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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 May 6th, 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.

SappyFest Spring Fling Matinee BBQ
2-6pm (all ages)
$10 (includes a free hotdog)

Featuring
Dog Day, Stolen Minks, Construction & Destruction,
Weird Weather and Endangered Ape

SappyFest will be celebrating the clamor of spring and its official incorporation as a non-profit organization with a matinee concert and barbecue at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Sunday May 10th from 2-6 pm. The annual summer music and arts festival will present an exciting and eclectic afternoon concert featuring a fine selection of musical acts from across the country and beyond.

In addition to great performances from festival favorites like Dog Day, Stolen Minks and Construction & Destruction, this celebratory event will feature short sets by new Sackville friends Weird Weather and Endangered Ape. Other notes of interest to entice the culture lover in you;

A) there will be food, a free hotdog or veggie dog with the price of admission,
B) its a CD release for Dog Day and their new album 'Concentration' is awesome,
C) This may be the first opportunity to unveil the 2009 SappyFest Lineup!
D) Perhaps you would like to take out a membership to support Sackville's newest non-profit arts organization?

This has the makings to be a really fun afternoon for the whole family, all ages are welcome, stop by for some barbecue and rock and roll, it is a Sunday!

check out the bands on their myspace pages!

dog day
the stolen minks
endangered ape
construction & destruction
weird weather

Bethany Riordan-Butterworth - artist talk
Ease on Down the Road, Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday May 13 @ 7:30 pm

Bethany has been artist-in-residence for the past month and will be leaving on Thursday. The evening will be more of a come and see my stuff and ask some questions and say goodbye than an out and out artist's talk!

There will be refreshments and Bethany says she will make something sweet.

May 14, 2009

Timber/Timbre and The Weather Station
Friday May 15th, 8pm
7 Lorne Street

Gothic / Rockabilly / Blues
www.myspace.com/timbertimbre

Other / Folk / Experimental
www.myspace.com/theweatherstationband

Kate O'Connor
Open Studio Artist in Residence

During her time at Struts Gallery, Kate OèConnor will be working on a body of work including embroidery, drawings, and small scale paintings.

Her work examines the false sense of satisfaction we derive from material goods and domestic stability. The human desire to succeed and impress is met with situations that are on the verge of collapse based on personal goals that have not been met. The subject or object appers in the ubiquitous public or domestic setting and represents the absurdity in the importance we put on everyday routine, lifestyle, wealth and success. Her goal is to depict the loser in everyone, the dark moments that we all have when trying to function in society, the opportunity for the absurd in everyday situations and point out the very fine line between humour and tragedy.

The Famines (edmonton) & Calm Down Its Monday
concert at 7 Lorne Street

The Famines (German pop / Black Metal / Post punk)
Some of this is a lie: the Famines were founded by Raymond E. Biesinger (ex-Vertical Struts) in August 1967 and performed just once as a four-piece rock band, at Electric Garden in Covent Garden, London, before immediately breaking up in disarray. Biesinger retained the services of percussionist Garrett Heath Kruger (ex-Wolfnote) and the duo began producing eccentric, pastoral, and folk-tinged ditties steeped in Tolkienian mythology, with spiritual homages to Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran thrown into the mix for good measure.
www.thefamines.ca

16mm Filmmaking Workshop: Bolex Rx2 Camera and Steenbeck
Monday, May 25 from 2pm - 5pm

FREE!

registration limited to 6 people.

learn to use our newly refurbished 16mm RX2 film camera and our newly aquired 16mm Steenbeck flatbed editing table along with other 16mm film tools!

Erik Edson (Sackville)
Living Is Easy Members Projects

In Progress

a continual and ongoing installation and destallation of various prints and objects that he have not previously been revealed to public eye.

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 June 3rd, 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.

