November 10th, 2009 will be the 30th anniversary of the Mississauga train derailment and evacuation. I'm collaborating with groups and the people of the community to create exhibitions in memory of this event. The Hot Box project is inviting the people to submit their memories of the Train derailment and evacuation of 240,000 residents.
-Sonja Hidas
Call for Submissions:
The “Hot Box” project is a community art project currently accepting submissions for a 2009 exhibition. Please forward memories of the Mississauga train derailment and evacuation of November 1979. All media are accepted (letters, Photographs, objects…). Please included contact information.
Deliver or mail your entry to:
Heritage Mississauga c/o Hot Box
1921 Dundas Street West
Mississauga Ontario L5K 1R2
or email us at hotbox24@live.ca
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Green Youth Showcase!
CALLING ALL YOUNG ARTISTS
Get into the "limelight" and submit your work for the
GREEN YOUTH SHOWCASE
Are you a young visual artist who wants to effect positive change? Are you a spoken-word
artist with a message to share about the quality of the air we breathe and pollution in our city?
The Mississauga Arts Council is now accepting applications from artists between the ages of
13 and 24 to participate in the Green Youth Showcase. The event is an evening of visual and
performing arts exploring environmental awareness in Mississauga.
Formally known as the Mississauga Youth Arts Showcase, this dynamic event has been
presented annually for the past seven years by the Mayor's Youth Advisory Committee in
collaboration with the Mississauga Arts Council. The Green Youth Showcase takes place on
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Clarke Hall in Port Credit. The event kicks off with a visual art
exhibition at 7 p.m. followed by a performing arts showcase at 8 p.m.
Ingrid Gardiner, Development Director of the Mississauga Arts Council believes the Green
Showcase is a great opportunity for youth to express their feelings about the environment and
transportation options in the future. “Linking visual art with an environmental message is not
just subliminal. Youth’s vision can convert good intentions into real action. We can change our
choices: - we can use our cars less, we can carpool and we can use our bikes more often.
Together we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The art display will tap into how youth
feel about their local environment, how it affects their future and how they can send a positive
message to their fellow citizens.”
Submissions for the showcase must be dropped off at the Mississauga Arts Council office by
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 4 p.m. For application forms and additional information, please visit
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com or call 905-615-4278.
Media Contact: Heather Brissenden, Communications Officer
Mississauga Arts Council
Tel: 905-615-4212 Fax: 905-615-4171
heather@mississaugaartscouncil.com
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com
Download the application from the website here
Get into the "limelight" and submit your work for the
GREEN YOUTH SHOWCASE
Are you a young visual artist who wants to effect positive change? Are you a spoken-word
artist with a message to share about the quality of the air we breathe and pollution in our city?
The Mississauga Arts Council is now accepting applications from artists between the ages of
13 and 24 to participate in the Green Youth Showcase. The event is an evening of visual and
performing arts exploring environmental awareness in Mississauga.
Formally known as the Mississauga Youth Arts Showcase, this dynamic event has been
presented annually for the past seven years by the Mayor's Youth Advisory Committee in
collaboration with the Mississauga Arts Council. The Green Youth Showcase takes place on
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Clarke Hall in Port Credit. The event kicks off with a visual art
exhibition at 7 p.m. followed by a performing arts showcase at 8 p.m.
Ingrid Gardiner, Development Director of the Mississauga Arts Council believes the Green
Showcase is a great opportunity for youth to express their feelings about the environment and
transportation options in the future. “Linking visual art with an environmental message is not
just subliminal. Youth’s vision can convert good intentions into real action. We can change our
choices: - we can use our cars less, we can carpool and we can use our bikes more often.
Together we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The art display will tap into how youth
feel about their local environment, how it affects their future and how they can send a positive
message to their fellow citizens.”
Submissions for the showcase must be dropped off at the Mississauga Arts Council office by
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 4 p.m. For application forms and additional information, please visit
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com or call 905-615-4278.
Media Contact: Heather Brissenden, Communications Officer
Mississauga Arts Council
Tel: 905-615-4212 Fax: 905-615-4171
heather@mississaugaartscouncil.com
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com
Download the application from the website here
Friday, March 13, 2009
Canadian Conference of the Arts
What is the Canadian Conference of the Arts?
The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada. It provides research, analysis and consultations on public policies affecting the arts and the Canadian cultural institutions and industries. The CCA fosters informed public debate on policy issues and seeks to advance the cultural rights of Canadians.
What have they been up to?
Conference of the Arts is pleased to announce the National Cultural Strategy Workshop – a Chalmers Event and the CCA Awards Ceremony to be held in Ottawa on March 12, 2009.
Against the backdrop of recent cuts to arts and cultural programs, an election campaign where the arts and culture featured as a key national issue, and an international crisis the Canadian economy in jeopardy, this Workshop will present an opportunity to address some of the short-term and long-term challenges now facing the sector.
Following an extensive nation-wide consultation with the arts and cultural sector, the CCA’s National Director, Alain Pineau, will present a Report on the CCA Regional Forums. The report will inform this National Cultural Strategy Workshop so that our sector may begin mapping out the path to achieving our goals.
