Jyelle Vogel will present an exhibition at the end of her Ease on Down the Road residency at Faucet

Closing reception on Friday January 11, 8:00pm

50/50 Arts and Crafts Auction
Friday January 11th, 2008
At START Gallery, 7 Lorne Street

Bid starting 7pm
Having draws 8pm (Free tickets are distributed at the gallery)
Final bid 8:30pm

This event is held as a fundraiser for WUSC's Student Refugee Program and the
START Gallery
50% of the sale goes to the artists and 50% goes to these organizations.

Programme Review
11:00am
open to all Struts & Faucet members

We will be meeting to review exhibition proposals for 2008/2009. For more information write info@strutsgallery.ca

All Ages Concert - Part of Stereophonic 5
7:00pm

The Adam Mowery Organization (Saint John, NB): Being able
to boast a broken arm performance at last year's Sappyfest,
being a former member of a Saint John supergroup, and being
blacklisted by the Irvings, the Saint John, NB native returns for
yet another Stereophonic performance. Formerly a member of
the popular Port City All Stars, the local favourite returns with
more catchy vocal melodies and hooks, this time with rock
drummer in tow.
www.myspace.com/adammowerysmyspace

Play Guitar (Halifax, NS): Incredible guitar playing and all out
rock and roll jams characterize this group made up a former
Burdocks guitarist and two ladies from Halifax, NS.

Joel Carr (Sackville, NB): In between writing folk sing-alongs with
Sackville favourites The Financial Group and playing acoustic
guitar laments on his own, Joel Carr has managed to split the
difference, writing songs that sound just as at home on an acoustic
as they do on an electric accompanied by drums. Carr is able to
combine delicately crafted stories with barn burning rock and
roll numbers.

The Humble Bees (Sackville, NB): The Humble Bees play tightly
orchestrated instrumental music with jazz sensibilities.

Workshop

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INTRODUCTORY AUDIO WORKSHOP
FACILITATED BY LINDA RAE DORNAN
SATURDAY JANUARY 26
12 - 3 PM
STRUTS GALLERY & FAUCET MEDIA ARTS CENTRE
Beginners and the experienced are invited to take part in this workshop exploring the basics of audio art. Participants will learn the fundamentals of recording and editing digital audio, using free software like GarageBand and Audacity. If you have interest in recording for radio (show promos, documentary), sound art, ambient or experimental music, this workshop is for you.

maximum 8 participants please email or call 536-1211 to reserve a spot today.
$10/$5 for students

presented in conjunction with CHMA 106.9FM

Live Music
Wednesday January 30
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
8 pm - $5 - All Ages Welcome

From Toronto its The Burning Hell (ukelele sensation with the velvet voice)  
http://www.myspace.com/mathiaskom

Barmitzvah Brothers (Banjo, quirky, folk pop) all the way from Guelph
http://www.myspace.com/thebarmitzvahbrothers

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media are pleased to present an evening with two outstanding, up and coming musical acts. Touring the Maritimes on the way to the Dead of Winter Festival in Halifax, these two WeeWork recording artists will stop in sackville for an intimate concert at Sackville's oldest Artist Run Centre. David Geffen described The Burning Hell as "a strange mix of gospel, folk-ish rock, gorgeous country and whatever you'd call that mixed with ukulele, He manages a seemingly impossible combination of cynicism, hope, musical prowess and lyrical perversive-ness put together with a keen eye for the details." Meanwhile Mark Brownlee, CHMA Music Director, would describe him as "a less gay, poor man's Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields)".

The Barmitzvah Brothers continue to dominate the FM charts throughout Southern Ontario, South Dakota and Western Australia with their unique brand of thrift store power ballads and songs about occupational hazards. Their latest record, Lets Express Our Motives, is full of heart melting stories told from the perspective of obscurely employed, the nation's projectionists, typesetters, bookbinders and piano tuners. The Barmitzvah Brothers stoic performances echo the most beautiful of Joni Mitchell, seen through a pair of Sesame Street cookies.

Memorial Service for John Asimakos
February 3, 2008, 1:00 pm
Owens Art Gallery

Your presence is most welcome.

