2011 - 2012 Special Events
Eco artists celebrate Earth Day at Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary UBC’s Creative Studies students incubate awareness of wildlife conservation
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Where: Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary, Coldstream, BC, 12408 Coldstream Creek Rd. When: Earth Day 2012 — Sunday, April 22, 12 noon to 4 p.m. Admission: No cost. The public is cordially invited to this free event.
On Earth Day, a wildlife sanctuary maintained for the education of children and their families will be wreathed in ecological art by a creative crew from UBC. |
Coldstream’s Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary will be the site of multiple entertaining Eco Art projects created especially for the park by faculty and students from the Creative Studies department at UBC’s Okanagan campus. A project of The Eco Art Incubator, this event features 20 Creative Studies students who will launch a series of Eco Art surprises and invite the public to participate in various creative projects that will heighten awareness of the Sanctuary’s role in conservation.
Creative Writing students from UBC will offer visitors the chance to listen to plays on mp3 players, participate in a bird poetry writing lab, read an alternate “disaffected” field guide with strange legends, and experience another surprising intervention that will raise awareness and provide guests to the sanctuary with a quirky souvenir of their visit.
The Eco Art Incubator is a research initiative run by Nancy Holmes, associate professor of Creative Writing, and Denise Kenney, assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Performance — both from the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus.
The goal is to grow Eco Art in the Okanagan and to make the region an important centre of Eco Art production. The Bishop Sanctuary celebration is the first project of the Incubator in the North Okanagan.
Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary has also invited other community arts groups to create other special Earth Day events. The site is operated by Bishop Wild Bird Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to conservation and stewardship of wild bird habitat, primarily in the North Okanagan. The sanctuary consists of more than four acres of natural parkland along the east shore of Kalamalka Lake in Coldstream, next to the city of Vernon.
For more information about the Eco Art project, contact Nancy Holmes at 250-807-9369 or email nancy.holmes@ubc.ca, or check the website: http://ecoartincubator.com/ For more info about the sanctuary contact Aaron Deans at 250-542-5122.
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Alter Your Senses at the 9th AnnualWearable Art GalaOver 50 Participating Artists The Wearable Art Gala is not a fashion show in the traditional sense - it's an artistic exploration blending clever design, breathtaking art, vaudeville humor and sheer spectacle. On Saturday, March 31, join over 50 artists as they prepare to alter your sense of sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. With a reputation built over eight years of largely sold out performances, this popular community fundraising event is now moving venues. Their new location at the Laurel Packinghouse will treat guests to an up close and immersive experience as they move the performance off-stage and engage their audience as never before. Saturday, March 31 - 7:00 pm |
Performers, including first-year visual arts students from UBC Okanagan Campus are ready to challenge your expectations with full creative force. This year the competition will heat up as students from the CATO Fashion Design Program team up to break the mold and engage all your senses. Students and professionals alike will be keeping an eye out for the 2009 peoples choice award winners, Kinshira, a local performance group who have their sights set on regaining your favour.
MC Michael V. Smith will set the tone as DJ Mark Mishadow and VJ Arthur Crazy Monkey create sound and visual projections to unite and excite. With full audio and visual support from SPL Sound Productions, all are ready to make this an event not to be missed. Following the show, the doors will open for an after party as performers and guests pack the dance floor till the early morning.
Tickets: Prospera Place, Select Your Tickets or 250-220-7777
After party tickets: $15 at the Alternator or at the door from 9:30pm-2am
Purchase your tickets now at any Select Your Tickets outlet or visit http://www.alternatorgallery.com/ for more information. All proceeds go to support the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, a local charitable organization.
The Alternator extends a special thanks to event supporters: SPL Sound Productions, Tree Brewing, Gonzo Online, Sonoran Estate Winery, Perreault Photography, Sleighridermedia.com, the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus and the Fashion Design and Merchandising Program at the Centre for Arts and Technology.
For more information contact WAG Coordinator: Jennifer Pickering at 250.317.7263 (cell) or mailto:info@alternatorgallery.com
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The Films of WoodhavenCome see the three short films made for the Woodhaven Eco Art Project. “Ants, Ants, Ants” directed by Michael V. Smith “The Chainsaw Ballet” directed by Denise Kenney “The Woodhaven Eco Art Experience” directed by Nancy Holmes and Lori Mairs (premiere)
Pick up your catalogue of the Woodhaven Eco Art Project, too! Monday, November 14 Doors open at 4:30 PM |
Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages provided; cash bar for wine and beer.
