Intro to Video Cameras
ITechnical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

A brief history of video art and a practical hands on introduction to our video cameras, the TRV-11 and the TRV-950

Stereophonic All Ages Show
7pm

El Ron Maltan and the Dice (Sackville, NB)
A group of Sackville’s most talented musicians combine together to form this town’s most exciting new musical project.
www.myspace.com/elronmaltan

Calm Down It’s Monday (Sackville, NB)
Made up of two talented songwriters in their own right, Calm Down It’s Monday are a classic Sackville guitar-drums duo. Julie Doiron and Fred Squire share a penchant for writing poignant songs that sound right at home on a Sackville stage.
www.myspace.com/calmdownitsmonday

The Superfantastics (Halifax, NS)
Halifax's charmingest pop duo continue to win fans in the Maritimes and abroad. In 2008, they released Choose Your Destination, a new EP that grabbed the attention of music critics across the country.
www.myspace.com/thesuperfantastics

West Ave. (Sackville, NB)
One of the great success stories of the Sackville public school system, West Ave. have been surprising and delighting audiences since they broke onto the scene a few years back, all while gathering speed to take the world by storm. www.myspace.com/eunevatsew

Intro to Lighting!
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

lighting safety and care. lighting for film, video, and animation. creative and standard approaches.

Ease on Down the Road - Artists in Residence
Jamie Ashforth and Bronwen Moen

Jamie Ashforth
Jamie Ashforth is a Montreal based mixed media artist, working primarily in print media. Her current practice explores the interaction between identity formation and the body (whereby 'the body' refers to an environment or human anatomy, usually her own). She is most specifically concerned with animating the movement of this interaction and hopes to expand her practice by exploring audio and video applications at Faucet Media Arts Centre.

Bronwen Moen
Bronwen Moen explores themes of the body extending beyond its normal boundaries. She intends to construct a video piece integrating sculptural body extensions, found audio and relational gestures. She would also like to integrate the sculptural ‘relics’ within the installation and perhaps experiment with projecting video onto dimensional/alternative surfaces. She is currently finding inspiration in the relational aesthetics of Krzysztof Wodiczko and Pierre Huyghes.

Grantwriting 101
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

key principles of writing successful applications; What happens after it’s left your hands? How the jurry process works; practice writing sample applications as a group

Deconstructing Hairy: Teddy Bear Altering Workshop
for this year's Sweetest Little Thing
1pm - 5pm
hosted by Amanda Fauteux

This year Amanda Fauteux is hosting a workshop for the coveted altered teddy bears that are won each year at The Sweetest Little Thing. If you need help, or just want some company and few snacks while you work, come down to Struts on Sunday, February 10, 1pm - 5pm. Bears and supplies provided!

Of course, you can deconstruct at home! Stuffed animals can be picked up at the Owens Art Gallery during regular hours:
Monday to Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 1 to 5 pm
Tuesday Evening: 5 to 9 pm

Intro to Audio Recording
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

Acoustic Principles, types of microphones, recording techniques for both analogue and digital mediums.

Gown
Gown is the solo project of a previously isolated individual. It has been a long journey outward, including a European Tour culminating in a Bark Haze gig with Pete Nolan and Thurston Moore at ATP. He has released a solo LP on Ecstatic Yod called "Sacred Mountains". 3 Lobed has recently put out an LP called "For The Maples" which features a full band(Sunburned Hand Of The Man), which along with his CD-R and cassette releases has drawn attention from The Wire, Dusted, 200lb Underground, and Arthur, amongst others. Some have compared Gown's music to The Dead C, Ash Castles On The Ghost Sand, Charalambides, and Loren Mazzacane, heady company indeed. http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Gown/

Tradition
Tradition is primarily the work of James Klassen, the conscience of Toronto and ex-Belleville. "We’ve never put out a record like this I don’t think, it is possibly the most earnest and direct release we’ve ever done. Also, possibly one of the prettiest." - Blocks Recording Club- www.traditionisforlovers.com

Omon Ra
Omon Ra is the creative love child between the eternal minds of cosmorganisms Zachary Fairbrother and Daniel Miller. The aural specter of their Star Child has melted the being time of space and stared upon the pointless vibrations of THE DARK MATTER. With this knowledge they combine the desperate elements of the GODHEAD; mad science and magick are coalesced to mutate and transform vibration, noise, silence, and dance into alchemetic sound. They have no use (or interest) in measurements of any kind, time, space, matter, it is all the same and they know sound (silence) emulates and reverberates from the same source; whether it is from the most remote regions of space or the tiniest particle that resides on the outer most tip of your fingernail, it has arrived.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=242105061

IRiSs Lab #2
Integrated Ruptures in Sensory spaces

An audio and visual improvisation environment with media artists working with laptops, contact mics, gramaphones, tape loops, film and video projectors, prisms, mirrors, etc. The lab will be followed by a public performance by the artists assembled from Sackville, Moncton, and Halifax communities.

