Christine Welsh: Coast Salish Knitters

Gallery 1C03 and aceartinc. present a public film screening:

The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

Directed by Christine Welsh 

Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.

Ace Art, 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Avenue

Free Admission – Open to all!

Please stay after the film for some refreshments and discussion!

The film draws attention to the creators of much-loved and much-replicated Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. Combining rare archival footage with the voices of three generations of woolworkers, the film tells the tale of unsung heroines, resourceful women who knit to put food on the table and keep their families alive.

Christine Welsh is a Métis filmmaker, feminist and academic. She has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. Welsh's film credits include the 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary Finding Dawn, about murdered and missing Canadian Aboriginal women. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in Indigenous Women’s Studies.

The Ephemerals: Trending

September 6 – December 3

Gallery 1C03, The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave.

Performative embedment (across campus): September 6 - 9 

Installation (Anthropology Museum, 4th floor, Centennial Hall): Sept. 6 - Dec. 3

Reception (Gallery 1C03): September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 

Artists' roundtable discussion: September 30, 12:30 - 1:30 

In social networking sites, ‘trending’ demarcates an increase in the popularity of a topic among a large group. In the wider world, a fashion trend indicates an upward shift of interest in a particular style. 

Trending is a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. The Ephemerals will interrogate the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing among post-secondary students. Images from performances will be uploaded to Gallery 1C03’s website. 

Jaimie Isaac is an artist, curator and writer. Isaac holds a BA in History of Art from The University of Winnipeg. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Creative and Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan. 

Niki Little is interested in artistic and curatorial strategies that explore the reasoning of identity, culture and social exchanges. Little has studied at The University of Manitoba, the National Screen Institute and the Camberwell College of Art in London, UK. 

Jenny Western is a curator, writer and educator who holds an undergraduate degree in History from The University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Practice from York University in Toronto. One of Western’s recent projects includes 

co-curating Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a multi-venue group exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from around the globe. 

Michael Robinson: Language Formed In Light

Tuesday, July 12 · 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Screening at 7:30

The Black Lodge - 3rd Floor Artspace, 100 Arthur St.

Please join us for Language Formed in Light, guest-curated by Clint Enns. 

All screenings are free and open to the public.

*WITH MICHAEL ROBINSON*

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is excited to announce a new screening series to be presented over four months. 

Language Formed in Light is comprised of experimental films and video art by recognized artists from Canada and the United States. 

The third screening in this series will be the work of Michael Robinson. 

Selections of Robinson’s films will include You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, which was awarded Best International Film at the 2006 Images Festival, as well as And We All Shine On, 
Light is Waiting, and Victory Over The Sun. 

SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL

May 9 to 13, 2011

Great Hall, Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.

All events are free and open to the public

MAY 9 7:00 pm

Charlene Diehl, Ian Ross, and Deborah Schnitzer

Charlene Diehl –  edits dig! Magazine and has recently published the memoir Out of Grief, Singing. 

Ian Ross – is well-known for his work on CBC Radio, including his famous “Joe from Winnipeg”, which became The Book of Joe and Joe from Winnipeg. Ross’s play FareWel won the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Drama, making Ross the first Métis to win that award. 

Deborah Schnitzer – Activist, provocateur, performer, and award-winning English professor at the University of Winnipeg. Her 2010 novel An Unexpected Break in the Weather won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the Manitoba Book Awards.

MAY 10 7:00 pm

Di Brandt, Diane Driedger, Joanne Epp, and Sarah Klassen

read from Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by the Martyrs Mirror.

MAY 11 7:00 pm

Marina Endicott, Christina Penner, and Lloyd Ratzlaff

Marina Endicott – is the author of Good to a Fault, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and Caribbean) and finalist for the Giller Prize.

Christina Penner – published her first novel, Widows of Hamilton House in 2008. She is working on a second novel about a hospital architect who is compelled to build a secret room.

Lloyd Ratzlaff – In addition to writing in many different fields, Lloyd has been a teacher, minister, and counselor. His column in the Prairie Messenger Catholic Journal has been ongoing since 1999.

MAY 13 7:30 pm

Keynote Speaker Warren Cariou: “Life into Stories and Stories into Life”

His books have won numerous awards, including the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction and the Drainie-Taylor Prize for biography. Cariou is a Canada Research Chair in Narrative, Community, and Indigenous Cultures at the University of Manitoba, where he also directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. 

Portfolio Showcase, Vol. 5

From the series INSIDE THE BOX © Sophie Jacobson     

Entries due May 3 

Notice of acceptance June 10 

Online Exhibition  July 1 - November 30  

Book release & reception in November    

There is no theme for this exhibition.  

