“To enhance the quality of life in our region, we will provide a centre that will further develop and invigorate the cultural, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and environmental life of our community.
We will create a state of the art, energy-efficient and environmentally responsible facility that will be a model for other communities in changing times by reclaiming this historic building and restoring it to the heart of the community.”
September 16th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The Parrsboro Citizens’ Band will be having an open house on Tuesday, September 29 from 7:00 until 9:00 pm at the Band Hall. This will be a wonderful opportunity for the public to meet some of the band members, see some of the band’s artefacts, and discuss our beginners’ lesson program.
We want to show the community the fun we have as band musicians, and underline that any member of the community can become part of our musical tradition.
Please bring a friend.
PARC* at The Hall – Sept 18-20 2009
The conference, celebrating creative writing for the theatre, focuses on a few main themes: Regionality, Publishing and Playwrights & Directors. for more info click here
The Board of Directors has initiated an emergency campaign to stabilize the building while capital funds are sought for the Renovation/Restoration project.
Please click on the Renovations link to the right to view the plans and how you can help us out.
Wednesday August, 5 - 7:30 pm
This great Blue Grass band from Montreal is stopping at the hall for a one night performance in transit to the Folk Harbour Festival in Lunenburg. 
The Halifax String Quartet will be performing at the Hall on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Formed in 2001, the Halifax String Quartet performs professionally in the Halifax area, and is happy to be making their second appearance in Parrsboro. Join violinists Lee Park and Jennifer Lau, violist Jennifer Bentley, and cellist Sarah Ramer for a show that is sure to delight. The HSQ will perform a wide selection of music, including works by Claude Debussy, Arcangelo Corelli, and Halifax-based composers Ryan Veltmeyer and Alice Hansen. In addition, the concert will include jazz and tango pieces arranged exclusively for the HSQ by Jennifer Bentley. Tickets are $10 at the door.
Tower Repair and restored floors in both the Auditorium and the Annex
- The new seats are installed and ready for their first audience.
Painters Shannon & Hughie paint the washrooms
PLUS
We’ve insulated the annex ceiling, installed new oil tanks and segregated them for area heating, electrical work, access ramp, projection screen(9′x16′), scraped and painted the L section of the building.etc.
- A close look at the chart.
The Parrsboro Upstream Jazz Sessions
August 25th to 29th, 2009
at the Citizens’ Band Hall
The Parrsboro Upstream Jazz Sessions is a five day Intensive covering improvisation and compositional strategies related to the free jazz orchestra, funk ensemble and silent film accompaniment. Participants are welcome to fully explore three distinct streams of cutting-edge jazz practice with the opportunity to specialize based on natural selection, faculty consultation and orchestration. The resulting ensembles will perform a public concert on Saturday, August 29th at 8:00 pm at the Parrsboro Citizens’ Band Hall.
For further information, visit the Cultural Campus page.
Patricia Burke (l) is pleased to accept the donation from the artist, Arlene Collins
Part of the support for the Hall and the Bernie Burke Memorial Golf Tournament comes from appreciative citizens throughout our region. This year Arlene Collins has once again helped us out with the donation of a very beautiful and valuable print. Tickets for this are now on sale at all Hall events and the art piece will go to the lucky recipient during the Bernie Burke Golf Memorial Tournament held in August each year.
Although they may be facing in the opposite direction than the final design intends we are very happy to have received these new seats from the Sobey’s Group who own Empire Theatres. Perry Kossatz, a great friend of the Hall was wholly responsible for the acquisition and even delivered them!! What a guy. Many thanks Perry.
