Firehall Theatre in Ganonoque presents The Trudeau Stories

The Thousand Islands Playhouse Firehall Theatre wraps up its 2009 season with Trudeau Stories, a one-woman play written and performed by the talented award-winning stage and screen actor Brooke Johnson.

In 1985, while a student at Montreal's National Theatre School, Brooke became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It had been a year-and-a-half since he had stepped down as Prime Minister and while he was no longer doing pirouettes behind the Queen, he was sometimes hanging around with Brooke, sliding down ice-covered staircases on Mount Royal. Through reminiscences, journal entries and letters, Trudeau Stories provides a fascinating insight into our most charismatic leader and his times. It is also a humourous and compelling exploration of the nature of memory, friendship and loss.

Brooke Johnson is a 1987 graduate of the Acting Program of the National Theatre School of Canada, and has performed in theatres from the Bay of Fundy to the Foothills of the Rockies. Trudeau Stories is her first written work for the stage. She has four Dora Mavor Moore Best Actress nominations for her work in Toronto's theatres, most recently for playing the title role in Theatre Rusticle's Wish, directed by Allyson McMackon; for her portrayal of Gwendolyn MacEwan in The Gwendolyn Poems; for the role of Maria Streuber in Theatre Smith-Gilmour's The Time and Place; and for Jhana-Gladys Kelly in Tarragon's original 1987 production of Toronto, Mississippi by Joan MacLeod.

Brooke has two Gemini Awards, one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Marlene Moore in Holly Dale's Dangerous Offender (CBC,'96), having previously garnered one for her supporting role of Angie the waitress in Francis Mankiewicz's 1993 mini-series Conspiracy of Silence.
She was just awarded Best Actress at Majorca's Festival del Mar for playing the title role in the feature film, Finn's Girl. With the rest of the cast of Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, she received an ensemble acting award at the National Board of Review Awards in New York City in 1998.

The show is directed by Allyson McMackon (founder - Theatre Rusticle), who has been involved in the independent theatre community in Toronto since 1989 as an actress, “mover”, administrator/producer and director. Glenn Davidson designs the lights, Lindsay Anne Black painted the intricate floor cloth and the production is stage managed by Fiona Jones.

Trudeau Stories was originally presented in Toronto at the Summerworks Festival in 2007, then produced by Theatre Passe Muraille in the fall of '08 with a subsequent showing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa as part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Now the show is self-produced (by Long Black Car Productions), and this summer has played in Halifax and toured Nova Scotia with a stop in St. Andrews, N.B. before making its way to Gananoque’s Thousand Islands Playhouse. Next May it will be presented as part of the Centaur Theatre's 2010 season.

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Trudeau Stories previews Tuesday September 1, opens September 2 and closes Saturday September 19.
Showtimes: Tuesday to Saturday at 8 PM - no matinees.
Prices: $32 65+: $30 Students: $16 All tickets $16 Sept 1 and every Tuesday.

Groups: 10+ / $24 20+ / $22

Diane Landry: The Defibrillators @ Agnes Etherington Art Centre

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Diane Landry: The Defibrillators

5 September to 13 December 2009

Recharging the meaning and primary use of everyday objects, Diane Landry's art destabilizes habitual thought. A significant figure in Québec with a growing international reputation, Landry is best known for her Ouvres mouvelles, works that blend the temporality of performance with the spatial dimension of installation art and the bemused materiality of the ready-made. Fusing high and low technologies, she uses diverse materials including umbrellas, salad spinners, MIDI computers, plastic bottles, halogen lights, washing machines and harmonicas to produce mechanistic syntheses of motion, light and sound. Poetic and profoundly beautiful, Landry's art offers an emotional re-start - an electro-shock of affect - awakening us to the span of possibility and the dreamy quiver of time.

This first major overview of the work of Diane Landry is curated by Eve-Lyne Beaudry and produced and circulated by the Musée d'art de Joliette. Works in the show, produced between 1989 and 2008, include the artist's sculptural, electronic and recent video productions, and are accompanied by documentation of her early performance pieces.

