Posts from the ‘Events’ Category
Feb
3
The Bleeding Heart Art Space is in BETA mode. We are looking for BETA testers to help us experience what the Space may bring to our community and our city, before the doors open. Bleeding Heart BETAs are nights that somehow reflect the vision, values and manifesto of the Bleeding Heart Art Space.
Over the next few months we’ll be hosting events in the city dubbed as Bleeding Heart BETA’s, covering a broad range of arts from a various perspectives. We hope you’ll join us for some (or all!) of these upcoming experiments in what an ART / SACRED / COMMUNITY space might look like.
Here are some highlights so far;
February 19: Conversation on Chris Millar’s AGA exhibit The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem. At The Carrot | get details.
March: Director’s conversation on Harvey at Concordia University College.
June: NEW EYES: Bridge Songs 2012
We are also putting together a night of short film, and a chance to create in community. Stay tuned.
If you have any ideas for a Bleeding Heart BETA night – let us know at info@iloveartists.ca
Tags: bleeding heart art space, Bleeding Heart BETA, conversation, The Carrot
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Nov
30
Alberta Ave’s entry in to Winter Light, Deep Freeze Fest, is a heart-warming good time every year. Even last year’s record snowfall didn’t deter many visitors from making winter merriment. The festival features music, tons of winter activities, live theatre and of coarse and art and artisans gallery. The Gallery is seeking submissions now. This is a great opportunity to get to know other artists from the city and especially The Ave, while promoting and selling your work.
The deadline for submissions is December 16, and you can get all of the details online right here >> http://artsontheave.org/festivals/deep-freeze/call-for-artists-artisans/
Tags: arts on the ave, call for submissions, Deep Freeze Festival, festival
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Nov
12
Call for Artisans:
The Carrot Christmas Arts Bazaar – Saturday November 19th, 9:30am-4:30pm
Are you looking for a venue to sell your fine craft this holiday season? Join fellow artisans at The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (9531-118 Ave) on Saturday November 19th. This event runs in conjunction with the Just Christmas global fair trade market, so we expect a busy shop!
Register early as table space is limited!
Registration deadline: November12th
Table fee: $40
To register or for more information contact Irene@ehenri.ca or call 780-471-1580.
The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse
9351-118 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 0N3
(780) 471-1580 http://artsontheave.org/thecarrot
Tags: artisans, christmas arts bazaar, opportunity, The Carrot
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Nov
11
You know that we love Alberta Ave, and we love opportunities to get involved in art and community here. There are plenty such opportunities coming up in the next couple of months. We wanted to share them here for you.
- Michael Germann will hold two felting workshops on Nov 12 and Dec 10, 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. the focus will be Christmas ornaments (The Carrot 9351-118 Ave)
- Hand Drumming workshop is scheduled for Nov 12 from 2 – 4 p.m. People are to meet at The Carrot, then go out onto street corners to drum. Dress warm, (The Carrot 9351-118 Ave)
- Light Up the Ave – Nov 19 – 7pm – Illumine After Party – Eastwood Community League 8pm (86 St&118 Ave)
- Carrot Christmas Arts Bazaar – Nov 19, 9:30 – 4:30 p.m., (The Carrot 9351-118 Ave)
- Carrot Jingle Jammin’ Christmas Caroling – Dec 16, Friday 6:30pm (The Carrot 9351-118 Ave)
- African Christmas Concert – Saturday, Dec 17pm, Alberta Ave Choir, 6pm Community member’s ticket $10 purchase at the Carrot. (Concert is held at St Faith’s Church 117 Ave & 93 St) www.albertaavenuechoir.ca
- Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival – Jan 7 and 8, 92 St & 118 Ave - Surf’s Up at the Deep Freeze!! Volunteer for DeepFreeze by emailing deepfreezevolunteers@gmail.com. Find out more at www.deepfreeze.ca
Tags: Alberta Avenue, alberta avenue choir, arts on the ave, Christmas, Deep Freeze Festival, drumming, felting, festival, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, workshop
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Nov
2
This June 15-17, 2012, we are calling artists and musicians to create something beautiful in community on Alberta Ave. Again.
Our annual Bridge Songs event just keeps better, and today we’re taking the wraps off of the next instalment: NEW EYES.
What is NEW EYES? Well, there will be a live concert full of original songs written just for the event, around the theme “NEW EYES”. There will be two art shows with original artwork created for the event. There will be an arts workshop. There will be art and community on Alberta Avenue. Hopefully, you will join us.
Our Theme: NEW EYES
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
We invite artists to look at their world with NEW EYES. In a culture obsessed with the “new”, whether it’s a new iPhone, a New Release DVD or a newly sculpted nose, we forget to visit and value the old. It is often easier to start something new than complete something old, but perhaps the effort is worth it. We are seeking work that wrestles with the ideas of renewal, the tension between novel and traditional, past and future, youth and aging, and the displacement of the old by the new. Artists may also explore revision, both metaphorically and literally. Artists are invited to breathe new life into an old world, and even old work.
