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Below are the latest news items included on this website in all categories. If you are interested in a particular category, click on the menu items at the top.Footloose
Okanagan Mission Secondary School is thrilled to present the MissionMainStage production of the award winning 1980’s musical ‘Footloose’ written by Dean Pritchford. This is the first major musical directed for OKM by Ryan Grenier, Theatre educator, recently recruited from the Lower Mainland. Ryan has partnered with OKM Music Directors Ed Schnellert and Megan Dobbs whose talents have been showcased in multiple music events with students at OKM and in the Kelowna community for years.
In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing. This musical is iconic for its’ classic 80s tunes including ‘Let’s hear it for the Boy’, ‘Hero’, and ‘Almost Paradise.’
This production boasts a cast of over 60 of OKM Secondary’s finest performers who have worked tirelessly over the past several months to bring this professional level show to our community. The production also features high energy choreography, brilliant set design, and whimsical costumes that will take you back to that black hole of fashion known as the 80s!
Footloose runs from April 14th through 18th and tickets are available starting Wednesday April 1st by phone or at the box office of the Rotary Centre for the Arts (ph. 250-717-5304)
Don’t miss this opportunity to come out and see this great Broadway show!
In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing. This musical is iconic for its’ classic 80s tunes including ‘Let’s hear it for the Boy’, ‘Hero’, and ‘Almost Paradise.’
This production boasts a cast of over 60 of OKM Secondary’s finest performers who have worked tirelessly over the past several months to bring this professional level show to our community. The production also features high energy choreography, brilliant set design, and whimsical costumes that will take you back to that black hole of fashion known as the 80s!
Footloose runs from April 14th through 18th and tickets are available starting Wednesday April 1st by phone or at the box office of the Rotary Centre for the Arts (ph. 250-717-5304)
Don’t miss this opportunity to come out and see this great Broadway show!
13 Mar 2009
The Okanagan International Film Festival needs YOU!
Call for Volunteers for this years Film Festival:
Pop along on to our next event Sunday 15th March Black Box Theatre from 5pm and lend a hand to set-up for our movie night and find out about being volunteer, volunteer forms will be available!
Distribution deliver posters, brochures and programs to Kelowna and municipalities throuout Okanagan Valley locations. Communicate with business owners and ensure promotional materials are maintained in all distribution locations. Access to a vehicle an asset. This is a key role!
Site Operations work where all the action happens. Assist patrons to the events through information desks, traffic control, collecting tickets and ushering duties. Help the festival by managing information displays, performing head counts, collecting ballots and conducting in-person surveys with audience members. You will be the personal face for all the visitors to the festival.
Office Assistant helps with administrative duties to keep the festival office running smoothly prior to and during the festival. Duties include: reception, answering phones, promoting the festival and providing information to the public, data entry, photocopying, filing, errands, cleaning, and other general office duties as required. You're flexible and adaptable.
Hospitallity Assistant helps with special events set-up/take down,food/drink service,running errands, cleaning, and other general duties as required as requested by event cordinator.
Transportation: helps with chauffeur/driving, courier/delivery, transportation coordination.
Volunteer Year Round
Volunteers are key to the success of the Festival. Even when the main Festival is over there are lots of activities we require help with. There is our monthly Sunday Night @ the movies, our outdoor film co-presentation events, and of course millions of little things in the office such as data entry. All positions require dependability, a positive attitude, the ability to work independently or with a team. So help support the arts in your community by volunteering with the Festival through out the year. It's a great way to get a new perspective on the film industry and meet hundreds of dynamic people.
Contact:Katie or Jason
Okanagan Film Festival Society
Office: 201-1353 Ellis Street, Kelowna BC, V1Y 1Z9
Phone/Fax: (250) 868-1003
www.okanaganfilmfestival.com
By E-mail: volunteer@okanaganfilmfestival.com
Pop along on to our next event Sunday 15th March Black Box Theatre from 5pm and lend a hand to set-up for our movie night and find out about being volunteer, volunteer forms will be available!