Landry holds an MA from Stanford University, California. Since 1987, her installations and performances have been presented throughout Canada and in the United States, Mexico, France, Austria and Germany. She currently lives and works in Québec.

For further information, contact Matthew Hills at 613.533.2190 or matthew.hills@queensu.ca.

Curated by Eve-Lyne Beaudry, and produced and circulated by the Musée d'art de Joliette, this exhibition is presented with the support of the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Heritage Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen's University.

Matthew Hills | administrative coordinator

Agnes Etherington Art Centre | Queen's University | Kingston ON | K7L 3N6

t 613.533.6000 x 77049 | fax 613.533.6765 | www.aeac.ca

PSA Request - Symphony Records DONATION DAYS Sept 2, 9, 16, 21, 22

Kingston Symphony Records Sale Donation Days

It's that time again! We're looking for your good, clean LPs, 45s & 78s, VHS tapes, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, speakers, turntables, etc. Ensure we receive your items -- do not abandon them anywhere on mall property outside these dates & times.

Please note we cannot accept smelly, musty or mouldy items.

Donation days for the fall records sale will be held:

Wednesdays, Sept 2, 9, 16 &
Monday Sept 21
Tuesday Sept 22

10 AM - 2 PM

Frontenac Mall (loading door rear of mall next to the red awning)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkinnon/vinylrecords.htm

Sale to follow Sept 24-26

613-546-0778 613-384-2713


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Thank you for your support!

Linda MacKinnon, Publicist
Volunteer Committee of the Kingston Symphony Association

[Wearable Art Awards] 2010 Call for Entry Released

ART EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRY RELEASED

PORT MOODY, BC - Jane Matthews, Executive Director of the Port Moody Arts Centre, and Andrew Danneffel, Chair of the Wearable Art Awards Committee jointly announced today the release of the 2010 Wearable Art Exhibition call for entry.

The exhibition will take place in and around the City of Port Moody from January 21, 2010 through March 21, 2010 during the Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Winter Games. The display will feature both new entries - as part of three new categories - and retrospective garments from past Wearable Art Awards events.

"We are aiming high," Danneffel said. "We believe the City of the Arts can benefit artistically and economically from such a unique exhibition during a time when world attention will be focused on British Columbia.

"Some 6,000 media members, not accredited to cover the games events themselves will be seeking newsworthy events to cover and we believe we can encourage many of them, as well as other visitors, to come to Port Moody to see our Wearable Arts."

$2,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners of the three categories - Canadian Spirit, Olympic, and Mantel - and the People's Choice Award winner, the latter based on votes by the public during the two month exhibition.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for artists," Matthews commented. "While there will not be a wearable art performance in 2010, the exhibition will span the Olympic schedule and allow artists to showcase their work to an expanded, international audience."

The call for entry and related details and forms can be found at www.wearableartwards.com, the exhibition's web site.

The 2010 Wearable Art Exhibition is presented by the Port Moody Arts Centre Society - with support from businesses and sponsors who currently include the City of Port Moody, the BC Gaming Commission, and the Port Moody Arts Centre - to encourage local, Canadian and International artists of all mediums to submit evocative, imaginative and thought-provoking creations for the human body. The imaginations of the participating artists are the only limits on entries. entries.

The New Queens' U. Announcement Friday August 28

The New Queens' U.

Friday, August 28, 2009 at 7PM
Policy Studies Building, Room 202, Queen’s University
138 Union St, Kingston, ON

Note: Required attendance for all current permanent and contractual staff employed by Queen’s University who wish to continue their affiliation with the institution. Members of the public are also welcome to attend.

