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Announcements
1. Local Focus 2 film festival: grant acquisition

Events, Shows and Other Happenings
2. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank
3. Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery: Gift Shop December 08, Waterloo
4. Invitation to Ed Video Holiday Party, Guelph
5. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener
6. Kitchener Public Library December Guest Artist: Pat Lackenbauer, Kitchener
7. Free Flicks at the Kitchener Public Library
8. RENDER presents ALICE ANGUS of proboscis, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
9. Art Talks: Shirin Neshat, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo

Calls
10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener
11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival
12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition

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1. Local Focus 2 film festival: grant acquisition

Good news for participants in Local Focus 2

We are happy to announce that we have received a grant from OAC to support our next film festival Local Focus 2. We are now able to pay artists fees for every accepted film in our festival in the categories: feature, shorts, documentaries, short animation, long animation, and for the first time: Youth Directors (18 years old and under).
Also the winners in Jury Award in each category will win cash money.
Plus winners in People’s Choice Award based on the people’s votes during the festival will get volunteer credits can be redeemed in renting equipments and membership at MCC.

Good luck for all.

Azam Fouk Aladeh
Artistic director of MCC

for more details please contact us at :
film-making@theworkingcentre.org
519-743-1151 ext 146

2. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) and the Centre In The Square (CITS) are joining together to spread goodwill throughout the community with a food drive in support of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Patrons are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the main lobby of the Centre In The Square throughout the month of December. As a thank-you, KWS is offering $5 off the price of any remaining concert in the 08-09 season.

“At this special time of year, this initiative encourages us all to share some goodwill and thoughtfulness in our community,” says Alf Bogusky, Director-General, KW|AG.

According to Wendi Campbell, Executive Director of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, “Volunteers are the force that makes the Food Bank effective in Waterloo Region” while Ruth Friendship-Keller, Manager of Community Partnerships notes that “the generosity and enthusiasm of more than nineteen hundred caring individuals make it possible for the Food Bank to meet our community’s need for emergency food.”

Food items can be dropped off everyday in the CITS box office lobby during regular business hours.

“This is the season of giving. Help us by giving what you can by bringing non-perishable food items to our main lobby. Together we’ll help those in need,” says Jamie Grant, General Manager of the Centre In The Square.

You can also plan to attend these upcoming December events and drop off your donated items at the same time:

KWAG
Dec 6 - Family Workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m., $10 + GST (adult & child)
Dec 7 - Family Sunday, Drop in 2-5 p.m., FREE
Dec 14 - Public Tour, 2 p.m., FREE

KWS
Dec 5 & 6 - Jazz Meets Orchestra, 8 p.m., CITS
Dec 6 - “Little Russian” Youth Orchestra concert, 2 p.m.
Dec 7 - Jazz Meets Orchestra (Generations) 2:30 p.m., CITS
Dec 18 & 19 - Yuletide Spectacular, 8 p.m., RRC
Dec 20 - Yuletide Spectacular, 2:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., CITS

CITS
Dec 11 - Waterloo Country Carollers Sing-A-Long, 2 p.m.
Dec 21 - Franklin’s Family Christmas Concert, 1 & 4 p.m.

Admission to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is free. Everyone is welcome.

3. Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery: Gift Shop December 08, Waterloo

All Canadian, All Hand Made, All One-of-A-Kind
Your holiday shopping destination!

Pottery
From the functional to the sculptural. Simple Elaborate, Ornate. You decide. We have it all.

Glass
Blown, fused, etched, stained. A myriad of colour. A festival of light and line.

Jewellery
Whimsical, unique, beautiful, affordable. Ornament that special person. Say “I love you,” to the youngest and eldest members of your family.

Gift Certificates
Certificate amounts for gift shop items can be purchased at any amount. Buy these for the person who has almost everything. Another option, thrill the aspiring artist with classes in clay or jewellery making. Classes in the new year include: Precious Metal Clay For Youth and Tile Making for Adults.
Memberships to the Gallery are a great stocking stuffer!

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm; Sunday 1-5pm; closed Monday.

Contact Emily Jull, Gift Shop Manager 1.519.746.1882 ext. 222 http://www.canadianclayandglass.ca/GiftShop.htm

4. Invitation to Ed Video Holiday Party, Guelph

ED VIDEO Holiday Party
the most videoart xmas party you’ll be invited to

Dec 18 at 8pm

booze
music
fun

40 Baker Street, Guelph

5. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener

Join us at the Rotunda Gallery in December!

Jefferson Campbell-Cooper presents M . A . P . S . Minor Alterations to Perception Series.

Exhibit opens: Monday, December 1
Artist’s reception: Tuesday, December 9, from 11:30 am - 1 pm, and 5 - 7 pm

December exhibit uses maps to guide perception

For artist Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, maps present their own opportunity for creating art. The Elora artist will be exhibiting his series, “M.A.P.S. Minor Alterations to Perception,” at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of December.

“My most recent fascination with maps is their inability to capture change,” says Campbell-Cooper. “The map becomes a snapshot in time of a place, and in this shortfall, I want drawing to enter the process and materially solve the static situation.”

The M.A.P.S series are four, large, hand-drawn, graphite maps on wood panels. The maps are of the local area at different scales reflecting the topography and features of the surroundings during different time periods.

“The maps focus on the fluidity of our landscape, inundated by the mass of material scoured over the earth during glacial times,” says Campbell-Cooper. “One map will examine a cross-section of southern Ontario and in particular, its proposed highway systems for the next decade and the movement of materials for this to happen, drawing from the past to help map the future.”

Campbell-Cooper maps the world around him through drawing and sculpture. By investigating the materials of his surroundings, including concrete, stone, wood, earth, and a range of metals, he unravels relationships by finding the forms of things we cannot always see.

He has been showing his work for the past five years across Canada and United States. His work revolves directly around the complex relationship between human intervention and nature through life experiences, and the places his dedication to understanding the natural world have taken him.

“By understanding the world around us we in turn begin to understand ourselves,” he says.

Rotunda Gallery
Kitchener City Hall 200 King St W
Kitchener

6. Kitchener Public Library December Guest Artist: Pat Lackenbauer, Kitchener

Pat’s whimsical oil pastels take us on a magical journey back to the spontaneity of childhood.
Exhibit: Dec. 1 - 29
Main Library — Lower Concourse Gallery

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

7. Free Flicks at the Kitchener Public Library

Experience the big screen in our 200 seat Auditorium.
D’Lish Café is now open! Enjoy a treat while watching the movie.

Saturdays, 1:30 pm
Main Library

Dec. 20 - Scrooged PG (101 min)
Dec. 27 - Noel PG (102 min)

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

8. RENDER presents ALICE ANGUS of proboscis, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge

RENDER presents At The Waters Edge: Grand River Sketches a new commissioned work by ALICE ANGUS of proboscis

University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
December 1, 2008 through February 14, 2009

As part of RENDER’s ongoing creative research partnership with London UK based proboscis, Alice Angus (proboscis co-director) was commissioned to develop a new work specifically for the atrium of the UW School of Architecture in Cambridge. Combining new media and traditional methods, Angus’ project reflects the proboscis strategy of engaging the social, cultural and natural histories of specific sites and territories. Furthermore, Angus brings her own particular interest in rivers as life-lines, connectors and definers of place or (to paraphrase a few choice thoughts from Peter Ackroyd’s definitive book on the Thames) the river as fact, as metaphor, as sacred line.

For this project, Angus has explored the Grand River from its mouth at Port Maitland on Lake Erie to Elora. By bicycle, car, foot and kayak, she has wandered through and around the numerous cities, towns, villages, communities, farm fields and industrial sites the river penetrates, defines and skirts, making focussed stops along the way at Chiefswood National Historic Site, Paris, Galt and Kitchener. Her inquiries have also taken her to libraries, museums and archives and into conversations with numerous individuals whose lives have been touched by the river. The resulting work is a potent, deeply personal and poetic reflection on a significant body of water whose role as a critical thread through the region is often forgotten or obscured by more recent grids of development, pathways of transportation and community boundaries. As with her other explorations of water (such as the Rivers Nene and Ouse in East Anglia and her project Topographies and Tales set in Scotland and the Canadian north) At The Waters Edge: Grand River Sketches maps a dialogue between the artist and place, emphasizing a process of inquiry that promises to continue.

At the heart of RENDER’s ongoing collaboration with proboscis is creative research grounded in local history and the built environment. Past collaborative projects have included AnArchaeology and The Accidental Menagerie. At the Water’s Edge will be further developed into a publication and proboscis will play a central role in RENDER’s upcoming GROUNDWORK community garden project at rare.

Contact:
Andrew Hunter, RENDER Director/Curator
renderprojects@gmail.com
or
Barbara Hobot, RENDER Curator in Residence
renderevents@gmail.com
www.render.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33575
and
www.proboscis.org.uk

9. Art Talks: Shirin Neshat, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo

January 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Presented in Collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
KW|AG Series Sponsor: Sun Life Financial

Shirin Neshat has emerged as one of the most important artists of her generation. She is celebrated for Women of Allah, a collection of photographs showing the faces, hands and feet of Iranian women enveloped in chadors, cradling guns and wearing lace-like filigreed script of Farsi poetry across their exposed skin. These photographs have become iconic, as have the dozen films Neshat has made since 1997, including Turbulent/Rapture, which won an international award at the Venice Biennale in 1999, and The Last Word (2003), her dramatic defense of the power of the imagination in the face of political and religious tyranny. Neshat’s art is characterized by a visual lyricism and elegant beauty that is always captivating and occasionally confusing.

“My own work tends to have a very sharp knife but in a quiet way,” she explains.

As part of her Perimeter Art Talk, Neshat will show scenes from her newest feature-length film which is a work-in-progress.

Tickets $20/each

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Event_Horizons/Art_Talks/

Perimeter Institute
31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo
Tel: (519) 569-7600
Fax: (519) 569-7611

10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener

Important Dates

APPLICATION DUE—FEB 23 2009
APPLICATION ACCEPTED/REJECTED—MAR 4
YOU CONFIRM PARTICIPATION—MAR 18

SHOW SETUP
Thu, Apr 30, 5-8pm
Fri, May 1, 10-3pm

RECEPTION
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm
Sat, May 2, 10-5pm
Sun, May 3, 11-4pm

TEARDOWN
Sun May 3, 4-6pm

How it Works
-Show and sell your best work in the halls and galleries of our facility during the weekend before Mother’s Day 2009.
-We have space for a number of guest artists in the Globe Gallery, the Nook and the Appenda, with limited wall space in the common halls.
-Globe does not charge commission on your sales during this event.
-There is no restriction on minimum or maximum dollar value.
-All media are welcome. Some space is available for large sculptural works. Consult the coordinator for details.
-This is an original artist showcase. All products sold must be your own work. No reselling of third-party products is permitted, except for clearly identified reproductions (e.g. prints) of your own original artwork.
-Spaces for guest artists are allocated by jury. The goal is to present a broad variety of media and styles and ensure a high standard of technical and artistic merit. If juried-out, your exhibition fee will be returned in full.

