Nov 26th - Rae Spoon with Fire Flower Revue and Sleuth Bears - Concert.

Nov 27th - Gmackrr with Andrea Jane Cornell and ‘idm_theft_able’ - Concert.

Dec 7th - Poetry Nite

Dec 9th - Book Launch

Dec 15th - Life Drawing

Dec 18th - Construction Destruction with Sleuth Bears and Dull Senses-matinee

Come for an exciting evening of cut and paste during the first of many Artel collage parties. There will be frames and paper and magnets and scissors and glue and tones of image material to work with!
Feel free to bring your own art making supplies- or just your art making self

!!!You will even be able to collage a personal pizza (whoa) (!)
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Musical Guests include: Coco et Co. and Pat LePoidevin

Coco et Co. is Andrew Sisk’s new band. Andrew has performed with the Sleepless Nights and fronted the indie chamber folk project Share. Coco et Co, a collaboration with Miranda Durka, is both throwback and forward thinking. A clean collection of Gaullic-tinged electro-autumnal bedroom pop.

Pat LePoidevin, is a young musician who has been mesmerizing audiences across the country with his delicate multi-instrument looped arrangements. His songs evoke childhood and the natural order. Pat’s voice will make you weak at the knees and leave a lovely ringing in your ears.

**This event is doubling as the after-party to the art reception for Nodes and Drawing Impressions happening at the Union Gallery (6-8pm)

CFRC 101.9FM presents three exciting artists from Montreal:  Gmackrr, Andrea-Jane Cornell and idm_theft_able.  Expect the unexpected as the artists pull from field recordings, feedback, digital loops and more to create their live sets.  The show takes place on Saturday, November 27 starting at 8pm.  Admission is pay-what-you-can, $5 recommended.  For more info visit: gmackrr.com, kraag.org/id, and htmlles.net!

This workshop will explore different mediums of art as a way of engaging with and reclaiming  puclic space. Members of different art collectives in Kingston will discuss performance, interventionist, and community-based art activism projects. The workshop will culminate in an (optional) interactive community art project.

This is part of OPIRG Activism 101

http://opirgkingston.org/

Brought to you by ‘my dear right ear’ a regular friday night eclecticity show on CFRC 101.9FM, your local non-profit radio, this night will feature a melodic, eclectic concert with Rae Spoon, Fire Flower Revue and locals Sleuth Bears. Come out to 205 Sydenham street Nov 26th for a night of folk-electro.

http://www.raespoon.com/
http://www.myspace.com/fireflowerrevue

Intro to Sex Worker Activism

The world’s oldest profession is also one of the most stigmatized and misunderstood. Sex workers the world over have launched creative, colourful, and controversial campaigns in their fight for the right to work how and with whom they choose. Join SWAG (Kingston’s Sex Worker Action Group) for a discussion on sex worker activists – who they are, why they are fighting, and what impact their activism has on their lives and working conditions.

The talk will be followed by a screening of Made in Secret: the Story of the East Van Porn Collective at 7pm.

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Film Screening 7pm - MADE IN SECRET: The Story of the East Van Porn collective

“Forget for a second that the word “porn” is in the title – it’s the concept of “collective” that makes this doc extraordinary. Ostensibly a fly-on-the-wall look at the cuddly Vancouver creatives who work together to make “sexy movies” – i.e. DIY porn – Made in Secret is more compelling for its depiction of working by consensus instead of by majority rule. It’s fun watching the group members plan and film their latest opus (a “pan-sexual romp” dubbed BikeSexual), and everyone involved belies their cutesy nom de porn (Muffy, Mr. Pants) by being hyperarticulate. One member explains that the goal is to make “positive propaganda against the negative propaganda in the hegemony of porn.” But when another member creates a stir by suggesting BikeSexual be shown at an alterna-porn festival – which would mark the first time one of their films would be shown to a non-EVPC audience – the ardently fair approach the members take when dealing with conflict illustrates that a little bit of utopia does actually exist in the world.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

View the Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ8Yu9xI4Kw
The official website:  http://www.eastvanporncollective.org/

Artel is seeking artists desiring to exhibit in our gallery space. Please read the call out below and complete applicaiton form with appropriate paper work. Note the date above specifies the time frame during which you can apply for the exhibition. Exhibition slots are currently available from Feb 1st till April 24th 2011.

