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New exhibits | open tomorrow at art gallery Christmas time calls forth so many warm feelings about old tradiâ€" tions, and tt enhance that connection with the past, Canada‘s popular Huggett Family will present A Renaissance Christmas. a concert rich in Christmas tradiâ€" tions, at the Humanities Theatre. University of Waterloo. on Tuesday. December 9 at 8 p.m. Entertainment The concert is a Yuleâ€" tide excursion back through the ages, comâ€" plete with _ rousing carols, folksongs, eleâ€" gant music and dances, all performed on lutes, krummhorns, viols, reâ€" corders, pipes, drums and nakers. This multiâ€"talented faâ€" mily who can perform on over 30 different inâ€" struments, plays, sings The Kitchenerâ€"Waâ€" terloo Art Gallery is feaâ€" turing thtree new exhibiâ€" tions beginning tomorâ€" row in its home in the Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N. in Kitchener. Over 80 works, largely water colours and drawâ€" ings, humorous caricaâ€" tures, political cartoons and book illustrations by Walter Trier will be on display at the gallery from Dec. 4 to Jan. 4. Illustrator _ Walter Trier was known simply as ‘‘The Trier‘‘ in the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s and England of the 1940s. His popular caricatures in magaâ€" zines and especially his illustrations for chilâ€" dren‘s books captured everyday life in a perâ€" ceptive yet gentle way that endeared him to a wide audience. Trier was born in 1890 in Prague and moved to Canada in 1947. He first exhibited in Canada at the 77th Annual Spring Exhibition of the Onâ€" tario Society of Artists at the Art Gallery of Onâ€" tario in 1949. He is known for his ilâ€" lustrations of 75 books including. Emil and the Detectives, Kipling‘s Huggetts to relive Christmas past The Huggett Family will bring their traditional Christmas charm to the Humanities Theatre in a performance scheduled for next Tuesday on the University of Waterioo campus. and dances in colourful their four children, Anâ€" programmes of music, traditional ballads and countries. Since their authentic costumes. drew, Jennifer, lan and song and dance of the folk songs. to audiences debut in 1969 at the Naâ€" Leslie. Margaret and Fiona have brought their Renaissance era, plus in over six different tional Arts Centre in Otâ€" Justâ€"So Stories and Mark Twain‘s The Adâ€" ventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. A selection of toys colâ€" lected by the artist are included in this exhibiâ€" tion organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. * Also on display beginâ€" ping tomorrow is an exâ€" hibition of 10 Tapestries by Torontoâ€"born artist Ellie Fidler. Fidler. who now lives and works in California. studied textile design at the University of Caliâ€" fornia in Berkeley. Since 1974, she has worked fullâ€"time at her weaving and has exhibitâ€" ed in gallery shows throughout the Pacific coast area of the United States and Canada. To achieve her aim ‘"to communicate to the viewer directly through color,"‘ Fidler has choâ€" sen the ancient Soumak technique which enables her to sculpt with colour and to weave texture and depth into her work. Ellie Fidler has reâ€" ceived a number of comâ€" missions including ‘"Summer Hills," a six panel tapestry for the State of California. A third exhibition conâ€" sists of Indian scupture The stone. terracotta and wood sculptures in Brahma and Buddha were a gift to the Naâ€" tional Gallery from Max Tanenbaum, â€" chairman of York Steel Construcâ€" tion Ltd.. Toronto. He purchased them for the gallery from the Nasli and Alice Heeremaneck collection in the United States. from the National Galâ€" lery of Canada. Thirtyâ€"two pieces of Indian and Nepali sculpâ€" ture will be on display beginning tomorrow. The Indian and Nepalhi pieces range from the third century through seventeenth â€" century AD. and include Buddâ€" hist, Hindu and Jain works as well as two wooden sculptures from Nepal. Theexhibition illusâ€" trates how of the two great traditions of sculpâ€" ture which have emerged in human hisâ€" tory, one originated in South Asia in the service of two related religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and eventually brought forth an international style for Asia as farâ€" reaching as that of clasâ€" sical Greece in Europe. This work by humorist Walter Trier (1890â€"1951) is part of a new exhibit from the Art Gallery of Ontario opening tomorrow at the Kâ€"W Art Gallery in the Centre in the Square. Kitchenerâ€"Waâ€" terloo has its own Canadian Opera star in the person of Theoâ€" dore Baerg, a young Kitchener baritone who is now a perâ€" manent member of the Canadian Opera Co. Area audiences will be able to see and hear Baerg in recital on Sunday afternoon, Canadian Opera star set j for performance at UW _ December 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the Theatre of the Arts, University of Waterloo. He will be accomâ€" panied by Derek Bate, pianist and reâ€" sident Conductor of the Canadian Opera Company â€" Ensemble and Michael Shust. tenor, also a member of the â€" Canadian WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDA Y , DECEMBER 3, 19B0 â€" PAGE 16 Opera Company Enâ€" semble. The concert is preâ€" sented by the Kâ€"W Opera Guild. â€" The programme for the Sunday afternoon concert will feature favourite arias from wellâ€"known operas inâ€" cluding some bariâ€" toneâ€"tenor duets from the Pearl Fishers, La tawa, the Huggetts have been busy touring and concertizing throughout Europe, in the United States and across Canaâ€" da. Canadian and British radio and television have featured The Hugâ€" getts in a number of speâ€" cials. The family has seâ€" veral records, produced by George Martin in London, England and reâ€" leased on the Ayre label. Tickets for the perforâ€" mance are $7.50 (Sto./Sen.$6) â€" available from the UW Arts Cenâ€" tre Box Office, Humaniâ€" ties Theatre, 885â€"4280, or off campus at George Kadwell Records, Waâ€" terloo Square and Stanâ€" ley Park Mallâ€"and The Centre in the Square.. Tickets for the reâ€" cital are availaâ€" ble at the UW Arts Centre Box Office. Baerg received his early vocal training with Victor Maartens of Wilfrid Laurier University, and later studied in Italy, Gerâ€" many and New York. Boheme _ and Forza de Destino. La