Pretty in Pink: Fine Wine, Fine Desserts, Fine Art
Who doesn’t love fine wine, delicious desserts, and great artwork? Take a night out with friends and come by the C3 Centre for a wonderfully informative presentation on wine pairing. Share your love of wine with Volunteer Ottawa’s family and friends.
This year, there are two wine tasting presentation times to choose from (both presentations will pair the same wines/desserts):
We are excited to celebrate great local wine, food and art with the Ottawa community.
Location: 1155 Lola St, Ste 201, C3 Centre, Ottawa, ON K1K 4C1
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time: First Tasting - 6:00-7:15pm and Second Tasting – 7:30-8:45pm
Cost: $25.00
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Nuit Blanche Ottawa appoints curator, makes big steps towards Sept. 22 debut
Peter Simpson, The Ottawa Citizen
Don’t expect Nuit Blanche Ottawa to be Nuit Blanche Toronto, says the newly appointed curator of the annual, one-night festival of contemporary art, to be held in the capital for the first time later this year.
“As a curator I’m not really interested in doing these sensational projects that cost a lot of money, that are really more show than content,” says Stefan St-Laurent, who has been appointed curator of Nuit Blanche Ottawa 2012, to be held Sept. 22.
Nuit Blanche events in other cities, especially Toronto, are perhaps best known for large, richly funded works of art that make use of, for example, the CN Tower, or the space between the twin towers of Toronto’s city hall. The installations are usually commissioned with the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to the festival each year by the City of Toronto or the event’s major sponsor, Scotiabank.
“There will be some works that utilize spectacle as part of its message,” says St-Laurent, who left his job as curator of SAW Gallery last year to focus on freelance curating and creating his own art, “but in general I don’t think it’s very healthy for people to have that expectation of art, that it has to be spectacular, sensational, big, bright, expensive. I think it gives a very skewed view of what the visual arts are like today.”
Gallery’s Pop Life exceeds expectations
Peter Kovessy, Ottawa Business Journal
Rabbit, by Jeff Koons (Image courtesy the National Gallery of Canada)
While that’s on par with other temporary exhibitions, Gallery officials say they only forecasted 45,000 visitors, adding the strong turnout is “encouraging.”
The exhibit was “front and centre” in tourism marketing materials this summer, says Jantine Van Kregten, director of communications at Ottawa Tourism.
The gallery also sponsored the Bluesfest stage in the ByWard Market, a partnership Mr. Shaughnessy calls “unprecedented.”
Ms. Van Kregten says she hopes the Pop Life exhibit raises the profile of the Gallery’s diverse offerings, as well as the abundance of smaller galleries and studios throughout the city.
Plase read the full story on the OBJ website: Gallery’s Pop Life exceeds expectations
6 local artists create 50 paintings in 7 days during Tulip Festival to sell for charity THIS SATURDAY
The Downtown Rideau Business Improvement Area (DRBIA) is pleased to announce that 6 local artists participating in the 1st annual PLEIN AIR Art Exhibit & Sale have created 50 original works of art while painting outdoors at various locations in Downtown Rideau during weekends of the Tulip Festival. They will be out again this Friday between 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., which is their last day of painting before the Exhibit & Sale on Saturday.
The PLEIN AIR connects artists with new audiences by providing them access and approval to high pedestrian areas and landmark views to create works from sidewalk, boulevard and parkland spaces and promote them under Downtown Rideau’s “marketing umbrella”. In addition to connecting and promoting artists, the PLEIN AIR offers artists an opportunity to create, compete, exhibit and sell, while also raising funds for charity.
The artists are donating 15% from the sale of each of their works to the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation. The Foundation is a charity organization based out of Arts Court that manages, programs, and provides arts services to Ottawa’s local emerging and professional artists.
