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2006:
December 2006
Circles of Life

Lullaby (2006) by Jana
Skarecky
Paintings by
Jana Skarecky
The Adamson Estate, 850
Enola Ave., Mississauga, Room 2
(on the lake, between
Cawthra & Hurontario)
with paintings by
Hedwiga Rakus
in Room 3
Opening Reception
Friday December 8,
2006, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
(following a 7 p.m.
Royal Conservatory of Music Branch Student Recital, which
you are welcome to attend)
“Circles of Life”
Exhibition:
December 6, 2006-
January 9, 2007
Hours when Room 2 is
open (Dec 6-22, Jan 3-9):
Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays, 4:30 -8:30 p.m.
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July 2006
“Aniron” by Jana Skarecky
Winner of
J.R.R. Tolkien Conference Art Competition

Jana Skarecky’s three paintings on themes from “The
Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien were exhibited in the
Imladris Gallery at “The Gathering of the Fellowship”
J.R.R.
Tolkien Conference in Toronto July 1-4, 2006.
Her painting “Aniron” received the first prize in the
conference art competition in which all the artworks were
inspired by the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. The scene is of
Arwen and Aragorn in Rivendell. (See the Artworks Section
for the other paintings from this series.)
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March 2006
Emily

“Big Raven” by Emily
Carr
An excerpt of a work in
progress
based on the life of Emily Carr,
for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
Text by Di Brandt
Music by Jana Skarecky
Recording of
performance by
Jana
Skarecky, mezzo-soprano and Julie Loveless, piano
will be presented
at the National
Ecopoetics Symposium
at Brandon University,
Brandon, Manitoba
on March 18, 2006 8
p.m.
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Jana Skarecky will also
be part of a Dialogue with poets
Charlene Diehl and
Sandra Alland
on March 17, 2006 at
1:30 p.m.,
also part of the
National Ecopoetics Symposium,
Brandon, Manitoba
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March 2006
Landscapes and Timescapes

Forest
Light
Dawn
exhibit at the ACA Gallery
will include
two paintings by Jana
Skarecky:
Opening Saturday March
18, 2006, 1-5 p.m.
183
Queen Street East (at Jarvis)
Toronto
Gallery hours:
Wednesday to Friday noon-6,
Saturday noon-5
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February 2006
The Toronto Women’s Bookstore
proudly presents the book launch for:
Re:Generations:
Canadian Women Poets in Conversation
(Black
Moss Press)
edited by Barbara Godard and
Di Brandt
Thursday, February 9th, 2006 @ 7pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.
Free. Everyone welcome. Food
and refreshments will be served.
For more information please
contact 416.922.8744
In attendance will be editors
Barbara Godard and Di Brandt, and contributors
Rosemary Sullivan, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Karen Mulhallen,
Margaret Christakos, Lisa Fiorindi and Jana Skarecky.

The texts in
this volume testify to the dynamic exchanges that have
created a vibrant tradition of women’s poetry in Canada.
Works of celebrated modernist writers and painters are
included alongside the creative riffs on their artmaking by
a younger generation of poets who have carved out spaces for
women writers’ creative interactions. The collection
includes reflections on the creative process, poems,
fiction and creative non-fiction.
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January 2006
Ave
Maris Stella
an SATB choral
work
by
Jana Skarecky

will be performed at a
concert of “Music for Candlemas”
sung by The Gallery Choir
of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene
on Sunday, January 29, 2006,
at 3:30 p.m.
at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene,
Ulster & Manning Streets, Toronto
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2005:
December 2005
Healing of the Earth
Paintings by
Jana Skarecky
The Adamson Estate, 850
Enola Ave., Mississauga
(on the lake, between
Cawthra & Hurontario)
Rooms 2 and 3

“Dawn” by Jana Skarecky,
2005
Opening Reception
Monday December 5, 2005,
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Healing of the Earth
Exhibition: December 1-31,
2005
Hours when Rooms 2 and 3 are
open
(until Dec 22):
Mondays 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays 4:30-6:30,
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Wednesdays 5:30-8:30 p.m.
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September
2005
Healing of the
Earth
Paintings by
Jana Skarecky
ACA Gallery
183 Queen St. E. (at Jarvis), Toronto

“Dawn” by Jana Skarecky, 2005
Saturday September 10,
2005
2 p.m. Concert of Compositions by Jana Skarecky, $20
Opening Reception 3-5:30 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
7 p.m. Poetry Reading by Di Brandt and Brenda Muller
(suggested donation $10)
The ACA Gallery, mandated to create an incubator for art and
social change, will assign a percentage of art sales and event admissions towards the house-building
work of The Mission of Love at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota (home of
the Lakota Sioux)
Healing of the Earth
Exhibition: September 7-30, 2005
ACA Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Friday: noon to 6 p.m.
Saturday: noon to 5 p.m. (tel. 416-823-4039)
Art can change the world
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