If you have any favourite stories about John which you would like to share,
please consider writing them down to be posted in the Gallery for everyone to read.

For donations in John's memory, please contribute to the John P. Asimakos Painting Award.
Cheques can be written to Mount Allison University, and directed to the Award.

Refreshments will be available.

Aesthetic Refugees, Aesthetic Blight
The Role of the Artistic Community in Building Towns and Cities: A Postering Workshop

8-10 pm
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
Free and open to All Ages

To celebrate the Town of Sackville's new postering bylaw, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre will host an evening of spontaneous, collaborative creation. Participants of all ages are invited to the gallery to make some things, do some drawings, listen to music, eat some snacks and watch some video clips featuring highly motivated, creative, forward thinking, progressive, active, democratic, tolerant and engaged individuals.

Feel free to bring materials, video clips/links, snacks, a sense of humor and your imagination.

"While our legislative goals are important, they do not warrant the complete denial of access to a historically and politically significant form of expression."
~ The Supreme Court of Canada (1993)

click on the image to see more pieces of found public art, or take a look around town to see it firsthand, while it lasts!

Deconstructing Hairy: Teddy Bear Altering Workshop
for this year's Sweetest Little Thing
1pm - 5pm
hosted by Amanda Fauteux

This year Amanda Fauteux is hosting a workshop for the coveted altered teddy bears that are won each year at The Sweetest Little Thing. If you need help, or just want some company and few snacks while you work, come down to Struts on Sunday, February 10, 1pm - 5pm. Bears and supplies provided!

Of course, you can deconstruct at home! Stuffed animals can be picked up at the Owens Art Gallery during regular hours:
Monday to Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 1 to 5 pm
Tuesday Evening: 5 to 9 pm

Ryan Suter (Sackville)
Ease Down The Road Artist In Residence
Faucet Media Arts Centre

Sackville as Outer Space
"As swan ponds go it was no less than or greater than any other swan pond I had encountered but when I confused Sackville for outer space the people of the town never let me forget it..."

"A project to mend bridges and to right my wrongs; indefinitely."

Michael Awad
Artist Talk, 7:30 PM
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre

Artist, architect and urbanist Michael Awad will present a talk on his photographic practice, Wednesday, February 20 at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. An adjunct professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Awad has worked as an architect, curator and architectural photographer, with a client list including many of Canada's leading architectural firms, institutions and publishers. His artistic photography uses custom built equipment, software and techniques adapted from military aerial reconnaissance photography to create unique images of the urban experience. Large format photographs depict sites in Toronto, Venice and London, examining the richness of the urban landscape and the spatial complexity of everyday life.

Michael Awad holds both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Architecture, In 2002 he was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Architectural Biennale. His talk is presented in part by the Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University

http://www.metiviergallery.com/awad_photographs.html

Call for submissions: Exhibitions and Performances

Exhibitions:
Proposals for artist-initiated exhibitions, inside or outside of the gallery.

Performance:
You Even Called Me Friend
The 13th annual symposium of art

The Symposium of Art, co-organised with the Owens Art Gallery was established in 1995 as a response to an interest in performance art in the region. The symposium has expanded to include performance, time-based, media-based, audio, video and other forms of art that break from traditional object-based practices.

Selected artists will spend a week in Sackville, New Brunswick presenting their various works as well as an artist’s talk and a key performance/presentation.

We invite critical investigation of the history, strategies and practices of performance-based art. The purpose of the symposium is to provide a continued framework for discussion of contemporary approaches to art here and relate them to various current approaches elsewhere.

Visiting Artist's Talk

CANCELLED DUE TO STORM

Diana Burgoyne (Vancouver)
http://www.eciad.ca/~dburg/main.htm
Monday, March 3, 7:30pm
The Owens Art Gallery

Diana will also be conducting studio visits with third and fourth year students in the morning of Monday, March 3. To sign up for a time slot please contact Leah Garnett.

