Current & Upcoming Projects
The Grey-Bruce Arts Collective has partnered with the Beautiful Joe Heritage Society
to produce
“The 100 Mile Playwright Festival” this fall.
The festival is a two-day celebration of our local stories, artists and playwrights. It is also a vehicle from which local playwrights can have their work critiqued and produced. Over the course of one week, three local plays will be workshopped and at the end of the week, read in front of a public audience.
After each play presentation, there will be a small reception with local entertainment where audience members can meet the playwright and actors.
Two plays, “A theatrical adapatation of Beautiful Joe” and “The Tank Range Project” are local stories, the latter also written by area playwrights.
The third play in the festival is a submission from our local youth. “From the Page to the Stage: A Youth Playwrighting Contest” will be open to plays written by youth (ages 13-18) who live within 100 miles of Meaford. Currently, this is the only event of its kind in the province.
Tickets will go on sale later this summer.
On October 2 at 2pm
A reading of the play written by the winner of the "From the Page to the Stage Youth Playwrighting Contest". The contest held this spring, is open to youth in the area. The winner will spend the summer writing their play with a professional mentor to help them along the way.
On October 2 at 8pm
A reading of The Tank Range Project by Roger Shank and Jamie Robinson. A play about the expropriation of the Meaford Tank Range in 1942 and a modern day soldier.
On October 3 at 2pm,
A reading of an adaptation of Beautiful Joe by Michael O'Brien. Beautiful Joe is the story of a mongrel dog who is brutally mutilated and rescued by a loving family. Set in Meaford, The play is an adaptation of Margaret Marshall Saunders book of the same name.
PRESS: Click here to read the press release for the 100 Mile Playwright Festival.
MY Film Studio - Season 2:
WHO Youth ages 13 to 18
WHAT Film Production Studio
WHEN August 9 to August 20
WHERE Meaford Hall
WHY For the Love of FIlm
COST $495 per participant
A 2-week intensive course on writing and creating your own film. Participants will be instructed in the basic techniques of filmmaking. Hands on learning, guest professional instructors and a focus on youth creativity make the program unique. At the end of the programme participants will have written, acted, directed, filmed and edited their own film which will then be shown as part of the Meaford International Film Festival. See the films from Season 1 here on our website under "Past Projects."
TO REGISTER: Download the application form from here and drop it off or send it in to Meaford Hall.
"Driving Miss Daisy" in association with D2 entertainment
WHEN: August 25, 26, 27, 28 at 8pm August 28 at 2pm & 8pm
WHERE: Meaford Hall
COST: $40 / $32.50 / $20
The Meaford Hall and Culture Foundation and The Grey-Bruce Arts Collective presents a
Starbright Production of "Driving Miss Daisy".
Tickets available now at the Meaford Hall Box Office.
Groups can make special arrangements to have a dinner catered at an additional cost.
Click here to read the press release for Driving Miss Daisy.
Tickets available at Meaford Hall or call the Meaford Hall box office at 1877-538-0463.
