Lace up your skates! We’re looking forward to Dancing Under The Winter Stars on Saturday. McCauley community league has skates to rent on-site if you don’t have your own. Take a look at the Facebook event and invite your friends!
Creative Commons shared image from mikeroach on Flickr
What are you doing this Saturday? Why not join us at McCauley Community rink (96 St and 107 A Ave) between 5 and 10 pm for a free all-ages skating party with DJs D Pro, Campos and Alistair Henning.
It’s part of Frostival, the McCauley festival of winter activities, and we’ve also got a team of artists out in the neighborhood that afternoon to work on ice sculptures:
Location One: East side of 97 Street adjacent to the Chinese Zodiac Public Art piece outside the parking lot of Lucky 97 Foods;
Location Two: The north east corner of 95 Street and 108 Avenue (Giovanni Caboto Park), just across the street from Sorentino’s
Location Three: Directly west of the McCauley Skating rink on the north side of 107A Avenue.
Here’s what Executive Director Todd Janes says about the event:
The event is inspired from my childhood and our community outside rink when we would skate in the evenings with friends and just have fun while hit songs flowed over the crappy outside winter speakers. We are hopeful that a lot of kids and some families will come out and then teens from the hood later and it would be great to have you as part of the event called - Dancing Under the Winter Stars.
After some of our special projects last year, like In/stall/ed, we’re planning to continue our collaborations in the Boyle-McCauley neighborhood. Here’s our latest call for our next project with McCauley Revitalization:
Latitude 53 creates sites for the intersection of contemporary art and ideas in Alberta.
We are seeking contemporary artists living in the Boyle Street – McCauley area for future projects.
Help us get to know you better by sending us up to five images of your art (digital images, jpegs at least 300 dpi), an artist statement, and some information about you—this could include an artistic resume or biography. Latitude 53 is interested in ethnocultural artists that reflect the diversity of our nation as well.
Please send to todd.janes@latitude53.org or via mail to: Latitude 53, 10248 – 106 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 1H7
Sound interesting? Get in touch.
Our friends at Edmonton Arts Council are also taking submissions for two public art projects in east downtown with an eye to emerging artists. Take a look.
With In/stall/ed happening all day tomorrow in McCauley from 11-5pm, you’re going to want to be feeling fine in order to explore all of the seventeen installations scattered throughout the community.
Earlier today Gig City gave a sneak peek and tale about Amy Shostak’s contribution, featuring her Dido as a living art installation:
Amy’s piece, outside the Sacred Heart Centre, 10821 96 Street, is called “My Dido, the Orator.”
Her Dido (Ukrainian word for grandfather) got a chance to read the blurb: “My Dido’s done a lot of jobs in his life. My Dido speaks Ukrainian and Spanish. My Dido loves to cook and to talk politics. My Dido falls asleep in his recliner. Ask him about these things.”
To which he replied, she says, “Amy, I’m going to kill you.”
Too late to back out now!
The granddaughter explains, “He’s very much a patriarchal figure in our family. He’s always sitting at the head of the table and talking, or in his recliner telling stories. He’s one of the more colourful members of our family. I think so, anyway, so what I want to find out is if he’s interesting to others and not just me.”
Read the rest of the interview with Amy and her grandfather here and see you tomorrow!
Clear your calendars this Saturday for In/stall/ed, our free celebration of public art in the McCauley community. The daylong event, happening from 11am to 5pm, features seventeen site-specific installations from artists exploring the public-private divide in repurposed parking stalls throughout the McCauley community. Find a map of In/stall/ed locations, a list of contributing artists, project statements and more here. Hope to see you there-it’s going to be fantastic!
These spaces will be filled with art
That’s right, the debut of the first of our public arts projects is soon approaching! In/stall/ed is getting set to take place in the McCauley community next Saturday, August 27 all day long from 11am to 5pm. With seventeen artists from near and far reclaiming parking lots stalls in the community for installation works, the day is a fun, lively and free celebration of public art.
Artists of all trades—performance artists, dancers, painters and sculptors—will be showing works they created for the event, curated by our very own program assistant Kelta Coomber. Each site-specific installation is in some way an exploration of the public-private divide: works include an imagined North American vacation spot that questions the balance between work and play, an aural exploration of internet memes, a mimetic miniature of Edmonton’s community and more.
In/stall/ed features works from artists Kelsie Acton, Shanell Papp, Trent Wilkie, Amy Shostak, Sean Montgomery, Juniper Quin, Jenna Mortemore, Tyler Sherard, Bill Damur, Daniel Evans, Ed Hunt, Heather Inglis, C.W. Carson,Lindsay Knox, Maegan Magathan Kristen Keegan and Zachary Polis.
Stay tuned on the blog and Facebook for all of the upcoming details, plus a map featuring project locations in the McCauley community.
In/stall/ed is an official initiative of the McCauley Revitalization strategy, and explores the enriching possibilities of contemporary art in communities.
The submissions deadline for our In/stall/ed project soon approaches! We’re still looking for artists-of-all-trades—visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, poets, dancers, actors—to fill a parking lot stall with site-specific work that explores the public-private divide for a day-long public arts project on August 27.
In/stall/ed is inspired by public art projects such as Park(ed)—this one happened in New York
Find out more on the submissions process here. The submissions deadline for In/stall/ed is August 1. We look forward to hearing from you!
It’s been well over a week since filming, but Latitude 53 is still brimming with excitement over a public arts project we started on July 6. Ten students from Jasper Place High School and Edmonton-based film company Highwire Films came into the gallery for a day of filming, art creation and granola-bar eating. Yes. Granola bars were had.
Director Mike Robertson was perfect with the students, and made sure that each student was creatively engaged with their own 10 minute segment in the video. Each new student brought to the project a new song for the playlist, a way of interacting with the camera and a vision for what the project would become. Needless to say, it was interesting to see the sheer diversity of choices made – from dancing, moshing and singing to simple smiles or frowns.
It’s not often that you get to see a whole group of wonderful people coming together to create a public artwork for the community, and this was an exciting opportunity to see how individuals can brighten their own cities through art and creativity. Good work pals.
Keep an eye out for the finished video work in empty storefronts in the McCauley area this August. In the meantime, help us spread the underground word about the project by talking to your friends about public art, or by even making some yourself. It’s fun. We swear.
Hello all you lovely artists! Latitude 53 is looking for dancers, visual artists, filmmakers, performers, and anything in between for our upcoming public art project In/stall/ed, scheduled to take place on August 27, 2011.
Park(ing), an open source project from San Francisco-based studio Rebar
In/stall/ed is a public arts event that explores the public/private divide in the context of parking lots. We are looking for artists who are interested in recasting private parking stalls in the McCauley area into public installations for an afternoon.
Not only will this highlight the versatility of public spaces, it will showcase a broad range of artists and encourage people to wander the McCauley community.
The aim of the project is to explore the public/private divide in our communities and ask the question: who owns these spaces and how can people manipulate these areas through their own creative skills?
We are looking for a total of twenty artists (singular artists and collectives are both welcome) to participate in the project, and each group or artist will receive a $100 honorarium for their participation. The deadline for In/stall/ed submissions is August 1. Interested? Find out more on how to submit on our website.
