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Photo by Christine Skobe.
By Christine Skobe
If you’ve never been to a Craig Cardiff concert, it’s hard to put the experience into words. Craig’s been releasing albums since 1996 and slowly but surely working his way into Canada’s musical consciousness. Today, he stands as one of the most honest and open songwriters around. Known predominantly for his digital looping, heartfelt interludes and striking lyrics, it’s Craig’s emotional connectivity that brings you back for more. No matter where you are personally when you walk into his performance space, he breaks down your barriers and makes you feel something.
Saturday night he played a Westboro house party that had a bit of magic included in the ticket price. He has a habit of playing at unique and intimate spaces (of which Ottawa has many). This setting brings out the best in him, and the best in the audience. Whether he’s engaging the rambunctious children in his interpretation of the ‘Macarena’ or encouraging time-travelled couples to slow dance, he does simply that – engage. Whether you’re a young couple on a first date, a pair of roommates saying your last goodbye, or a Westboro family holding a unique Christmas party, this is the place you want to be. He played the concert in three segments to allow for the audience’s overbooked Holiday schedule, stopping several times to see if anyone had questions or concerns (and to take requests). He played a veritable ‘best of Craig’ as well as covers of Dan Bern and Sufjan Stevens. The evening closed with ‘When People Go’, accompanied by the talented Clarinettist Nick Roy, as Craig and the audience sang us out the door and home to our families.
The Spirit of Rasputin’s presents their regular music series Rasputin’s Beard, a special evening of acoustic music performed by folk ensembles.
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Featuring:
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8:00 docweissband – http://docweissband.com/
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8:45 Scary Bear Soundtrack (special acoustic performance) – http://www.myspace.com/559839690
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9:30 Call Me Katie
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10:15 Dave Andrews – http://www.daveandrews.ca/frame.html
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No cover – instead we’ll be passing a theoretical hat around.
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See you at the Masonic Hall!
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MORE INFO: http://rasputins.ca/regular-events/rasputins-beard/
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Featuring:
.
8:00 docweissband – http://docweissband.com/
.
8:45 Scary Bear Soundtrack (special acoustic performance) – http://www.myspace.com/559839690
.
9:30 Call Me Katie
.
10:15 Dave Andrews – http://www.daveandrews.ca/frame.html
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No cover – instead we’ll be passing a theoretical hat around.
.
See you at the Masonic Hall!
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MORE INFO: http://rasputins.ca/regular-events/rasputins-beard/
Exhibition of original water colours, acrylics, mixed media, oils and pastels by local, juried artists for rent, rent to purchase or purchase outright. Affordable prices. Rentals are as low as $12. per month. Art may be rented for one month and up to one year. Art for residences, businesses and organizations are rented and purchased from Art Lending of Ottawa. Art Lending of Ottawa is a non-profit organization promoting local art since 1970.
The June art show will include featured artists Marie Rakos and Anne Remmer Thompson.
Free admission and free parking.
Tuesday, June 21 (7:00 pm -9:00 pm) and Wednesday, June 22 (10:00 am -9:00 pm).
Location: First Unitarian Church Hall, 30 Cleary Avenue, Ottawa (off Richmond Road, east of Woodroffe Ave).
Contact : http://www.artlendingofottawa.ca/
Alexandra Chowaniec // The Spaces In Between
Featured Artist
Producer of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution – a documentary with the rare honor to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Sundance Film Festival 2011 and the Berlin International Film Festival 2011
March 12- April 3, 2011
Vernissage: Saturday, March 12, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Ottawa, Ontario. Wall Space Gallery is pleased to present Alexandra Chowaniec // The Spaces In Between, an exhibition of new works by this multi-talented artist. This is Alexandra’s second solo exhibition with Wall Space Gallery following Incarnate (March 2009).
Creating works of art that embody ways of knowing and being in the world is Chowaniec’s creative experience. The Spaces In Between is an exhibition of work that visualizes the borderlands, where one thing ends and another begins, of relationships and emotions across time. This is fleshed out in the anxious interactions of brushstrokes on the canvas: tight, highly rendered areas falling apart into loose, gestural mark making.
As a contemporary female painter, Chowaniec seeks to confront the languages and histories of figurative painting, accessing and contributing to that dialogue through which arouses fear, desire, and pleasure. She puts forward a quotidian moment that shifts and slips to become sensuous and/or frightening, embodying the simultaneity and multiplicity of the in-between.
The paintings map these transitional spaces across bodies and extensions of the body.
Extensions include still life that holds memories of living, mirroring the organic forms of the human body and a morphology that evokes the tensions between life and death. Time is considered through cinematic means, taking the form of both sequences of individual frames and large-scale registrations of gesture over long periods. Relationships are understood as both the internal connections, exploring the roles we embody, and as the external ones, in which we intimately engage the other.
In The Spaces In Between, Chowaniec seeks to ask, through the marks, when does one thing imminently end and become another? How do these spaces in between look and feel? Means and content resist resolution but stay in productive tension, opening up the viewer’s own ways of knowing.
Sustainable Living Ottawa West (SLOWest) is pleased to offer The Seventh Generation Learning Series in partnership with Tucker House Renewal Centre. This series promotes integrated sustainable living practices in the greater Ottawa area. The is a continuation of the series first started in September and held on the fourth Monday of each month. We are now at a new location: Mountain Equipment Co-op, 366 Richmond Road from 7:00 to 9:00pm. The seminars are free and open to everyone!
