Summer photo album

Summer in Mississauga was packed full of fun thanks to the Art Gallery of Mississauga. I've got the photos to prove it!

Craftification on Canada Day
The Toronto Church of Craft and the Spinners and Weavers Guild work with participants to transform the street into a work of craft.

Grace N Style + Jessica Thompson + LAL

Kareem from Grace N Style works with the audience to demonstrate Jessica Thompson's wearable art, the Freestyle SoundKit.

Toronto collective LAL perform, delivering futuristic rhythms melting into warm basslines with hints of South Asian roots and hip hop formations.

Clothing Swap
Mississauga welcomed Syracuse, New York artist, Christina Kolizsavary with a clothing swap. Particpants got to clean out their closets and take home great new wardrobe pieces!

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Lunch, a tour and discussion with curators and artists on Sunday, July 27. Here participants are enjoying coversation inside Adrian Blackwell's Model for a Public Space.

Inside the Coil

Visitors to the Gallery, during Adrian Blackwell's Models for Public Spaces exhibition, interacted with Monster Coil. Radiant City was screened during the exhibition with the Coil as a comfy seating arrangment.

2 events from the Art Gallery of Mississauga

Thursday July 31
Meet the Artist: Sharmila Samant
Event Type: Meet the artist / Location: Art Gallery of Mississauga / Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Samant’s work is a combination of craft and design, with a strong critique of the market forces that define the cultural and art practices of the peripheral nations. She questions how "our identities within the global set up can be sustained via a hybridisation of our culture".


Centre A Executive Director, Hank Bull and Curator Makiko Hara as well as Executive Director, Haema Sivanesan from SAVAC will be present to introduce the project and discuss their organizations.






Sharmila Samant, Against the Grain, 2008

Project Incubator:Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe Road West, August 1st - August 18th

Also don’t miss:“The Sounds of the Silenced” by Sharmila Samant
August 8th , 2008, 7-9pm
235 Queens Quay West

A 90 minute video screening examining the twin problems of slum demolition in urban Mumbai and agrarian suicides in rural India revealing the government’s apathy towards the economically disadvantaged sectors of Indian society in the drive to promote foreign investment. This series of videos forms the background for Samant’s major installation, “Against the Grain” (2008) at The Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn (2008). A co-presentation with the Harbourfront Centre as part of South Asia Calling Festival 8-10 August, 2008.

For more info, visit http://www.akimbo.biz/events/?id=11984&day=31&month=7&year=2008

Thursday July 31
Tiny Bill Cody
Event Type: performance / Location: CivicSquare Stage / Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Tor Lukasik-Foss (aka tiny bill cody) is a visual artist, performer and writer whose art practice blends together drawing, sculptural assemblage with public performances of spoken word and music. His pieces often investigate issues relating to ideas of fame, obscurity and the public concert.

Fun for every age tiny bill cody delights crowds with thoughtful songs atop mountainous stools and inside sculptures like nothing you've seen before. As a new twist on the urban cowboy, his intelligent and artful observations of the contemporary urban experience, dressed up as folk songs, fascinate audiences everywhere.

"a kind, yodeling ogre.... a seven foot urbane urban folk troubadour" - Ric Taylor, View Magazine

Crafting for Canada

At the Art Gallery of Mississauga on Canada Day, Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Gallery open for viewing from 11am to 4pm
Office Space/Public Space: Dean Baldwin and
J.C. Heywood: A Life in Layers

Craftification from 10am - 2 pm, City Centre Drive, between the Civc Centre and Central Library.

Taking part in the City of Mississauga's Canada Day Celebrations, the Art Gallery of Mississauga will bring the Church of Craft to City Centre Drive. The street will be closed to traffic allowing the Church of Craft to guide children in a re-imagining of the city street. Turning the asphalt into a green garden and the electrical poles into soft, colourful structures the artist collective will guide the ambitious project teaching fundamental craft skills such as stitching, knitting, and embroidery and to all ages. City Centre Drive will be transformed into a masterpiece by taking those uninhabited concrete spaces and renovating them into bright active areas.

Welcome to the Fort

The Best of Film Fort
Tuesday August 28, 2007
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage, on the grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,

301 Burnhamthorpe Road West
The Film Fort collective will transform the Civic Centre into a series of large child-like theatres. Creating the sense of wonder and nostalgia of home-movies and family slide shows each fort will house a different video programme. Prepare for a cozy night in - out.

With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

The Sights & Sounds of Rhapsody

Art Gallery of Mississauga Video Programme II
Karoke Rhapsody
Tuesday August 21, 20079:00– 10:30 pm FREE!
Main Stage, grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.

Curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot
The works presented in the video programme Karaoke Rhapsody utilize karaoke as a vehicle. Stylistically mimicking its form and function, the artists rely on the repertoire of karaoke's highlighted text, current songs, and moving symbols. Guiding the viewer through a narrative, they emphasize or dismiss the lyrics and (re)contextualize them in a separate and distinct way, soliciting a response that was not the original intent of the song.












Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Subtitled, 2005 2 min
Utilizing the lyrics of the pop-dance song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue Can't Get You out of My Head for her eighth studio album Fever (2001), artist Nemerofsky Ramsay fantasizes in bed.

Daniel Cockburn
Rocket Man, 2000 5 min
Rocket Man is a karaoke video which takes the lyrics and sentiment of the Elton John classic written by Bernie Taupin for the 1972 album Honkey Chateau.

Jubal Brown
Children of the Grave, 2000 3 min
A Karaoke video created for the classic Black Sabbath song Children of the Grave from their 1971 album Master of Reality. A group of youths out for a night of fun, drinking and driving in the country in the parents mini van, play fighting, and running through graveyards.

Emelie Chhangur
PASSING FOR WHITE; PASSING FOR BLACK IN SÃO PAULO, 2007 3:04 min
Singing over Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Three Little Birds from their 1977 album Exodus Chhangur responds to being a first generation Canadian, who passes for black in her home country, finds herself passing for white in Brazil.

Stefan St-Laurent / Minnie St-Laurent
I Want You to Need Me / J'veux qu' tu m'veux, 2001 4 min
Part of St-Laurent’s ongoing series of autobiographical performance videos named Overmelodramas, the artist explores our relationship to violence and culture. Written by Diane Warren, I Want You to Need Me is the fourth and last single from Celine Dion's All the Way...A Decade of Song album, released in 2000.

Clark Nikolai
An der Nordseeküste, 2003 3:40 min
A German language homo-romantic karaoke video set to the classic drinking Irish folk song Black Velvet Band.

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody, 5:55 sec
Recommended as one of the top four performed Karaoke songs by Peter Styles of the famous Gladstone Hotel Karaoke nights every Thursday to Sunday in the Melody Bar, Toronto, Bohemian Rhapsody is a song written by Freddie Mercury and originally recorded by the band Queen for the 1975 album A Night At The Opera. The video was supplied by Karaoke Canada, serving Canada and other countries with high quality Karaoke products.



With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Suburban Cinema

Art Gallery of Mississauga Video Programme I
Bedroom Community
Tuesday August 14, 2007
9:00– 10:30 pm FREE!
Main Stage, grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.

Curated by Su-Ying Lee
Join us for a night of video with a suburban theme which will reveal the fantastically banal, mystical, and absurd all residing in bedroom communities.







Heather Keung & Michael Connor
City Centre, 2006 4:30 min

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
A Cure for Being Ordinary, 2004 6:00 min

Aleesa Cohene
Supposed To, 2006 7:00 min

Alex Grant
Magic Memory, 2006 2:55 min

Libby Hague
Our Town, 2001 9:10 min

Alison S.M. Kobayashi
From Alex To Alex, 2006 6:11 min

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006 14:40 min

With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

DIY screen-printing - This week!

PRINT E-Z: DIY screen-printing

Demonstration: Wednesday August 1, 2007 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Activity Tent, Civic Square, Mississauga Civic Centre

Focusing on the entire process of screen-printing, the demonstrations will cover every aspect of the print-making process from drawing the initial designs to the finished product. Do-it-yourself and join the exciting assembly line of poster art production.
An exhibition of Jesjit Gill’s recent work and pieces resulting in the collaborative efforts of the participants from the Square One Youth Centre are on display at the Art Gallery of Mississauga until September 9th.














If you have any questions please contact Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot at 905-896-5507 or suzanne.carte-blanchenot@mississauga.ca.




With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Cull of the Wild

Cull of the Wild

Saturday, July 14, 2007, 9pm, Main Stage

Artist Geoffry Pugen with Museum, musicians Brendan Koen & Patric Colosimo
























A rapt audience at The Cull of the Wild, live performance which featured artist Geoffrey Pugen's extraordinary hybrid of video mixing, projection, and electronic soundscape creation. A meditative, transformative experience.




































Visit Geoffery Pugen's Utopics project at
www.utopics.ca

Images thanks to Carte Blanche Photography





With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

The Beating Heart Festival 2007

The Beating Heart Festival, part of My Mississauga, is Mississauga's only summer festival that highlights the wealth of solid independent music in and around the G.T.A. Most of these bands have taken significant pay cuts in order to bring fantastic music back to the city core.

Exclaim! Magazine is official sponsor of the festival this year. Come out and relax; bring friends, and enjoy some of the best music in the G.T.A, outdoors, every Friday evening, right in the heart of the city, entirely for FREE.














