EXHIBITION AT GALLERY 358
358 Baker Street
Nelson V1L 4H5
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 - Thu, Sep 30, 2010
RICK F. FOULGER is an award winng and internationally renowned Kootenay artist. Now showing Mountain Landscape Watercolour Paintings.
Contact craftconnection@netidea.com
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EXHIBITION IN KASLO & NELSON
423 Front Street PO Box 1388
Kaslo V0G 1M0
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 - Thu, Sep 30, 2010
RICK F. FOULGER'S Mountain Landscape Watercolour Paintings now showing at YOUR ARTS DESIRE GALLERY in Kaslo.
www.foulgerart.com rick.foulgerart@shaw.ca 1-250-352-6164
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Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Festival Tents, Foot of Whyte Avenue, Vanier Park
Vancouver
Thu, Jun 03, 2010 - Sat, Sep 25, 2010
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival runs June 3 to September 25, 2010 in open-ended tents on the waterfront in Vanier Park, against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea & sky.
On the Mainstage MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Dean Paul Gibson plays in repertory with ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA directed by Scott Bellis. In the Studio Stage, Bard will continue with the second year of “The Kings” History Cycle. In a new adaptation by Errol Durbach, Henry IV, Parts I & II will be blended as FALSTAFF, which will be directed by Glynis Leyshon. Falstaff will play in repertory with the third history play, the powerful HENRY V, directed by Meg Roe
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Strange Nature Exhibition
Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate
Richmond V6Y 1R9
Thu, Jun 24, 2010 - Sun, Sep 05, 2010
Humans are natural creatures, yet we set ourselves apart from nature through the cultural systems and objects we’ve created. The artists in Strange Nature work with natural materials to explore the ways we think about, interact with, and alter nature.
Jennifer Angus wants us to think about the essential role played by insects in world ecology, presenting her elaborate wallpaper ensembles and dollhouse worlds populated by insect people.
Vancouver artist, Robin Ripley’s work is composed of gathered, sorted and mended leaves pinned to the wall—acts of conservation and transformation that point to the natural cycles of life, death and rebirth.
Like an interpreter, Mary Anne Barkhouse situates her work between the two worlds of the human and the natural. Using animal forms in conjunction with luxurious materials and settings, her work reflects on our often skewed experience of nature as a resource for our human needs rather than an ecosystem with its own intrinsic value.
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Trail Artwalk 2010
1501 Cedar AveNUE
Trail V0G 1L0
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 - Fri, Sep 03, 2010
Trail Artwalk is back! Look for the Artwalk 2010 sign at 22 businesses in Trail, Warfield, Fruitvale,Montrose and Waneta. Artwork by 28 local artists and artisans will be on display throughout the summer from June 25 to September 3rd. New this sumer are 12 large original paintings by local artists which will be on permanent display on the exterior of the Selkirk College building which houses the VISAC Gallery. You can't miss it!
Artwalk 2010 has something for everyone. Quilts, pottery, paintings ,sculpture, fountains, saw blade art,and handmade books are examples of the variety in this year's artwalk. Bring your friends, family and visitors along to show off our local cultural talent.
The Visac Gallery will display one artwork from each of the exhibiting artists as well as 5 other artist's work, so it is a good place to start your artwalk. Brochures with listings of the artists and venues will be available at VISAC and at each venue.
Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday June 25th from 5 - 8 pm at the VISAC Gallery, 1501 Cedar Ave in Trail. Naturally, refreshmnets will be served. For more information contact the VISAC Gallery at 250-364-1181.
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Bamberton's Mystery History Tours
Bamberton Museum 1451 Trowsse Road
Mill Bay V0R 2P4
Sun, Jul 04, 2010 - Sun, Sep 26, 2010
Bamberton is one of the province’s most important historical industrial sites - but it’s still a mystery to most. Clinging to the steep mountainside between the Malahat Drive and the picturesque waterfront, this once-active cement factory, port and company townsite quietly waits to open it’s gates and reveal it’s past.
Your tour begins at the original site manager’s house which now holds the Historical Society’s museum. As you travel down the old main street of town to the waterfront your guide will stop at several points of interest including the original quarry that extends over 1,000 feet into the mountainside. Visitor will also have an opportunity to watch an entertaining live theatre performance and a specially produced movie called Bamberton Gone But Not Forgotten.
Come and discover Bamberton’s mystery history!
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Exhibition: David Alexander: Moving Targets: In Flux
3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC
Vernon V1T 2H3
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 - Thu, Oct 14, 2010
David Alexander’s exhibition titled Moving Targets in the VPAG will focus on the process of landscape image development and will include four large-scale paintings created in his studio. These paintings will be complemented by a selection of approximately fifty smaller works created directly at several sites in Canada that include the High Arctic, Newfoundland, Canadian Rockies and British Columbia.
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Exhibition: Scott Bertram: Unfixed
3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC
Vernon V1T 2H3
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 - Thu, Oct 14, 2010
This exhibition will feature a body of abstract paintings focused on the possibilities of the transmission of meaning in a non-objective pictorial representation.
