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LATEST ARTS NEWS
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.Kelowna Art Gallery Exhibitions and Events
Pop
Prints May 10 –
July 27, 2008 The Pop Art
movement of the 1960s is probably one of the best-ever examples of art being
in tune with a culture’s zeitgeist,
that is, spirit of its time. Riding the crest of a wave that had begun to
re-define culture in the western world and beyond, Pop celebrated the
ordinary and the mundane, and embraced “low” culture. All of a
sudden prints or paintings of soup can labels were “high” art and
had a rightful context in a gallery setting. Soon, The Beatles were
considered on the same plane as Beethoven, and the counter-culture movement
encouraged people to drop out and to fight “the system.” The Many of the
important players within the Pop movement will be represented in the
exhibition: Andy Warhol, with prints of Liz Taylor, Chairman Mao, and Jackie
O; Robert Indiana, with his famous L-O-V-E in a square format; Roy Lichtenstein’s
blow ups of images from comic books. It is entirely appropriate that the
exhibition focuses on prints, as the notion of printmaking as a serious
medium for artists went hand-in-hand with the democratic aspect of Pop Art.
Indeed these two notions fed from each other with fruitful results. The
exhibition will comprise about forty works from the permanent collection of
the Pop
Prints is organized and
circulated by the Our
Visitors to the Pop Prints show are invited to bring
along a can or two of
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Free guided tour with admission every Saturday,
11:00 am to 3:00 pm Special Art inSite Tour |
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Saturday
Art inSite Special Art
inSite Tour Explore the Pop Art movement with
Dr. Robert Belton, Dean, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC-O. |
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Factory Party! Saturday, June 21 Ticket price $10.00.
Tickets are limited, so get yours early. |
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Factory Party! Saturday, June 21, 8:00 pm –
1:00 am Join us for the party of all
parties! Inspired by Andy Warhol’s infamous Silver Factory, for one
night only the Ticket price $10.00. Stop by the Tickets are limited, so get yours early. | ||
LIFE & ARTS FESTIVAL GIVES 10 DESIGNERS SIX MINUTES OF FAME!
“The
response from
Designer Six Pack
presenters include Paul Beauchemin - Ecentric Media, Nicole Begrand-Fast -
Begrand Fast Design, Jim Cliffe - Temporal Ellipsis Productions, Linda Freeman
- Independent Designer, Amy Johnson - A77 Design, Robert MacDonald - Okanagan
Institute, Jim Meiklejohn - Meiklejohn Architects Inc., Dan Tatham - Coast
Architectural Group, Natalia
Usselman - Idea Bureau, and
Warren Welter – Creatability.
The event will be
held at the
Design For Life
explores design and its impact in our lives through presentations, panels and
exhibits. Sustainable Design is the focus in 2008 as we explore the
"greening" of all kinds of design - from cities to buildings to
landscapes to products. Design For Life runs Saturday May 10; 11am – 9pm,
and Sunday May 11; 11am – 5pm at the
Voices Uplifted: A Celebration of Spiritual Music
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A CELEBRATION OF SPIRITUAL MUSIC
» Thursday 8 May 2008 | 4:30 pm
» Hanna's Lounge, 1392 Water Street
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Arts. Join us as singer/songwriter Jane Eamon and singer Barbara Samuel discuss the spiritual sources of their highly-regarded musical stylings.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna
Singers Talk About Music That Transforms
There's a hidden truth that just about any teen can tell you - music changes you. Typically it doesn't take more than a single note or two to jolt a teen out of complacency or into despair. While that experience may dull as we age, most people realize music moves us from the outside in. "Any songwriting is a gift. It's the muse - it's something else that directs your sound," says singer-songwriter Jane Eamon, who will be speaking along with Barbara Samuel Thursday May 8th at 4:30 p.m. at Hanna's Lounge on Water Street in the Okanagan Institute's presentation Voices Uplifted: A Celebration of Spiritual Music.
