1. Director’s Meandering Preamble
2. Comunista Muerto | By NAC member John Venditti
3. The Way I See It: A Series of Photographs by NAC member Carrie Perrault
4. Mea Culpa | A film by NAC member Blanca Marcela López

1. Director’s Meandering Preamble

Johnny V is doing it up this weekend!
Support your NAC Vice President, after all, he stands to take over if President Porter is ever unable to discharge her duties (perish the thought!).

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Stephen Remus
Minister of Energy Minds and Resources

2. Comunista Muerto
New Work by NAC member John Venditti
Opening Reception Saturday 5 June 7pm
Saturday 5 June - Friday 18 June
Dennis Tourbin Members Gallery

‘Whether it’s the Christian cross, the Islamic crescent, the Korda Che, or the Golden Arches of McDonald’s, iconic images underline the purity of a central idea and disperse with the complexity and nuance of their underlying reality. If Che’s image inspires religious devotion among some, it also generates visceral anger in others.’

- Michael Casey in Che’s Afterlife

Comunista Muerto describes all of our capitalist dreams come true.  The icon of the Comunista Muerto movement is not the idealized, stylized Ernesto Che Guevara of Alberto Korda’s 1960 photograph.  Our brand does not sell revolution or socialism as the standard in ironic consumer cool.  Our posters or flags will not be seen carried by the raging masses in their futile demonstrations of resistance.

Comunista Muerto is the movement to create the new icon of Che.  This image, from Freddy Alberto’s relatively unknown 1967 photograph capturing the corpse of the world’s most romanticized communist, celebrates the world as it truly is.  The revolution is over.  Like it or not, capitalism wins.

Comunista Muerto, a suite of paintings and prints priced to sell, presents the genesis of Che’s new and far more appropriate icon.  Stencils, screen and block prints begin the process of replacing Korda’s Che as the single most reproduced image in history.

- John Venditti

3. The Way I See It: A Series of Photographs
By NAC member Carrie Perrault
On view at the Folk Arts Council of St. Catharines
85 Church Street, downtown St. Catharines

Friday 4 – Friday 18 June, during regular business hours
Artist in attendance Tuesday 8 June 12 noon – 4pm

Series of photographs from a yearlong investigation and construction of a visual reality. Examination and celebration of day-to-day living and of being ordinary.

4. Mea Culpa
A film by NAC member Blanca Marcela López
DOC NOW Film Festival
7 - 26 June 2010

Mea Culpa is a documentary film that explores the stories of people who have left the Catholic Church but who have never really been able to let the Church leave them. Growing up in Colombia, where the dominant religion is Catholicism, I was strongly affected by the Church. Although I have left the Church, I still find Catholicism to be a major influence in my life. After speaking with other former Catholics it became apparent that others, like me, still have odd ties to Catholicism, such as strong feelings of guilt about everything from food to sex to not calling their mothers.

Although the film is set in Toronto, Canada, it provides insight into the experiences of people from many different cultures and backgrounds, allowing viewers to gain insight into the cross-cultural influence of the Catholic Church.

For list of screenings click here