May
04
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.
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Apr
15
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.
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Apr
07
The cats over at I HEART VIDEO ART 2 are looking for some Television Sets.
Old, Broken, Abandoned, Unloved TVs can provide 1 last service to humanity before it gets shipped off to some Edward Burtynsky photograph.
Let IHVA2 give it one last hurrah, won’t you?
Then I hope they will give it to Don at the E-waste drop off on Duke St…
If you’d like to donate your TV – they can be dropped off at the Critical Media Lab on Thursday and Friday of this week.
Contact jellis.e@gmail.com for more details & to arrange a drop off time.
H.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
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Mar
03
A great tool for helping people embrace art… is public art:
Call for Expressions of Interest: KPL Main Site.
Artists are invited to submit expressions of interest for a two-stage competition which will place a site-specific work of public art at the reconstructed main library in Kitchener.
Short-listed artists will be compensated for detailed proposals. The selected artist will receive a commission of $125,000. Installation costs are the responsibility of the City of Kitchener.
Deadline to submit: March 31, 2010.
H.
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Feb
26
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).”
Thursday March 4th, 7-9pm
Arts Lecture Hall, UW
FREE.
This is what CAFKA says about Finch:
“Spencer Finch, in truly revolutionary fashion, manifests traditional ideas in shockingly new ways, employing scientific method to a poetic end. In a tradition that leads back to the Impressionists working in the late nineteenth century, artists have strived to depict the light surrounding objects, instead of depicting the objects as they are. A contemporary mash-up of Monet’s Water Lilies and Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes, Finch’s installations are neither purely pictorial nor conceptual but more like nature itself – beautiful and fascinating.”
Should be good.
H.
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Feb
12
As most of you know, CAFKA (contemporary art forum Kitchener + area) happens every two years in KW. It’s a wicked art festival that rivals anything else going on worldwide and showcases both local and global artists.
The next CAFKA is in the September 16 to October 2nd, 2011.
The call for artists deadline is MAY 7, 2010.
That is SOON!
H.
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