KIDS’ WORKSHOP | 11AM-2PM
Eastern Edge Gallery
Free Admission
Families, friends, and childen (also known as young budding artists) are invited to Eastern Edge Gallery on both of these days to create masks, lanterns, and piñatas with emerging artist Kyle Bustin as part of his practice in mask-making, the Lantern Festival as part of their on-going activities! When completed, children can bring their lanterns and masks to the Kids’ Dance Party on Friday August 20 and the Marathon Lantern Parade on Saturday at 9pm. We will also have a piñata smashing party! Sponsored by FLOWERCHILD.
COMMUNITY BBQ | NOON-2PM
Have a meal and support a local community organization at the Eastern Edge! Planned Parenthood is a non-profit, pro-choice sexual health organization serving all parts of the province. Their mission is to promote positive sexual health through education, community partnerships, information and services within an environment that supports and respects individual choice. Planned Parenthood works cooperatively with community-based and government organizations to achieve the goals of positive attitudes toward sexuality, responsible sexual practices and preventive health care.
ALICIA GRANT (NL/ON) HERE & NOW | 7PM
Cochrane Street United Church (81 Cochrane St.)
Admission by Donation
Here &Now is a contemporary dance solo that investigates memory, expectation and the homeland. The performance will mix disparate details of nights that go too late, ocean sounds, the comfort and tangles of family, friendly cabbies and steep hills with dance, confessions, and a Purity Syrup interlude. Her interdisciplinary collaborations unpack the notion of artist as social being into a relational art practice.
Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Alicia Grant is a graduate of the York University BFA dance program. Her collaborative work with Cara Spooner has been presented at XPACE Cultural Centre, Harbourfront Centre, LadyFest, Nuit Blanche, Artscape’s Toronto New Works Showcase (Pleasure Dome), Series 8:08, 7a*11d Festival and the Festival of New Dance. As an interpreter, she has worked with Zoja Smutny/Passbo Dance Theatre, Jenn Goodwin, Meagan O’Shea, Keiko Kitano, Compagnie Mandoline Hybride and Integrated Dance Artists Collective. Alicia has been an artist-in-residence at CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic and Caldera Arts Center in Sisters, Oregon. In Aug 2010, she will present a duet in Toronto for two women, two hawaiian shirts and one pair of XXL jogging pants.
OUTDOOR ART INSTALLATIONS:
EVOLVING WALL | ONGOING SUN TO SAT AUG 15-21
Eastern Edge Parking Lot
Various artists will be painting the front wall of the gallery! The art will change several times, so be sure to check back to see original creations throughout the week. Sponsored by THE PAINT SHOP and BENJAMIN MOORE.
LIA ROGERS (AB) LANDSCAPE WALK | ONGOING SUN TO SAT AUG 15-21
Various Locations
Landscape Walk is about physical social networking. It consists of a series of webpage frames set outdoors to be discovered by walking. People can look through the frames at the natural or urban landscape then comment using the provided comment cards and pens.
Lia Rogers is a practicing interdisciplinary artist. During her BFA she discovered media art and computers and went on to get a Computer Science degree. She has exhibited all over Canada. She is on the board at EMMEDIA and she is the Calgary Dorkbot overlord.
HEIDI WAGNER (NL) TREE COZY | ONGOING SUN TO SAT AUG 15-21
Bannerman Park
Heidi Wagner will wrap trees at Bannerman Park during the 24HAM Festival with textiles made of traditional and non traditional materials. Everyone can help and are invited to install pieces as well. She provides approximate sizes of trees if people want to make their pieces in advance and then come install. She will be present installing in Bannerman Park from 1-2pm every day.
Heidi Wagner really likes working with textiles; it gives her great pleasure to create innovative fabrics mixed with other mediums such as acrylic paint, pencil, charcoal, and found objects. She tends to develop strong pieces that can lean towards fragility or express sensuality. She enjoys trying new techniques and finding different ways to sculpt with textiles, to create new tactile forms; making objects from thread alone, or sculpting with seaweed is more than satisfying. It is pleasurable to all senses, challenging, thoughtful, considered, and truly exciting. She has always been sensitive and aware of the practice of art from a very early age. It has infinite possibilities of capturing and expressing through images and colours of any medium you choose. It provides a certain quality of conversation and ideas that allows you to communicate without any of these words. It is what she loves to do.