Chancellor Minnie St-Laurent and Rector Mikiki present a performative lecture announcing important mandate changes at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Now to become a university dedicated solely to the study of transvestism, The New Queens' U. proposes a curriculum like no other in existence. Honouring the legacy of Queen's U. as a leading academic institution in Canada, The New Queens’ U. will offer unique programs ranging from a Bachelor of Make-Up to a Masters of Lip Synching.

Major renovations to be undertaken by the university in 2011 will also be announced, and preliminary plans will be revealed for the new 15 million dollar Lady Bunny Centre for Performance, destined to become a beacon in the world for drag performers. The various school name changes will also be announced, with The School of Medicine being renamed the Radical Bodies Institute and the Queen's School of Business renamed the Faculty of Rupaul.

Bios:

Born in Moncton, NB in 1974, Stefan St-Laurent has a Bachelor of Media Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto. His performance and video-based work has been exhibited in various Canadian and international galleries and museums, including YYZ in Toronto, Ottawa Art Gallery, Western Front in Vancouver, Centre national de la photographie in Paris, Nova Scotia Art Gallery in Halifax, Edsvik Konst och Kultur in Sollentuna, Sweden and the Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie in France. He is currently Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa. He was guest curator of the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and will co-curate the upcoming Symposium d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 with his brother Jason St-Laurent

Mikiki is a queer multi-disciplinary artist from Newfoundland working mostly in video and performance. They attended NSCAD and Concordia before returning to St. John's to work as Programming Coordinator at Eastern Edge Gallery. They later moved to Calgary to work as the Director of TRUCK Gallery. Their work has been presented throughout Canada and in San Francisco through self-produced interventions, artist-run centres and public galleries. Their practice and political history informed a shift into sexual health education work around 2003. Mikiki has since worked as a Sexuality Educator in Calgary's public schools, a Bathhouse Attendant in Saskatoon, Drag Queen Karaoke Hostez in St. John's and then Gay Men's Health Outreach in Ottawa, Montreal and now Toronto.

For media requests and further information, contact:
Michael Davidge or Bronwyn McLean
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

Performing Arts Guide Launch August 25th, 3-5pm

KINGSTON ARTS COUNCIL REMINDER: Performing Arts Guide Launch August 25th, 3-5pm

Come on by the KAC office today, Suite 203, 253 Ontario Street, and join us in celebrating the launch of the brand new Performing Arts Guide for the Kingston area! We'll be distributing guides and enjoying refreshments together from 3-5pm. This guide is the exciting follow up to our Fine Craft and Artist Directory released earlier this year. Thanks to all who participated, and to Lindsey Fair for coordinating this year's Guide!

For further information contact: Josh Lyon, Administrator Kingston Arts Council info@artskingston.com - 613-546-2787 www.artskingston.com

Call for Artists, Tay River Gallery juried show

Tay River Gallery is accepting submissions from Ontario and Quebec artists for an upcoming juried show,"Strange and Beautiful". Deadline for submissions is Sept 10th. Quality artwork in your choice of media, of an illustrative, painterly or abstract nature with the emphasis on the Strange "the unusual,different, eccentric, unfamiliar, peculiar, fantastic, bizarre, mystifying, perplexing" art that can at the same time be viewed as Beautiful " having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind". The focus is on compositions where either content (subject matter) or perspective taken (interpretation) is particularly unique, imaginative and arresting.
Submission by email to lbrown@tayrivergallery.com. Include Artist Statement, Biography and Resume. 4 - 6 images (low resolution jpg)and description of works (size,media,etc). and reference to personal website if available. Selection by jury on the basis of electronic submissions mid- September.

Tay River Gallery is a commercial contemporary fine art gallery in Perth Ontario established in 2002 and representing many noted artists from Ontario and Quebec. The gallery is located west of Ottawa (45 minutes from Kanata) and north of Kingston ( approx 1 hr.)

