EVENTS:

Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland

Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery are thrilled to present Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland -- a series of four outdoor experimental film screenings in the Tantramar marshes. Four internationally acknowledged filmmakers and curators have chosen a delicious selection of films for viewing under the stars, and will be attending the screenings in person. They will also visit with local artists' studios during their visit to New Brunswick.
Coming to Sackville are four established curators who maintain dynamic professional practices with a history of publication: Kika Thorne from Berlin, Gerda Cammaer from Toronto, Mike Hoolboom from Toronto, and Solomon Nagler from Halifax. A major component of the Sites for Seeing project is bringing these artists to Sackville to engage with the local community. During their visit, they will meet with local artists and residents at a reception before the screening, as well as through individual studio visits the day after the screening.
The screenings will mark the launch of Sift; a new cultural broadsheet devoted to critical writing, interviews, and images about contemporary art. Each curator has been asked to write an essay about the films they are presenting. The essays, along with interviews will be printed in the inaugural issues of Sift as well as published on our website. We asked the programmers to consider accessibility and innovation in their approach by encouraging non-traditional forms of writing. Kika Thorne, for example, will print her own essay by hand using a silkscreen process and inks made from local vegetables left over from a potluck dinner. The limited edition prints of her essay will be available at her screening on Friday, August 20.
These screenings provide an exciting opportunity to see unique experimental film and video work outside of the institutional walls of the gallery. This opens the project up to wider New Brunswick audiences who might not normally cross the threshold of artist run centres. It also removes the work from the realm of normal expectations and places it into an environment where anything is possible.
Friday, August 20, Kika Thorne will present Apartment by Marina Roy and on Saturday, August 21, Gerda Cammaer will present WATERLINES, WETLANDS AND WHIRLPOOLS: Canadian Experimental Films that hold Water. Both of these screenings will take place at the Campbell Carriage Factory Museum, with a reception at 7:30 pm, an artist talk at 8pm, and the screening itself will start after sunset at 8:30pm. The other two screenings will take place in September, with Mike Hoolboom presenting Fear of Flying: Beauty and Power on Friday, September 17, and Solomon Nagler presenting Blissful Discretion on Saturday, September 18.
Sites for Seeing is made possible through the support of a dissemination grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. For more information on this project, contact amanda(at)strutsgallery(dot)ca or phone 506-536-1211

Ok.Quoi?! Arts Festival (July 26 - Aug 1, 2010)
OK.Quoi?! is an interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art, focusing on video, audio, new and independent music. The festival is produced by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre in partnership with Motion Ensemble, SappyFest and CHMA 106.9 FM. The works of over 40 artists will be presented over a week in a variety of screeings, concerts, broadcasts and on the world wide web. Alongside exciting international and national work, OK.Quoi?! features new and innovative projects from local and regional artists.

SAPPYFEST
Partner of Struts & Faucet, SappyFest is presented in conjunction with the Ok.Quoi?! Festival annually and features an exciting lineup of international, national and local indie rock festivities: www.sappyfest.com

To visit the this year's website pleas click here.

contact us at: festival(at)strutsgallery(dot)ca

Summer BBQs and Living Is Easy
Every Friday @ Noon

Every summer, Struts puts on a series of bi-weekly members' projects, where any Struts or Faucet member can sign up to use the gallery space however they please! No jurys, no selections, and no regulations! This year there are 20 members and one organization taking part in the exhibition.
Alongside The Living is Easy, Struts will be hosting weekly BBQs out front at 7 Lorne Street, please continue checking calendar for dates!

For more information on Living Is Easy please click here.

SUPER 8 FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS + FESTIVAL

Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery is pleased to present an introductory filmmaking workshop leading up to our 11th Annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival. This annual programming highlight provides the opportunity for participants to shoot their own short film and even hand process the stock before presenting their finished piece on the big screen. Veteran filmmaker and Faucet Production Supervisor, Amanda Dawn Christie will facilitate this workshop providing an introduction to super 8 filmmaking, a beautiful, affordable and exciting alternative to video. Amanda will discuss the basics of camera operation and exposure, film types and some other fun stuff. Participants will then have a couple of weeks to book a camera, shoot a roll of film and have it developed in time for the Super 8 Hotel Film Festival. The workshop will also cover the basics of 16mm filmmaking at Faucet. The date of the workshop is Saturday, March 13th, from 1 - 4 pm and it is free, though there is a cost for the film and processing. Please register today by contacting the gallery at 536 1211 or email: faucet(at)strutsgallery(dot)ca

Screening this year will be held n April 7
For more info please click here

The Sweetest Little Thing
Sunday, Feb 14th, 2010, 7:30 pm
Owens Art Gallery
Sackville, New Brunswick

Now in its 11th year, The Sweetest Little Thing is the most important annual fundraising event for The Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. Presented in partnership on Valentine’s Day, the Sweetest Little Thing combines a contemporary art auction with a cake walk and dance. The event has become a seasonal highlight for the community, featuring artists, friends and supporters from across the country and beyond. The funds raised go directly to the ongoing programming of the galleries.

click here to go to the website for online bidding, videos, artwork and more!

