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Culture Days will return September 20 – October 13, 2024.
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"Spit" A Solo Art Exhibition by artist Francis Hanover
In-person
Date and time
Location
Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery
107 Lansdowne St E, Callander, ON P0H 1H0
North Bay, ON
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
What: "Spit" A Solo Art Exhibition by artist Francis Hanover
When: OCT 9 - NOV 13
Where: Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery
Cost: Free to attend
About the Artist:
Join. us to a creative unfolding/demystifying of the "surreal" life story of Francis Hanover from being a "SPIT" to trails of mind gripping moments of discovering the truth that she is a "spitting image" of her mother, and eventually learning about real-life siblings she never knew existed and through a leap of faith, saved her precious life. Learn her story as she shared this on CBC.
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Fran Hanover was adopted as a three-week old baby.
A few years ago she used Ancestry DNA to learn more about her ethnicity. But she never thought that what she learned would save her life.
"My adoptive family, they were a first generation immigrant family from Germany," Hanover said. "So I had two blond hair, blue-eyed German parents...and when I arrived on the scene at the family's home, I was not quite what they expected."
"I was a little more caramel-coloured and dark-haired and they thought 'Well this is going to be interesting.'"
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Description source CBC: https://bitly.com/
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Links
- Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery callandermuseum.business.site
- Nipissing Culture Days nipissingculturedays.com
Organizer
Nipissing Culture Days Committee and Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery
About the: Nipissing Culture Days Committee
The North Bay Culture Days Planning Committee is a volunteer and local organizations-based working committee, that aims to bring new meaning and purpose to its member culture organizations and its patrons in the community. It is created to inspire and develop more inclusive multicultural and artistic events that every Nipissing Region citizen can take pride in, share, and take part in. The planning committee holds its weekly meetings every virtually, via Zoom on Thursdays.
The Nipissing CultureDays was adopted by NRCC as a program. (https://thenrcc.com/)
About the: Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery
It is located in the prior home and practice of Dr. Dafoe, tells the story of the Dionne Quintuplets, Dr. Dafoe, and another history of the area such as the logging industry, history of shipping on Lake Nipissing, geology, and more. Of special note is a barbershop from the early 1900s installed as an exhibit - including the chairs, sinks, mirrors, and everything.
visit them: https://callandermuseum.business.site/