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Exhibition: Sookinchoot: "The Seeing of Oneself"
3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC
Vernon V1T 2H3
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 - Thu, Oct 14, 2010
A group exhibition featuring artwork from the Sookinchoot Youth Centre.
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Exhibition: Brian Montieth
3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC
Vernon V1T 2H3
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 - Thu, Oct 14, 2010
A portraiture-based exhibition dedicated to Ross Friesen.
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Summer's End Family Festival
Metro Theatre 1411 Quadra St.
Victoria
Fri, Aug 27, 2010 - Sun, Sep 05, 2010
Story Theatre is thrilled to be presenting both THE MAGICAL SOUP STONE and PINOCCHIO for families during the 2010 Fringe. Performances at 11 and 1:30 daily. Shows are 50 minutes long and include storytelling games. Fun for the ENTIRE FAMILY. For more details call 250-383-4140.
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"Ribbon Show"
3415 Pleasant Valley Road
Armstrong V0E 1B0
Fri, Sep 03, 2010 - Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum and Art Gallery
We encourage all local artists to submit a piece of art for this show. Registration Forms are available for pick-up or to be mailed/emailed. Please drop off your artwork August 31 between 10-3 pm along with your registration. Entry Cost: $5.00 per art piece.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 11 at 11-1 pm
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Exhibition : Karine Guyon
1551 W 7th Avenue
Vancouver V6J1S1
Tue, Sep 07, 2010 - Fri, Oct 15, 2010
Karine Guyon | Exhibition SEPTEMBER 7th to OCTOBER 15th
The work of Karine Guyon is inspired as much by an irrevocable past as by ideologies yet to come. Her work blends innovation and experimentation and invites the process of decomposition to orchestrate the encounter between the medium and colours. By observing the decline of the medium, this silent sigh where forms and consistencies begin to lose their definition, the artist seeks to free herself from the constraints imposed by the structure of the canvas. So it is a liberating work, one that also seeks to mitigate the effects of industrialisation, technology and science on our subconscious minds. The artist aims to surpass the limits set in the individual and collective spirit... Not a small undertaking!
OPENING ON SEPTEMBER 8th| 7pm - 9pm | Wine and cheese will be served
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So Warm SWARM after party and Front Magazine Launch
VIVO Media Arts Centre - 1965 Main Street
Vancouver V5T 3C1
Thu Sep 09, 2010
On Thursday, September 9 from 10pm - 2am, join us for So Warm, the official Thursday night afterparty for Swarm Festival of Artist-run Culture at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street.
Presented by VIVO and Front Magazine, So Warm is a dance party surrounded and permeated by a one-night installation and performance: the Cruz Brothers will attempt to construct a phantasmagorical and remembered space using light, sculpture, video and performance. Music will be provided by DJ’s Natalie Purschwitz, Jesse Birch, and Ian Wyatt. Cover is free, there will be good drinks. Beerbrats will be selling sausages outside.
The Cruz Brothers are Francis Cruz and Patrick Cruz. Their pieces often interrogate positions of hierarchy and cultural displacement through the subversive means of humor. Both are both born and raised in Manila, Philippines – a country that averages 32 degrees Celsius.
Please do stop by. Spread the word. It's free and going to get so warm.
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BLOODSTORM (part of SWARM11)
VIVO Media Arts Centre - 1965 Main Street
Vancouver V5T 3C1
Thu, Sep 09, 2010 - Sat, Oct 09, 2010
In celebration of the 11th Anniversary of SWARM, PAARC’s annual festival of Artist Run Culture, VIVO Media Arts Centre presents a new nine-channel video installation by Vancouver video artist of Chilcotin/French and Shuswap/Welsh ancestry, Terry Haines. BLOODSTORM materialized during a 2009 residency at VIVO where Haines’ has been producing, exhibiting and distributing his videos since 2002.
BLOODSTORM is constructed in homage to the + positive sign, the squares of the AIDS Memorial quilt, the four directions, four winds and four human races.
In Haines’ words BLOODSTORM, “sifts through notions of beauty, strength and hope in a visual metaphor for the force of a storm. It is unpredictable and undeniable, much like HIV/ AIDS. Blood and storm combine to reveal the inner turmoil and fear of living with a disease, which has no cure, in an intimate testament of survival.”
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Women in the Okanagan
103-421 Cawston Ave.
