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The best of #ShitOttawansSay

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on Friday, January 20, 2012

Photo courtesy of allthecolors from the Apt613 flickr group

The kids are all going wild for Shit Girls Say, the latest meme to start replicating itself across the net. Yesterday the popular series of YouTube videos spawned yet another iteration, this time on twitter. The #ShitOttawansSay hashtag hit the Ottawa twitterverse a big way, launching what was probably the largest inside joke sharing fest the city has ever seen.

Open File has collected and organized many of the tweets, which you can see here, but we couldn’t resist sharing some of our favourite ones here on the site. The following are Apartment613′s picks for the best of #ShitOttawansSay.

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Wurm Gallery presents Peter Guindon – More Liquidation Landscapes

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on Monday, January 16, 2012

Wurm Gallery | Invisible Cinema presents:

PETER GUINDON More Liquidation Landscapes

One Month Exhibit: January 27th – February 22nd, 2012

Opening Night: Friday January 27th, 2012 8pm
About the show:

“My current images conjure up themes of glorified warfare in pop culture, the social dominance of the mesomorphic male, assorted gender role conflicts, general distrust amongst people, a caste system in regards to love, nepotism in politics and the workplace and a general feeling of natural selection in spite of hollow promises of equality… but it should be noted that in the end, these images also portray the artist’s new acceptance and comfort in his mediocrity.”

About Peter Guindon:

Before perverting the world in the pages of Cinema Sewer, Peter grew up in idyllic suburban Ottawa, acquired a BFA at the University of Windsor followed by an animation certificate at Algonquin. He spent the early to mid 2000s working as a professional animator until the Canadian 2D animation industry was gutted by lack of funding and slave labour overseas, and then resorted to menial labour in order to make ends meet. He wallowed in self-pity for a couple of years until he decided to re-invent his life. In 2010 he packed his belongings and moved to Asia to teach whilst trying to find fresh opportunities to showcase his artwork. He is taking in a new culture learning a new language and meeting new people. Peter Guindon heartily recommends stark lifestyle and geographical shifts for those failing to realize their passion in their current abyss. As for his work, Peter says, “I am inspired by the artwork of Bosch, Breughel, and George Tooker. I am also visually inspired by 1920s fashion, medieval architecture and regalia, as well as modern day smog-filled skies and devastated landscapes. I believe my works offer glimpses of all of these influences to a certain degree.”

For more information or press, please contact:

Wurm Gallery | Invisible Cinema
319 Lisgar St.
Ottawa, ON
K2P 0E1 Canada
(613) 237-0769
info@invisiblecinema.ca
www.invisiblecinema.ca

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CAT KIDD & KAIE KELLOUGH at Gallery 101

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on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

More info: ABSERIES.ORG

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The Weeknd at Barrymore’s

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on Friday, January 6, 2012

Description

Friday, January 20, 2012

THE WEEKND live in concert at Barrymore’s
http://the-weeknd.com/

DJ Crunch
http://on.fb.me/pTLRAm

DJ Kid SL
http://on.fb.me/uRxhfA

TICKETS
Early Bird $35* SOLD-OUT
Advance $40* SOLD-OUT
*All tickets include taxes, additional service charges will apply

LIMIED amount of tickets will be sold at the door from 8pm to 9pm on January 20.

Doors at 9pm
19+ (ID Required)

BARRYMORE’S MUSIC HALL
323 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 1X9

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BUREAUCRACY at Gallery 101

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on Thursday, January 5, 2012

Immony Men and Rene Price are artists who are interested in the subject of bureaucracy. Each tackle bureaucratic systems within their work in different ways while maintaining similiar concerns and views. Price and Immony Men are both multi-displinary artists. They give us insight, and an interesting and wider understanding of the systems that affect us on a daily basis, not just as those ‘trapped’ within, but those who have had the misfortune of trying to tackle any type of bureaucractic bungling. Price explores the human politics within the bureaucracy, while Immony Men tackles the sometimes dehumanizing tedious monotony of repetitious daily tasks within a system that in many instances breeds mediocrity.