Distribution deliver posters, brochures and programs to Kelowna and municipalities throuout Okanagan Valley locations. Communicate with business owners and ensure promotional materials are maintained in all distribution locations. Access to a vehicle an asset. This is a key role!
Site Operations work where all the action happens. Assist patrons to the events through information desks, traffic control, collecting tickets and ushering duties. Help the festival by managing information displays, performing head counts, collecting ballots and conducting in-person surveys with audience members. You will be the personal face for all the visitors to the festival.
Office Assistant helps with administrative duties to keep the festival office running smoothly prior to and during the festival. Duties include: reception, answering phones, promoting the festival and providing information to the public, data entry, photocopying, filing, errands, cleaning, and other general office duties as required. You're flexible and adaptable.
Hospitallity Assistant helps with special events set-up/take down,food/drink service,running errands, cleaning, and other general duties as required as requested by event cordinator.
Transportation: helps with chauffeur/driving, courier/delivery, transportation coordination.
Volunteer Year Round
Volunteers are key to the success of the Festival. Even when the main Festival is over there are lots of activities we require help with. There is our monthly Sunday Night @ the movies, our outdoor film co-presentation events, and of course millions of little things in the office such as data entry. All positions require dependability, a positive attitude, the ability to work independently or with a team. So help support the arts in your community by volunteering with the Festival through out the year. It's a great way to get a new perspective on the film industry and meet hundreds of dynamic people.
Contact:Katie or Jason
Okanagan Film Festival Society
Office: 201-1353 Ellis Street, Kelowna BC, V1Y 1Z9
Phone/Fax: (250) 868-1003
www.okanaganfilmfestival.com
By E-mail: volunteer@okanaganfilmfestival.com
07 Mar 2009
Penticton Art Gallery - Exhibitions - March 13 to May 3
Main Gallery
Lyndal Osborne: "Ornamenta"
Artist Talk ~ Saturday, March 14 at 1 p.m.
Curated by Linda Jansma and Virginia Eichhorn, Ornamenta brings together two significant installations by Edmonton-based artist Lyndal Osborne. An ecology of biodiversity surfaces as a unifying theme between Garden (2005) and Archipelago (2008) ó both underscore Osborneís meticulously detailed craftsmanship with a multitude of treated organic materials. Since her career began four decades ago, Osborneís collection of organic objects has progressively permeated her body of work. Advancing from the straightforward presentation of Tableaux For Transformation (1998), a meditation on collection and nonhierarchical systems of being, Ornamenta strikes the viewer as inherently ecopolitical. Osborne elevates her collection of grapefruit skins, dried sunflower stalks and upturned roots beyond their essence and productive functions, and her rearrangements become an expressive encounter.
In Garden, a central patch of upturned annual indigenous roots have been treated in bright pinks and greens, colours that for Osborne best represent the growing climate in Australia and Canada. Rendering visible the harvested roots, which have sprouted from seed to plant to death, Osborne invites the viewer to look and think beyond the life of a plant, and appreciate the dead roots as central to the ongoing cycle of growth. Acknowledging her motherís gift and passion for gardening as the direct influence for her own interest, Osborneís real-life gardens are a visual cacophony of healthy, self-sustaining perennials grown wild in rhythmic chaos. Cherishing the plants in life and in death by collecting and incorporating her own dried foliage, Osborneís work affirms that the worth of seeds and roots does not end once the productive function has been completed. The natural cycles of life from seed to root to plant and back to seed have an intrinsic value, a value being threatened by research-driven advances in biotechnology, a field that fascinates Osborne and prompts her to question its accountability within the grand ecological order of nature.
Expanding beyond the hyperreal urban backyard in Garden, Archipelago simulates sixteen modified cell structures along a metaphoric North Saskatchewan River. Osborne has been interested in the international debate of labeling genetically modified foods ó biotechnology produces research-driven organisms by concentrating and injecting the most productive genes from a diverse variation of organisms into homogenous super seeds. The long-term effects of a single super seed on human consumption have yet to be accounted for in terms of long-term human and ecological health, and Osborne is asking questions now ó how will GMOs adapt to infestation, bush fires, and other ecological cycles that reinvigorate natural diversity. Flowing throughout the exhibition alongside the sixteen altered pods and laboratory apparatus, the North Saskatchewan River shines in contrast as an open-ended life source filled with unaltered biodiversity. Running close to Osborneís own home and acreage, the strength of a healthy river stands as symbol of sustainable ecology that intertwines both art and life.