Visit the links below for more info and to check out the acts.

Mississauga News Article:www.mississauga.com/article/4303
Artwork By: Matt Daley http://www.shinypliers.com/

The line up:

FRIDAY, JULY 6th, 2007 [OPENING DAY]
THE NEXT BEST THING [Burlington]www.myspace.com/thenextbestthing
The Knockouts [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/knockouts
The Saint Alvia Cartel [Burlington] [Stomp Records]www.myspace.com/thesaintalviacartel
The Identity Crisis [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/theidentitycrisis

FRIDAY, JULY 13th, 2007
THE JUNCTION [Brampton] [Universal]www.myspace.com/thejunction http://www.thejunction.ca/ Escalate [Toronto]www.myspace.com/escalatemusic
The Imports [Mississauga / Brampton] [Laris Records]www.myspace.com/theimports
I am Robot and Proud [Toronto] [Catmobile / Darla]www.myspace.com/iamrobotandproud www.robotandproud.com/

FRIDAY, JULY 27th, 2007
ARISE & RUIN [Guelph] [Victory Records]www.myspace.com/ariseandruin
Hoosier Poet [Hamilton] [TikTokTikTok]www.myspace.com/hoosierpoet
Cain & Abel [Acton] [Sunday League Records]www.myspace.com/cainandabel
The Wooden Sky [Formerly "Friday Morning's Regret] [Toronto]www.myspace.com/thewoodensky http://www.thewoodensky.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd, 2007
THE REASON [Hamilton] [Smallman / Warner]www.myspace.com/thereasonrock http://www.thereason.ca/
The Mark Inside [Toronto] [Maple Music Recordings]http://www.markinside.com/ www.myspace.com/themarkinside
Five Blank Pages [Toronto] [Sunday League Records]www.myspace.com/fiveblankpages Ghost Hands [Mississauga] [We Are Busy Bodies]www.myspace.com/andretheriault

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th, 2007
ULTRA MAGNUS [10 Piece Afrobeat Orchestra] [Toronto]www.myspace.com/umagnus Matthew Johnston [London]www.myspace.com/matthewjohnston
Theology 3 [Toronto]www.myspace.com/theology3
Peter Katz [Toronto]www.myspace.com/peterkatz http://www.peterkatz.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17th, 2007
THE DIABLEROS [Toronto] [Baudelaire]www.myspace.com/thediableros www.thediableros.tv/
The Vulcan Dub Squad [Brampton / Mississauga]www.myspace.com/thevulcandubsquad www.thevulcandubsquad.com/
Fox Jaws [Barrie] [Chaulk Records]www.myspace.com/foxjaws
Woodhands [Toronto]www.myspace.com/woodhands http://www.woodhands.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24th, 2007
BAPTIZED IN BLOOD [London]www.myspace.com/baptizedinblood http://www.baptizedinblood.ca/
Del Asher [London]www.myspace.com/delasher
The Love & Terror Cult [Mississauga] www.myspace.com/theloveandterrorcult
As Is [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/asisrock

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st, 2007 [FINAL SHOW]
DD/MM/YYYY [Toronto] [We Are Busy Bodies]www.myspace.com/ddmmyyyy
Germans [Toronto] [Arena Rock Records]www.myspace.com/germans
Clothes Make The Man [Toronto]www.myspace.com/clothesmaketheman
This Is Picture [Toronto]www.myspace.com/thisispicture

All shows w. DJ Trails@ The Beating Heart Festival - 301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. @ The Civic Square - Mississauga ---->FREE FREE FREE<---- All-Ages Weather Permitting Music: 7:30pm More Info: www.myspace.com/beatingheartshows

We're also on Facebook. Search for, "The Beating Heart Festival" and add us!The Beating Heart After-Party Series will be returning to the Duke of Marlborough this year. Make sure to check out: www.myspace.com/thedukeofmarlborough905 to stay up to date on upcoming shows and possible secret guests.

Ryan Tobin, Executive Producer,The Beating Heart Festival www.myspace.com/beatingheartshows
p: 647-228-1328

Aaaay VJ!

Audio Video Jockey (AVJ)
Saturday June 16, 2007
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
Civic Square, Main Stage
FREE
DJ Kurtis Lewis & Katie Bethune-Leamen
DJ Lotsasongs & Partick Borjal
DJ Sable SL & Hri Neil
AVJ showcases collaborative efforts of video/media artists and DJs. Each commissioned performance team entrusts the combined creativity of an artist commandeering the role of the audio or the visual conductor.

Fueled by the Art Gallery of Mississauga







as part of My Mississauga






With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Stay tuned for more live action...