Calm Down It's Monday
Cousins
Construction & Destruction
all ages concert at 8pm
$5 cover

SappyFest is pleased to present the first show in its Autumnal Concert Series in conjunction with Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre and CHMA 106.9FM.

Calm Down It's Monday, led by charismatic songwriter Dick Morello of Fred Squire fame, will get the evening started with their usual blend of groove infused blues rock. This local crew is sure to keep it steady, solid and full of moxie.

Cousins are charming critical ears with their pure and honest vocals, musical spirit and fun, casual stage presence. A performance you'll certainly want to be at, so you can say "I saw them when...".

Construction & Destruction are no strangers to Sackville's shores. Playing a wide assortment of songs while rotating through multiple instruments, these genre-hopping artists can simultaneously melt your heart and brain, while spiritually motivating you to pull out that decrepit linoleum in your kitchen.

Christine Comeau (Halifax)
Ease on Down the Road - Artist in Residence

During her residency, Christine will develop her storytelling skills through simple video exercises. She's excited about the Sewing Bee and wants to study the relationships between clothes and personal stories.

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

Fall has come, and the sewing bees continue to rage on!

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.

Fall 2009 sewing bees will be facilitated by the ever klever and krafty Kaeli Cook.

Dennis Austin Reid
Check Points
Painting Exhibition

Opening: September 12 at 8pm

Chris Down (Sackville)
Struts Gallery / Cape Jourmaine - Artist in Residence
Bayfield, New Brunswick

The residency takes place during the Cape Jourimain Nature Centre's
annual EcoArts Festival.
Project description:
A drawing installed on the vista. Lines inscribed on the landscape. Driftwood.

Northern Inexperience
New Video Work by Clare Halpine
7:30pm

Clare Halpine was honourable recipient of this year's summer student honorarium. Through this honorarium she created a full body of video work while living up North.
Come check it out!

Hot Panda (Edmonton)
Wind Whistles (Vancouver) + Paper Tiger (Holland)
All Ages Concert at 8pm
$5 Cover

When you get compared, in the same breath, to everything from Daniel Johnson to the Talking Heads, you know you have a sound that's hard to pin down. Since their formation during the particularly chilly winter of 2006, the members of Hot Panda) have yet to sit down and have the discussion that goes: "So, what should we sound like?". The result is a swath of tunes that sound like anything and everything.
http://www.myspace.com/hotttpanda

"The Wind Whistles have the stamina of a Grizzly bear", wrote one reviewer of their previous album 'Window Sills'. Fittingly enough, The Wind Whistles are coming out with their new thematic full length titled 'Animals are people too'. Because, you know, people are animals. Too?
http://www.myspace.com/thewindwhistles

Two Dutch lads in their late twenties, who form the tight singer songwriter unit PaperTiger. Self described as sounding like "boiling water", they actually have legitimate strong yet subtle tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/papertigerholland

The Baked Ham
7:30 at Royal Canadian Legion (15 Lorne Street)
Admission by donation

Two speakers give a thirty minutes presentation on unrelated topics. Afterwards this audience can make their own connection through questions and conversations.

60's Soul Music with Dr, Peter Brown & Beer with Sean Dunbar

Sponsored by
Owens Art Gallery, Redesign Sackville, Thunder & Lightening Ltd
and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre

Al Tuck (Halifax)
Ron Leary (Windsor)
Concert @ 8pm at the Royal Canadian Legion (just down the street)

Now with five albums, his songs have been covered by Nova Scotian artists such as Joel Plaskett, Matt Mays, Buck 65, Amelia Curran and Erin Costelo. "One of North America's least-known exceptional songwriters" (Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide).

http://altuck.ca/

"Exquisite songwriting, which melds rustic sensibilities with coffeehouse poetics and indie rock inspirations.", as described by the Windsor star. He offers the best of storytelling with his indie-pop and alt-country sound.

http://www.myspace.com/ronleary

Daniel Olson (Montreal)
Open Studio Artist in Residence

During Daniel's stay st Struts he will be installing a ten-year anniversary version of Private Investigation. The office installation will serve as the context or framework for a variety of activities over the course of the residency. Office hours will be kept from 10 am to 5 pm most days.

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

Fall has come, and the sewing bees continue to rage on!

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.

Fall 2009 sewing bees will be facilitated by the ever klever and krafty Kaeli Cook.

The Good Lovelies (Toronto)
Concert @ 8pm

Anything but a stereoptypical all girl band, the Good Lovelies offer catchy melodies full of wit, charm, and a pile of instruments.

http://www.goodlovelies.com/

Carolyn Mark (Victoria)
Concert @ 8pm

"Some things are just meant to be. Birds are born to fly, politicians were born to lie, big fat guys with giant beards were born to ride their machines without getting hassled by the man, and Carolyn Mark was born to make music."-Andrew Pearson, Mint Records
http://www.carolynmark.com/

Intro to Video Cameras
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (7-10pm)
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

You Gave me Strength to Stand Alone Again
14th annual Symposium of Art

This year the event wil include such artists as D'Arcy Wilson, Kenneth Doren and Daniel Olson. Such great events as the Orange Crush cababret and an open panel will be taking place, for schedule click here

Intro to Audio Editing
Special Guest Artist Workshop!
Instructed by Kenny Dorren
1 - 4 pm @ CHMA

Visiting artist and gues instructor Kenny Dorren gives an introduction to working with sound in Garage Band.