Globe Studios Support
-Reception food, beverages and entertainment.
-Poster and leaflet design, printing and distribution to artists and local businesses.
-Participating artists receive upon request a packet of posters & flyers for distribution to their own contacts.
-Press releases, public outreach and other publicity efforts promoting the show.
-Reasonable site security including locked doors overnight.

Exhibitor Responsibilities
-Promotion of the show to own clients and contacts.
-Setup of artwork in provided area before show begins. Bring your own tools and hardware.
-All aspects of sales, including labels, packing materials and collection of sales tax as required by law.
-Removal of trash from display area during the show and at the end of each day.
-Repair of significant damage to studio walls and fixtures, as determined by show staff, by end of teardown.
-All artists are responsible for their own works. We do not guarantee or insure your work while on premises.

Available Exhibition Spaces
Guest artists receive either
(a) 10′-12′ wall space, plus table of 1.5′ x 2.5′ maximum.
(b) 6′x3.5′ of display space including 6′ wall space, plus a table/shelving allowance of 6′ x 2.5′ maximum.

For application information, visit http://nexi.com/261

Coordinator Contact
Julianna Yau, Globe Studios.
Email: GlobeStudiosShows@gmail.com

11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival

You are invited to submit your feature short documentary or animation to our next film festival: LOCAL FOCUS 2, a regional film contest brought to you by the Multicultural Cinema Club. It aims to highlights work of local film-makers and provide a good opportunity for public and local businesses to meet local film-makers, cast and crews.

Categories: feature, Shorts, documentaries, short animation, long animation, and for the first time: Youth Directors (18 years old and under).

Festival: March 17-21, 2009

Submission Deadline: January 31 2009

Entry fees: None

Artist fees paid for every accepted film in our festival in the categories: feature, shorts, documentaries, short animation, long animation, and for the first time: Youth Directors (18 years old and under).

Winners in People’s Choice Award based on the people’s votes during the festival will get volunteer credits can be redeemed in renting equipments and membership at MCC. Winner’s credits equivalent to: feature $800, documentary $600, Short $300, Youth $200, Long animation $300, Short animation $200

Conditional on grant and sponsorship support, each film accepted in our festival will get a artist fee paid according to our pay list, also the winners in Jury Award in each category will win cash money: feature $1000, documentary $800, Short $400, Youth $300, Long animation $400, Short animation $200.

Local Focus 2 is sponsored by: the Waterloo Regional Arts Council, City of Kitchener, Social Planning Council and other organizations

If you didn’t finish your work yet, MCC can support you by providing equipment where you can use volunteer credit at 100% and mentorship at no cost.

If you are looking to participate in this festival you need to submit by email:

1- A complete and accurate list of credits –
2- A brief biography and filmography for the director
3- Digitized materials (photos from the film or for yourself in location ….)
4- Fill and email the entry form (www.theworkingcentre.org/pub/LF2form.doc)

Send your submissions to:

Attention: Azam Fouk Aladeh

The Working Centre-Multicultural Cinema Club

58 Queen St. S. Kitchener , ON, N2G 1V6

We are looking for your participation and any local filmmakers you may know who might be interested in submitting a film for consideration. So please don’t hesitate to forward this email to them. This will be a good opportunity for local film makers to showcase their work, express their views and ideas, win money or credits and to access media coverage.

for more details please contact us at :
film-making@theworkingcentre.org
519-743-1151 ext 146
Please note: accepted films will be asked to send posters to the festival, all material submitted will not be returned.

12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition

In partnership with The Waterloo Region Record

Amateur photos will be judged by a panel of professional photographers. Winning photographs will be framed by Highland Camera and showcased in KPL’s Concourse Gallery in April. They will also appear in The Waterloo Region Record.

Up to three entries per person will be accepted between
Dec.1, 2008 and Jan. 31, 2009.

There are two age divisions; youth (18 and under) and adult. Categories are people, architecture, nature, and digitally altered.

Prints, no larger than 5 x7, can be dropped off at any Kitchener Public Library location, or mailed to:

Photo Contest
c/o Marketing and Communications Department
Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1

Photo submissions cannot be returned. Entry forms and complete contest details available at www.kpl.org

Events, Shows and Other Happenings
2. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank
3. Ed Video Presents Code Red Green Blue, Guelph
4. Quiet Moments: Susan Zender, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener
5. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener
6. Kitchener Public Library December Guest Artist: Pat Lackenbauer, Kitchener
7. Free Flicks at the Kitchener Public Library
8. RENDER presents ALICE ANGUS of proboscis, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
9. Art Talks: Shirin Neshat, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo

Calls
10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener
11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival
12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition
13. Job Call: Artist Educator (1 Year Maternity Leave Coverage Contract), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

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1. spOtlight 2009 handouts and notes

If you missed the info session for spOtlight 2009, you can grab the handouts and my notes here:
http://blog.juliannayau.com/2008/12/07/spotlight-2009-info-session/

Please contact the Ontario Arts Council (www.arts.on.ca) if you have any specific questions about spOtlight.

Your Artifice editor,
Julianna Yau

2. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) and the Centre In The Square (CITS) are joining together to spread goodwill throughout the community with a food drive in support of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Patrons are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the main lobby of the Centre In The Square throughout the month of December. As a thank-you, KWS is offering $5 off the price of any remaining concert in the 08-09 season.

“At this special time of year, this initiative encourages us all to share some goodwill and thoughtfulness in our community,” says Alf Bogusky, Director-General, KW|AG.

According to Wendi Campbell, Executive Director of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, “Volunteers are the force that makes the Food Bank effective in Waterloo Region” while Ruth Friendship-Keller, Manager of Community Partnerships notes that “the generosity and enthusiasm of more than nineteen hundred caring individuals make it possible for the Food Bank to meet our community’s need for emergency food.”

Food items can be dropped off everyday in the CITS box office lobby during regular business hours.

“This is the season of giving. Help us by giving what you can by bringing non-perishable food items to our main lobby. Together we’ll help those in need,” says Jamie Grant, General Manager of the Centre In The Square.

You can also plan to attend these upcoming December events and drop off your donated items at the same time:

KWAG
Dec 6 - Family Workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m., $10 + GST (adult & child)
Dec 7 - Family Sunday, Drop in 2-5 p.m., FREE
Dec 14 - Public Tour, 2 p.m., FREE

KWS
Dec 5 & 6 - Jazz Meets Orchestra, 8 p.m., CITS
Dec 6 - “Little Russian” Youth Orchestra concert, 2 p.m.
Dec 7 - Jazz Meets Orchestra (Generations) 2:30 p.m., CITS
Dec 18 & 19 - Yuletide Spectacular, 8 p.m., RRC
Dec 20 - Yuletide Spectacular, 2:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., CITS

CITS
Dec 11 - Waterloo Country Carollers Sing-A-Long, 2 p.m.
Dec 21 - Franklin’s Family Christmas Concert, 1 & 4 p.m.

Admission to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is free. Everyone is welcome.

3. Ed Video Presents Code Red Green Blue, Guelph

Ed Video Media Arts Centre Presents:
Code Red Green Blue
The authenticity of illusion

Ed Video Media Arts Centre is excited to present Code Red Green Blue 8pm, December 12th, 2008
Ed Video - 40 Baker St., 2nd Floor, Guelph.

As the study of ‘conspiracy theories’ moves from the fringe into the mainstream, it is the veracity of the video signal that is often at the forefront of the debate. Video purports to show us the facts surrounding the pivotal events of our time. Examining the video signal is foremost to those investigating the actualities of the accepted course of recent historical events. Each frame is analyzed in an attempt to extract evidence, in order to reach the desired conclusion. How much truth can be found in the 76,800 dots of colour that create a web-sized video?

The artists presented in ‘Code Red Green Blue’ use video to take a barometer reading of the present complex political climate. The works chosen reveal the construct inherent in the video signal, and urge the viewer to question the authenticity of the illusion. These videos have the courage to comment on terrorism, tyranny, and totalitarianism, in a time when politics in contemporary art is often considered passe, didactic, or just too frightening to confront.

An open discussion will occur after the screening and into the night to allow the audience to respond to the work. Participants are invited to debate the difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘reasonable suspicion’, and between skepticism and paranoia, using notable video clips as the basis for the conversation.

Jubal Brown - ‘The End (Millenium Project)’
Daniel Borins - ‘Code Red’ & ‘The Apotheosis of Everything’
Daniel Cockburn - ‘Stupid Coalescing Becomers’
Thorarinn Jonsson - ‘Fake Bombing at the ROM’
Jenn E Norton - ‘Forced’
Eduardo Menz - ‘Fracas’

featuring;
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for ‘dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11

Panel Talk with representatives Adnan Zuberi and Adam Parrott from the University of Waterloo 9/11 Research Group and other speakers from the realm of politics and video technology.

For more information about this presentation, please contact Ed Video’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Dent, weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Liz’s contact information is located at the bottom of this release.

Thank you for supporting Ed Video Media Arts Centre, a charitable, member-run organization.

Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor, Guelph
(519)836-9811
www.edvideo.org

4. Quiet Moments: Susan Zender, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener

Susan Zender, visual artist from Waterloo, ON, is proud to announce her upcoming art exhibition that will feature acrylic landscapes on canvas. This body of work was created using her imagination as her source of inspiration; they are not actual places. This creative process developed into a series of peaceful and pastoral scenes entitled, “Quiet Moments.”

At the Homer Watson House and Gallery, 1754 Old Mill Rd., Kitchener, ON N2P 1H7The exhibition will be on display from Nov. 1st to Dec. 21st, 2008. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday, Noon - 4:30 pm.

To preview a sampling of her artwork, visit her online gallery at: www.susanzender.com

5. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener

Join us at the Rotunda Gallery in December!

Jefferson Campbell-Cooper presents M . A . P . S . Minor Alterations to Perception Series.

Exhibit opens: Monday, December 1
Artist’s reception: Tuesday, December 9, from 11:30 am - 1 pm, and 5 - 7 pm

December exhibit uses maps to guide perception

For artist Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, maps present their own opportunity for creating art. The Elora artist will be exhibiting his series, “M.A.P.S. Minor Alterations to Perception,” at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of December.

“My most recent fascination with maps is their inability to capture change,” says Campbell-Cooper. “The map becomes a snapshot in time of a place, and in this shortfall, I want drawing to enter the process and materially solve the static situation.”

The M.A.P.S series are four, large, hand-drawn, graphite maps on wood panels. The maps are of the local area at different scales reflecting the topography and features of the surroundings during different time periods.

“The maps focus on the fluidity of our landscape, inundated by the mass of material scoured over the earth during glacial times,” says Campbell-Cooper. “One map will examine a cross-section of southern Ontario and in particular, its proposed highway systems for the next decade and the movement of materials for this to happen, drawing from the past to help map the future.”

Campbell-Cooper maps the world around him through drawing and sculpture. By investigating the materials of his surroundings, including concrete, stone, wood, earth, and a range of metals, he unravels relationships by finding the forms of things we cannot always see.

He has been showing his work for the past five years across Canada and United States. His work revolves directly around the complex relationship between human intervention and nature through life experiences, and the places his dedication to understanding the natural world have taken him.