Anne L’Ecuyer, of Americans for the Arts (AFTA), will share the experiences of the American arts community as it moved from disarray to a strong, coherent, and effective national political voice. She will then conduct a workshop systematizing a five-stage approach to gaining consensus and strategies to help move the sector into a coordinated future direction.
After completing the strategy workshop, the CCA will invite participants to celebrate the artistic achievements of the sector by attending the evening CCA Awards Ceremony. The most notable award is the Diplôme d’honneur, first presented in 1954 to Vincent Massey in recognition for his work on developing Canada’s fledgling arts policies. Past recipients include such noted Canadians as Joe Fafard, Bluma Appel, and renowned Canadian author, Roch Carrier. The second award to be presented is the Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership, named after a past National Director of the CCA who distinguished himself as a strong advocate for the arts in Canada.
Read a re-cap, (live blogged at the time of the Workshop) and make your comments here
http://ccarts.ca/en/agora/
The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada. It provides research, analysis and consultations on public policies affecting the arts and the Canadian cultural institutions and industries. The CCA fosters informed public debate on policy issues and seeks to advance the cultural rights of Canadians.
What have they been up to?
Conference of the Arts is pleased to announce the National Cultural Strategy Workshop – a Chalmers Event and the CCA Awards Ceremony to be held in Ottawa on March 12, 2009.
Against the backdrop of recent cuts to arts and cultural programs, an election campaign where the arts and culture featured as a key national issue, and an international crisis the Canadian economy in jeopardy, this Workshop will present an opportunity to address some of the short-term and long-term challenges now facing the sector.
Following an extensive nation-wide consultation with the arts and cultural sector, the CCA’s National Director, Alain Pineau, will present a Report on the CCA Regional Forums. The report will inform this National Cultural Strategy Workshop so that our sector may begin mapping out the path to achieving our goals.
Anne L’Ecuyer, of Americans for the Arts (AFTA), will share the experiences of the American arts community as it moved from disarray to a strong, coherent, and effective national political voice. She will then conduct a workshop systematizing a five-stage approach to gaining consensus and strategies to help move the sector into a coordinated future direction.
After completing the strategy workshop, the CCA will invite participants to celebrate the artistic achievements of the sector by attending the evening CCA Awards Ceremony. The most notable award is the Diplôme d’honneur, first presented in 1954 to Vincent Massey in recognition for his work on developing Canada’s fledgling arts policies. Past recipients include such noted Canadians as Joe Fafard, Bluma Appel, and renowned Canadian author, Roch Carrier. The second award to be presented is the Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership, named after a past National Director of the CCA who distinguished himself as a strong advocate for the arts in Canada.
Read a re-cap, (live blogged at the time of the Workshop) and make your comments here
http://ccarts.ca/en/agora/
Friday, February 13, 2009
Couch Surfing + Illunating Peace
On view until March 22 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Two emerging artists were invited to become hosts and guests, guiding the other through the mundane, peculiar and fantastic aspects of life where they reside, in the periphery of a major city. Raised in Mississauga, Alison S.M. Kobayashi studies Art and Art History at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Christina Kolozsvary, originally from Miami, Florida, lives in Syracuse where she studies Art Video at Syracuse University.
While the process this has lead to is not strictly collaborative, the artists have worked on the projects for this exhibition through co-operation, exchange and the spirit of partnership. Kobayashi and Kolozsvary have come upon converging concerns, both formal and conceptual, in their practices.
Alison Kobayshi's project, based on her early experiences as a Brownie and Girl Guide, invites viewers to DO GOOD, much as she was encouraged to do during her formative years. Kobayashi's work examines the inception of those "good" values and how they have since evolved.
Couch surfing in Mississauga/Couch surfing in Syracuse
Alison S.M. Kobayashi and Christina Kolozsvary
Curated by Su-Ying Lee with co-operation from Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Two emerging artists were invited to become hosts and guests, guiding the other through the mundane, peculiar and fantastic aspects of life where they reside, in the periphery of a major city. Raised in Mississauga, Alison S.M. Kobayashi studies Art and Art History at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Christina Kolozsvary, originally from Miami, Florida, lives in Syracuse where she studies Art Video at Syracuse University.
While the process this has lead to is not strictly collaborative, the artists have worked on the projects for this exhibition through co-operation, exchange and the spirit of partnership. Kobayashi and Kolozsvary have come upon converging concerns, both formal and conceptual, in their practices.
Alison Kobayshi's project, based on her early experiences as a Brownie and Girl Guide, invites viewers to DO GOOD, much as she was encouraged to do during her formative years. Kobayashi's work examines the inception of those "good" values and how they have since evolved.
Christina Kolozsvary addresses the implications of her early
childhood fixation with Elvis Presley in the installation King of My
Heart. Kolozsvary examines the assimilation of her puerile attraction
two-fold, in both the idealization of Elvis as a romantic partner and the
power
of assuming his persona.
amy loewan Illuminating Peace
a collaboration with the Robert Mc Laughlin Gallery, Oshawa
"My art is the melding of Chinese painting sensibilities and western post-modernist art practices. My work is about the promotion of peace, harmony and understanding."-Amy Loewan
Eight large woven banners made from rice paper strips are suspended in the
Gallery space. On these strips written in calligraphy and computer generated
type, in over thirty languages are the values that Loewan sees as vital to world
peace; compassion kindness, tolerance, respect, understanding, patience,
gentleness and forgiveness.Illuminating Peace adds a three dimensional component to The Peace Project. Using the same rice paper weaving and the eight values Loewan has committed to in her world vision of human relations she has created a column. This column is illuminated from within and transforms the Gallery into a contemplative sanctuary.
