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✪ArtsCouncil Tonight! Annual Haig-Brown Lecture, 7pm at the Tidemark Tonight is the night! The Annual Haig-Brown Lecture featuring Raffi was recently featured in a great article in the Campbell River Mirror where Raffi discusses his upcoming lecture. “We all want the best possible world for our children to grow up in and the best possible world for our families to thrive in. The basics of life – clean air, clean water, nutritious food – I think we can talk about those things with a new, fresh sense of our responsibilities to future generations.”

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He says the lecture won’t be angry or wistful or preachy, but he hopes it will strike a chord with people nonetheless.

“I would hope it’s inspirational, but there’s also a sense of urgency in it,” he says. “When I give a talk explaining what child honouring is and what its promise is to society if we embrace it, it’s fun, because I’m sharing a relatively new idea and yet it’s an idea that many people in many sectors have echoed the call for.”Tickets are still available at the Tidemark Theatre.!

(from Erika Anderson at the Museum) ————————————————- Arts Council Christmas Tree Dear Members, !!It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas today! You are invited to create a decoration or send us an image in a .jpg file of a piece of your artwork for our Campbell River Arts Council Members Tree in the Festival of Trees at the Campbell river Museum this Winter. !!We will be decorating our tree with images of art created by you, our members! Images will be printed on card and will include artist's name and title of piece. You can submit up to 5 entries.!!Please drop off your contribution (if making a decoration) at the Sybil Andrews Cottage, 2131 South Island Highway before November 20th or send us an email to

community@crarts.ca with an image .jpg file and please also enclose your full name and title of your work.!!Thank you, !!TaraLee Houston!!Community Engagement Coordinator!Campbell River Arts Council

——————————- ✪A very good read on public art sent in by Michele Vanderwoude

https://www1.ocadu.ca/goodies/Redefining%20Public%20Art%20Toronto%202017_1.pdf?_ga=2.9767157.1148767321.1509578212-613018230.1509578212 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

✪ Museum! The Museum at Campbell River, in partnership with the Campbell River Festival of Film, present the latest addition to the Museum’s “Living History” documentary film series, Learning from the Master; The Legacy of Sam Henderson. !!Thursday Nov. 16 at 7pm In an understated shed on Campbell River’s waterfront, a family tradition of carving is being passed from one generation to another.  Kwakwaka’wakw master carver, Sam Henderson carved the Kwakiutl Bear Pole in 1966 as part of the B.C. Centennial

Route of the Totems. The pole stood in Campbell River for over 50 years.  Gradually the forces of  time and the weathering effects of the  elements caused it to decay beyond repair.  This documentary follows his son, Bill Henderson, and grandson, Junior Henderson, as they create a new replacement pole for the grounds of the Museum at Campbell River. From the ceremonial burning of the old pole, to the blessing of the new pole, hear directly from the next generations of carvers about family, tradition, and the art of “making wood speak”. After the film, the carvers will be on hand to answer questions. Tickets are $8 and are available through the Tidemark Theatre. !———————————————————

✪ Congratulations to the!2017 Salt Spring National Art Prize Award Winners!  !

49 Artists were chosen from across Canada by an independent jury for the Finalist Exhibition. All artist submissions were anonymous to the jury.SSNAP gave awards totalling $30,000 to the following recipients;!

THE SALT SPRING PRIZE (JOAN McCONNELL AWARD): $17,000 ($12,000 and a $5,000 Salt Spring Island artist residency) Judy Anderson Calgary, Alberta, for "This one brings me the most pride…” THE STEPHEN P ROBERTS JURORS' CHOICE AWARDS; three awards of $2,000 selected by each juror;WINNER | JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD – JUROR, DAVID GARNEAU – $2,000Jan Little, Kaleden, British Columbia, for "Jael Suddenly Found Herself With That Beard She'd Long Dreamt Of”WINNER |

JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD – JUROR, NAOMI POTTER – $2,000Katherine MacNeill, Oliver, British Columbia, for "Offroad East of Oyama BC”WINNER | JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD – JUROR, DENIS LONGCHAMPS – $2,000Diana Thorneycroft, Winnipeg Manitoba, for "Guard on the Edge (of the forest and the night)"THE ROSEMARIA BEHNCKE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS determined by a vote of visitors to the exhibition: 1st Prize of $3,000WINNER | PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD, 1ST PRIZE – $3,000Garry Kaye, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, for “Roadside"2nd Prize of $2,000 WINNER | 2ND PRIZE, PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDSPeter McFarlane, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, for "Reclaim Saw"3rd Prize of $1,000 WINNER | 3RD PRIZE, PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS Dave Parsanishi, Port Alberni, British Columbia, for "Mamaaɫni (A Transformation Mask)”THE ASA (Alliance of Salt Spring Artists) AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SALT SPRING ARTIST; $1,000Garry Kaye Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, for “Roadside"!