All Ages Concert
8:00pm - $5

Struts Gallery and CHMA 106.9FM present two of Hamilton's prettiest oddball folk-rock heros in search of love. This stop at Seven Lorne Street will delite audiences with an ecletic mix of musicianship, humour and African inflected rhythms.

BA Johnston
http://www.myspace.com/bajohnston
+
Wax Mannequin
http://www.myspace.com/waxmannequin

THIS One Goes Out to Mama H
opening reception 8:00pm followed by benefit concert at 10:00pm

Amanda Balestreri is organizing a concert to coincide with her START exhibition opening. The concert is a benefit fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society and will be held at George's Fabulous Roadhouse the night of her opening. All are welcome and the cost of the show is $6; tickets can be bought at Bridge Street Cafe or the Owens Art Gallery

Alex MacKenzie
Open Studio artist-in-residence
http://experimental-film-review.blogspot.com/2007/10/alex-mackenzie-wooden-lightbox.html

Alex MacKenzie is a media artist working in film, video, light projection and performance. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours from Carleton University, and has worked with a variety of independent film organizations over the past 15 years including Mainfilm, Pacific Cinematheque, Cineworks, and Doxa. He was the founder and director of The Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, The Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival, and currently works as an independent curator, graphic designer and writer.

Alex will also be the third artist-in-residence to participate in the new blog system! Check back soon for the launch of his blog!

Trading Card Workshop
1pm - 5pm

START Gallery will be hosting a trading card workshop in preparation for the following event to be held at the Owens Art Gallery:

Sackville Card Stock Exchange
An artistic trading card event

Sign up by March 11th
Trading day March 25th, 7.30 pm At the Owens

Artist Trading Cards are miniature works of art. Usually about the size of a baseball or playing card, (3 ½” x 2 ½”) they have become a tradition among artist collectives across the country. Cards can be made from various materials: clay, paper, wool, cookie... Subsequently, their cultural value is greater than that of your VISA, and they're about the same size! Stick it to capitalism with this non-corporate investment opportunity. This event provides a low-risk environment in which to diversify and expand your portfolio of cultural shares by facilitating the redistribution of such investments through social mingling and general frivolity.

Step 1:
Are you interested? Send us an email, or wave us down at the 4 way stop by March 4.
Zach Gough or Mary MacDonald

Step 1B:
We’ll get back to you with the number of cards to make.

Step 2:
Feelin’ the pressure? Come to START Gallery on March 9 1-5 pm for a trading card art makin’ shakin’ party.

Step 3:
Come to the official trading card event at the Owens on March 25 at 7:30 pm and trade away.

Wow! Now you have all kinds of art!

Introductory Super 8 Workshop and Camera/FIlm Orientation
Saturday March 15, 1- 4 PM
Facilitated by David Gregory
Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery
COST: $14* - A Discounted price thanks to Zachary Gough, Board Member of Struts Gallery!
*Please note this cost does not include processing, processing price depends on the options below (doing it by hand in Alex's Workshop or sending it away to Toronto).

Film stock is limited please RSVP! Black and White or Colour is available, though only B/W can be hand processed.

- Veteran filmmakers, the film is in if you want to get a head start!

Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop in preparation for our annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival veteran filmmaker David Gregory will facilitate this workshop providing an introduction to super 8 filmmaking, a beautiful, affordable and exciting alternative to video. David will discuss the basics of camera operation and exposure, film types and some other fun stuff. Participants will then have just over a week to book a camera, shoot a roll of film and send it away for developing, just in time for Faucet's annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival.

Open Studio Artist in Residence (March 8 - 12 April) Alex MacKenzie, an experimental filmmaker from Vancouver, will also be on hand to discuss the exciting option of hand processing black and white film. Alex will conduct a workshop on this technique March 25 & 26.

GET YOUR SUPER 8 BRAIN ON! FILM, REAL FILM (MOVING PICTURES). START THE PLANNING, BIG AND SMALL IDEAS WELCOME.

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT PAUL HENDERSON

Amanda Fauteux will be hosting another sewing bee!
7pm - 11pm

Another sewing bee, only this time it's at night!!!
So, after diner, you can set your homework aside and come down for a little crafty time with your friends, or even make some new friends.

