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Doors open 7:00pm
Readings start at 7:30pm
with intermission & cash bar
Peter Norman’s poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies and other publications, including Arc, Industrial Sabotage, Bywords and the...
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Presenting an evening of readings by authors reading original texts, in which we will remember September 11 1973 and where we will also celebrate Chile's Independence, September 18, 1810. There will be some filming for which the footage...
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Chris Simonite’s animations focus on issues of modern masculinity while utilizing his talents in visual arts and music. Simonite’s irreverent animations poke fun at, among other things, religion and radical feminism while constantly...
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Innocent bunnies, descriptive songs scores, and verdant landscapes are the backdrop of Chris Simonite’s animation work in which he sets himself up as foil. His work seriously tackles tropes and expectations of hyper-masculinity within...
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John K. Grande has curated several editions of Earth Art at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario. Mr. Grande is the author of Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 1994), Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with...
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Mark Mizgala was born in Montreal in 1963, and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1987 where he was awarded full scholarship for three consecutive years. In his graduating year he was the recipient of the prestigious...
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Film Screening: July 15 at 417 Bank Street (parking lot of the Book Bazaar) 9:00 pm
Bring you own seat
“During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with cavalier servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears...
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Christine Redfern has medically dissected and artistically explored human bodies. One of her best-known images is the photograph Shoot, of her naked and nine months pregnant, holding guns and wearing a goalie’s mask onto which she...
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Anna Peak grew up in Berlin, Germany and traveled all over Europe working as a carpenter in her twenties. She immigrated to Canada in summer 2008 after graduating in Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam,...
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Jude Norris is a multi-disciplinary Cree/Anishnawbe/Russian/Scottish Gypsy Metis artist from Edmonton. She has been using video media in a variety of ways for close to two decades. She is deeply concerned and involved with Plains Cree...
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In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) created groundbreaking work in photography, performance, film, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and site-specific installations. Mendieta is a pioneer among...
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In her curatorial and writing practice, Cathy Mattes focuses on Aboriginal issues and art, and explores concepts of community and dialogical aesthetics. She has contributed writings to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, Canadian...
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Philomène Longpré is a multimedia artist who explores the interactions between the physical and virtual worlds. Since 1999, her focus has been on the development of reactive video art systems that juxtapose responsive membranes, virtual...
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Caro Caron feeds her needs for odds and ends daily; it’s a sort of chronic illness. She is a hunter/gatherer of what she considers primary materials: wood, metal, fur, feathers, plastic flowers, thingamajigs, doohickeys, and...
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ROLF CARLOS KLAUSENER was born in Montréal and raised in Mali, rural Québec and Ottawa. He spent his early childhood listening to ABBA and Paul Simon records on his suitcase-record player. He spent his adolescence dabbling in voice for...
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BENJAMIN ANTHONY GOODWIN WELLAND was born near Morewood, Ontario. His parents raised him on a country farm; complete with barns and fields, though neither of them were farmers. It was the aesthetic of rural settings that drew his family to...
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DARCY LYNDON FRASER is a conceptual documentary filmmaker employing traditional motion picture film and digital video formats to capture images and sounds from un-familiar places with a familiar feel. Concentrating on the “look”, he uses...
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Gayle Kells’ paintings, drawings and mixed media work address female identity issues using recurring images such as the dress, mannequins, undergarments, and the full-figured female form. She has received two City of Ottawa art grants...