The diversity of materials culled from Osborneís own land, and visible throughout Ornamenta, strives for an awareness of our ecological responsibilities to respect natureís self-sustaining rhythms. Osborneís metaphorical gardens and cell pods act as warnings to the irrevocable damage our unheeded technological breakthroughs can bring if we as consumers and as a generation do not become more aware. Disrupting a natural order through the proliferation of GMOs, the concern of biotechnology is not restricted to the single issue between humans and nature, but as demonstrated in Ornamenta, rests between diversity and the earth.** This essay of Lyndal Osborneís exhibition was first published in Galleries West Magazine, Winter/ Spring 2009 issue
The Project Room
Aaron Dickinson: Intimate Portraits From Another World: Part One
Darren Filipenko: Portraits of Aaron as a Vampire
This exhibition is actually two exhibits in one where one artist reacts to the work of the other and in doing so creates a dialogue which borrows on common interest, personal history and shared experience.
Aaron Dickinson is a self-taught artist living in Vancouver BC. He trained in video and film making at the Art Institute of Vancouver and his figurative imagery represents characters that are part of a larger fictional narrative and imagined world. This is the first public exhibition his work. In this series, Aaron has drawn on his past inspirations to create a fantastical world set in the future. The many different stories surrounding the lost kingdom involve common themes of love, loss, revenge, greed and redemption.
"When I was ten years old, I attended a strict private Christian School in Vancouver where most of our lunch breaks were spent chasing girls, playing with G.I. Joes and creating/drawing rival characters that battled to the death. The two most popular characters that battled for paper supremacy were "Kat Kool", a hip cat gangster with earrings, tattoos, and a robot arm and "Psycho Sid", an ex - professional wrestling lizard who wore spandex tights. Each and every day my friends would come up with new, exciting and interesting ways for "Kat Kool" and "Psycho Sid" to maim and kill each other. Although my friendís pictures were simple and to the point, they still managed to evoke a sense of shock and awe that has left a lasting impression on me and to this day they remain my greatest inspiration.
Saturday morning cartoons along with old school Disney films also played a large role in influencing my style as an artistÖsome of these favourites include: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, G.I. Joes, Thundercats, Bonkers, Marsupilami, Ducktales, Batman: The Animated Series, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, Davey Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier. While attending my last semester of digital film at the Art Institute of Vancouver, Burnaby campus, everyone in my class was given the opportunity to take any class that our college offered for free. I chose to take the life drawing class. The pictures that I drew in this class inspired me to create Intimate Portraits from Another World - Part One. This is the series that Iíve now been working on for the past three years." ~ Aaron Dickinson
Guest curator, Darren Filipenko is a Penticton based artist who works in a variety of media. He has a BFA from Okanagan University and has attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. He is a three time recipient of the Helen Pitt Scholarship and a winner of the Abraham Rogatnick Scholarship for industrial design. Darren has collaborated on a number of mural projects in Penticton, most notably the mural in the Penticton Aquatic Centre.
"My intention behind this work was to create something that complemented Aaronís show, Intimate Portraits...Part One. During the winter of 2005, while Aaron was attending the film and video program at the Art Institute of Vancouver ó long before he started his drawings, he asked me to take this series of photos of him dressed up in a "Vampiresqe" persona. I had always intended to use the photos in a project of my own but never had an excuse to work with them until I got the opportunity to curate this show of Aaron's drawings. I liked the idea of including a portrait of the artist in amongst the portraits Aaron created out of his imagination. As subject, this is simply another character created from Aaron's pop-culture-fuelled imagination, however, contextually and formally, it is a portrait of Aaron, and, to some extent myself. The idea for the photos and their final form ultimately originates from our similar sense of ironic, goofy humour and a love of juxtaposing the ridiculous with the grotesque." ~ Darren Filipenko
Toni Onley Gallery
Recent Donations to the Permanent Collection:
Muriel Ferley and Bettina Somers
This exhibition features a selection of works by two artists who have made a significant contribution to the early development of the visual arts in the South Okanagan. The donations came to the gallery in 2008 and give greater context to two artists whose work is already held in our collection. What made these donations unique is that they also included significant ephemera relating to each artist and their careers thereby opening a greater window into their creative process and providing an invaluable record for further study and understanding of their work and their roll in the arts community.