The images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work.  

Fifteen photographers will be chosen to display their twelve-image portfolios in the Center's Portfolio ShowCase Volume 5 book and online exhibition.   

JUROR CHRIS PICHLER is the founder and publisher of Nazraeli Press.  

Based in Portland, Oregon, Nazraeli Press publishes books specializing in contemporary photography.  

SENSORIA

Gearshifting Performance Works presents SENSORIA for one night only at The Gas Station Theatre on Thursday April 21, from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm.

Works by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie include: 

A Glimpse into Sensory Life, Infinite World 

Gloria’s Sensoria

Hybrid Human

Tickets $15 students and seniors / $20 regular 

An exciting program of edgy dance showcasing athletic and visceral movement danced by beautifully trained dancers on themes relevant to today’s society. 

Dancers include: Jolene Bailie, Branwyn Bundon, Claire Marshall, Tiffany Thomas, Christie Peters and Krista Nicholson 

Collaborators include: Wanda Koop (Visual Artist) Hugh Conacher (Lighting and Media Design), Susan Chafe (Sound), Anne Armit (Costumes) and Jolene Bailie (Choreography). 

"A Glimpse into Sensory Life, Infinite World", based on Jolene Bailie’s full-length, ten year anniversary work, "Sensory Life, Infinite World", is a short ensemble arrangement inspired by the seemingly limitless possibilities and co-operative relationships within underwater animal and plant life.

The new solo work in progress, "Gloria’s Sensoria", is a theatrical work using text and movement, performed by Jolene Bailie. It stems from Bailie’s belief that one can never really comprehend the depth of their surroundings. 

"Hybrid Human" is based on sketches by Wanda Koop. It explores the constructed notion of robots and ideas around the disembodied experience, consciousness, creativity, alien intelligence, and artificial life. This will also be presented by The National Arts Centre in Ottawa on April 27 as part of Prairie Scene. 

Gearshifting Performance Works sincerely thanks The Canada Council for the Arts, The Manitoba Arts Council and The Winnipeg Arts Council for their generous support.

Destroyer at the WECC

The West End Cultural Centre presents: 

Destroyer 

w/ guests War on Drugs 

Wednesday, April 13   

Dan Bejar started Destroyer in the early to mid-nineties. In 1996, he released We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge. Soon Bejar was compelled to head into a proper studio to record City of Daughters in 1998.   

It was with Daughters that Bejar began to develop his own unique lyrical voice that continued to refine itself over the course of his next two records, Thief and Streethawk: A Seduction, which became one of the most acclaimed recordings of 2001. 

Destroyer's Rubies firmly established Destroyer as a critical and commercial success. On its March 2006 cover, The Fader proclaimed him "Rock's Exiled King."   

Trouble in Dreams continued Dan Bejar's lyrical and musical assault on all that is stagnant in modern, popular music.    

With Kaputt Dan Bejar unveils the latest chapter in the ever-evolving musical adventure that is Destroyer. The song "Bay of Pigs" inspired Pitchfork to declare Bejar "a songwriter of the highest order."    

Doors 7:15 pm | Show 8:00 pm 

Tickets: $15 Advance | $18 Door 

Available at the West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, 

Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store and Music trader

World Premiere: Cantus Borealis

The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Prairie Fire Press invite you to attend the World Premiere of Cantus Borealis: Song of the Forest on Wednesday, April 13, at Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Avenue, from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. 

The MCO/Prairie Fire team, led by project coordinator Janine Tschuncky, went deep into the Boreal forest of Manitoba, searching for its collective muse. 

The result is Cantus Borealis: Song of the Forest, a collaboration, with music by composer Sid Robinovitch, words by Katherine Bitney, sound art by Ken Gregory and photography by Mandy Malazdrewich. 

Guest conductor Scott Yoo 

The Winnipeg Soloists Choir, directed by Elroy Friesen

Tickets are available at McNally Robinson Booksellers, the West End Cultural Centre, Organic Planet or online at the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

With gratitude to the many communities and individuals whose stories are a part of this collaboration, and to our sponsors: Canon Canada Inc., the Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba, the Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism, the Winnipeg Arts Council New Creations Fund, and The Winnipeg Foundation.

Knitting in the Round

If you are interested in knitting anything tubular and seamless, this workshop is for you.   Jenny Bisch will demystify the skill of knitting in the round, using both connected and double-pointed needles, and will provide advice for tackling the challenges of knitting in the round.   

You'll be on your way to fabulous hats and socks in no time!    