CBC News Coverage; !

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/judy-anderson-salt-spring-art-prize-1.4370843!

Visit our website for images and details of award winners and finalists - saltspringartprize.ca!

We wish to thank all submitting artists and finalists for their tremendous contribution to Canadian Art. !

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✪ Aboriginal Arts Grants The First Peoples’ Cultural Council has put out its annual call for applications to the Aboriginal Arts Development Awards. Funding is available for grants to individual artists, arts and culture organizations and collectives in B.C. that have a commitment to their practice in any artistic discipline, inducing visual, music, dance, theatre, literary, or media.Last year, 76 projects were awarded a total of $971, 150 through the five funding programs. For more information, visit www.fpcc.ca and click on

the “Arts link, or call Arts Program staff at 250-652-5952. This year’s application deadline is Oct. 31.—————————————————————————————

✪Public Art Call City of Campbell River looking for innovative public art proposals Calling all artists with great ideas for public art in Campbell River. The City of Campbell River is seeking public art proposals from artists and artist teams this November. "With this call to artists for public art proposals, the City is seeking suggestions to help incorporate art into everyday life," says Lynn Wark, theCity's recreation and culture manager. "The City wants to cultivate even more vibrant, visually exciting and identifiable spaces in the community, and this call is an opportunity to suggest public art in any part or neighbourhood of Campbell River." Artists and artist teams working in a wide range of media, permanent or temporary, are encouraged to apply with proposals that address the following goals:§ Have public art viewed as a valuable contributor to the economic, socialand cultural development of Campbell River. Encourage local tourism and create signature features for international guests. § Incorporate public art into the design of selected civic and private developments. Encourage partnerships between creative professionals, community groups, social development programs, artists, children and other cultural groups.

§ Foster community engagement in public spaces through storytelling, music, sound, performance, dance, literature, spoken word, new media and fine art. Possible project categories: 1. Community Based - Collaborative, collective art making that integrates professional artists into community groups or processes. 2. Special Projects (Permanent and Temporary) - Explore creating art through residencies, new media, interactive, video and sound-based works. 3. Permanent Site-Specific Projects - Artwork designed for permanent installation in a specific community location to act as a point of interest for local residents and visitors. The City encourage all cultures and sectors of the community to apply. Decisions related to public art projects will be approved by Mayor and Council. Find more information on this public art call and submit an application atcampbellriverpublicart.ca. Deadline for submissions is 4 p.m. Nov. 30. For more information, call Lynn Wark, Recreation and Culture Manager, at250-923-7911. ! ————————————

✪Valley Connections Art Exhibition Opening Event Join us at the Red Tree Café in Courtenay's Tin Town on November 10th from 7-9pm for the opening reception of the painting exhibiton "Valley Connections"! The evening will include artwork by emerging artists Sarah Bergeron, TaraLee Houston and Trish Smith, music by local singer Andrea Rose Postal, food and refreshments are available to purchase from Red Tree Café at 106-2456 Rosewall Crescent, Courtenay, BC. The event is free to attend and open to the public so stop by and bring a friend! The exhibition will run through November and December 2017. Recently graduated from Emily Carr University, Sarah Bergeron, TaraLee Houston and Trish Smith have united to express their passion for the Comox Valley through "Valley Connections". The three artist’s work intersect through their unique interpretations of the spaces and places people gather around this beautiful Valley. Sarah’s paintings focus on the connections we share with nature, wildlife and the enviroment that surround us in the Comox Valley. TaraLee’s work brings awareness to the K'ómoks estuary habitat – how it impacts us, and how we impact it. Trish engages the space alongside the Komoks estuary through abstracted expressionistic work providing the viewer with poetic interpretations of the sights, sounds and colours experienced on her Summer walks around the Comox Marina.Sarah Website: https://www.sarahbergeronartist.com/TaraLee Website: http://taraleehouston.wixsite.com/artwithheart Trish Website: https://trish-smith.squarespace.com/ !