On Monday, April 26, come find out about greening your budget, simple and debt-free living, and sustainable investing. Learn how to green your finances in our challenging economic times.
Sustainable Living Ottawa West (SLOWest) is pleased to offer The Seventh Generation Learning Series in partnership with Tucker House Renewal Centre. This series promotes integrated sustainable living practices in the greater Ottawa area. The is a continuation of the series first started in September and held on the fourth Monday of each month. We are now at a new location: Mountain Equipment Co-op, 366 Richmond Road from 7:00 to 9:00pm. The seminars are free and open to everyone!
On Monday, March 28, SLOWest is offering a workshop on how to move around sustainably.
Sustainable Living Ottawa West (SLOWest) is pleased to offer The Seventh Generation Learning Series in partnership with Tucker House Renewal Centre. This series promotes integrated sustainable living practices in the greater Ottawa area. The is a continuation of the series first started in September and held on the fourth Monday of each month. We are now at a new location: Mountain Equipment Co-op, 366 Richmond Road from 7:00 to 9:00pm. The seminars are free and open to everyone!
On Monday, February 28, SLOWest is offering a workshop on how to grow your own organic food in your backyard. Learn about eating and growing sustainably.
Artist Statement
The past year of my life has been filled with an interesting array of circumstances, adventures and most importantly, new beginnings. I found myself in situations that put a whole new perspective on my life which subsequently influenced my work as an artist.
With the end of my marriage last year, I found myself in a challenging situation where I was forced to live without a home, a car and many other things one is accustomed to in a day to day routine. To my surprise, I felt a huge sense of freedom, relief and most of all, excitement looking forward to what lay ahead. I realized how little one needs to be happy. I had my studio space and Vespa, living and working there, going on day trips throughout the Ottawa Valley, and staying with my family in Prince Edward County. I later rented a cottage in the Gatineau Hills, and embarked on a truly memorable trip down the Rideau Canal in the antique motorboat I finally got a chance to restore and use. I also had time to travel to Vermont, Arizona, the 1000 Islands and many other regions that have inspired my latest collection of work.
This exhibition for 2011 is entitled “Departures” not only for personal reasons, but also because I am exploring a variety of styles I felt compelled to experiment with. Using techniques and inspiration that is a departure from my regular work, I found a strong urge to venture into new territory and break free from what I was accustomed to while still aiming for a satisfying aesthetic.
I hope you enjoy this new body of work as much as I had creating it. The last year has been a creatively inspiring one and I am grateful for the support of those that have been a part of it.
About the Artist
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Andrew King moved to Ottawa in 1991 to study Industrial Design at Carleton University. During this time, he contributed to the Ottawa Citizen’s comics page with a weekly strip entitled “Off The Wall” which was published from 1993 to 1997. A number of his comics were printed in newspapers across North America through King Features Syndicate. Andrew followed his love of cartooning and was accepted into the Television Animation program at Algonquin College where he graduated with Honours in 1997.
After graduating, Andrew began working in television with a number of local animation studios and continued his freelance design and animation work with studios in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Currently Andrew resides in Ottawa, where he continues to work as a freelance designer for animated television shows as well as doing conceptual design work for both live action and video game productions.
Andrew King: Departures – An Exhibition of New Works
When: February 5 to February 21, 2011
Artist Reception: Saturday February 5, 6-9 pm
Join the artist in celebrating the opening of the show. Admission is free.
Exhibition: Inspired By Music, An Art Auction Fundraiser for Music and Beyond
November 20-27, preview of the art for auction
Ottawa, Ontario. November 8th, 2010. Wall Space Gallery is very excited to host “Inspired by Music” an Art Auction Fundraiser on November 27th. In collaboration with Julian Armour, Artistic Director of Music and Beyond, local and gallery artists have been asked to create pieces that link their visual art with music that has affected their work. The artists who are involved to date include David Alexander, Anne Barkley, Laura Culic, Alison Fowler, Barbara Gamble, Katherine Jeans, David W. Jones, Carmella Karijo Rother, Orli Kessel, Andrew King, Isaiah King, Tanya Kirouac, David Merrit, Dan Metcalfe, Lori Richards, Anthony Tremmaglia, Marjolyn van der Hart and Nava Waxman.
Music and Beyond is a new classical music festival that forges links between music and other art forms including visual art, drama, poetry, dance, architecture, science, food wine and even yoga! This multi-disciplinary approach makes it virtually unique among music festivals internationally.
The art is available for bidding on-line as of November 15th and the art will be showcased at Wall Space Gallery in Westboro Village from November 20th - 27th.
Join us for the Live Auction on the 27th from 7-9 pm. Enjoy wines from Grange of Prince Edward County Vineyards and Estate Winery, charcuterie plates from The Piggy Market, delectables from Juniper Kitchen and Wine Bar and place your bids.
Go to Music and Beyond www.musicandbeyond.ca to view the items up for bid. $25 tickets for the event are be available at Music and Beyond, CD Warehouse, Collected Works, Books on Beechwood and both Wall Space Gallery locations.