Amy was born in Hong Kong at the end of WWII and immigrated to Canada in the late 70s. She was trained and still practices as an occupational therapist but later studied art, receiving her Master's in Fine Art from the University of Alberta.
This exhibition is an extension of The Peace Project which has been exhibited in nine Canadian venues in the west as well as showings in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The AGM has collaborated on this exhibition with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa and the Yukon Art Centre in Whitehorse.
Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive, Ground Floor
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5B 3C1
Tel: 905 896 5088
300 City Centre Drive, Ground Floor
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5B 3C1
Tel: 905 896 5088
Hours: M, T, W, F 10 am to 5 pm
Thursdays 10 am to 8 pm
Sat & Sun noon to 4 pm
Admission: Free
Thursdays 10 am to 8 pm
Sat & Sun noon to 4 pm
Admission: Free
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Call for submissions - Living Arts Centre
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – NEW AND EMERGING ARTISTS
The New Hybrids: A Juried Exhibition in Mixed Media
In a time when technological innovation races against the shrinking of the globe, artists seek refuge in an ever-growing palette of media. The New Hybrids is an exhibition searching for new and creative ways of combining media to give voice to a rapidly changing world.
The Living Arts Centre is accepting submissions from new and emerging artists for a juried art exhibition in mixed media. Selected works will be exhibited in the Living Art Centre’s on-site gallery from May 2nd - May 24th, 2009. All submissions must incorporate at least TWO media and have been completed within the last two years to be considered.
The New Hybrids: A Juried Exhibition in Mixed Media
In a time when technological innovation races against the shrinking of the globe, artists seek refuge in an ever-growing palette of media. The New Hybrids is an exhibition searching for new and creative ways of combining media to give voice to a rapidly changing world.
The Living Arts Centre is accepting submissions from new and emerging artists for a juried art exhibition in mixed media. Selected works will be exhibited in the Living Art Centre’s on-site gallery from May 2nd - May 24th, 2009. All submissions must incorporate at least TWO media and have been completed within the last two years to be considered.
Submission Information:
-$20.00 application fee made out to the Living Arts Centre
-artist statement (max. 100 words)
-current CV
-2 submissions of current work (jpegs on CD), including: title, medium, size, date, artist’s name for each image. Artist’s name must be clearly labeled on the submission CD.
-SASE (self addressed and stamped envelope) – please ensure correct postage for return of CD (The Living Arts Centre assumes no responsibility for images sent without return postage)
**Email submissions will not be accepted
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, February 23rd, 2009 at 5 pm
Please send submissions to:
Studio Arts Living Arts Centre
4141 Living Arts DriveMississauga
ON L5B 4B8
For more information, please email exhibitions@livingarts.on.ca or call 905.306.6161
Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee.
Notification of Acceptance: Artists will be notified by phone or email on Monday, March 31st, 2009 if their piece has been selected to be in the exhibition. Only those accepted will be notified. Accepted artists will receive details pertaining to the exhibition including delivery of artwork, insurance coverage, opening reception and awards.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Professionalize your artistic practice!
WORKSHOP
Developing an Artist’s Statement
In this two hour hands-on workshop you will learn how to develop, articulate and write an effective artist’s statement. Come prepared to share your ideas and write. You will leave with a completed and effective artist’s statement. Space is limited.
The workshop will be facilitated by Tara Marshall, writer, educator and Outreach Coordinator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Registration:
$20 Public (MAC & VAM members receive a 20% discount)
$15 Students and Art Gallery of Mississauga members
To register call Tara Marshall: 905-896-5507
or email tara.marshall@mississauga.ca
Date: Monday March 9th, 7- 9 pm
Location:
Art Gallery of Mississauga,
Main Floor, Mississauga Civic Centre
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, ON
Developing an Artist’s Statement
In this two hour hands-on workshop you will learn how to develop, articulate and write an effective artist’s statement. Come prepared to share your ideas and write. You will leave with a completed and effective artist’s statement. Space is limited.
The workshop will be facilitated by Tara Marshall, writer, educator and Outreach Coordinator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Registration:
$20 Public (MAC & VAM members receive a 20% discount)
$15 Students and Art Gallery of Mississauga members
To register call Tara Marshall: 905-896-5507
or email tara.marshall@mississauga.ca
Date: Monday March 9th, 7- 9 pm
Location:
Art Gallery of Mississauga,
Main Floor, Mississauga Civic Centre
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, ON
Monday, January 19, 2009
I Served the King of England
The series, an initiative supported by the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Living Arts Centre showcases international and independent cinema. Held at the Living Arts Centre's Hammerson Hall, the screenings are take place the last Tuesday of every month. Download your film series guide here
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000. To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission: AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00
Admission: AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00
General Admission: $12.00Series Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location: Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8pm
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8pm
I Served The King of England
Director: Jiri Menze, Czeck Republic, 2008
Language: Czech with English sub-titles
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rating: R for sexual content and nudity
Jan Dite is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. And he knows just how to do it: by hearing everything, seeing everything, and creating opportunities at every turn. Armed with this knowledge and an irrepressible wish to please, he soon leaves his first place of employment, a pub, for a luxury brothel and finally moves onto an elegant Art Nouveau Prague restaurant. But by the late 1930s, things are changing. Hitler has taken the Sudetenland region and is breaking apart Czechoslovakia. Jan falls in love with LÃza, a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after LÃza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns,
she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had 'left behind.' After LÃzaâ's less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years, one for each of his millions. Upon his release from jail, Jan is sent to live in a decrepit border town. Here Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life--and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events.