Kelowna V1Y6Z1
Fri, Sep 10, 2010 - Fri, Oct 22, 2010
“History is living and continuous; a place of rest, certainty, reconciliation … a place of tranquilized sleep”
Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
Women In the Okanagan features three local female artists, each reflecting on different historical narratives within the region. Through various approaches, we are asked to consider the way one reconciles historical memory – and the ways in which those memories can inform, enlighten and construct our notions of place and identity. The deconstruction of history and its objectivity has been an on-going project for critical theorist and artists alike since the late 1970s. The Western notion of ‘history’ as a linear, master narrative is played with here, as the different relationships to memory and historicism are “juxtaposed to one another, follow one another, overlap and intersect, without one being able to reduce them to a linear schema” (Foucault 15). In the work of artist Roja Aslani, the historical subject is removed from representation completely, allowing the audience to insert themselves into the historical canon. Similarly, Tracey Bonneau memorializes the pioneering Sylix nation woman writer Mourning Dove, giving prominence to a history and story often silenced within colonial culture. And lastly, Mariel Belanger reflects on the history and role of her mother, reminding us of the power of women and their impact on the construction of both personal and collective identity. Each piece functions outside of the dominant colonial canon by inserting into it’s discourse the women and Sylix histories that have for too long been marginalized. In this revived space, viewers are asked to reconsider their understanding of history as a stable, determined entity and instead reflect on the differing perspectives, people and events that have come to shape history in the Okanagan.
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Beneath the Surface
Presentation House Theatre, 333 Chesterfield Avenue
North Vancouver V7M 3G9
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 - Fri, Sep 17, 2010
An imagi’Nation Production, written and directed by Jennifer Brousseau, co-written with Duane Howard. Partially based on the life events of Chasity Smith who took her own life at age 14, Beneath the Surface educates and informs youth, teachers, and community alike of the realities underlying suicide, the signs in which we can be warned if someone is in danger and ultimately brings heart into the matter.
Starring: Duane Howard, Alana LaMalice, Ashley McAllister, Tashina Lewis, Crystal Asham, Jillian Pasquayak, Chloe Carline Brown, Ashley Crowchief, and Craig Frank Edes.
604-990-3474 www.phtheatre.org
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Discover Dance! Shiamak's Bollywood Jazz
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St
Vancouver V6B 2G6
Thu Sep 16, 2010
The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series leaps into a new season with Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz. India’s top choreographer, Shiamak Davar has revolutionized modern Indian dance through his choreography for Bollywood blockbusters and his international teaching institute. The Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz Team, Vancouver will showcase Davar’s dynamic fusion of Western jazz and hip hop with Indian dance techniques, in a performance bursting with energy and fun.
Tickets 604.684.2787 www.ticketstonight.ca Info www.thedancecentre.ca
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14th ANNUAL PENDER HARBOUR JAZZ FESTIVAL
Pender Harbour
Garden Bay V0N 1S0
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 - Sun, Sep 19, 2010
A smorgasbord of jazz styles and performers, at intimate sea-side venues on the Sunshine Coast. Legends, up and comers, 40's tunes, gypsy stylings, hot Latin beats, fusion, all form a part of the Jazz festival Quilt. 2/3 of the events are free to attend. Craft Faire, Salmon BBQ's, and small town hospitality.
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Artist Talks: David Alexander: Moving Targets: In Flux
3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC
Vernon V1T 2H3
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 - Sat, Sep 18, 2010
This exhibition by BC-based artist, David Alexander will focus on the process of landscape image development and will include four large-scale paintings created in the studio and up to a hundred preliminary works created directly on several sites in Canada.
Two Artist Talk Dates
September 17, 7 pm
September 18, 1 pm
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Gutenberg! the Musical
Presentation House Theatre, 333 Chesterfield Avenue
North Vancouver V7M 3G9
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 - Sat, Oct 09, 2010
No Bells and Whistles presents a Wide Eyed Production in Association with Presentation House Theatre
September 22 – October 9 @ 8pm Tues – Sat and 2pm on Sun
The hit of the 2008 Fringe Festival is back! This award winning musical spoof follows Bud and Doug, two hapless composers who have created the greatest mega-musical of all time, all about the life of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. Through the course of the show the two portray Gutenberg, his love interest (Helvetica), his nemesis (an evil Monk) and over 20 other characters as they pitch their opus to a band of ruthless Broadway producers.
“Gute? It’s gureat!” - Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
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Vancouver Chamber Choir - MUSIC OF THE MASTERS: Great Choral Music
Ryerson United Church
Vancouver
Fri Sep 24, 2010
The Vancouver Chamber Choir’s 40th anniversary season opens with a concert of music from some of the greatest choral masters of all time. From Palestrina, the greatest Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music, one of his most famous pieces - the Mass for Pope Marcellus. We mark the centennial of 20th century American great Samuel Barber with his signature choral work Reincarnations. Then conductor John William Trotter and the Choir are joined by pianist Terence Dawson for Béla Bartók’s poignant Slovak Folk Songs and a set of vivacious Gypsy Songs by Johannes Brahms.
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Single tickets are available as of September 1, 2010 through Ticketmaster (604-280-3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca).
For more information about the choir or for full details on our upcoming 2010-2011 concert season please visit www.vancouverchamberchoir.com or contact info@vancouverchamberchoir.com!
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Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St
Vancouver V6B 2G6
Sat Sep 25, 2010
From tap, contemporary and bellydance to flamenco, salsa and classical East Indian dance, the annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House offers the chance to sample a host of dance styles in a day of open classes, studio showings and events. Free admission: for full details visit www.thedancecentre.ca.
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