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SUMMARY:Community Fabric
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS COMMUNITY FABRIC?\nPresented by Art Not Shame\, the Community Fabric project is a free\, ten-week community-arts series in which participants work together to create a community quilt\, while building social connections and developing skills to support their mental health and wellbeing. Each week the quilt will grow as community members explore mark-making through textiles as local artist facilitators guide them through teachings around appliqué\, embroidery\, hand-sewing\, printmaking\, and quilting. In collaboration with the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition and the Guelph Civic Museum\, participants will co-create a quilt that shares stories and experiences from neighbourhood groups across the City of Guelph. The quilt will be housed in Art Not Shame’s new community arts hub\, as a representation of the community members who will use the space and a physical symbol of inclusivity. The quilt will also be included in an exhibition at the Guelph Civic Museum in the Fall of 2024. \nNo experience necessary. This program is open to folks of all ages (children are welcome with their grown-up)! \nAll spaces are all ground floor and are physically accessible. All locations have accessible washroom facilities. Masks and hand sanitizer will be provided and are encouraged! \nYou can register for as many sessions as you’d like. The project will travel to the locations listed below. Drop-ins are also welcome! \n\n\nMARCH 7\, 6-8PM: The Neeve St Community Room – 87 Neeve Street \n\n\n(use playground west entrance) \n\n\n\n\nMARCH 21\, 6-8PM: Brant Avenue – 35 Algonquin Rd \n\n\nMARCH 28\, 6-8PM: Brant Avenue – 35 Algonquin Rd \n\n\nAPRIL 4\, 6-8PM: Parkwood Gardens – 50 Fife Rd \n\n\nAPRIL 11\, 6-8PM: Parkwood Gardens – 50 Fife Rd \n\n\nAPRIL 18\, 6-8PM: Shelldale Centre – 20 Shelldale Crescent \n\n\nAPRIL 25\, 6-8PM: Shelldale Centre – 20 Shelldale Crescent \n\n\nMAY 2\, 6-8PM: Guelph Civic Museum – 52 Norfolk St – QUILT ASSEMBLY! \n\n\nMAY 8\, 6-8PM: Guelph Civic Museum – 52 Norfolk St – QUILT ASSEMBLY! \n\n\nPlease email or call maeve.hind@artnotshame.org | 647-717-0340 for any questions or to register via phone.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/community-fabric/
CATEGORIES:Families,Interactive,Visual Art,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Choice and Chance
DESCRIPTION:Nancy MacNabb of Guelph and Patrice Baker of Fergus are teaming together for a show of acrylic and mixed media abstract art held at Headwaters Arts Gallery in Alton\, Ontario\, just south of Orangeville. See large and small artistic pieces that engage viewers by emotion and curiosity\, by the heart and the mind. Celebrate with the artists how happenstance becomes one ready and even necessary art-making tool – when chance\, such as found objects and spontaneous brushstrokes\, joins choice\, such as thoughtful planning – in the creation of unique beauty.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/choice-and-chance/
LOCATION:Headwaters Arts Gallery\, 1402 Queen St W\, Alton\, L7K 0C3
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Art Sales,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240502T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240502T190000
DTSTAMP:20240423T162037Z
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Lecture and Exhibition Launch: What Remains
DESCRIPTION:Launching the ArtsEverywhere festival organized and presented by Musagetes\, join the artists of the El Paso-based What Remains Collective (Dr. Adriana Alvarez\, Iris Morales\, Mabel Weber\, and Monica Lozano) for a guided conversation about documenting the stories of immigrant families as well as the belongings abandoned by individuals over the course of attempts to cross the political border into the United States. \nThe conversation will be followed by an opening reception for the collective’s exhibition What Remains at the Art Gallery of Guelph\, that brings together photography\, video\, and La Trenza – an evolving installation that braids together the belongings and stories of humans in transit\, immigrants\, asylum seekers\, displaced families\, men\, women\, and children who have experienced the journey of crossing a border\, from the heavily militarized to the nearly invisible. Representing individual experiences through the objects they carry with them\, this piece is made of materials recovered from the desert of Ciudad Juarez that were found half buried. \nImage detail: Monica Lozano\, The Cemetery\, 2022\, detail\, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/big-ideas-lecture-and-exhibition-launch-what-remains/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1G 1Y1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Heritage,Interactive,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240516T183000
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SUMMARY:Pronto Plate Lithography Workshop at Otherwise Studios
DESCRIPTION:Learn traditional lithography techniques on an intaglio press using the pronto plate lithography method during this 2-part workshop\, May 16 & 23! \nLearn how to create an image\, work with greasy & oil-sensitive materials when creating artwork\, how to affix your image on your pronto plate\, and print an edition of prints to take home. \nLithography is a printmaking process based on the concept that oil and water don’t mix. The printmaker draws or paints using oily materials\, onto a flat stone\, prepared metal plate\, or polyester plate. This image is made “permanent” through a series of chemical reactions and then printed using oil-based ink. The pronto plate method is a safer method without the harmful chemicals required for traditional stone lithography. \nTo ensure willing participants have access to educational opportunities\, please email Ahmri at info@otherwisestudios.com if you face financial barriers. Space permitting\, we can provide complimentary spots in this workshop.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/pronto-plate-lithography-workshop-at-otherwise-studios/
LOCATION:Otherwise Studios\, 490 York Road\, Building i\, Suite 201\, Guelph ON\, N1E 6V1
CATEGORIES:Courses,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240523T080000
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SUMMARY:SPARC Symposium\, Re-Igniting the Spark!
