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The Saint-Laurent diabetic support group will hold its next meeting on Dec. 6 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Centre des loisirs (1375 Grenet Street). Michael Feiner, psychologist, will be the invited guest. Information: 514 748-8033.

For the fifth year in a row, the National Film Board will be participating in the Grande Guignolée food drive, which takes place this year on Thursday, December 7. In partnership with the local media, the NFB will be collecting public donations to be distributed by Montreal Harvest, Sun Youth and the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. Those who take the Metropolitan Boulevard service road need only make a slight detour to drop off their donations! All day long, from 6 am to 7 pm, volunteers will be waiting to receive your cash donations and non-perishable food items at 3155, Côte de Liesse Road. Every donation makes a difference!

The Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec (615 Sainte-Croix Ave.) will hold a family workshop about Christmas Stained Glass on Saturday, Dec. 9 and Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 pm, for parents and their children, aged 3 and up. Decorate the house with your crafted glass painted with Christmas patterns. Reservations required at 514 747-7367, ext. 7204.

From Thursday, December 7, 2006 to February 4, 2007, the Musée des Maîtres et Artisans of Quebec presents the exhibition On Creativity, artworks by seven Montreal scenic painters. On a film set or in a design studio, one easily recognizes scenic painters. Men, in a great majority, since the work is physically demanding... dressed in clothes literally covered by paint stains.

Less well known, is the fact that many, at the end of a work day, do not change their clothes and return to their own private studio to continue to paint, only this time for the sheer pleasure, simply because of the intrinsic necessity to create. In Montreal, there are more than a hundred, who on the one hand sell their talent by the hour to paint film, theatre and opera decors and on the other hand, in the time that remains, pursue their personal artistic endeavors. The curator, Linda Benguigui, without pretending to have exhausted this subject, met with more than 30 scenic painters and presents us with the work of seven of them: Daniel Barkley, Patrick Barnwell, Paul Bourgault, Christian Corvellec, Dominique Gaucher, Vasil Nikov and Frederick Ouellet. The vernissage will be held on Thursday, December 7, at 5:30.