graphic design contest

Time is running out! Submissions are due by

end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009!

Attention students in graphic design, advertising and/or communication media programs!

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF-FCA) is looking for the ‘look’ of its new, peer-reviewed journal: The Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage…

Can you help?

We are looking for graphic design submissions for the logo, print cover and web homepage of our new Journal.

Submissions should consist of two items: cover page of print version and homepage of web version, both of which should include the unique, designed-by-you logo of the journal title in Canada’s official languages: Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage.

The reward…

• The winning submission will be from a creative, full-time student in any college or university graphic design, advertising and/or communication media program in Canada. To ensure your program applies, please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org .
• The nationally renowned graphic design firm Sage Media Design will assist the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal’s Editorial Board in judging the finalists.
• You will be recognized and profiled in the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal.
• You will be able to add this design to your impressive CV and portfolio.

The challenge…

• You will need to include the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover and homepage:

Please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org for the CAF-FCA logo.

• You will need to use only the colours and shades of the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover design. Please use the four colour process (CMYK). The homepage may include additional colours and shades.
• You will need to make the ‘look’ of the Journal appeal to a diverse audience of apprenticeship stakeholders including researchers, employers and apprentices.
• You will need to include the Journal website address in English and French:

http://www.caf-fca.org/en/journal/

http://www.caf-fca.org/fr/journal/

• You will need to show where the volume, issue number and date should be displayed on both the print cover and online homepage.
• You will need to provide us with a paragraph explaining your rationale for the design.
• You may include the Table of Contents (again, please just show us where).
• You will need to be really creative because we are seeking submissions from across Canada!

The details…

• Submissions are due by end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009.
• Submissions must be sent via email to danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org.
• For more information, please contact Danielle Matheusik at danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org or 613-235-4004 ext. 203, or visit our website at www.caf-fca.org.

Funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program.

Financé par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre du Programme des conseils sectoriels.

exhibitions: oakville galleries

Please join us for the opening of our winter exhibitions on Sunday 6 December 2009 at 2:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square (120 Navy Street), followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens (1306 Lakeshore Road East) at 3:30 pm.

Therese Bolliger: Four Echoes 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body. Curated by Shannon Anderson. Therese Bolliger, Interior Schema 5, 2009

Wendy Coburn, Untititled (buck), 2007 Uneasy Pieces 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square Fretfulness, anxiety and apprehension are hardly new concerns in contemporary art, but they are quickly gaining currency in light of present global woes. Uneasy Pieces will showcase works from Oakville Galleries’ permanent collection that grapple with the fragile state of our world. From anxiety about economic recession, military warfare and global warming to concerns about consumerism, surveillance and the decentered world of global capitalism, the works in Uneasy Pieces examine states of uncertainty and unease in contemporary life. Curated by Marnie Fleming. Featuring works by Ed Burtynsky, Wendy Coburn, Colin Darke, Susanna Heller, Deirdre Logue, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Kim Moodie, Monika Napier, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Glenn Rudolph and John Scott.

fado performance

FADO Performance Art Centre presents

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession
November 23 – 29, 2009

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Curated by Don Simmons

Daily media reports bombard us with the reality of the current worldwide economic situation. We are in the midst of a recession. Businesses are failing and offering discount prices on everything in the store, the stock market is volatile, companies are looking for bailouts, and government agencies are giving away bloated stimulation packages. Despite these tough economic times, some businesses are experiencing a boom. Alcohol sales are up; Hollywood movies are experiencing a surge in attendance and theatres are reporting a rise in audience numbers. During tough economic times, art relating to escapism prospers.

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession is a weeklong series of performance events that investigate personal and public economics by offering the audience alternative methods of exchange. The series culminates in three evening programs: Black Friday, Red Flag Saturday, and Grey Cup Sunday. These programs investigate the mixed emotions evoked by the volatile economic market with live performances that navigate fear, despair, laughter, and hope. The audience is transported from the dark emotions of Black Friday through the humour of Red Flag Saturday, arriving at celebratory Grey Cup Sunday!

Co-presented by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

ARTISTS
John G. Boehme (Victoria)
Joanne Bristol (Winnipeg)
David Frankovich (Toronto)
Tomas Jonsson (Calgary)
Rodolphe-Yves Lapointe (Montreal)
Julian Higuerey Núñez (Venezuela)
Ignacio Peréz Peréz (Venezuela)
Claudia Wittmann (Toronto).

