CONTENTS

1. Director’s Meandering Preamble
2. Like Light off Water | A Performance by Poet Daphne Marlatt and the Minden DUO
3. STRUTT | Tenth Annual Wearable Art Show
4. Professional Development for Arts and Culture Series

1. Director’s Meandering Preamble
The chants of, “Night of Art! Night of Art!” still reverberate in my ears like some kind of tinnitus that originates in the right hemisphere. Congratulations to all the artists, performers, and what have youse for putting on the James Street Night of Art, it was well done up!

Looking ahead, what’s everyone doing Wednesday night! I offer a personal guarantee of satisfaction for Daphne Marlatt and the Minden Duo performance that’s happening Wednesday night at Brock.

Oh yeh, and we’re doing this little thing we throw together every fall called STRUTT. It’s happening on Saturday 21 November. All the details are here.

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Stephen Remus
Director of Operations & Programming

2. Like Light off Water
A Performance by Poet Daphne Marlatt and the Minden DUO
Wednesday 28 October at 7pm
At the Pond Inlet, Brock University
Tickets $15 General, $10 Students

Enter a fascinating aural universe encompassing the lyrical intensity of Daphne Marlatt's poetry. Celebrated Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt reads passages from her classic cycle of poems, Steveston accompanied by music composed and performed by Robert Minden & Carla Hallett. Canadian composers Robert Minden and Carla Hallett score for vintage waterphones, bowed carpenter’s saws, found object percussion, and voice--a world of splendid acoustic sound. A delicate resonance of microtonal nuance and lyrical intimacy surrounds Marlatt’s voicing, rhythm, and imagery. Her words bring you to the river’s mouth and into a sensuous landscape of lives lived in canneries, fishing camps, on the sea--and over time--in the Fraser Delta of British Columbia. Presented by the Niagara Artists Centre, the Brock Centre for the Arts, and the Grey Borders Reading Series with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Praise for Like Light off Water
“Like Light Off Water is a new kind of soundscape, the musical score of three psyches collaborating on what is certainly one of the great poems of the recent past.”
- Craig Tapping, Dept. of English, Vancouver Island University

“With an evocative soundscape composed and performed by Minden and Carla Hallett, the images of a ‘boom and bust’ town at the mouth of the Fraser River centered around fishing boats and cannery and the psychological states of its inhabitants are brought to life with qualities ranging from eerie trepidation to awestruck wonder.”
- Dianne Wells, The Whole Note Magazine

Daphne Marlatt
Vancouver writer Daphne Marlatt has written over twenty books of poetry, fiction, andessays, notably Steveston with photographs by Robert Minden, Touch to my Tongue, This Tremor Love Is, the essay collection Readings from the Labyrinth, and two novels, Ana Historic and Taken. In 2006, Pangaea Arts (Vancouver) staged a bicultural, bilingual production of The Gull, her contemporary Noh play about Steveston, a Japanese-Canadian fishing community, winning the international Uchimura Theatre Prize. The Given was published in 2008, as was Between Brush Strokes, about the life and work of the BC painter Sveva Caetani. Also in 2008, Otter BayLike Light Off Water, a collaboration with composer-musicians Robert Minden and Carla Hallett. Marlatt was awarded the Order of Canada in 2005. She was awarded the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for her work, The Given. released the CD

Robert Minden DUO
With a relentless pursuit of the sonic possibilities of urban junk, children’s toys, and acoustic inventions, the DUO’s compositions join Minden’s unordinary sound sources with Hallett’s intimate voice creating a curious mix, like a folk music from an invented land. The DUO has accomplished several unique recording projects, their most recent being a just released CD, Like Light Off Water, an evocative soundscape encompassing the lyrical intensity of poet Daphne Marlatt’s words from her classic poetry cycle, Steveston. Since 1986, Minden and Hallett have engaged audiences at concert halls across Canada, the United States,and the UK including the Lincoln Centre, the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, The Music Center of Los Angeles, and Toronto’s Roy Thomson hallway.

Robert Minden
Robert Minden began his musical studies in piano and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. Drawn to twentieth century music, he owes much to Satie, Bartok, Shostakovich, Cage, Partch, Victor Borge, and Spike Jones. But by far his greatest influence was watching his father standing in front of the family radio conducting the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoons. Switching streams mid stroke, Minden went on to pursue a career in sociology. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of California at Berkeley. His interest in invented instruments and unconventional sound sources manifested into The Robert Minden Ensemble in 1986. The Ensemble (conceived with daughters, Andréa Minden, flutist and Dewi Minden, trumpet; and with French horn player Carla Hallett) toured internationally for ten years. Since 1997 he has toured and recorded as a duo with Carla Hallett.

