CREATIVES

The Musical Comedy Guild of Sault Ste. Marie presented Disney’s The Little Mermaid in November of 2025, the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale brought to life on the stage complete with memorable songs from the movie and original songs from the stage production. The show featured all of your favourite Little Mermaid characters, fantastic vocals and incredible costuming and staging!

The show was directed by Timothy Murphy and produced by Michael Dal Cin and Leith Harris.

Marvin Joncas has a natural feel for entertaining while creating his artwork. Marvelous Marvin has dazzled audiences with his magic show for years and he has parlayed that experience into canvas magic. A professed fan and follower of the legendary television personality, Bob Ross, artist and painter, Marvin has an infectious, joyful spirit that finds its way into his paintings. Marvin has plans to deeper explore his painting talents into Visions of Nature, inspired by having enjoyed a successful debut art exhibition at the ART HUB At Spring in the summer of 2025. What the future holds for the art of Marvin Joncas is a work in progress.

a jOINT eXHIBIT / tRACY cURRIE & jOHN cURRIE

Where childhood meets catastrophe – and somehow finds the joke. Cartoon characters meet theatrical roadside demise. Toy weapons become archaeological treasures. Digital art reveals that sliced tomatoes mirror the branching chambers within us, and our bodies contain secret galaxies. Intricate Zentangle drawings prove we instinctively speak the same visual language as the universe itself.

AGES IN CHAOS: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is part funeral, part celebration, part cosmic revelation – an exhibition that dares to find wonder in wreckage and explores the ancient visual languages we’re only now learning to decode.

Come for the crash. Stay for the revelation.

Steven Paul Lansky is a novelist, musician, poet, radio DJ, and educator. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and since childhood, spends his summers on St. Joseph Island, Ontario. Steven is an author of seven books, two poetry chapbooks, an audio novel, a novella, a collection of vignettes and sketches, a memoir and a novel. 

Lansky’s singular, marvelously absurd, graphic, hybrid novella, Shoes has cutting-edge detailed, prose modeled on recanted reality. It moves like the doorway god Janus, who, upon the threshold, looks both outwards, and to the interior. Two faces, toggle facets of moments, the third eye drawn from both, or either, and between the front and back, the edge. Imaginary and real, fantastic and mundane, possibilities sublimely rendered in comedic instants tucked into the mind as way-posts.

The novella shifts between places, a possible diagnosis, a change of heart, and/or venue, that keeps the reader in a rather delightful attempt to keep up with or abandon meaning in a literal sense. Take the rich detail and let the author’s sure hand move the narrative smartly back and forth through the doorway. Understand that the instrument of illustration is unnecessary for genuine pleasure in getting a little lost in the story and getting a little lost in the author, but the graphic element helps. There is a personal metaphor in all the mileage piled up, in the distance, from place to place recounted, time travel, from footnote to footnote.

Steve Lansky has a unique perspective, from the doorward gaze, drawn either way, of the neurotypical, or the neuro-spectacular. Somewhere in between ambition, and accomplishment (something of a bipolarity itself, eh?). He starts a conversation with a version of himself, and flexes outward, as the reader becomes the most colorful of chameleons. Sure, there’s some shapeshifting here, and a relaxation of the serotonin guardrails, that order memory, and experience, to behave in a linear way, but it’s supposed to be fickle.

I have no illusions.  I can tell when people are calling me out on my shit.  Or are they shaming?  One of my friends died intoxicated on opiates and marijuana, after living longer than any of his immediate family in his bloodline in any recent generation.  This he claimed while also defending his misery.  His last several years included divorce, the loss of most of his friendships, and a deterioration that he self-described as being shamed by others.

This from a guy who had anchored an AA meeting, brought many angry people into the fold of MA as well.  Yeah, his reputation as a hard drinking, raucous hellraiser came up in nearly every conversation.  His family had had great artists, great thinkers, his wife had worked hard in the airline industry, was generous, outgoing and an outstanding friend.  What went wrong?  The government had every intention of helping a middle-class gent such as him.

Let’s face it, no one likes a complainer.  He retired early, he had limitations brought on by medical conditions.  He had two mental illnesses, not to mention alcoholism.  And to this day acquaintances and some friends thought he needed to pull himself up and work a little harder.  You’re a difficult case, they told him.  You might think ill of him, or then again, you may think well of him, that he was a protected class, an elder, and early retired, at your expense.  There it is again, he cared what you thought.  What he really cared about is how well you thought of him, not how much.  I’m reminded of this statement, another old AA’er taught me: True humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. Does that give a fellow license to envy, point out that someone needs to do inventory, or insult the intelligence of a friend?  Stuck on this, he could have done more, and when you ask for help, know that he was your friend.

Jamie Hazelton, resident of Sault Ste Marie has written his first book, Light Of Dandelions, a pictorial and prose collage that applies to living, healing and recovery.

Born, raised and come of age in Southern Ontario, Jamie Hazelton moved to British Columbia in the summer of 1988 with what he could fit in the trunk of his 1968 Plymouth Satellite convertible. The following summer, he travelled much of the west and southern United States. Liking the San Francisco Bay area the most, Jamie made that his home for the next +28 years.

