Loading ...Ramy and the Photo Club have got a meetup on August 19th in Waterloo Park.
If you’re interested in taking photos, looking like you take photos, or hanging out with people that take photos – maybe you’d like to check this out?
All are welcome :)
All the details are HERE!
H.
There is absolutely nothing in the world that I like better than email from people that read RQ.
Seriously, the rush it gives me is comparable to what i feel like it would be like to do heroine for the first time.
This blog is Not Safe for Work. Was i supposed to put that at the top? whoops.
Anyway – I got some awesome mail from Mr.Billy Bob Tweed today – he went out and took some shots of the knitting around KW. Here’s a couple:
SO AMAZING.
Wanna go see them yourself? Here’s the directions that came with the email:
This installation has been growing incrementally for the past couple weeks, and could still be in-progress.
It’s located behind ‘Ish & Chips, close to the Jane Bond/Starlight Club rear entrances, in the parking lot at the rear of the old Waterloo Post Office, now Perimeter Institute adjunct.
I don’t think it’s visible from the street, but once you walk into that space you can’t miss it. Access either from A) Dupont St. West, across street from the police station; B) the alley on King Street next to Mom’s Tattoo Shop; or C) Princess Street West, the Jane Bond driveway.
Thanks for sending BBT.
H.
The City of Kitchener is showing the work of Felicity Somerset in the Rotunda this month,
you can swing by and have a few snacks and a look at her photography tonight in City Hall.
5-7pm. Slight coflict with Cinq a Sept – but i’ll understand if you bail on me.
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Also on a less happy city of kitchener note – slightly annoyed today that the construction crew paving Queen blocked me into my street of 10 minutes this morning and then wouldn’t let me turn right, which tacked a couple extra minutes of drive time onto my trip. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. probably not a huge deal, but in the morning i’m a little over-sensitive to these things.
Would it be sooo hard to drop a little note in the mailboxes of the 6 houses affected by this to say – hey! we’re closing the intersection tomorrow – sorry but there might be some delays?
Would it???
WOULD?IT?
H.
As some of you may have seen on TWITTER last night – i’m loving the Yarn-Bombing around town. I think it’s the best thing EVER!
Here’s the capture of a Stop Sign on Princess street wearing a pretty little yellow sweater:
and then today, i spotted this little gem while Ramy and i had lunch at the Princess cafe:
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you’d like to get in on the knitting craze that I have no patience to actually participate in, maybe you’d like to check out one of these great events, being put on my Cambridge Centre for the Arts and their artist in residence Sue Sturdy.
KNITTING CIRCLES – UPCOMING DATES
Mondays, 7pm social, 7:30 pm talk
Free Admission - Cambridge Centre for the Arts, 60 Dickson Street, Cambridge
740-4681 ext. 4376
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August 16
Guerilla Knitting
Discover more about this movement to cover the world in knitting.
September 20
Yarn ‘Tasting’
Find out what new yarns are available for your knitting.
October 25
Back to Basics: Design Your Own
Learn how to design your own knitwear.
November 15
Project Runway
This is a chance to show off your knitted designs with commentary from Lynn Spence.
H.
Cinematheque Waterloo presents the launch of Russell Kilbourn’s just-published book, Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from Art Film to Transnational Cinema (Routledge 2010)
Date: Friday July 16
Location: GenX Video and Media (10 Regina St. N., at Princess)
Time: 7:00 pm
There will be a reading from the book, accompanied by refreshments courtesy of Seven Shores Café.
What’s it about?
Cinema, Memory, Modernity offers a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in the post-war international art cinema (and its contemporary analogues) over-against mainstream Hollywood within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Placing specific examples of European, North and South American, and Asian films into dialogue, Kilbourn reads contemporary cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: film as an ‘art of memory’ for the twentieth-century and beyond.
H.
Here’s the plan for Thursday – hope you can get in on it!
5-7pm Cinq a Sept at The Bauer Kitchen! You come out and have a beverage with about 20 interesting people… no big commitment here, just a nice relaxing glass of something after work. All are welcome as always :)
7 -9pm Seven Shores cafe for some free apps and a look at Frank Chen’s Photography that is up in the cafe for the month of July. The series is called “Fleeting Moments of Beauty” and is comprised of Frank’s photos from the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan.
Hope to see you there!