BIOGRAPHIES

Immony Men is a visual artist currently based in Toronto. His practice takes the form of new medias, digital-print practices, time-based performances, and immersive environments. Labor intensity is a strong element in his art practice. Immony Men has completed a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at Concordia University majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies within Studio Arts in 2008, and a Master’s in Fine Arts within Visual Arts from University of Windsor in 2010. He has shown at his work nationaly including at the Khyber Center of the Arts in Halifax (Nova Scotia), Eastern Edge in St. John’s NFLD, Warren G. Flowers and the VAV Gallery in Montreal, 809 Gallery in Calgary, and Artspace in Peterborough, Ontario.

Rene Price: Idea guy/inventor, Quirky Mockartist, Scribbler, Rascal, Non-smoking cyber Luddite and Grand Amateur. Recently retired from the silly service, where he worked as an exhibition designer for Parks Canada. He has shown is work from St Foy, Quebec, to Montreal, Ottawa, Cornwall, Toronto, London (On.), Winnipeg and Calgary. Price has been reviewed in Border Crossings, Art Papers (USA), Espace, Artichoke and various newspapers.

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Opening Reception: January 13, 7:00pm
Public Performance with Immony Men: January 11 to 18, 10am to 5pm

Panel Discussion: January 14 at 1:00 pm with Immony Men, Rene Price, authors Dick Bourgeois-Doyle & Christian McPherson

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Voices of Venus featuring Kay’la Fraser

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on Wednesday, January 4, 2012

To kick of 2012 VoV is super-excited to bring you Guelph Diva Kay’la (Kiki) Fraser on Wednesday January 11 at Venus Envy.

Kay’la Fraser is a soft-spoken yet eccentric writer, performer and arts educator who fell in love with performance and language arts at a young age. She has found a way to weave her life’s passion into a seamless yet edgy tapestry through spoken word.

Since first appearing on the scene in August 2008, Kay’la has established herself as both a serious competitor and artist in the community. She has competed at a national level in Canada and the USA, and featured at events including: Tongues of Fire and Nuit Blanche. In Ottawa, you may have seen her perform as a Feature at Capital Slam, as part of When Sisters Speak, and in Springfest (with Chocolate Fountain).

She is also a cheesecake fiend, a wearer of many hats and a purveyor of random acts of poetry.

You can check out some of her work on Youtube at the following links:

Lessons For My Daughter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFD3O2wEvTU&noredirect=1

Street Sweeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nac42DZD3g&feature=player_embedded#!

$5 gets you in the door, and performers in the women’s open mic get in for free.

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How Can a Boy – A documentary screening on Burmese refugee and Ottawa resident Nimrod Andrew

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Francois

on Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Kublacom Pictures is pleased to announce a special Ottawa screening of its new documentary film, How Can a Boy, on Friday, January 13th, 7:00pm at the National Archives Auditorium, 395 Wellington Street.

Tickets are $5.00, available at 6:00pm, at the door only. First come first served. Proceeds from the screening will be donated to the Karen Community of Ottawa.

How Can a Boy is a documentary film about Ottawa resident Nimrod Andrew, who became a refugee at the age of ten at the hands of the Burmese military and who fought back, turning hardship into hope and displacement into opportunity.

Forced to flee from his small village without his parents when the Burmese military attacked, Nimrod Andrew became stateless and faced an uncertain future in the refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. Overcoming tremendous odds, through hard work and ingenuity, Nimrod obtained a high school certificate and his search for safety and a better future brought him to Canada. Confronting the losses in his life and deeply affected by his childhood experiences, Nimrod has now taken on a great challenge, helping his fellow refugees to survive and find happiness in Ottawa. And telling Canadians the truth about Burma.

This 77-minute documentary chronicles the decades-old struggle by the Karen people and other ethnic minority groups in Burma for their land, livelihood and survival, against a brutal military dictatorship bent on wiping them off the map. Against the horrors of human rights abuses and a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions we follow the story of this remarkable young man in his quest to triumph over loss.

See the trailer: http://vimeo.com/29110811.

Nimrod Andrew lives in Ottawa with his spouse Win and their two young children. He works full-time as a settlement officer for OCISO – Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization, helping newly-arrived immigrants and refugees to settle in Ottawa. Nimrod is active in the Karen community of Ottawa and organizes events such as the Karen New Year celebration. He travels regularly to the refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border to assist and monitor the situation of refugees.

Kublacom Pictures is an Ottawa-based company that produces documentaries for television and non-governmental clients. Previous films include One of the Last and This is My Witness. How Can a Boy is Kublacom’s second film about Burma, directed by Ed Kucerak and produced by Ed Kucerak and Jane Gurr.