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Club of Campbell River

End Polio Now Committee Box 25072

Campbell River, BC, V9W 0B7

October 26, 2017 Campbell River Community Arts Council 2131 South Island Highway Campbell River, B.C. V9W 1C2 Dear Arts Council Members, On behalf of the Rotary Club of Campbell River, I wish to thank you for the generous donation of carving the pumpkins for our Pumpkins for Polio auction fundraiser at the Riptide Pub on October 24, 2017. The pumpkins were true pieces of artwork and the auction bidding went very well. The event raised almost $6,000.00 which is a real achievement. This amount will be matched 2:1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation resulting in $18,000.00 that will go towards global polio eradication efforts. Since Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative nearly 30 years ago, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to just 37 cases in 2016. To sustain this progress, and protect all children from polio, Rotary has committed to raising US$50 million per year over the next three years in support of global polio eradication efforts. Your contribution of pumpkin carving is part of this financial commitment to eradicate polio around the globe. Thank you again,

Gary McLelan Chair, End Polio Now Committee.

End Polio Now Committee Chair: Gary McLelan - 250-923-2114

gmclelan@island.net

✪ WINNIPEG !LUTHER KONADU CHARLENE VICKERS AT ACEARTINC. !Abstraction is a way to make audiences work a little bit harder. It is a way for an artist to own their agency and deny specificity for a more buoyant and sophisticated representation of a discursive self. For Charlene Vickers’ aceartinc. exhibition Accumulation Of Moments Spent Under Water With The Sun And Moon, abstraction is a language that comes from the body – a body rooted within specific histories and cultural traditions. Here, Vickers highlights these histories and traditions through her choice of material, with performative application of paint, and by leaving her resonance on the surface as a way of being present in abstraction. !!

! Charlene Vickers, opening night performance !

Gallery visitors who missed Vicker’s two opening night performances can see props and the remains of her activities. These traces are also intoned on her suite of watercolour and gouache abstract paintings, beaded moccasins, and felt ovoid embroidery. The props include arm-length cardboard megaphones that she uses as a tool for sight, amplification, and hearing. During her performance, she stomped in rhythmic patterns as she moved around the gallery and stared through the megaphone as though the audience were spectators witnessing her presence from afar. Her voice reverberated as she spoke through the megaphone, bringing to mind Rebecca Belmore's Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to their Mother. !The second half of her performance saw her fiddling with a synthesizer pad while two-channel footage was partially projected onto her. In one of the videos Vickers holds a sign that reads: OCCUPY ANISHINABE PARK 1974. It’s a reference to the contentious 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, a territory of the Ojibway Nation that is near the artist’s place of birth. This is juxtaposed with what looks like a home video of Vickers taking part in a band practice. The music gets louder as she layers up a live, reverb-drenched ambient soundscape that gradually envelops the gallery. Her languid voice enters into the mix, it rises above the surrounding sound textures and, in the end, you are transported. !Like the sweeping wordless vocals that filled the gallery, Vickers uses formal cues throughout her colorful and rhythmically patterned paintings that read like an ever-unfolding kaleidoscope. Her embroidered felt ovoids echo the colour-filled painted surfaces. The patterns allude to life by the sea – a nod to Coast Salish peoples on whose territory she has resided for the last two decades. !