Jane Eamon, recipient of the 2008 Okanagan Music Award for folk artist, has established herself as a musician with a soul that sometimes sears through the heart aches that crop up in our materialistic world. She takes on social issues and challenges us to look at them more deeply. Along the way she's been known to infuse her music with a spiritual sentiment (her first album was entitled The Blue Madonna), and that's both smoothed and ruffled some fans' feathers.
"When you craft spiritual songs, they are not strictly faith-based songs," says Eamon, who was also nominated in the gospel category. "It could be a song about mourning the death of a father. Think of We Shall Overcome � that's a spiritual song. You don't have to say Lord or God for the music to have a spiritual component."
Music arrived on Barbara Samuel's doorstep like a bolt from the blue. She was struggling with a health problem that culminated when one day her voice all but vanished. At that time she made a pledge to God to devote her voice to Spirit, and she's been singing ever since � performing with her band Sista B and the Boys, and working as music director for the Kelowna Centre for Positive Living.
"I can't imagine life without song. I hear music in everything. I hear it when I walk, when a door closes, I hear it when I'm talking. I think the connection people feel with music is at a level that is beyond our reality - it's primal. The spiritual experience is innate in us."
In every culture, it is music perhaps more than any other art form that assists us in transcending our human experience.
Ravi Shankar, who introduced the Indian sitar to the Western world in the 1960s, recently said in an interview with Life Positive that people come to a spiritual recognition of themselves through music when it resonates with peace, regardless of what form of music takes them there.
"If you listen with absolute concentration to a church organ or Bach or a truly good musician performing any raga, you shall have a fantastic sense of peace. I consider that the final therapy."
Voices Uplifted: A Celebration of Spiritual Music is a free
event, and takes place at Hanna's Lounge. This marks the 45th event the
Okanagan Institute has held since the series got underway last July.
Since that time, the series has played host to various local
luminaries, including BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, former deputy
secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, CBC Literary
prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, animator Jim Cliffe, and others from
a variety of creative fields including artists, architects,
storytellers, and interior designers.Express is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
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Okanagan Insitute at Hanna's Lounge A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home.
Expresss is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at Hanna's Lounge after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.
The Brave New Media World
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» Thursday 1 May 2008 | 4:30 pm
» Hanna's Lounge, 1392 Water Street
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Arts. Join us as publisher Robert MacDonald provides insight into how the brave new media world will impact writers, artists, businesses and communities
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna
The Brave New Media World
� Marshall McLuhan popularized the phrase "the medium is the message" and speculated wildly on the different ways we learn about the world from print and digital media. He made a distinction between "hot" and "cool" media that attracted a great deal of public attention. He associated hot (high-resolution) media with the industrial age. By their nature, he argued, hot media leave less room for contemplation, individual involvement, and interpretation.
"Although digital media was in its infancy during McLuhan's time, the increasing influence of such cool (high-interactivity) media is hard to ignore, and is re-shaping the media landscape in a fundamental way." says Robert MacDonald, who will be speaking May 1st at 4:30 p.m. at Hanna's Lounge on Water Street in the third of the Okanagan Institute's four-part series on design - Content in Context.
"What does it mean to be a publisher? This was a fairly simple question to answer little more than a decade ago. But now with print on demand, weblogs, wikis and other easy-to-use publishing tools that make it easy for millions worldwide to express themselves online it's a question with very fuzzy answers at times," MacDonald states.
In this presentation MacDonald continues his exploration of the new world order for creative individuals who want to deliver their messages to the public, and especially those who want to take advantage of the digital tools available now, and those that are likely to emerge over the coming years.
A recent study by the Pew Foundation gathered an interesting picture as to what kinds of people are generating content online and why. The study found that the major reason most people use Facebook, weblogs and other tools is to have a creative outlet, with fewer than 10 percent citing making money as a motivation. In other words, for most people just the joy of publishing is enough to motivate them to give it a try. We're creative beings by design, for the most part, destined to shape our thoughts and feelings into personal publishing artifacts for the world to discover. The study also shows that many people want to have a platform as well as a creative outlet, in order to motivate other people to action or to influence their thinking.
