May Festivals & Events

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• ONGOING: The Gem Food & Wine Festival

  Date: Monday April 23 - Sunday May 6, 2012
  Location: Various Restaurants in Barrie, Click here for Participating Restaurants
  Contact: (705) 721-4513; www.thegemfoodfestival.ca
  
  Description:
  The GEM is a unique food & wine festival. Restaurants participating are unique & special. These are restaurants that will incorporate local and fresh ingredients as much as possible. For people in the Barrie and surrounding cities. The Gem wants you to enjoy great restaurant's and service!
  Let's showcase our talents and give our guests our best performance. These restaurants will pair up some nice wine's with very tasty, delicious food.
  
  $30/$40/$50 menu's will be available along with other choices to choose from.

• 3-13: Kempenfelt Community Players Presents 'The Full Monty'

  Date: May 3-13, 2012
  Location: Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop Street West
  Contact: (705) 739-4228; www.kempenfeltplayers.com 
  
  Description: 
  Seeing how much their wives enjoy watching male strippers during their "Girls' Night Out," unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York come up with a bold way to make some quick cash. In the process they find renewed self-esteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun.
  
  As the guys work through their fears, self-consciousness, feelings of worthlessness and anxieties (over everything from being overweight to child custody, bigotry to being gay), they come to discover that not only are they stronger as a group, but that the strength they find in each other gives them the individual courage to face their demons and overcome them.
  
  There is great heart to THE FULL MONTY, and the ultimate themes expressed in the show, about taking charge of one's life and following one's dreams are great lessons for all of us. And truth be told, through creative directing and staging, the final impact of "The Full Monty" can be achieved without ever losing your jockey shorts!
  
  Show Times: For full schedule please visit www,kempenfeltplayers.com
  Admission: Adults: $22; Child/Student: $17; Senior: $17
  
  

• 5: King Edward Choir Presents '60th Anniversary Concert"

  Date: Saturday, May 5, 2012
  Location: Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne Street
  Contact:  (705)734-0116; www.kingedwardchoir.org
  
  Description:
  Featuring the premiere of Lady Simcoe's Diary by Canadian composer and lyricist Leslie Arden. Some New songs, some old songs with a new twist, in music by Greg Jasperse, Stephen Hatfield, Eric Whitacre, Moses Hogan and the Beatles.
  
  Show Time: 2:00pm
  Admission: Adult: $20 ($22 at door); Youth (17 & Under): $10 

• 11: Monster Spectacular

  Date: May 11, 2012
  Location: Barrie Molson Centre, 555 Bayview Drive
  Contact: 1-888-655-9090; www.chrisarel.com 
  
  Description:
  Monster Truck Spectacular presented by Chris Arel Motorsports.
  
  Event Time: 8:00pm
  Admission: For tickets www.ticketpro.ca 

• 13: Huronia Symphony Presents 'From the New World and Beyond'

  Date: Sunday, May 13, 2012
  Location: W.A. Fisher Auditorium, 125 Dunlop St. West, Barrie
  Contact: (705) 721-4752; www.huroniasymphony.ca
  
  Description:
  Dvorak's beloved Symphony No. 9 with guest musicians from Eastview Secondary School Senior Orchestra.
  
  Show Time: 3:30pm
  Admission: Adults: $20; Students 14 & Up: $10; Children 13 and Under: $5

• 26: Lyrica Chamber Choir Presents 'Shakespeare in Song'

  Date: Saturday May 26, 2012
  Location: Burton Avenue United Church, 37 Burton Ave.
  Contact: (705) 722-0271; www.lyricachoir.org
  
  Description:
  Lyrica Chamber Choir presents choral music inspired by Shakespearean texts. Come out and enjoy an array of sublime compositions which detail the diversity of approaches to common Shakespearean texts. Take pleasure in Nils Lindberg's Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day., Matthew Harris' O Mistress Mine and Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, and Jaako Mantyjarvi's beautiful setting of Come Away, Death.
  
