CITY LIGHTS OF ANOTHER ERA AT LEONARD AND BINA ELLEN GALLERY

The period from February 25 through April 3 augurs to be an exciting one in the Concordia University building located at 1400 de Maisonneuve West. February 24 is the date for the vernissage, in the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, of an exhibit combing the paintings of Jack Beder and memorabilia from the Concordia Archives. City Lights is a collection of paintings by Beder of Montreal night life of the 30s and 40s and these are complimented by club memorabilia from the same period culled from the Archives, which are headed up by Nancy Marrelli. The vernissage runs from 5:30 to 8:00 pm and is open to the public.

On the eve of St. Paddys Day, Tuesday, March 16th in the same locale there will be a Montreal Open City evening beginning at 6 pm at which time there will be presentations by Tina Brereton, a dancer from that period, one showcased in the NFB film SHOW GIRLS, Meilan Lam, the director of that film, Andrew Homzy, Professor of Music in Concordias Jazz department and Len Dobbin, jazz radio host, web columnist and jazz historian. Ms. Marrelli will also be on hand that evening.

On Saturday, March 27 in the de Seve Cinema in the same building there will be an afternoon film program beginning at 3 pm of jazz oriented films including Lining The Blues with music by Joe Sullivan, Beyond Dull Care, a Norman McLaren animated film with music from the Oscar Peterson trio of 1949 with Jack Kostenuk on bass and (Mark) Wilkie Wilkinson, drums as well as the aforementioned Show Girls with Ms. Brereton, Olga Spencer Foderingham and the late Bernice Bunny Whims. Admission is free to all of the above.