Electrical Basics for Artists ------ POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK ------
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

This workshop will provide a useful introduction to electrical principles for anyone interested in working with sound systems, video projection, computer cabling, and high wattage lighting for film and video. The workshop will cover the following topics:

• How electricity works (from the power plant to your house)
• Electrical safety and grounding (how does it really work?)
• How not to blow a fuse with your art installation (W = AV)
• Basic wattages for common art equipment (PAs, projectors, monitors, etc)
• AC and DC power; battery care and battery chargers
• Cables, Connectors and Signals (understanding the common cables)
• Setting up a P.A. system for a musical performance
• Setting up a sound system for a film or video screening

The Sweetest Little Thing
Annual fundraiser co-hosted by The Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre

Click Here for More Information and to view the works from the auction

Peter Flemming - Artist Talk
7pm at 7 Lorne Street

All the way from Montreal!

Peter Fleming teaches Electronics for Artists and Electronic Arts Studio at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In addition, he has worked for several years custom designing and building electronic/mechanical devices and interfaces for artists and has taught workshops in electronics and programming at various artist run centres.

He uses bits and pieces of discarded industrial objects, obsolesced consumer technology, machine processes, DIY mechanical devices and custom electronics cut-and-pasted into installation works. A general theme in his artwork is technology vs. nature.

Creative electronics artist extraordinaire! Come see and hear a presentation of his work... then register for his workshops in the coming weeks!

While in Sackville he will be teaching a DIY radio workshop and a creative electronics workshop! contact us now to reserve your spot!

Ease on Down the Road Artist in Resdience
Erin Orsztynowicz

Our First Writer in Residence!!

Erin Orsztynowicz is putting pen to paper as she explores, through story, the development of personality, the wondrous gift of the alter ego and the notion of constant death and rebirth within one's own lifetime. She is currently working on a collection of short stories with hopes and dreams to be published, is probably watching the Habs lose right now, and is more than likely drinking too much coffee and Maudite. She is our first writer-in-residence.

Soldering Bee AND Electrical Basics for Artists
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

learn the art and refine your skills at soldering.
Bring your own projects to work on, or try some new things here.
i.e. make your own audio cables or try your hand at circuit bending and hacking musical children's toys.

This workshop will provide a useful introduction to electrical principles for anyone interested in working with sound systems, video projection, computer cabling, and high wattage lighting for film and video. The workshop will cover the following topics:

• How electricity works (from the power plant to your house)
• Electrical safety and grounding (how does it really work?)
• How not to blow a fuse with your art installation (W = AV)
• Basic wattages for common art equipment (PAs, projectors, monitors, etc)
• AC and DC power; battery care and battery chargers
• Cables, Connectors and Signals (understanding the common cables)
• Setting up a P.A. system for a musical performance
• Setting up a sound system for a film or video screening

Geoff Burner
I want to drag klezmer music kicking and screaming back into the bars. That’s the goal of Vancouver singer-songwriter-accordion player Geoff Berner.
www.myspace.com/geoffberner

Kitchen Drawer Radio Transmitter
Technical Tuesdays Workshop
Instructed by Peter Flemming

space is limited: BOOK NOW !!!

Ever wanted to make your own small radio station?
Using unique and easy construction method, participants will assemble a simple
working radio transmitter that they will be able to hear on a regular radio. You will
able to transmit your voice, sounds, music etc.
Along the way you'll learn a bit about how radios and antennas work and why they
are magic. We'll also look at where to get parts and how to continue learning on your
own.

Cost
$50 non-members
$30 members
$20 student members :

Creative Electronics for Artists
Intro to DIY Hands On Electronics
Instructed by Peter Flemming
Wed, Thur, Fri 1-4pm

space is limited: BOOK NOW !!!

The workshop is a hands-on lab. Participants immediately begin constructing working
electronic circuits. Through a series of small individual and group projects we'll cover:
• how to identify and use electronic parts
• how to read schematics
• electronic construction
• using specialized tools such as the multi-meter, breadboard and soldering iron

You will:
• work with experimental sensors like skin resistance, graphite, light etc.
• learn many different ways to blink a light
• create circuits that produce crazy sounds and noise
• look at artists who use electronics in their work
No previous experience necessary... lots of fun!
Workshop Philosophy:
This workshop is a practical introduction to electronics for artists. No previous
electronics experience is necessary. Technical material is handled with analogies, not
equations. Pattern recognition, an innate artistic capability, is encouraged

Cost
$210.00 non-faucet members
$100 Members
$50 Student members

Early bird discount deadline Wednesday February18
$80 for members
$40 for student members

Sewing Bee
7:30pm at 7 Lorne Street
Free to members, $10 otherwise

Struts Gallery is pleased to host another adorably fabulous SEWING BEE on
Wednesday March 4th at seven thirty pm. Here's a chance to get together with
other crafty-types to share ideas and get some work done. all are welcome. the
bee is free for Struts members or ten dollars otherwise. for more information
please call 506-536-1211 or write to amanda@neverbemean.com. Struts Gallery is
located at 7 Lorne street in Sackville, NB.

