Friday sept 19th

$100
Weather station

$10 at the door

14th – 31st August 2008
Reception: Saturday August 16th 7pm

Underfoot, a large-scale sculptural installation created by artist Jeremy
Mulder, is taking the Artel by “swarm” transforming the Gallery into an
out of the ordinary space inhabited by a charming cadre of bugs. Through
insect sculptures and the components that make up their surrounding
environment, Mulder revels views of life-like dioramic settings while
evoking feelings of spectacle, satire, and fun. Underfoot is an
allegorical rendering of the personalities and interactions that make up
smaller communities. This unusual installation allows viewers the chance
to contemplate the consequences of peering into a world smaller than their
own.

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Ever since he was a young child spending afternoons in his grandfather’s
studio admiring the wood carvings and paintings, Jeremy Mulder has always
wanted to pursue a career as an artist. After attending the fine art
program at Mount Allison University Jeremy moved back to Kingston intent
on furthering his painting practice and acquiring opportunities to show
his work. Currently, Jeremy’s work can be viewed at www.jeremymulder.com
and at Chamelion Nation in Downtown Kingston. Jeremy is looking forward to
moving to Toronto in September where he hopes to pursue varied artistic
opportunities.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Knock on Woods: A Roving International Residency
Here’s your chance to do an International Artist Residency without suffering jetlag or airport taxes! (Unless, of course, you want to suffer them.)

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is seeking participants for Rotterdam-based artist Yvette Poorter’s mobile residency program KNOCK ON WOODS. Knock on Woods International Residency and Dwelling for Intervals is a constructed space that dedicates itself to offering local and international artists a sense of rootedness and respite from a hectic and bewildering globalism. The residency is a para-site that consists of a rustic tent-cabin and a forest of tree-flags that can be and has been situated almost anywhere.

From the 9th to the 13th of September, Knock on Woods will be situated at the Artel in Kingston, Ontario. Artists are invited to do a residency with the para-site for a minimum of four and a maximum of 24 hours. Work produced during the residency will be exhibited in Modern Fuel’s State of Flux Gallery. Proposals are being accepted from now until 29 August 2008 for the Kingston site. Selected residents will be responsible for their own transportation, food and materials.

Availability is limited, so ACT NOW. DEADLINE: August 29, 2008. Proposals (including an artist statement, proposal, CV, and 5-10 digital images) can sent to Yvette Poorter c/o Modern Fuel at modernfuel@bellnet.ca or send/bring hardcopy proposals to:

Yvette Poorter
c/o Modern Fuel
21A Queen St.
Kingston, ON
K7K 1A1

Artist Yvette Poorter will present a screening/talk at Modern Fuel on Saturday, September 13 at 7pm as a part of the opening reception for the exhibition Forest Station featuring the work of Poorter and installation artist David Ross from 13 September to 18 October 2008 at Modern Fuel.

For more information on Knock on Woods, check out the website at: http://thisneckofthewoods.net

Or contact:
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

July 24 - August 18, 2008 
Reception: Saturday July 26th from 7-9 pm  
The Artel Arts Accommodation & Venue 
205 Sydenham Street, Kingston ON

The Artel presents, Downtown: After Then and Before Later a panoramic photographic exhibition of the changing face of Kingston’s downtown core by artist Brent Pike-Nurse.

There aren’t many towns left in Ontario that have intact historic and economically viable downtowns; Kingston is one of those cities.  Streets ebb and flow with the times creating an almost living entity.  This exhibit captures the urban landscape as a living and breathing element of Kingston; freezing it photographically and installing it as a panoramic vista and creating a sensorial experience.

Local artist Brent Pike-Nurse has spent the last several years exploring the changing face of downtown Kingston.  His photographs were shot in both day and night and in all seasons to create a blend of the downtown core that so many see with the nighttime streets reserved for a select few.

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/