Education Space - Printmaking Studio
The gallery has two printing presses which, until recently, have remained hidden in the back of the gallery in need of repair. Both presses are currently being refurbished and will soon be available for those interested in the art of printmaking. The gallery will be hosting free monthly workshops which will feature a printmaking demonstration and instructions on how to correctly use the press. This is mandatory workshop to ensure studio participants are familiar with safe operations of the equipment. Once familiar with the presses, participants are invited to sign up to use the studio resource as gallery time permits. There will be a $10 drop in fee which will go towards the continued care and maintenance of the presses. Join us for the first free workshop on Saturday, March 14th at 3 p.m.
Calendar of Events
March 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 3 p.m.
Young At Art - Young artists join Glenn Clark on Thursday afternoons for this new after school program. A weekly drop-in geared to the middle school crowd, students will use the Ed Space for drawing, painting and printmaking. Free admission but pre-registration is required.
March 7 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Michiko Suzuki
Join the artist for a tour of her exhibition Flicker of Life. Admission by donation.
March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
First Fridays ~ Open Mic
Join in an evening of sights and sounds, transforming concepts into realities. Everyone welcome! Free Admission.
March 8 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Landscape Resist Painting
Explore the exhibitions then put your creativity to work in the Education Room. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 8 at 8 p.m.
Circle of Stones ñ Live Performance with Aaron Goodwin and Jamie Eberle. Free Admission.
March 13 at 7 p.m.
Opening reception for all exhibitions.
March 14 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Lyndal Osborne
Join the artist for a tour of her exhibition Ornamenta. Admission by donation.
March 14 at 3 p.m.
Introduction to the Printing Press Workshop
Join us for this free introduction printmaking workshop with local printmaker Dennis "Ben" Nielsen. Please pre-register by calling 250-493-2928.
March 15 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Family Sunday - St. Patrick's Day Project
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 16 & 30 at 8 p.m.
Stitch n Bitch - A new program for anyone with an open mind and itchy fingers, Stitch 'n Bitch is an evening dedicated to creating and sharing. Bring your knitting, crocheting, beading, felting, darning, mending, fiber art, macrame, velvet painting, string art or anything else for a chatty crafty fun night. Admission by donation ~ everyone welcome!
March 18 & 19 at 7 p.m. at the Pen-Mar Cinema
Kitchen Stove Film Presentation ~ Iíve Loved You So Long (France - subtitled)Director: Philippe Claudel;Cast: Kirstin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstien, Serge Hazanavicius; Rated 14A
An emotional debut from director, screenwriter Philippe Claudel, Iíve Loved You So Long is the profoundly moving story of Juliette, a former doctor who has just been released from prison after serving a 15 year sentence and the suspicion, pain, and brittle awkwardness she encounters as she tries to become reacquainted with her family and society. This is a complex, multi-layered film with each scene reveling and releasing fragments of Julietteís character ó who she was, how she lived and most difficult to comprehend, the crime she committed.
**** A superbly haunting and redemptive film experience
**** A searing, engrossing performance of great honesty
Single Tickets: $10 each available at the Penticton Art Gallery - 199 Marina Way (250-493-2928)or The Book Shop ñ 242 Main Street (250-492-6661). Limited individual tickets at the door.
March 21, 28 & April 4 from 12:15 ñ 4:45 p.m.
Designing and Painting Floor Cloths with Camille Clarke
Put your creative talents to work in this extensive workshop. Registration limited to 8 students.
Gallery Members & Students: $125 & supply list / Non-members: $145 & supply list
March 21 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Darren Filipenko
Join the artist/ curator for a tour of the exhibition, Intimate Portraits in the Project Room. Admission by donation.
