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Help us run the Community Gallery: Vote for us at avivacommunityfund.org.

Help us run the Community Gallery: Vote for us at avivacommunityfund.org.

You can still vote for us...

Yes, the first round of voting for the Aviva Community Fund is still on for one week. You can vote every day—so make it count for Alberta art and artists and help us keep our Community Gallery full of local work.

Schmoozy Tickets now on sale That’s right: we’ve marked the date for The Fine Art of Schmoozy, our annual winter fundraising gala, for December 3rd this year, and tickets are now on sale at www.latitude53.org/schmoozy at a special advance price of $25 during the month of October. We’ll have lots of previews during the run-up, but: don’t you want to hang with those foxes? Thanks to Mariya Karpenko for the amazing illustration.

Schmoozy Tickets now on sale

That’s right: we’ve marked the date for The Fine Art of Schmoozy, our annual winter fundraising gala, for December 3rd this year, and tickets are now on sale at www.latitude53.org/schmoozy at a special advance price of $25 during the month of October. We’ll have lots of previews during the run-up, but: don’t you want to hang with those foxes? Thanks to Mariya Karpenko for the amazing illustration.

Help us run our Community Gallery

Community Gallery

This week you can vote for Latitude 53 on the Aviva Community Fund: we’re planning big things for our Community Gallery space this year!

The Community Gallery exists as a place for groups and individuals to have a space to exhibit their art projects. The Community Gallery is a special part of the programming at Latitude 53 as it encourages multiple points of entry for everyone to experience contemporary art, which is one of Latitude’s core values. We plan to use the Aviva Community Fund, to sponsor a year of programs in this space, establishing the maximum impact our organization has on the greater Edmonton community.

Aviva awards $1,000,000 each year to community projects selected by voters on their website—you can vote once every day. So send us a click!

Love Those Clothes You Wear: Riding Pretty Our good friends over at SNAP are currently planning one of their major fund-raising events of the year for June 18th. This year’s event will have a bicycle theme (falling as it does in the middle of edmonton’s bike month) and SNAP is looking for donations for their silent auction, as usual with focus on clothes. This year they’ve got a whole work-flow set up for printing submissions, so it’s a perfect chance for artists to help support artist-run culture in Edmonton. SNAP (The Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists) invites our favorite artists and designers the world over to help us create unique, hand-crafted or printed wearable or usable art to our 5th Annual fundraiser event, Love Those Clothes You Wear. Proceeds from this event will support SNAP’s programming, print shop facilities and ongoing public programs. This year Love Those Clothes centers around the fashionable world of cycling, and features a fashion show of clothes by local designers, fabulous prizes, raffle of a beautiful bicycle, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and a silent auction of one-of-a kind clothing items, accessories or linens. That’s where you come in! We would love to showcase your creative genius at this unique event. We hope you will participate by creating an image or design, and then take advantage of one of the following options: Send your .pdf image to Fundraising@snapartists.com along with your completed submission form, or prepare a drawing on acetate, and let us know which of the dates below works for you to come in and print, with our help – SNAP will provide you with a t-shirt, a scarf, or a bag to print on and all the necessary materials. Out of town? Simply send your .pdf along with your completed submission form; if you have specific instructions about how, and on what, we will do our best to accommodate your printing intentions. Participants with previous experience are welcome to simply submit a finished item along with a completed entry form. Find out more about submissions and the event at SNAP’s website.

Love Those Clothes You Wear: Riding Pretty

Our good friends over at SNAP are currently planning one of their major fund-raising events of the year for June 18th. This year’s event will have a bicycle theme (falling as it does in the middle of edmonton’s bike month) and SNAP is looking for donations for their silent auction, as usual with focus on clothes. This year they’ve got a whole work-flow set up for printing submissions, so it’s a perfect chance for artists to help support artist-run culture in Edmonton.

SNAP (The Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists) invites our favorite artists and designers the world over to help us create unique, hand-crafted or printed wearable or usable art to our 5th Annual fundraiser event, Love Those Clothes You Wear. Proceeds from this event will support SNAP’s programming, print shop facilities and ongoing public programs. This year Love Those Clothes centers around the fashionable world of cycling, and features a fashion show of clothes by local designers, fabulous prizes, raffle of a beautiful bicycle, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and a silent auction of one-of-a kind clothing items, accessories or linens.