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FULL SCHEDULE DETAILS: www.performanceart.ca

BLACK FRIDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Joanne Bristol, Claudia Wittmann, Roldophe-Yves Lapointe, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

RED FLAG SATURDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Tom Jonsson, John Boehme, Joanne Bristol, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

GREY CUP SUNDAY @ 6PM: Grey Cup Party by David Frankovich

And more!
November 23, 2-9PM: Open Barter Market by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 24 – 29, 9AM-9PM: The Artist and the Beanstalk by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 27, 1-4PM: Association for Imaginary Architecture by Joanne Bristol
November 28, 1-10PM: Magpie by Tom Jonsson

See our website for full details, project descriptions and artist bios.

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About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage.

FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage. We would also like to thank InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre for their support and contributions hosting and presenting this event.

artist lecture: jon sasaki

Art and Art History Presents

Jon Sasaki

Tuesday 24 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Working in the vein of “romantic conceptualism,” John Sasaki utilizes primarily performance-for-video, objects, installations and interventions in work that mixes humour and pathos, often with gently antagonistic results. Cyni­cism, futility and tragedy are taken as starting points, then countered with dry, comic delivery. Often structured like the familiar “shaggy dog joke,” much of this work is a deadpan escalation of expectations, followed by an anticlimactic punch line. It is a celebration of futility and resignation.

Sasaki’s work has been pre­sented in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Latitude 53 (Edmonton). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at VOX (Montreal), the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto), the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB) Simon Fraser University Gallery (Burnaby, BC), as well as the 2006 and 2008 editions of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be presented at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), The Doris McCarthy Gallery, (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and 126 (Galway, Ireland). Sasaki was an active member of the Instant Coffee art collective between 2002 and 2007. He lives and works in Toronto.



Image: Toronto's Official Y2K Mascot, Autumn (2008), HDV, 4:33, looped

bookworks call for submission

The Art Gallery of York University sponsors the race to the ABotM.

Now is your chance to be recognized.

The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting submissions to the AGYU Artists' Book of the Moment competition.

Following the closing deadline, our panel of adjudicators will assess all submissions. Taking into consideration their own eclectic tastes, the jury will select which books they deem worthy of the AGYU ABotM designation – a rare honour indeed!

The singular book that rises to the top of the ABotM will receive a cash award of $1,500 (Canadian funds, of course).

Submission Deadline is 18 January 2010.

Submission guidelines:

1. Read the full rules (see below).
2. Complete the ABotM submission information form (even further below).
3. Send the book(s) you wish considered for the AGYU ABotM competition to the Art Gallery of York University along with printed submission information for each entry.
4. Books must be received by the AGYU by January 18th, 2010. Do not send books COD.
5. Email the required submission form to ABotM@theAGYUisOutThere.org.
6. Wait for the results of the adjudication.

ABotM Rules:

Yes, there are rules.

1. The “A” in ABotM is silent.
2. All books submitted to the ABotM competition should already be published (e.g., no prototypes or maquettes) and exist in either editions of more than 20 or as open editions. The ABotM is directed towards content-driven artist's books. For the purposes of this contest, we will not consider catalogues, portfolios, or promotional material.
3. There are no restrictions on date or location of production. There is no limit of the number of submissions you may make.
4. There is no submission fee. No submissions will be returned, however. Over the course of the submission and assessment period, all the books will be publicly accessible in the lobby bookstore of the AGYU. At the end of the competition, all works will be placed in our newly-developed artist's book resource centre or other suitable collection. Those retained by the AGYU will continue to be accessible to the public by appointment.
5. All books deemed worthy of ABotM designation will be featured on a section of our website dedicated to artist's books along with contact information on the artist(s) responsible. In addition, qualifying artist's will receive proper notification and acknowledgement as well as a frameable certificate attesting to the designation.
6. Any submission to the competition is considered tacit agreement to the terms of the competition (especially rule number 5).
7. Follow all submission guidelines.

ABotM Submission information to include with your entry:

• Title of work
• Artist name[s]
• Press/imprint
• ISBN (if applicable)
• Dimensions
• Retail Price
• Edition size
• Supplier/contact person
• email address for contact person
• mailing address for contact person
• website
• 200 – 300 words describing the submitted title
• 200 – 300 words describing the press and/or artist

For more information please contact:
Michael Maranda, assistant curator
Art Gallery of York University
Toronto ON (Canada)
abotm@theAGYUisOutThere.org

out there
http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/

emerging artist competition

Emerging Artist Competition | Deadline: January 15, 2010
The Artist Project Toronto | March 4-7, 2010

The Artist Project Toronto invites submissions from emerging artists for the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition. Untapped is a juried competition in which 16 of the best up-and-coming artists are awarded a free space in the 2010 show! This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a professional level art fair and to showcase your work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts.

