MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
MONDAY JULY 30, 2007
10AM - 12PM Kids Corner Power Jam: T-Shirt + Poster Making
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
The introductory workshop for the childrens program will have the participants making posters and t-shirts with artists and musicians
12:30PM The Last Leg
Part of the New Canadian Pilgrimage grand finale. Join us for the last 10Km of the walk from Halifax meeting for lunch at 12:30 at The Irving Big Stop in Aulac and departing for Sackville at 2 PM.
http://newcanadianpilgrimages.blogspot.com/
2PM OK.Quoi?! Creative Lab Orientation
Sackville United Church
Participants, facilitators and visiting artists will meet and discuss their individual projects and festival goals.
2:30PM OK.Quoi?! Creative Lab: Experimental Music Workshop
Facilitated by Martin Arnold
Sackville United Church
Workshop participants will prepare and perform experimental works from the 20th century, such as John White's Drinking and Hooting Machine, at the Motion Ensemble concerts on Wednesday and Saturday of the festival. By studying and performing these works, workshop participants will begin to find inspiration for the creation of their own new works. Open Studio time will be available throughout the week with Martin Arnold.
6PM The Pilgrims Feast
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Potluck dinner and vegetarian friendly BBQ to celebrate the end of the 250 km Pilgrim's Passage walk from Halifax to Sackville. Come on down for dinner and meet a fantastic crew of visiting artists and musicians.
http://newcanadianpilgrimages.blogspot.com/
8PM Opening Cabaret
Sackville United Church
The OK.Quoi?! presentation program gets started with an exciting evening of film, video, performance and music. Local and visiting artists are featured in this eclectic presentation of contemporary practices.
TUESDAY JULY 31
10AM How to write a Honk Symphony
Facilitated by D’Arcy P. Gray and W.L. Altman
Sackville United Church
These two gentlemen will inspire participants to create scores for the Honk Symphony to be performed on Friday, August 3rd. This annual event calls on volunteers to form an orchestra of car horns and other noisemakers to perform pieces scored by the workshop participants. No musical writing skills necessary -just bring your ears and a sense of timing.
10AM - 12PM Kids Corner Power Jam: Making Instruments
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Using household and ready made objects, participants will learn how to make a variety of acoustic instruments and noisemakers.
12PM - 2PM The ACORN (Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network) BBQ Fundraiser
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Hosted by the Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network, come on down to 7 Lorne Street for a fabulous vegetarian friendly BBQ with all your friends and a fantastic crew of visiting artists and musicians.
http://www.acornorganic.org/
2PM OK.Quoi?! Creative Lab: Ceci N'est Pas un Music Video
Facilitated by Goody B.Wiseman
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Open Studio Artist in Residence Goody B. Wiseman will lead participants through this video making workshop. Goody will present a brief history of the various ways music and video have collided in contemporary art including the current fascination with popular music. Participants will then begin working on a video project employing music and various narrative strategies. Open studio and editing time will be available throughout the week for this collaborative workshop.
7PM Artist Talk: Martin Arnold
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Composer In Residence Martin Arnold will present a short talk on his work and interests which incllude contemporary new music, independent records labels and landscape architecture.
8PM Drawing On Air hosted by Leah Garnett
CHMA 106.9 FM - Listening Lounge at Struts
Join local artists Leah Garnett and Lianne Zannier for their weekly radio show featuring interactive drawing activities. A listening lounge will be set up at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre with drawing supplies and refreshments.
www.mta.ca/chma
9PM: Making No Noise International Audio Art Broadcast Programmed by Michael Waterman
CHMA 106.9FM -Listening Lounge at Struts
visiting artist Michael Waterman will host an evening of radio featuring recorded works by Doug Harvey, Mike Jacobson, John Higham, David Morris, Steve Roden and Brian Wagner, focusing on individual histories and aesthetics of the selected artists. For the program and to download all or part of the program, click here.
www.mta.ca/chma
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1
10AM - 12PM Kids Corner Power Jam: Songwriting + Recording
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
With the help of trained professionals participants will be able to try their hand at writing a hit song and recording it.
12PM - 2PM The Community Garden BBQ Fundraiser
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
A fabulous vegetarian friendly BBQ. Come on down and help support the Community Garden.
2PM OK.Quoi?! Creative Lab: Audio for Installation
Facilitated
Kenneth Doren
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
This workshop explores the relationships and influences between audio, installation, its material and dematerialized subject matter. This session will involve the use of recording devices, audio editing programs enhancing sensitivities to sound and the environment as well as spatial perception. Open studio time will be available throughout the week for this collaborative workshop.
5PM Motion Ensemble Concert
Sackville United Church
Motion is delighted to welcome Martin Arnold, who will be OK.Quoi's Composer In Residence for the week. Martin is a Toronto-based composer and improviser, a member of Marmots and the "fulcrum" of Rat-Drifting music collective. Motion will also celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig by performing works by Asian composers featuring works by Tony Leung (Woven Threads and M1R4H8). Finally the concert will include a work by NYC composer Elliott Sharpe, and a performance of the late great Canadian/US composer James Tenney's Critical Band.
