KO x STMPDR Arts Round-Up
katrinaolson.ca has collaboted with the all things Calgary Stampede blog STMPDR.com to provide a listing of all things Arts & Culture going on in the city during Stampede!
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Events, shows, fashion, food, news, behind the scenes, crazy people… you name it, we’re covering it.
Stampede is a great time to experience Calgary’s culture as a city. The energy surrounding stampede is infectious, everyone is out and about, buzzing around the grounds.
If you have a few days to spend delving into the arts scene here in the city, you will be more than impressed. Calgary will be the city of music in 2016 as well as the home to the Juno Awards. The National Music Centre is set to open and the Bella Concert Hall at Mount Royal University will be built. In performing arts 2016 will see Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre open and the 30th anniversary of the High Performance Rodeo.
There are so many artistic seeds planted in the city, popping up all over. Here are a smack of visual arts, a cluster of music events, theatre in the park and a couple of local evening markets to check out to enrich your stampede experience culturally on the days you want to try and build back those brain cells lost in beer tents…
VISUAL ARTS-
Stride Gallery, Project Room (Lower level, 1006 Macleod Tr. SE)
Stride is open to the public from 11:00am to 5:00pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
http://www.stride.ab.ca/current.html
Ticket Price: Free
Co Fusion Lab is ritual androgyny and optical illusion. It is love, magic and new forms of communication, contained within walls covered in hand painted patterns. It is an altar for self-inquisition, unity and confusion; a numinous palace to try on identities, become other, dissolve, and begin the cycle again. Our physical forms race against impossible competitors—the internet selves—which have a higher rate of accessibility and changeover. The body is too slow for this age, yet forever connected to an ancient, unconscious territory with stories that will always find the way out.
Holly Timpener and Jack Bride began collaborating as HΩLY JÅcKÅL in 2013 to explore ways of fusing their installation and performance practices. Their collective, artistic lexicon includes creating strange identities, diffusing persona, representing intangible forces and promoting public intimacy. Exhibition runs until Friday July 17, 2015.
Artpoint Gallery (1139 11 Street SE)
July 2, 2015 5-9pm. Open to public Thursday & Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-5pm.
Ticket Price: Free
$99 to Stardom is Artpoint’s annual community arts fundraiser. All canvases 5” by 7” in size created by local artists are priced at $99.00 each. All profits from artwork sold will be donated to William Roper Hull School. Many of the youth enrolled in William Roper Hull School struggle with behavioural, emotional, social and mental health challenges. The artwork sold helps social development in the children through artistic practices. The opening reception will have live music and refreshments.
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Repeats every day until Sun Sep 06 2015 except Mon July 6, 2015.
Open to the public 11:00am – 6:00pm, Tuesday – Sunday; Thursday and Friday until 8:00pm
Ticket Price: Free
Three exhibitions. Each infused with deadpan humour, contrived of outrageous materials, and of a daringly audacious scope, whether the works are on film or sculptural installations. Three artists. Each explores the subtle connections between our rapidly shifting internal and external worlds, our personal and our ecological environments—and point to their inescapable interconnectivity, and the troubling conundrums and complexities of modern life. Together the exhibitions prompt complex questions, acknowledging that they may be without easy answer. Or simply lace up a pair of skates and take a spin around the rink. Because when did you last skate in summer? Or in a sculpture?
Mia Feuer: Synthetic Seasons
Mia is an artist first, a researcher second and a traveller third, and refuses the label of ‘activist.’ Although her work has drawn on experience in the Athabasca oil sands, it does too on those in the Soviet arctic, the Suez Canal, the West Bank, and most recently, the southern most bayous of Louisiana. Her large-scale sculptures makes connections between our intense material dependency and environmental impacts, but asks questions that reach far beyond any or all of those particular regions. Synthesizing her experiences, her works (which includes two new installations for Esker Foundation) ask bigger questions about the reach of society’s empathetic awareness, our abilities to adapt, and our needs for innovation and change. As her materials of choice are styrofoams, bizarre plastics, light bulbs and yes, ice-skates, Feuer wrestles with her works’ complicity with, and dependence on, that which draws her critical but measured eye. Synthetic Seasons is by turns provocative, overwhelming, meditative and plain old fun, and never far from the complexity and conundrums marking everyday life.
