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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

Clothing Swap-Free Wardrobe!!

Clothing Swap at the Gallery
Tuesday, July 8th at 6:30pm
Call 905 896 5506 or email suying.lee@mississauga.ca to RSVP

In honour of our first ever Artist-in-Residence, Christina Kolozsvary, from Syracuse, New York, the Gallery will be hosting our first ever Clothing Swap!

What’s a Clothing Swap? A Clothing Swap is an event where the participants trade their pre-loved clothes, shoes and accessories. It’s a chance to clean out your closet, get a new wardrobe and meet the artist.

Christina Kolozsavary is taking up a short residency in Mississauga this summer in anticipation of an exhibition Couch surfing in Mississauga/Couch surfing in Syracuse. The exhibition will feature work created by Kolzsavary in response to her stay in Mississauga. Likewise, Mississauga artist, Alison Kobayashi will create work for the exhibition during a residency in Syracuse. Couch surfing in Mississauga/Couch surfing in Syracuse will be on exhibit February 5 to March 22, 2009 and will also be exhibited in Syracuse.

How do artists in the formative stages of their careers assimilate location and residential identity into their work? This exchange has been created to consider Mississauga and its identity as a city-suburb and cultural producer. A highly diverse, densely populated city, Mississauga’s identity is often overshadowed by its closest urban neighbour, Toronto. Syracuse shares some of Mississauga’s identity struggles and each of us, a few uniquely our own.

The Art Gallery of Mississauga wishes to thank Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Couch surfing Residency co-curators and Séamus Kealy, Curator, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga for provision of residence space.

FREESTYLIE

Thursday, July 3, 2008, Civic Square Stage, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
FREESTYLIE featuring:
LAL - CD Debut Deportation
Jessica Thompson - Freestyle SoundKit
Grace N' Style - Urban Hip Hop Dance

FREE shuttle bus departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto) at 7:00 pm to the Art Gallery of Mississauga, returning by 9:30 pm.

Opening the event the GNS dance crew wil be performing in wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as their bodies move. When the Freestyle SoundKit is engaged, each step the dancer takes a single electronic beat is broadcast.

Toronto collective Lal's sound from the outset was one of contrasts: icy, futuristic rhythms melting into warm basslines and soothing soul melodies, with reverberating atmospherics whirling about the spacious groove. Hints of Rosina's South Asian roots and Murr's hip hop formation season their productions with a taste of tradition, while the overall sound suggests something far more progressive.

The project's creativity extends into a new media show with new media incorporating video images into and interactive stage set-up that pushes the audience to engage of the deep social messages that ripple through every song.

Visit http://www.myspace.com/lalforest

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.

Stars & Robots

Stars...

Karilee Fuglem is interested in non-visible phenomena that occupy what we perceive as “empty” space. For more than a decade, her site specific, semi-visible, ephemeral constructions have included materials such as fine monofilament, sequin discs, timers, lenses, water and wind to alter our consciousness about the spaces we occupy.

Karilee Fuglem; Corona Borealis, nine to five

Curated by Robert Freeman

February 7 - March 16, 2008

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 3 pm

This exhibition is specific to the Art Gallery of Mississauga and is a result of the artist's attempt to relate the Gallery and her work to the night sky... to reference the Gallery space with a universal constant.The artist has mapped out the position of a simple constellation of 6 or 7 stars, Corona Borealis, as it would be seen from the gallery site, from 9-5 on February 29th, 2008.

Through a system of nearly transparent thread lines, Fuglem makes tangible a nearly imperceptible constellation and a leap day, a time frame that is often regarded as some kind of gap in "real life".

Robots...

MONGREL MEDIA

February 7 - March 16, 2008

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 3 pm

This experimental laboratory created in the gallery by Kristen Keller will allow students of Cawthra Park Secondary School to work directly with her constructing robotic structures. These mechanical mongrels are fabricated out of found objects, rescued materials and recycled plastic. Outfitted with drawing utensils motorized to make marks on flat surfaces these robots independently make paintings and drawings of their own.

