All Systems Go — an interview with Tim Jones and Assaf Weisz

The transformation is literal and physical — the collection of antique buildings is slowly being restored — and highly imaginative, even visionary. Which makes sense. Tim Jones received the Order of Canada last year for his work in “creative placemaking,” an innovative fusion of economic sustainability and the creative arts that makes for uniquely dynamic, integrated, and livable communities. That he has brought this skill set here, to a sagging collection of military barracks on an island in Lake Ontario, is extraordinary. 

Books on Film: Atonement screens at the Regent

Elements unique to film offer substitutes for the literary: a rich colour palette, recurrent visual symbolism, self-reflexive scenes, filmed in a movie theatre. The casting itself is symbolic: Kiera Knightley, as Cecilia, can convey both beauty and suffering; Benedict Cumberbatch seems naturally menacing. The soundtrack, at times sentimentally invoking the mournful Englishness of Elgar or Vaughan Williams, also integrates a writerly motif, scoring the rhythmic percussive sounds of a typewriter.

Editorial: Picture Perfect

In which the Gazette considers the creation of a museum at the Base dedicated to the No. 31 Bombing and Gunnery School, and remembers those who served in WWII.

This Weekend’s Open Houses

There are open houses both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, from 11am to 4pm. Plot your route!

The Long Weekend Ticket

The Marysburgh Mummers’ Matilda opens at Mount Tabor. There’s a Gathering of Friends at Ameliasburgh Heritage Village — meet the Loyalist re-enactors. Opening of The Loyalist Era, a new exhibit at Wellington Heritage Museum. The Andara Gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary with an Open House all weekend. PEPtBO hosts the launch of Steve Burrows’ A Nye of Pheasants at South Bay United. And there’s a fascinating talk on the Delta Test Vehicle, a cold-war artefact discovered during the search for the Avro Arrow.