H.
How was your weekend?
Mine was busy but AWESOME! Saturday early afternoon, the Nu Berlin crowd checked out “Homage” one of the highly recommended shows in Magnetic North – it was Pay What You Can and packed. It was at the Conrad Centre, but actually in the “theatre in the round” which is a downstairs. It was a GREAT show and I LOVE that it was based on a true story from Windsor. man, life sigh.
After Homage, we hit up the KW Art Gallery for “HOME SWEET HOME” – a very cool interactive exhibit where a city grid is laid out complete with streets, street lamps, all kinds of zoned houses/businesses and a canal. You purchase a little cardboard home for a few bucks and decorate the shit out of it – lay it down on your little plot and start interacting with your neighbours.
You can send letters to city council, get an announcement played over the local radio station which is live in that gallery or have a party – which will be happening tonight at 6pm!
Here’s some pics of “McGoo’s Pub” that P and I crafted:
We had some public art for the front yard created by @bymarty:
We have some great neighbours – Cap’n Brunch by Dana and Marty:
and Cute Gecko Acoustic Cafe :
And for a little bit of idea of scale:
What a good time!!!
There’s still time to check this out and even to make a little house or biz of your own!
Come by tonight!
H.
So….. gotta say I’m a little bit excited for Sunday’s KW Arts Awards! I know I shouldn’t be getting all worked up about it, but really, HOW can i NOT? Gowlings sponsors the Literary Award and friend @bymarty is announcing the Winner! So fun!
Last year Gary Kirkham won (shown here) he’s a Playwright and performer and also a member of Lost&Found Theatre, collaborator with the MT Space and the Blyth Festival’s Playwright in Residence. He is the ALSO author of Queen Milli of Galt and Falling: A Wake, which has been optioned for Off Broadway.
I’m up against Pat the Dog Playright Development Centre, Tanis MacDonald (published poet and prof at WLU) and Dennis Yanke (Author of “Love your wife, Get better sex”)…
Anyways…. lol…can’t wait to see how the night plays out!
Keep your fingers crossed for me readers, and think of me on Sunday night!
Thanks friends,
H.
CAFKA is hosting a talk on Thursday of this week at 7pm, held at the KPL.
“spurse” - an open-ended group of individuals and organizations that work towards the development of new forms of engagement, practices and knowledge – will be the guest speaker.
Many of spurse’s projects experiment with the capabilities of existing systems, whether they be urban spaces, garbage, or our ability to listen. spurse has facilitated projects, exhibitions, performances, lectures, seminars and workshops that ask participants to rethink current concepts of knowledge and being.
They’ll be talking about their philosophy and working methods, past projects, current research, and future projects.
The lecture will be followed, on Saturday May 8, by a roundtable session with community stakeholders, intended to facilitate collaboration and inform their upcoming project for CAFKA.
The event is free, contact Rob @ cafka.org if you want more details.
H.
Not sure if you know about this program, but it’s basically a giant Region wide book club.
We all read the same book. Then there’s a bunch of events and you can have a united thing to talk about and you can meet the author, etc. etc…
I haven’t read the OBOC book in the past, but I am all over it this time.
The selection for this year is “The Best Laid Plans: A Novel” by Terry Fallis.
Words Worth do you have any in?? I should mention that the Libraries and book stores stock up on copies because they know they’re in high demand, so check in at your Library and place a hold… you shouldn’t have to wait to long to get it.
Here’s a little summary on the book:
Thirty-something Daniel Addison is jaded and burned out from his Parliament Hill job as a speech writer for the Liberal Leader of the Opposition. After a messy breakup with his girlfriend, Daniel is eager to escape the duplicitous world of Canadian politics, so he accepts a faculty position with the University of Ottawa’s English Department. He soon moves into a boathouse apartment in nearby Cumberland owned by Angus McLintock, a cranky engineering professor in his sixties who is mourning the recent loss of his wife.
Both Angus and Daniel intend to retreat from the world for a while, but fate won’t have it. Angus is desperate to avoid teaching English to first-year engineering students yet again. Daniel, as penance for abandoning his party on the eve of an election, must find a Liberal candidate to run in ultra-Conservative Cumberland. In an unlikely alliance, Angus consents to stand as the in-name-only, certain-to-lose Liberal candidate, and Daniel agrees to take Angus’s English class.
