WIIITI3Y FREE PRESS, WEDNES9DAY, JANUARY 13 1988,. PAGE 21 SPecial entertainment for Peter Perryaward niglit By BRIAN WINTER East Indian «classical dancing and songs from popular shows of stage and screenl' will be featured during the ente rtainment portionf of the Peter Perry 'Award presen;- tation Jan. 22. -Bert Heaver, winner of the Peter Pérry Award in 1978, is directing this show featuring l ocal talent whicb begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Whitby Centennial Building. The busband and wife team of Ritesh and Joanna Das Will per- form t he Kathak Dance of India, Joanna dancing and Rîtesh accom- panying ber on the table drum. Joanna, -a Whitby native, began formal studies of Katbak dance in 1978 and received ber master's degree in the dance in India in 1986 with assistance from the Canada Council. She bas performed extensively in Canada, India and- the United States., Ritesb Das, born into a dan- ce family in Calcutta,. India, bas been accompanying tbe Katbak dance since 1975, and for a time was a member of a dance company. in Los Angeles, California. - Another husband and wife team is Evert and Bey McIlwain, who' will be'singing popular songs of the stage and screen, solo and in duets. Both have performed in local theatre and starred in the Whitby Courthouse Theatre's production of Oklahoma last November Evert.. a music teacher in Aj4x, had the lead role as Curly in Oklahoma. Also singing popular show tunes is Sheila Rogerson of Oshawa., who bas- appeared in a. number of Oshawa Little Theatre productions. Following the entertainrnent, the Peter Perry Award will be p resen- ted to the outstanding citizen of Whitby for 1987 by the Whitby Chamber of Commerce. Public nominations for the win- ner, we re made in November 1987, and a selectionI comm ittee appoin- ted by the Chamber made its choice in December. The identity of the "Peter Perry" is a closely guarded secret until the envelope with the winner's name is opened on Jan. 22. Tickets a7re available at Midi- W., a t $10,each. Seating is lim'ited, so' thiose interested are urged to purchase their tickets as soon as possible. The Peter Perry Award, presen- ted by the Chamber o«'Commerce since 1955, is, named after Whitby's founder who established the town at Brock and Dundas Streets in 1836. Avaùmad exhiibit opens at McLaughlin Galiery 1An important national exbibition Ontario.'* the work of these three artists. Gallery until reb. 21. i ere Wl" D of avant-garde contemporary art Evan Brandi has exbibited con- New Sculpture/Montreal will be a workshop by the artists tdie by tbree Quebec artists -Jocelyne sistently ini Quebec and across shown at the Robert McLaughlin e'Nening of .Jan. 21. Alloucherie, Eva Brandi and Gilles Canada. Her installation piece is Mibalcean *-opens at the Robert executed'in rolled lead and copper. Mclaughlin Gallery on Jan. 12. Jocelyne Alloucherie is exbibiting vxi i tS ato a l r Using simple forms, the artists The Seventh Roomn, a large in- create works that are at once stallation whicb dernonstrates ber referential. and abstract, literal and concern for the interaction of ar- Photograpbs by Marlene Creates frorn a two-month journey she un- hauntingly symbolic. Al three chitecture and sculpture. Gilles and Dan Milek are on display at dertook in 1980,along the coastline sbow work wbich raises questions Mibalcean is self-taugbt. his work The Station Gallery in Whitby until of England and Wales. Also in- about the nature of installation. is based on the collage effect of Jan. 31.- cluded are earlier works (rom the Their's is a kind of sulent theatre, disparate units. It is interesting to Creates' exhibition of "Paper, Atlantic and Pacific shores of more subtle than similar work in note the similar mood created by Stones and Water" cornes mostly Canada. Delicious and hoty Mrià ' why not? El-lk -11 ellk --! >%n