Intro to Final Cut Pro
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

basic non-destructive video editing techniques including logging and capturing, batch capturing, understanding the workarea, file management, using the timeline and the toolbars, tips, tricks, and techniques. printing to video, exporting for dvds, and prepping for the web.

DIY: Create Your Own Alter Ego
Artist Talk - Erin Orsztynowicz
5pm

a mini talk and discussion with Ease on Down the Road Artist in Residence, Erin Orsztynowicz.

Advanced Final Cut Pro
Instructed by Chris Campbell

space is limited: BOOK NOW !!!
cost TBA

Take it to the next level with motion, effects, generators, and colour correction. Get a grasp on screen resolutions and importing and manipulating photos as well as exporting as it ties into the whole PAL / NTSC conversion thing. Learn about preparing things for the web (and podcasting) and DVD and maybe a little bit about DVD Studio Pro.

tro to Photoshop
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

basic digital imaging techniques including image capture, file management, color management, image size, resolution, working with layers, and prepping images for the lab or the printer.

Open Studio - Artists in Residence
Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver

Asphalt Watches
These two artists will produce a new 10-15 minute episode of the animation 'Asphalt Watches'. Asphalt Watches is the true story of a cross Canada hitchiking road trip. It is a contemporary adventure tale comparable to Don Shebib's 1970 Canadian film classic, 'Goin' Down the Road'.

During their time in Sackville, keep an eye out for a screening series of Asphalt Watches, among other intriguing performances, installations, and workshops.

Motion Picture Making on Film
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (6-10pm)
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

Super 8 and 16mm cameras and camerless filmmaking. Hand-Processing, shooting with a camera, using the editing equipment (moviscop, splicer, handwinders) and running the projectors.

Jay Crocker and Pat LePoidevin
8pm 7 Lorne Street
concert at 7 Lorne Street

Jay Crocker
"If you're searching for a reason to respect Alberta right now, maybe this experimental pop record is it." Lorraine Carpenter "the Montreal Mirror"
http://www.jaycrocker.com/

Pat Lepoidevin
Lately, Pat's music speaks of childhood experiences and animals that are frequently seen in forested areas... Using a looper pedal, Pat now enjoys mixing the practice chanter, bagpipes, vocals, guitar, and whistles of sorts to create a fresh and satisfying sound.
www.myspace.com/patlepoidevin

Sewing Bee
7:30pm at 7 Lorne Street
Free to members, $10 otherwise

Struts Gallery is pleased to host another adorably fabulous SEWING BEE on
Wednesday April 1st, at seven thirty pm. Here's a chance to get together with
other crafty-types to share ideas and get some work done. all are welcome. the
bee is free for Struts members or ten dollars otherwise. for more information
please call 506-536-1211 or write to amanda@neverbemean.com. Struts Gallery is
located at 7 Lorne street in Sackville, NB.

IRiSs Lab #3
Integrated Ruptures in Sensory spaces - in Halifax at the HIFF

IRiSs Lab will be hitting the road and taking it to Halifax as a part of HIFF
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival

IRiSs Lab #3: Chasing the Ghosts of Architecture

Media artists from Sackville, NB, and Halifax, NS, will construct an audio visual improvisation environment with with laptops, contact mics, gramaphones, film projectors, prisms, mirrors, and other optical distortion devices. IRiSs Lab #3 will build on traces of past lived histories in disappearing architectures, landscapes and the human form within them. "IRiSs" stands for "Integrated Ruptures in Sensory Spaces", and the goal of the IRiSs Lab is to create non-linear improvisational work that abandons the standard white screen at the front of the black cinematic box, while striving to build site specific work in which projected images and sound interact with the entirety of the architecture and history of the presentation venue. The first two IRiSs labs were performed in Sackville, NB at the Sackville Music Hall as a part of the 13th annual Symposium of Art and at the Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre.

Super 8 Hotel Screening
SUPER 8 FILMS AT 8PM ON THE 8TH!
8 at 8 on 8

Make a super 8 film and screen it here!

Kenneth Doren
will be in Sackville shooting footage
for a project he is working on through Faucet & Struts.

He needs general assistance and specifically a couple of
people who can help performers with their costumes.

If you are interested and can assist during some
or all of the time, please contact me at
536.1211 or info@strutsgallery.ca

Shayne Ehman & Seth Scriver
open studio artists in residence
present

Asphalt Watches
"Anywhere's Good"
animation screening

Plus performances by

Amy C. Lam
and
Kurtis Interruptus
with Andrew Miller
of the Motion Ensemble

Bethany Riordan-Butterworth
Ease on Down the Road - Artist in Residence