she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had 'left behind.' After LÃzaâ's less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years, one for each of his millions. Upon his release from jail, Jan is sent to live in a decrepit border town. Here Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life--and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Art's Birthday!
It's approaching Art's Birthday again! January 17th of each year.What is Art's Birthday you ask? Read on...
In 1963, French artist, Robert Filliou declared "One million years ago, on January 17, Art was born...when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Close the schools and the factories! Let them eat cake and make art! And the next year let it be two days of holiday, then three days, then four, five, six and so on, until everyday is art's birthday, at which point we can all get on with life".The point Filliou was making concerns the making of art as an everyday activity accessible to everyone, not a rarefied object.Since then, a loose network of artists and organizations has celebrated Art's Birthday honouring the Fluxus spirit of art being made not to be bought, sold or traded as a commodity, but given "freely" as a gift.
Robert Filliou (b. January 17, 1926, Sauve, France d. 1987, Les Eyzies) a member of Fluxus, the 1960's performance group that specialized in esthetic non-events, believed that art didn't have to express itself in the form of objects. He saw it as a form of play that could even occur as unrealized notions. His minimal-impact works are apt to be made of string, cardboard and wood, the vehicles for stray, vaguely poetic ideas and images. Filliou's ephemeral works undermine heavy notions of what art is or should be.
How Mississauga will be celebrating Art's Birthday?
ART'S BIRTHDAY
January 17, 2009
Noon to 8pm
Erin Meadows Community Centre & Library
2800 Erin Centre Blvd. Mississauga
Tel: 905-615-4750
The Art Gallery of Mississauga is participating in the Art's Birthday celebration presented by the Office of Arts and Culture, City of Mississauga. This year, Art's Birthday is an ecology-themed celebration. Activities include a Mississauga sound map, sound installation, underground garage sale, art trading-card craft, sound art listening gallery, art-on-air live, radio DJ demos, soundwalks, puppet musicians, underwater (pool) soundtrack, artist performances, open mic, children's workshops, happy birthday choral performance and birthday cake.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga will be presenting the work of Mississauga artists Alison S.M. Kobayashi and Gintas Tirilis who have both created dynamic site specific installations for the event.
Alison S. M. Kobayashi will be presenting two installations on the birthday theme. Her first installation can be viewed in an Erin Meadows Public Library book case beginning January 6th. The second, in the entrance of the Community Centre, is a playful multi-media installation inspired by the Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot music video Comic Strip. Kobayshi combines a retro future aesthetic, celebratory accoutrements and her own performance in a tribute to Art's Birthday.
Utilizing an unexpected combination of water and sound, Gintas Tirilis creates a site specific, participatory installation at the Erin Meadows Community Centre. Tirilis's Drip Machine allows visitors to the Centre to trigger and tune unique audio patterns and rhythms by adjusting the flow of water faucets. Each participant's faucet adjustment becomes an original "remix" which includes samples from varying radio stations and pre recorded audio.
View Art's Birthday flyer
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Juried Exhibition
Art Gallery of Mississauga
December 18, 2008 to January 31, 2009
Visual Arts Mississauga 31st Annual Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts
Since 1987, the Art Gallery of Mississauga has hosted this popular annual event organized by Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM).
"Visual Arts Mississauga strives to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation in the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences".
Visual Arts Mississauga is a community arts organization providing classes in printmaking, sculpture, watercolours, drawing and painting, children’s art camps and rental space for weekend art exhibitions and sales. The VAM call for entry is one of the region’s most anticipated events, bringing in hundreds of submissions from working artists across Ontario. It is an annual opportunity to survey a variety of practices by artists who range from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community.
The exhibition serves to foster a sense of connection between the artists, Visual Arts Mississauga and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. In addition, honours are awarded to selected works in the exhibition. This year’s award sponsors are;
Bulova Watch Company – First Place
Visual Arts Mississauga – Second Place
Curry’s Art Store – Third Place
Desserres Art Store – Honourable Mention
Art Gallery of Mississauga – People’s Choice Award
Jurors for this competition are Stuart Reid, Didi Gadjanski and Greg Damery.
Opening Reception and Awards Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 6:00 pm at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
For more information about Visual Arts Mississauga, visit http://www.visualartsmississauga.com/ or email marowe@visualartsmississauga.com or telephone 905-277-4313. VAM is located at 4170 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga L5C 2S7 corner of Credit Woodlands and Burnhamthorpe Road West.