Voice Off with Bear Thomas July 21-23

Voice Off: Artist Talk and Workshops with artist Bear Thomas

Starts: Friday August 21, 2009 at 7 pm
Where: Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre (50 Hickson Ave. Kingston, ON)

This summer, Modern Fuel, in partnership with the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre, is organizing Voice Off, a multi-media based project that brings artists Sarah DeCarlo and Bear Thomas to work with youth ages 12-25 at the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre through video workshops. The partnership between Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre is a new community outreach initiative made by Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre to build new relationships between the Kingston arts community and the community served by the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre.

Bear Thomas will contribute to the project by giving an artist talk on the evening of Friday August 21 at 7pm and then going on to lead a weekend workshop on Saturday and Sunday. Bear Thomas’s workshop follows the successful weekend workshop run by Sarah DeCarlo in July. The project will culminate in a screening of the finished works at a public venue in Kingston in September.

The goal of the project is to create an opportunity for the youth at the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre to gain media skills and to facilitate an opportunity to explore, create and share personal and community experiences and stories through new media and video technologies.

Artist’s Bio: Bear Thomas is an Ottawa based Onondaga multi-disciplinary artist. His video-based work chronicles the effects of colonialism on native people. In the fall of 2005, Thomas was chosen to participate in the Saw Video youth program, where he has been actively producing new works. In addition to his video work, Thomas has begun to create and score his own videos and the work of others. He received an honourable mention for his video work “Death by Vibration” at the ImagineNATIVE festival in 2006 for best emerging artist and has been included in several exhibitions throughout Canada, such as Oh So Iroquois, curated by Ryan Rice. His film The Story of Apanatschi and Her Redheaded Wrestler recently screened at the prestigious 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

For further information, contact:
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

Outdoor Video Screening Wednesday Aug. 19

Modern Fuel and Downtown Kingston present:
SQUARE PEGS TWO: Video Art in the Square

Date: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Time: Dusk
Place: Amphitheatre, Springer Market Square, Kingston, ON.

Building upon the success of the inaugural Square Pegs last summer, Modern Fuel in collaboration with Downtown Kingston presents: Square Pegs II, an exciting program of short, experimental videos by local, national, and international artists. Join us on Wednesday, August 19th at dusk in the amphitheatre at the Market Square in downtown Kingston. There will be popcorn. This screening is an initiative of Modern Fuel’s New Media Workspace, which has the mandate of presenting, producing and promoting independent media production in Kingston.

The Land of Video Art

A place where beauty coupled with the complexities of desire becomes horrifying;
A place where your mother, or perhaps just a woman you know puffs a quick puff of her favorite vice as she drones her bleak, mortal honesty;
A place where you are trapped like a bug behind a lens that offers you a view you are at even and odds with;
A place where everyone is watching and everyone is being watched;
A place where otherworldly scientific experiments go awry;
A place where you,
Or I,
Try to understand but fall short;
A place of Square Pegs yet round holes.

Program:
1. L. Ashwyn Collins / 'the catch' / Champaign, IL
2. Celeste Fichter / 'water water' / Brooklyn, NY
3. Nathaniel Sullivan / 'What Doesn't Kill me' / Syracuse, NY
4. Holly Rodricks / 'Partition' / Syracuse, NY
5. Cheryl Pagurek / 'Passage' / Ottawa, ON
6. Kate Yuksel / 'Watching Blue' / Kingston, ON
7. Nubuo Kubota / 'Loop Holes' / Toronto, ON
8. Claire Hodge / 'Smash' and 'Flamenco Bruce' / Halifax, NS
9. Brandon Blommaert / 'GREYCON 4' / Calgary, AB


For further information, contact:
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

Call to Artists

The annual Art Festival at St. Andrews by the Lake United Church will be held on Nov. 6th 7th and 8th. This show is part of the West Side Studio Tour. For more information contact Shirley Ovens at 613-389-0586 in September. We welcome amateur and professional artists.