VISION STATEMENT

The Artel is a live-in studio space and collective committed to fostering artistic growth by providing emerging artists with a supportive and stimulating environment. The Artel seeks to contribute to the development of a dynamic and diverse arts scene, by encouraging an open dialogue among artists, between the artists and other arts institutions and organizations, and between the artists and the wider regional community.

PROGRAMMING MANDATE

The Artel seeks to support emerging professional artists, and welcomes involvement from a wide and overlapping range of artistic disciplines, approaches and interests within a contemporary art practice. The Artel encourages proposals from both regional (Kingston area) and extraregional artists, and makes certain that high artistic merit is considered as important as the support of artistic development for artists, and inclusivity for varied audiences.

The Artel exhibitions applications will be privy to a selection process: Proposals are reviewed by the Artel Collective according to clarity of intensions, degree to which the project addresses the Vision and the Programming Mandate of the Artel, and overall consideration of merit. The Artel welcomes proposals from individual artists for solo or group exhibitions. Each exhibition slot runs for the duration of three weeks.

Those selected receive a 3-week exhibition slot in the Artel’s 530 sq/foot gallery, at no charge. Promotion, administration, installation assistance and gallery volunteers are all included. Some charges may apply for an opening reception. Each artist will get an honorarium of $317 for their show.

The Artel does not take a percentage off the sale of an artist’s work. If you intend to sell your work, The Artel asks that you display prices in a binder that may be kept in the gallery

The exhibition slots are available for December 2010-May 2011.

REQUIRED MATERIALS
Please include the following in your proposal package:
A one page description your project
AND/OR Your artist statement
AND Your artist resume / curriculum vitae
OR A descriptive and detailed overview of your arts experience
AND Images of your work, on CD, DVD, or colour print-out / portfolio, with an image list including titles, medium, and size of works; 10-15 images are required for a solo exhibition, 5-10 images per applicant for group exhibits. Any submissions material will not be returned to the artist unless specified.

If presenting your work in an alternative, community-minded arts venue sounds appealing please send your proposal by email to:
the.artel@gmail.com or drop off/mail to:
205 Sydenham Street, Kingston Ontario K7K 3M3

Yep, the time has arrived. After a series of successful figure drawing classes, we are going to host a session for beginners. No experience necessary, but curiousity and a bit of patience will go a long way. The class is 3 hours long. We will have two models. We’ll do fast dynamic sketeches and more detailed drawings. Instruction and assistance as well as basic supplies will be provided.

If you are not a beginner please come as well.

Lisa Bozikovic (www.myspace.com/lisabozikovic)

Lisa’s first show in Kingston! Her Sandro Perry-produced debut, Lost August, snuck in at the last minute to become one of my faves of 2009. I was faaaaaar from alone:

“A pair of short, stunning pieces open and close this debut album: The Letting Go is an organ-drenched hymn and anxiety remedy, and the rich piano notes and lush backing vocals of Grateful accompan…y a singer who is “grateful to hear your song in my head, grateful to lie all day in this bed.” Right back at you, Lisa Bozikovic, right back at you.”

-The Globe and Mail

Megan Hamilton (www.myspace.com/meganhamilton)

“Megan Hamilton forces a high-pressure jet of intense folk rock through a potent blend of human emotion on her second full-length album. More stylistically consistent than her beautifully quirky 2006 debut, Feudal Ladies Club, Hamilton’s sophomore release is a sonic brew powerful enough to make the head swim.”

-Exclaim! Magazine, Rachel Sanders

Abigail Lapell (www.myspace.com/abigaillapell)

An ultra-swell singer/songwriter who has shared the stage with Ohbijou, Jim Guthrie, The Lowest of the Low, Rae Spoon and many more, Abigail takes a break from work on her upcoming record to hit the Limestone district!

“There’s beauty indeed in the smoke that flows from her lungs, the way her words disperse storms, set the sky to gently falling.”

-Said the Grammophone, Sean Michaels

$5.00 at the door (ALL-AGES)

The Famines are Canada’s hardest working minimalist rock duo. You probably want to come witness them blow out the Artel and get a copy of this amazing book they’ve made (as in, designed, printed, cut, glued, bound, the whole thing):

http://www.etsy.com/listing/53412567/a-visual-history-of-the-famines-4th
http://www.thefamines.ca/

Dull Senses are from Kingston. They are dudes you recognize playing songs you like.

Don’t are also from Kingston. This is their first show.