Hours: Weekdays 9 am to 5 pm, weekends 12 to 4 pm
New Hours: Beginning January 2, Weekdays 10 am to 5 pm, weekends 12 to 4 pm Thursday 10 am to 8 pm
Holiday Hours:
December 23, open from 9 am to 3:30 pm
CLOSED December 24 to 31, 2008
OPEN January 1, 2009 2 to 4 pm
Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive
Ground Floor
Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1
Tel: 905 896 5088
December 18, 2008 to January 31, 2009
Visual Arts Mississauga 31st Annual Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts
Since 1987, the Art Gallery of Mississauga has hosted this popular annual event organized by Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM).
"Visual Arts Mississauga strives to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation in the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences".
Visual Arts Mississauga is a community arts organization providing classes in printmaking, sculpture, watercolours, drawing and painting, children’s art camps and rental space for weekend art exhibitions and sales. The VAM call for entry is one of the region’s most anticipated events, bringing in hundreds of submissions from working artists across Ontario. It is an annual opportunity to survey a variety of practices by artists who range from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community.
The exhibition serves to foster a sense of connection between the artists, Visual Arts Mississauga and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. In addition, honours are awarded to selected works in the exhibition. This year’s award sponsors are;
Bulova Watch Company – First Place
Visual Arts Mississauga – Second Place
Curry’s Art Store – Third Place
Desserres Art Store – Honourable Mention
Art Gallery of Mississauga – People’s Choice Award
Jurors for this competition are Stuart Reid, Didi Gadjanski and Greg Damery.
Opening Reception and Awards Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 6:00 pm at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
For more information about Visual Arts Mississauga, visit http://www.visualartsmississauga.com/ or email marowe@visualartsmississauga.com or telephone 905-277-4313. VAM is located at 4170 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga L5C 2S7 corner of Credit Woodlands and Burnhamthorpe Road West.
Hours: Weekdays 9 am to 5 pm, weekends 12 to 4 pm
New Hours: Beginning January 2, Weekdays 10 am to 5 pm, weekends 12 to 4 pm Thursday 10 am to 8 pm
Holiday Hours:
December 23, open from 9 am to 3:30 pm
CLOSED December 24 to 31, 2008
OPEN January 1, 2009 2 to 4 pm
Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive
Ground Floor
Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1
Tel: 905 896 5088
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Film Series at Living Arts Centre
The Mississauga Film Series, presented by the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery and Living Arts Centre, is enjoying increasing popularity in our new home at the Living Arts Centre's Hammerson Hall. Join us there for international and independent cinema on the last Tuesday of each month.
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000.
To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00General Admission: $12.00Series Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Heaven on Earth
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 8pm
Director: Deepa Mehta
Language: Punjabi with English subtitles
Running Time: 106 minutes
Rating:PG 14A
Heaven on Earth is the tale of a struggling young Indian woman trapped in a marriage with an abusive Indo-Canadian man. New to Canada, at the mercy of her husband, she retreats to the recesses of her thriving imagination. Critically acclaimed director Deepa Mehta adds a new level of profound and sad complexity to her body of work by suggesting that the interior world of fantasy maybe, for some, the only possibility of redemption.
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000.
To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00General Admission: $12.00Series Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Heaven on Earth
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 8pm
Director: Deepa Mehta
Language: Punjabi with English subtitles
Running Time: 106 minutes
Rating:PG 14A
Heaven on Earth is the tale of a struggling young Indian woman trapped in a marriage with an abusive Indo-Canadian man. New to Canada, at the mercy of her husband, she retreats to the recesses of her thriving imagination. Critically acclaimed director Deepa Mehta adds a new level of profound and sad complexity to her body of work by suggesting that the interior world of fantasy maybe, for some, the only possibility of redemption.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Opening reception + free shuttle bus + Curator's tour
ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA
October 30 to December 5, 2008
Modular Nature
Guest Curated by Gordon Hatt
Sandor Ajzenstat
David Armstrong-Six
Eric Glavin
Ernest Harris Jr.
Gunilla Josephson
Kristiina Lahde
Gareth Licthy
Andreas Rutkauskas
David Armstrong Six
Table and Tunnel
watercolour and gouache
11 x 14 inches
Image courtesy of Goodwater Gallery
Opening reception: Thurday, October 30th at 6pm
A free shuttle bus, to the Art Gallery of Mississauga, departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street W., Toronto) at 7 pm, returning to the Gladstone by 9pm.Call 905 896 5508 or email gail.farndon@mississauga.ca to reserve seating.
Gordon Hatt will conduct a tour at 8pm.
Modular Nature is an exhibition that responds to the suburban paradigm. The organizing principle of suburban development is the provision of maximum space for the cultivation of nature within the economics of an affordable built environment. Homes and residential buildings are buffered from each other and from roadways with lawns, gardens and trees and are zoned apart from business and industry. The value of cultivated nature in the suburb thus creates the characteristically low population density of the suburb.
October 30 to December 5, 2008
Modular Nature
Guest Curated by Gordon Hatt
Sandor Ajzenstat
David Armstrong-Six
Eric Glavin
Ernest Harris Jr.
