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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

Workshops and festival countdown...

Less than a week to go before the festival! We hope that you've all made plans to join us for as many of the week's festivities as possible. All of the last-minute schedule updates are being added as they come so keep checking the website...

Also, all of the week's workshops have been finalized. If you'd like to participate in the Creative Labs, please RSVP as soon as possible. Workshops on Tuesday and Wednesday have very limited space, so sign up now!

E-mail amelia@strutsgallery.ca or call the gallery (536-1211) for more information or to sign up.

Monday, JUly 7

Regional Media Artist-in-Residence selected

Struts Gallery + Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to announce that Ryan Suter, an artist from right here in Sackville, will be acting as the first ever Ok.Quoi?! 2008 Regional Media Artist-in-Residence.

Ryan has recently confused Sackville for outer space and now hopes to rectify this confusion with the help of his regional media artist residency. Along with video works installed throughout the Sackville Nation, Ryan will be operating a small recording studio at Struts for the duration of the residency in hopes that locals, tourists, and hangers on will stop by and do some impromptu recording to help complete the work. Ryan will be at the gallery for the duration of the residency so drop-ins are encouraged. Stay tuned for more information and be on the look out for posters with more info.

Visit his blog for more information about his project, accident now!.

Call for submissions

Struts Gallery + Faucet Media Arts Centre would like to invite their members, Sackville citizens, and anyone else who is interested to submit a time-based artwork for the 2008 Ok.Quoi?! opening night Cabaret. The pieces should reflect Ok.Quoi?!’s media arts and new music focus, but the invitation is very open-ended; the only restrictions are that pieces cannot exceed 10 minutes in length. In the past, submissions have ranged from short films, to audio art, to new music, to puppet shows.

If you would like to participate please send an email to amelia@strutsgallery.ca describing your project and any equipment/technical needs you may have. Works can be musical, video/film, performance, or interdisciplinary in nature.

Please respond ASAP if you are interested. Confirmation is needed by Friday, July 18 at 5 pm. Unfortunately not all submissions will be part of the program. Artists who are successful will be contacted and a small artist’s fee will be awarded.

Also, check out new updates to the schedule...

monday, June 23

Sappyfest Schedule

Sappy Records have just posted the schedule for this year's Sappyfest! You can see it here:

http://sappyrecords.com/sappyfest_08/schedule_08.htm

Thursday, June 12

HUGE Schedule Update

There may be some slight changes, and there are still a few things to add, but the schedule is now up with dates and times. Any questions? Ask Amelia.

Workshops will be next...

Thursday, June 5

Updates and new staff

There have been a couple updates to the online schedule, including full programs for the two video screenings on Wednesday and Thursday night. Workshop registration details are almost finalized for both the Kids Corner Power Jam and the Creative Labs, so keep an eye out for that in the next week...

Some Schedule highlights

Ongoing Throughout the Week

Ken Gregory (Winnipeg, MB) Open Studio Artists In Residence

Ken will have a publicly accessible studio set up at 7 Lorne Street featuring a selection of works both finished and in progress. He will be on hand throughout the festival to discuss his work and process and will and facilitate a Acoustic Kite Making Workshop. Ken will work on a series of works incorporating kinetic objects such as kites with sound and electronics.

W.L. Altman (Sackville NB) Composer in Residence

W.L. will be working alongside Motion Ensemble to compose a new work in collaboration with the Sackville Citizens Band, the Bostik Music Camp and local musicians.

regional media Artist In Residence: ryan suter

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre will bring in and support a professional artist from the region, specifically for the week of the festival providing them with studio space open to the public and present a 5 day workshop for local professional artists and post secondary students.

Kids Corner Power Jam

Daily creative workshops facilitated by professional artists, musicians, staff and volunteers. Aimed at Children 6-12, activities include: poster making, t-shirt printing, songwriting and recording and performance.

Creative Lab Workshops

A series of daily workshops geared toward professional artists and post-secondary students. These sessions are facilitated by visiting artists and staff.

Storefront Installations

Several downtown businesses have agreed to exhibit video works and installations in their storefront window spaces. A small monitor and DVD player will play works on a loop throughout the week. A compilation of member’s works Faucet published in 2007 will be featured.

SCREENINGS OF TWO WORKS BY SARAH JANE GORLITZ AND WOJCIECH OLEJNIK

We will be screening “/mm” and “just add water” by Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik in the Sackville Music Hall throughout the week (times TBA). These videos present miniature detailed models of abandoned subway corridors and platforms—seemingly functionless and perceptibly fictional spaces. They are made not as direct replicas of actual places, but intuitively, as though from imagination or distant memory. Through the medium of stop-motion, water flows and ebbs, but always abruptly, irregularly. It is as if within this context the water is reanimated, transfigured, no longer water but the form of water, the illusion of water.

ELEANOR KING (HALIFAX, NS) CUPPA CUPS PROJECT

King’s project, Cuppa Cups Collection, is inspired by Fluxus art, especially George Maciunas, and particular works by contemporary artists like Tony Craig, Germaine Koh and Maia Urstad. She will be creating sculpture with nothing but waste material—specifically used disposable coffee cups. With this project, King comments on our throwaway culture: the cheapness of manufacturing, excessive marketing and the disregard for conservation. For King, the Cuppa Cups project is most satisfying artistically and socially, as the execution of this project relieves distinct urges to build sustainable sculpture and to demonstrate environmental activism.

AMANDA FAUTEUX (SACKVILLE, NB) SACKVILLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Amanda will be presenting a series of self-guided tours of Sackville in conjuction with her animations on view at Robert Lyon Graphics. Stop by Robert Lyon Graphics (97 Main) for schedules and information.