Here’s some more of the great art that we’ll have up in the silent auction this Saturday for Schmoozy—from Gabe Wong. See the whole list.
In Edmonton this weekend
We had a blast—despite the rainy weather—at last night’s rooftop patio, but patio season’s arrival means that Edmonton summer is just getting underway. Here’s our three top tips for the weekend:
Last chance to see
Saturday is the last day of Daniel Evans’ Sanctuary and Gabe Wong’s Where Are We Going?, as well as the last day to catch James Birkbeck’s Incubator show. So if you haven’t had a chance to see them, or haven’t quite got your fill, now’s the time to act! Plus, you can pick up your very own miniature version of Where Are We Going? while you’re here.
Plus, pick up a paper copy of our new summer newsletter and get the scoop on what’s coming up. With the postal lockout, all of our copies are sitting at the gallery waiting to be read! Of course we’ll have more information here an on the website next.
Our other two tips aren’t part of our own programming:
International Espionage
Our Communications Coordinator Adam Waldron-Blain is back in town for a little while this summer and is re-staging his spy game from last year, which has since visited the Interesting Games Festival in Bristol, England. It goes down Saturday at 2pm, starting behind the Milner Library downtown.
Riding Pretty
Saturday is also the Bikeology Festival downtown, the chief event of Edmonton Bike Month our good friends at SNAP are marking the occasion with their annual spring fundraiser Love Those Clothes You Wear tomorrow night. Their theme is “Riding Pretty” to celebrate cycles and fashion, and their formula seems foolproof: cocktails and hors d’ouevres, dancing, a fashion show and a silent auction on clothing and prints created and donated by the community. Doors open at 7 pm tomorrow at FAB Gallery on the University Campus, and tickets are $25 at the door. More info.
This lovely little bundle is the catalogue for Where Are We Going? which is in its final week in the gallery. It includes all of the work in the show in miniature form, and you can pick one up from our front desk for $20 until Saturday.
Get Set
Our first Rooftop Patio party of the summer is kicking off this Thursday at 5pm! As our Executive Director, Todd Janes says, “If you have never been - you must come. If you are a regular - come back and enjoy the very best of Edmonton.”
With Team Edmonton and Womonspace as our first guest hosts, food from Haweli, summery cocktails, and raffle prizes including a SNAP gift package and Shanti Yoga passes, this Thursday at Latitude 53 promises to be a great one! Check out our Facebook invite for more details.
Inside the gallery, James Birkbeck shows recent photographs in our Community Gallery as part of our new Summer Incubator Series. Also be sure to catch the last days of Gabe Wong’s curated poster show Where Are We Going? and Daniel Evans’ Sanctuary, through June 20th.
Hey friends! Curator Gabe Wong and some of the contributors from Where Are We Going? will be purveying their fine designs and wares this weekend at the 10th Royal Bison Craft and Art Fair. Be sure to visit the always fantastic fair at 8426 Gateway Boulevard tomorrow from 12-5pm.
Also be sure to check out Where Are We Going? at Latitude 53’s Main Space during our gallery hours—it will be on display until June 18.
Paul Blionv on Where Are We Going?
If you didn’t already pick up a copy of Vue this weekend, Paul Blinov penned a bit of a preview of Where Are We Going?.
Going? is the second show Wong’s curated that draws inspiration from a quote by post-modern visual artist Paul Gauguin: “Where do we come form? Who are we? Where are we going?” The first question was the crux a show back in 2009; Wong’s skipped the middle question, for now, and instead forged ahead.
“I was planning to do ‘who are we?’ though everyone thought ‘where are we going?’ is much more interesting. I think ‘who are we?’ is also a big question, but I think that’ll be my third one.”
Where Are We Going? is up in our main space until June 18, so come have a look this week.
That’s right: it’s almost time for another fresh show at Latitude 53!
We just updated our website with a little bit about Where Are We Going, our new Main Space poster show curated by Gabe Wong, and Sanctuary, Daniel Evan’s installation in the Projex Room. Both of the shows open next Friday at 7:00.
Calls for Submissions
If you’re an artist hoping to participate in either our Marshall McLuhan centenary project or Gabe Wong’s Where are we going? poster show, make sure you send us in your submissions right away—both are due this week.
As always, the details are on our website Spaces&Places:VisioningMcLuhan@100 and Where are we going?.
If you’re looking a little further ahead, we’re about ready to release our call for Visualeyez 2011, our annual festival of performance art. We’ll have the full details tomorrow but today we can let you know that the theme is worship.
Gabe Wong in West Edmonton Local
While we’re taking submissions for Where are we going?, our upcoming poster show, the curator Gabe Wong was profiled this week by West Edmonton Local.
Transit centres have never been the most glamourous places. They are plainly decorated with the classic ETS blue and white. Often there are bits of garbage skirting around the pavement in the wind, and when spring hits they turn in to lakes of murky brown water.
Even though he can’t make the mas sive puddles disappear, Gabe Wong is trying to make some bus centres a little bit nicer through a city art program.
Gabe has recently been working on two murals for new transit centres in Meadows and Lewis Farms. Read all about it at westedmontonlocal.ca
Call for submissions: Where are we Going?
Although it’s Saturday, we have one more thing to announce this week. In May and June, between Noxious Sector and Marshall McLuhan, our Main Space is going to be filled by a new show of poster works curated by Gabe Wong—and we’re looking for submissions.
Local designer Gabe Wong is curating a group show in Latitude 53’s Main Space from 20 May–18 June 2011. The show’s title and theme is Where Are We Going? Gabe Wong and Latitude 53 are looking for artists and designers to create a poster for this exhibit.
If you are interested in participating, please email Gabe Wong at hi@gabewong.ca. Please include your CV and a portfolio of 10 – 15 images, or email a link to your current work. Please email your submissions no later than 31 March 2011. If selected, final artwork and design is due by 1 May 2011.
You can head on over to our website to see the call for submissions or grab the pdf version for reference.