Gunilla Josephson
Kristiina Lahde
Gareth Licthy
Andreas Rutkauskas
David Armstrong Six
Table and Tunnel
watercolour and gouache
11 x 14 inches
Image courtesy of Goodwater Gallery
Opening reception: Thurday, October 30th at 6pm
A free shuttle bus, to the Art Gallery of Mississauga, departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street W., Toronto) at 7 pm, returning to the Gladstone by 9pm.Call 905 896 5508 or email gail.farndon@mississauga.ca to reserve seating.
Gordon Hatt will conduct a tour at 8pm.
Modular Nature is an exhibition that responds to the suburban paradigm. The organizing principle of suburban development is the provision of maximum space for the cultivation of nature within the economics of an affordable built environment. Homes and residential buildings are buffered from each other and from roadways with lawns, gardens and trees and are zoned apart from business and industry. The value of cultivated nature in the suburb thus creates the characteristically low population density of the suburb.
The Band's Visit
MISSISSAUGA FILM SERIES
The series, an initiative supported by the Art Gallery of Mississauga and Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga is now in partnership with the Living
Arts Centre to showcase international and independent cinema in Mississauga.
Download your film series guide here.
*NEW LOCATION & TIME, BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000.
To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00
General Admission: $12.00Series
Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
The Band's Visit
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 8pm
Director: Eran Kolirin
Language: Arabic, English & Hebrew with English subtitles
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, consisting of eight men, arrive in Israel from Egypt. They have been booked by an Arab cultural center in Petah Tiqva, but through a miscommunication, the band takes a bus to Bet Hatikva, a fictional town in the middle of the Negev Desert.
There is no transportation out of the city that day, and there are no hotels for them to spend the night in. The band members dine at a small restaurant where the owner, Dina (Ronit Elkabetz) invites them to stay the night at her apartment, at her friends' apartment, and in the restaurant. That night challenges all of the characters.
The series, an initiative supported by the Art Gallery of Mississauga and Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga is now in partnership with the Living
Arts Centre to showcase international and independent cinema in Mississauga.
Download your film series guide here.
*NEW LOCATION & TIME, BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000.
To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00
General Admission: $12.00Series
Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
The Band's Visit
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 8pm
Director: Eran Kolirin
Language: Arabic, English & Hebrew with English subtitles
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, consisting of eight men, arrive in Israel from Egypt. They have been booked by an Arab cultural center in Petah Tiqva, but through a miscommunication, the band takes a bus to Bet Hatikva, a fictional town in the middle of the Negev Desert.
There is no transportation out of the city that day, and there are no hotels for them to spend the night in. The band members dine at a small restaurant where the owner, Dina (Ronit Elkabetz) invites them to stay the night at her apartment, at her friends' apartment, and in the restaurant. That night challenges all of the characters.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Get on the (Mississauga, Oakville) Art Bus
Toronto/Mississauga Contemporary Art Bus
Sunday, October 26, 2008
$10 registration fee includes lunch provided by Whole Foods Market
Bus 1 Departing from the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto at 11:30 am
Bus 2 Departing from the Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga at 11:30 am
Buses return to both pick up locations at 5 pm
Two buses will be shuttling participants to visit the Art Gallery of Mississaga, Oakville Galleries and Blackwood Gallery highlighting the fall exhibitions with tours and talks.
On view:
Art Gallery of Mississauga: Emblems of the Enigma: Vessna Perunovich
Blackwood Gallery, UTM: Etienne Zack: Loitering Shadows
Jesse Jones: The Spectre and the Sphere (E Gallery)
Oakville Galleries: Beyond Her Usual Limits (Gairloch Gardens)
Burning Cold (Centennial Square)
To reserve seating email elizabeth@oakvillegalleries.com or call Su-Ying at 905 895 5506
*Please specifiy whether you are reserving for Bus 1 or Bus 2.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
$10 registration fee includes lunch provided by Whole Foods Market
Bus 1 Departing from the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto at 11:30 am
Bus 2 Departing from the Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga at 11:30 am
Buses return to both pick up locations at 5 pm
Two buses will be shuttling participants to visit the Art Gallery of Mississaga, Oakville Galleries and Blackwood Gallery highlighting the fall exhibitions with tours and talks.
On view:
Art Gallery of Mississauga: Emblems of the Enigma: Vessna Perunovich
Blackwood Gallery, UTM: Etienne Zack: Loitering Shadows
Jesse Jones: The Spectre and the Sphere (E Gallery)
Oakville Galleries: Beyond Her Usual Limits (Gairloch Gardens)
Burning Cold (Centennial Square)
To reserve seating email elizabeth@oakvillegalleries.com or call Su-Ying at 905 895 5506
*Please specifiy whether you are reserving for Bus 1 or Bus 2.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Film Series finds a new home!