Screener copies of the film are available – please contact Jane Gurr (613-565-0901) or Ed Kucerak (613-730-0823).

Q & A session will follow the screening with Nimrod Andrew and the Director/Producers.

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A day in the life – Bread & Sons

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on Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

By Jessica Sims. A day in the life is a series cooked up by Jessica to feature some of her favourite food related businesses in and around Ottawa.

It’s almost 6 am and Brian Cahill and Laura van der Grient have their ovens full. Outside the windows of Bread & Sons Bakery, where they both work as bakers, Bank Street looms dark and desolate at this time on a Friday morning. But inside the shop glows warmly and delicious smells abound. The cooling racks are full of muffins, cinnamon buns, and mini quiches. At the back of the kitchen numerous loaves of bread are stacked and waiting.

Brian, 21, and Laura, 24, have been here since 3 am. They don’t usually work together but Friday is the bakery’s busiest day. By the end of their shift they will have made over 100 muffins, 80 to 100 loaves of bread, over 100 croissants, and a countless number of other pastries and desserts – palmiers (a butterfly shaped puff pastry), colossal cookies, carrot cake, scones, turnovers and brownies.

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Graffiti painting exhibition at Wurm Gallery

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on Friday, December 16, 2011

: Working on the Qikkitani General Hospital Mural, Iqaluit Nunavut. Patrick Thompson, Alexa Hatanaka, Jonathan Cruz. (2011). Organized by Nuschool.ca.

It’s Friday – and if you still haven’t figured out what you’re doing tonight, why not stop by Wurm Gallery at Invisible Cinema for the opening of Sausage Fingers, a series of new works by Patrick Thompson.

Having exhibited all over the world, including China, Egypt, Spain, and Canada’s high arctic, Patrick has returned to share his latest paintings with Ottawa. Experimenting with graffiti since his early teens in Chelsea, the work making up Sausage Fingers is a further exploration into the abstraction of paint, colour, light, and space.

Patrick admits that often his work begins with an accident. “If I start out with a loose feeling in my head,” he explains, “I enjoy the process of working more than knowing exactly where I’m headed and rendering a piece exactly as I see it in my head.” There is a certain fluidity to the way he treats paint – loose forms morph into drips, layers conceal and reveal small moments on paper or canvas.

“Sometimes it’s a very frustrating process because you don’t know when the piece is done,” he continues. “Sometimes you make massive mistakes – time-wasting mistakes – where you make these gutsy moves which don’t necessarily add something in the moment. You’re at the mercy of something else. You’re not the boss. There’s a very interesting push/pull that happens between the work finding its own direction and you pushing it.”

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Patrick Thompson @ Wurm Gallery | Invisible Cinema

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on Monday, November 28, 2011

Invisible Cinema | Wurm Gallery presents

SAUSAGE FINGERS

New works by Patrick Thompson

December 16th, 2011 – January 18th, 2012

Opening Night: Friday December 16th, 2011 8pm

An Invisible Cinema Holiday Toast with snacks, drinks and vegan desserts
courtesy of Auntie Loo’s. Sure to be one for the ages.
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_____________________Patrick Thompson:Born in Ottawa in 1978, Patrick Thompson makes work that encompasses a
variety of approaches, including painting, installation, sculpture both
indoors and out.

In his works, in both two and three dimensions, Thompson lets his
experimentation with materials, process and color guide each piece
separately.

Patrick Thompson lives and works in Toronto. He studied at the Ontario
College of Art and Design for a short time before working under artist
Mark Marsters in Ottawa. His work has been exhibited around the world,
including the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, the Nanjing
Arts Institute in Nanjing. China, Articulate Baboon Gallery in Cairo.
Egypt and the Royal Ontario Museum’s ICC. Thompson also paints large scale
murals in Canada’s high arctic. Recently Thompson produced THINK TENT at
Toronto’s Le Labo art space which brought together a dozen teachers,
artists and thinkers to brainstorm web based solutions to problems found
in the education system. The discussion became the inspiration for his
exhibition at the gallery. In January, Thompson will join Iqaluit based
artist Danny Osborne in Hawaii to collaborate on a series of Osborne’s Red
Hot Lava sculptures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickevoke/sets/
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Wurm Gallery is located inside the Invisible Cinema at 319 Lisgar St. in
Centretown Ottawa. Map and Hours are available at www.invisiblecinema.ca.

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