Everything is going according to plan until the voters are suddenly forced to take a closer look at Angus, throwing his certain defeat into doubt. Scrambling to deal with this unexpected development, Angus and Daniel land in the middle of a hilarious political maelstrom that tests not only their friendship but their beliefs in government and democracy.
Author Events will be held Sept 21 – 23, 2010.
Stay Tuned!
H.
Last night, after recording this week’s episode of The 100 – we got into a pretty interesting little chat about the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery…
Brock makes an interesting point that clay and glass is probably the most accessible art form in today’s society (not sure the I totally agree with that… i think that music or moving pictures are a little easier for people to relate to… but in terms of physical work… ok) and yet, I still have not set foot in the gallery once.
Why is this? I really have NO clue… i know it’s free on weekdays between 5 – 6… I know there is parking behind the building, I have heard from tons of people they have a wicked giftshop – but still nothing. Hmmmmm.
Anyways, enough about me not being a proper patron of the arts – more about you -
If you’re interested in the gallery, what it is, what it could be… you should check out the open meeting tonight at RIM park where they are going to present their Sustainability Plan that is going to council.
Registration at 6:15; Meeting from 6:30pm to 8:30 pm.
Everyone is welcome.
(If you can’t make it, but you still want to weigh in: Answer this ”In your view, what are the three most important services the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery should provide to the community in the future?” and email it to info@canadianclayandglass.ca)
H.
I’ve been meaning to post this for the ENTIRE month, but you should totally try and get by to see the Rotunda show (at Kitchener City Hall) for April.
It’s work by Judy Major-Girardin in a series called “Wetlands” – really beautiful stuff that will make you feel like it really is springtime… because i gotta tell you – the past two days have just felt like sunny winter to me.
It’s up till end of day on the 30th. Check it.
H.
I’ve gotta say, this is a great place to go to pick up a gift for someone… or for yourself. I went for the first time 2 years ago, because we were looking for a little tea set like you find in sushi joints.
We found this great little set with 4 cups and a little box they sit in, for like $40:
(there’s 4 cups but one is upstairs and i’m too lazy to go and get it)
Things are affordable, made by local potters and super beautiful. The show runs from today (Friday the 23rd) to Sunday at the Waterloo Rec Centre.
All the details, including hours and a map, can be found HERE.
H.
I’m getting pretty excited about this little shindig tomorrow night.
I’ll be volunteering at the Waterloo Girls Minor Hockey Year End Celebration till 10ish.. .because my mom organizes it and let’s be honest… who can say NO to their mothers?
But right after that – i’m heading to I HEART VIDEO ART 2 at the CRITICAL MEDIA LAB in Downtown Kitchener.
The night features work by:
Liliana Velez Jaramillo, Jenn E. Norton, Manuel Saiz, Kika Nicolela, Heath Faschina, Chris & Keir, John Greyson, Gabriel Graham, Ehren BEARwitness, Thomas, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, and more.
$20 admission
$15 members/students
Tickets are available now at Orange Monkey Music (Princess St., Waterloo), Gen X Video (Regina St., Waterloo), Encore Records (Queen St., Kitchener) or can be purchased online at www.iheartvideoart.com… or at the Door.
Want more info? contact rob at cafka.org.
See you there.
H.
Just saw this great request up at REmakeable :
“Canada’s Technology Triangle has recently moved to Downtown Kitchener and they are looking for pieces of art for their walls.
Contact: Robin Martin Robin@techtriangle.com“
I love when a company wants to really represent the city it resides in.
Nice work CTT.
H.
So the Words Worth Blog is talking about these new journals they got in called “ECOSYSTEM”. They’re made with 100% recycled materials.
This green looks a little bit happy for me, but they also have a black version. Phew.
Everything I love in my pretentious Moleskine notebook and MORE. I am in love with my current journal, but will definitely be moving to this guy next.
Check’em out at Words Worth Books in Uptown, or on the Ecosystem site and WWB will order one in for ya.
H.
I found this through KW Insider a while ago, and didn’t repost at the time, but mentioned it to a few people who all thought it was awesome…
I met Erica on Wednesday night after her talk about Roundabouts. Hello, hilarious!
The Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area + UW Fine Arts are presenting a lecture with artist Spencer Finch.
“Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004).”
