The Art Marathon Festival has wrapped up for another year, and the people at the Eastern Edge Gallery would like to extend our gratitude to all of those sponsors and volunteers who helped make this event possible. From the kids’ workshops and community barbecues to special performance nights and the 24 HAM itself, the programming this year reached out to a broad range of people and was embraced with enthusiasm. Some of the highlights this year included: Alicia Grant’s dance performance at the Cochrane Street United Church, which brought the “audience” out of their seats and into the creative process; the Fancy Artist Talks, where local and visiting artists not only talked about their work, but had their own cocktails designed for attendees to enjoy; late-night “video painting” by New York-based media collective SWEATSHOPPE, who revealed moving images with paint rollers in the Fortis properties parking lot to the wonderment of over a hundred people who gathered to watch; the mob of children dancing in the Wonderbolt Circus space during the Kids’ Video Dance Party; and Lalie Douglas’ installation $tore, which invited “customers” to take her art and in some cases eat it! On the final weekend, the Eastern Edge was buzzing with activity as several dozen artist created original works on-site during the 24 HAM and revelers danced the night away to a line-up of first-rate bands, including Toronto-based Diamond Rings.
A selection of photos from this year has been posted on our festival blog, and can be accessed by clicking here. And this is a list of people we would like to thank:
Sponsors + Partners
Canadian Heritage Arts Presentation Program
City of St. John’s
Canada Council for the Arts
Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
H. Collingwood Spirits and Wines
College of the North Atlantic
Hanging Rock Winery
Molson Canada
Event Sponsors
Model Citizens: Launch Pad
The Paint Shop and Benjamin Moore: Evolving Wall
Flowerchild: Children’s workshops
VANL-CARFAC: Art School 101
Ballistic: Mrghosty, SWEATSHOPPE
Gingersnap: Kids’ Dance Party
Hour Sponsors
3:00pm India Gate
4:00pm Living Planet
5:00pm Posie Row
6:00pm Leyton Gallery
7:00pm ACI & Culture Days
8:00pm English Harbour Arts Centre
9:00pm Emma Butler Gallery
10:00pm Christina Parker Gallery
11:00pm Living Planet
Venues
Community Youth Arts Program:
Brother Murphy Centre
Gateacre Ltd.
Wonderbolt Circus
St. Michael’s Printshop
Cochrane Street United Church
Fortis Properties Corporation
The Rose and Thistle
MUN Botanical Gardens
Signal Hill National Historic Site
Model Citizens
Gingersnap
Food & Drink
Auntie Crae’s
Belbin’s Grocery
Boston Pizza
Brittania Teas and Gifts
Food For Thought
Georgetown Bakery
Hava Java
Lester’s Farm
Mount Scio Farm
Oliver’s
The Organic Farm
Pearl Springs Water
June Walker Wilson
Leisha Sagan
Cara Winsor Hehir
Kaitlin Ludlow
Cathal Quish
Megan Morrison
Supplies/Donations
Anna Templeton Centre
Billy Boot
Group of 77
Long Brothers Printing
Spurrell Gallery
Anne Troake
Model Citizens
Art Donation
Gerald Squires Gallery
Festival Committee
Jud Haynes
Kevin Hehir
Jon Montes
Bryan Oliver
Soren Sigusrsson
Chrissy Dicks
Rachel Jean Harding
Christopher Chipman
Cyril Butler
Board of Directors
David Kaarsemaker
John McDonald
Leisha Sagan
Charissa Reeves
Darren Whalen
Rachel Jean Harding
Zea Cline
Dona Bulgin
Cyril Butler
Volunteers
Kimmy Byrne
Christina Hamlyn
Kaitlyn Bowering
Devon Crosby
Reggie Hynes
Deborah Jackman
Jamie Lewis
Melanie Cooke
Andrea Vincent
Anna Moreau
Nicole Goodyear
Jennifer Dyer
Andrew Pike
Candace Fulford
Xiongyi Cui
Kaitlin Ludlow
Kaila Bush-Blais
Reuben Finkel
Morgan Locke
Duncan Major
Ruth Martin
Katie Warren
Chrissy Dicks
Steven Beazer
Joy Hopley
Soren Sigurdsson
Bryan Oliver
Sarah MacAulay
Sherri Winsor
Audrey King
Katie Stenson
Liang Bin
Kerri Burton
Liz Armstrong
Jaimie Hale
Erika Stephens-Moore
Lisa Dodge
Mark MacKenzie
Kathleen Calanaan
Morgan Murray
Jenn King
David Kaarsemaker
Nicole Wilson
Yang Jiao
Zhen Zhu
Noah Bender
Matthew Hornell
Kayla Hearn
Erin White
Jud Haynes
John McDonald
