Avonlea Convention
www.myspace.com/avconmyspacewould like to thank everyone who attended and helped make our final convention possible. $5010 in mixed currency raised for GS!Mood: excited
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Avonlea Convention
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Interests
General
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sullivan Entertainment, Anne of Green Gables, Road to AvonleaMusic
All kinds, especially fiddle.Movies
Anne of Green Gables (all 3), Happy Christmas Miss King, By Way of the StarsTelevision
Anne of Green Gables mini-series, Road to Avonlea, Wind at My BackBooks
Lucy Maud MontgomeryHeroes
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Cordelia Shirley, Hetty King
Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Avonlea, PEI
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
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Latest Blog Entries
- Feb 12, 2009 2:48 AM AvCon 2009 Charity: The Good Shepherd (Toronto branch)
- Sep 16, 2008 2:33 AM AvCon 2009: Tentative Dates Set
- Oct 2, 2007 7:11 PM Sarah Polley News
- Jul 31, 2007 3:47 PM AvCon 2007 in the Press
- Jun 29, 2007 2:42 PM ALL MEMBERS or INTERESTED GUESTS READ THIS
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..Rough Schedule for AvCon 2009..
Friday ~ Various Locations (SOLD OUT)
We will be touring various filming locations and LM Montgomery-related sites. Please meet in the Black Creek Pioneer Village parking lot no later than 8:45 AM, so we may leave to start the tour at 9:00 AM. Punctuality is crucial, given our tight schedule. We will have a bus available that takes 48 people; but a few cars will be coming along as well. The tour will conclude between 4:30 and 5 PM and we should be back at the BCPV parking lot between 5:30 and 6 PM depending on traffic.
Saturday ~ Black Creek Pioneer Village
Speakers will include James O’Regan, Mag Ruffman, composer John Welsman, Ian Clark, Michael Mahonen. Doors open at 9:30 AM; we will start at 10 AM. At noon, we will have an hour-long lunch break, during which time we encourage you to explore Black Creek Pioneer Village if at all possible. The day will end between 5 and 5:30 PM. Afterward, we will have a group dinner. Details about this will be sent to registered attendees.
Sunday ~ Black Creek Pioneer Village
Speakers include Marilyn Lightstone. We will have our charity auction with auctioneer Mike Matthews–the proceeds of which will benefit the Good Shepherd. Doors open at 9:30 AM; we will start at 10 AM. Again, we will have an hour-long lunch break starting at noon. We will end the day between 5 and 5:30 PM.
Please be back from lunch on time. Parking is free for attendees for Saturday and Sunday but we don’t know about Friday yet. We’ll let you know about it later.
Who I'd like to meet:
Other Avonlea fans, of course, like YOU!All members and interested visitors to this account:
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Comments
Jul 20 2009 5:10 PM
Friday ........July 24. 2009 is all sold out and registration for this day is closed.
Saturday ... July 25, 2009 there is still time to register for the day at Black Creek Pioneer Village, but the dinner Saturday night is all sold out and registration for the dinner is closed.
Sunday ...... July 26, 2009 there is still time to register for the day at Black Creek Pioneer Village for the charity auction and to see guest speakers.
Jul 10 2009 11:38 PM
http://discuss.avonleaconvention.org/index.php?topic=49.0
Jul 8 2009 8:46 PM
Jul 6 2009 9:13 PM
Jun 24 2009 2:35 AM
Jun 19 2009 1:36 AM
In other news: There is a limit to 50 attendees for Friday's events. If you have not registered yet, and would like to attend, please do so! Deadline is July 10.
Jun 6 2009 3:53 PM
Jun 5 2009 4:57 AM
* James O'Regan (Const. Jeffries)
* David Fox (Clive Pettibone)...he'll be mingling among the guests :)
* Ian Clark (Simon Tremayne)...providing nothing conflicts with ye olde schedule
* Michael Mahonen (Gus Pike)
May 28 2009 1:40 AM
For information, visit avonleaconvention(dot)org and click on "ROOMS".
Mar 1 2009 2:51 AM
Invitations have gone out to actors, writers, producers and composers ... we will be happy to announce who our guest speakers will be as soon as they have accepted their invitations.
We are proud to have Good Shepard as our charity and hope all who attend will bring non-perishable items to be donated to our charity.
More updates as we get them
Kitty ... committee Member AvCon09
Nov 5 2008 6:44 PM
To find out more about AvCon09, you can go to the official Avonlea Convention web site http://www. avonleaconvention. org/ and while you are there you can see what the activities were and who our guest speakers were at AvCon 04, AvCon05 and AvCon07 - all of that information is available on the official web site. :)
Kitty
Oct 5 2008 4:43 AM
Sep 17 2008 8:58 PM
Michael (Gus Pike) Mahonen is going to do a Q&A session on the Avonlea Treasures Forum on September 29, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
I got an e-mail from Brian, who is in charge of the Avonlea Treasure Forum, with the news of the Q&A session.
If you would like to take part, please, join the Avonlea Treasures Forum ( http://www. avonleatreasures. com/forums/index. php ) and post the questions you would like to ask Michael. Then log into the Avonlea Treasures Forum on September 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm for the Q&A.
