Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival (2011 dates TBA)
| June 18, 2011 | to | June 19, 2011 |
The Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival welcomes everyone to join in the celebration of our rich and diverse aboriginal cultures from across Canada, in honour of National Aboriginal Day. On Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, 2010, Victoria Island, downtown Ottawa (just across from the War Museum), offers a two-day FREE family event with lively children and family entertainment, Aboriginal artists, cultural performances and workshops, along with a mainstage concert series. Throughout the day, families will enjoy free pony rides, petting zoo, circus workshops and children’s craft stations. All of our guests enjoy an opportunity to witness Aboriginal artists at work and participate in some of our ongoing Aboriginal arts workshops where you create your own unique piece or collaborate on a community artwork. The mainstage is lively all day with the “Aboriginal Canada, We Got Talent” contest, which draws incredible singers, dancers and other great talent from across Canada. As night falls, the mainstage lights up with some of Canada’s most recognized musical talent, with past headliners like Susan Aglukark and Eagle and Hawk. It is an event not to be missed, with something for the whole family and everything is FREE – admission and activities. Look for more program details on our website.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.722.0315
General information email: nadottawa@gmail.com
Locations:
June 19th and June 20th – Victoria Island, 100 Middle Street, Ottawa
June 21 – Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 Laurier St., Gatineau, QC
On the Web:
Website: www.nadottawa.ca
Map:
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Magnetic North Theatre Festival (2011 dates TBA)
| June 8, 2011 | to | June 19, 2011 |
The Magnetic North Theatre Festival is your chance to see fantastic productions from all across Canada, meet national and international presenters, and mingle with great Canadian artists. We bring some of the most exciting productions of English theatre on tour in Canada to your front door! Magnetic North is coming to Kitchener-Waterloo June 9-19, 2010! Check out the website for more Festival information.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.947.7000 ext 719 / 1.866.850.2787 ext 719
General information email: info@magneticnorthfestival.ca.
Location: National Arts Centre
On the Web:
Website: www.magneticnorthfestival.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MNTF
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”.
New direction for Ottawa Folk Festival
TRACEY TONG, METRO OTTAWA
Arrested Development, Calexico, and the Jim Cuddy Band are just a few of the acts headlining at the 17th annual Ottawa Folk Festival this summer.
To be held at Britannia Park from Aug. 13-15, the festival has gone in a new direction with groups like Arrested Development, festival director Dylan Griffith said yesterday.
Read more: New direction for Ottawa Folk Festival
Report shows statistics of Ottawa’s artists
EMC Entertainment
More than one-third of Canada’s artists live in five of the largest cities, according to a report released today.
“It is critical that we create an environment here in Ottawa that keeps artists in the nation’s capital,” said Mayor Larry O’Brien. “We know that artists not only contribute to our quality of life, but also to the social and economic vitality of our city.”
“This report is invaluable as a benchmark for tracking the creative capacity of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods,” added Coun. Diane Deans, chair of the community and protective services committee. “We must work to ensure that Ottawa provides competitive per-capita support for arts and festivals as well as access to affordable studio space, inexpensive housing, galleries, rehearsal and performance spaces.
Full story available on the EMC website: Report shows statistics of Ottawa’s artists
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.
To read the full article, click here.
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
Magnetic North Compass Points seeks National Planning Committee
Compass Points is putting a call out to all conservatory, college, and university-level theatre students and recently graduated emerging artists. We are currently developing a National Planning Committee to help guide the 2010 edition of Compass Points Student & Emerging Artist Symposium. We are looking for dynamic students and emerging artists looking to share their ideas on current issues of concern to young artists seeking to navigate the gap between student life and professional practice. We are currently looking for one representative from each province and territory or region.
Held during the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, the Compass Points Symposium is a gathering of students and emerging artists from across the country which helps navigate the Festival and offers a firsthand introduction to the professional theatre industry. Organized by students and emerging artists from across the nation, Compass Points is a week-long event consisting of workshops, panel discussions, and social events which inspire participants to chart their own course in Canadian Theatre. We welcome students and artists from all theatre disciplines including but not limited to acting, directing, playwriting, design, technical production, and arts management.
For more information on how to join, please contact Liz Truchanowicz at compasspoints@magneticnorthfestival.ca.
To read the full article, visit Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Conference
| October 14, 2010 | to | October 17, 2010 |
Now in its 23rd year, the OCFF conference is the key event for Ontario’s Folk, Roots, and Traditional music community. Spanning four days and three nights, it’s a long weekend programmed to the hilt with provocative speakers, educational seminars, engaging roundtable discussions, informal meetings, performer showcases, and the best jam sessions outside of the festival circuit, all combining to make the OCFF conference an essential and inspiring experience for more than 700 attendees (including artistic directors, presenters, and provincial, national, and international industry organizations).
Event Highlights:
- Conference
- Panel discussions
- Gala dinner
- Showcases
- Silent auction
- Exhibit hall
- Annual General Meeting
- Mentoring sessions
- Workshops
- Networking
Festival Information:
General information: 613.560.5997 / 1.866.292.6233
General information email: info@ocff.ca
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 101 Lyon Street, Ottawa, ON
On the Web: www.ocff.ca
Map:
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Ottawa International Animation Festival
| October 20, 2010 | to | October 24, 2010 |
The Ottawa International Animation Festival is the largest festival of its kind in North America and one of the most respected animation festivals in the world. We are a competitive film festival, featuring cutting edge programming, catering to industry executives, trend setting artists, students, and animation fans. Events at the OIAF include screening, panels and workshops. All events are open to the public.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.232.8769
General information email: info@animationfestival.ca
Location: Various locations throughout the city, including the Museum of Civilization, National Gallery, Arts Court – Club SAW, etc.
On the Web:
Website: www.animationfestival.ca
Map:
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