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 Niagara Welcomes the Wine King of Dominion City!
Wine King Float in the Niagara Wine Festival Parade
Saturday 26 September
Wine King Float and Dominion on display
in The Show Room Wed 30 Sept - Sat 5 Dec
Opening Reception Fri 16 Oct at 8pm
This year's Niagara Wine Festival Parade will have twice the royalty. Since 1952, the Grape King has ruled over the festival, but in 2009 the Wine King of Dominion City will join 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.
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 The Yoruba Journey through Life
Visual Art from Nigeria
Sunday 26 July - Saturday 19 September
Opening Reception: Saturday 12 September 3-6pm
NAC is proud to present work by contemporary Nigerian visual artists Emmanuel Emvic and three generations of the Folorunso family. The exhibit has been curated by Ayo Adewumi and Makinde Adeniran, a Nigerian-Canadian and a Nigerian who both have connections to Niagara.
This exhibition of contemporary metal work, drawing, and painting illustrate the unique pluralism of Yoruba people’s cosmology and beliefs. The featured art work explains these beliefs through the journey of life, from creation to death. They also brush against the contemporary societal and political change occurring rapidly in Nigeria.
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 Displacement
(How to cope with the weight of history)
Window Installation by Maggie Groat
Opening Reception Friday 1 May 2009 from 6-9pm
This selection of work is part of a larger series dealing with notions of cultural loss and displacement. My current studio practice is preoccupied with the idea of what it means to be Native and whether an authentic reconnection to an absent cultural identity is possible. Through performative actions documented by digital video and photography, I am aiming to illustrate the outsider place that I currently assume with my own First Nations Canadian identity and the frustration, futility and absurdity surrounding my attempts to reconnect. In addition, I am interested in questioning the authority that I have or the position that I assume within the ability to address First Nations issues, such as the function of the outdated and politically incorrect books that exist in institutional libraries.
- Maggie Groat
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