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The show From the Heart, Women of Country, opens Friday at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia and runs through July 26. From left are: Stacey Kay, Elicia MacKenzie, Adele MacKenzie, Alli Mang, Leah Grandmont, and Callandra Dendias.

Singing country from the heart

The cast of 'From the Heart, Women of Country,' opening Friday at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, includes two singers with reality television experience under their belt buckles.

Jayme Armstrong as Roxie and Jodi McFadden as Velma earn an ovation for their roles in Drayton Entertainment’s production of Chicago at Huron Country Playhouse.

Chicago killer good

There’s murder, jealously, cheating, lying, fame, misfortune and “all that jazz.” Drayton Entertainment’s production of the Broadway hit, Chicago, is on now at Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend.

Lisa Daniels, curator and director of the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, shows a model of how the Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery exhibit will be set up at the Sarnia facility. One of the challenges of setting up the show, running Oct. 2 to Feb. 7, is fitting Salvador Dali's 10-foot-by-13-foot painting Santiago El Grande, visible on the top right side of the model, into the freight elevator. (Terry Bridge/Sarnia Observer/Postmedia Network)

Tight squeeze for some Beaverbrook artwork

When Lisa Daniels contacted the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's top official about Sarnia being added to the Masterworks' tour, the first question she received in response was, 'How big is your freight elevator?'

Moore Museum curator Laurie Mason stands in front of a one-room schoolhouse which was originally built in 1887. The museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary on June 14, from 1 to 4 p.m. (Carl Hnatyshyn, Postmedia Network)

Museum marking 40th anniversary June 14

When Moore Museum first opened its doors back in 1975, Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, the CN Tower was still under construction, and bell-bottom clad Moore Township residents were shuffling their feet to the sounds of BTO and Anne Murray care of eight-track cassette tapes.

London-Watford band Say Hello performs at 2014's inaugural Arts Social Day in Watford. This year's art show will be held Saturday, June 13. (Postmedia Network file photo)

Feting Watford’s flourishing arts scene

The streets of Watford will be awash with bright colours, sumptuous sounds and delightful dancing on June 13, all part of the second annual Art Social Day taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sarnia native Stephen Williams is currently interning with a Canadian film distribution and production company at the Cannes International Film Festival. The 22-year-old recent Toronto Film School graduate is using the opportunity to meet distributors, producers and marketers at the nearly two-week-long French festival. Handout/Sarnia Observer/Postmedia Network

From St. Pat's to Cannes

A Sarnia native is rubbing elbows with some of the world's top directors and actors at the Cannes International Film Festival this week.

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