Although individually the influence of these "amateur" publishers is relatively insignificant -- averaging as they do about twenty-four unique individuals experiencing their pages and posts - in sum the nation of people within this circle of influence would be the fourth largest in the world. The enormous potential of this communications medium in the hands of people who want to influence others poses both opportunities and challenges to both new publishers and society as a whole. For traditional publishers, the influence and attention gained by these millions of micro-audiences has the potential to dilute greatly both the attention and the influence that other sources of opinion and insight offer.
More specifically, this presentation will present a menu of ways in which creative individuals, businesses and even communities can establish their own media "brands" and exploit all the powerful new and old publishing technologies that are available to them.
Robert MacDonald was the Director of the Publishing Workshops at the University of Toronto and the Banff Centre for fifteen years. He was a founder of the Canadian Periodical Publishers Association and the Graphic Arts in the Public Service Foundation. He is both the publisher and designer of Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home magazines, and the Director of the Okanagan Institute.
Content in Context is a free event, and takes place at Hanna's
Lounge. It's presented by the Okanagan Institute in association with
Wheat King Publishing. Express is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central
Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical
Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna.FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
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Okanagan Insitute at Hanna's Lounge A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home.
Expresss is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at Hanna's Lounge after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.
A Quick Draw at the Penticton Art Gallery
A Quick Draw fundraiser starts at 6:30 pm, on Sunday, May 4, at the Penticton Art Gallery, 199 Marina Way in Penticton, BC.What do actress Jude Beny, radio personality Dr. Joy Brown, Governor General Award winning artist Aganetha Dyck, Hockey Night in Canada legend Don Cherry, two-time Academy Award winning actress and political activist Jane Fonda, two-time Heavyweight Champion of the World and TV pitchman George Foreman, Canadian astronaut Dr. Marc Garneau, leader of the British Columbia NDP Carole James, award-winning internationally syndicated cartoonist of the comic strip For Better or Worse, Lynn Johnson, cult icon and subject of the 2006 Documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston artist and musician Daniel Johnston, NHL legend, owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Hall of Fame scorer Mario Lemieux, singer Nancy Sinatra, Hollywood director Dr. Richard Stevenson, Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury, billionaire land developer and TV celebrity Donald Trump, Juno award-winning songwriter Jim Vallance, Juno award songwriter David Francey, artist ManWoman, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, official Leader of the Opposition Stephane Dion, and dozens of other noted artists and celebrities all have in common??
They have each created a unique piece of art, all of which will be given away to event ticket holders starting at 7 pm on Sunday, May 4th, at the Penticton Art Gallery, 199 Marina Way, Penticton.
Proceeds raised from this fundraiser will benefit the Penticton Art Gallery‚s Creative Kids Summer Art Program. This unique fundraiser provides everyone who attends the opportunity to walk away with something far greater than the value of the ticket. Over the past two months the gallery has been collecting works of art from across North America by some of the biggest names in art, music, politics, business, sport and entertainment. Everyone who purchases a ticket to the event will be guaranteed a work of art by one of the above mentioned participants or the dozens more who have donated their time to create a unique work of art.
All the donated works will be on display at the Penticton Art Gallery starting on Tuesday April 28th, along with a list naming all the participating artists, to allow you time to develop a list of favorites and to plan your strategy. The catch, and the fun part, is that the works are all signed on the back therefore concealing the identity of the artist of each individual piece. The identity of each work of art will only be revealed once the work is selected by the lucky ticket holder at the gala event on May 4th. There are only as many tickets as there are works of art, so purchase your ticket early to avoid disappointment.
Tickets for the Quick Draw fundraiser are available at the Penticton Art Gallery; $45 for Gallery members and $60 for non-members, with each ticket guaranteeing an original work of art. If you would like to participate and cannot attend the event, you can purchase a ticket and leave a proxy bid which will be administered on your behalf by a member of the gallery staff. Tickets are also available for those who would like to come and take part of the fun (but who don‚t wish to purchase a work of art) for $10.
Tickets are limited to the number of artworks received, so please reserve yours in advance to avoid disappointment. To reserve tickets, or for more information, please contact Paul Crawford at the Penticton Art Gallery, (250) 493-2928.
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