! !Charlene Vickers, installation view

!At the center of the gallery floor is a circle of beaded moccasins stitched out of cardboard beer boxes and made in the size of the artist’s feet. This gesture points to the infliction of consumerist goods on cultural traditions. Across from the circle is a shelf lined with carefully folded blanket-like cloths with more of the beaded moccasins stacked atop and, for the first time in the show, we get direct hints into Vickers’ inner thoughts through a series of text beadings. We see phrases like: PAID LESS, CONSUMER TIPS, NATIVE WOMAN SEEKS ARTISTIC EMPLOYMENT, and THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT. She is addressing the commodification of her heritage and the social disparities she experiences as an Indigenous person and as a woman. !With the assorted collection of work in this show, Vickers signals the ability for Anishinaabe cultural production to be interdisciplinary. The artworks here move back and forth between sound, visual and performative traditions allowing for an expansive way to think about at what an abstract practice could be and how the body can present itself therein. !!Charlene Vickers: Accumulation Of Moments Spent Under Water With The Sun And Moon continues until November 24. aceartinc.: http://www.aceart.org/ The gallery is not accessible. !!Luther Konadu makes things such as photographs, paintings, and prints which he occasionally calls art. He self-describes as a transcriber. He contributes content to a publication called Public Parking. Most days his favourite colour is green and one of his goals in life is to never be an art brat. He is Akimblog’s Winnipeg correspondent and can be followed on Instagram @public_parking. —————————————————————————————————

✪ TORONTO !TERENCE DICK TRANSCENDENCE AT INTERACCESS November 01, 2017

Like24!Searching for transcendence in the age of search engines might not be as optimistic an endeavour as curator Stacie Ant makes it out to be, but her exhibition Transcendence at InterAccess certainly presents a provocative assortment of evidence for the integration of technology and theology. Perhaps my atheist’s scepticism is the problem rather than the artists’ attempts at digital

spirituality, but the exhibition isn’t simply there for the believers amongst you. Even within its aspirations to salvation, there is a critical undercutting of techno-dogma that serves as a lesson for all – especially the faithful. !!

! Ryan Cherewaty, Static Glow, 2017, video !The opening gambit is Kara Stone’s straightforward combination of electronics and divination. Her Techno Tarot is an iPad app that converts the age-old prognosticating tool into an interactive source for past, present, and future advice. Slipped into the readings by the AI fortune-teller are subtle passive-aggressive retorts that chastise the user for mistreating computers and warn of potential bad karma ahead. This shouldn’t be surprising given the homepage announcement: “Your technology will revolt.” !Alienation is the more likely form of damnation according to the uncanny valley modelling of Nathaniel Addison and Ryan Cherewaty. The former has created a holographic companion named Sonya who flickers like static and rotates through a sequence of gestures to approximate glimmers of lifelikeness. The latter contributes a short video populated by avatars who acquire a vivid, yet animated agency through motion capture and speak in the manufactured language of self-help infomercials. There is something tragic about them both as they replace what is directly human with virtual, lesser versions. The posthumanists out there might call me naïve for retaining an out-dated notion of authentic experience that has been all but erased over the past century of

advances in electronic media and they probably have a point, but the capital-induced dehumanism that Marx identified in industrial processes is still part of our relationship to technology and it shouldn’t be ignored. !!

! Cat Bluemke, Spiritus Sancti (detail), 2017, mixed media !However, if you’re going to ignore it, there isn’t a more joyous rejoinder to the blissful transcendence of the present than Kevin Holliday’s RIP. Their installation cocoons the viewers in a nest of vibrant cushions and a curtain of LCD screens looping ecstatic dancers sourced from YouTube nobodies and Second Life stand-ins. The ever-ascending rhythms of happy hardcore music turns the space into a relentlessly life-affirming isolation booth that promises an afterlife party that never ends. !Cat Bluemke, on the other hand, has assembled a chapel that treats online chats and viewer-sourced videos as religious artefacts for the coming rapture. There is both a galvanizing sense of community and a pathetic desperation evident here. The number of searchers shown in view tallies is offset by the

questionable documentation of their purported angel sightings. In the end, despite all that technology offers us, our hope for transcendence still comes down to faith. Whether it’s found in a burning bush or a video screen, the divine is always at a distance and can only be reached by leaving the material world behind. These works don’t provide answers, but they can act as jumping off points. !!Transcendence continues until November 18. InterAccess: http://interaccess.org/ The gallery is not accessible. !!Terence Dick is a freelance writer living in Toronto. His art criticism has appeared in Canadian Art, BorderCrossings, Prefix Photo, Camera Austria, Fuse, Mix, C Magazine, Azure, and The Globe and Mail. He is the editor of Akimblog. You can follow his quickie reviews and art news announcements on Twitter @TerenceDick. ✪ Have a great weekend!

Ken Blackburn Executive Director Campbell River Arts Council