Jenny Bisch has been knitting for almost four years.  When she is not knitting, she works as the Chief Program Officer and Curator at the Dalnavert Museum.  

Wednesday, April 13, 6:30 to 9:30 pm 

Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library 

1B-183 Kennedy St. (between St. Mary & York)  

$40 plus $10 kit fee   

Contact: Andrea Reichert, Curator 

(204) 487-6117 

mcml1@mts.net   

The Center for Fine Art Photography

Call for Entries || Black and White 

Portfolio Showcase 5 - June 17 to July 23

   

Entries due April 5

Notice of acceptance April 15

Artists' Reception July 1, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm  

All black and white photography is welcome. 

This includes alternative, traditional, digital, as well as toned black and white images. 

All subjects are eligible.  

Juror Catherine Edelman is the founder of Catherine Edelman Gallery which opened in 1987 and established itself as a leading gallery devoted exclusively to photography, exhibiting prominent contemporary photographers alongside new talent, showcasing a broad range of subject matter and photographic techniques.

Bolero Dance Theatre: MATADOR

Bolero Dance Theatre brings the art of bullfighting to Winnipeg!   

Come to the premiere of MATADOR, an original flamenco ballet at the 

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher.  

8:00 pm Saturday, March 26 

2:00 pm Sunday, March 27   

Tickets are $22 for adults l $18 for students/seniors 

Online at Bolero Dance Theatre      

or in person at McNally Robinson Booksellers   

Against a backdrop of traditional Spanish and flamenco music, the company brings the passion of the bullfight to life. Guest dancer Beny Pupo from Cuba will draw on his classical ballet training to portray the bull, contrasting with the flamenco footwork and deft cape manipulations of Puerto Rican-born Pedro Aurelio as the matador.  

The production includes a company of ten dancers and live musical accompaniment featuring flamenco guitar with vocals, and piano.   

Based on the novel Blood and Sand by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, they will tell the story of a famous matador torn between his childhood love and an aristocratic seductress. His divided loyalties undermine his prowess in the arena, with tragic results.  The novel has formed the basis for numerous movie versions featuring Rudolph Valentino, Rita Hayworth, and Sharon Stone. 

  

Bolero Dance Theatre was founded in 1997 by Artistic Director Pedro Aurelio. It is the only dance company in Canada which uses the Spanish dance form to tell a dramatic story.

Dylan Miner & Kristin Nelson

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Main Gallery: PROVISIONAL

Dylan Miner

March 25 – April 23

Reception: Friday, March 25, from 8:00 to 11:00 pm

With a nod to Louis Riel and the Métis provisional government that he helped establish in 1869-1870, artist Dylan Miner uses ‘provisional’ as the starting point from which to interrogate the transitory nature of politics, knowledge, borders, people, identity, history, sports, masculinity, and gender.

Borrowing from a multiplicity of sources, Miner’s artwork considers momentary lapses that could potentially change at any minute.  “Provisional” looks backward to move forward in a pre-figurative and unending movement into the future.  -- Curator, Jenny Western

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My Life With Pamela Anderson and Other Work 

Kristin Nelson

to April 9

Kristin Nelson is an inter-media artist whose works focus on urban renewal, gender performance and identity. Kristin’s eclectic output includes printmaking, textiles, painting and digital media. 

(204) 942-2674

program@urbanshaman.org

Gallery 1C03: Robert Kelly

Gallery 1C03 presents

Robert Kelly's Minutia

March 3 to April 2

Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 pm

Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Admission to Gallery, reception artist’s lecture and artist’s talk are free and open to all. Pre-registration is required for The Writers’ Collective workshop and registration fees apply. 

Calgary-based artist Robert Kelly’s love of language led him to create this conceptual installation consisting of eleven distinct books of concrete poetry displayed on lecterns. A piece whose initial imposing appearance belies the artist’s often playful manipulation of text, the bookworks are based on the eleven words from the sentence fragment “the first time I heard the sound of a page turning.” Kelly’s point is to consider how awareness of minutiae is fundamental to meaningfulness. 

A special interactive component of the installation is an invitation for gallery visitors to respond to the texts in Minutia using graphite supplied by Gallery 1C03 to write or sketch their thoughts directly on the gallery walls. 

Robert Kelly works in Calgary as a conceptual artist and educator. He practices in painting, printmaking, installation and performance. Kelly’s themes are as diverse as his media.

White Noise is focused on the threshold between passive tolerance and action, while Concept of Raven uses the raven to explore spiritual, cultural and ecological perspectives. 

Kelly teaches creativity theory and practice, studio art and design and curriculum theory and design for the faculties of Art and Education at the University of Calgary. 

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.