Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 to making big comeback Winnipeg free press for people the abcs television drama after years of relative is making a comeback with people oriented Tele cast at prime one facet of the drama program is five journalistic grouped under the heading for the the first of Call some Day was aired Sun the shows Are categorized As journalistic dramas be cause they Deal with social political issues rather than solely with human Ralph producer of the after the Golden age of drama at Csc during the the corporation strayed into producing dramas which were too elitist and esoteric to Appeal to a Large Thomas when John Hirsch was appointed head of abcs drama department in he altered the the change has a lot to do with what John Hirsch has done he turned the department around and sent people All Over the country to do most successful television such As All in the for Are about working class folks that audience people can identify he the stories for the journalistic dramas Are based on and a great Deal of research is done on each be fore the shooting the facts Are pretty Cor but the shows Are dramas and we abide by dramatic were basically in the Story telling for our the characters have to be people other peo ple can identify the aired nation also serve the function of bringing canadians closer together by exposing the problems of one Region to other parts of the Thomas someday soon was a futuristic look at a disaster which could result from a project such As the Garrison diversion in North despite its International in the Garrison project is basically of con Cern Only to people in Mani he but by examine the ques Tion in drama the show will arouse interest in the actual situation on the part of everyone who there is a Large audience in Canada for informational Thomas despite regional Dipari a great Many people Are eager for news from other parts of the in the United they say it took two years for news about watergate to reach the but theres an interesting Phe there Are 1 or two million right across who Are Well educated about whats going on in the and there hungry for inform the ratings for last years journalistic dramas support this the insurance Man from which featured Warren Drew million and were hoping to do better this this was despite stiff com petition from rival american including which were aired at same flexibility is the keyword in production of journalistic Thomas when the idea was first being he Drew up a list of 100 from coast to and visited them All during three weeks to find out whether they were interested in writing scripts for the the More flexible the the because Many of the people cast for the shows we rent proves seasoned Thomas another Day by Duane fibreglass and polychrome Eaton Vitamin e can make a Beautiful difference to your your your 216104 its a difference youll love theres a Complete selection of West Cabot Vitamin e products at Eaton and a super Bonus 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people say Why not a photograph but there Are definite you have to look very specific ally at each work to see the the variations lie in the artists print of the eliminate Fiji of exaggeration of fhe Odd juxtaposition of identifiable colors or she by this slight alteration or the singling out of quite Ordi nary the common place suddenly becomes More noticeable and she you can look at a Rose As in Audrey flacks Queen and say that what a Rose looks like but Why didst i notice it you can isolate common things in a Frame and by isolation make them special and Beauty in Alex Colville horse and the dreamlike Quality of realism is shown in the Diagonal sweep of two moving objects heading towards each sus Pended in time against a dark theres More than the technical skill of depicting something As realistically As these paintings Davis a certain social message is in some of the a statement on con temporary Many of these painters Are not Only Able to isolate but to make a social com ment at the same i wonder if a number of them Arent saying something not Only about Beauty but also what it says about about How we aspects of realism will continue until 20 at the Art athabaskan a a new look by Pat 2anger the opening 1 at the Manitoba museum of Man and is the first major exhibit devoted entirely to the indians of Northwestern Canada and Thill probably be a Uncein lifetime View for most of the the museums curator of native Kathy Manitoba athabaskan a about Chipewyan mainly in the Madoule Lake area probably wont get to View these samples of their cultural ranging from Stone and Bone tools of about 200 to modern snowmobile suits and we the museum have a responsibility to get Chipewyan resource people Down Pettipas standing amid crates and display cases for the internationally gathered exhibition which has been on the Road for two unless they can make the trip to Urban wont be Able to see the exhibit at the display concentrates on athabaskan ethnography material culture which includes Homes and several sections focus on prehistory the period of White Contact including the fur missionaries and the Gold Rush the seasonal athabaskan life with adaptation to new techniques and modern contrasts and continuity in the each Section has an explanatory objects Are supplemented by illustrations and line draw charts and there Are tapes of traditional athabaskan music and a slide show showing How snowshoes Are the exhibit is much More than a collection of Pettipas athabaskan was originally an algonkian word used by the Cree to refer to the strangers who lived to the the word has become a linguistic Label for a Large number of North american Indian groups which belong to a single language family but speak different about 50 Atha Paska language communities Are known Northern athabaskan a make up one of the largest native linguistic groups on the the Northern Domain stretches from Western Interior Alaska through Northern Interior Canada to the West shores of Hudson Northern athabaskan a subsisted on wild berries and a few other edible the Cycle of activities was strictly regulated by the dark Winters with temperatures As Low As minus 60 c and Bright Summers of 36 c weather Are characteristic of the the artefacts primarily functional display expert craftsmanship and artistic Porcupine quills coloured with natural dried Bird quills and skins and animal claws decorated Early hide after Contact with european clothes were fashioned in a european materials such As Satin and ribbon were along with Metal buttons and Winter clothing remains basically the but undergarments and summer clothing come from mail order women continue to do Bead work although patterns and motifs have but Quill work and Moose hair and silk embroidery Are almost lost As far As remembering the old its locked up with the Pettipas the museum has made tapes of Chipewyan elders and translated them into the present athabaskan a have retained some of their Pettipas but its mostly in the socioeconomic the Structure of the Manitoba incorporated into the social and cultural life of decided to abandon the unsatisfactory lifestyle there and moved Back to the land from 1968 to at there trying to retain the old they still go of Caribou for just How Long hat will i dont Pettipas the is a joint project of the Royal scottish museum in Edinburgh and the National museum of of about 50 per cent of known athabaskan material is Pettipas most of these articles were collected before Canada was Glenn a National museum employ Many of the articles ended up in Scotland because of requests from the scottish museums first director in the 1850s to scots with the Hudson Bay company for co operation of influential friends in Distant the Canadian collection began in the late 1880s with Many acquisitions from 1911 to the Manitoba museum plans to photograph each after the seven museum Canadian the items will be returned to most of the artefacts Are encased in Clear plastic to prevent Oil from the hands deteriorates Forrester five playwrights seeking award Toronto five Canadian playwrights have been selected by the Toronto drama Bench As finalists for the 1976 Chalmers Canadian play finalists include Mitchell for Back to produced by theatre Calgary and presented at tarragon theatre in Toronto a collective creation originating in Newfoundland and produced at theatre passe Moraille in Toronto Larry Fineberg for produced at the Avon theatre As part of the Stratford festival in Strafford David Zennario for on the produced by the Centaur theatre in Montreal and presented at Toronto Wardship productions and Ken Gass for the boy produced by and at the factory theatre lab in the Chalmers award is an Cash prize made annually to a Canadian playwright for an outstanding play produced in the Toronto reviewing area during the last a total of 65 plays were eligible for the 1976 toe Winner will be announced 31 in the Toronto drama Bench consists of Toronto area theatre crib pics who Are 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