“By understanding the world around us we in turn begin to understand ourselves,” he says.

Rotunda Gallery
Kitchener City Hall 200 King St W
Kitchener

6. Kitchener Public Library December Guest Artist: Pat Lackenbauer, Kitchener

Pat’s whimsical oil pastels take us on a magical journey back to the spontaneity of childhood.
Exhibit: Dec. 1 - 29
Main Library — Lower Concourse Gallery

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

7. Free Flicks at the Kitchener Public Library

Experience the big screen in our 200 seat Auditorium.
D’Lish Café is now open! Enjoy a treat while watching the movie.

Saturdays, 1:30 pm
Main Library

Dec.13 - National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation PG (97 min)
Dec. 20 - Scrooged PG (101 min)
Dec. 27 - Noel PG (102 min)

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

8. RENDER presents ALICE ANGUS of proboscis, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge

RENDER presents At The Waters Edge: Grand River Sketches a new commissioned work by ALICE ANGUS of proboscis

University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
December 1, 2008 through February 14, 2009

As part of RENDER’s ongoing creative research partnership with London UK based proboscis, Alice Angus (proboscis co-director) was commissioned to develop a new work specifically for the atrium of the UW School of Architecture in Cambridge. Combining new media and traditional methods, Angus’ project reflects the proboscis strategy of engaging the social, cultural and natural histories of specific sites and territories. Furthermore, Angus brings her own particular interest in rivers as life-lines, connectors and definers of place or (to paraphrase a few choice thoughts from Peter Ackroyd’s definitive book on the Thames) the river as fact, as metaphor, as sacred line.

For this project, Angus has explored the Grand River from its mouth at Port Maitland on Lake Erie to Elora. By bicycle, car, foot and kayak, she has wandered through and around the numerous cities, towns, villages, communities, farm fields and industrial sites the river penetrates, defines and skirts, making focussed stops along the way at Chiefswood National Historic Site, Paris, Galt and Kitchener. Her inquiries have also taken her to libraries, museums and archives and into conversations with numerous individuals whose lives have been touched by the river. The resulting work is a potent, deeply personal and poetic reflection on a significant body of water whose role as a critical thread through the region is often forgotten or obscured by more recent grids of development, pathways of transportation and community boundaries. As with her other explorations of water (such as the Rivers Nene and Ouse in East Anglia and her project Topographies and Tales set in Scotland and the Canadian north) At The Waters Edge: Grand River Sketches maps a dialogue between the artist and place, emphasizing a process of inquiry that promises to continue.

At the heart of RENDER’s ongoing collaboration with proboscis is creative research grounded in local history and the built environment. Past collaborative projects have included AnArchaeology and The Accidental Menagerie. At the Water’s Edge will be further developed into a publication and proboscis will play a central role in RENDER’s upcoming GROUNDWORK community garden project at rare.

Contact:
Andrew Hunter, RENDER Director/Curator
renderprojects@gmail.com
or
Barbara Hobot, RENDER Curator in Residence
renderevents@gmail.com
www.render.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33575
and
www.proboscis.org.uk

9. Art Talks: Shirin Neshat, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo

January 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Presented in Collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
KW|AG Series Sponsor: Sun Life Financial

Shirin Neshat has emerged as one of the most important artists of her generation. She is celebrated for Women of Allah, a collection of photographs showing the faces, hands and feet of Iranian women enveloped in chadors, cradling guns and wearing lace-like filigreed script of Farsi poetry across their exposed skin. These photographs have become iconic, as have the dozen films Neshat has made since 1997, including Turbulent/Rapture, which won an international award at the Venice Biennale in 1999, and The Last Word (2003), her dramatic defense of the power of the imagination in the face of political and religious tyranny. Neshat’s art is characterized by a visual lyricism and elegant beauty that is always captivating and occasionally confusing.

“My own work tends to have a very sharp knife but in a quiet way,” she explains.

As part of her Perimeter Art Talk, Neshat will show scenes from her newest feature-length film which is a work-in-progress.

Tickets $20/each

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Event_Horizons/Art_Talks/

Perimeter Institute
31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo
Tel: (519) 569-7600
Fax: (519) 569-7611

10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener

Important Dates

APPLICATION DUE—FEB 23 2009
APPLICATION ACCEPTED/REJECTED—MAR 4
YOU CONFIRM PARTICIPATION—MAR 18

SHOW SETUP
Thu, Apr 30, 5-8pm
Fri, May 1, 10-3pm

RECEPTION
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm
Sat, May 2, 10-5pm
Sun, May 3, 11-4pm

TEARDOWN
Sun May 3, 4-6pm

How it Works
-Show and sell your best work in the halls and galleries of our facility during the weekend before Mother’s Day 2009.
-We have space for a number of guest artists in the Globe Gallery, the Nook and the Appenda, with limited wall space in the common halls.
-Globe does not charge commission on your sales during this event.
-There is no restriction on minimum or maximum dollar value.
-All media are welcome. Some space is available for large sculptural works. Consult the coordinator for details.
-This is an original artist showcase. All products sold must be your own work. No reselling of third-party products is permitted, except for clearly identified reproductions (e.g. prints) of your own original artwork.
-Spaces for guest artists are allocated by jury. The goal is to present a broad variety of media and styles and ensure a high standard of technical and artistic merit. If juried-out, your exhibition fee will be returned in full.

Globe Studios Support
-Reception food, beverages and entertainment.
-Poster and leaflet design, printing and distribution to artists and local businesses.
-Participating artists receive upon request a packet of posters & flyers for distribution to their own contacts.
-Press releases, public outreach and other publicity efforts promoting the show.
-Reasonable site security including locked doors overnight.

Exhibitor Responsibilities
-Promotion of the show to own clients and contacts.
-Setup of artwork in provided area before show begins. Bring your own tools and hardware.
-All aspects of sales, including labels, packing materials and collection of sales tax as required by law.
-Removal of trash from display area during the show and at the end of each day.
-Repair of significant damage to studio walls and fixtures, as determined by show staff, by end of teardown.
-All artists are responsible for their own works. We do not guarantee or insure your work while on premises.

Available Exhibition Spaces
Guest artists receive either
(a) 10′-12′ wall space, plus table of 1.5′ x 2.5′ maximum.
(b) 6′x3.5′ of display space including 6′ wall space, plus a table/shelving allowance of 6′ x 2.5′ maximum.

For application information, visit http://nexi.com/261

Coordinator Contact
Julianna Yau, Globe Studios.
Email: GlobeStudiosShows@gmail.com

11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival

You are invited to submit your feature short documentary or animation to our next film festival: LOCAL FOCUS 2, a regional film contest brought to you by the Multicultural Cinema Club. It aims to highlights work of local film-makers and provide a good opportunity for public and local businesses to meet local film-makers, cast and crews.

Categories: feature, Shorts, documentaries, short animation, long animation, and for the first time: Youth Directors (18 years old and under).

Festival: March 17-21, 2009

Submission Deadline: January 31 2009

Entry fees: None

Winners in People’s Choice Award based on the people’s votes during the festival will get volunteer credits can be redeemed in renting equipments and membership at MCC. Winner’s credits equivalent to: feature $800, documentary $600, Short $300, Youth $200, Long animation $300, Short animation $200

Conditional on grant and sponsorship support, each film accepted in our festival will get a artist fee paid according to our pay list, also the winners in Jury Award in each category will win cash money: feature $1000, documentary $800, Short $400, Youth $300, Long animation $400, Short animation $200.

Local Focus 2 is sponsored by: the Waterloo Regional Arts Council, City of Kitchener, Social Planning Council and other organizations

If you didn’t finish your work yet, MCC can support you by providing equipment where you can use volunteer credit at 100% and mentorship at no cost.

If you are looking to participate in this festival you need to submit by email:

1- A complete and accurate list of credits –
2- A brief biography and filmography for the director
3- Digitized materials (photos from the film or for yourself in location ….)
4- Fill and email the entry form (www.theworkingcentre.org/pub/LF2form.doc)

Send your submissions to:

Attention: Azam Fouk Aladeh

The Working Centre-Multicultural Cinema Club

58 Queen St. S. Kitchener , ON, N2G 1V6

We are looking for your participation and any local filmmakers you may know who might be interested in submitting a film for consideration. So please don’t hesitate to forward this email to them. This will be a good opportunity for local film makers to showcase their work, express their views and ideas, win money or credits and to access media coverage.

for more details please contact us at :
film-making@theworkingcentre.org
519-743-1151 ext 146
Please note: accepted films will be asked to send posters to the festival, all material submitted will not be returned.

12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition

In partnership with The Waterloo Region Record

Amateur photos will be judged by a panel of professional photographers. Winning photographs will be framed by Highland Camera and showcased in KPL’s Concourse Gallery in April. They will also appear in The Waterloo Region Record.

Up to three entries per person will be accepted between
Dec.1, 2008 and Jan. 31, 2009.

There are two age divisions; youth (18 and under) and adult. Categories are people, architecture, nature, and digitally altered.

Prints, no larger than 5 x7, can be dropped off at any Kitchener Public Library location, or mailed to:

Photo Contest
c/o Marketing and Communications Department
Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1

Photo submissions cannot be returned. Entry forms and complete contest details available at www.kpl.org

13. Job Call: Artist Educator (1 Year Maternity Leave Coverage Contract), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Deadline Date: Friday, December 12, 2008 at 5pm.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is seeking a contract artist-educator to join our team and deliver studio-based and exhibition related programming throughout the year. Artist Educators are responsible for assisting with event planning and design, leading tours, and delivering hands-on workshops and courses.

The artist-educator position is ideal for working professional artists who are interested in engaging with the Gallery and contributing their talent to the community in an educational context. Flexible, part-time hours make it possible to balance working with studio-time. Hours will vary according to week and season. Our artist-educators are considered part of our department roster and every effort is made to provide artist-educators with regular work throughout the year.

Requirements:

Qualifications
- Degree in Arts Education; Fine Arts; Art History; or related field;
- exhibition history or evidence of intent to exhibit work;
- 1 year of teaching experience (formal or informal settings) or equivalent;
- ability to work in and teach a wide range of media;
- demonstrated ability to create educational programs for diverse audiences in the visual arts;
- knowledge of public art galleries/museum field and practice;
- excellent communication and writing skills;
- ability to work independently and within deadlines;
- ability to interact with public in a positive, enthusiastic, and professional manner;
- ability to facilitate creative discussion and experimentation relating to artistic process;
- knowledge of Ontario visual arts curriculum and positive classroom management skills;
- working knowledge of contemporary art practice;
- valid Ontario Driver’s License and access to a vehicle required;
- valid Police check required.

The artist educator will work in the following areas:

School-Based Programs:
The art gallery setting offers unique opportunities for students to connect to the world of art and ideas; to learn directly from original works of art and the artistic process of living and historical artists.

Designed to relate to current exhibitions as well as support the visual arts curriculum, our school programs emphasize an interactive approach to learning about art. The Tour & Studio Workshop combines a tour of current exhibitions and a hands-on art making session with an artist educator. The Think Art program brings art to the classrooms as a Gallery Educator visits schools for an in-class workshop, followed by a visit to the Gallery for a tour and hands-on activity. Professional Development sessions for teachers may also require an artist educator.

