Description
The Osprey is the arts performance hub of Shelburne County. Offering an intimate & inviting, fully-equipped theatre venue, we present a full season of live music, theatre, dance, art exhibits, films, youth events, workshops, day camps & community events. The Osprey is the arts performance hub of Shelburne County. Offering an intimate and inviting, fully-equipped theatre venue with retractable soft seating, the Osprey is multi-purpose and adaptable. Each year we present a full season of live music, live theatre, live dance as well as art exhibits, film screenings, youth performances, book launches, workshops, day camps and community events.
The Osprey also hosts events across Shelburne County in schools and other venues and rents its space to community groups and private concerns for public and private functions such as weddings, meetings, conferences and lectures.
The Osprey Arts Centre Association is run by a volunteer Board of Directors and three part-time staff.
Mission Statement:
To manage the Osprey Arts Centre as a fiscally sound theatre dedicated to excellence in the arts, and to make it a true community performing arts centre available to and providing programs of artistic merit for everyone in Shelburne County.
Vision Statement:
The Osprey Arts Centre vision sees a community where all members, youth, adult and senior, and culturally diverse, have access to high quality performing arts events, both amateur and professional. To be a place where people turn for training in the arts and to be available to all members of the community as a place to perform. The Osprey Arts Centre aims to be a true community arts crossroad so that the people of Shelburne County recognize the value of and appreciate the presence of the performing arts in their community.
Values:
The members of the Osprey Arts Centre Association (OACA), and in particular, the board of directors are guided in making decisions by the following values.
1. The OACA values artistic experimentation, excellence in art, and creativity.
2. The OACA values good financial management based on balanced budgets, clear record keeping and financial reporting, and responsible management of resources.
3. The OACA is responsible to its community and values sharing with other community organizations for the cultural development of Shelburne County.
4. The OACA respects people and is committed to creating safe working environments. As an employer, OACA values cultural diversity, dedication to its values, motivation to continue to grow and develop its objectives, and fairmindedness in its dealings with each other and the public which it serves.
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facebook.comAaand...Let the 2018, 15th anniversary Osprey performance season begin! Three upcoming events in March starting with COMEDY this Saturday. Tickets available at TLC Pharmasave and online here: https://ospreyartscentre.ticketpro.ca/
Get ready for another Comedy Night at the Osprey with Marc Sauvé & Bob Mann! Saturday, March 3, 8:00 PM. If you caught Canadian legendary comedian Mike MacDonald at the Osprey last fall, you’ll remember the opening act. Comedian Marc Sauvé entertained with side splitting-jokes and knee-slapping stories. He’s returning, this time with pro comedian and actor Bob Mann. Tickets $25, ages 19+ Available at TLC Pharmacy in Shelburne or online here: https://ospreyartscentre.ticketpro.ca/
It’s time for another quality Osprey fundraising concert with a crew of class-act Shelburne County musicians performing their favorite Neil Young songs. Enjoy great live music and support your local Arts Centre at the same time. Neil Young has been a well-known name in music over the last five decades. A fellow Canadian, a prolific guitarist, an instantly recognizable vocalist and a brilliant songwriter, Young has released a massive collection of songs over the years that have varied greatly in style from folk to country to heavy rock. A group of talented Shelburne County musicians (many of whom are die-hard Young fans) will perform a tribute show on the Osprey stage featuring their favourite selections from Young’s long-standing musical career. Although Young been a member of iconic groups like Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, much of the evening’s selections will be from his 39 solo albums including many hits and a few rarities. Support the Osprey and local music with songs by Neil Young! Tickets: $17 adult, $7 student
As part of the Osprey’s 15th anniversary season, the Osprey’s Board of Directors is planning a Black and White Gala Night – a fun, social fundraising event to assist the Osprey in bringing a full season of quality programming to its stage in 2018. Guests are encouraged to dress up in semi-formal black and white themed attire. Music with a black and white theme will be played and B&W themed appetizers will be provided. Tickets: $20 adult
Let’s welcome Tony Schellinck back to the Osprey for a second astronomy presentation! If you attended this event last summer, you learned how to identify objects in the summer night sky, now we’ll take a look at objects in the winter night sky. This event is presented in partnership with Boxing Rock Brewing Co. and their Dark as Keji Black IPA which they released to raise awareness and funds for dark sky programming at Kejimkujik National Park. Beer tasting will be available prior to the presentation. BEER TASTING – 7:00 PM NIGHT SKY PRESENTATION – 7:30 PM On Any Night…Take a Journey to the Farthest Reaches of the Universe: A Beginner’s Guide to Observing the Night Sky Host, Tony Schellinck will show you how, with minimal investment you can start to find deep sky objects (DSOs) in the night sky. Using photographs he has taken of the stars, he will show you how to use binoculars and small telescopes to find a galaxy, planets and their moons, nebula, open clusters and globular clusters. Viewing the night sky will never be the same again. If you have binoculars please bring them to the show as you will be able to practice finding deep sky objects while in the theatre. Tony has binoculars to borrow during the show if you do not have a pair to bring. If the weather cooperates, after the show we will go out to a darkish place nearby and find these objects in the night sky using binoculars. Admission by donation, suggested at $10. Limited seating is available – the event is presented in the balcony for optimal distance from the projections.
