Posts Tagged ‘cafka’

Sep 30

Whattya doing on Sunday?

You should TOTALLY sign up for THIS:

Between biennials, CAFKA is very active producing and co-producing a number of special events.  CAFKA’s events are intended to facilitate connections between people, to introduce our organization to the community and to initiate a critical dialogue around the issues of contemporary art in public spaces.

CAFKA produces a bi-annual video cabaret we affectionately call “I Heart Video Art,” a social event around the presentation of some of the most interesting and lively examples of contemporary video art.  CAFKA also participates in community arts initiatives such as the Steel Rails Sessions and FEST 3, where a number of cultural organizations collaborate to create memorable cross-disciplinary events.

WORKSHOP: DESIGN CAMP CAFKA

SUN. OCT. 2, 10 AM – 4 PM

// SUNDAY OCTOBER 2, 2011
// 10 AM – 4 PM
// REGISTRANTS MEET IN THE ROTUNDA AT KITCHENER CITY HALL
// 200 KING ST. W., KITCHENER.
// MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 20. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Welcome to our urban playground called Design Camp.  Whiting Design is a small architectural and industrial design firm and four times a year, we take a day to solve a problem. This year, our Design Camp 103 will be with CAFKA. We’re also partnering with Machteld Faas Xander, who are offering their space, gear, and problem solving minds to the mix. Design camp is run by architects, but it’s not FOR architects. Through Design Camp we will be pushing the boundaries of design to see what such spaces can do for our city.
Registration is limited to 20 lucky campers. If you would like to join us, email cafka@cafka.org your name, your email address, and three sentences telling us why you want to register. Selected participants will be contacted and we’ll let you know what to pack! Registration deadline extended to Thursday September 28.
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I know the deadline has passed – but I bet if you ask CAFKA nicely, they’ll let you in!
Tell’em I sent ya ;)
H.
Sep 29

Uhmmmm ADORABLE.

Look at the Detail, honestly.

I am 100% madly in love with this CAFKA piece by Mary Catherine Newcomb.

It’s in the Cambridge Sculpture Gardens – across the street from the Southworks Outlet on Grand Ave in Galt.

YOU HAVE TO GO.

Many thanks to this random kid who does a great job of showing the scale of the Hare. hahaha.

UPDATE from Gordon at CAFKA : This piece – aka “Souvenir” will be up through the winter. how fun is that?

There’s a couple other cool pieces in that garden – walk along the path and you’ll find some other gems.

Like this….

Then you can go get a hot dog and a milkshake across the River at L.A Franks. You won’t be sorry.

Go before Oct 2 when CAFKA ends!!!!

H.

Sep 12

Wow. September has seriously been flying by.
Kind of crazy actually.

This week is total craziness – since I’m away for work for a few days… home for the #140confONT at the Tannery and then off for a weekend with some CHICKS in Niagara on the Lake.. ok… it’s Port Colbourne – but NOTL sounds way classier, non?

ANYWAYS: Here’s the thing you REALLY need to know about:
CAFKA starts on Friday September 16th and runs until October 2nd.

Wtf is Cafka? It’s an awesome LOCAL contemporary art event that happens every two years in Waterloo Region. And if you take some time to check it out – it will seriously blow your mind. CAFKA has also very generously been a contributor to Steel Rails, both in 2010 and in this past June’s event. They are a really important organization within our community – and so, i will be spreading the word about CAFKA11 pretty much until you are sick of hearing about it. Ready!?!

CAFKA is really interested in placing art in places YOU will stumble upon it – or where you would not normally expect to find something like it. For instance, you might remember this downed satellite that hung out in Victoria Park last time?

This year’s theme is “Survive. Resist.” – seems perfect considering all the post-apocalyptic hype these days.
There’s a couple really amazing, amazing sites happening this year – and I’m hoping to get around to a ton of them on Sunday September 18, so I can give you a little tour via RQ.

BUT, what you should really do, is see them for yourself.
I’ll post some locations later in the week – and you can get out of your house and check them out.
Deal?

If you’ like to follow along with CAFKA on twitter, check this out: @cafka11

As a little teaser, check out this wilting lamppost beside city hall – i love it. like.. LOVE.IT.

H.

Jun 07

OK. It’s officially springtime.

Clean out your closets for a good cause – ART.

CAFKA has a project that needs your clean, used clothing, hats, scarves and any other fabric that is taking up space.

You can drop it off at The ARTERY in Downtown Kitchener ( 158 King Street West, Kitchener) on:

Thursday June 16th 5-7 pm
and
Saturday June 18th 1-3 pm

You know you haven’t worn half the shit in your closets and drawers for at least a year – just give it up already, hoarder!

Facebook event is HERE if you’d be so kind as to spread the word.

H.

 

Oct 05

Journée des Barricades | 2008 | Various industrial and domestic items | 800 x 2100 x 1000cm
Commissioned by Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University for One Day Sculpture | Photos: Stephen Rowe

What are you up to tonight?

What you SHOULD be doing, is going to hear Ivan Morison speak at Kitchener City Hall at 7:30pm.

IT IS FREE.

Ivan is in town to give a lecture on “Big Ideas in Art & Culture” thanks to CAFKA and the Musagetes Foundation.

Last night, I was lucky enough to join some lovely CAFKA folks to have dinner with Ivan and he is an interesting dude.

How to Survive the Coming Bad Years | 2008 | Soil, straw, water, timber, lime and ceramic pipes | Attingham Park, Shropshire, UK
Commissioned by Meadow Arts for the exhibition Give Me Shelter

Much of the work that he and his wife Heather do, is inspired by the materials that are found around the site they are working in, as well as post-apocalyptic science fiction.

How can you go wrong?

H.

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.

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.

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!

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.
More details HERE.
H.
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.
RSVP Here.

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.
Feb 12

David Diviney Lodge 2009 Installation view

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!
If you’re interested in having your work be part of CAFKA, Apply Online Here.
H.