Les Voisins / Neighbours Reception

15 Jan 2009 - 19:00

This is the public reception for Les Voisins / Neighbours, an art exhibit that runs JAN 1 - 31 at the Plus 15 Window Galleries of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts.

Isolated compartments, a glimpse through an open window, a private public online profile. We do not understand the whole of a life from these brief glimpses, but are given snapshots from which we interpret, and misinterpret many things. Les Voisins are neighbours living next door to each other in the Plus 15 Window Galleries of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts. Day by day their lives are animated, one frame at a time, by collaborative but independent artists. Beneath even the most benign and placid smile lurks unspeakable intrigue……

In addition to the mid-January program of performances and events, the festival is also taking over the four window galleries located in the Plus-15 of the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts. Titled Les Voisins / Neighbours, each window is  designed by a different artist using a mannequin as a character. Every day, the exhibit changes, creating a  stop-motion, month-long animation that tells the story of the lives of the four mannequin characters.

See Sean Dennie’s photos of Les Voisins on the Calgary Herald website ~  Les Voisins / Neighbours Updated Daily!

Kiarra Albina

Calgary based artist Kiarra Albina’s stream-of-consciousness paper works and soft sculpture installations are reflections of life passed through psychedelic, symmetrical filters, balancing magic with mundane while addressing gender, sexuality, memory, spirituality and nature. Her work can be seen in the self published art books, MAGIC RUB I & II, and MAGIC FOR YR TRUE LOVE (Republished by MODL press in August 2008), illustrating the pages of various Calgary and Vancouver literary and arts magazines and posters, and as the cover/liner art for The Dudes 2006 release, “Brain Heart Guitar” She has participated in a number of group shows, and in 2008 Kiarra presented solo exhibition “MAGIC FOR YR TRUE LOVE” both at The Arbour Lake Sghool Boron Gallery, and at ARTLIFE Gallery.

Kiarra’s Baanjo Voisins photographed by Sean Dennie Updated Here Daily!

Arbour Lake Sghool

The Arbour Lake Sghool boys were too drunk in NYC to provide a bio. Check their website to learn about suburbia’s most subversive little bastards.

Arbour Lake Sghool’s Randy Bagel photographed by Sean Dennie Updated Here Daily!

Elephant Artist Relief (EAR)

EAR is a Calgary not for profit society formed in 2007. EAR aims to provide emergency funds for artists in crisis, as well as advocacy and support for Calgary’s art community. EAR recognizes that many of us who have chosen to follow a path in the arts are doing so in the face of adversity, struggling to maintain our health, our home and our work. As an organization, it is our primary mission to build and maintain the practical support necessary to sustain those in our community who have dedicated their own lives to the practice of making art.
Check out the EAR website.

Elephant Artist Relief’s Dixie Two Doors Down photographed by Sean Dennie Updated Here Daily!

Jamie Tea

Jamie Tea is a trans-disciplinary artist, specializing in voice, musical theatre, movement, comedy, animation, accordion, costumes, and aerial circus arts. Since March 2008, Jamie’s first animated short Fish & Bird in Space has been screened at Calgary’s Fairytales International Queer Film Festival, for Quickdraw Animation Society’s package at Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan, and at Winnipeg’s Reel Pride Festival. Jamie’s solo performance project ‘Our Lady of the Pitz’ was presented by E-merge Festival of Movement Arts (Springboard Dance, Calgary), Feats Festival (Alberta Dance Alliance, Edmonton), and on the High Performance Rodeo Midway stage. Recently Jamie wrapped up a short video project with singer/songwriter Danielle French for her song ‘Time to Kill’.

Jamie Tea’s Justin Colours photographed by Sean Dennie Updated Here Daily!

Kiarra Albina, Arbour Lake School, E.A.R., Jamie Tea Les Voisins / Neighbours Reception Jan 15 19:00 Exhibition Various

Artist: Kiarra Albina, Arbour Lake School, EAR, Jamie Tea
Series: Exhibition
Venue: Various
Duration: 90 minutes
Recommended Age: All ages
Price: FREE

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