Jocelyn Pringle (Sackville)
Living is Easy Members Projects

Every Which Way the Wind Blows
an exhibition of 8 photographs

Opening Reception
Monday, June 15, 7pm

Mireille Eagan with Becka Viau (Charlottetown)
Living is Easy Members Projects

Engendered
works by Becka Viau curated by Mireille Eagan
6 photographs, a video, and other installation elements

Opening Reception
Monday June 15, 7pm

Stephen Wiliams (Sackville)
Living is Easy Members Projects

This exhibit features a collection of recent paintings and drawings from the spring and summer of 2009. In scenes of cats, dogs, and people, Stephen’s pictures relate to the subject and context of daily life. A central unifying theme of Stephen's show is the colourful and candid combination of works on paper and canvas, providing a palpable sense of energy.

Closing Reception
Friday June 26, during the weekly noon BBQ

Christine Cheung (Calgary)
Open Studio Artist in Residence

During her residency, Christine will be working on a new series of paintings on canvas. Her work expresses a density of mental as well as physiacl space in contained worlds. Child-like in execution at times, the work can be seen through a lens of the artist's personal Chinese-Canadian experience but also engages in a sort of cultural navigation, both in terms of exploration of material as well as content which resists simplified interpretations.

Greenbelt Collective (Vancouver)
Maps to Temenos
concert at 8pm

http://www.myspace.com/maptotemenos

http://www.myspace.com/greenbeltcollective

Alicia Steeves, Vanessa Yu, Peggy Sue Payne, and Kristin Aitkens (Sackville)
Living is Easy Members Projects

Kristin Atkins Recent Paintings
abstracting representational images to lose themselves and become something more

Peggy Sue Payne Islands of Residity
It is said that Alzheimers patients have moments where they can remember their entire lives (Islands of Residity), but then it slips away again.

Vanessa Yu Collector's Item
Take your hands out of your pockets, flare out your nostrils, squint your eyes
and let your senses guide you through these works about playful details.

Alicia Steeves Diamonds are for Divas: Portraits of the Red Hat Society
Photographic portrait's taken during a trip to Texas to a Red Hat Society Convention

Closing Reception Saturday July 11, 7pm

Summer Video Camp for Kids
June 29 - July 4, 9am - 3pm

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to announce that they will be offering a summer video camp this year for young aspiring film and video makers aged 12 to 14. The camp will run for one week from June 29 – July 4, 9am to 3pm.

At the end of the week there will be a screening of the finished video projects and each participant will be able to take home a compilation DVD with all of the videos made during the week. Participants will write their own scripts and storyboards, shoot and edit their own videos, record and mix their own sound, and design their own press kits for promoting their finished videos.

Space is limited, so sign up now! The cost is $40 for the week, including materials.

Luxury Pond
Snowblink
concert at 8pm

Luxury Pond is the songwriting project of Toronto-based musician Dan Goldman. In addition to writing and performing his own material, Dan plays regularly with Snowblink and Great Aunt Ida. He's been a member in the Mia Sheard band, Justin Haynes' John School, Tusks, Maps of the Night Sky, Breaking Sounds, and Kitchenmusik. He's also created music for modern dance choreographers Jenn Goodwinn, Sara Doucet, Louis Laberge-Cote and Kathleen Rea as well as multi media producer/architect Filiz Klassen.

http://www.myspace.com/luxurypond

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 July 8th 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.

Shotgun Jimmie
Construction & Destruction
concert at 8pm

http://www.myspace.com/jimjimers

http://www.myspace.com/davidtrenaman

Sackville Crafters Union (Sackville)
Living is Easy Members Projects

This exhibit includes a range of hand-crafted items, from hand-knit socks to felted purses, comically embroidered pillows, crocheted necklaces, pottery, silkscreened handkerchiefs and very much more. Many of these items are for sale, but they’re already going fast.

Christine Cheung -
Open Studio Residency Exhibition

Her paintings capture a world where one's consciousness and dreams become slowly intertwined. A central theme to her work is the idea of loss and identity - who are we when we are stripped of everything? There is an encroachment of the environment upon a symbolized sense of self and the compression of time in her work. As though baring against the ground for some sort of stability, the central characters/structures in her paintings seem to strive for quietude amongst the ruckus and noise of a chaotic world full of unending choice and uncertainty.