DESCRIPTION:The SPARC Symposium\, Re-Igniting the Spark! May 23-26\, 2024\, is a unique opportunity for rural and remote artists\, creators\, presenters\, producers\, arts lovers and community animators to network\, share and learn. Full of amazing workshops for professional and passion artists/presenters alike – Symposium truly is a one of a kind gathering. \nTaking place in the Town of Minto\, Symposium also offers local entertainment and excursions to discover the local arts scene. \nTo plan your symposium visit\, the schedule can be accessed here –\nhttps://www.sparcperformingarts.com/blog/planning-your-trip-to-symposium-2024 \nFor a full listing of workshops and facilitator bios click here –\nhttps://www.sparcperformingarts.com/blog/re-igniting-the-spark-2024-workshops-\nand-facilitators-announced
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/sparc-symposium-re-igniting-the-spark/
CATEGORIES:Literary,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240525T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240622T170000
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SUMMARY:Xuan Ye: I OWNED\, A TONGUE
DESCRIPTION:Xuan Ye: I OWNED\, A TONGUE\nMay 25th – June 22nd\, 2024 \nEd Video Media Arts Centre \n404 York Rd\, Guelph\, ON N1E 3H4 \nHours: Monday\, Tuesday\, Thursday and Friday\, 10 am – 5 pm \n\nOpening Reception:  Saturday\, May 25th\, 2024\, from 2 pm – 4 pm\, Ed Video Media Arts Centre\, 404 York Rd\, Guelph\, ON N1E 3H4 \nJoint Launch: A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints and EveryLetterCyborg Bites: \nSaturday\, June 8th\, 2024\, from 2 pm – 4 pm\, Art Metropole\, 896 College Street\, Toronto\, ON M6H 1A4 \nArtist Statement\nI OWNED\, A TONGUE is about hacking the alphabetic writing apparatus as a technology in an algorithmic narration of cybernetic feedback and data economies. In the exhibition\, the software writes on its own\, interfaces invite you to decipher and gesture\, neon signs emit ringing sounds while scrolling antonym pairs\, and speech voices are indigestible data that insist on unlearning. Six works of digital poetry\, that are six modes of perceptual rerouting\, synthesize unstable and untranslatable signifiers that confuse yet connect us. Meanings dangle in the collective dreams we are all in\, where networked machines relay signals from the other side of reality. Lost tongues are found anew as contexts are displaced\, detached\, and divinated from their normalized mundane. \nAbout EveryLetterCyborg Bites Artist Multiple (Edition of 100)\nEveryLetterCyborg Bites are toothy fortune cookies offering cryptic divinations in camouflage as heteroglossia. Each bite is one message that is one tweet from the Twitter bot @qletrcyborg (2018 – 2022). Each tweet contains words sourced from Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto (1985) as its corpus. Each message is encrypted with a word randomly generated from an online database of English dictionaries. Each bite casts a post-cyberfeminist spell\, enchanting the already predicted fortune with the allure of data noise and indeterministic codes. \n  \n \nAbout the Artists and Contributors\nXuan Ye 叶轩 works across art\, music and technology. X is interested in making noise as a generative space to evoke the dissonant\, untranslatable and illegible within more-than-human entanglements. They often involve improvisation\, computation and fiction to compose software\, images\, installations\, performances and editions. Their work has appeared at the MOCA Toronto\, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai)\, Venice Architecture Biennale\, Peer to Space (Berlin)\, MUTEK Montreal\, Art Gallery of Ontario\, and Goethe-Institut (Beijing)\, among others. Their multifaceted practice has been featured and reviewed in Canadian Art (Winter 2020)\, ArtAsiaPacific(Issue. 111)\, KUNSTFORUM (Bd. 257)\, Musicworks (Issue. 