Sign up for these sessions is regular throughout the year and Artist Educators can expect to lead approximately 10-15 school program workshops per month. Our peak time is during the annual Expressions exhibition of student art, when we are usually fully booked for the month of April. Artist Educators can expect to lead approximately 30-35 school program workshops during Expressions.

Studio Programs
There will be opportunities to instruct the following programs:
Adult, Youth, & Teen studios - 6-8 week courses, Fall, Winter, Spring terms
March Break Art Escape - 1 week camp program during March Break
Studio 4 Summer Program - 6 week summer program, July - August

Family Programs
Artist educators will have an integral role in this area of programming.
Family Sundays occur on the first Sunday of each month and Family Workshops occur one Saturday morning per month. Hands-on art workshops are components of both days’ programming.

Send Submissions To:
Tasha Ethelston
101 Queen Street North
Kitchener ON
Canada N2H 6P7
e: tethelston@kwag.on.ca

Organization Description
Connecting people and ideas through art.
Established in 1956 and currently operating in a 23,500 square foot facility, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is the oldest and largest public gallery in Waterloo region. Through a balanced and engaging range of exhibitions the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery presents the full spectrum of artistic experience to an equally diverse audience. We enrich and support the Waterloo region through the development of high-calibre exhibitions that cross the boundaries of time, media, geography and intent, and in so doing, new connections are forged between all.

The Gallery cares for 3940 works in its permanent collection. Selections from the collection are regularly displayed and interpreted in dedicated exhibitions at the gallery and via off-site loans to other galleries or through outreach projects. Throughout its development, the collection has focused on Canadian painting with particular attention paid to Ontario artists, and in recent year’s emphasized works of 20th century Canadian artists of national scope. In this manner the Gallery continues to serve both a provincial and national role.

Further Information:
http://www.kwag.on.ca

Calls
10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener
11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival
12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition, Kitchener Public Library
13. City of Cambridge survey on Arts, Culture and Heritage

Workshops
14. Workshops at Grand River Glassworks, Kitchener

Other Areas
15. Holiday Group Show, Transit Gallery, Hamilton

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1. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) and the Centre In The Square (CITS) are joining together to spread goodwill throughout the community with a food drive in support of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Patrons are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the main lobby of the Centre In The Square throughout the month of December. As a thank-you, KWS is offering $5 off the price of any remaining concert in the 08-09 season.

“At this special time of year, this initiative encourages us all to share some goodwill and thoughtfulness in our community,” says Alf Bogusky, Director-General, KW|AG.

According to Wendi Campbell, Executive Director of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, “Volunteers are the force that makes the Food Bank effective in Waterloo Region” while Ruth Friendship-Keller, Manager of Community Partnerships notes that “the generosity and enthusiasm of more than nineteen hundred caring individuals make it possible for the Food Bank to meet our community’s need for emergency food.”

Food items can be dropped off everyday in the CITS box office lobby during regular business hours.

“This is the season of giving. Help us by giving what you can by bringing non-perishable food items to our main lobby. Together we’ll help those in need,” says Jamie Grant, General Manager of the Centre In The Square.

You can also plan to attend these upcoming December events and drop off your donated items at the same time:

KWAG
Dec 6 - Family Workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m., $10 + GST (adult & child)
Dec 7 - Family Sunday, Drop in 2-5 p.m., FREE
Dec 14 - Public Tour, 2 p.m., FREE

KWS
Dec 5 & 6 - Jazz Meets Orchestra, 8 p.m., CITS
Dec 6 - “Little Russian” Youth Orchestra concert, 2 p.m.
Dec 7 - Jazz Meets Orchestra (Generations) 2:30 p.m., CITS
Dec 18 & 19 - Yuletide Spectacular, 8 p.m., RRC
Dec 20 - Yuletide Spectacular, 2:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., CITS

CITS
Dec 11 - Waterloo Country Carollers Sing-A-Long, 2 p.m.
Dec 21 - Franklin’s Family Christmas Concert, 1 & 4 p.m.

Admission to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is free. Everyone is welcome.

2. End of Season Exhibition, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener

November 1 - December 21, 2008

End of Season Exhibition
J.R. Ribee - Georgian Bay Series
Susan Zender - Quiet Moments
Paul Roorda - Rhythm of Fire

Homer Watson House & Gallery proudly presents three artists in a vibrant End of Season Exhibition.

In his Georgian Bay Series, J.R Ribee captures the intense pure light of the North, creating his first line of fine art collection after twenty years of shooting commercial work. His photographs speak to his passion for rich hues dancing in the light, bursts of sun feeding the colours and generous textures full of vibrancy and brilliance.

Susan Zender’s exhibition, named Quiet Moments is a series of representational landscapes created using her imagination as inspiration. She forgoes the traditional methods, beginning with a blank canvas and letting her imagination and intuition guide her to explore and find a scene that best expresses a quiet moment of tranquility and rest.

The Ferrie Room hosts Paul Roorda’s exhibition entitled Rhythm of Fire. Drawing on beeswax with rust, ashes and gold leaf, Paul explores the psychological landscape of loss. The interplay between images of plaster walls, horizons and ritual-like markings create a tension between surface and depth. It reflects the internal conflict that arises when one’s foundation is shaken. The use of ritual becomes an attempt to create order where there is anxiety and hope where there is longing.

Location: 1754 Old Mill Road, Kitchener
Telephone: (519) 748-4377
Website: www.homerwatson.on.ca

3. Ed Video Presents Code Red Green Blue, Guelph

Ed Video Media Arts Centre Presents:
Code Red Green Blue
The authenticity of illusion

Ed Video Media Arts Centre is excited to present Code Red Green Blue 8pm, December 12th, 2008
Ed Video - 40 Baker St., 2nd Floor, Guelph.

As the study of ‘conspiracy theories’ moves from the fringe into the mainstream, it is the veracity of the video signal that is often at the forefront of the debate. Video purports to show us the facts surrounding the pivotal events of our time. Examining the video signal is foremost to those investigating the actualities of the accepted course of recent historical events. Each frame is analyzed in an attempt to extract evidence, in order to reach the desired conclusion. How much truth can be found in the 76,800 dots of colour that create a web-sized video?

The artists presented in ‘Code Red Green Blue’ use video to take a barometer reading of the present complex political climate. The works chosen reveal the construct inherent in the video signal, and urge the viewer to question the authenticity of the illusion. These videos have the courage to comment on terrorism, tyranny, and totalitarianism, in a time when politics in contemporary art is often considered passe, didactic, or just too frightening to confront.

An open discussion will occur after the screening and into the night to allow the audience to respond to the work. Participants are invited to debate the difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘reasonable suspicion’, and between skepticism and paranoia, using notable video clips as the basis for the conversation.

Jubal Brown - ‘The End (Millenium Project)’
Daniel Borins - ‘Code Red’ & ‘The Apotheosis of Everything’
Daniel Cockburn - ‘Stupid Coalescing Becomers’
Thorarinn Jonsson - ‘Fake Bombing at the ROM’
Jenn E Norton - ‘Forced’
Eduardo Menz - ‘Fracas’

featuring;
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for ‘dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11

Panel Talk with representatives Adnan Zuberi and Adam Parrott from the University of Waterloo 9/11 Research Group and other speakers from the realm of politics and video technology.

For more information about this presentation, please contact Ed Video’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Dent, weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Liz’s contact information is located at the bottom of this release.

Thank you for supporting Ed Video Media Arts Centre, a charitable, member-run organization.

Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor, Guelph
(519)836-9811
www.edvideo.org

4. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener

Join us at the Rotunda Gallery in December!

Jefferson Campbell-Cooper presents M . A . P . S . Minor Alterations to Perception Series.

Exhibit opens: Monday, December 1
Artist’s reception: Tuesday, December 9, from 11:30 am - 1 pm, and 5 - 7 pm

December exhibit uses maps to guide perception

For artist Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, maps present their own opportunity for creating art. The Elora artist will be exhibiting his series, “M.A.P.S. Minor Alterations to Perception,” at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of December.

“My most recent fascination with maps is their inability to capture change,” says Campbell-Cooper. “The map becomes a snapshot in time of a place, and in this shortfall, I want drawing to enter the process and materially solve the static situation.”

The M.A.P.S series are four, large, hand-drawn, graphite maps on wood panels. The maps are of the local area at different scales reflecting the topography and features of the surroundings during different time periods.

“The maps focus on the fluidity of our landscape, inundated by the mass of material scoured over the earth during glacial times,” says Campbell-Cooper. “One map will examine a cross-section of southern Ontario and in particular, its proposed highway systems for the next decade and the movement of materials for this to happen, drawing from the past to help map the future.”

Campbell-Cooper maps the world around him through drawing and sculpture. By investigating the materials of his surroundings, including concrete, stone, wood, earth, and a range of metals, he unravels relationships by finding the forms of things we cannot always see.

He has been showing his work for the past five years across Canada and United States. His work revolves directly around the complex relationship between human intervention and nature through life experiences, and the places his dedication to understanding the natural world have taken him.

“By understanding the world around us we in turn begin to understand ourselves,” he says.

Rotunda Gallery
Kitchener City Hall 200 King St W
Kitchener

5. January Group Show at the Whitestone Gallery in Guelph

Whiteouts; grey days; long dark nights.

When the world turns to black & white and shades of gray…
… artists get creating…
PIGMENTS OF THE IMAGINATION

The January Group Show at the Whitestone Gallery featuring:

Rebecca Erickson
Nancy Farrell
Supria Karmakar
Larry Lawrence
Michelle Leblanc
Nadia Pryce
Janet Stanley

Members of the Whitestone Collective

When winter and a touch of the blues have you cocooning, resolve to get out of that funk! Visit us in January as we celebrate a new year with colourful new works.

Join us January 7th from 5 till 8 for the opening of

PIGMENTS OF THE IMAGINATION

And you could win a $100* gift certificate

The Whitestone gallery is open Thursday to Saturday 11 to 5.

*Gift certificate can only be applied towards the purchase of works (front and middle gallery) by Rebecca Erickson, Nancy Farrell, Supria Karmakar, Larry Lawrence, Michelle Leblanc, Nadia Pryce or Janet Stanley and excludes works by other members of the collective as well as Vessels and Sheboa pottery. Winner must be present at time of draw (to be held on or about 7:45 on January 7th). Prize must be redeemed within 30 days.

Colour Trivia:
Violet is calming for body and mind.
Indigo helps to open up our intuition and is the colour of divine knowledge and the higher mind.
Blue is the colour of communication.
Green is balancing, harmonizing and encourages tolerance and understanding
Yellow stimulates mental activity
Orange is warming and energizing
Red excites the emotions
Black gives us the space for reflection and inner searching.
White contains all the colours. It emphasizes purity and illuminates our thoughts, giving us clarity.