All welcome, free admission.
Sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC and the Regional District of the Central Okanagan.
For more information about the Woodhaven Eco Art Project: http://www.woodhaven.ok.ubc.ca
Contact: Nancy Holmes at nancy.holmes@ubc.ca (250-764-9666)
2010 - 2011 Special Events
The Arts Council of Kelowna and the Department of Creative Studies at UBC have teamed up to support the arts in Kelowna. Under the direction of professor Byron Johnston, The Ponderosa Motel Project is an exciting opportunity for approximately 50 BFA students to participate in a unique art installation. Owner Albert Weisstock has generously given Johnston and his students space in this 14 unit motel located next to the Parkinson Recreation Center on highway 97. Through art and sculptural installation, students will transform each unit into an artistic space under the theme of “Mad Hatter.” Groups of second ,third and fourth year students each have their own motel suite to research and develop. Several painting students are creating murals on an adjacent wall and a dump truck has been donated for a new look.
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Exhibition on view from March 5 to March 14, 2011.
Performance professor Neil Cadger will have his students perform at the opening, accompanied by video projections. The opening is scheduled for the 4th of March, 2011, 6:30 - 9:30 pm. For more information, contact Byron Johnston at 250-807-9769 or byron.johnston@ubc.ca The exhibition is open for viewing by donation. |
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All photos by Emily Geen, Hans Lujan and Poster design by Joshua Davidson. |
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies MFA Opening Reception: Monday, Nov. 15th at 3:30 PM *See poster below for schedule of events. |
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University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Guest Speaker: Cheryl McLean Wednesday, Nov. 10 Admission is free and everyone is welcome!
For more information, contact: Renay Egami - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Creative Studies, 250-807-9764 |
Cheryl McLean M.A. is an independent scholar, publisher and educator advancing the emerging field of the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice worldwide. She is founder (2006) CEO and publisher of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and Editor of the research texts “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” and “Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change”, Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Detselig Temeron Press.
McLean has a background in Social Sciences (BA University of Western Ontario) and Arts (MA Concordia, University). She attended Concordia University, Montreal 01–03 where she studied Creative Arts Therapies and acting (Stanislavski/realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold formerly the AD of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre and worked as a therapist with older persons in residential care. She wrote the “ethnodrama” script “Remember Me for Birds” based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and performed in keynote solo performances for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. The work was produced as an educational film in 2006. An agent of change Cheryl McLean continues to help shape the emerging international field of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play for hope and change in contemporary research and interdisciplinary practice.
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Reception: Thursday, Sept 16, 5 - 7 Click here for printable poster.
Miranda Aschenbrenner is an abstract artist whose work straddles the line between painting and sculpture. Through a process of pre-determined steps, she seeks to subvert any subconscious attempts to bring her work to a planned resolution. This process, destructive in nature, can create unintended effects, although the way these effects are used is entirely intentional. She is also fascinated with the inherent flatness of the picture plane and the depth, real or illusory, that is created through layering.
Miranda completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UBC-O in 2006 and has had a number of solo exhibitions in the area. She has participated in numerous group shows, including Soft Abs at the Modern Fuel Gallery in Kingston, ON and in 2008 was awarded a BC Arts Council Professional Development Grant.
2009 - 2010 Special Events
For those of you interested in art and literature, Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment has a wonderful and quirky online auction going on right now.
Check out http://www.lakejournal.ca/auction.html to bid on art work by Okanagan artists Carin Covin and Wanda Lock, to get a critique of your poetry manuscript by published poet Catherine Mamo, to book a lecture by John Lent for your next class or event, or to have a book written about you by writers Jake Kennedy and Kevin McPherson. These are some of the fabulous items up for grabs until June 5, 2010.
Have fun, bid hard, bid often, and bid high! This is a fundraiser for the Okanagan’s premier literary and art magazine!
Nancy Holmes
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2008 - 2009 Special Events
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Images from left to right; Jolyne Lauriault ,The Bishop, Winner for Best Use of Music, Anh Le, Tasking Sake on Orchid |
2008 Special Events
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The 5th Annual WAG March 29, 2008 - 8:00 p.m. Mary Irwin Theatre $45 Adults 19 years + Tickets at Ticketmaster (RCA) To view previous galas go to |
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The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies The inaugural issue of LAKE: A Journal of Arts
Join us for celebratory bash, meet the editors, buy For more information contact Nancy Holmes at
Website: http://www.lakejournal.ca/ |
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