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The Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts is a heritage theatre and concert hall located in the heart of downtown Brantford, Ontario.The Sanderson Centre seats 1,125 people and is a home for local performing arts organizations like the Brantford Symphony Orchestra and provides a venue for school and community events, recitals and amateur dance competitions.
Lawren Harris, founder of the Group of Seven; Wade Hemsworth, songwriter; Paul Kneale, artist [1] Casey Mecija and Jennifer Mecija, musicians ; Shelley Niro, photographer and installation artist; Garnet Rogers, musician, singer, songwriter, and composer; Lonnie Szoke, musician and songwriter
Lawren Stewart Harris CC LL. D. (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven.He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian landscape art and in the development of modern art in Canada.
Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" because the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead, located in Tutela Heights south of the city. Brantford is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky and Phil Hartman.
The BLK Art Group was the name chosen in 1982 by a group of five influential conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in England. Keith Piper , Marlene Smith , [ 1 ] Eddie Chambers [ 2 ] and Donald Rodney were initially based in the Midlands .
Following the closure of the Mohawk Institute in 1970, the Woodland Cultural Centre opened on the site in 1972, as an organization focused on research, history, and later the arts. [9] Woodland's cultural and historical interpretation programming utilizes the historic Mohawk Institute building to teach about the history of residential schools ...
Location: 79 Market Street South Brantford, Ontario N3S 2E4: Seating type: Bowl: Capacity: 2,981 (1967-2015) 2,952 (2015-2023) Present 2,952 seated ( 3,207 ) including standing room
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