Svea Vikander
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on the 25th anniversary of the tragic and unremedied chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, studio béluga invites you to an exhibition of photographs and stories about resistance and survival in daily life. Melanie Hadida, who has traveled to Bhopal twice for socio-economic justice research, and Justin Shoub, who recently returned from a Middle-East trip that included unofficial access to Palestinian refugee camps, have worked hard to bring together an exhibit that celebrates the warmth and humanity of both places. they hope to introduce you to the unique and vibrant cultures that spring up in spite of — and sometimes because of — resistance to injustice.
vernissage is saturday, november 21st: 7-11pm
exhibit available for viewings by appointment for the following week.
refreshments provided; prints and other fundraising merchandise available for sale.
at studio béluga: #32A, 999 rue du collège, montréal, québec. three blocks north of metro place-st.-henri. call (514)754-7832 or email studiobelugacontact@gmail.com for more information.
bhopal, 2007. photo by melanie hadida
palestine, 2009. photo by justin shoub
Filed under: environmental béluga, installation béluga, literary béluga, photographic béluga, pod members, social béluga, studio béluga, theoretical béluga, upcoming, visual béluga
a series of events about nests and home.
1. ‘to be located in a sheltered spot’
aug 27 2009. 6pm – 10pm (vernissage). viewings by appointment until aug. 31 2009.
an exhibition exploring the construction of home, both concrete and ethereal featuring works by: Celine Gorham, Maziar Javidiani, Rebecca St. John, Duy Khương Phạm and Elise Pineda.
2. ‘a circular structure of twigs’
aug 28 2009 5pm – 9pm.
round-table artist discussion moderated by Natalia Lebedinskaia and Anastasia Hare (5-6pm); hands-on nest creation: reed-weaving workshop by Celine Gorham (7-8:30pm).
3. ‘as in a hollow tree’
sep 3 2009 6pm – 10pm (vernissage). viewings by appointment until sep 5 2009.
an exhibition questioning the linearity of familial history featuring works by: Jennifer Goddard, Natalia Lebedinskaia and Svea Vikander
4. ‘in which to lay and incubate’
sep 4 2009 7-8:30pm. weaving your history: family genogram workshop by Svea Vikander
details:
- admission costs: vernissages are free, workshops by donation.
- location: studio béluga. #32A, 999 du collège, montréal, québec (for map, click here).
- contact: studiobelugacontact@gmail.com, (514)754-7832; press contact natalia lebedinskaia.
- curators: anastasia hare, natalia lebedinskaia, svea vikander (for images, writing and theory, click here).
- artists: Celine Gorham, Maziar Javidiani, Rebecca St. John, Duy Khương Phạm Elise Pineda; Jennifer Goddard, Natalia Lebedinskaia and Svea Vikander (for photos and bios, click here).
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…i almost submitted to this, but my formatting was all out of place and i wanted to go to a 1950’s dance party on a friday night instead of stay at starbucks and fix it. for shame. it’s shaping up to be a fantastic conference full of big ideas.
The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages participation in everyday creativity?
Here’s an example of one cool workshop:
Informing the design of the future urban landscape
This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners from across disciplines. Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise designed to reveal issues that will increasingly impact upon the design of the products and services that will populate the urban landscape in the near future. The outcome of this half-day workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers and technologists will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban landscape.
Workshop Leaders:
Michael Smyth & Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Who should attend?
As the aim of this workshop is to generate discussion and to collaboratively identify design issues, we would like to encourage attendance from a mix of people at different career stages, both creative practitioners and academic researchers. As interdisciplinarity is an important feature of this workshop, participants from a range of related fields, for example technology and creative design, are welcome to attend.
If you are interested in attending, please email Ingi Helgason :
i.helgason@napier.ac.uk : by 31st August, including a maximum of 500 words telling us about yourself and your work, and why you would like to attend this workshop.
Find out more about the workshop.
i’m in new york for a bit, and just picked up some cute tank-tops and undies to be béluga’d. zoey and rachel are silk-screening masters. look at them go!
…still looking for a button-maker. any leads?
so we talked about nadia before. so we’re getting a little repetitive in our old(er) age. who cares. nadia myre invites you to her studio from july 31st – aug. 9th.
she says:
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Route des Arts my studio/garage/office/and general pack-rat storage space has been transformed into the RDS contemporary gallery.
Come celebrate the opening and charms of village life over a glass of Sangria on Friday July 31 after 5 pm.
Artists featured in the space are Joanna Nash, Myself, Susan Lee, Louise Bloom, and Gina Antinozzi.
The RDS contemporary Gallery is open daily (11-6) from August 1-9. See you there!
