Table of Contents
1. STRUTT Tenth Annual Wearable Art Show
2. Annual General Meeting
3. peas and carrots, new work by Kyle Kostecki in DTMG
4. The Wine King Float and Dominion – held over until Saturday 5 December
5. In Spirit at Pan Café
1. STRUTT
NAC's Tenth Annual Wearable Art Show
Saturday 21 November 2009
Doors 7pm Show 8pm
150 Bunting Road (Bunting at Eastchester) St. Catharines ON
TICKETS
General Admission $25
Curator’s Row $50 – Only 12 Seats Left!
Table of Four $300 – Only 3 Tables Left!
Table of Eight $600 – Only 2 Tables Left!
The STRUTT Wearable Art Show is not a fashion show. It is a celebration of the absurd. STRUTT is where the human form is transformed by the imagination.
Energetic, enthralling, risqué; 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, 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.
NAC works to contribute to a community that gets excited about art, that supports and recognizes local artists and cultural institutions, and that understands that an investment in the arts is an act of enlightened self interest. We believe that the arts and a critical dialogue on the arts are integral to a healthy community.
2. NAC's Annual General Meeting
Sunday 6 December, 3pm at NAC
All members are invited to come out for such unfailingly popular features as the presentation of the financial statements from our last fiscal year, the Director's report, and the election of board directors. It's a potluck!
3. peas and carrots
by Kyle Kostecki
Opening Reception
Saturday 28 November 2009 at 7pm
It is a show about getting nutritionally balanced meals three times a day. About proper food combining, including vegetables, whole grains, fruit and dairy products (although the latter not combined). Let me point out that peas and carrots are only optional. These can be substituted with any vegetable you fancy- turnips and squash for example. A 'tomato' which is in fact a fruit can also be eaten in place.
4. The Wine King Float and Dominion
On display in the Show Room
Held Over Until Saturday 5 December
This year's Niagara Wine Festival Parade had twice the royalty. Since 1952, the Grape King has ruled over the festival, but in 2009 the Wine King of Dominion City joined the parade on a float of his own. The Grape King needn't worry about a battle for supremacy, however, the Wine King character and the community of Dominion are fictional creations of renowned Canadian cartoonist Seth. The Niagara Artists Centre and its artist members teamed up with Seth and RENDER* to create a parade float from far away Dominion City, the mythical place where Seth's stories take place. The float featured the Wine King, a rotund wine lover about ten feet high, and a gathering of cartoon grape minions. The float is now parked and on display in The Show Room of the Niagara Artists Centre. Exhibited with it is a scale model of Dominion City as well as historic images of the grandest days of the Grape & Wine Festival Parade. "The three things are a good fit," says NAC Director Stephen Remus. "Dominion is a throwback to the hay days of fifty years ago. A sense of those times that escapes nostalgia is pervasive in Seth's world. I think the Wine King offers us an opportunity to celebrate the history of our parade without being sentimental". Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth began work as a cartoonist in the mid 1980s. After over twenty years of artistic output, he's created a number of graphic novels and strips (including Clyde Fans, Wimbledon Green, and George Sprott), had his work featured three times on the cover of The New Yorker, contributed a twenty-five issue serial for the New York Times Magazine, and exhibited his Dominion City at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibition component of the exhibit at NAC is being toured by RENDER and was curated by Andrew Hunter. The Wine King Float and Dominion City will be on view in NAC's newly renovated Show Room from Wednesday 30 September until the end November. There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on Friday 16 October starting at 8pm. *A program established in 2006 to shift the University of Waterloo Art Gallery’s focus to innovation. render.uwaterloo.ca
5. In Spirit at Pan Café
A Multi-Instrumental Performance
Friday 13 November 2009 at 7pm
Pan Café
120 St. Paul Street
St. Catharines, ON
www.beinspirit.zoomshare.com