In collaboration with Cawthra Park Secondary School and InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. The Art Gallery of Mississauga would like to acknowledge the generous support of Deserres, Oakville (formerly known as Loomis Art Store) for their contribution to MONGREL MEDIA.

Viktor Tinkle: Making Things

Viktor Tinkl: Making Things
Curated by Robert Freeman & Linda Jansma
presented in collaboration with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

On view until December 7th
Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive, Ground Floor
Mississauga, ON

tel: 905 896 5506
http://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/

Viktor Tinkl is driven by a compulsion to make things, a compulsion he describes as being brought on by “bugging”. Tinkl’s fantastic assemblages, sculptures and kinetic works, all things he makes from other things, seem to pour from the artist, into his home, studio and property. Bits of wood, ribbon, denture molds, fur and cans are just some of the materials which are detritus to the rest of us but, are compelling to Tinkl. His making is not compelled by the promise of exhibitions, theory and academia. He is familiar with both the former and the latter. Tinkl was a faculty member at the Ontario College of Art, as it was then known, from 1973 to 2000. He is also a graduate of the same institution.

Tinkl was initially unreceptive to this exhibition. It required the persuasion of all parties involved, including Viktor’s wife Judith, for the artist to agree, albeit with reluctance. His reluctance was brought on by his seasoned knowledge of the time commitment required for an exhibition including, discussions with curators and preparation of artworks, activities that take away time from his making.

The multitude of works selected for this exhibition include, two central pieces never seen outside the artist’s property: The Meeting (1999) and Circle (2006). The Meeting incorporates denture moulds into over twenty characters while, Circle includes the heads of skinned foxes among other found objects.

Providing further insight into the practice of Viktor Tinkl is a fifty-five page colour catalogue which accompanies the exhibition with introductions by Robert Freeman and Linda Jansma. Also included are a revealing interview with the artist by Linda Jansma and essay by Duncan Farnan.

“You just make stuff and you make more stuff.
...like a tin can-when you drink enough apple juice and rum mixture you save all the tin cans and you stuff smaller things in them and you have an abundance of these cans. And then one day you take a pair of shears and start cutting into the cans because you need a piece of tin and then you realize that cutting into the can is quite a good experience and the cutting itself is the exciting part.”
-Viktor Tinkl

A public art gallery sponsored by the City of Mississauga, the Ontario Arts Council, The Canada Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Corporations, Private Citizens and its Membership

Get on the Bus

Art Gallery Hop

Join us for tours and refreshments at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery, Living Arts Centre Laidlaw Hall Gallery, Gallery Streetsville, Art Gallery of Peel, Whitney Gallery, and Visual Arts Mississauga.


FREE Visual Art Bus Trip Mississauga and Peel region galleries celebrate the visual artists with the third Art Gallery Hop on Sunday October 21 from 11:00 am - 4:00pm.


A FREE shuttle will take visitors on a regional tour of the visual art centres and spaces.


BUS #1
Leaves at 11:00 am from Peel Heritage Complex, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton, returning at 4:00 pm


BUS #2
Leaves at 11:00 am from Visual Arts Mississauga, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road West Mississauga, returning at 4:00 pm


For more information or to book a seat on the bus please contact Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot at 905-896-5507 or suzanne.carte-blanchenot@mississauga.ca The Art Gallery of Mississauga and Blackwood Gallery would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.


Don't worry, this is neither the actual bus nor the driver

Happy 20th Birthday

In October, the Art Gallery of Mississauga will turn 20 years old! We will be celebrating with two parties. All are welcome to attend!



