Winners Will:

• Receive a free space in the Open Gallery section of the show (approximately 10 linear feet)
• Connect with 10,000 visitors, gallerists & art buyers
• Network with artists from across North America
• Get promoted on: The Artist Project website, show guide, press releases & other marketing materials

Who Can Apply?

• Current students and recent graduates (no more than three years removed from post-secondary or graduate-level education)
• Self-taught artists who have been practicing their art for less than 3 years
• Winning artists must be personally present for the duration of the show (March 4-7, 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Building, Toronto, ON)

The deadline for application is Friday, January 15, 2010
Click HERE for application (pdf)

For applications & more information
Visit www.theartistprojecttoronto.com

About Us:
The Artist Project Toronto is produced by MMPI, one of the largest trade show producers in the world credited with Art Chicago, Volta, NEXT and The Armory Show. MMPI Canada is also responsible for The Toronto International Art Fair, One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show, and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada .

Contact:
Kim Selman
T: 416-960-4527
E: kim@mmpicanada.com
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maura doyle: artist lecture

reel asian film festival

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Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Opens this week, November 11-15

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) celebrates its 13th year as Canada’s premier showcase of contemporary Asian cinema! This year’s festival presents 49 East/Southeast Asian titles from 14 countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the USA.

With over 30 Asian Canadian titles, this year’s festival presents the biggest and best selection of recent Asian Canadian films, videos and new media works, including the world premiere of THE ACHE by Toronto-based director Keith Lock; REX VS. SINGH, a collaboration between Ali Kazimi, Richard Fung, and John Greyson; and an installation by Jin-Me Yoon.

For more info: 416-703-9333, www.reelasian.com.


FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Wed Nov 11 7:00 PM | Bloor Cinema | Opening Night Gala
OVERHEARD
Dir. Alan Mak & Felix Chong | Hong Kong 2009 | Canadian Premiere
Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu star as three cops torn between money and justice in the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of this suspenseful crime drama. Preceded by a live multi-media animation by Lesley Loksi Chan and Serena Lee.

Thu Nov 12, 5-8 PM | Trinity Square Video | Gallery Reception
“IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT”
Exhibition: November 12 to December 12
ANGST ESSEN / EAT FEAR (Ming Wong) is a reconstruction of the Fassbinder movie, Angst essen Seele auf (1973). In this scandalous love story between an elderly cleaning woman from Munich and a young Moroccan immigrant worker, Wong unlocks a playful state of ‘in-betweenness’ (in-between ethnicities, languages and genders) by humorously playing all of the characters in the film.
AS IT IS BECOMING, BEPPU, JAPAN SERIES (Jin-Me Yoon) - Through rigorous action that evokes scenes of evasion and/or survival combat techniques, Yoon crawls like an alien creature throughout the Kannawa District, a former U.S. Army Base converted into a park, and the Atomic Treatment Centre.

Thu Nov 12 | 7:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
FRUIT FLY Dir. H.P. Mendoza | USA
An outrageously gay San Francisco musical about a Filipina performance artist in search of her birth parents.

Fri Nov 13 | 6:15 PM | Innis Town Hall
SENSE OF WONDER
Inspiring our imaginations in the darkest of moments, this year’s selection of the best Asian Canadian shorts invokes a playful outlook on tragedy. Including films and videos by Leslie Supnet, Jong Wook Choi, Lydia Fu, Yung Chang, Paramita Nath, Victoria Cheong, Randall Okita, Richard Fung, John Greyson, and Ali Kazimi.

Fri Nov 13 8:00 PM | The Royal | Centrepiece
RED HEROINE with Live Score by Devil Music Ensemble | Dir. Wen Yimin | China
Red Heroine and White Monkey unleash the art of hand, sword, and powerful magic in the Canadian premier of the only surviving silent “Kung Fu” film from China (1929), featuring a modern score performed live by Boston band, Devil Music Ensemble.

Fri Nov 13, 10:00 PM | The Rivoli
CANADIAN MOVIEMAKERS PARTY
Celebrate Canadian Moviemakers! Live music by THE WORST POP BAND EVER joined by LEO37, MAGNOLIUS, THE ABYSS, SUNCLEF to new animations by Howie Shia (PPF HOUSE), and DANCING with DJ TAD.