136)\, and Bandcamp Daily (Best Experimental Albums). \nMujie Li is an experimental writer and a doctoral researcher of digital media and culture at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom). Her research explores how literary aspects (such as writing\, reading\, text and language) in digital and computational technological conditions work together to shape digital aesthetics. She is the author of the novella Mirage Time (2017\, published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe)\, and the article On Digital Aesthetics: Sense-Data and Atmospheric Language (2023\, published by Electronic Book Review). \nJason Doell is vital to Canada’s experimental music/sound community. His interdisciplinary practice includes site/context-specific works\, live coding\, and signal-chain manipulation. Doell has created several significant works\, including “Beneath a Landscape”\, a 30-minute subway piece commissioned by INTERsection festival (CA)\, the interactive online work “TURNONANDBENOTALONE” presented by Music Gallery (CA)\, and the algorithmic piece “tbtastiuth” commissioned by MaerzMusik (DE). Doell has worked with international artists such as Quatuor Bozzini\, Continuum Contemporary Music\, Pulitzer Prize-winner Raven Chacon\, and legendary guitarist John Dieterich. Doell’s new album\, Becoming In Shadows ~ Of Being Touched\, was released on American imprint Whited Sepulchre. \nExhibition Catalogue\nDownload here. \nAccessibility \nOn the side of the 404 York Rd building\, there is an accessible ramp that leads to the building’s back door. Head straight through the hall to reach Ed Video’s side door. Parking is available along the side of the building. The parking spot closest to the ramp is reserved for those with accessibility needs. Note that parking spots near other buildings in the area are not publicly available spots. \nAcknowledgement\nThis exhibition has been supported by Partners in Art under its Artist-Direct Program and received exhibition assistance from the Ontario Arts Council. Special thanks to Maddie Lychek\, Program Director\, and Elia Morrison\, Technical Director\, of Ed Video for their invaluable organizational and technical support. \nFounded in 1976\, Ed Video Media Arts Centre is a charitable artist-run centre\, whose mission is to foster the creation\, exhibition\, and appreciation of media arts.Ed Video is situated on the traditional lands of the Attawandaron\, Anishinaabek\, and Haudenosaunee Peoples and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit. The Ed Video Media Arts Centre acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the City of Guelph\, and the Trillium Foundation.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/25715/
LOCATION:Ed Video Media Arts Centre\, 404 York Rd.\, Guelph\, N1E 3H4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:HWHG Clothesline Art Sale
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to be hosting our first ever Clothesline Art Sale. We strive to make art more accessible\, and the Clothesline Art Sale is the perfect opportunity for art lovers to purchase a wide range of art at varying prices. We support a diverse range of artists to display and sell their work in an easy and affordable way.   \nThe wide variety of unframed works will be displayed on a clothesline through the trees and along the edge of the park.  
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/hwhg-clothesline-art-sale/
LOCATION:Homer Watson House & Gallery\, 1754 Old Mill Rd\, Kitchener\, N2P 1H7
CATEGORIES:Art Sales,Families,Visual Art
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240528T203000
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SUMMARY:Gelli Plate Printmaking Workshop at Otherwise Studios
DESCRIPTION:Join this workshop to learn the art of monoprinting without a press\, using a gel plate printing technique! Learn how to compose interesting imagery using stencils\, transfers\, and various tools to create texture. Participants will also experiment with layering prints to create more detailed compositions. All materials supplied. No experience necessary. \nTo ensure willing participants have access to educational opportunities\, please email Ahmri at info@otherwisestudios.com if you face financial barriers. Space permitting\, we can provide complimentary spots in this workshop.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/gelli-plate-printmaking-workshop-at-otherwise-studios/
LOCATION:Otherwise Studios\, 490 York Road\, Building i\, Suite 201\, Guelph ON\, N1E 6V1
CATEGORIES:Courses,Visual Art,Workshops
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