March 22 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Finger Paint Tree
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 25 at 1:30 p.m.
Topics & Tea
Come and listen to a variety of guest speakers with friends new and old. Explore the exhibitions and enjoy a cup of tea and baked goods courtesy of The Bench Artisan Food Market. Admission by donation ~ everyone welcome.
March 26 at 7 p.m.
Live in Concert ~ Jeff Andrew (www.jeffandrew.ca)
Intimate concert setting in the galleryís Tea Room. Seating limited to 50 people.
Tickets: $10 Gallery members and students / $15 Non-members
March 29 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ April Foolís Day "Spilled Milk"
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
April 3 at 7:30 p.m.
First Fridays ~ Open Mic
Join in an evening of sights and sounds, transforming concepts into realities. Everyone welcome! Free Admission.
April 5 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Easter Egg Holders
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
For additional information, please call the gallery
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, B.C. V2A 1H3
Tel: (250)493-2928 Fax: (250)493-3992
agso@shawbiz.ca www.galleries.bc.ca/agso/
Lyndal Osborne: "Ornamenta"
Artist Talk ~ Saturday, March 14 at 1 p.m.
Curated by Linda Jansma and Virginia Eichhorn, Ornamenta brings together two significant installations by Edmonton-based artist Lyndal Osborne. An ecology of biodiversity surfaces as a unifying theme between Garden (2005) and Archipelago (2008) ó both underscore Osborneís meticulously detailed craftsmanship with a multitude of treated organic materials. Since her career began four decades ago, Osborneís collection of organic objects has progressively permeated her body of work. Advancing from the straightforward presentation of Tableaux For Transformation (1998), a meditation on collection and nonhierarchical systems of being, Ornamenta strikes the viewer as inherently ecopolitical. Osborne elevates her collection of grapefruit skins, dried sunflower stalks and upturned roots beyond their essence and productive functions, and her rearrangements become an expressive encounter.
In Garden, a central patch of upturned annual indigenous roots have been treated in bright pinks and greens, colours that for Osborne best represent the growing climate in Australia and Canada. Rendering visible the harvested roots, which have sprouted from seed to plant to death, Osborne invites the viewer to look and think beyond the life of a plant, and appreciate the dead roots as central to the ongoing cycle of growth. Acknowledging her motherís gift and passion for gardening as the direct influence for her own interest, Osborneís real-life gardens are a visual cacophony of healthy, self-sustaining perennials grown wild in rhythmic chaos. Cherishing the plants in life and in death by collecting and incorporating her own dried foliage, Osborneís work affirms that the worth of seeds and roots does not end once the productive function has been completed. The natural cycles of life from seed to root to plant and back to seed have an intrinsic value, a value being threatened by research-driven advances in biotechnology, a field that fascinates Osborne and prompts her to question its accountability within the grand ecological order of nature.
Expanding beyond the hyperreal urban backyard in Garden, Archipelago simulates sixteen modified cell structures along a metaphoric North Saskatchewan River. Osborne has been interested in the international debate of labeling genetically modified foods ó biotechnology produces research-driven organisms by concentrating and injecting the most productive genes from a diverse variation of organisms into homogenous super seeds. The long-term effects of a single super seed on human consumption have yet to be accounted for in terms of long-term human and ecological health, and Osborne is asking questions now ó how will GMOs adapt to infestation, bush fires, and other ecological cycles that reinvigorate natural diversity. Flowing throughout the exhibition alongside the sixteen altered pods and laboratory apparatus, the North Saskatchewan River shines in contrast as an open-ended life source filled with unaltered biodiversity. Running close to Osborneís own home and acreage, the strength of a healthy river stands as symbol of sustainable ecology that intertwines both art and life.