Writing became an increasingly beneficial pastime, beginning in 1994. Jamie used the medium and malleability of simply putting words on paper to learn how he felt, deep down, when stirred by life’s unpredictability. Then came the added bonus of humour, intrigue and awareness.

Following traumatic events in 2018, it was necessary for Jamie to return to his place of origin and be with family for a long and difficult healing process. Writing proved an invaluable touchstone to help manage the complexities of trauma recovery.

Jamie took pictures along the way and in 2021 he dreamed of a picture book with one to four lines of original prose inserted into each picture. Light of Dandelions became the title after an experience he had walking through a park and rounding a hedge. He was struck with the image of a field of dandelions gone to seed and waiting for the wind to carry their seeds onward. Late afternoon sun hit the soft circles in a magical way only nature can procure.

A two-and-a-half-year resident of Sault Ste Marie, Jamie has spent the previous year engaged with new surroundings, interesting people and assembling this book enthusiastically.

"embodying the Ojibway principle of "Wnizhsid"

Woodland Fashion is an Indigenous-led fashion house dedicated to uplifting and empowering Indigenous youth through fashion, mentorship, and cultural storytelling. We believe that fashion is more than just clothing—it’s a powerful medium for identity, creativity, and self-expression.

Founded on the principles of tradition, innovation, and representation, our collective brings together Indigenous designers, artists, and creators to shape a future where Indigenous fashion is recognized, celebrated, and supported on a global scale.

Mission Statement
At Ocean Kiana, our mission is to create elegant, sustainable clothing that blends beauty with practicality, reflecting the Ojibway value of "Wnizhsid"—good, fine, useful, and beautiful. Each garment is crafted to honor both the Earth and the individual, designed for those who seek timeless, eco-friendly fashion. We’re committed to moving away from fast fashion, instead offering high-quality, lasting pieces that let you build a wardrobe you truly love and feel good about.

Vision Statement
Our vision is a world where Indigenous-led, eco-conscious fashion inspires a more sustainable and intentional approach to style. At Ocean Kiana, we aim to empower individuals to express themselves through clothing that is as beautiful and practical as it is kind to the planet. Honoring our cultural roots and practicing mindful craftsmanship, we strive to pioneer sustainable fashion that respects heritage and elevates ethical style.

About the Designer
Ocean Kiana is a Nishinaabe designer and artist from Northwestern Ontario, whose heritage and culture are at the heart of her work. Raised in the communities of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (Pic River First Nation) and Netmizaagamig Nishnaabeg (Pic Mobert First Nation), Ocean infuses her designs with the values and traditions of her ancestors. A member of the Wolf Clan and known by her Anishinaabe name, White Butterfly, she brings both Indigenous culture and sustainable innovation to each piece, creating fashion that embodies resilience, beauty, and respect for the Earth.

https://oceankiana.com/
https://woodlandfashion.ca/

I’m a Structural Designer, Civil & Architectural Technologist/draftsman that wants to work on your unique, cool, and interesting project. I’m very much into ecological and sustainable design. I can work from concept through to final design and fabrication. I'm an efficient communicator, team collaborator, mentor, and facilitator of design knowledge.

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Todd “FLEET-O” Fleet has been a life long artist, creative and avid auto enthusiast and restorer. He has been creating private and commissioned artwork and tinkering with cars since he could hold a crayon and turn a wrench!

FLEET-O spent most of his early artistic career creating works and exhibitions for various regional and international automotive shows, clubs and clients. While still creating his art, he spent the majority of his career (18+ years) in the broader arts, culture and heritage sector as an exhibit designer/builder, museum curator and municipal arts and culture coordinator.  Check CV/Bio section for more info!

Artist’s Statement:

Lighting Fires, Burning Tires! “Creature of the Wheel” represents the renewal of my personal artistic and creative fires. My subject matter acts as a perfect metaphor and parallel to my own artistic journey. As many of the subjects featured in these works were once kaleidoscopic, brightly clad and powerful dream machines with the ability to create impactful, lasting life experiences and grant personal freedom to their owners; and which over time, as the necessities and pursuits of familiar lives grew these machines often found themselves shut away in the dark recesses of garages and barns, occasionally to be looked at with thoughts of “someday”. And like these long dormant avatars, to be later, rediscovered by their owners and resurrected, restored, modified by time and experience - better than new - to roll into the light once more!”

https://www.fleet-o.com/

Friends, I wrote a book… “Becoming Calla”
Well, I wrote a novella; too short to be a novel, but too long to be a short story. “Becoming Calla” is Calla’s backstory, the character I created for the dance performance of the same name in the 2023 Fringe North Festival. 

“Beautiful, brave or brazen, bare. I couldn’t put it down.” 
-Jacob Maybe, Writer @jacob_maybe_mystery_books 
Partially funded by @artsandculturessm
📸 Photography by Alyssa Eddy
💄Makeup by Brittany Kennedy

Tracy Currie is a photo artist who uses digital manipulation to turn her photographs into stunning and unique artworks. Through a camera lens, Tracy explores her curiosity for the natural world.  She pushes the boundaries of visual expression with the use of digital tools.  Each art piece starts with a photograph, but through Tracy's creative touch, she transforms them into something truly remarkable.  She creates visual experiences that deeply resonate with viewers on an emotional level. PHANTASMAGORIA is her first solo exhibition.