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Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan
3.Description : Event date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 7:00 PM
Location: Art 218, UBC Okanagan
Michael MacLennan divides his time between Toronto,Vancouver and Los Angeles. His plays have been produced throughout Canada, Europe and the US. His books include Beat the Sunset, Grace, The Shooting Stage, Last Romantics, Life After God and The Good Egg. He has won a Jessie, two Voaden Prizes, Theatrum National Playwrighting Award and was twice nominated for the Governor General's. As screenwriter, Michael has been nominated for five WGC Screenwriting Awards. He was co-executive producer of Queer as Folk, creator/ executive producer of Godiva's and Jpod, and consulting producer on Being Erica.
This is a free public event.
Sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, UBC Okanagan Bookstore, The Canada Council for the Arts, Okanagan Regional Library. and the Alternator Gallery.
3.Description : Event date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 7:00 PM
Location: Art 218, UBC Okanagan
Michael MacLennan divides his time between Toronto,Vancouver and Los Angeles. His plays have been produced throughout Canada, Europe and the US. His books include Beat the Sunset, Grace, The Shooting Stage, Last Romantics, Life After God and The Good Egg. He has won a Jessie, two Voaden Prizes, Theatrum National Playwrighting Award and was twice nominated for the Governor General's. As screenwriter, Michael has been nominated for five WGC Screenwriting Awards. He was co-executive producer of Queer as Folk, creator/ executive producer of Godiva's and Jpod, and consulting producer on Being Erica.
This is a free public event.
Sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, UBC Okanagan Bookstore, The Canada Council for the Arts, Okanagan Regional Library. and the Alternator Gallery.
30 Jan 2010
Winter Painting Workshops
Acrylic & Watercolour Painting Workshops*
Introduction to Acrylics #1
Saturday, February 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Introduction to Acrylics #2
Saturday, February 20, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Introduction to Watercolour
Saturday, March 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Fun and informative workshops designed to introduce you to the skills and techniques used in painting with these exciting mediums. Instruction includes colour theory, composition and demonstrations of the special qualities unique to these mediums which the students will then apply to their own paintings. Students will complete paintings during each workshop. Beginners Welcome.
Workshop Fee: $75.00 each. Art Supplies extra.
Supply List available at Opus Store or check online at the Opus website.
*All Workshops subject to enrolment.
Location: Opus Art Supply Store - Classroom, Kelowna, B.C.
Instructor: Marlene G. McPherson
Phone 250-766-3934
www.MyArtClub.Com/Marlene.McPherson
M.G.M. Fine Art Studios
Teaching Creativity in the Okanagan since 1993
Introduction to Acrylics #1
Saturday, February 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Introduction to Acrylics #2
Saturday, February 20, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Introduction to Watercolour
Saturday, March 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm
Fun and informative workshops designed to introduce you to the skills and techniques used in painting with these exciting mediums. Instruction includes colour theory, composition and demonstrations of the special qualities unique to these mediums which the students will then apply to their own paintings. Students will complete paintings during each workshop. Beginners Welcome.
Workshop Fee: $75.00 each. Art Supplies extra.
Supply List available at Opus Store or check online at the Opus website.
*All Workshops subject to enrolment.
Location: Opus Art Supply Store - Classroom, Kelowna, B.C.
Instructor: Marlene G. McPherson
Phone 250-766-3934
www.MyArtClub.Com/Marlene.McPherson
M.G.M. Fine Art Studios
Teaching Creativity in the Okanagan since 1993
26 Jan 2010
Visiting Artist Speaker Series: David Jolliffe
Thursday, January 28th at 6pm in room Art 103 at UBC Okanagan
Daniel Jolliffe is a media and visual artist whose work integrates a wide range of artistic practices with electronic systems to examine the effect of technology on human communication and experience. His interactive works and technology-based art projects have been shown across Canada, the United States and internationally, most recently during the Biennale de Montreal 2009. Daniel's work has also received international media attention. His research interests include anonymous speech, open source approaches to creating artworks and cultural objects, and interventionist and kinaesthetic art, amoung others. In 2009 he co-organized the GOSH! summit on open-source hardware and cultural practice at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is currently an assistant professor at Concordia University and the University of British Columbia. he holds a BA in Philosophy (Victoria) and an MFA in Art and Technology (Ohio State).
Admission to all FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series talks are free and open to the public. The FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series is sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan.
Daniel Jolliffe is a media and visual artist whose work integrates a wide range of artistic practices with electronic systems to examine the effect of technology on human communication and experience. His interactive works and technology-based art projects have been shown across Canada, the United States and internationally, most recently during the Biennale de Montreal 2009. Daniel's work has also received international media attention. His research interests include anonymous speech, open source approaches to creating artworks and cultural objects, and interventionist and kinaesthetic art, amoung others. In 2009 he co-organized the GOSH! summit on open-source hardware and cultural practice at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is currently an assistant professor at Concordia University and the University of British Columbia. he holds a BA in Philosophy (Victoria) and an MFA in Art and Technology (Ohio State).