Story and Image
Special Guest Artist Workshop!
Instructed by Andrea Dorfman
both nights, 7-10pm at Struts

Experimenting with storytelling and images. This workshoop will use the underlying structure of storytelling as applied to both still and moving images.

Intro to Lighting!
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (7-10pm)
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.

Emm Gryner
Share
Concert @ 8pm

Emotional and deeply personal, her music ranges from pop to haunting melodies that always let the artist express herself.
http://www.emmgryner.com/

Musically diverse, trying everything from bossa nova to country folk, Share composes as music lovers making music.
http://www.sharetheband.ca/

Michael Young (St. John's / Berlin)
Open Studio Artist in Residence

While in Sackville, Young will be making drawings based on set design where the sets themselves are the focus, as opposed to serving as backdrops for performances. The sets that he creates will be mainly made up of drawings on paper, combined with sculptures, found objects, photographs, and projections that will evolve throughout the duration of the residency.

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

Here's a chance to get together again 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.

Fall 2009 sewing bees will be facilitated by the ever klever and krafty Kaeli Cook.

16mm Found Footage Film Editing!
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (7-10pm) part of the 16mm Filmtabulous Program
Instructed by Amanda Dawn Christie
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

Learn the basics of film editing using the 16mm steenbeck, splicer, handwinders, and moviscope. Learn some basic editing techniques and theory, as well as various ways that you can manipulate and modify found footage.

Shotgun Jimmie (Sackville)
BA Johnson (Hamilton)
Concert @ 8pm

As local talent of Sackville he may have traveled across Canada to deliver his sound of but this quirky sometimes off kilter artist is a great part of this town.
http://www.myspace.com/jimjimers

He's played in laundromats, laundry rooms, stag and does, church halls, legions, bars, bookstores, vegan cafes and other hell holes across this country. His music is nerd rock at its highest point, dork lullabys and loser anthems.
http://www.myspace.com/bajohnston

16mm Found Footage Fanciful Screening
7:00pm at the Vogue Cinema (just before Film Society)

A screening of two short historical and contemporary Canadian experimental films that use found footage will be presented in collaboration with the Sackville Film Society and the Vogue Cinema, at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 19 before Francis Ford Coppola's film "Tetro".

Yesterday's Wine
Roberto Ariganello, color & BW, sound, 1999, 10 minutes
“Yesterday's Wine” is a found-footage film that explores the nature of filmmaking by deconstructing the violence common to commercial, narrative cinema. Constructed from old regular and Super 8mm films, with a dialogue created from language tapes, the film also examines the self-referential nature of filmmaking. Inspired surrealism and dadaism, disparate material is brought together through intuitive associations to create an absurd homage to old and obscure cinema.

Handtinting
Joyce Wieland, colour, silent, 1967, 6 minutes
“‘Handtinting’ is the apt title of a film made from outtakes from a Job Corps documentary which features hand-tinted sections. The film is full of small movements and actions, gestures begun and never completed. Repeated images, sometimes in colour, sometimes not. A beautifully realized type of chamber-music film whose sum-total feeling is ritualistic.” - Robert Cowan, Take One

The Baked Ham
7:30 at Royal Canadian Legion (15 Lorne Street)
Admission by donation

Two speakers give a thirty minutes presentation on unrelated topics. Afterwards this audience can make their own connection through questions and conversations.

Wild Yeast with Jayne Wark & The Post Office wiht Dr. Robert Campbell

Sponsored by
Owens Art Gallery, Redesign Sackville, Thunder & Lightening Ltd
and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre

November 28, 2009

The Most Serene Republic (Milton)
concert @ 8pm

Stimulating for the senses and able to stir emotions in their listeners this band delves into pop, electronica,and even classical elements. Now with their new album they've matured and are challenging themselves as much as the audience.

http://themostserenerepublic.com/index2.php

Intro to Audio Recording
Technical Tuesdays Workshop (7-9pm)
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.

Annual General Meeting

Presenting the 2008/2009 Financial Statements,
update on the space program and other business

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

Time to finish those Christmas gifts you've been putting off all year!

Another chance to get together with other crafty-types to share ideas and get some work done for the holidays. all are welcome. the bee is free for Struts members or ten dollars otherwise.

Fall 2009 sewing bees will be facilitated by the ever klever and krafty Kaeli Cook.

As Good As Gold and Better
27th Annual members Show and Sale
opening reception 7:30pm

Each year since 1982 Struts & Faucet have showcased the works of our Members with an exhibition during the Holiday Season. The exhibition will open on Friday December 11th in conjunction with Sackville’s Midnight Madness celebrations.

We will be celebrating 27 years of independent artists’ culture here in the greater Tantramar region and beyond!

Click here for more info.

Closed For Holiday

We thank you for your support and your continued support in the coming year.
Happy holidays and see you next year!