Whitestone Gallery
80 Norfolk Street
Guelph
519.836.4243

6. Kitchener Public Library December Guest Artist: Pat Lackenbauer, Kitchener

Pat’s whimsical oil pastels take us on a magical journey back to the spontaneity of childhood.
Exhibit: Dec. 1 - 29
Main Library — Lower Concourse Gallery

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

7. Free Flicks at the Kitchener Public Library

Experience the big screen in our 200 seat Auditorium.
D’Lish Café is now open! Enjoy a treat while watching the movie.

Saturdays, 1:30 pm
Main Library

Dec. 6 - While You Were Sleeping PG (103 min)
Dec.13 - National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation PG (97 min)
Dec. 20 - Scrooged PG (101 min)
Dec. 27 - Noel PG (102 min)

Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North
Kitchener

8. Independent Authors & Illustrators of Canada: Book Fair, Guelph

Autographed books by talented independent authors & illustrators

Saturday, December 6
&
Sunday, December 7, 2008
10:00am-5:00pm

West End Community Centre
off Impreial Rd, just north of Paisley Rd
Guelph, ON

9. Libby Hague: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo

Libby Hague
Cut/close to home
November 12 - December 6, 2008

The exhibition Cut/close to home is a “when love goes wrong” scenario that explores control, sexuality, violence and self respect within a relationship. This installation features a video loop of a man and woman fighting in the boxing ring at Sully’s Gym. The video uses a rotoscoping technique (in which animation is drawn on top of live action) and is projected on several layers of semi-transparent plastic curtain strips. Viewers can separate the image with their hands and walk through the video, symbolically breaking the cycle of violence. By inviting the audience to interact with the work Hague hopes the audience will recognize their ability to bring about change.

Libby Hague is a Toronto based artist with an extensive exhibition history. Recent exhibitions include: Rehearsal for Everything, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville; Hot + Cold running water in Washi!, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto and vent du nord, Arprim, Montreal. Hague’s current body of works are in a form of print installation, a theatrical approach to printmaking that integrates print, video and sculpture and, when possible, viewers.

Cut/close to home is part of a series of exhibitions which links the works of Canadian artists with academic departments at Wilfrid Laurier University. Hague’s exhibition will be connected to the Gender, Culture and Technology course in the Women’s Studies Program.

Cut/close to home cast: Philip Anisman, Isaac Morkel, Ryna Schickler
composers: Christine Fellows, Jason Tait
musicians: Christine Fellows, Jason Tait, Bob Eagan, Jeremy Strachan

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12 -5pm, Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Admission is free

Robert Langen Art Gallery
Wilfrid Laurier University
John Aird Centre
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5

Contact: For more information contact Suzanne Luke, Curator 519-884-0710 ext. 3801 or

sluke@wlu.ca

10. Call for Artists: Globe Studios Spring Show, Kitchener

Important Dates

APPLICATION DUE—FEB 23 2009
APPLICATION ACCEPTED/REJECTED—MAR 4
YOU CONFIRM PARTICIPATION—MAR 18

SHOW SETUP
Thu, Apr 30, 5-8pm
Fri, May 1, 10-3pm

RECEPTION
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Fri, May 1, 5-8pm
Sat, May 2, 10-5pm
Sun, May 3, 11-4pm

TEARDOWN
Sun May 3, 4-6pm

How it Works
-Show and sell your best work in the halls and galleries of our facility during the weekend before Mother’s Day 2009.
-We have space for a number of guest artists in the Globe Gallery, the Nook and the Appenda, with limited wall space in the common halls.
-Globe does not charge commission on your sales during this event.
-There is no restriction on minimum or maximum dollar value.
-All media are welcome. Some space is available for large sculptural works. Consult the coordinator for details.
-This is an original artist showcase. All products sold must be your own work. No reselling of third-party products is permitted, except for clearly identified reproductions (e.g. prints) of your own original artwork.
-Spaces for guest artists are allocated by jury. The goal is to present a broad variety of media and styles and ensure a high standard of technical and artistic merit. If juried-out, your exhibition fee will be returned in full.

Globe Studios Support
-Reception food, beverages and entertainment.
-Poster and leaflet design, printing and distribution to artists and local businesses.
-Participating artists receive upon request a packet of posters & flyers for distribution to their own contacts.
-Press releases, public outreach and other publicity efforts promoting the show.
-Reasonable site security including locked doors overnight.

Exhibitor Responsibilities
-Promotion of the show to own clients and contacts.
-Setup of artwork in provided area before show begins. Bring your own tools and hardware.
-All aspects of sales, including labels, packing materials and collection of sales tax as required by law.
-Removal of trash from display area during the show and at the end of each day.
-Repair of significant damage to studio walls and fixtures, as determined by show staff, by end of teardown.
-All artists are responsible for their own works. We do not guarantee or insure your work while on premises.

Available Exhibition Spaces
Guest artists receive either
(a) 10′-12′ wall space, plus table of 1.5′ x 2.5′ maximum.
(b) 6′x3.5′ of display space including 6′ wall space, plus a table/shelving allowance of 6′ x 2.5′ maximum.

For application information, visit http://nexi.com/261

Coordinator Contact
Julianna Yau, Globe Studios.
Email: GlobeStudiosShows@gmail.com
11. Call for Submissions: Local Focus 2 film festival

You are invited to submit your feature short documentary or animation to our next film festival: LOCAL FOCUS 2, a regional film contest brought to you by the Multicultural Cinema Club. It aims to highlights work of local film-makers and provide a good opportunity for public and local businesses to meet local film-makers, cast and crews.

Categories: feature, Shorts, documentaries, short animation, long animation, and for the first time: Youth Directors (18 years old and under).

Festival: March 17-21, 2009

Submission Deadline: January 31 2009

Entry fees: None

Winners in People’s Choice Award based on the people’s votes during the festival will get volunteer credits can be redeemed in renting equipments and membership at MCC. Winner’s credits equivalent to: feature $800, documentary $600, Short $300, Youth $200, Long animation $300, Short animation $200

Conditional on grant and sponsorship support, each film accepted in our festival will get a artist fee paid according to our pay list, also the winners in Jury Award in each category will win cash money: feature $1000, documentary $800, Short $400, Youth $300, Long animation $400, Short animation $200.

Local Focus 2 is sponsored by: the Waterloo Regional Arts Council, City of Kitchener, Social Planning Council and other organizations

If you didn’t finish your work yet, MCC can support you by providing equipment where you can use volunteer credit at 100% and mentorship at no cost.

If you are looking to participate in this festival you need to submit by email:

1- A complete and accurate list of credits –
2- A brief biography and filmography for the director
3- Digitized materials (photos from the film or for yourself in location ….)
4- Fill and email the entry form (www.theworkingcentre.org/pub/LF2form.doc)

Send your submissions to:

Attention: Azam Fouk Aladeh

The Working Centre-Multicultural Cinema Club

58 Queen St. S. Kitchener , ON, N2G 1V6

We are looking for your participation and any local filmmakers you may know who might be interested in submitting a film for consideration. So please don’t hesitate to forward this email to them. This will be a good opportunity for local film makers to showcase their work, express their views and ideas, win money or credits and to access media coverage.

for more details please contact us at :
film-making@theworkingcentre.org
519-743-1151 ext 146
Please note: accepted films will be asked to send posters to the festival, all material submitted will not be returned.

12. 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibition, Kitchener Public Library

In partnership with The Waterloo Region Record

Amateur photos will be judged by a panel of professional photographers. Winning photographs will be framed by Highland Camera and showcased in KPL’s Concourse Gallery in April. They will also appear in The Waterloo Region Record.

Up to three entries per person will be accepted between
Dec.1, 2008 and Jan. 31, 2009.

There are two age divisions; youth (18 and under) and adult. Categories are people, architecture, nature, and digitally altered.

Prints, no larger than 5 x7, can be dropped off at any Kitchener Public Library location, or mailed to:

Photo Contest
c/o Marketing and Communications Department
Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1

Photo submissions cannot be returned. Entry forms and complete contest details available at www.kpl.org
13. City of Cambridge survey on Arts, Culture and Heritage

From http://www.cambridge.ca/community_services/arts_culture_heritage

The City of Cambridge is blessed with a cluster of arts and culture that is evolving and creating a significant impact on the economy and enhancing the quality of life.

Community assets such as the Cambridge Centre for the Arts, continue to flourish and recent announcements for more investment into theatre and education serve to strengthen this. The arts, culture and heritage helps attract and retain residents; and businesses cite these offerings as an important reason for choosing to locate and stay in the area.

Visit the Cambridge Centre for the Arts new website www.cambridgecentreforthearts.ca

Don’t worry if you didn’t make it out to the event in September. We can still add your voice to the process. We are interested in hearing your views now. Please fill out the survey on Arts, Culture and Heritage. You can take the survey here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YkX1SHSlwxVxfyOvSfwkhQ_3d_3d
14. Workshops at Grand River Glassworks, Kitchener

NEW AT GRAND RIVER GLASSWORKS: Experience a NEW level of glass fusing creativity with Guest Artist MICHELLE PROSEK (www.starfirestudios.ca)!

This exciting series of classes will teach a unique way to look at glass as a creative medium and to think in three dimensions. Students will create a small collection of sculptural fused works to be used in a number of ways ranging from Christmas ornaments to jewellery, or even a complete shadow box scene.

After a short rest from the One of a Kind show in Toronto, Michelle will lead this class on Wednesday, December 10, from 7 – 9 and Thursday, December 11, from 7 – 9. Cost for a 2-day class is $100.00. Materials and kiln time are included; shadow boxes are extra. Please note that students should be familiar with basic glass cutting tools and techniques.

For further information and to register, please contact Laurie Spieker, Grand River Glassworks (1065 Guelph Street, Kitchener) at 519-778-4562 or grandriverglassworks@sympatico.ca

Be sure to sign up quickly as space for these special classes is limited!

Christmas will soon be upon us, but it is not too late to try your hand at glass fusing a Christmas present or two! Please venture inside KW’s newest stained glass teaching studio and retail store, Grand River Glassworks, where the kiln is warm and the studio is welcoming, as we explore this exciting art and its interesting materials. Just in time for Christmas, make a plate or bowl, beautiful dichroic pendants, naïf Christmas ornaments, or a charming tack-fused landscape – the choice is yours. Upcoming December Saturday fusing dates are: December 6 from 9 – 12 and December 13, from 9 – 12.

The cost for a morning class is $50.00. Great value is provided at Grand River Glassworks - classes are fun for family and friends, are small (max. 10), include one kiln firing AND all materials are supplied: Spectrum System 96 glass, frit, stringers, noodles, rods, confetti, molds, pattern ideas, and hand tools as necessary. A glass fusing class would make a wonderful venue for a Christmas Party! Glass experience is not required for these classes.

Grand River Glassworks Gift Certificates are also available and would make a lovely and thoughtful Christmas gift.