The popular Mississauga Film Series has found a new home. The Art Gallery of Mississauga has teamed up with the Living Arts Centre to give Mississauga residents the opportunity to view films selected from the Toronto International Film Festival's Film Circuit, in a central location, at Hammerson Hall at the Living Arts Centre
at 4141 Living Arts Drive.
at 4141 Living Arts Drive.NEW LOCATION & TIME, BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER
Film Series Tickets: available at the Living Arts Centre Box Office in person or by calling 905 306 6000. To order tickets online, visit www.livingartscentre.ca
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00General Admission: $12.00Series Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Admission:AGM Members/Students/Seniors: $10.00General Admission: $12.00Series Pass: $30.00 (4 film package)
Screening Location:Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
The Visitor
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 8pm
Director: Thomas McCarthy, 2008, USA
Language: English
Walter Vale, a lonely widower, reluctantly goes to New York City for a conference to find an undocumented couple living in his long-vacant Manhattan home. He ends up befriending them, especially Tarek, a Syrian street musician. But, Tarek is profiled by the police and incarcerated, becoming subject to imminent deportation. With the appearance of Tarek's widowed mother, Mouna, Walter's connection to this family in distress deepens. A film of unadorened precision, The Visitor points the way for us to a place where tolerance becomes active engagement.
October 28th film: The Band's Visit
Monday, September 08, 2008
Vessna Perunovich Exhibition & upcoming performance
Who is Vessna Perunovich?
Vessna Perunovich
Midnight Mirage, September 27, 2007 from 7 pm to 7 am as part of Nuit Blanche Toronto
at #60 McCaul Street
Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Perunovich came to Canada in 1988 and has been continually building a consistent and compelling body of work devoted to exploring several basic human urges and the challenges to their satisfaction which arise in a shifting identity-context and an amorphously altered homeland. The pieces selected for this show comprise a wide spectrum of physical media and format, from painting and drawing, to video and performance, to sculpture and installation, all marshaled to investigate the way our desire for a safe place creates emblematic experiences which amount to dreaming with our eyes wide open.
Visit http://www.vessnaperunovich.com/ to find out more.
Art Gallery of Mississauga
September 11 to October 26, 2008
Emblems of the Enigma: Vessna Peunovich
Guest Curated by Donald Brackett
Opening reception: Thursday, September 11th from 6 pm to 9 pmArtist and Curator will be in attendance.
A free shuttle bus departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street W., Toronto) at 7 pm to the Art Gallery of Mississauga returning by 9pm.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga is pleased to announce a solo retrospective exhibition of the multi media work of Canadian artist Vessna Perunovich. This survey show offers a fascinating glimpse into the inter-disciplinary themes and techniques of postmodern sculpture and installation formats, with a special emphasis on the mutable nature of our personal sense of self.
"Perunovich's work employs paradoxical takes on a multitude of human appetites", the Curator comments, "she is able to make a deft commentary on our shared values as embodied creatures who require metaphysical as well as physical sanctuary. In fact, the search for sanctuary has become an emblem in itself for the multitude of miniature enigmas we all face on a daily basis."
A handsome and extensively illustrated catalogue is being published with an essay by the Curator and personal insights from the artist on the subtle nature of her multi-faceted work.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Vessna Perunovich performs I Hug the World and the World Hugs Me Back
Location: University of Toronto at Mississauga
Vessna Perunovich will be on the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus asking the students to consider physical and psychological barriers-whether gendered, cultural or religious-which serve to both unite and divide us with a dynamic performance in their space. In conjunction with her exhibition Emblems of the Enigma at the AGM, this exploration of thresholds and spaces between people, features the artist tied to a stationary object with large red fabric straps, which she pulls against in order to reach out and hug the closest passerby. Investigating themes of home, gender and transition, Perunovich's performance reveals the divisional space between individuals on both an intimate and international scale.
Perunovich is a Toronto based artist and has performed I Hug the World and the World Hugs Me Back in places as distant as London, England and as local as Cambridge, Ontario.
Vessna Perunovich
Midnight Mirage, September 27, 2007 from 7 pm to 7 am as part of Nuit Blanche Toronto
at #60 McCaul Street
Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Perunovich came to Canada in 1988 and has been continually building a consistent and compelling body of work devoted to exploring several basic human urges and the challenges to their satisfaction which arise in a shifting identity-context and an amorphously altered homeland. The pieces selected for this show comprise a wide spectrum of physical media and format, from painting and drawing, to video and performance, to sculpture and installation, all marshaled to investigate the way our desire for a safe place creates emblematic experiences which amount to dreaming with our eyes wide open.
Visit http://www.vessnaperunovich.com/ to find out more.
Art Gallery of Mississauga
September 11 to October 26, 2008
Emblems of the Enigma: Vessna Peunovich
Guest Curated by Donald Brackett
Opening reception: Thursday, September 11th from 6 pm to 9 pmArtist and Curator will be in attendance.
A free shuttle bus departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street W., Toronto) at 7 pm to the Art Gallery of Mississauga returning by 9pm.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga is pleased to announce a solo retrospective exhibition of the multi media work of Canadian artist Vessna Perunovich. This survey show offers a fascinating glimpse into the inter-disciplinary themes and techniques of postmodern sculpture and installation formats, with a special emphasis on the mutable nature of our personal sense of self.
"Perunovich's work employs paradoxical takes on a multitude of human appetites", the Curator comments, "she is able to make a deft commentary on our shared values as embodied creatures who require metaphysical as well as physical sanctuary. In fact, the search for sanctuary has become an emblem in itself for the multitude of miniature enigmas we all face on a daily basis."