Sat Nov 14 2:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
AGRARIAN UTOPIA | Dir. Uruphong Raksasad | Thailand
Two families find themselves farming together on the same field as they face economic, political and social changes sparked by national policy and industrial globalization. Panel with Uruphong Raksasad: Tue Nov 10, 6-8pm at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre

Sat Nov 14 10:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
FISH STORY | Dir. Nakamura Yoshihiro | Japan
A doomsday adventure about a Japanese punk song that rescues humanity—adapted from the acclaimed book by Kotaro Isaka.

Sun Nov 15 12:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
A SCHOOLGIRL’S DIARY | Dir. Jang In-hak | DPRK (North Korea)
A story about the daughter of a national researcher provides a remarkably lucid window into the social fabric and cinematic culture of the contemporary DPRK. Preceded by Chosun Forever by Joohyun Kwon.

Sun Nov 15 5:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
THE ACHE | Dir. Keith Lock | Canada
A young Chinese Canadian woman working in an erotic parlour unravels the shameful mysteries of her cursed family and father’s illicit affair with a spirit.

Sun Nov 15 8:00 PM | The Royal | Closing Night Gala & Awards Ceremony
BREATHLESS | Dir. Yang Ik-June | South Korea
Debut director, writer and actor Yang Ik-June plays a frustrated extortionist who tries to escape his violent past after he meets a wayward schoolgirl.

FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Phone: 416 703 9333, Email: info@reelasian.com, Website: www.reelasian.com

SCREENING VENUES
Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St W at Bathurst
The Royal, 608 College St at Clinton
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave at St. George

BOX OFFICE INFO
During the Festival
Festival Box Office: Nov 12-15. Innis College Lobby (2 Sussex Av) open from noon. Cash only.
Venue Box Offices: Nov 11-15. At each screening venue. Opens an hour before each screening. Cash only.
Advance Box Office
Web Sales (until Monday, Nov 9 at 11:59pm). Online at www.reelasian.com
Walk-Up Sales (until Saturday, Nov 7 at 6:30pm). T.O. Tix (Yonge-Dundas Square), Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00pm – 6:30pm.
ADVANCE BOX OFFICE INFOLINE – call T.O. Tix at 416 536 6468 x 40

TICKETS & PASSES

	Regular Price/Discount Price*
Regular Programmes	$12/$10
Opening Night Gala	$20/$15
Centrepiece Presentation	$15/$12
Closing Night Gala	$15/$12
Festival Pass	$80/$65

*Discount applies to students (with valid current ID), seniors over 65 (no ID required), or group sales (by arrangement)

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Ontario Tourism, Toronto Arts Council, Telefilm and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Reel Asian Charitable # 870021383RR000

artist lecture: richard rhodes

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 19 November 2009

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124

Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

call for submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Up and Away 1st exhibition at your Inset Space

If you haven’t already heard, the North Building at UTM is home to a newly established student gallery called Inset Space. Most magnificent of all, we want your artwork NOW for the first exhibition!

We want your reactions/responses to the current shows at the Blackwood Gallery – ‘Fall Out’ and ‘Fall In’. Inspiration could stem from a certain artist, concepts from the exhibition, or the relationship between multiple works, etc. New work is encouraged as well as the reworking of previous projects you may have. Consider the relationship between the themes of the two Blackwood shows and the implications of the phrase ‘up and away’.

Inset Space is accepting submissions from UTM students. Entries in all media are welcome. Performances for the opening? Yes please! The opening will take place on Thursday, November 26th.

Please keep in mind: Inset Space is located within a computer lab – work with sound requires headphones. The space is unmonitored – work is unfortunately susceptible to damage. A web component to the show can be created for work that is awesome and on topic but not suitable for, or at risk in the Inset Space.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

• A few photos/descriptions of previous work
• Artist statement (paragraph about yourself including program, year of study, areas of interest)
• A description of the proposed work with sketches if relevant, a plan of how the work would be installed (equipment needed, what you can get, what you may need from us)

Email submissions to insetspace@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, November 6th, at 12 pm

More Info? Ideas? Inquiries? contact us at insetspace@gmail.com

ART AND ART HISTORY: AWARDS CEREMONY

Art and Art History Program

2009 Awards

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Annie Smith Arts Centre, Sheridan College

Awards Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.

Pot Luck Dinner and Bar at 6 p.m.

Bar will remain open after the ceremony.

Keynote Speaker: Carol-Ann Ryan, Art and Art History Alumna

Everyone is Welcome!

artist lecture: blackwood gallery