For further information and to register please contact Laurie Spieker, Grand River Glassworks (1065 Guelph Street, Kitchener) at 519-778-4562 or grandriverglassworks@sympatico.ca
15. Holiday Group Show, Transit Gallery, Hamilton

Join us at the reception on evening of Friday, December 5th

The show will be on for the month of December and features a selection of work by gallery artists:

Harold Klunder
Fiona Kinsella
Matthew Varey
Michael Allgoewer
Steve Mazza
Barry Lorne
Laurie Kilgour-Walsh
Robert Creighton
Leslie Sorochan
Martin Pearce
John W. Ford

transit gallery
230 Locke Street South, Hamilton
905. 522. 1299
art@transitgallery.ca
www.transitgallery.ca
gallery hours: tuesday to saturday 10-6, friday 10-9, sunday 12-4

I just got this today. Sorry for the short notice, and I hope to see you all there!

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Open invitation to artists in Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Stratford and Waterloo about participating in 2009 spOtlight Festival!

Spotlight information session : 3-5pm December 3, 2008 King Street Theatre Centre, 36 King Street West in Kitchener

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Festival en vEdette 2009 : Invitation pour les artistes de Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Stratford et Waterloo

Séance d’information pour le festival en vEdette 2009 : 3 décembre 2008 15 h - 17 h, au King Street Theatre Centre, 36, rue King ouest, Kitchener

Events, Shows and Other Happenings
3. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener
4. Ed Video Presents Code Red Green Blue, Guelph
5. Numb vs. 1:16 vs. Umbrella Rod, Ed Video Media Centre, Guelph
6. Yuletide, “Jewel Box”: 50 Artist group show, Barber Gallery, Guelph
7. Harbinger Gallery: Annual Christmas Party, Waterloo
8. Globe Studios Fall Show & Sale 2008, Kitchener
9. Guelph Youth Singers presents Walking in the Air
10. Independent Authors & Illustrators of Canada: Book Fair, Guelph
11. Libby Hague: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo

Calls
12. Annual Call for Programming Submissions, Ed Video Media Art Centre, Guelph
13. Cambridge Centre for the Arts Artist-In-Residence 2009

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1. Olympic Torch Comes to Cambridge - City Selected for Relay Route

Cambridge is known for its strategic location and that has been affirmed by today’s announcement that the city will be among the prominent Canadian locations on the Olympic Torch Relay route. Residents anxious to catch the Olympic Spirit will have a chance to see the Olympic Flame in person on December 27th, 2009 as it passes through our city and makes its way towards the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for the citizens of Cambridge and the surrounding communities to witness this ceremonial wonder as it makes its way through our city to the winter games in Vancouver,” says Cambridge Mayor Doug Craig. “We are very proud that the torch will leave its legacy here in Cambridge.”

The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will begin its 106-day Canadian journey on October 30, 2009. The Flame’s pan-Canadian journey will culminate on February 12, 2010 when it arrives in Vancouver for the Opening Ceremony before a global viewing audience of billions.

“It’s quite an undertaking to plan the elaborate route that will bring the flame to potentially 90 per cent of Canadians; and there are further opportunities for people in our community to get involved by applying to be a torchbearer. They will select 12,000 from across Canada,” Craig adds.

Beginning today, residents interested in applying for an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame can apply at iCoke.ca or rbc.com/carrythetorch. Coca-Cola and RBC, the relay’s presenting partners, have the exclusive rights for the public to enter the Olympic Torchbearer program and are looking for Canadian applicants who commit to live healthier or are inspired to create a stronger country by volunteering or making sustainable choices.

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay route will be the longest domestic Torch Relay in Olympic history, stretching over 45,000 kilometres throughout Canada. Upon its conclusion, the Olympic Flame will have been welcomed in over 1,000 communities and passed within a one-hour of more than 90 per cent of the entire Canadian population. The full route is available at vancouver2010.com.

City of Cambridge
50 Dickson Street
Cambridge, Ontario
Tel: 519.740.4683
TTY: 519.623.6691
Fax: 519-740-4512
www.cambridge.ca

2. Arts Organizations Support Local Food Bank

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) and the Centre In The Square (CITS) are joining together to spread goodwill throughout the community with a food drive in support of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Patrons are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the main lobby of the Centre In The Square throughout the month of December. As a thank-you, KWS is offering $5 off the price of any remaining concert in the 08-09 season.

“At this special time of year, this initiative encourages us all to share some goodwill and thoughtfulness in our community,” says Alf Bogusky, Director-General, KW|AG.

According to Wendi Campbell, Executive Director of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, “Volunteers are the force that makes the Food Bank effective in Waterloo Region” while Ruth Friendship-Keller, Manager of Community Partnerships notes that “the generosity and enthusiasm of more than nineteen hundred caring individuals make it possible for the Food Bank to meet our community’s need for emergency food.”

Food items can be dropped off everyday in the CITS box office lobby during regular business hours.

“This is the season of giving. Help us by giving what you can by bringing non-perishable food items to our main lobby. Together we’ll help those in need,” says Jamie Grant, General Manager of the Centre In The Square.

You can also plan to attend these upcoming December events and drop off your donated items at the same time:

KWAG
Dec 6 - Family Workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m., $10 + GST (adult & child)
Dec 7 - Family Sunday, Drop in 2-5 p.m., FREE
Dec 14 - Public Tour, 2 p.m., FREE

KWS
Dec 5 & 6 - Jazz Meets Orchestra, 8 p.m., CITS
Dec 6 - “Little Russian” Youth Orchestra concert, 2 p.m.
Dec 7 - Jazz Meets Orchestra (Generations) 2:30 p.m., CITS
Dec 18 & 19 - Yuletide Spectacular, 8 p.m., RRC
Dec 20 - Yuletide Spectacular, 2:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., CITS

CITS
Dec 11 - Waterloo Country Carollers Sing-A-Long, 2 p.m.
Dec 21 - Franklin’s Family Christmas Concert, 1 & 4 p.m.

Admission to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is free. Everyone is welcome.

3. Rotunda Gallery December 2008 Exhibition: Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, M.A.P.S., Kitchener

Join us at the Rotunda Gallery in December!

Jefferson Campbell-Cooper presents M . A . P . S . Minor Alterations to Perception Series.

Exhibit opens: Monday, December 1
Artist’s reception: Tuesday, December 9, from 11:30 am - 1 pm, and 5 - 7 pm

December exhibit uses maps to guide perception

For artist Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, maps present their own opportunity for creating art. The Elora artist will be exhibiting his series, “M.A.P.S. Minor Alterations to Perception,” at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of December.

“My most recent fascination with maps is their inability to capture change,” says Campbell-Cooper. “The map becomes a snapshot in time of a place, and in this shortfall, I want drawing to enter the process and materially solve the static situation.”

The M.A.P.S series are four, large, hand-drawn, graphite maps on wood panels. The maps are of the local area at different scales reflecting the topography and features of the surroundings during different time periods.

“The maps focus on the fluidity of our landscape, inundated by the mass of material scoured over the earth during glacial times,” says Campbell-Cooper. “One map will examine a cross-section of southern Ontario and in particular, its proposed highway systems for the next decade and the movement of materials for this to happen, drawing from the past to help map the future.”

Campbell-Cooper maps the world around him through drawing and sculpture. By investigating the materials of his surroundings, including concrete, stone, wood, earth, and a range of metals, he unravels relationships by finding the forms of things we cannot always see.

He has been showing his work for the past five years across Canada and United States. His work revolves directly around the complex relationship between human intervention and nature through life experiences, and the places his dedication to understanding the natural world have taken him.

“By understanding the world around us we in turn begin to understand ourselves,” he says.

Rotunda Gallery
Kitchener City Hall 200 King St W
Kitchener

4. Ed Video Presents Code Red Green Blue, Guelph

Ed Video Media Arts Centre Presents:
Code Red Green Blue
The authenticity of illusion

Ed Video Media Arts Centre is excited to present Code Red Green Blue 8pm, December 12th, 2008
Ed Video - 40 Baker St., 2nd Floor, Guelph.

As the study of ‘conspiracy theories’ moves from the fringe into the mainstream, it is the veracity of the video signal that is often at the forefront of the debate. Video purports to show us the facts surrounding the pivotal events of our time. Examining the video signal is foremost to those investigating the actualities of the accepted course of recent historical events. Each frame is analyzed in an attempt to extract evidence, in order to reach the desired conclusion. How much truth can be found in the 76,800 dots of colour that create a web-sized video?

The artists presented in ‘Code Red Green Blue’ use video to take a barometer reading of the present complex political climate. The works chosen reveal the construct inherent in the video signal, and urge the viewer to question the authenticity of the illusion. These videos have the courage to comment on terrorism, tyranny, and totalitarianism, in a time when politics in contemporary art is often considered passe, didactic, or just too frightening to confront.

An open discussion will occur after the screening and into the night to allow the audience to respond to the work. Participants are invited to debate the difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘reasonable suspicion’, and between skepticism and paranoia, using notable video clips as the basis for the conversation.

Jubal Brown - ‘The End (Millenium Project)’
Daniel Borins - ‘Code Red’ & ‘The Apotheosis of Everything’
Daniel Cockburn - ‘Stupid Coalescing Becomers’
Thorarinn Jonsson - ‘Fake Bombing at the ROM’
Jenn E Norton - ‘Forced’
Eduardo Menz - ‘Fracas’

featuring;
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for ‘dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11

Panel Talk with representatives Adnan Zuberi and Adam Parrott from the University of Waterloo 9/11 Research Group and other speakers from the realm of politics and video technology.

For more information about this presentation, please contact Ed Video’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Dent, weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Liz’s contact information is located at the bottom of this release.

Thank you for supporting Ed Video Media Arts Centre, a charitable, member-run organization.

Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor, Guelph
(519)836-9811
www.edvideo.org

5. Numb vs. 1:16 vs. Umbrella Rod, Ed Video Media Centre, Guelph

Ed Video Media Arts Centre is excited to present local works as a fundraiser for our new space. Shows are December 6th, 2008 at Ed Video - 40 Baker St., 2nd Floor, Guelph. There are 2 screenings, at 6:15pm & 8:15pm.

Come watch brand new films from Reese Eveneshen, Jay Justin, Philip Carrer and more. All the filmmakers are from the Guelph area.

NUMB - A tragic look into the mind of a mob hitman who has been pushed to the very edge. (Directed By Reese Eveneshen) Note that that Numb is not suitable for all ages as it contains graphic violence, language and some sexual content.

1:16 PM - The world is brought to it’s knees when the dead suddenly come back to life to feast on the living. (Directed By Jay Justin)

UMBRELLA ROD - Follows one woman and her journey into mental illness (Directed By Philip Carrer)

After the screenings, stick around for refreshments and a party, starting after the first screening. All proceeds of this event will go toward Ed Video Media Arts Centre (www.edvideo.org)

Advanced Tickets are $5.00 each and can be purchased at Ed Video (40 Baker Street in Downtown Guelph).

Tickets purchased at the door are $10.00 (includes applicable taxes)

Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor,
Guelph ON N1H 6R7
(519)836-9811
www.edvideo.org

6. Yuletide, “Jewel Box”: 50 Artist group show, Barber Gallery, Guelph

Title: Yuletide, “Jewel Box”
Artists: 50 Artist group show
Music: Live jazz by “Indigo Riff”
Time: November 29th, 2008 to January 2009. Opening reception and party Saturday November 29 from 2-4 P.M.
Free admission. Free parking.