The diversity of materials culled from Osborneís own land, and visible throughout Ornamenta, strives for an awareness of our ecological responsibilities to respect natureís self-sustaining rhythms. Osborneís metaphorical gardens and cell pods act as warnings to the irrevocable damage our unheeded technological breakthroughs can bring if we as consumers and as a generation do not become more aware. Disrupting a natural order through the proliferation of GMOs, the concern of biotechnology is not restricted to the single issue between humans and nature, but as demonstrated in Ornamenta, rests between diversity and the earth.** This essay of Lyndal Osborneís exhibition was first published in Galleries West Magazine, Winter/ Spring 2009 issue
The Project Room
Aaron Dickinson: Intimate Portraits From Another World: Part One
Darren Filipenko: Portraits of Aaron as a Vampire
This exhibition is actually two exhibits in one where one artist reacts to the work of the other and in doing so creates a dialogue which borrows on common interest, personal history and shared experience.
Aaron Dickinson is a self-taught artist living in Vancouver BC. He trained in video and film making at the Art Institute of Vancouver and his figurative imagery represents characters that are part of a larger fictional narrative and imagined world. This is the first public exhibition his work. In this series, Aaron has drawn on his past inspirations to create a fantastical world set in the future. The many different stories surrounding the lost kingdom involve common themes of love, loss, revenge, greed and redemption.
"When I was ten years old, I attended a strict private Christian School in Vancouver where most of our lunch breaks were spent chasing girls, playing with G.I. Joes and creating/drawing rival characters that battled to the death. The two most popular characters that battled for paper supremacy were "Kat Kool", a hip cat gangster with earrings, tattoos, and a robot arm and "Psycho Sid", an ex - professional wrestling lizard who wore spandex tights. Each and every day my friends would come up with new, exciting and interesting ways for "Kat Kool" and "Psycho Sid" to maim and kill each other. Although my friendís pictures were simple and to the point, they still managed to evoke a sense of shock and awe that has left a lasting impression on me and to this day they remain my greatest inspiration.
Saturday morning cartoons along with old school Disney films also played a large role in influencing my style as an artistÖsome of these favourites include: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, G.I. Joes, Thundercats, Bonkers, Marsupilami, Ducktales, Batman: The Animated Series, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, Davey Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier. While attending my last semester of digital film at the Art Institute of Vancouver, Burnaby campus, everyone in my class was given the opportunity to take any class that our college offered for free. I chose to take the life drawing class. The pictures that I drew in this class inspired me to create Intimate Portraits from Another World - Part One. This is the series that Iíve now been working on for the past three years." ~ Aaron Dickinson
Guest curator, Darren Filipenko is a Penticton based artist who works in a variety of media. He has a BFA from Okanagan University and has attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. He is a three time recipient of the Helen Pitt Scholarship and a winner of the Abraham Rogatnick Scholarship for industrial design. Darren has collaborated on a number of mural projects in Penticton, most notably the mural in the Penticton Aquatic Centre.
"My intention behind this work was to create something that complemented Aaronís show, Intimate Portraits...Part One. During the winter of 2005, while Aaron was attending the film and video program at the Art Institute of Vancouver ó long before he started his drawings, he asked me to take this series of photos of him dressed up in a "Vampiresqe" persona. I had always intended to use the photos in a project of my own but never had an excuse to work with them until I got the opportunity to curate this show of Aaron's drawings. I liked the idea of including a portrait of the artist in amongst the portraits Aaron created out of his imagination. As subject, this is simply another character created from Aaron's pop-culture-fuelled imagination, however, contextually and formally, it is a portrait of Aaron, and, to some extent myself. The idea for the photos and their final form ultimately originates from our similar sense of ironic, goofy humour and a love of juxtaposing the ridiculous with the grotesque." ~ Darren Filipenko
Toni Onley Gallery
Recent Donations to the Permanent Collection:
Muriel Ferley and Bettina Somers
This exhibition features a selection of works by two artists who have made a significant contribution to the early development of the visual arts in the South Okanagan. The donations came to the gallery in 2008 and give greater context to two artists whose work is already held in our collection. What made these donations unique is that they also included significant ephemera relating to each artist and their careers thereby opening a greater window into their creative process and providing an invaluable record for further study and understanding of their work and their roll in the arts community.