If you plan on sewing, bring your machine, fabric and whatever else. If you need to borrow a machine, please email ajftx@mta.ca and I'll see what I can do. If you wish to work on anything other than sewing, that is totally welcome! In the past we have had knitters, spinners, and just planners too.

it is taking place at Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne street, and is free for Struts members.

(and to all car drivers: I had an idea that people might feel more able to attend if they did not have to walk with their sewing machines over snow and ice, so, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to offer a delivery service if I were to organize a list of people in need? should any of you wish to do this, i could give you free stuff in exchange. we can talk. again, email ajftx@mta.ca)

hope to see you there!

Quick 'n Dirty Movie Action: A Handprocessing Super 8 Film Workshop
*Tuesday March 25 + Wednesday March 26, 6:30 - 10:30 PM (*NEW DATE)
Facilitated by Alex MacKenzie (Open Studio Artist in Residence)
Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery
FREE FOR FAUCET + STRUTS MEMBERS ($15 otherwise, or you could purchase a membership for $20 then have all the fun all the time)

Tuesday, March 25 (4 hours)
Skip the lab and process your own black and white cinema film. Participants in the Annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival who want to process their own images will learn about and participate in the basic chemistry and simple darkroom bucket setup required to transform your roll of film into magical handmade images right before your very eyes. We will discuss process, chemistry, techniques and then get our hands dirty (well, gloves anyways).
NOTE: please wear clothes you aren't too attached to - an old button-up shirt on backwards as a smock is a good idea. We supply the gloves. No prior experience neccessary.

Wednesday, March 26 (4 hours)
Flashes of Light: 16mm Rayogram, Contact Printing and Handmade Emulsion Workshop with Alex MacKenzie
Time to turn the lights off and experiment. This workshop explores the potential of moving image rayograms--the technique whereby objects are placed on the surface of the film, exposed to light, and processed to negative. The workshop will also incorporate contact printing into this process, where images of pre-existing found footage are used as source material, manipulated on the surface of the raw film stock, and exposed to create stunning new images. 16mm film stock will be supplied and a group piece will be created. And finally, the workshop will also introduce the process of creating homemade film emulsion, which, when painted on the surface of clear film stock creates a rudimentary very crafty film stock for contact printing.

NOTE: please bring little objects you might want to place on the film - small objects are more effective: ie: staples, paperclips, lifesavers, washers, screws, bits of nature (flower petals, grass), bits of paper, and anything larger with a pattern (looseweave fabric like burlap, clusters of string, your grandma's old doilies, etc.) Remember - each single image is a little under 16mm wide, so keep that in mind! No prior experience neccessary.

GET YOUR SUPER 8 BRAIN ON! FILM, REAL FILM (MOVING PICTURES). START THE PLANNING, BIG AND SMALL IDEAS WELCOME.

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT PAUL HENDERSON

Michael Alstad (Toronto)
7:30pm, Owens Art Gallery
http://www.year01.com/alstad/

Michael Alstad is a Toronto based artist and curator working in installation and digital media. He is a founding member of the Canadian artist collectives Year Zero One and Symbiosis. Michael has coordinated several site-specific projects in Toronto including The Clinic, The Bank of Symbiosis, The Hoarding Project, the Transmedia video billboard exhibitions, Teletaxi and Geostash. His web/video works have been included in many international media arts festivals and on-line exhibitions.

Michael will also be conducting studio visits during his time in Sackville. Contact Leah Garnett if you would like to schedule one.

Sappy Records CD Realease Party
Do You Want To Talk All Night? A Tribute to Snailhouse
8pm - $7

with performances by Snailhouse, Share, & Remi Cormier (of Peter Parkers & Colonial Quarrels)

8th Annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival
Saturday April 5, 8 pm
Hosted by Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery, David Gregory and Alex Mackenzie

Faucet Media Arts Centre will present the films created in the two workshops (March 15 and March 25 & 26), in addition Alex Mackenzie may present a special screening of his work.