Kitty ... who is already registered at the Avonlea Treasures Forum
Sep 17 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: Megan Follows Personal Appearance A Day with Anne Shirley
Body: Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St.; Sept. 27: A Day
with Anne Shirley: At Library and Archives Canada, day-long event that
will include actress Megan Follows judging an Anne look-alike
competition and signing autographs.
613-944-1741;
Ottawa, Canada
Aug 27 2008 2:52 AM
http://www. new. facebook. com/pages/Avonlea-Convention-AvCon/24505357489
If you're there, feel free to become our fan!
Aug 25 2008 11:41 PM
Jutta
Aug 7 2008 1:25 AM
http://discuss. avonleaconvention. org
(under AvCon 2009)
Aug 5 2008 12:42 AM
I am not sure how many of my friends are Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea fans ...so, I am sending this to all, in the hopes that those who are interested will respond :D Those not interested, thank you for your patience with me :)
The AvCon09 (Avonlea Convention ) Committee is now in the planning stages for the convention in Toronto, Canada for the summer of 2009. We are looking for input from people who are interested in attending AvCon09. If interested, could you, please, answer the following questions and reply to me?
Thank you,
Kitty Hadley
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1.
Q: Timing, schedule of AvCon 2009.
A1: beginning of July
A2: end of July (as last AvCons)
A3: beginning of August
A4: mid of August
A5: please specify
2.
Q: Venue
A1: Black Creek Pioneer Village (as last AvCons) (family atmosphere, not too expensive, far from the downtown, has parking)
A2: a hotel or any other place in the downtown (rather expensive, in the downtown, parking problems)
3.
Q: Length of the event
A1: 3 days as usual :)
A2: 2 days
A3: 1 day
4.
Q: Are you interested in a filming site tour as we did it during last AvCons?
A1: yes
A2: no
5. Suggestions for filming site tour. Please specify your ideas.
5b: Transportation for filming sites tour
A1) Carpooling as in past AvCons
A2) rent a bus (should pay for the renting and for the gas too)
6.
Q. Would you be interested in attending a group dinner as in past AvCons ?
A1 Yes
A2 No
Mar 1 2008 7:32 PM
01.03.2008 11:58
Canada is to abolish visas for Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania today.
This will allow the citizens of these countries to travel to Canada and remain within its territory for 3 months without a visa.
The decision will officially be announced by Diane Finley, the Canadian minister for immigration and citizenship during her meeting with the ambassadors of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania around 6 PM CET. The decision will be valid the moment it is announced.
Later, Finley will visit the John Paul II Center in Toronto, where she will meet representatives of the Polish community, which has been long campaigning for abolishing visas. (mn)
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This is wonderful news. It should make it easier for our friends from Europe to attend future Avonlea Conventions in Toronto.
Thank you Canada !!!
Kitty
Dec 29 2007 6:12 AM
Oct 16 2007 10:11 PM
by: Jesse Kohl 10/15/07
CTV has acquired rights for the prequel Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning from Toronto-based Sullivan Entertainment and plans to make it a three-hour movie and television event in 2008.
The prodco found its newest Anne Shirley through a recent casting call on YouTube and a cross-Canada audition tour. Toronto's Hannah Endicott-Douglas (The Good Witch, Samantha: An American Girl) was chosen to star alongside Rachel Blanchard (7th Heaven) and Barbara Hershey (Hannah and Her Sisters), who plays Anne as a woman in her fifties reflecting on her past.
"To say that we are 'excited' about bringing the Anne of Green Gables franchise to CTV would be an understatement," said Kevin Sullivan, president of the Toronto company, in a statement, noting that he and CTVgm boss Ivan Fecan worked together at CBC in the early 1990s.
The net also picked up about 128 hours of content from Sullivan, including the original three Anne of Green Gables mini-series; the Emmy Award-winning series Road to Avonlea and The Magic Flute Diaries. Production on the new Anne title is underway.
From Media in Canada
Sep 11 2007 1:50 AM
/ maree
Aug 21 2007 4:24 PM
Aug 21 2007 4:14 PM
Aug 18 2007 7:08 PM
...that opened with Christopher Reeve riding a galloping horse, just a few months before a riding accident left him paralyzed. But that wasn't the point of showing the clip. The point was that the episode was a parody of 19th-century melodrama.
"We went out of our way to make Avonlea tongue in cheek," Sullivan told his audience. "It was an overriding concern of the writers and myself that the show not become too sentimental or sappy."
The irony of Avonlea was worn lightly, however. It did not shake the sense, entertained by the participants of AvCon 2007, that the actors themselves were as basically good-hearted and innocent as the characters they played.
Kitty Hadley from Peterborough, N.H., discussed an episode titled "How Kissing Was Discovered" that might have raised eyebrows because one kisser, Mahonen, was 26 years old at the time and the other kisser, Gema Zamprogna (Felicity King) was 13.
"He actually kissed her on the cheek," Hadley said. "He said he was very much aware of the time period and the fact that in real life she was only 13 and he was 26, so he was being extremely careful that no part of him touched her."
"There was a real family that was on the set playing all those parts," Sullivan said. "It was a magic time when everyone really was related to each other, and they felt as strongly about each other as they were on screen."