7PM: Live Interactive Improv Performances hosted by W.L. Altman
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre + CHMA 106.9 FM
Local composer/audio artist W.L. Altman will lead a live improv session featuring members of Mennonite Anemone, Motion Ensemble and others. This event will be broadcast live on CHMA radio and the world wide web.
www.mta.ca/chma
9-11PM Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour hosted by Michael Waterman
CHMA 106.9FM -Listening Lounge at Struts
Visiting artist Michael Waterman hosts a live improv session featuring international collaborators interacting using a variety of internet telecom devices.
www.mta.ca/chma
THURSDAY AUGUST 2
10AM: Les Moineaux d’Entendre
Sackville United Church
Nadia Francavilla and D'Arcy Philip Gray from Motion Ensemble will introduce participants to 60's style performance art. A brief history and description of Fluxus will be followed by a workshop/coaching of selected "classics" of the genre. A short concert will finish the morning. Workshop participants will perform pieces by composers such as Yoko Ono, Bengt af Klintberg and others in public places around town while exploring such heady questions like "what is art?" and "why??" No answers are guaranteed.
12PM The Little Beauty Tour 2007 - Alexandra Flood + Darren Emenau
Parked out front of the Struts will be a customized bowler trailer featuring a 20 Year RATrospective of rat paintings by Alexandra Flood . Meanwhile Darren Emenau will be turning experimental forms on a kick wheel using bone china and silica chunks locally dug in Central Greenwich NB.
12-2PM The CHMA 106.9FM BBQ Fundraiser
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
A fabulous vegetarian friendly BBQ. Come on down and support Community Radio.
1PM Drawing Sound Workshop
Facilitated by
Lucy MacDonald + Motion Ensemble
The Owens Art Gallery / Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music
This workshop is open to everyone, children, Creative Lab participants and the general public interested in either making art or music. Martin Arnold and Motion Ensemble will lead a workshop in musical improv. Beginning with exercises and “tasks”, workshop participants will learn to express and collaborate in this liberating form of musical expression.
At the same time, artists aged 5 and up will be painting and drawing. What colour is that sound? What sort of line does that rhythm make? Come and explore art and music in this hands-on afternoon of drawing sound.
The workshop begins at 1pm at the Owens Art Gallery, then participants will walk down to the Marjorie Yound Bell Conservatory at Mount Allison University at 1:30pm.
4PM OK.Quoi?! Creative Lab: Part 2 Experimental Music Workshop
Facilitated by Martin Arnold
Sackville United Church
Develop your composition during the second half of the experimental music workshop facilitated by Composer In Residence Martin Arnold.
8PM Their Names Are Prick?d!
Multi-Media Performance by Kenneth Doren featuring Helen Pridmore
Sackville United Church
Four voices, one singer, and a bit of tech. This vocal quartet for one live singer and three recorded voices, inspired by Julius Caesar and the Brutus world, reflects the complicated anxiety of being picked before our time, or being a prick during your time!
9PM Video Drive-In Screening & Nightingale
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Two fabulous programs of international short film and video selected by Andrea Dorfman and Tamara Henderson with works by Jackie Torrens, Anne Troake, Jamie Travis, John Ayala, Sook-Yin Lee,Renata Mohamed, Lisa Morse, Nick And Shila Pye, Robert Kennedy, Helen Hill, Micheal Eddy, Jon Knowles and Robert Knowles, Hannah Hillebrandt, Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Claus Rasmussen, Elisabth Jugert and Maria Loboda, Michele Dimenna, Sean Lynch. Evan Quigley, Sarah Bennett, Mikio Sato and Youngho Lee, Ilya Kampilari, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, John Bell and Isabelle Fein will be screened outside under the stars. For the complete program click here.
Preceding the screening will be an electro acoustic performance by the experimental turntable duo Nightingale.
FRIDAY AUGUST 3
10AM - 12PM Kids Corner Power Jam: Songwriting + Recording
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
With the help of trained professionals the participants will continue to work on pumpin out the hits.
12PM - 2PM Community Garden BBQ Fundraiser
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
To finish off the work week and kick start the weekend the Community Garden is having a BBQ to raise a little cash for their brilliant little initiative.
1PM The 3rd Annual Honk Symphony
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
An ensemble of horn honking musicians will perform the newly created symphonic compositions.
3PM Motion Ensemble Concert in Cape Jourimain
The collective will take an afternoon jaunt to the coast to perform a short concert of new contemporary music.
5PM The Second Last Chance For Midsummer Romance Outdoor Concert & BBQ
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Our 4th annual take on this fabulous community event will kick off the second Sappy Records Music Festival. The exciting lineup includes: Calvin Johnson, Julie Doiron, Snailhouse, Sarah Hallman, Baby Eagle, The Just Barelys and local favorite Shotgun Jimmie. Following this concert the fun continues with Sappy Fest 07!
SATURDAY AUGUST 4
12-2PM The Sappy Records BBQ
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
A fabulous vegetarian friendly BBQ. Come on down for some lunch and some friendly company and see the performances from the Kids Corner Power Jam.
1 PM Kids Corner Power Jam Final Concert
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
The weeks work will culminate in performance by the young musicians.
5PM Motion Ensemble and Friends Concert
Sackville United Church
Saturday's program will include more music in honour of the Year of the Pig. Works by Alice Ho and Tan Dun as well as a large scale work Loose Warp by Martin Arnold, which will be performed by Motion Ensemble and OK.Quoi?! workshop participants. The concert will also feature the premiere of Sackville composer James Code's Study in Nothingness.
7PM The Last Chance for Midsummer Romance Outdoor Concert and BBQ
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
To conlude Ok.Quoi?! we present our second fabulous evening of live music in conjunction with Sappy Records. Featuring the musical and balancing talents (yes, yes a trapeze artist!) of Mt. Eerie, 100 Dollars, The Paramedics, Cat Pontoon and The Superfantastics.