses.
The event will be held in the New City Gas complex, 140 and 141 Ann Street. As part of the Nuit Blanche event, shuttles will be available between Old Montreal and Griffintown at the stop located at Ann St and Wellington streets. To see the entire listing of events go to www.griffintown.org?corridorculturel/nuitblanche/ For more information phone Judith Bauer at 514-979-3978.
Members and guests of The Rotary Club of Westmount listened to a presentation given by Robin Dale Fishbain, coordinator of Elizabeth High School.
In spite of being the enlightened year of 2010, the elephant in the room no one feels comfortable talking about is still teenage pregnancies. For 58 years Elizabeth House has actively addressed that important issue first by providing shelter and onsite education to young pregnant Anglophone women and since 1974 with Elizabeth High School, a specialty school set up first under the PSBGM and now the EMSB.
Elizabeth High School offers individual certified educational programs geared to the academic level of up to 18 pregnant girls 14 to 18 years in a small school environment located in Ville Emard. Girls can come to the school as soon as they find out they are pregnant and can stay after they have had their babies for up to 18 months. Onsite day care is provided so the girls can bring their babies with them
The girls who live at home with their parents, on their own in subsidized housing, group homes and even shelters or at Elizabeth House located in NDG that provides living accommodations for up to nine girls and 19 babies.
The benefits of Elizabeth High School go beyond giving them an opportunity to finish high school. The supportive environment is itself an incubator for self esteem with positive roll models as teachers, the disciplines of organized lives, and the encouragement to keep their babies if they choose. For the many who come from dysfunctional homes the school gives them the tools to break the cycle of welfare. For more information go to http://www.maisonelizabethhouse.com/roots3.htm or phone 514-488-6529.
Westmount Jazz poet Lydia Lockett will welcome freelance United Church Minister Jan Jorgensen, former minister of Westmount Park United Church, to this week’s Jazz Poetry of the New Beat Generation show, Sunday, February 28 at 6 p.m. at the London Bus Café.
Jorgensen and Lockett and other guest poets and musicians will present an intimate evening of jazz poetry, original words and music with sounds of Jazz.
Admission is $15 and includes finger food courtesy of Jeremy Searle, owner of the London Bus Café, 4126 rue Ste. Catherine St. W. To reserve go to email lee.speakeasyproductions@gmail.com or phone 438-886-0967.