Kevin Schmidt: A Sign in the Northwest Passage
Kevin invites you into his tent to watch a movie, and experience a saga of mythic proportions. He starts with the construction of a floating billboard, emblazoned with the Book of Revelations’ foreboding messages roughly routered across its massive face. Then he travelled to the Northwest Passage and planted it in the seasonal ice. By spring, the sign became lost as the ice melted. Curious as to its possible journey, he returned to search for it. Infused by the thrill of the hunt, the resulting film is by turns one man’s journey, a revelatory look at geography, indigenous perspectives, and seasonal changes, ensuring viewers who enter this innocuous seeming tent will not emerge without serious question about geopolitical, climatic and cultural limitations—or the power of a single human being’s ability to be simultaneously absurd and inspirational.
Guido van der Werve: Nummers vier, acht, veertien
The words simple and mundane come easily and perhaps immediately to mind in in the opening sequences of the three films, but don’t be deceived! Prepare for the laughter. From his combination of live performed orchestral symphonic performances, frequently self-composed, his extreme physical feats that are often bravely undertaken without regard for safety, and meticulous cinematography, these films weave dreamy narratives around the themes of loss, solitude, belonging and the self. But Guido continues to triumph: against an ice-breaker, against an immolating fireball, against a 1700 km triathlon. Brutally humorous and trading in the inane and sublime (often in conjunction with one another) these three films question the historically based narratives which contemporary society trades in, refuse any easy answers, and will have you considering your very next steps. Exhibitions runs until Sunday, September 6.
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
Repeats every day until Sun Sep 27 2015 except Mon Jul 06 2015
Ticket Price: Adults, $16; students and seniors, $11; youth, $10; family, $40; children ages 6 and under, free
Alberta artists Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendalacquired and deactivated Over 7000 guns to build Gun Sculpture. The resulting massive cube weighs over 9,000 kg (20,000 lbs) and makes manifest the impact of guns and their proliferation throughout the globe, both in terms of sheer volume and the undeniable trauma that they wield.
Boasting some of the best fishing in the world, the streams and rivers of southern Alberta and British Columbia have long attracted visitors from all over the globe. The breathtaking scenery and meditative act of fishing has inspired many artists and photographers; Hooked takes a unique look at the art and culture of sportfishing.Hooked: Fish, Water and Angling in Art runs until October 4.
Stride +15 Window, Arts Commons (205 8th Ave. SE)
Repeats every day until Fri Jul 31 2015 .
1 Jun 2015 (All day)
http://www.stride.ab.ca/current.html
Ticket Price:Free
The Bottom Outingexamines identities and strategies in comedy and translates them to contemporary sculpture. Categories such as character, environment, gag, and prop become fluid, and humour strategies become sculptural processes. Assemblage and bricolage are likened to improvisational prop comedy, and the painted abstraction of the assembled found objects is analogized to the subversive, indirectness of anti-humour. By combining found objects with paint, interpretation of what is found and what is fabricated becomes conflated; as anti-humour asks an audience to reconsider what is and is not funny, the sculptures ask the viewer to reconsider what is and is not real.
Nicole Brunel is an emerging, multi-media artist living in Calgary. She studied art at the Alberta College of Art + Design and at the New York Studio Art Residency. She has also worked professionally as an archaeologist, which has influences the way she interacts with materials, objects, and meaning in her art practice.
The Bottom Outingruns July in the Stride +15 Window at Arts Commons.
Closing Reception: Thursday, July 16, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Refreshments to follow at The Palomino (109 7th Ave. SW).
Contemporary Calgary
C2 (104, 800 Macleod Tr. SE)
http://www.contemporarycalgary.com/
Ticket Price: Free
Contemporary Calgary is proud to announce Three Withdrawal Movements for an ATM—a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Dominique Pétrin, opening on Thursday, June 11 and continuing until July 19th, 2015. Rooted in printmaking, Pétrin’s practice involves the creation of thousands of sheets of hand silkscreened wallpaper, composed of repeating lines, patterns, bold colours, historic ornamentation, and Internet imagery. This growing library of printed material is applied in response to the unique architecture of the gallery spaces Pétrin’s works inhabit, covering the walls and floors to create immersive worlds that are dizzying and hypnotizing.
At Contemporary Calgary’s C2 location, the artist will transform the gallery over a ten-day period from June 1 to 10 before the finished work is opened to the public on June 11. The exhibition continues until July 19, open Thursday through Sunday from 12:00 to 6:00pm, though visitors will be able to see the work 24 hours a day as the sprawling floor-to-ceiling windows of the gallery will remain illuminated for the duration of the exhibition.
Three Withdrawal Movements for an ATMruns at Contemporary Calgary / C2 runs until July 19, 2015.
TRUCK Contemporary Artin Calgary, Main Space (2009 10th Ave. SW)
TRUCK exhibitions are open to the public from 11:00am to 5:00pm, Tuesday to Friday, Saturday noon to 5:00pm.