Location:
Nadia Myre’s Studio, 210 route du Long-Sault
Contact:
Phone: 4505373030
Email: info@nadiamyre.com
Filed under: installation béluga, literary béluga, opportunities, performative béluga, theoretical béluga, upcoming
the day i met sophie gee i was 15 minutes late to meet her because i was writing an overwrought email to someone i used to, um, know. she was real nice about it. we met because she was looking for a space to hold Domestik, her latest production. studio béluga wasn’t right for it, but maybe you will be…
the production:
Nervous Hunter is casting for their upcoming production Domestik. This site-specific production, to be directed by Sophie Gee, is made up of four short segments written by writers from Montreal, Toronto, New York and London, UK. Production dates October 1-4, 8-12. Rehearsals start beginning of September, auditions the week of August 3rd.
the idea:
Domestik is a site-specific piece set in a living space that encourages the audience to rudely explore the space. The audience will be invited to enter the space anytime within a two-hour time frame. More than one piece will take place at a time and all the pieces will loop, so that the audience has the chance to see all the pieces, if they wish. In between the short pieces, there will be a series of non-verbal actions. We are looking for people interested in the collaborative process and exploring the theatrical potentials of a space.
roles to be cast:
Geneva – female, 30-40. The world’s worst host. Might be Wes’ mother. Might sing one song.
Lavet – male/female. Up to 70. A pie maker with a grudge. Might sing one song.
Ina – female, 20-30, an unwilling guest who is a sleepwalker.
Malcolm – 30s-50s. Sophisticated, man of the world. Former partner of Geneva, now with Ina.
Wes – male, 18-late 30s. A bedroom rock star. Lives at home. Looking for a good improviser for the role.
Stephen – male 30s-40s. Used to being alone, keeps his emotions in check.
Lauraine – female 30s-40s. New girlfriend of Stephen’s who moves into his place. Emotional, frank and easily spooked. Might sing one song.
Auditions week of August 3rd.
Please send your CV/headshot to Sophie Gee, huntingnerves@gmail.com
for more casting information, please visit www.nervoushunter.com/domestik.html
the liaison of independent film-makers of toronto is a non-profit place for cool kids who want to make movies on celluloid. i used to be part of their screenwriter’s circle, where i met people like Ada Vaughan and Nika Belianina. this workshop is a steal: 12 hours of instruction for $95… that’s less than $8 hour. less than minimum wage, in fact.
LIFT’s SUMMER 2009 WORKSHOPS DRAMATIC CHOICES:
SCREENWRITER’S LAB Learn to develop an engaging story TUESDAY JULY 21, 6 PM – 10 PM TUESDAY JULY 28, 6 PM – 10 PM THURSDAY JULY 30, 6 PM – 10 PM This mini-course is an introduction to screenwriting. It explores in-depth the screenwriting process from idea to finished script and looks at creative devices that can be used to better stories. Using story ideas generated during class, participants will explore character, theme and plot as they take their ideas from logline to synopsis and ‘the pitch’. Formal documents used to sell ideas and scripts to industry will also be covered.
INSTRUCTOR:
Hope Thompson writes for film, theatre and television. Her most recent feature script is the lesbian vampire comedy Wylde House, developed while she was a resident of the Canadian Film Centre’s Writers’ Lab. Her theatre work includes “Tyrolia” (Toronto Fringe Festival, 2008), and most recently “She Walks the Line” (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s Rhubarb Festival, 2009). Hope has written on the CBC animated series, “What It’s Like Being Alone” and has also written and directed several short films, including the award-winning film noir, “Switch.” She is currently developing her next feature with Toronto’s New Real Films and co-directing a short.
COST:
LIFT Members $95 / Non-Members $125 Enrollment is limited to 10 To register please contact 416.588.6444 Ext. 222
the ste emilie skillshare is one of those places you read about in books, or your sister’s diary, or the new yorker, and you think: why didn’t that happen to me?
yes, it’s a place that happens. in st. henri.
they’re “a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. The skillshare collective runs an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism/ sexism/ classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ ableism/ sizeism/ etc).” (from their website)
so anyway, you can make it happen to you. saturday august 1st, it’s a prom:
get yer perm set & yer tux steamed coz on saturday, august 1st there will be a prom-themed fundraiser at the skillshare. wearin yer old prom outfit is strongly encouraged heh heh heh
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take life-lasting prom fotos with yer hot dates& BFFS
slow dance with yr year-long crushes (omgomg)
buy cheap beers & drinks at our ste em bar
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hot beats& slow jams feat ::::: DJ Diamonds Cut & DJ Degane/Diggy Smalls/Deyonce& more
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DOORS open at 9:30pm–come & get yer prom foto early
$5 PWYC– no one will be turned away
xoxo
ste em
p.s this prom is especially 4 the shy n geeky homos that took their cousins to prom (uhhh..just sayin)
(photo: svea vikander)
…like we were saying, the abandoned factory across the street is ripe for exploration. after all, what could be more fun than wandering through dirty, unsafe, cavernous graffiti-filled halls — especially with a beer/fish in hand? join us this friday, july 10th, 5:30-7:30. you know you want to. meet at studio béluga, #32A 999 rue du college (st. henri metro).