We appreciate this opportunity to extend this invitation
Shirley Ovens convener

Precious Metal Clay Workshop with Cynosure Jewelry

The Ontario Crafts Council, with the Kingston Arts Council and NGB Studios present:
CraftSmarts: Precious Metal Clay Workshop with Cynosure Jewelry
Date: Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm (45 minute break for lunch)
Location: Anglin Bay Pottery, in NGB Studios
#6, 12 Cataraqui Street
Kingston, ON
Cost: $135 plus a kit fee of $34 (18gr bag of PMC+)
OCC Members save 10% off all costs!
Pre-requisites: None

Join Shannon Kennedy and Juan Bohorquez of Cynosure Jewelry and discover PMC - a revolutionary clay-like medium that allows you to mould or sculpt your pieces as you would soft clay and then fire them into a finished silver piece.

This will be a hands-on workshop where participants learn the basics of construction techniques using wet PMC, hollow forms, carving dry PMC, firing temperatures and methods, metal finishing techniques and Liver of Sulfur patina. Participants will create their own hollow
bead and pendant to take home with them at the end of class along with any remaining PMC!

To Register: Phone Maxine Bell at 416-925-4222 ext 229, 9:30-5:30 Monday . Thursday, or email mbell@craft.on.ca. Payments accepted are Visa, Mastercard, or cheque.

Questions: Contact Sara Washbush, Eastern Regional Coordinator, at 613-204-1391 or regional@craft.on.ca. Visit www.craft.on.ca

Directions to Anglin Bay Pottery: visit www.anglinbaypottery.ca and click on "contact"

Artel seeking new tenant for September

The Artel, Kingston's only Art House, is looking for a new tenant as of this September. The Artel is an artist's residence and venue that hosts screenings, concerts, art shows, poetry readings and more. The Artel is also a live-in studio space and collective committed to fostering artistic growth by providing emerging artists with a supportive and stimulating environment. The Artel seeks to contribute to the development of a dynamic and diverse arts scene, by encouraging an open dialogue among artists, between the artists and other arts institutions and organizations, and between the artists and the wider regional community.

Please contact us at the.artel@gmail.com with a portfolio and letter of intent or drop it off in our mailbox at 205 Sydenham street.

We look forward to hearing from you

Sincerely,

The Artel
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The Artel
Arts Accommodation & Venue
205 Sydenham Street
Kingston, ON K7K 3M3
the.artel@gmail.com
www.the-artel.ca

New Infrastructure Stimulus Fund Not-For-Profit Cultural Buildings

Please note that time is of the essence as the deadline is AUGUST 18.

We encourage all eligible organizations to carefully review the criteria and guidelines for this new opportunity.

Culture - Art galleries, libraries, museums, performing arts centres for the creation and presentation of the arts as well as preservation or enhancement of heritage structures.

Projects must be for the substantial renovation or rehabilitation of existing infrastructure or new capital infrastructure. Minor improvements (painting, flooring, interior decoration), vehicles and equipment are not eligible.

Community Centres - multi-purpose centres providing a facility for public use for meetings, recreation, arts, and other community purposes for use by the public.

How it works in Ontario

A streamlined application process has been developed for Not-for-Profit organizations in Ontario and can be completed online. A guide to the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund is also available to help applicants.

Organizations can access the guide and application form at: www.creatingjobs.gc.ca.

About the Program

The Infrastructure Stimulus Fund will provide $4 billion for provincial, territorial, municipal and community infrastructure projects across the country, to be built over the next two years (2009-10 and 2010-11).

The Program will give priority to the rehabilitation of existing infrastructure assets, but new construction is eligible provided it can be completed by March 31, 2011. Funding will NOT be provided for projects that will not be completed by March 31, 2011. Projects should be shovel-ready with designs and approvals well advanced or in place.

Both governments want to maximize the stimulus provided to the economy through cost-sharing partnerships. The federal and provincial governments will provide up to two-thirds of eligible costs of approved projects. Not-for-Profit organizations are expected to secure the balance of funding. Proponents will be required to attest that the projects would not have been built over the next two construction seasons without the federal and provincial funding.