Fund Raising Exhibition and Sale * for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre

At 2260 Oak Bay Avenue

Thursday November 27 to Saturday November 29, 2008 10 am - 5:30 pm

Reception, Saturday, November 29, 2008, 1 pm - 5 pm

Join Winchester Galleries and artists Robert Amos, Sarah Amos, Pat Martin Bates, Rachel Berman, Alexis Celona, Joe Coffey, Stephanie Denz, Shushan Egoyan, George Gordienko, Brian Grison, Jeremy Herndl, Mary Kerr, Sheena Lott, Adam Noonan, Lynn Onley, Brad Pasutti, Manish Om Prakash, Fred Peters, Joseph Plaskett, Avis Rasmussen, Duncan Regehr, Deirdre Roberts, Carole Sabiston, Iola Scott, Nancy Slaght, Herbert Siebner, Haren Vakil and Marney Ward in their support of an exciting new cultural initiative, Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre.

Inspired by the beauty and simplicity of the Johnson Street Bridge that defines the entrance to Victoria’s Inner Harbour, this bridge is the perfect metaphor for a new professional theatre company whose goals are to offer

• significant creative, production and management opportunities to young theatre artists wishing to pursue a career in the arts and the opportunity to play major roles alongside of some of Canada’s most respected and established theatre artists.

• the people of Victoria its own professional theatre company that focuses on masterworks drawn from the classical and modern European and North American theatre traditions.

Coming in the Summer of 2009, Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s first three play season that includes William Shakespeare’s As you Like It, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and the longest running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will take place in the beautifully restored, and historic, McPherson Playhouse.

* The proceeds from all sales will go to Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre. Tax receipts for all donations above the sale price of individual items are available.