Repeats every day until Sat Jul 25 2015 except Sun Jul 05 2015 & Mon Jul 06 2015.
Ticket Price: Free
Leaning From a Steep Slopeis a three-person group show by artists based in Seattle, South Korea, and Glasgow. The exhibition showcases a range of mixed media work influenced by place. Collectively, the works by these three international artists present a visual translation of atmospheric experience and memory through interdisciplinary material exploration.
Natasha Alphonse grew up on a remote reserve in northern Saskatchewan and received her BFA from ACAD in 2012. Her practice includes work that is always interested in ideas of balance, the natural world, and personal connections. She is currently based in Seattle, Washington.
Joe Bérubé holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2011). He has exhibited in Canada, the United States, and internationally. Joe’s work addresses materiality, presence, and spatial perception through a painting driven multidisciplinary practice. He currently lives and works in South Korea.
Sandy Grant was born in Scotland in 1973. He graduated from Grays School of Art in 1997 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. He has exhibited in a number of group shows and solo exhibitions internationally.
Leaning From a Steep Sloperuns until Sunday, July 25, 2015.
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary are excited to presentSelected Works by the Loop Collective in celebration of the Toronto-based experimental film collective’s 20th anniversary. The works in this program combine recent films from their members with older hidden gems, generating conversations between old and new, film and video, movement and stasis, purity and hybridity, nature and technology, matter and memory.
The Loop Collective is a group of independent media artists formed in 1996 to develop a public platform integrating experimental film and video with other art forms. Over the past two decades, Loop has programmed and produced works for presentation through exhibitions and events in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. The collective’s members are diverse and evolving; their practices spanning film, video, music, dance, photography, collage and textile arts. Films by Loop members have screened at venues including The National Film Board of Canada, Ex-Centris (Montreal), WNDX Festival (Winnipeg), NASCAD (Halifax), Club SAW (Ottawa), Factory Media Center (Hamilton), Leeds International Film Festival (United Kingdom), and the 2010 Canadian Retrospective at EXiS Festival, (Diagonal Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea). Selected Works by the Loop Collective run until Sunday, July 25,2015.
Jarvis Hall Fine Art(617 11th Ave SW)
Open to the public Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00am to 5:30pm.
Repeats every day until Sat Jul 04 2015
http://www.jarvishallfineart.com
Ticket Price: Free
This is our second solo exhibition with Concordia graduate and Calgary artist, Dan Whiting. Contemporary abstract paintings often lends itself to an exploratory and experimental process; both of which are undeniably evident in Whiting’s work. Blended pigments and inky stains are the foundation of the work, but it’s the intricate details and idiosyncratic compositions that draw the viewer in for a closer look at the textured surface.
Pith Gallery and Studios(1018 9th Ave. SE)
Open to the public 12:00 – 5:00pm, Saturdays
Repeats every week every Saturday until Fri Jul 31 2015 .
Ticket Price: Free
Ominous ink drawings and sculptural works feature in this solo exhibition by Montreal/Calgary-based artistMarigold Santos, curated by Stacey Watson.
In her most recent works, the fragmented and multiple self is investigated through a hybridization of characters of Filipino folklore such as the Asuang with Western folklore and the occult, pop culture, science/science fiction, geological processes, weather systems, tropical and North American landscapes, decomposition and decay, coincide with references to childhood games that attempt to connect and communicate with the supernatural to bring what is not of the home, into what is the home – suggesting boundaries crossed in favour of testing limits and gauging what to fear and believe, and how to make sense of the unknowable.
Black Mirror continues with these themes, as it explores the duelling binaries whose existence depends on the tethering of its polar counter. Seemingly governed by the cosmos and magnetism of the moon, balance is only but present for a moment until all chaos erupts and cycles a new. What is concealed becomes temporarily revealed through a shift of light, an eclipse, and only for the purpose of alchemical transformation and reconfiguration into a new form, concept, emotion, thought. Exhibition runs until Friday, July 31, 2015.
Draft Horse Town
Stampede Grounds (1410 Olympic Way SE)
July 4, 2015 – July 12, 2015 – Every day at 1:00pm
Ticket Price: Stampede Admission (www.calgarystampede.com)
YEEHAW! Come sketch with the Firefighters Museum of Calgary down at Draft Horse Town in the heart of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede! Every day will be something new from blacksmiths to steam engines, and horses to wood-spoked wheels!
*Does not include admission to the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Grounds.
