On Wednesday February 11, the arts council membership oversaw the installation of the new OCAC Board. All officers have returned for another term: president Penelope Johnson, vice president Jack Bennest, tTreasurer Arleyene Farnworth, and secretary Nathan Linders. A number of diretors are returning: Bernice Myllyniemi, Brian Mapplebeck, Janice Goodman, Jennifer Mapplebeck. New directors are Enid Baker, Maxyne Lockhart, and Terry Irvine.
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The Board of the Oliver Community Theatre Society is pleased to announce the hiring of Bettyanne Hampton as the new manager of Oliver’s new Frank Venables Theatre.
Bettyanne, who spent her teenage years as a student in Osoyoos, has worked extensively in the field of arts management, presentation, and education for many years in various centres on Vancouver Island and more recently in Fort St John where she has been the Executive Director of the North Peace Cultural Centre since 2010.
“The Board is very excited to have attracted such a strong leader within BC’s lively art scene. Bettyanne is bringing a wealth of energy and expertise in facility management and equally importantly, in collaborative programming and community and professional presentations” says Wendy Newman President of the Board of Directors of the theatre’s operating society.
Bettyanne also has an impressive work history with arts education having managed the Comox Valley Youth Music Centre for seven years where she worked with music and theatre educators from across the province.
Bettyanne will be joining the theatre on March 30th, just in time to represent Oliver’s new Frank Venables Theatre at the mid-April province-wide arts touring conference in Vancouver where BC community theatre managers and presenters work together to plan many of the tours for professional artist which will be presented over the next 2 – 3 years.
Bettyanne will be working in the theatre office at 6100 Gala Street and after March 30 can be reached at manager @ venablestheatre.ca or by telephone at 250-498-1626. For further information on Frank Venables Theatre, visit www.venablestheatre.ca or use the link under “Member Businesses” at right.
The “Masters of Trivia” has a new champion team. Medici’s was full on the evening of Friday February 27 as seven teams waged trivia war in this Premier League tournament. There were many new faces, but the biggest battle of the night was between the 2013 co-winners. ‘John Won’t Care’ pulled away from ‘The Mighty Pixels’ early in the battle and held their lead all the way home.
Tongue-in-cheek, quiz-master David Badger describes the evening’s competition:
“The thin veneer of friendship evaporated as egos, raw with anxiety, lashed out to taunt and maim their fellow competitors. Five new teams: The Willowbrook Wonders, The Jukeboxers, Gravity’s Rejects, Lisa and Co. and of course, The Idiot Savants (new dress code required here, courtesy of Ed Dukes) all made their move to snatch glory from John Won’t Care BUT……they were denied!”
Pictured with a death grip on The Einstein Cup are the new champs: Merrill Bjerkan, Helene Urcullu, John (“I don’t care”) Bjerkan, Penelope Johnson and Patrick Reid.