As Good As Gold And Better
The 27th Annual Members' Show & Sale December 11 - 21, 2009
Opening Reception Friday December 11, 7:30 pm

Each year since 1982 Struts & Faucet have showcased the works of our Members with an exhibition during the Holiday Season. The exhibition will open on Friday December 11th in conjunction with Sackville’s Midnight Madness celebrations.We will be celebrating 27 years of independent artists’ culture here in the greater Tantramar region and beyond!

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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.

Click here to catch a glimpse of last year's symposium!

Ok.Quoi?! CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL (July 27 - Aug 2, 2009)
OK.Quoi?! is an interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art, focusing on video, audio, new and independent music. The festival is produced by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre in partnership with Motion Ensemble, Sappy Records and CHMA 106.9 FM. The works of over 40 artists will be presented over 6 days in a variety of screeings, concerts, broadcasts and on the world wide web. Alongside exciting international and national work, OK.Quoi?! features new and innovative projects from local and regional artists.

Click here for info on this year's festival!

Click here for info and images from last year's festival!

SAPPYFEST (Aug 1-3, 2008)
Partner of Struts & Faucet, Sappy Records presents Sappyfest in conjunction with the Ok.Quoi?! Festival annually and features an exciting lineup of international, national and local indie rock festivities.
http://sappyrecords.com

Our annual fundraiser The Sweetest Little Thing is held every year on Valentine's Day, February 14th. Co-hosted by the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre in Sackville, New Brunswick at the heart of the heart of the Maritimes!

It is an evening's affair with games, music, raffle, a Cake Walk jamboree, and dancing. At the heart of the evening is an Art Auction. Our 200+ members and artists who have participated in exhibitions, residencies, festivals, and other events at the Owens or at Struts & Faucet are invited to contribute small scale works for the silent auction.

Artists from across Canada and beyond have responded with great generosity.

if you cannot be here, you can bid on your favoured art works through our on-line bidding.

SUPER 8 HOTEL FILM FESTIVAL
April 8th at 8pm

This annual event gathers local filmmakers, auteurs and newbies alike for a workshop, one roll of film and in-camera edits. The films are later screened at what has becoming a favorite spring Sackville tradition.

This is an exciting annual event that brings together local artists of all ages and experience levels.

At the screening, you can expect to see an eclectic mix of beautiful short films,
all shot and projected on actual super 8 film, and some even accompanied by live musical performances in the place of soundtracks.

The Super 8 Hotel is a traditional highlight of the year,
always coinciding with the last few days of classes at Mount Allison University
and heralding the coming of spring, good weather, and good times.

Super 8 Hotel: The Morning After!
April 28th at 8pm

Celebrating 8 to 10 years of super 8 filmmaking in Sackville!

Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery are proud to present for the first time:
Super 8 Hotel ... the morning after! a film screening on Tuesday April 28, at 8pm.

The Super 8 Hotel... the morning after! screening will present selections of super 8 films made over the past 10 years as a part of the annual Super 8 Hotel Film Festival, along with a few new films never before seen on screen!

Every year local artists of all ages and experience levels create new art works on super 8 film for the Super 8 hotel screening, and every year several of them stay here at the gallery and get added to the collection of archives. This year, Faucet Media Arts Centre members Elli Hearte and Amanda Dawn Christie sat down and watched all of the super 8 films left behind over the past 10 years, and have made a selection to screen at this historical look back over the years. There are also a few brand new films made by current members that didn't quite make it in time for the Super 8 Hotel screening this year (which took place a few weeks ago on April 8th).

At this screening, you can expect to see an eclectic mix of beautiful short films, all shot and projected on actual super 8 film, and some even accompanied by live musical performances in the place of soundtracks.

All of the films you will see at the screening were made by Struts and Faucet members. Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery provided the cameras, the film, and the chemistry. Several filmmakers chose to process their own black and white film by hand at the media arts centre, while a few others, sent their film to a lab in Toronto for colour processing.

Ok.Quoi?! CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL (July 27 - Aug 2, 2008)
OK.Quoi?! is an interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art, focusing on video, audio, new and independent music. The festival is produced by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre in partnership with Motion Ensemble, Sappy Records and CHMA 106.9 FM. The works of over 40 artists will be presented over 6 days in a variety of screeings, concerts, broadcasts and on the world wide web. Alongside exciting international and national work, OK.Quoi?! features new and innovative projects from local and regional artists.

Click here for info on this year's festival!

Click here for info and images from last year's festival!

SAPPYFEST (Aug 1-3, 2008)
Partner of Struts & Faucet, Sappy Records presents Sappyfest in conjunction with the Ok.Quoi?! Festival annually and features an exciting lineup of international, national and local indie rock festivities.
http://sappyrecords.com