Happy September – 2 Requests
Happy September and 2 requests September always feels more like the beginning of a year than New Year’s Eve here. We have wrapped up our summer season, and seen so many of our youth staff back to school or to new Post Secondary or other adventures, and are deep in planning both for our fall […]
Making Space
Making Space We have been such a hive of activity for the past couple of weeks that it is sometimes hard to stop and breathe and remember why we do what we do. So today I want to take a moment to celebrate what I think the potential of Ross Creek is, inspired by this past Sunday. […]
Stubbornly Human
Santiago Guzmán in Quixote! Costumes by Diego Cavedon Dias, Photo by Memo Calderón We’ve been thinking a lot about…well, everything. From fires to bombs to parades to joyous protests full of music, to goats in Downtown Toronto. At the same time we are in rehearsal here for two shows that bring together artists from the province and from […]
Forging a road together.
When the earth starts to finally shake off her blanket of snow and crows fly by with nest-building twigs in their beaks as offerings, when the majestic geese rejoin us, marking the skies with their way-finding chevrons, and the ends of the willows suddenly appear as yellow shimmers against the warmer blue skies, then we […]
How to hold two thoughts
Sorry it’s been a while. Ken and I were in Montreal for a week at the beginning of the month and also busily working with artists and staff at the Centre over the past few weeks. And the world has been moving so fast that it has been a challenge to have enough room to […]
How (and why) Ross Creek responds to the world
December 11, 2025 “I can be changed by what happens to me.But I refuse to be reduced by it.”― Maya Angelou Many of you will have seen the giant map that hangs in our lobby with pins from people who have visited Ross Creek and Two Planks. I marvel at it, because we are in […]
Looking Forward
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.Optimism is better than despair.So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.And we’ll change the worldJack Layton Over the past few months, it has felt like there has been an election every other day whether in other provinces, municipalities, or the behemoth on our […]
Gratitude
In this world with a lot of problemsAll we need is a little lovingThank you, thank you, oh, you make meThank you, thank you for your loveJon Batiste – I Need You, 2021 On this holiday weekend during Treaty Month here in Nova Scotia, we are so grateful to everyone who helps make this place […]
Thinking about Home at Ross Creek
Welcome back! I am sorry it has been a while since I have been able to have the mental space to write and to get the news from the Creek out to you. Our summer season went very well, with lots of incredible audience feedback about Chased by the Bear, The Mountain and the Valley and KOQM. We had […]