A handsome and extensively illustrated catalogue is being published with an essay by the Curator and personal insights from the artist on the subtle nature of her multi-faceted work.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Vessna Perunovich performs I Hug the World and the World Hugs Me Back
Location: University of Toronto at Mississauga
Vessna Perunovich will be on the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus asking the students to consider physical and psychological barriers-whether gendered, cultural or religious-which serve to both unite and divide us with a dynamic performance in their space. In conjunction with her exhibition Emblems of the Enigma at the AGM, this exploration of thresholds and spaces between people, features the artist tied to a stationary object with large red fabric straps, which she pulls against in order to reach out and hug the closest passerby. Investigating themes of home, gender and transition, Perunovich's performance reveals the divisional space between individuals on both an intimate and international scale.
Perunovich is a Toronto based artist and has performed I Hug the World and the World Hugs Me Back in places as distant as London, England and as local as Cambridge, Ontario.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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.
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Inside the Coil
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!
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. 
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Artist's Talk
Please join us for the artist talk of Sharmila Samant this Thursday August 14th at 7PM
Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, tel: 905 896 5088
Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, tel: 905 896 5088
Sharmila Samant, Against the Grain, 2008
FREE shuttle bus from Toronto
A bus will leave the front of 401 Richmond Street West at 6:30 PM and return at the same place for 9:00 PM.
Executive Director, Hank Bull and Curator Makiko Hara from Centre A as well as Executive Director, Haema Sivanesan from SAVAC will also be present to introduce the project and discuss their organizations.
Sharmila Samant (b. 1967) is a major contemporary Indian artist living and working in Mumbai. Her work deals with issues of local identity within the context of globalization. Samant examines the homogenizing effect of commodification and consumer culture in relation to developing economies. Visiting Canada for the first time, Samant will undertake research with the Goan community in Toronto, Mississauga and Vancouver and develop an installation and artist book project titled “Kathajaal: A Web of Stories”.
Kathajaal: A Web of Stories will examine factors informing the return immigration of Indo-Canadians to India. Samant uses a multi-disciplinary approach, working in photography, installation and video.
Samant states, “The projects I undertake involve eclectic collecting, documenting and recycling of urban debris, looking at the mundane and the profane. The works critique the market forces that define the cultural and art practices of the peripheral nations and question how our identities, within the global set up, can be sustained via a hybridization of our culture.”
Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director of SAVAC states, “Sharmila Samant is a significant international artist, whose work is rigorous, politically engaged and socially informed. It is a privilege to host her visit to Toronto, and to have her develop a project with the South Asian community here”
Samant’s work has been included in major international exhibitions and biennales including ”The Biennale of Sydney: Revolution – Forms that Turn” (2008); “Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India”, The Asia Society, New York, (touring, 2004 -2007); “Century City – Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis”, The Tate Modern, London, (2001).
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Radiant City in the Gallery
Come cozy up at the Art Gallery of Mississauga inside Adrian Blackwell's Monster Coil. We'll provide the popcorn and entertainment! FREE
Tuesday August 12
Tuesday Night at the Movies: Radiant City
7 pm to 8:30 pm
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Whether you call it sprawl or growth, the suburbs have been the dominant form of community planning in North America for fifty years. In this incisive study, Gary Burns and Jim Brown peer into the windows and lives of those who call suburbia home. Canada, 2007. English.
Tuesday August 12
Tuesday Night at the Movies: Radiant City
7 pm to 8:30 pm
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Whether you call it sprawl or growth, the suburbs have been the dominant form of community planning in North America for fifty years. In this incisive study, Gary Burns and Jim Brown peer into the windows and lives of those who call suburbia home. Canada, 2007. English.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
History in a Box: Diorama making
Saturday, August 9th
Noon to 2pm
3pm to 5pm, at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Ages 8-12 yrs
FREE pre registration suggested to ensure a spot
Register at info.agm@mississauga.ca or call 905 896 5506
History in a Box: Diorama making
A diorama is an imaginary mini-world or a scene in a box. Dioramas can incorporate cut outs, figures, models and drawings.
Noon to 2pm
3pm to 5pm, at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Ages 8-12 yrs
FREE pre registration suggested to ensure a spot
Register at info.agm@mississauga.ca or call 905 896 5506
History in a Box: Diorama making
A diorama is an imaginary mini-world or a scene in a box. Dioramas can incorporate cut outs, figures, models and drawings.
During the exhibition, Explorers and Dandies in an open letter to Canada Post: Frederick Hagan & Kent Monkman, Educator, Shaun Dacey will work with children ages 8 to 12 to explore how our official version of history is recorded. Through the creation of colourful dioramas, based on the works of Frederick Hagan and Kent Monkman, children will have the opportunity re-imagine history’s events with themselves as the authors.
Frederick Hagan’s (b. 1918, d. 2003) works have had the honour of being sanctioned to represent Canadian history. Issued from 1986-89, the Explorations of Canada postage stamp series was commissioned by Canada Post as a tribute to select explorers.
The current practice of artist Kent Monkman shares a similarity, in that history is regarded. However, it is an unsanctioned history which the artist constructs from the mined personal accounts of George Catlin, the traditions of 19th century landscape painting and the experiences of indigenous and two spirited people.
Explorers and Dandies in an open letter to Canada Post: Frederick Hagan & Kent Monkman will be on view at the Art Gallery of Mississauga until September 7, 2008.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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
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
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