The Barber Gallery is pleased to host and welcome you to “Jewel Box” our annual Yuletide exhibition and party, featuring original works in a multitude of mediums by fifty of the area’s most talented artists and artisans.

Like a magical jewel box, the gallery is sure to delight with each offering a magnificent little treasure to behold. Browse the region’s most unusual collection of art and artifacts in our spacious restored limestone factory, seconds from downtown Guelph. Sway to the relaxed sound of live jazz by Indigo Riff. We invite you to treat yourself and friends to an afternoon of holiday fun, refreshment, and good cheer.

Jewel Box opens November 29 and continues throughout the holiday season. We welcome you to our opening party Saturday November 29 from 2-4 P.M. supported by F&M Brewery. Enjoy!

Barber Gallery
Free Admission. Free parking.
167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph
(519) 824-0821
www.barbergallery.com

7. Harbinger Gallery: Annual Christmas Party, Waterloo

Harbingers’ 21st Annual Christmas Show opening November 28 to December 24, 2008.

All are welcome to the opening party on Friday, November 28, 7-9pm.

Commencing December 1, Harbinger Gallery will be open Mondays from 10:30 to 6pm and open until 8pm on Thursdays. The gallery will be closed for the holiday season from December 25 to January 9th, 2009 and reopening on Saturday, January 10.

To view e-invitation please visit:
http://www.harbingergallery.com/m/content/article.php?content_id=362

Harbinger Gallery:
22 Dupont St. E.
Waterloo, ON N2J 2G9

Phone: (519) 747-4644
Email: art@harbingergallery.com
Web: www.harbingergallery.com

8. Globe Studios Fall Show & Sale 2008, Kitchener

Globe Studios will be holding its annual Fall Show & Sale of fine art & craft from November 28th to 30th. Resident artists will have their studios open to the public and will be joined by several guest artists from the region.

Event dates:
* Friday 28 November - 5-8p (Reception)
* Saturday 29 November - 10a-5p
* Sunday 30 November - 10a-4p

At Globe Studios, 141 Whitney Place, Kitchener (the foot of Cedar, near Courtland).

Shawna Morrissette from Majestic Mud Studios will also be doing an ash firing of pottery, with the proceeds of the sold pieces going to a new non-profit venture, the Muddy Music Centre.

Participating resident artists include:
Alan Daniel
Becky Webster
Charlene O’Grady
Cynosure Jewelry
Fatima Garzan
Isabella Stefanescu
Julianna Yau
Karen Louise Fletcher
Kathryn Forler
Majestic Mud Studio
Margaret Wood
Marlene Pomeroy
Melissa Doherty
Michelle Purchase
Sean M Puckett
Sheila Trinkaus
Vanja Stojanovic

Participating guest artists include
Amy Roger
Denise Strong
Cathy Farwell
Heather Kocsis
Supria Karmakar
Tom Dale

Globe Studios is home to 20 artists, including potters, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, photographers, painters and bookbinders. Arts organizations such as CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener & Area), the MT Space theatre company and the Waterloo Regional Arts Council are also located within Globe Studios.

Globe Studios
141 Whitney Place
Kitchener, ON
www.globestudios.org

9. Guelph Youth Singers presents Walking in the Air

Guelph Youth Singers presents
Walking in the Air—A family concert for the season!

Beautiful sounds of the season will be presented by singers aged six through seventeen in Guelph Youth Singers’ annual seasonal concert on November 29 at 7:30 pm. on the Main Stage at the River Run Centre. The four award-winning choirs of Guelph’s own nationally-recognized organization will be joined by an outstanding string quartet from the Suzuki String School of Guelph, “The Unaccompanied Minors,” along with guest instrumentalists on percussion and handbells.

An eclectic mix of songs of the season will include the title song for the concert, “Walking in the Air,” the delightful song from the movie, “The Snowman,” sung by all 80 children and youth of the combined four choirs. Traditional carols from England, Spain, Poland, Czechosolvakia, Denmark, France and Germany will be sung in beautiful choral arrangements. A lively “Sleigh Song” by Riegger will carry you through the Russian countryside. The concert will also feature a contemporary African composition sung in the Zulu language. The youngest singers of the organization are likely to steal the show with the classic “Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails” made famous by Gene Autry.

Guelph Youth Singers includes singers selected from throughout the city of Guelph and surrounding areas. The choirs are regular recipients of top honours from the Guelph Kiwanis Festival, and have gone on to win awards at both the provincial and national levels of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals.

For tickets, phone River Run Centre box office at 763-3000. Adults $20 / Students & Seniors $16/eyeGO.org

10. Independent Authors & Illustrators of Canada: Book Fair, Guelph

Autographed books by talented independent authors & illustrators

Saturday, December 6
&
Sunday, December 7, 2008
10:00am-5:00pm

West End Community Centre
off Impreial Rd, just north of Paisley Rd
Guelph, ON

11. Libby Hague: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo

Libby Hague
Cut/close to home
November 12 - December 6, 2008

The exhibition Cut/close to home is a “when love goes wrong” scenario that explores control, sexuality, violence and self respect within a relationship. This installation features a video loop of a man and woman fighting in the boxing ring at Sully’s Gym. The video uses a rotoscoping technique (in which animation is drawn on top of live action) and is projected on several layers of semi-transparent plastic curtain strips. Viewers can separate the image with their hands and walk through the video, symbolically breaking the cycle of violence. By inviting the audience to interact with the work Hague hopes the audience will recognize their ability to bring about change.

Libby Hague is a Toronto based artist with an extensive exhibition history. Recent exhibitions include: Rehearsal for Everything, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville; Hot + Cold running water in Washi!, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto and vent du nord, Arprim, Montreal. Hague’s current body of works are in a form of print installation, a theatrical approach to printmaking that integrates print, video and sculpture and, when possible, viewers.

Cut/close to home is part of a series of exhibitions which links the works of Canadian artists with academic departments at Wilfrid Laurier University. Hague’s exhibition will be connected to the Gender, Culture and Technology course in the Women’s Studies Program.

Cut/close to home cast: Philip Anisman, Isaac Morkel, Ryna Schickler
composers: Christine Fellows, Jason Tait
musicians: Christine Fellows, Jason Tait, Bob Eagan, Jeremy Strachan

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12 -5pm, Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Admission is free

Robert Langen Art Gallery
Wilfrid Laurier University
John Aird Centre
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5

Contact: For more information contact Suzanne Luke, Curator 519-884-0710 ext. 3801 or sluke@wlu.ca

12. Annual Call for Programming Submissions, Ed Video Media Art Centre, Guelph

Call for Submissions

Ed Video Media Arts Centre in Guelph, Ontario is inviting submissions by artists and curators for the upcoming programming season of September 2009 - September 2010. Our annual Exhibition and Screening series presents regional, national and international video-based media art work. We encourage a strong curatorial and artistic practice that is challenging, stimulating, and provocative. Both emerging and established artists/curators should apply, and we are interested in all genres of media arts - experimental, narrative, documentary, feature, installation and inter-disciplinary. Our aim is to also ensure our presentations address the interests of a diverse audience, are relevant in the local and national media art community, and support the development of our producing members.

Please send any support material you wish such as:
• Names of artists and works to be presented
• A brief curatorial statement or description of the work(s)
• A Curriculum Vitae
• Preview tape/DVD of the submitted work
• A proposed budget covering all costs of screening/exhibition
• A self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish it to be returned

Selections will be based on:
• Compatibility with Ed Video’s mandate
• Quality of the work submitted
• Quality of the proposal
• Availability of space/money

Ed Video encourages submissions from curators/artists of all ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. We support artists through the payment of artist and copyright fees according to the guidelines established by CAR/FAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Fronts des Artistes Canadiens).

All submissions will be considered by a Selection Committee made up of artists, curators, community members and Ed Video members. Ed Video facilitates programming and exhibitions on and off site.

Deadline: March 6, 2009

Please send submissions to:
Selection Committee
c/o Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 1629
Guelph, ON,
N1H 6R7

For submission inquiries, please contact:
Scott McGovern
Program Director
Ed Video Media Arts Centre
(519) 836-9811
scott@edvideo.org

13. Cambridge Centre for the Arts Artist-In-Residence 2009

CALL FOR ENTRY
Cambridge and surrounding area artists, as well as artists whose work is relevant to the Cambridge area, are invited to submit a proposal for the 2009 Artist-in-Residence program. The purpose of the Artist-In-Residence Program is to provide professional artists with an opportunity to involve and engage the community in the artistic and creative processes of their art. The length of residency is flexible and is based on terms of approximately 400 hours. The intention and desire is that there be a lasting impact or legacy from the project, whether it involves new understandings of creative processes, a stronger community bond, or an artwork which remains in the Cambridge community.

Benefits:
Benefits Include: development of the artist’s work and C.V., free studio time (based on availability), no commission on sales, regular interaction with the arts community, high-visibility with the general public, assistance and consultation with marketing materials, use of meeting/program rooms/computer/internet/fax/voicemail, photocopying services, clerical assistance, $3,500 honorarium, $3,000 allocated for program expenses (as approved by the City of Cambridge). This program is funded by the City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Arts Guild; and, is administered by the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.

Submissions:
All artists are required to submit a proposal to be received at the Centre for the Arts front reception no later than Friday, November 28th at 4pm, without exception. Submissions are to be delivered by mail or in person to:

Artist-in-Residence Selection Committee
c/o Tamara Louks
Cambridge Centre for the Arts
60 Dickson Street
Cambridge, Ontario
N1R 8N1

Proposal Requirements:
Submission packages are to include: 10 - 15 photographs or a video of recent work; current C.V.; artist’s statement; 3-page maximum proposal to include: facility, equipment and supply requirements, proposed programming and its relationship with the Cambridge community; budget outline; any other relevant support material (amounting to no more than 4 items); and, 3 professional references.

*Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Screening
Eligible artists are required to meet the below eligibility criteria. Ineligible applicants will be sent a letter of thanks and be returned their submission packages.

Eligibility Criteria:
Eligible applicants must be professional artists from Cambridge and the surrounding area, or a professional artist whose work is relevant to the Cambridge area.

Selection Criteria
Criteria for selection are as follows: artistic excellence, strength of submission, public appeal, professional record, relevance of submission to the Cambridge Centre for the Arts mission.

MISSION STATEMENT
The Cambridge Centre for the Arts is a municipally operated community Arts Centre that enriches and engages area residents, artists and organizations through the provision of quality artistic experiences and opportunities that stimulate, promote and support the arts in Cambridge. The Cambridge Centre for the Arts encourages participation and inspires an appreciation for the arts.

VISION STATEMENT
Discover Your Creative Side…

Past residencies:
2008 Christopher van Donkelaar, iconographer
2007 Michele Hopkins, dancer/choreographer
2006 Dan Roberts, abstract painter/muralist
2005 Nancy Morrey, writer
2004 Heather Franklin, visual artist
2003 Amber Morphy, musician

For more information please contact Tamara Louks at 740-4681, ext. 4367

Please join the artists of ArtBites Gallery in celebrating the Grand Re-Opening of their co-operative gallery in Unit C112, 95 King Street South, Waterloo on Saturday, November 22, from 11 - 5.