Carla Hallett
Carla Hallett is a found sound instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer, and French horn teacher based in Vancouver, BC. She studied classical music and French Horn at the University of British Columbia. In 1986, following a different muse she began exploring unusual sound sources, leading to the development of her unique vocal style. Her songs and compositions for voice and found objects are heard regularly on CBC and National Public Radio, and she continues to record and perform internationally with Robert Minden.

Tickets are available at NAC.
For more information contact Stephen Remus at NAC or Gregory Betts at Brock University: gbetts@brocku.ca

3. STRUTT | Tenth Annual Wearable Art Show
Saturday 21 November 2009
Doors at 7pm - Runway at 8:30pm
150 Bunting Road (Bunting at Eastchester) St. Catharines ON

TICKETS
General Admission $25
Curator’s Row $50
Table of Four $300
Table of Eight $600

It's back and bigger than ever!

Energetic, enthralling, risqué, playful; these are just some of the words used to describe STRUTT, the Niagara Artists Centre's Wearable Art Show, one of the area's most inventive fundraising events.

STRUTT is an annual benefit for the Niagara Artists Centre (NAC), a charitably registered non-profit Artist-run Centre devoted to presenting and supporting the production of contemporary art. Many hundreds of volunteer hours go into realizing STRUTT every year. The event is licensed and is followed by a post-runway dance party with a food and refreshments provided by downtown restaurants.

NOTE TO ARTISTS!
The deadline for submissions has been EXTENDED to Saturday 31 October at 4pm
For more info on submitting work please click here

The categories for the 2009 STRUTT Wearable Art Show are:

• ELECTRONIKA (NEW CATEGORY FOR 2009) - $250
  The finest piece of wearable art that uses electricity.
• FANTASTIKA (NEW CATEGORY FOR 2009) - $250
  For the the best fantasy-based or surrealistic example of wearable art.
• STRUCTURIKA (NEW CATEGORY FOR 2009) - $250
  For the wearable art piece that best uses space, form and structure.
• CHAOTIKA - $250
  The most innovative and outrageous piece of wearable art.
• EROTIKA - $250
  The most sexually provocative piece of wearable art.
• TESTOTIKA - $250
  Best wearable art for a man.
• REUSIKA - $250
  The best manipulation of recycled materials.
• SCHOLASTIKA - $250
  The best wearable art created by a secondary school student.
• DEMOCRATIKA - $500
  Wearable art that generates the most positive audience response.
  The prize money for this award is split between the artist and the model.
  
  

4. Professional Development for Arts and Culture Series

Monday November 2 Basics of Grant Writing I & II
St. Catharines Museum, Burgoyne Room
1932 Welland Canals Parkway, St. Catharines

4:30 – 6 pm Basics of Grant Writing I
Presenters: Manfred Fast, Ontario Trillium Foundation
Liz Palmieri, Niagara Community Foundation

Experienced advisors Palmieri and Fast will discuss the essentials of successful grant proposals, including project description, the assessment and review process, and evaluation and reporting. Includes Q & A. Recommended for arts professionals and volunteers working in organizations or collaboratives.

6:30 – 8 pm Basics of Grant Writing II
Presenter: Janice Lambrakos, Ontario Arts Council

Ontario Arts Council Information Officer Janice Lambrakos introduces individuals artists to the OAC’s granting programs and give tips for successful grant writing. Includes Q & A. Recommended for individual artists. There is no charge for these workshops. Register now for one or both workshops – space is limited. Presented with the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Monday 9 November 2 - 5pm
Strategic Planning and Business Planning: What’s the Difference

St. Catharines Thorold Chamber of Commerce
One St. Paul St., Suite 103, St. Catharines
Presenter: Janis Barlow, Janis A. Barlow & Associates

Research, planning and management consultant Janis Barlow will lead participants through a discussion of strategic and business planning processes for arts and cultural organizations. Discover the critical steps in successful arts planning and how facilitated collaboration can strengthen your organization. Recommended for arts professionals or governance volunteers working in organizations.

Cost: $25 St. Catharines & Area Arts Council members/$40 non-members
Register now – space is limited.
Register now at scaac@stcartscouncil.ca or call 905.988.1888. Cash, cheque, VISA, M/C and Amex accepted.

The St. Catharines & Area Arts Council gratefully acknowledges funding by the City of St. Catharines, Ontario Trillium Foundation and Ontario Arts Council.