The public and Tulip Festival visitors can VIEW AND PURCHASE THE ARTWORK at a Meet the Artists Reception during the Exhibit & Sale this Saturday, May 22 from 12:00—5:00 p.m. at The Underpass, at the corner of Rideau Street and Colonel By Drive. Works range in sizes varying from 3”x5” to 20”x26” and prices from $30 to $650. They can be viewed on the BIA’s website and from a link off the homepage www.downtownrideau.com. The Brian Downey Jazz Quartet will be performing and refreshments will be available. Over $2,000 in prize money will be awarded during a COMPETITION before the works go on sale at noon. 1st Place ($1,000) and 2nd Place ($750) will be selected by jury, with 3rd Place ($300—the People’s Choice Award) chosen by public vote between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Public vote ballots will be drawn at noon for a chance to WIN a Downtown Rideau gift basket valued at over $400.
Participating artists include: Barbara Nathan Marcus, Brian Seed, Shirley Moulton, Johanne Jutras-Pendleton, John Alexander Day and Brenda Beattie. “This has been a wonderful experience”, says artist Barbara Nathan Marcus, who had people wanting to buy her works-in-progress. “People stopping to watch me paint wanted to buy, but I told them to come back on Saturday, May 22 when they would be for sale”. When Peggy DuCharme, the BIA’s Executive Director heard about the interest to buy works, she encouraged the artists to pursue commissioned works when people inquired about buying — “offer to make them another one”, DuCharme suggested. “We don’t want the artists to loose a sale. On the other hand, we want to ensure we have artwork to sell on the 22nd”.
Manitoba artists to be seen in Ottawa with Prairie Scene
Mia Hudson
Winnipeg Free Press
OTTAWA — When Mother Courage and Her Children opens tonight at the Manitoba Theatre Centre it will bring a piece of the National Arts Centre to Winnipeg.
Next year, the National Arts Centre will bring pieces of Manitoba’s arts scene to Ottawa.
From April 26 to May 7, 2011, the NAC will stage Prairie Scene, a festival of more than 500 artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan across every medium, from dancers and painters to musicians and writers.
It’s meant to keep the ‘national’ in the National Arts Centre.
“The NAC doesn’t want to be known just as great big building on the side of the Rideau Canal,” said Rosemary Thompson, NAC’s director of communications.
The National Arts Centre was created in 1966 to mark Canada’s 100th birthday. Its mandate is to develop performing arts in both the capital region and across the country.
Mother Courage is a co-production between the NAC and MTC, and is the second play this year performed by the newly revived NAC English Theatre Company.
Prairie Scene is the fifth in a series of scene festivals planned by the NAC on two-year intervals. The most recent version was B.C. Scene, held in the spring of 2009. It saw 600 artists from British Columbia visit Ottawa for 90 different events over 13 days. The Atlantic region, Alberta, and Quebec have also had their scenes in the sun, while Ontario and the Arctic are still to come.
Thompson, who joined the NAC recently after more than a decade as a CTV national reporter, said one of the things that drew her to the job was the opportunity to participate in events like Prairie Scene.
“Part of the fun of working here is it does have a national reach,” she said.
Thompson, who got her start in journalism as a cub reporter with CBC television in Winnipeg, even thinks her prairie connections may have helped her land the job.
“(The scenes) really are a chance to get to know the country through its artists,” said Heather Moore, executive director of Prairie Scene.
No artists have yet been confirmed. Moore said about one third of the programming will be decided by next fall.
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Kevin Jerome Everson – Free Films and Live Appearance @ Club SAW
The AVAILABLE LIGHT SCREENING COLLECTIVE and SAW VIDEO present KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
OTTAWA PREMIERE
OTTAWA – February 8, 2010 – With the Embassy of the United States of America and Black History Month Ottawa, the Available Light Screening Collective and SAW Video present Virginia‐based filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson for an evening of his films and an afternoon artist talk. This is Everson’s first visit to Ottawa. He is currently at the 2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
On Friday, February 19th, Available Light presents a programme by DIM Cinema of Everson’s work. Following the screening will be a Q&A session and a public reception presented by the Embassy of the United States of America.