That’s where you come in! We would love to showcase your creative genius at this unique event. We hope you will participate by creating an image or design, and then take advantage of one of the following options:

  • Send your .pdf image to Fundraising@snapartists.com along with your completed submission form, or prepare a drawing on acetate, and let us know which of the dates below works for you to come in and print, with our help – SNAP will provide you with a t-shirt, a scarf, or a bag to print on and all the necessary materials.

  • Out of town? Simply send your .pdf along with your completed submission form; if you have specific instructions about how, and on what, we will do our best to accommodate your printing intentions.

  • Participants with previous experience are welcome to simply submit a finished item along with a completed entry form.

Find out more about submissions and the event at SNAP’s website.

We hope you’ve been practicing over the weekend: Sing For Your Supper, our Karaoke fundraiser, is happening on Thursday at the ARTery. It’s hosted by our Board of Directors and they are certainly getting excited. Your dedicated blogger is off in another country but I hope that someone will pick up MacArthur Park on my behalf. Maybe?

We hope you’ve been practicing over the weekend: Sing For Your Supper, our Karaoke fundraiser, is happening on Thursday at the ARTery. It’s hosted by our Board of Directors and they are certainly getting excited.

Your dedicated blogger is off in another country but I hope that someone will pick up MacArthur Park on my behalf. Maybe?

Sing For Your Supper A Karaoke Fundraiser at the Artery, March 17 2011 Join the Latitude 53 Board of Directors on St. Patrick’s Day for this “no talent” show! Can’t sing? The luck of the Irish and some liquid courage will help to warm up those vocal chords. And all singers have a chance to win gift certificates to supper establishments across the city. Doors at 7 pm entry $10 donation to sing $5 Thanks to the amazing eateries who have donated gift certificates, including: Culina family of Restaurants, Zinc, Zenari’s, Duchess, Corso 32, Mongolie Grill and Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut. And here’s the Facebook event.

Sing For Your Supper

A Karaoke Fundraiser at the Artery, March 17 2011

Join the Latitude 53 Board of Directors on St. Patrick’s Day for this “no talent” show! Can’t sing? The luck of the Irish and some liquid courage will help to warm up those vocal chords. And all singers have a chance to win gift certificates to supper establishments across the city.

Doors at 7 pm
entry $10
donation to sing $5

Thanks to the amazing eateries who have donated gift certificates, including: Culina family of Restaurants, Zinc, Zenari’s, Duchess, Corso 32, Mongolie Grill and Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut.

And here’s the Facebook event.

Hip Hop in the Park presents: Hip Hop on the Walls at L53

Everyone’s favourite non-profit hip-hop foundation, Hip Hop in the Park, is hosting an exhibition and fundraiser in the Latitude 53 community gallery, Hip Hop on the Wall.

The opening celebrations take place on January 28, 2011. Tickets are $10 each (no minors, sorry folks). Exhibition continues from Jan 28 – Feb 11.

The show features art by Jenn Kovachik, AJA Louden, Lorien Maheu, and musical performances by DJ WeezL, The Joe, reDef, Locution Revolution and DJ Budakron. Hosted by the Breathe in Poetry Collective. All proceeds benefit the Hip Hop in the Park Foundation and the visual artists.

Have a look at the Facebook event for even more information.

Fundrive - Fun Membership

Local community radio station CJSR 88.5 is currently holding its annual Fundrive campaign and Latitude 53 is throwing in our support!

Latitude 53 and CJSR have partnered up to offer you a wonderful opportunity to become members of both of our communities and the bridge that draws us ever closer together. Donate to CJSR’s Fundrive, then come down to Latitude and show us your Star Card for a $5 discount on an L53 general membership! The L53 membership puts you in the know within the visual arts community and gets you into artist talks, exhibition openings and offers you a discount on tickets to our special events. Or show your Latitude 53 membership when you make any Fundrive donation, and you will receive the Fundrive 2010 Compilation! This compilation covers some of the best in the local music scene, featuring Falklands, Brazilian Money and snippets from Smilin’ Jay’s Happy Hour - live recordings of Bebop Cortez, Shout Out Out Out Out and so much more.

Help support community radio and help us build a greater cultural community within Edmonton. Donate to CJSR’s Fundrive and tell them Latitude 53 sent you!