Education Space - Printmaking Studio
The gallery has two printing presses which, until recently, have remained hidden in the back of the gallery in need of repair. Both presses are currently being refurbished and will soon be available for those interested in the art of printmaking. The gallery will be hosting free monthly workshops which will feature a printmaking demonstration and instructions on how to correctly use the press. This is mandatory workshop to ensure studio participants are familiar with safe operations of the equipment. Once familiar with the presses, participants are invited to sign up to use the studio resource as gallery time permits. There will be a $10 drop in fee which will go towards the continued care and maintenance of the presses. Join us for the first free workshop on Saturday, March 14th at 3 p.m.
Calendar of Events
March 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 3 p.m.
Young At Art - Young artists join Glenn Clark on Thursday afternoons for this new after school program. A weekly drop-in geared to the middle school crowd, students will use the Ed Space for drawing, painting and printmaking. Free admission but pre-registration is required.
March 7 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Michiko Suzuki
Join the artist for a tour of her exhibition Flicker of Life. Admission by donation.
March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
First Fridays ~ Open Mic
Join in an evening of sights and sounds, transforming concepts into realities. Everyone welcome! Free Admission.
March 8 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Landscape Resist Painting
Explore the exhibitions then put your creativity to work in the Education Room. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 8 at 8 p.m.
Circle of Stones ñ Live Performance with Aaron Goodwin and Jamie Eberle. Free Admission.
March 13 at 7 p.m.
Opening reception for all exhibitions.
March 14 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Lyndal Osborne
Join the artist for a tour of her exhibition Ornamenta. Admission by donation.
March 14 at 3 p.m.
Introduction to the Printing Press Workshop
Join us for this free introduction printmaking workshop with local printmaker Dennis "Ben" Nielsen. Please pre-register by calling 250-493-2928.
March 15 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Family Sunday - St. Patrick's Day Project
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 16 & 30 at 8 p.m.
Stitch n Bitch - A new program for anyone with an open mind and itchy fingers, Stitch 'n Bitch is an evening dedicated to creating and sharing. Bring your knitting, crocheting, beading, felting, darning, mending, fiber art, macrame, velvet painting, string art or anything else for a chatty crafty fun night. Admission by donation ~ everyone welcome!
March 18 & 19 at 7 p.m. at the Pen-Mar Cinema
Kitchen Stove Film Presentation ~ Iíve Loved You So Long (France - subtitled)Director: Philippe Claudel;Cast: Kirstin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstien, Serge Hazanavicius; Rated 14A
An emotional debut from director, screenwriter Philippe Claudel, Iíve Loved You So Long is the profoundly moving story of Juliette, a former doctor who has just been released from prison after serving a 15 year sentence and the suspicion, pain, and brittle awkwardness she encounters as she tries to become reacquainted with her family and society. This is a complex, multi-layered film with each scene reveling and releasing fragments of Julietteís character ó who she was, how she lived and most difficult to comprehend, the crime she committed.
**** A superbly haunting and redemptive film experience
**** A searing, engrossing performance of great honesty
Single Tickets: $10 each available at the Penticton Art Gallery - 199 Marina Way (250-493-2928)or The Book Shop ñ 242 Main Street (250-492-6661). Limited individual tickets at the door.
March 21, 28 & April 4 from 12:15 ñ 4:45 p.m.
Designing and Painting Floor Cloths with Camille Clarke
Put your creative talents to work in this extensive workshop. Registration limited to 8 students.
Gallery Members & Students: $125 & supply list / Non-members: $145 & supply list
March 21 at 1 p.m.
Exhibition Walk and Talk with Darren Filipenko
Join the artist/ curator for a tour of the exhibition, Intimate Portraits in the Project Room. Admission by donation.
March 22 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Finger Paint Tree
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
March 25 at 1:30 p.m.
Topics & Tea
Come and listen to a variety of guest speakers with friends new and old. Explore the exhibitions and enjoy a cup of tea and baked goods courtesy of The Bench Artisan Food Market. Admission by donation ~ everyone welcome.
March 26 at 7 p.m.
Live in Concert ~ Jeff Andrew (www.jeffandrew.ca)
Intimate concert setting in the galleryís Tea Room. Seating limited to 50 people.
Tickets: $10 Gallery members and students / $15 Non-members
March 29 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ April Foolís Day "Spilled Milk"
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
April 3 at 7:30 p.m.