GET YOUR SUPER 8 BRAIN ON! FILM, REAL FILM (MOVING PICTURES). START THE PLANNING, BIG AND SMALL IDEAS WELCOME.

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT PAUL HENDERSON

Programme Review
11am

open to all Struts & Faucet members

We will be meeting to review exhibition and performance proposals for 2008/2009. For more information write info@strutsgallery.ca

Dustin Wilson (Montréal)
Ease on Down the Road artist in residence

Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery are pleased to welcome Dustin Wilson, our fifth participant in Faucet's Ease on Down the Road Residency Program. Dustin is an emerging artist and native of New Brunswick. After completing his fine arts education at scenic Mount Allison University (2006) he moved to Montréal where he was introduced to a vibrant community of contemporary drawers. It was there that he rediscovered his love of simple line and text based narratives on paper. Wilson uses repetition of line and naive symbolism to explore topics ranging from social anxiety and family issues to politics, social evolution and the environment.

Dustin is a founding member of the Montréal artist collective Tricycle Media and has displayed his work extensively in group exhibitions in Montréal, Toronto and
Calgary. His Ease on Down the Road residency is supported by the Quebec-New Brunswick Artist-in-Residence program, a collaboration between the Conseil des arts et des letres du Quebec and ArtsNB.

During his residency Dustin will be producing a series of speculative narratives using drawing and animation to investigate the past and present condition of everyone’s favorite “drive-through” province. He hopes to develop scenarios for the future of New Brunswick: hyperbolized representations of the current provincial reality, dealing with the issues of collapsing local industries, displacement (Alberta), climate change and cultural collision (l'Anglais et Français, n'oubliez pas les MicMac et les Maliseet).

Dustin will also be the first Ease on Down the Road artist-in-residence to participate in the new blog system! Click here to see what he's up to!

All Ages Concert
8pm - $5

Hotkid
http://www.myspace.com/ilovehotkid
+ Pat LePoidevin(Sackville)
http://www.myspace.com/patlepoidevin
+ Corey Isenor (Sackville)
http://www.myspace.com/coreyisenor

Sackville Babysitter
8pm - free!
a sensational movie club formerly hosted by Daniel Barrow is back by small yet mighty demand!

How to.... (participate)

1. Consider the theme ADVICE / HOW TO
2. Dive deep into your film/tv/you tube knowledge
3. Pick out a scene 10 minutes or less that has left an indelible mark or somehow altered a personal thought process.
4. Bring it to Struts on April 16, at 8 pm and share!

If you do not have a clip to share, you are still encouraged to attend (although attending with a clip is way more satisfying)
Snacks are also welcome.

All Ages Concert
8pm - $5

The Ghost Bees (Halifax)
http://www.myspace.com/ghostbees
+ Fall Horsie (Halifax)
http://www.myspace.com/fallhorsie

All Ages Concert
8pm

From Toronto its The Burning Hell (ukelele sensation with the velvet voice)  
http://www.myspace.com/mathiaskom

Jenny Omnichord,
Toronto, Ontario
http://www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord
the solo acoustic project from the Barmitzvah Brothers.

Shotgun Jimmie,
Sackville, New Brunswick
http://www.shotgunjimmie.com

The Sewing Bee
7:00 pm

Struts Gallery and local artist Amanda Fauteux will be hosting a Sewing Bee on
Wednesday April 30th, at seven p.m, 7 Lorne street in Sackville, NB. Digging
it's roots as a pattern-drafting and sewing workshop in August 2007, the Sewing
Bee has now become a monthly staple at the gallery. Everyone is invited, so
bring your sewing machines, materials and ideas down for an evening of crafting
in a supportive and social environment. This event is ideal for those who are
interested in sewing but may not always find the time, who may not know where
to get started, or who just want to have fun while working on a project. All
skill levels are more than welcome and help is available for anyone that needs
it. The Sewing Bee is free for Struts members, memberships can be purchased at
the gallery for as low as 15.00 for community members and 10.00 for students.
If you have any questions or need help getting your sewing machine and
materials to the
gallery, please contact Amanda Fauteux at ajftx@mta.ca, or call Struts Gallery
at 536-1211.