NEW EYES is all about the second chance. Revisit. Revise. Recycle. Redeem. Reimagine.
Submitting Your Work
We will have the official Call for Submissions ready in the next month of so, but we wanted to get you thinking now. What can you create around our NEW EYES theme? We’re open to any type of work; visual art, poetry, prose, dance, drama, short film, installations, performance art … you name it.
If you have any questions, send us an email. Help us make the NEW EYES open this coming June 15-17, 2012.
Tags: art show, Bridge Songs, bridge songs 2012, bridge songs theme, community art, concert, new eyes, the new eyes
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Oct
6
A
nyone planning to join Edmonton’s Arty Social Club this Thursday evening for live improv already knows there is no shortage of great theatre on Alberta Avenue. But if you needed a reason to believe, boy do I have one for you.
My friend (I love it when I can say that) Michael Peng stars in Bashir Lazhar, a play produced by his Wishbone Theatre company, and until now performed overseas and in Ontario. It’s a great chance to catch great theatre in a great, local venue, The Avenue Theatre.
I’ll let Michael take it from here, with his original email …
My theatre company, wishbone theatre, thought it would be prudent to take advantage of our recent international (UK, Edinburgh) and sell-out (Kitchener) successes and remount “Bashir Lazhar” here in Etown. Then we get to put it to bed for awhile (I promised Kate…). We’ve chosen to run it at The Avenue Theatre on 118th Ave. next weekend, Oct.12-15th @ 8pm and Oct. 16th @ 2pm. Nicola Elbro is joining me on stage for this run – she’s a gifted actor and a wonderful human being!
It was important for us to tell this story in the place where many new Canadians choose to settle when they come to Edmonton. Our goal has been to strengthen connections we made with the immigrant community in 2009 and to invite even MORE people to meet Bashir. To that end, on Saturday (the 15th), we’ve planned a series of discussions and workshops on themes raised in the play – namely justice, tolerance, education and artistic expression. More details will be forthcoming on those ancillary events. Keep your eyes glued to our facebook page:www.facebook.com/wishbonetheatre
There are only 5 shows at The Avenue Theatre and seating is limited, so if you didn’t get a chance to see Bashir two years ago at the Fringe, or you’ve seen it but you want to reacquaint yourself with this moving production of a rich and very rewarding play (made more resonant by the changes taking place in the Arab world), we hope to see you at the show.
Attached please find a poster advertising the show. Send it to your co-workers. Your mother. Your taxi driver. We want as many as possible to experience the beauty of Bashir. Tickets are available online at http://www.tixonthesquare.ca/event/run/detail/463/ or at TixOnTheSquare: (780) 420-1757.
Did you catch this exciting bit?
“on Saturday (the 15th), we’ve planned a series of discussions and workshops on themes raised in the play – namely justice, tolerance, education and artistic expression.”
I’m thankful to Michael for bringing this to us, hope I can make it out, and I hope to see you there, too.
Tags: avenue theatre, Bashir Lazhar, michael peng, theatre
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Sep
26
“Hello, My name is Andy and I love Edmonton. I would like to invite you to experience our city’s colorful and diverse arts community with the Arty Social Club.”
And so begins an adventure led by Andy Mulcair that I am excited to become a part of. For a long while we here at iLoveArtists have wanted some consistant, “arty” gathering where we experience the best of what Edmonton has to offer arts-wise in community. Local musician Andy Mulcair has agreed to head this group up, and you are invited to join the club. The first event is a trip to Rapid Fire Theatre’s TheatreSports North, right here on Alberta Ave in the Avenue Theatre.
Get the details, and let Andy know you are coming, here: http://www.iloveartists.ca/calendar/?entry=49
Tags: andy mulcai, arty social club, avenue theatre, improv
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Sep
13
Come Pray for The Bleeding Heart Art Space
With The
Bleeding Heart Arts Space, we have begun an exciting journey that needs prayer with every step. Join us to pray for The Bleeding Heart Art Space on September 18th at 7:30 PM at St. Faiths Anglican Church (11725 93rd street). To help set the tone, we are all encouraged to come at 7 PM for EvenSong, a brief service of singing held in the church by The Parish Church of St. Stephen the Martyr. People of all or no faith backgrounds are welcome to join us for this evening of seeking God’s blessing and wisdom for this project. We hope you’ll join us.
Tags: bleeding heart arts space, prayer, st faiths, st stephens
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Aug
16
Interested in being part of a wonderful community arts event on The Ave? Kaleido Fest 2011 is looking for volunteers. Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at kaleidomonica@gmail.com and join us at the following volunteer events to be part of the Kaleido community.
Volunteer Welcome Dinner #2
Monday August 22, 6-8 p.m. in the Lutz Room
Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210 – 118 Avenue
Prospective Volunteers! Come out to this event and
Enjoy a Mexican meal!
Get information!
Have fun!
Sign-Up!
Tags: arts festival, arts on the ave, community arts, kaleido, opportunity
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