First Fridays ~ Open Mic
Join in an evening of sights and sounds, transforming concepts into realities. Everyone welcome! Free Admission.
April 5 from 2 ñ 4 p.m.
Family Sunday ñ Easter Egg Holders
Explore the exhibitions and then put your creativity to work. All children must be accompanied by an adult for this uninstructed project. Admission by donation.
For additional information, please call the gallery
Penticton Art Gallery
199 Marina Way, Penticton, B.C. V2A 1H3
Tel: (250)493-2928 Fax: (250)493-3992
agso@shawbiz.ca www.galleries.bc.ca/agso/
05 Mar 2009
KELOWNA GETS KISSED
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KAS Presents A Controversial and Compelling Musical, Kiss of The Spider Woman
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| Kelowna Actors Studio is proud to present the third
show of their sixth season with the Broadway smash hit, Kiss of The
Spider Woman. The production opens March 26 and runs Thursday to Sunday
evenings, with Saturday matinees, until April 19, 2009. From the award-winning creators of Chicago and Cabaret, Kiss of the Spiderwoman took Broadway by storm in 1993, garnering the Tony Award for Best Musical, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, as well as acting accolades for most of the leads. Based on Manuel Puig's El Beso de la Mujer Arana, Kiss of the Spiderwoman has been translated into 27 languages, adapted into a play and a movie, as well as the award-winning musical including the hit songs Gimme Love, Dressing Them Up and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Audiences will inevitably get caught in the web of explosive music, enthralling dances and witty humour. Kiss of the Spider Woman spins a captivating web about a compelling friendship between two men who share a claustrophobic jail cell. Based on the novel by Manual Puig, the musical tells the tale of Molina and his cellmate Valentin. In order to help the two survive prison brutality, Molina dreams of the grade B movie star, Aurora the spider woman, and relates stories of her to Valentin. Kelowna Actors Studio’s production of Kiss of the Spider Woman is directed and choreographed by Nathan Flavel. It stars Tracy Ross as Aurora, the Spider Woman, Randy Leslie as Molina and Ryan Buehler as Valentine. The cast includes Norene Morrow as Molina’s mother, and Carmen Harris as Valentine’s girlfriend, Marta. They will be joined on stage by KAS favourites James Long, Brad Hull, Colin Rutherford and Scott Lawler, and newcomers Rick Worrall and Colm O’Reilly. The musical direction is by Neville Bowman and Gwen Plitt, with set design by Nathan Flavel, set décor by Patricia Burns, and props by James Long. Costumes are by Norene Morrow, sound design by Jordan Leboe, set construction by Myles Christensen, hair and make-up by Chelsey Chase and the show is stage managed by Noelle Jefferys, with assistance from Tammy Abrahamson. “I am constantly impressed with the calibre of talent we have at KAS,” enthuses director Nathan Flavel. “The singing and acting are all second to none. Tracy Ross is a choreographer's dream! Her dancing is just as good as Chita Rivera, the original Spider Woman. She soars in this role." An interesting footnote to this presentation is that Randy Leslie, Kelowna Actors Studio’s artistic director, and this production’s Molina, worked on the original preview in Toronto before it premiered on Broadway. “This has been a dream show of mine to produce since we started the company six years ago,” he says. “It’s amazing to have Randy in the cast since he was there with the first director Hal Prince, the original Spider Woman Chita Rivera, and the show’s writers, Kander and Ebb during the workshop process. He brings a wealth of insight to his role and our production,” says Flavel. “His Molina is incredibly strong.” “Kiss of The Spiderwoman pushes the envelope with adult themes and content,” admits Flavel. “The show may make some people feel a little uncomfortable, but it also makes us think, which is what good theatre does.” Kiss of The Spider Woman runs at the Kelowna Actors Studio (1379 Ellis, across from the Public Library) Thursday to Sunday evenings, with a Saturday matinee, from March 26 to April 19, with dinner catered by the Greenroom Bistro, and dessert ticket options available. For further information, or to purchase tickets, visit the on-site box office, call 250 862 2867, or log on to KelownaActorsStudio.com. |
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