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On October 24 there will be a global day of action on climate change. Check out the 350.org website or this video for more information. You can enter your postal code to find events in your region.
As we celebrate car-free day I can’t help being saddened by this news coming out of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Another cyclist killed in a car-bicycle accident, and this is especially tragic since the Niagara Regional Police have not yet been able to identify this man.
Cycle safely my friends.
I’ve decided to play along in the Friday photo challenge. This week’s theme was “noisy.” I took this photo tonight at the beach in Port Dalhousie during the “Drumming Down the Sun” celebration of Summer Solstice.
I’m not 100% sure that this photo fits as I tend to think of the word “noise” as a way to describe annoying sounds, and the sounds of laughter, drumming and other music coming from the beach tonight were anything but annoying! What a wonderful way to welcome the summer!
Interested in Photography? Want to know more about the History of Visual Culture?
Join us for “A brief history of the Camera Obscura, the Pinhole Camera and the
Photobased Work of Dianne Bos.” This is a public lecture by Dianne Bos, presented by the Department of Visual Arts, Brock University
Friday, November 7th
Noon – 1pm (Bring your lunch!)
GLN 162
All are welcome!
Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning:
Fields of Dreams (Landscapes of Myth and Imagination)
October 1-3, 2009, Brock University
Our landscapes have long been the unconscious repository of cultural hopes, fears and desires. From the Garden of Eden to Aboriginal Dreamtime, societies have perceived their surrounding natural environment to express cultural values reflected in their myths, legends, sacred texts and belief systems. The occupation, transition, or representation of landscape constitutes an imaginative exercise for both subject and object. Yet imagination is not a consciously controllable process, and dreams can be unsettling portents as well as expressions of wish-fulfillment. We welcome papers that explore landscapes of myth and imagination in real and virtual sites, literary texts, images, and installations and invite proposals on the following topics:
• Landscapes of allusion (texts, myths, folktales, legends)
• Sacred and Secular Utopias
• Profane imagination: ruin, decay and social transgression
• Gardens of the ‘first time’: origin myths and social legends
• Dream landscapes: fear, desire, and exploring the unconscious
Please send abstracts (up to 250 words) and a brief biography to greenscapes@brocku.ca by January 5, 2009.
The conference will take place at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Giles Blunt, author of Forty Words for Sorrow, The Delicate Storm, and Black Fly Season, will deliver the opening keynote on the subject of landscape and fiction.
Conference organizers: Keri Cronin (Visual Arts, Brock University), David Galbraith (Royal Botanical Gardens), Sharilyn J. Ingram (School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University), Leah Knight (English Language and Literature, Brock University), Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Classics, Brock University).
We acknowledge with gratitude the support of the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University.
For more information, please visit www.brocku.ca/greenscapes
My class is participating in this — fun times!!
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The Great Canadian Surreal Beaver Ball
Refuse Locale: An Evening of Surrealism in St. Catharines
Join us on Wed., Mar. 5, 2008, for a very special evening celebrating the ongoing legacy of surrealism in Canada at the Niagara Artists’ Centre at 7 p.m.
The Department of English features readings by contemporary surrealist poets Stuart Ross and Beatriz Hausner, and acclaimed Automatist scholar Ray Ellenwood reading from his recent translation of Thérèse Renaud’s /The Sands of Dream/ (the first book of Canadian surrealist poetry), the evening will also include surrealist games, films, art, and activities.
From the Department of Visual Arts, the evening will see the launch of the Great Canadian Beaver Balls Multiples installation. Great Canadian Beaver Balls is an exhibition of 1600 artist multiples created by 120 Brock University students from five different classes, representing three disciplines in the Humanities department: English, Art History and Studio Art. Encapsulated in plastic balls and sold from a classic Northern Beaver Vending machine, artworks include: miniature bookworks, temporary tattoos of concrete poetry and sculptural explorations in a wide range of media. Beaver Balls will be available from vending machines for $2 each during gallery hours. The Multiples exhibit will run at the NAC until Mar. 15, 2008. Visit NAC’s website for gallery hours.
To cap off the evening, theatre company Suitcase in Point, will stage an original theatrical production of Claude Gauvreau’s remarkable “In the Heart of the Bulrushes.”
Join us for an evening of Canadian Surrealism on Wed., Mar. 5, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Niagara Artists’ Centre, 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines, ON. Tickets available at the door: $8 adults | $5 students/seniors/artists.
Feb. 12th is Darwin Day, and all over the world people are celebrating the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth (Feb. 12, 1809) and his contributions to science and modern life. Click here for more info on the many Darwin Day celebrations going on.
Image Source: Charles Darwin has a Posse
I am snowed under with the start of a new term and with the grading from last term (still!!), so I haven’t been blogging much lately. However, I wanted to post this link , which contains information about the upcoming talk that Mark Dion is giving at the ROM. I’ve never heard Mark Dion lecture before, but I’m a big fan of his artwork and I’m sure it will be a fascinating evening. I won’t be able to attend as I’ll be in NYC that day, but I look forward to hearing about this event from someone who can make it.
