We keep updating the schmoozy website with more reasons to attend—like the roster of artists participating in our silent auction which is still gradually expanding, as artists and their bios, and soon pictures of their work, are added. Today we’re adding something more: as well as the auction, DJ Generic, and Latitude 53’s once-a-year Schmoozy atmosphere, we’ve got four fantastic food sponsors to announce. Look forward to munching on delicious snacks from The Marc, d’Lish, Niche, and Cravings Artisan Gelato alongside our usual selection of Alley Kat beer, wine, and some special cocktail choices to come. Have you got your tickets yet?
Our friend Freya Olafson has shared with us a virtual recipe in preparation for Wednesday’s potluck. Yup, you heard us: virtual recipe.
Of the recipe she says: “I have been searching through a lot of online games this week I would like to share a virtual recipe that can be practiced online and then created in real life - once perfected online.”
Remember to still eat in real life though. Virtual cooking is addictive and there’s an added bonus of no clean up!
A letter from our friend Margaret:
Dear Latitude 53 friends,
I’ve decided to not broadcast until our live performance and potluck dinner on Wednesday October 26th to build up a little excitement, pleasure and pressure. I am making pea soup for the occasion so come and join us for real and virtual pleasures.
Love,
Verb Woman aka Margaret Dragu
If you don’t mind our input, we really think you should clear your schedule Wednesday night. We’re not trying to be pushy, but we would love for you to come celebrate two wonderful artists with us. And let’s be honest, your floor tile shopping can wait until Thursday and the dog isn’t smelling too awful just yet.
Artists Freya Olafson and Margaret Dragu have been with us throughout October and we are having a potluck and two projection-performances of what they have been up to this Wednesday at 630 PM. It’ll be fun, filling and informative. Freya will discuss her newly created Keystroke Choreographies videos, and Margaret will discuss her exploration of the recent Occupy Wall Street protests with street footage from Edmonton and around the world.
So come hang out in the FOMD Cyber Cafe. Bring your Android phone, laptop, Iphone, Ipad or Tamogotchi (remember those?), a friend or two, and a plate of something tasty.
And if the stars align, there might even be cookies.
To prepare for Wednesday, October 26’s FOMD Laboratory Closing Reception and Potluck at 630 PM, Verb Woman herself has provided a tasty and healthy recipe for you! So whip it up for yourself, your friends, or that kind neighbour that always shovels the sidewalk for you. They’ll like it.
Verb Woman’s Cauliflower Kale Soup
- Coarsely chop one head of cauliflower and a half a bunch of kale leaves. Lightly steam them until crisp-tender. Drain.
- Saute one finely chopped onion in some butter or olive oil with a couple of cloves of garlic.
- Place the onion mixture and cauliflower/kale mixture in a soup pot. Cover with chicken or mushroom stock. Boil and simmer.
- Mash with a hand blender or mechanical blender, but leave it a little lumpy. Serve with salt and pepper, a glob of yogurt (or silken tofu), and a tablespoon of blue cheese (optional).
And, if you jonesin’ for some local produce, we recommend Peas on Earth for all your green needs! http://www.peasonearth.ca/
Hey Latituders,
You know what this Wednesday night is? Theory for Dinner Time. Any last minute cramers can find our processional hymn, Michel Foucault’s “Of Other Spaces”, here.
Unlike the seminar room, drinking is somewhat encouraged. Bring tasty snacks, libations, and an appetite for discussion. It’s far better to come with questions rather than answers, so please don’t be discouraged by any linguistic trickery on Foucault’s part. He’s a pretty likeable guy once you get to know him, I promise.
Merriment starts at 7pm and the philosophizing begins more so around 7:30, so the court finds your lateness quite tolerable.
I hope to see your faces and get to know you better!
Much love,
Anne Pasek
Your Intrepid Writer in Residence
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.
Sharon Yeo spent a day with us during Visualeyez, checking out a few performances and talking to some of our artists and staff. She wrote a fantastic piece on her experience—have a look-see here. Thanks for coming out, Sharon!
This post is written by Latitude 53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis. She will be writing critically about Latitude 53 programming, the community and more on a regular basis over a six month term from April to September. Read more about the Writer In Residence program.
Food guides and official wisdom have been telling us for years to think about food visually and spatially. Protein should resemble a deck of cards, cheese: two fingers, a potato: your fist. And in the end, your daily intake should resemble a pyramid. To compliment these visual food serving size parameters is the optical understanding of what our bodies are supposed to look like as a result of this compliance.
Highly public figures like the United States’ First Lady and British Chef Jamie Oliver have been aggressively crusading to change the way people eat, and what they think of as appealing to ingest. It’s worth thinking about what the political and the official guidance has to offer us, or, what is does to us. As we move closer to the food-themed performative explorations that will take place at VisualEyez, up for discussion now is the way in which food can be a tool for understanding how we come to be ourselves. How do we see, and how do we perform, our sense of autonomy and uniqueness?
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