We are just around the corner from the Uptown Waterloo Starbucks. Look for the beautiful fine art in our windows and on our walls - you have arrived. Please come in for hot apple cider, Christmas treats, and a chance to chat with our artists.

The artists of ArtBites Gallery continue to thank First Gulf Corporation for their continued support.

Events, Shows and Other Happenings
2. Nationally Acclaimed Artist Begins Installing Public Art at Cambridge City Hall
3. End of Season Exhibition, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener
4. Ted Goodden’s Glory Boy Opening, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo
5. RENDER presents Seth in conversation with Chris Ware, UW School of Architecture, Cambridge
6. Rotunda Gallery November 2008 Exhibition (Megan Sinnett, Missing)
7. Guelph Youth Singers Singathon
8. Globe Studios Fall Show & Sale 2008, Kitchener
9. Independent Authors & Illustrators of Canada: Book Fair, Guelph
10. Independent Authors & Illustrators of Canada: annual Christmas Book Fair, Fergus
11. Libby Hague: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo
12. ArtBites Grand Re-Opening, Waterloo
13. Guelph Arts Council Festive Arts Schmoozefest

Calls
14. Full Time Audience Development Coordinator, Cambridge Galleries
15. Cambridge Centre for the Arts Artist-In-Residence 2009
16. Call for New Members: Whitestone Gallery, Guelph

Workshops
17. Workshops at Grand River Glassworks, Kitchener

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1. City of Cambridge More Than Recoups Costs on the Concession Street Heritage Investment

Cambridge, Ontario. November 17, 2008, 2008… Cambridge City Council tonight approved an offer of purchase for the heritage property on 65 Concession Street. The City purchased the property for $150,000 a few months ago with the intent to resell it and to have the new owner designate it under the Ontario Heritage Act.

Upon taking possession of the home, originally built for Frederick G. Allenby, one of Galt’s first solicitors, the City worked to address some of the immediate needs of the building which included contracting an engineering firm to assess the structure and put in place public safety measures for the visitors who would be on site to view the home. The property was listed for $175,000 which covered the investment and costs of work undertaken by the City.

“There was a very positive response to the listing of the property and staff arranged over a dozen showings to potential buyers,” says Steven Fairweather, Commissioner of Corporate Services. “The City has fully recovered the costs associated with the purchase, subsequent engineering work and marketing of the property.”

While the property requires significant resources and “tender loving care”, the purpose of the venture was to select a candidate who has a vision to restore the former elegance to this heritage structure. There were four confidential bids put forward to City Council that had a range of terms and conditions. Council selected the successful bid which is an “Unconditional Offer” at a closed session before the regular meeting tonight. The deal is set to close on December 15, 2008 at which time full details of the offer will be available to the public and the new owner will proceed with the Heritage designation.

City of Cambridge
50 Dickson Street, Cambridge
Tel: 519.740.4683
TTY: 519.623.6691
Fax: 519-740-4512
www.cambridge.ca

2. Nationally Acclaimed Artist Begins Installing Public Art at Cambridge City Hall

Stephen Cruise, nationally renowned Canadian artist whose work is found in the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, will add Cambridge City Hall to the list of prominent locations for his visual display masterpieces. The public art sculpture entitled “indigena domain” installation is underway in front of Cambridge’s new City Hall, adjacent to Historic City Hall along Dickson Street and is slated for unveiling at noon on November 22nd. The work was commissioned at a cost of $150,000 by City Council last fall when Cruise’s design won the public competition which was overseen by a distinguished group of art experts and scholars.

“Shortly after Council announced the winning design in October of last year, Stephen went to work on elements of the design, sourcing the numerous materials and coordinating logistical work to take the project from concepts to reality,” says Reg Weber, Director of Community Recreation Services.

Stephen Cruise is known for bringing his highly engaging visual art to the masses and will be on site to oversee the installation. It is anticipated the process will take upwards of 12 days to complete with a crew of approximately 6 people. The first step is to lay the concrete foundation which will form the base of the art pieces.

“The role of public art in the community can be significant,” says Mayor Doug Craig. “The concept of Civic Square is to provide an enhanced area for the community to hold events and activities that are geared to everyone. This hands-on art display will be an engaging environment that integrates natural materials and historical elements into the square.”

“indigena domain” traces the history of the local communities and draws from the natural significance of the elements of importance. The sculpture references deer hooves for Blair, grist mill wheels for Galt, trees for Preston and a beehive for Hespeler – all symbols that are true to these very distinct but intersected neighbourhoods. The Grand River unites the entire work which is symbolic of our roots as a community. The shifting scale plays with the sense of reality, and has a magical quality.

“The volunteer committee that assisted with this project was invaluable and dedicated their time and resources to make this showcase for the public to enjoy a success,” adds Weber.

The official unveiling ceremony is planned for the public. This event will engage citizens of all ages to help unveil the 100 foot sculpture. Members of the Cambridge Concert Band will perform and attendees will also enjoy a specially commissioned edible work of art from locally-based Klara Johnson’s School Of Confectionery & Pastry Art.

City of Cambridge
50 Dickson Street
Tel: 519.740.4683
TTY: 519.623.6691
Fax: 519-740-4512
www.cambridge.ca

3. End of Season Exhibition, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener

November 1 - December 21, 2008

End of Season Exhibition
J.R. Ribee - Georgian Bay Series
Susan Zender - Quiet Moments
Paul Roorda - Rhythm of Fire

Homer Watson House & Gallery proudly presents three artists in a vibrant End of Season Exhibition.

In his Georgian Bay Series, J.R Ribee captures the intense pure light of the North, creating his first line of fine art collection after twenty years of shooting commercial work. His photographs speak to his passion for rich hues dancing in the light, bursts of sun feeding the colours and generous textures full of vibrancy and brilliance.

Susan Zender’s exhibition, named Quiet Moments is a series of representational landscapes created using her imagination as inspiration. She forgoes the traditional methods, beginning with a blank canvas and letting her imagination and intuition guide her to explore and find a scene that best expresses a quiet moment of tranquility and rest.

The Ferrie Room hosts Paul Roorda’s exhibition entitled Rhythm of Fire. Drawing on beeswax with rust, ashes and gold leaf, Paul explores the psychological landscape of loss. The interplay between images of plaster walls, horizons and ritual-like markings create a tension between surface and depth. It reflects the internal conflict that arises when one’s foundation is shaken. The use of ritual becomes an attempt to create order where there is anxiety and hope where there is longing.

Location: 1754 Old Mill Road, Kitchener
Telephone: (519) 748-4377
Website: www.homerwatson.on.ca

4. Ted Goodden’s Glory Boy Opening, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo

November 23, 2008 - The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery celebrates the opening of Ted Goodden’s exhibition Glory Boy.

NOVEMBER 23, 2008 TO JANUARY 25, 2009
Artist Talk: November 23, 1-2pm
Opening: November 23, 2-5pm

Presented in the Keith & Winifred Shantz Gallery Ted Goodden’s fairy tale “Glory Boy” is about balance, “how to become a useful person, and not lose the childlike qualities we value in ourselves and others.” According to Goodden, glory traps are those things that suck the wonder out of everyday life. Similarly through stained glass, he argues, “We see things by light, but we don’t see light itself, however, stained glass can trap the light and break it up.” Goodden’s stained glass windows and drawings narrate the journey of the fairy tale’s main character, Gert.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS: TO JANUARY 25, 2009
CHRISTINE DAVIS: Lens
MICHELE LAPOINTE: Contes Muets/Silenced Tales
TANYA LYONS: Reflect

Christine Davis is represented by Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto. Tanya Lyons is represented by Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto.

Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo
Tel 519.746.1882
Fax 519.746.6396
www.canadianclayandglass.ca

5. RENDER presents Seth in conversation with Chris Ware, UW School of Architecture, Cambridge

RENDER presents:
Seth in conversation with Chris Ware
UW School of Architecture in Cambridge
7 Melville Street South, Cambridge, Ontario
Saturday, November 22nd, 1:00-4:00pm
Free Admission (limited seating)

RENDER is pleased to present renowned Canadian cartoonist Seth in conversation with the American cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware (moderated by Jeet Heer). Best known for his works Jimmy Corrigan, Rusty Brown, The Rag-Time Ephemeralist, Acme Novelty Archive and Building Stories, Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Seth is the cartoonist behind the painfully infrequent comic book series Palookaville. His books include It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, Wimbledon Green, Bannock, Beans and Black Tea, and Clyde Fans Book One. Last year he serialized the story George Sprott (1894-1975) in the New York Times for 25 weeks and will appear in an expanded form as a book in the spring of 2009.

Seth and Ware’s conversation will be preceded by an audiovisual presentation prepared by Ware and This American Life radio host Ira Glass entitled Lost Buildings concerning the demolition of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan’s buildings and one person’s efforts to save them.

Also, don’t miss the related exhibitions Seth: Dominion (and its sister city of Beaver) at RENDER - University of Waterloo, Seth: The North Star Talking Picture House at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and COMIC CRAZE at Cambridge Galleries Queen’s Square.

Contact:
Andrew Hunter, RENDER Director/Curator: renderprojects@gmail.com
Barbara Hobot, RENDER Curator-in-Residence: renderevents@gmail.com
www.render.uwaterloo.ca
www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33575

6. Rotunda Gallery November 2008 Exhibition (Megan Sinnett, Missing)

Missing children theme of November exhibit at Rotunda Gallery

You’ve seen the photos – blurred images of smiling children caught in a moment by the camera’s flash. Their immediate happiness belies the fact that they have gone missing. Their faces become the subject for “Missing,” the November exhibit at the Rotunda Gallery at city hall, by artist Megan Sinnett.

“I am particularly interested in the notion of ‘type’ as it relates to representation of the human face,” says Sinnett, adding her current series of painted portraits is based on the publicized photos of missing children. “These portraits are immediate and unspecific, much like the aged and blurred photographs that they are based on. They are immediate in terms of process and creation, but also timeless in the way these reference images intend to keep some essence of these children alive.”

Sinnett’s current work revolves around the practice of large-scale oil and encaustic portraits. The exhibit ponders what it means to be “missing.” How can any living being simply vanish, and why haven’t these children been located or identified? If these children are still alive and well — for instance, those who have been abducted by a restraining parent — do they even know that they are considered “missing”?

“In many cases, these photos remain one of the last identifying aspects of these children,” she says. “As such, not only are they lost, but so, too, is their identity, where all that remains is a computer generated assumption.”

Sinnett graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a bachelor of fine arts. Her work has been exhibited in artist-run, commercial, and public galleries across Ontario. She currently works in a gallery, and paints murals and teaches art classes with Visual Arts Mississauga. She has been profiled on CBC Television, Rogers Television, and in the Mississauga News.

Exhibit Opens: Sunday, November 2
Artist Reception: Saturday, November 8, 5-7 p.m.

The Rotunda, City Hall
200 King Street West, Kitchener
7. Guelph Youth Singers Singathon

The sound of music will fill Old Quebec Street during Guelph Youth Singers annual Sing-a-thon!

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