Admission to all FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series talks are free and open to the public. The FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series is sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan.
22 Jan 2010
Culture/ Power Speaker Series: Cindy Holmes
A Reputation for Tolerance: examining contested geographies of belonging in Kelowna, BC
DATE: Thursday, January 28th at 2:15pm in the UBC Okanagan Library room 306
Cindy Holmes is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies and holds a SSHRC doctoral fellowship at UBC Okanagan. Her dissertation research draws on critical race, queer feminist and spatial theories to examine how interlocking forms of violence, safety and belonging are imagined and produced in different contexts and scales. Alongside her academic work, she has worked with community groups for over 20 years in the areas of violence against women, violence in the lives of LGBTQ people, health promotion and anti-oppression education. Cindyís forthcoming and most recent publications are: (Forthcoming January 2010). Troubling normalcy: Examining ëhealthy relationshipsí discourses in lesbian domestic violence prevention in J. Ristock (Ed.) Intimate partner violence in LGBTQ Lives. New York: Routledge; and (2009) Destabilizing homonormativity and the private/ public dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses in Gender, Place and Culture 16(1), 77-95
This event is free and open to the public.
CONTACT: David.jefferess@ubc.ca or Lindsay.balfour@ubc.ca
DATE: Thursday, January 28th at 2:15pm in the UBC Okanagan Library room 306
Cindy Holmes is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies and holds a SSHRC doctoral fellowship at UBC Okanagan. Her dissertation research draws on critical race, queer feminist and spatial theories to examine how interlocking forms of violence, safety and belonging are imagined and produced in different contexts and scales. Alongside her academic work, she has worked with community groups for over 20 years in the areas of violence against women, violence in the lives of LGBTQ people, health promotion and anti-oppression education. Cindyís forthcoming and most recent publications are: (Forthcoming January 2010). Troubling normalcy: Examining ëhealthy relationshipsí discourses in lesbian domestic violence prevention in J. Ristock (Ed.) Intimate partner violence in LGBTQ Lives. New York: Routledge; and (2009) Destabilizing homonormativity and the private/ public dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses in Gender, Place and Culture 16(1), 77-95
This event is free and open to the public.
CONTACT: David.jefferess@ubc.ca or Lindsay.balfour@ubc.ca
22 Jan 2010
Bill Bourne with Bop Ensemble
Date: January 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.Price: $30 per adult / $10 per student
Free Preshow: Jane Eamon at 6:30 p.m.
A multiple Canadian Juno Award winner, Bill Bourne has received international acclaim for his recordings and live performances. Bill loves to collaborate with fellow musicians. His most recent collaboration is with Jasmine Ohlhauser and Wyckham Porteous in the band 'bop ensemble'.
Previous to bop ensemble, Bill's other collaborations with Alan MacLeod, Eivør Pálsdóttir, Shannon Johnson, Hans Staymer and Andreas Schuld, and Lester Quitzau & Madagascar Slim, as well as his solo projects, have all attained award status in Canada. A mainstay on the international roots scene, life on the road is reflected in Bill's music - powerful rhythms and soulful songs, steeped in World Beat, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, Folk, Flamenco, Funk, Poetry and more...
Porteous matches Bourne's nearly legendary status and was described by Andrew Loog Oldham as "Leonard Cohen meets Harry Dean Stanton, a warm, warm, performer whose voice is like a bottle of wine who has matured into a friend." His latest album, 3 AM, has taken it's time, but Wyckham Porteous has finally done what he does best. He has emerged as a storyteller, but a storyteller whose personal experience gives the songs on this record a unified philosophical perspective.
Jasmine "Jas" Ohlhauser is the wild card of the bunch, an exuberant 25-year-old who also plays with the Edmonton band Lilys On Mars. With the addition of her dance theatrics, Bop Ensemble shows come close to performance art. Each of the three is great on their own; together they're something truly special.
First releases are always something special and "Between Trains" exemplifies this to the extreme. The music is authorial in nature and evokes the essence of the storyteller, but in music. Each track is formed by conscious awareness to the world and the lives it houses.
"Between Trains sounds like it could have been recorded around a crackling campfire on a midsummer night by three friends swapping tunes and passing a bottle. As winter approaches, you might want to keep a copy in your winter-blues emergency first aid kit. Marshmallows not included." - By Scott LingleyBop Ensemble "Between Trains" Fall 2009 Review - Penguin Eggs Magazine
Tickets can be purchased online through Select Your Tickets, by visiting the RCA Box Office, or by calling (250) 717-5304. For more information on Bop Ensemble visit http://www.billbourne.com.
19 Jan 2010
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