Newzones
730 – 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4 Canada Phone: 403-266-1972
Tuesday – Friday 10:30 am – 5:30 pm Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
www.newzones.com
Ticket Price: Free
G’ddy Up. Just in time for Stampede, the annual group show celebrates contemporary cowboy culture through painting, photography, and sculpture. More than just Wild West iconography, Western culture is filtered through an elegant and cosmopolitan lens. Artist reception July 4, 1 – 4 pm. Sunscreen, a rotating group exhibit of bright and vibrant artwork celebrating the sunny weather that includes paintings, photography, and sculpture. The works will be switched out on a weekly basis. Artist reception July 4, 1 – 4 pm.
Trépanier Baer Gallery
#105 999 – 8 Street S.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 244-2066
Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: Free
Still Life: Looking At The Overlooked, is a series of still life works of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). Exhibition runs until July 25, 2015.
THEATRE-
Shakespeare by the Bow: The Tempest
Prince’s Island Park (698 Eau Claire Ave. SW)
July 3, 2015 7:00pm, July 4, 2015 2:00pm, July 5, 2015 2:00pm, July 6, 2015 7:00pm, July 7 2015 7:00pm, July 8 2015 7:00pm, July 9, 2015 7:00pm, July 10 2015 7:00pm, July 11 2015 2:00pm, and July 12, 2015 2:00pm.
Ticket Price: Admission is pay-what-you-will (no ticket required)
Sail to an enchanted island where a mysterious storm washes both romance and revenge ashore. Spirits will run high in Shakespeare’s most magical tale of love, family, and forgiveness. It’s the perfect way to spend a summer’s evening in Prince’s Island Park. Starring a company of Alberta’s up-and-coming actors.
This season, Theatre Calgary continues their city’s summer Shakespeare tradition in one of Calgary’s most beautiful parks, Prince’s Island. Shakespeare by the Bow places the education and training of emerging artists (recently graduated post-secondary drama students from across Alberta) front and centre. As they have for the past three years, Theatre Calgary will use professional expertise to mentor, celebrate and encourage the next generation of theatre artists. With a healthy dose of sorcery, they will conjure islands and shipwrecks, merriment and mystery, all on the banks of the Bow River.
MUSIC & LOCAL MARKETS-
2nd Annual Stampede Hang-over Picnic
containR Art Park (map), 1020 2 Ave NW, Calgary, AB
http://springboardperformance.com/
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can cover charge, with proceeds going directly to the artists.
Watch, shop, gather & listen with your neighbours in the open air to Freak Motifand Danielle French. Great musical performances and a market square where sunshine, great music and terrific local vendors are the recipe for fun this summer evening. Music and Market Square will also feature a market of local micro-entrepreneurs, so come find something new, while you hear something blue or happy, and be a part of containR’s 100 mile creative diet! containR is a temporary ‘pop-up’ venue and the goal in animating the site is to activate and inspire creative connections featuring collaborations between community and the arts. It is a community-lead initiative, a partnership between Springboard Performance and Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association. Both of these organizations are local not-for-profit charities.
Brake, Clutch, Accelerate: Suzanne de Bussac & Friends
National Music Centre (134 11th Ave. SE)
July 2, 2015 at 7:30pm
Ticket Price:By donation at the door $10 minimum to $5000 maximum with 50% of profits going to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.
A playful poke at life, death, hang-ups and heartbreak. A peppering of cabaret noir and garage jazz delinquency. A piano romp supporting advocacy for mental health and wellness.
Morningside Music Bridge Concert
TransAlta Pavilion, Conservatory Building, Mount Royal University (4825 Mount Royal Gate SW)
July 5, 2015 at 7:00pm
Ticket Price:General, $30; students/seniors/MRU, $25
Morningside Music Bridge concert program with artists in residence Teng Li, viola; Roberto Diaz, viola; Krzysztof Jablonski, piano. Program: Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures), for Viola and Piano, Op. 113; Frank Bridge: Lament for two violas; Alessandro Rolla: Duetto in F Minor for 2 Violas, BI. 18; Johannes Brahms: Sonata no. 2 for Viola and Piano in E-flat Major, Op 120.
This concert is part of Mount Royal University Conservatory Morningside Music Bridge—a month long intensive summer program for emerging international artists, ages 12 – 18, who work with distinguished faculty. Catch rising stars in free recitals, concerto and chamber competition performances, plus two concerts in the new concert hall (July 18 and 30).
Inglewood Night Market
Inglewood Mainstreet 9 Ave SE between 8 St & 15 St SE, Calgary.
Friday July 10th, 2015 6pm-11pm
Ticket Price: Free
A nighttime street party and market featuring live music, food, arts and crafts, fresh produce, and vendors.
(Above Photo courtesy of Galleries West from Montreal-based artist Dominique Pétrin’ installation in C2-Contemporary Calgary)
