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PAGE 12, WHITYFREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1,19lm I --RE W hit y res idents are am ong Soleil pav ion; D eni s B k Club 20 coSntestants iii the 1990 Miss I.oreley , and Meredith Heron,4 Haw- Fiesa Qeenconteet Frou left are keyesjumior football club.I Jennifer Bernier, representing Club Peter«Mbunphoto J 'Rta.Letendre: The Montreal Years' at gallery *Fiesta Week a registered non- profit chaitable event put on b the Oshawa Folk Arts Council. will be1in June 17 and run untif Festivities will include a parade, Folk Festival Concert the crowning of Miss Fiesta and the Teddy Bear's Picnic. Volunteers representing numerous ethnic communities neighborhood assocations and service clubs have been prepar- ing for the event. The Fiesta Week Parade will leave from King St. at McMillan Dr. and end, at the Oshawa Shopping Centre.' The Folk Festival Concert will begin at 2:30 pan. and run umtil 9 p.m hosting numeroue instru-' niental and danceous The concert will finish with the cronig of Miss Fiesta 1990. Te ista Queen will reign- over Fiesta and the many other events sponsored by the Oshawa Folkc Arts Council throughout the year. During the week, the 23 pavi- lions,- all located within the Osh- awa city limita, will hold open house from June 18-23., June 24 will see the closingof Fiesta with a Teddy Beares-Pic- nic to b. held at Làakeview Park Simcoe St. S., betweein 1 and p.m. Co-sponsored b McDonald's Restaurants of Os awa and the Oshawa Folk Arts Council, the pinci9pen to. ail youngsters adterfavorite bear friends. Entertainment, McDonaldland characters, face painting and a medical tent for teddy's repaira will ail be on hand. By showcasing the various' eth- nic goups that combine te croate Caad3 population, Fiesta pro- mises, an opportunity to eprence and enjoy the back- grounds of our neighbors. For unlimited entrahce te the concert and all of the pavihions, a Fiesta Passport mai ho pur- chased for $4 wg cidren under 12 and senior citizens adinitted free. For further. informiation about Fiesta 1990,' contact Joe Czaj- kowski at 728-1223 or Robin Jones at 432-6319. An eibition of paintings by Canadian, artist Rita Letendre will open at - the Robert Mcagln Gallery on June 14. 'Rita Letendre, The Montreal Years,' oganized by Concordia Art Gallery in Montreal in 1989, is une of the galleiy's best and most focused surveys of the early work of an important French-Canadian painter. It brings before the public anà unusally radical 'moment in the historyý of Canadian postwar art that is stiH net completely understood within the art world. Thirty-five years after its heyday, abstract ezpeWomsm - or Automatiste woek, as Montrea's special group caIled itself, - stil exudes a sens. of radical fire. Born in 1928 in Drummondville, 100 kilomietres east of Montreal, Letendre attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts i Montreai in 1948 1W!lm *Treat "Dad" to dnner at~ 1W on Fathers - Day - June i 7th E 'W 5pm tolo1m El 1W ilncludes E 'W . Greek Entree & Greek Salad[ 1W (I * Greek Pastry, Coffee or Tea j 1: and E a compîimentary E glass of wine or ouzo! E 'Wl Elyl49 1W Réservations Accepted E 1W 668-0778 ' 'W 110 1 Brock St. S., Whitby I 1W .(oust north of the 401) 0 and 1949., It was during this time that she maw an Automatiste show which deeply infiuenced ber conacousneaa. and hier spirit. "It gave me a new type of 'ledin" ah. Baya. .Paul-Emile Boedus the doyen of the group, became ber fiend and a great influence, as did Jean-Paul, ioplle. In 1955, herflrst solo show,sohé ahowed geometric work influenced by Mondrian. Mly work was fufli of movement," she says. 'Then 1 disciplined it and thereby learned te structure." . In 1956, ah. worked in a tachiste way, or in an automatic way with the brush; un 1957, with the spatula again. By the early 19609 she had extended ber range outside of Montreal, te Toronto where she showed at Dorothy Cameron's Here and Now Gallery. In 1962 and 1963 she went to Europe. She felt it was time te see the rest of the world. Two years after she returned, ah. painted an outdoor mural at the University of California at Long Beach. Her, horizons were broadening. The exhibition is hung chronoleffically and a catalogue by Sandra Palkowaky provides a guide te Lietendre' development.' Letendrea early wSek docks the birth of the. abstract movement in Montreal with exceptional vividness. The public are invited to attend the opening reception to, b. held on Thursday, June 14 fr-om 7 to, 9 p.m. The artist will ho present. 'The Montreal Years 1953 - 1963' continues until July 22. CUGE (Jeen. "'rien) a"nti Knpty Dumpty (Jonathan Dunn) in scene 'froua the Alice m* WoÏderland adat tot be presenteti by, the Whitby C Ouruse Thieatre Youth Group June 21 and 22p 7:30 Pm'. and Jume 23 and 24, 3 Pa. Tickets ($4)- ar e available in advanoe at the LaFontainedi Trading Post, 122 Brock St. N., or at the door. Pet« Tooln photo ~ft