July 3 - July 20, 2008
Reception: Saturday July 5th from 7-9 pm 
The Artel Arts Accommodation & Venue
205 Sydenham Street, Kingston ON

The Artel presents Banalyze This, a two-project exhibition of drawing installation. Harkening back that object of desire, the artists here teeter playfully between capital-W Want as departure point, and as a reference point-of-no-return. Happily toying with our innate stumbling contradictions, this exhibit makes roommates of artists Kyle Bishop (based in Waterloo) and the Gestalt Drawing Guild collective (based in Kingston), and looks for meaning and pathos in human interdependence and need.      

Former Kingston artist Kyle Bishop returns with the project “Some Things I Left Behind”: an art-for-object recovery program in which the artist exchanges exhibited drawings for the actual objects the drawings depict (the possessions Bishop left behind when he hastily moved from Kingston in 2006). Missing-cat style posters will also grace downtown light posts as Bishop calls forth his old Kingston friends and neighbors to return his stuff.

Bishop is joined by the Gestalt collective, artists Loretta Walz and Andrea Hunter with their project “Cage Dweller”: an installation of doodles made while at work, hung in strips creating a trembling and fragile enclosure. With this project, inspired by the powers of perception - the way the mind perceives wholes out of incomplete elements, the aptly named Gestalt collective explores the spaces carved out amidst or despite our banal existence; the spaces where ideas, dreams, and creative impulses reside.

OPEN HOURS
Thurs Fri 2pm - 7pm, Sat - Sunday 11am - 4pm

Want to lend a hand and have a reason to hang around more often?
There are lots of ways to get involved with The Artel. Three of the most popular are:

1. Gallery Sitting - when an exhibit is up in the gallery, we’d love extra help watching the space and greeting visitors. Shifts range from 2.5 to 5 hours, Thurs - Sun.
2. Event Hosting - from time to time our concerts, screenings and other events require some extra help with hospitality. Often this can get you in free to the show, which is a great perk.
3. Postering - like to walk or bike around town? How about putting up some Artel posters while you get your daily exercise? Also, a great way to stay informed on what else Kingston has to offer.

Perks for volunteering include: good karma, an extended family of artist friends, occasional discounts to selected events!

How: Just send an email to the.artel@gmail.com to learn more about what volunteering opportunities are coming up.

call it HOME

Living at the ARTEL - TWO PRIME ROOMS available
Move in date September 1st or October 1st
APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED ON AN ONGOING BASIS starting JULY 27th until AUGUST 20th.

Call KINGSTON’S only authentic Art house your HOME

The Artel has two prime rooms available for Sept 1st ($308 to $420 per month plus utilities).

Application deadline ongoing: starting Sunday, July 27, to August 20th.

Tenant Application Form - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com

If you live at The Artel you’ll enjoy:
- exhibitions, concerts and performances happening in the main floor multi-purpose space (550 sq.ft), aka your living room. You can choose to participate as an artist and producer if you like.
- Living downtown. The Artel is a 1-minute walk from Wallack’s Art Supply, cafés, bookstores, movie theatres, shopping, bars/restaurants, and of course other galleries and theatres.
- Having artistically-inclined housemates who support your interests and activities.
- Joining The Artel collective - an inclusive group of Kingston artists who collectively run The Artel’s busy schedule of events and activities, including presentation of your work - ALL TENANTS CAN HAVE
EXHIBITS for FREE, and organize their own EVENTS in the venue space.
- Opportunity to participate in a lively and connected arts and cultural community!
- Cheap rent! Great value!

Don’t hesitate.
We’re friendly and open to folks with all interests.
We’re queer positive, and very age positive, love diversity, and consider ourselves adventurous yet studious. We like you if you like us.

Open House: Saturday, July 26th, 2008 11am - 4pm
Anticipated Cohabitation Start Date: September 1st or October 1st 2008

Tenant Application Form - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com

SUNDAY AUGUST 10 - 8:30 PM
The Artel - Arts Accommodation & Venue
205 Sydenham St, Kingston Ontario

FREE MOVIE SCREENING.
FREE ADMISSION. FREE POPCORN.

ABOUT THE FILM:

Killer of Sheep follows Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, as he moves with increasing disillusionment through a world that he feels powerless to affect. Charles Burnett shot the film over 5 years for $10, 000 and submitted it as his MFA thesis at UCLA in 1977. With no financing available to Burnett, and no studio interest forthcoming, Killer of Sheep sat in the UCLA archives without receiving much attention until 2007, when it was finally given a proper theatrical and DVD release.

Critical praise since then has been virtually unanimous, with critics lauding the film for its unique portrayal of working class life and urban African American communities, and noting its surprising debt to 40s Italian neo-realism as opposed to 70s American independent film. Or, in Slate critic Dana Stevens’s words, it’s like The Wire meets The Bicycle Thief. And it’s really moving.

The film will be introduced by Mark Streeter.

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Cameo Cinema is a free community movie screening series in Kingston, Ontario where people introduce and present films they’re passionate about.

Official Website:
http://cameocinema.allcapslock.com/

Special Father’s Day screening of the gothic film noir classic, plus scenes from ‘Blue Velvet’ (1986)

Actor Charles Laughton’s sole directorial effort is at turns nightmarish, moving, surreal and beautiful, refusing to keep youthful innocence at a safe distance from the violence, corruption and deceit that mark the film’s adult world. Robert Mitchum stars as Reverend Harry Powell, a murderous preacher who marries a widow in pursuit of the ten thousand dollars her late husband had hidden. Only the widow’s children, John and Pearl, know the location of the bounty, and in escaping from Powell’s clutches, they embark on a rafting expedition that, as Pauline Kael once said of the final shots of F.W. Murnau’s “‘Tabu”, “is headed for nothing so commonplace as land”. Lillian Gish, essentially playing “Whistler’s Mother” with a shotgun, is the singularly steely matriarch who takes them in, an act that leads to an eerie scene between Gish and Mitchum that encapsulates the film’s sublime mixture of terror and beauty. “Leeeeaning, leeeeaning, leeeaning on the everlasting love…”

The main presentation will be preceded by clips from David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”, a film that shares enough of “The Night of the Hunter”’s indelible union of the lovely and the disturbing to qualify as its twisted progeny.

Darren Springer provide commentary before the screening, so be sure to arrive right at 8:30pm!

Want to be notified about future Cameo Cinema Screenings? Join the Cameo Cinema Facebook Group.

Come and see art created by local Queer artists…

www.kingstonpride.org

Nathan Lawr: Offical Site / MySpace

Kate Maki: MySpace / Official Site

The Gertrudes: MySpace