A. Dick Nowakowski’s Spinning Wheel of Light

You too can be part of the magic when noted social activist and dance prodigy A. Dick Nowakowski reunites with his good friends from the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus for an evening of music, dance and light. It all takes place on January 14, 2005 in the grasslands abutting Peace Bridge Plaza in beautiful Fort Erie, Ontario. The event is being staged to draw attention to the plight of convenience store workers worldwide.

Over the past three months, fabric workers at the Textile Pavilion at the Dickland Ranch and Game Farm have thrown statutorily mandated maximum hours standards to the wind in order to prepare 46 exact replicas of Nowakowski’s spectacular luminescent unitard, one for each member of the Gay Men’s Chorus. Fortunately recent advances in the unitard coating process have allowed Nowakowski to reduce the time it takes to produce each unitard from 11 months in the mid-1990’s to today’s six weeks, making this event possible.

At 4:35 pm, as the sun sets in the Western sky over the second-most scenic community on this stretch of the Niagara River, Nowakowski and the Chorus members will take their positions on the grass. As the haunting sounds of Enya drift up to the Peace Bridge border crossing, the Chorus members will fan out into a giant ring, with Nowakowski as its shining centre point. Shimmering in the dying embers of the day, the Chorus will begin to jog counter-clockwise, reflecting the golden rays of the sun onto the Peace Bridge Plaza in a stunning display of moving light and sound.

All the while the “wheel of light” is rotating, Nowakowski himself will perform a mini-concert of new material from his latest offering, “Enya Plus”, a collection of lyrics which Nowakowski has devised to enhance the haunting melodies of the legendary Irish songstress. The Chorus will then abruptly reverse direction and accompany Nowakowski as he kicks up the pace with his crowd-pleasing medley of ‘Till Tuesday covers. All symbolism will be explained by captions appearing on giant screens that will be trucked in for the event.

In addition to the day’s main event, A. Dick Nowakowski Sports and Entertainment has lined up a stunning array of secondary performers including ADNSE Spokesman Hank White reading selections of Nowakowski’s didactic poetry, Jeff Woodlock and his Screaming Banjo performing his time-honoured Bowmanville Ballads, and Dan “Company Man” Rabinowitz’s fist solo performance featuring a selection of lead guitar tracks from various concerts in which Dan has played lead guitar. Also included will be A. Dick Duds Burka giveaways and free camel rides for the children.

Dick looks forward to seeing all of his fans and supporters in Fort Erie on Januray 14. Textile workers from A. Dick Nowakowski Enterprises will be on hand to collect donations for the Andre Le Singe Foundation’s brand new Peace in Our Stores Fund.