On Saturday, February 20th, SAW Video presents an artist talk by Kevin James Everson entitled “Materials, process, procedure and subject”. Everson will present excerpts from relevant short films and features and photographic images and discuss his longtime dedication to the primacy of the subject, culled from early training in ’70s sculptural art discipline and practice.
Instead of standard realism I favor a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re‐edited or re‐staged, real people perform fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives. The films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life—along with its beauty—but also present oblique metaphors for art‐making. ‐ Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson’s prolific body of film work engages with, and responds to, the history and culture of working-class Black Americans and people of African descent. His short gestural films challenge simplistic expectations of ethnographic documentary, poetic narrative, or theatrical drama. He stitches archival footage, scripted sequences, verité documents, and abstract aural and visual minutiae into textured portraits of people, places, economics, and ephemera.
The films of KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
Friday, February 19, 7:30pm
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, ON
Free admission
An artist talk with KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
Saturday, February 20th, 2pm‐4pm
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, ON
Free admission
Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965) is a filmmaker, originally from Mansfield, Ohio, now living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Everson’s three feature films and over 50 short films and videos have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Redcat in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and many other venues worldwide. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, and an American Academy Rome Prize.
For further information about Kevin Jerome Everson: http://people.virginia.edu/~ke5d.
DIM Cinema is a monthly evening of contemporary short-form moving images and cinematic collaborations. DIM is focused on expanding the visibility of Canadian and international experimental artists and their practices in the cinema; and seeks to illuminate underground moving image culture in Vancouver, BC.
DIM is programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk through the Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique.
Available Light Screening Collective is an Ottawa, Ontario‐based artists’ collective committed to the curated exhibition of experimental film and video art for local audiences. Support for Available Light’s activities is received from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa.
SAW Video is an artist‐run‐centre committed to support ground breaking artistic production, presentation and programming of independent video and media art. SAW Video provides many services to its membership including affordable technical facilities, and a wide range of programmes designed to create an atmosphere that will inspire production through the exchange of ideas around form, content and style. Support for the centre is received from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa.
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For more information :
Christopher Rohde
Available Light Screening Collective
availablelightcollective@gmail.com
Denise MacDonald
SAW Video
denise@sawvideo.com / 613:238:7648
Tim Hortons is the new title sponsor of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival
OTTAWA, February 2, 2010 – Ottawa area Tim Hortons Store Owners have signed on as the new title sponsor of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival (ODBF), the largest Dragon Boat Festival in North America. This year’s Festival takes place at Mooney’s Bay, June 18 – 20, 2010.
“We are incredibly excited to be the title sponsor of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival,” said Jennifer and David McBride, Tim Hortons Store Owners in Ottawa. “For the past three years we have partnered with the festival as a sponsor of both the children’s and team areas. We enjoy being a part of this extraordinary community event and feel the festival is a great fit with Tim Hortons.”
“It is a real honour to have Tim Hortons as our new title sponsor,” says John Brooman, Executive Director, ODBF. “Tim Hortons and the ODBF will be great partners as we have the shared community vision of putting on a family friendly festival that is free of charge to the Ottawa community. We are very excited to rename the festival the Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival.” The 17th annual Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival will take place on Mooney’s Bay on the weekend of June 18-20, 2010. 190 teams, 5,000 paddlers, and upwards of 70,000 attendees will enjoy a weekend of racing, entertainment and free family activities.
About Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival
The Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is the largest Dragon Boat Festival in North America. It features both competitive and recreational racing, musical entertainment and a variety of vendors and family oriented activities. The Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival began in 1993 with assistance from the Hong Kong Canada Business Association and had 25 participating teams over a half-day event. Since then it has grown to a three-day sell-out with 190 teams and 5,000 paddlers, 70,000 spectators, a host of entertainers, exhibitors/vendors and a comprehensive silent auction tent. For more information visit www.dragonboat.net.
About Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons is the fourth largest publicly-traded quick service restaurant chain in North America based on market capitalization, and the largest in Canada. Tim Hortons appeals to a broad range of consumer tastes, with a menu that includes premium coffee, flavored cappuccinos, specialty teas, home-style soups, fresh sandwiches, donuts and fresh baked goods. As of June 28th, 2009, Tim Hortons had 3,475 system-wide restaurants, including 2,939 in Canada and 536 in the United States. More information about the Company is available at www.timhortons.com.
Contacts:
John Brooman
Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival Executive Director
613.238.7711 ext.225
jbrooman@dragonboat.net
Nadia MacDonald
Tim Hortons
Regional Marketing Manager of Eastern Ontario
613.435.3667
macdonald_nadia@timhortons.com
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Janina Fialkowska, Martin Beaver headline Julian Armour’s new concert series
By smazey, Classical Ottawa
Ottawa cellist Julian Armour is firming up the plans for his new music festival in July, but in the meantime, he’s announced a 10-concert series with the Chamber Players of Canada that will start with a Christmas concert Dec. 21 and will include a Chopin recital by pianist Janina Fialkowska in the spring that no piano buff will want to miss. Armour, founder and former director of the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, plans to announce in the next month or two details of a new festival he’s calling “Music and Beyond,” to run in city venues July 5 to 14. Armour, who stepped down from the Chamber Music Society in early 2007 over differences with the organization’s board, revealed this fall his intentions to start the new music festival next summer. He doesn’t want to discuss details until the official announcement, but said the festival will include concerts linking classical music to other art forms.
To read the full article: Janina Fialkowska, Martin Beaver headline Julian Armour’s new concert series
Television Animation Conference Lines Up Talent
Kristin Brzoznowski, Worldscreen.com
David Silverman, best known for directing numerous episodes of The Simpsons as well as The Simpsons Movie, and Josh Selig, the founder and president of Little Airplane Productions, will headline this year’s Television Animation Conference, taking place October 14 and 15 at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa.
Full article: Television Animation Conference Lines Up Talent
Portraits of Bluesfest Silent Auction: A Community Benefit for Blues In The Schools
ONE NIGHT ONLY! FRIDAY AUGUST 28TH, 2009 7:30PM – 10:30PM
ARTGUISE GALLERY: 590 BANK ST. OTTAWA ONTARIO CANADAPREVIEW
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH, NOON – 6:00PM and FRIDAY, AUGUST 28TH, NOON – 3:00PM
Artguise Gallery is pleased to be hosting “Portraits of Bluesfest”, a one night silent auction benefiting the “Blues In The Schools” program.
The event; curated by Peter Simpson, The Ottawa Citizen’s Arts and entertainment Editor-at-Large, features original pieces executed and donated by thirteen regional artists :
Jennifer Campbell, Carrie Colton, Heidi Conrod, Philip Craig, Shannon Craig, Andrew Farrell, Tony Fouhse, Darren Holmes, Jim Kohan, Brandon McVittie, Weldon Poapst , Amy Thompson and Jason Vaughan.
All of the pieces being exhibited are derived and inspired by the artist’s individual experiences at the 2009 Ottawa Bluesfest. The format for the evening will be a silent auction. The pieces in the exhibition will be bid upon between 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Vying parties interested in bidding on the works will pay five dollars upon entering the exhibition space. The bidder is then given a number enabling discreet / silent bids to be placed on each painting in increments of twenty dollars. The purchased pieces shall be available to the winning bidders to take away the night of the show.
All payments for the purchased artwork should be made payable by cheque to : Blues in the Schools. Please join us Friday night as this evening promises to be an exciting, talent rich affair benefiting a worthwhile community cause in our fair city. All are welcome!
For more information please contact Brandon McVittie or Jason Vaughan at 613 238 3803 or info@artguise.ca