  Show Time: 7:30pm
  Admission: Adults - $15; Students/Seniors: $12 

• 26-27: 8th Annual Barrie Waterfront Festival

  Date: May 26-27, 2012
  Locations: Centennial Park, Downtown Barrie
  Contact: www.barriewaterfront.ca 
  
  Description:

  The 2012 8th Annual Waterfront Festival is set to kick off the summer season on Saturday May 26th 2012 - Sunday May 27th 2012. A great FREE entertainment line up will surely draw a large crowd as we welcome the warm sun and clear skies. Please go to www.barriewaterfront.ca for more details.
  
  Event Time: Saturday: Noon - 11pm; Sunday: Noon - 6pm
  Admission: Free

• 26-27: Off Road Only Expo 2012

  Date: Saturday May 26 - Sunday May 27, 2012
  Location: Barrie Curling Club, 175 Essa Road, Barrie
  Contact: (705) 309-1170; www.offroadonlyexpo.com 
  
  Description:
  Bikes, Gear, Used Bike Swap
  
  Event Time: May 26: 11am - 8pm; May 27: 11am - 6pm
  Admission: TBA

• 31 - Jun 16: Talk Is Free Theatre Presents 'Parkdale Peter Pan'

  Date: May 31 - June 16, 2012
  Location: Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop St. West
  Contact: (705) 792-1949; www.tift.ca
  
  Description:
  An adaptation of JM Barrie's seminal work, which begins in modern day Canada, Parkdale Peter Pan journeys to the timelessness of the Never Land and back again. It is performed by two actors, one as Wendy, one as Peter, with the remainder of the characters brought to life with colourful masks, puppets and magic tricks.
  
  Show Times: See website for show times.
  Admission: Single Ticket: $27.00 + HST

• 31-Jun 3: South Simcoe Theatre Presents 'Four Play: A Showcase of Play Readings'

  Date: May 31 - June 3, 2012
  Location: South Simcoe Theatre, 1 Hamilton Street, Cookstown
  Contact: (705) 458-4432; www.southsimcoetheatre.com 
  
  Description:
  Every day a different play! For four consecutive days in June, the South Simcoe Theatre presents a lightly rehearsed "reading" of a different full length play or of several shorter plays. The actors sit in chairs and "read" the script to us, the audience, much like one might see or hear at the first day of rehearsal.
  
  ACTIONS & CONSEQUENCES -Thursday, May 31, @ 8:00 p.m.
  San Caristobal by Gordon Kitchener Doan: War and honour; French Legionnaires under siege; and Problem Child by George F. Walker: A hopelessly unfit young couple want their baby back.
  
  MIXED BAG - Friday, June 1, @ 8:00 p.m.
  Mrs. Ronan Strolls Through Town by Franca DeCaria-Fagan: An elderly woman chats with the neighbour; Driver’s Seat by Jacques Trepanier: Conversations in the car between a man, his son and father; Oil Changers & Twiflight by Cheryl Roberts: More comic sketches from this Four Play writer/actor; and Oracle & The Trader and The Analyst by Robin Pond: More quick and clever dialogue as Robin returns to Four Play.
  
  WHO DONE IT? - Saturday, June 2, @ 8:00 p.m.
  They Came From The Silver Screen by Quentin Stuckey: Stylish mystery/comedy inspired by Alfred Hitchcock; and The Curious Case of the Writer’s Block by Alison Witty: A romance novelist dreams of a good storyline.
  
  OUR ASTONISHING PAST - Sunday, June 3, @ 2:00 p.m.
  A Mournful Rustling by Dalene Flannigan (Commissioned by the Tec-We-Gwill Historical Society): A dark tale of murder from local history.
  
  Show Times: May 31-June 2: 8:00pm; June 3: 2:00pm
  Admission: Four Play $5.00 per Play-reading session