If you caught Canadian legendary comedian Mike MacDonald at the Osprey last fall, you’ll remember the opening act. Comedian Marc Sauvé entertained with side splitting-jokes and knee-slapping stories. He’s returning, this time with comedian Bob Mann. Actor, comedian and writer, performing on screen and on stage for twenty years (most recently CBC Television’s Mr. D., Haven, Trailer Park Boys, CBC Doc Zone). Bob Mann was a recipient of the 2015 Atlantic Film Festival Script Development Award and Harold Greenburg Fund for a new feature-length comedy, and in 2017 co-produced and starred in the film, “You Ruined Our Life!” which made its premiere at the Atlantic Film Festival. Tickets: $25 adult – ages 19+
(We've been asked to share this announcement:) Report on Import Replacement: Local Prosperity for Rural Atlantic Canada. Date: Monday 26th February Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Shelburne Fire Hall, 63, King Street, Shelburne, NS Please join us for the launch and help us to share the news. The official launch includes a presentation, slideshow and discussion in Shelburne, NS and the study report will be made available to everyone including via the Centre for Local Prosperity website at www.centreforlocalprosperity.ca. While the study targets Atlantic Canada the report has applications to rural communities beyond Atlantic Canada. Atlantic Canada imported $11 billion more than it exported in 2012, with each of the region’s four provinces running a negative trade balance. Currently, the provinces have the highest trade deficit in the country, with four out of every ten dollars generated within the region leaking out of the region.
TONIGHT, 7pm at the Osprey, by donation - Jay Pilzer talks Stompin’ Tom
WEDNESDAY EVENING: The Shelburne Museums by the Sea supported Community Engagement Council will host a presentation by Jay Pilzer titled "The Man Who Defined a Nation One Stomp at a Time: The Remarkable Career of Stompin’ Tom Connors". This event will be held in the lobby of the Osprey and begins at 7pm, admission is by donation. Hope to see you there.
Get ready for this great fundraiser concert at the Osprey this Saturday, Jan 13, 7PM. Our own Manitoba Hal Brolund has put together a show that will chase away your winter blues! ‘Winter Wang Dang Doodle’ features a crew of local musicians including Pat Melanson, Ted D’Eon, Nigel D'Eon, Bob Vacon and The Port Roseway Strutters with Banjo Bubba as Master of Ceremonies. Proceeds from ticket sales at this event will go to the Shelburne Loyalist Food Bank. Admission is $10 adult, $5 student. Available at the door only on the evening of the concert. Watch a preview video of these excellent players performing here: https://youtu.be/2wml2C0ruWk
TONIGHT, the movie Rolling Stone calls “A must see...” 7:30. at the Osprey. Watch the trailer here.... https://youtu.be/2KLLkj84GAo
LUCKY is the last major role of the great American actor, Harry Dean Stanton, who died Sept. 15. Fans knew Stanton as a rugged character actor and Jack Nicholson famously carved his initials into every film set. But the most personal tribute of all, a new film called LUCKY, was released just two weeks after his death and will live on as a testament to the actor’s great skills. LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky (Harry Dean Stanton) finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. It’s a fitting journey for the season. “Everything Harry Dean Stanton has done in his career, and his life, has brought him to his moment of triumph in LUCKY, an unassumingly wonderful little film about nothing in particular and everything that’s important.” Variety. Run time: 88 mins Rated: Not Rated Tickets: $10 adult, $7 student
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