It’s finally that time of year again — Latitude 53’s famous summer rooftop patio series is back!
Starting June 14 and running until August 23, the gallery will be hosting weekly gatherings of after-work snacks and cocktails on our sunny outdoor patio. The series runs Thursday nights from 5-9 PM, with the exception of the third week of June, which will instead feature a special late-night patio from 5-11 PM on Friday, June 22.
We’re also incredibly excited about our Summer Incubator Series running concurrently with the patios, featuring work from a different local artist in the Community Gallery every week. Participating artists include Jennie Vegt, Aaron Paquette, Adriean Koleric, Grace Law, Dana Holst, Anya Tonkonogy, Daniel Chielewski, Leslie Sharp, and Dallas Whitley.
Keep an eye on the patio series section of our website for even more updates about Summer Incubator artists, patio guest-hosts, and featured entertainment.
Make sure you don’t miss out on the best part of the downtown summer!
We’re gearing up for our first Rooftop Patio of 2012 in only two weeks, on June 14, from 5–9 pm. Curious? Check out our little preview at latitude53.org/patio and look forward to our patio season launch, with details on guest hosts, Incubator artists, and more in the next few days…
Thanks to everyone who filled out our recent special events survey—and congratulations to Miriam Cooley who will be enjoying her prize of a 25-drink “super punchcard” on the patio this summer. We hope to see you all every week, starting Thursday the 14th of June!
Here’s a little more from Jorden and David Doody in advance of their August show here at Latitude 53. You can find more about them at twoartists.net—or stop by the gallery and pick up our new spring and summer programming newsletter.
The summer is so busy that we’ll actually be putting out a second newsletter with all the details of the rooftop patio, incubator, and other special summer projects (including our July Main Space show). It’s going to be a good one!
Have you been to one of our special events? We want to hear from you.
We’re giving away a Super Punchcard that is good for 25 drinks throughout the 2012 Summer Patio Series—to enter just fill out our special events survey here—enough for a few summer drinks from our wonderful patio bartenders.
It’s almost time! We’ve just posted the complete festival schedule at www.visualeyez.org as well as artist information, pictures, and enough background on the performances for you to start planning your week in detail. We hope you are as excited as we are!
There’s one thing on the festival schedule that we know is going to appeal to readers of this blog: we’re bringing back the Rooftop Patio for one more night this Thursday to celebrate Visualeyez. We’ll have performances happening in the gallery alongside cocktails and company outside—and hopefully we’ll find a few new fans of performance art.
Our last patio is this week! It’ll be a late-night affair with some of Edmonton’s best-loved shops helping us out. If you haven’t made it out yet, you owe it to yourself. Here’s what Vitamin Daily says about our patio season:
Top 5: Edmonton Summer Patios – Latitude 53
Rain or shine, this contemporary downtown art gallery is throwing unmatched rooftop patio soirees every Thursday evening until August 18 alongside a rotation of incubator artists and fresh DJ’s.
Summer seems to be whirring by and with it, our Rooftop Patio Series. Make sure to catch the second last one of the season tonight from 5-9pm. With artsScene Edmonton, Startup Edmonton and JCI as our guest hosts, we’re excited to have a chance to catch up with all our delightful friends from Edmonton’s creative community.
Also on tonight’s menu are searingly good BBQ offerings from Mongolie Grill and a lovely selection of summer cocktails, beer and wine.
Find out an assortment of opportunities to get involved with Edmonton’s arts scene via our guest hosts, enter to win a door prize for a massage from Alberta Momentum and hear about Clint Wilson’s new work, you don’t know what you think you know in our community gallery at 7pm.
And it’s that time of week again! Tonight’s agenda is teeming with glorious times, with our Rooftop Patio, Incubator series, an open mic night hosted by HERMEN and the opening reception for Jason de Haan’s show Future Future Age(s) , all going down from 5pm to late(ish).
Visit us tonight and find:
Our third last (!) Rooftop Patio of the year—with guest hosts and sponsors HERMEN and AMPA
In the community gallery, find a new Incubator show from Sergio Serrano & Alexander Stewart. Hear them talk about their collaborative work tonight at 7pm.
The Openest Mic and Book Table Ever, hosted by local literary journal and collective HERMEN. Bring your poetry and prose and make a contribution. Also be sure to browse a myriad of publications from the Alberta Magazine Publishing Association.
BBQ. An amazing mixed grill from our friends at Mongolie Grill
Finlandia Cucumber Melon Martinis and Vodka Mules
A chance to win this week’s terrific door prize, a shampoo, cut & colour at Beauty Lounge
Edmonton artists and designers Sergio Serrano and Alexander Stewart are showing collaborative work this week for our Summer Incubator Series. Their untitled interdisciplinary project is an experiment in communication—“a visual and spatial dialogue between the two unique perspectives” of the artists. Combining ideas of Socratic dialogue, facial recognition, musical composition, and translation, their work is a reflection upon fundamental problems of communication in the age of information.
Artist Statement
“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected of another point.”
—Claude E. Shannon, “father of communication theory”
Our yet untitled project for this series is an experiment in communication—part a game of broken telephone, part tongue-in-cheek displays of one-upmanship. Artist A will create an object meant to relay a secret message to Artist B, who will in turn create a new object in response, and so on until they run out of time. The exhibition is then a visual and spatial dialogue between the two unique perspectives; a physical manifestation reflecting on the way people communicate and share ideas in an information age and what’s lost and found in the process.
Come see the project for yourself through August 5 and visit the opening reception for Serrano and Stewart’s Incubator show this Thursday during our Rooftop Patio Series from 5-9pm, alongside the opening of Jason de Haan’s Main Space show Future Future Age(s).
Last week’s patio was rather remarkable…
