Slim Cessna's Auto Club w/ The Vibrating Beds

The West End Cultural Centre presents:

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club w/ The Vibrating Beds

Sunday July 29

Doors 7:15 pm | Show 8:00 pm

Tickets: $15 advance | $20 door

Tickets available at the West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, Music Trader, 

and Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store

Alternative Tentacles recording artists Slim Cessna’s Auto Club are on tour to promote their 2011 release Unentitled. 

Jello Biafra (former Dead Kennedys frontman) describes SCAC as the country band that would be playing the bar at the end of the world. 

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club have been described as engaging, riveting, sad and humorous; and has been branded with every musical description possible. 

After a decade of working and living as SCAC, they have created their own genre.

The songs are thoughtfully crafted with unique arrangements, executed by superb musicianship, then fully realized through intelligent lyrics. With two of the most charismatic front men around and four accomplished musicians (Wovenhand, Delta 72, 16Horsepower), SCAC is the past, present and future of American music.

Haunting and sometimes unsettling, their music takes the best of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and the high theatre to arrive at a sound that strikes at the heart of the listener. Philadelphia Weekly

Jim Agapito: engaging WITH ART

June 4, 5:30 pm

Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street

Free admission

Join us for the premiere screening of 

a new documentary film 

engaging WITH ART

Directed by Jim Agapito

A look at the impact of diverse collaborations between artists and community in Winnipeg 

achieved through the WITH ART program.

The screening of the 22-minute film will be followed by a reception in the Artspace lobby.

Produced by the Winnipeg Arts Council.

WAC: Annual Holiday Open House

Winnipeg Arts Council 

Annual Holiday Open House 

Thursday, December 8, 4:30 - 7:00 pm

103 - 110 Princess Street

Featuring music and refreshments!!

Hope McIntyre's empty

A reading of

empty

a new play by Hope McIntyre, inspired and influenced by the time she spent
with participants at a Winnipeg Harvest-sponsored food bank.

Directed by: Nan Fewchuk

Featuring:

Elena Anciro, Kevin Anderson, Murray Farnell, Ashley Hirt, Adam Hurtig, 

Lorraine James, Dale Krawchuk, Heather McKenzie and others 

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg, 603 Wellington Crescent

Nov, 29, at 7:00 pm

Admission is free

Reception to follow

Donations of non-perishable food items for Winnipeg Harvest will be gratefully accepted.

For more information about Winnipeg Harvest, 

please email Chris Albi, Communications Coordinator, or phone (204) 229-9660.

Created by the Winnipeg Harvest through the Winnipeg Arts Council's 

community WITH ART program.

Germaine Koh's DIY Field in Central Park

Join us for the opening of 

DIY Field

A new work by artist Germaine Koh

Created as part of the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art Program

Central Park, near the base of the slides close to the corner of Edmonton and Ellice

Tuesday, November 15, 5:30 pm

Germaine Koh, the artist, will be there.

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. 

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.

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.

WITH ART

The Winnipeg Arts Council Public Art Program invites applications from Winnipeg artists of all disciplines and Winnipeg community groups for the community-based WITH ART program.

WITH ART is a program for collaborative art projects.  The program is based on the belief that WITH ART communities can explore issues, express identity and create dialogue by working with professional artists on a shared goal, to create a project plan with an emphasis on the art-making process. 

Community groups from diverse sectors who have a history of working together are welcome to apply. 

Please visit the website for full eligibility criteria.

Deadline for receipt of applications is January 12, 2011. 

A complete application package must be submitted by all applicants.  

For full details and to download the forms, please visit 

http://www.winnipegarts.ca/index.php?/wac/article/3790/

David Perrett's City.Block.Stop for the U of W

Everyone is welcome to the official opening of City.Block.Stop, a new artist-designed transit shelter and sculpture on Wednesday, June 2 at 4:30 p.m. at the new transit stop on Ellice Avenue between Spence and Isabel Streets.

Conceived as a gateway to the campus, Winnipeg artist David Perrett worked closely with the University of Winnipeg community and with Winnipeg Transit.


The shelter features local mortared stone, including sandstone reclaimed from the University of Winnipeg’s historic Wesley Hall, sculptural seating and an ecologically green moss-covered roof accented by laser cut screens. The related Tyndall stone sculpture is inspired by the geography of the city, carved to represent the Red, Assiniboine and Seine Rivers and the surrounding topography.

“The shelter design was created borrowing elements from both nature and Winnipeg architecture. With four open sides, the shelter gives an inviting atmosphere and takes advantage of the ample direct and indirect sunlight at the site. The carving on the sculpture is an adaptation of the cityscape that shows the rivers seemingly rejoining each other as they wrap around the six-sided cube,” said artist David Perrett.


City.Block.Stop was created through the Public Art Program of the Winnipeg Arts Council.


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