The HAM has arrived! We will be posting event details through the week, and this is what you can look forward to on the opening weekend:
LAUNCH PAD PARTY | FRIDAY AUG 13 | 8PM-2AM
Do you like SPACE? Do you like ROBOTS? Do you like DANCING? Eastern Edge is looking to the future this year with a SPACE-AGE LAUNCH PARTY featuring the music of experimental bass and drum duo ROBOT SCOUT and dancing into the wee hours of the night to the grooves of guest deejay BK STRANGLER. Admission is $12, but for those wearing a space-age costume it is only $10! Sponsored by MODEL CITIZENS.
FAMILY LAUNCH | SUNDAY AUG 15 | NOON-4PM
We’ll be celebrating our children’s programming with different activities from 12-4, including FACE PAINTING with the Wandering Brush, STENCILING with Andrew Harvey, HULA-HOOPING with Kelly Suzanne Warren, and Heidi Wagner’s TREE COZY DEMONSTRATION with Cara Winsor Hehir. Come on down, get your face painted, hula a hoop, wrap a tree and find out what else we have in store for kids during the rest of the week. Admission is free.
SUMMER SAUNTER | SATURDAY-SUNDAY AUG 14-15 | NOON-5PM
Eastern Edge Gallery presents the Summer Saunter gallery and artist studio crawl on Saturday and Sunday on the opening weekend of the Art Marathon Festival. We encourage visitors to pick up a map at Eastern Edge or at one of the participating locations listed below. For web-savvy folk a pdf version of the map can also be downloaded here:
http://24hourartmarathon.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/summer-saunter-map.pdf
The following is a list of galleries and studios participating in this year’s Summer Saunter:
EASTERN EDGE GALLERY 72 Harbour Drive.
Saturday | Lia Rogers Landscape Walk, Heidi Wagner Tree Cozy, all -day outdoor art installations throughout St. John’s until Sunday Aug 22
Sunday | Family Launch for 24 HAM Festival, kids’ activities and entertainment, 12 to 5pm
A1C GALLERY 8 Baird’s Cove.
Saturday | Ruth Marsh Pareidolia, until Aug 28, 12 to 5pm
ST. MICHAEL’S PRINTSHOP 72 Harbour Drive.
Saturday | local, national and international work from the print collection, 12-5pm
CRAFT COUNCIL OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR 59 Duckworth St.
Saturday | Eighth Annual Beach Firing Fundraiser at Middle Cove Beach. Local ceramicists fire their creations using seaweed, sawdust, and driftwood to produce magnificent colours and textures. Pottery and sculpture sold on beach ranges from $1-100. Pack a picnic! *Rain Date: the next sunny weekend day, 10am
Sunday | Annual Members Exhibition, closing reception. A members’ exhibit where the only criteria is excellence, all media, styles, and themes are showcased with pride, 1-5pm
STUDIO 177 – JUNE WALKER WILSON 177 Water St., 3rd floor.
Saturday + Sunday | Oil paintings, textiles and watercolours accompanied by tea, coffee and snacks,1-5pm
HEATHER REEVES 165 Gower St.
Saturday + Sunday | Revolving around the immigrant experience of both belonging and not belonging to place, Ms. Reeves’ hooked mats incorporate traditional mat technique with new materials such as wire screening, wax and phototransfer, 12-5pm
ANNETTE MANNING 52 Bonaventure Ave.
Sunday | drawing and sculpture accompanied by wine and cheese, 12-5pm
CRUEL AND BOUNTIFUL SEA STUDIO – WILL GILL 177 Water St., 2nd floor.
Saturday | sculpture and new paintings, 2-4pm
WH ALLDERDICE 34 Battery Rd.
Sunday | selection of painted works, 12-5pm
RED OCHRE GALLERY 96 Duckworth St.
Saturday + Sunday | On display several pieces by each of the gallery artists with an emphasis on Newfoundland images, Sat 10-5:30pm, Sun 1-4:30pm
LEYTON GALLERY OF FINE ART Cliff Baird’s Cove, Off Water.
Saturday + Sunday | Annual Summer Show, accompanied by cookies and coffee, Sat 11-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
CHRISTINA PARKER GALLERY 7 Plank Road.
Saturday | Gallery artists featuring work from Bruce Alcock, Grant Boland, Tara Bryan, Scott Goudie, Helen Gregory, Tom Hammick, Terrence Howell, and Bill Rose, 11-5pm