A party for the grown-ups!
Thursday, October 4th 7pm - 10pm
Great Hall, Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
Please help us celebrate our 20th birthday at this FREE event!
Enjoy cake, karaoke, badge making and more...
Ask Puffy , the Guidance Clown: An artist's project by Ulysses Castellanos
Ask Puffy, the Guidance Clown is the latest in a series of explorations into what constitutes "Professionalism" and professional/client relations. Ulysses Castellanos, this time, dons the guise of a clown, as he gives free advice to party goers. As well as dispensing free advice, Castellanos gives balloon sculptures and provides a "manicure" service, whereby the artist applies and paints "customized", brightly-colored press-on nails.

Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People
Nine-member band, The Lollipop People, play avant-vaudeville music on instruments from bassoon to banjo. The show has been described as "a twisted carnival sideshow including puppetry, crank calls, costumes and homemade multicoloured stage props" with music that is expertly composed and borrows from a broad range of influences, from klezmer to Captain Beefheart.Friendly Rich is a composer from Brampton, Canada. Mr. Rich has composed background music for MTV's The Tom Green Show. Since 1994, he has recorded exclusively for his own eclectic record label, The Pumpkin Pie Corporation. Friendly Rich is also the founder and director of the Brampton Indie Arts Festival. Friendly always says, “one can either produce, or become produce”.

A party for the whole family!
Sunday, October 28th 1-4pm
Great Hall, Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
Please help us celebrate our 20th birthday at this FREE event!
Enjoy cake, karaoke, badge & party hat making and more...












Happy Birthday Project by Aritist Sandy Plotnikoff
Sandy Plotnikoff brings his hot-foil stamping workstation to our party printing "Happy Birthday" on whatever is offered by the public. He can print on paper, leather, plastic, and wood; the possibilities are pretty endless. Improvisation and creative collaboration are encouraged, and visitors keep the stamped results! Similar to ideas explored in Plotnikoff's postcard multiples (see image above), the artist is interested in testing the universality of a familiar greeting in contrast to unlikely, yet sometimes fitting contexts. Bring your greeting cards, wallet, belt, bag, t-shirt, whatever grabs your imagination to participate/collaborate with Sandy.











iNSiDEaMiND Performance & Turntable Workshop
With the definition of the word "DJ" continually expanding, InsideAmind (Prof. Fingers & Steptone) emerges from Toronto as a two man scratch band, further stretching artistic boundaries by performing live original compositions with vinyl. The "scratch musicians", as they call themselves, bring forth a unique angle to what a pair of DJs/Producers armed with instruments called turntables can create. Prof. Fingers & Steptone also teach through their Off Centre DJ School whose mandate is simple: have fun with records! Following their performance, the duo will teach creative expression through playing with sound.

Endagered species at the Art Gallery of Mississauga

Flora: Fragile Habitats
Julie Aubin & Darlene Benner
September 13 to October 21, 2007

The ambitious undertaking of artists Julie Aubin & Darlene Benner interprets fifty indigenous Canadian vascular plants. Each work is meticulously rendered in clay with surfaces created through a variety of primitive firing methods, glazes and a non silver photographic printing technique.

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

Artists' collectables from the AGM

Art Gallery of Mississauga pinning project sneak preview

The Art Gallery of Mississauga has produced limited edition 1.5 inch pins, designed by four artists. One design will be available FREE at each of the events listed below!


This is a sneak preview only. To see the entire design and get your pin, come out to any of the following events! To collect all four, attend all events.










PRINT E-Z: DIY screen-printing
Demonstrations:
Wednesday August 1, 2007 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Activity Tent, Civic Square
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 will be on display in the gallery space from July 19 – September 9.

AGM Video Programme
Bedroom Community
Tuesday August 14, 2007
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
Video programme curated by Su-Ying Lee, Curatorial/Administrative Assistant, Art Gallery of Mississauga

AGM Video Programme
TBA
Tuesday August 21, 2007
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
Video programme curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Outreach Programmer, Art Gallery of Mississauga

The Best of Film Fort
Tuesday August 28, 2007
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
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 from 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