Melanie Colosimo, Lianne Zannier, and Amanda Fauteux
Living is Easy Members Projects

Melanie Colosimo (Halifax)
presents an installation of video and drawings alongside a sculpture fashioned from a found birdcage.

Lianne Zannier (Montreal)
presents three sculptural works, each set atop a lazy susan. These pieces encorporate minature pencil crayons, two little bunnies and a mysterious pair of legs, enveloped by two caped figures.

Amanda Fauteux (Sackville)
presents a collection of frames, dripping with her three-dimensional, stuffed cloth rain drops in various shades of blue.

Closing Reception
Friday July 24 at 8 PM

Robert Shedden (Halifax)
open studio artist in residence

While in Sackville, he will research, design and construct a series of Windsocks, that will be used not only as a practical weather instrument, but as a representation of human emotion. Windsocks are traditionally used to show the direction and the force of the wind.

Lisa Lipton (Halifax)
open studio artist in residence

"The Baseball Project" will be a highly theatrical event and video that conjures the idea of another realm - a place where ideas of social and /or sporting conduct are made absurd - through the use of dance as well as peculiar costumes and masks. Local Sackville residents are invited to perform in the video ( a night time baseball scene) with each performer wearing a pale blue knitted costume. The video and the knitted baseball costumes will be on display in a larger installation at the end of the residency.

OK,Quoi?! Festival of Art

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to present the fifth annual Ok.Quoi?! Arts Festival in conjunction with SappyFest, from July 27 until August 2. An interdisciplinary festival, Ok.Quoi?! focuses on video, audio, and new music. The festival will feature an eclectic program of artistic practices with new and innovative projects from national, international, local and regional artists. More than 80 artists will be featured throughout the week-long festival in a wide range of events, from concerts, performances and screenings to workshops and a kids’ summer camp.

click here for more detailed information and scheduling

Evan Rensch
Living is Easy Members Projects

Three 16mm film projectors running black and white handprocessed loops through a large tree branch. The longer the loops run, the more the branch scratches the filmic images of trees, hands, and feet.

Lesley Johnson, Julie Doiron & Fred Squire
Living is Easy Members Projects

Julie made doughnuts, Fred drew ships, and Lesley made some two-handed simultaneous drawings.

Anna Torma, Istvan Zsako, Balint Zsako, and David Zsako (Baie Verte)
New Works and Works in Progress
Living is Easy Member Projects

Opening Reception
Tuesday, August 4, 7pm

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 August 5th, 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.

Amanda Dawn Christie
Living is Easy Members Projects

The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project
the RCI radio towers meet with a kitchen sink in the middle of the marshes every week for a series of site specific performances all summer long. This exhibition will present radio-sink itself alongside documentation of the various performances.

Stephanie Weirathmueller
Living is Easy Members Projects

Dividing Roadmaps by Timezones:
10 years of moving pictures
1999-2009

Experimental Film Screening
Selected films by Amanda Dawn Christie
Vogue Cinema 6 - 7pm
reception to follow at 7 Lorne Street

Leah Garnett (Sackville)
Works in Progress + Other Work
Living is Easy Members Projects

Tara Wells & Pierre Malloy
The Garden of Earthly Detritus
Living is Easy Members Projects

A culmination of over a years' worth of scrounging, processing and construction. Wells has transformed part of Struts Gallery into a fanciful sculpture garden, where her latest animated short 'Cutting' will be screening in miniature outside of the newly constructed Rogue Cinema. Some work from the garden is available for sale.

Closing Reception Friday, August 28, 7:30pm

Paula Jean Cowan (Sackville)
Bellies
Living is Easy Members Projects

Ink + Latex on Paper

Closing Reception Friday, August 28, 7:30pm