Monthly Archives: May 2015

Nonesuch Café Hours!

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Janet listens to Tracy

The new hours for the NONESUCH CAFE  are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM until 2 PM  so come on by MAIN & STATION  (Parrsboro’s old Post Office) for delicious freshly made lunch and treats by Janet & Judith.

        The NONESUCH CAFE is also open for supper each Tuesday from 5 pm.

Please note that the café is ALSO OPEN BY CHANCE : if you see the sign outside, the door open, or the lights on, please don’t be shy to come right in to see what we have on offer in the café & to check out the new stock of secondhand books and art.

 

We also offer special event and private parties on site or catered.

For reservations, email [email protected] or call 514-979-3978 and leave a message.

The cafe menu changes regularly depending on our mood and what is in season.

 

                          Gluten and Lactose & Sugar Free Friendly.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NONESUCH COFFEE TALKS SERIES FOR SUMMER 2015 HAS BEGUN & YOU ALREADY MISSED SOME GREAT TALKS. FOR DETAILS & AN UP-TO-DATE SCHEDULE, SEE HERE… 

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Exhibition: Drawing out Loud – Faces of Lyme Disease

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Donna Jacobs is a multimedia & graphic artist, a ceramicist, and poet.  She will be in Parrsboro for a week in July to teach a charcoal workshop and hold an exhibition of her work.

drawing-out-loud-exhibit-vernissage-1For over a year Donna has being drawing sketches that encompass emotions both she and her daughter Bronwyn were experiencing, but could not express in words, as Lyme disease ravaged Bronwyn’s body with damage to her stomach, gallbladder and digestive tract. Each day Donna would put a new sketch up on the wall of the hospital room. What they discovered was that the sketches became a focus and broke down some barriers between the health care professionals and Bronwyn. They would discuss the sketches and the atmosphere became more human. This was to her benefit.

Don’t miss the exhibit of these sketches on display in Main & Station’s secondfloor gallery this July. The exhibit will open with a soirée on July 15th at 5pm and will remain on display until July 24th, 2015. Come to the opening to see the work, meet Donna, and learn more about Lyme Disease and how to prevent it.

Full Bore Mystic, Meditative Collage, and Sacred Tremors

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For the month of June 2015, creative duo Full Bore Mystic will be Nonesuch Artists in Residence in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Poet and visual artist Julia Heimer Dadds & painter Mark Beebe will be coming to us from Bloomington, Indiana where Julia teaches and Mark, now retired after some 25 years guarding museum treasures, is devoting himself full-time to his painting and his family.

"Sacred Tremors" Indiana Version, May 2015, Mark Beebe

 

You can meet Mark and Julia at their Artists’ Talk on Friday June 12th at 10:30 am in the Nonesuch Café.

Julia will also be giving two Nonesuch Coffee Talks on Tuesday, June 23rd, Lao Tzu at the Gate, and on Tuesday, June 30th, Talismans of the everyday.

On June 20th and 21st, Julia will be offering a Meditative Collage Workshop (or all mixed up and that’s just fine). For details and to register, see here… https://hmsnonesuch.com/workshops-seminars-conferences/learn/all-mixed-up/

Be sure to look for both Mark & Julia at our Tuesday Poetry Nights throughout the month of June and note that Julia will be our featured poet on Tuesday, June 23rd so come on down for that and also keep an eye out for Mark in and around town as you may just find him somewhere painting up a storm.

And finally, definitely don’t miss the exhibit of their work opening June 25th at 5 pm.

To give you a taste of her poetry, here is a sample Julia tells me is ‘a tad rough’. It is from a series Julia is working on around Jane Schoolcraft’s story (and her family’s). Her Ojibwe name  was Obabaamwewe-giizhigokwe (in modern spelling) Continue reading →