FAAS| Fair of Alternative Art of Sudbury
You never know where art is going to land.
May 4th to 7th 2008
City of Greater Sudbury
An interdisciplinary fair where more than thirty five artists explore various forms of art : performance, video, photography, sound, poetry, graffiti, painting, and drawing…
A fair where artistic practices converge in one time-space…
A fair that will bring together ten presenters and exhibitors from Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick.
The creation and presentation of artwork take place in the bar and the rooms of the Townehouse Tavern, at la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario and in public places in downtown Sudbury.
Activities : Opening party, artists talk, round tables, exhibitions and performance evenings.
All spaces are open to the public.
The artists presented by La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario :
Stephen Andrews from Toronto (video and drawing), Dominique Banoun from Toronto (performance, photography and sound), Mariana Lafrance from Sudbury (photography), Maria Legault from Toronto (performance), Pascal Paquette from Toronto (poster, painting and graffiti), le collectif P8 with Colette Jacques from Larder Lake, Normand Fortin from Kapuskasing, Laurent Vaillancourt from Hearst and Pierre Albert from Fauquier (performance, installation and sound), le collectif Taupe Inc. from Moncton with Jennifer Bélanger, Mario Doucette, Angèle Cormier and Jean-Denis Boudreau (performance et installation).
The artists invited by our partners :
Le Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury :
Éric Charlebois from Ottawa (noise and poetry), Guylaine Tousignant from Sudbury (poetry and installation), Antoine Tremblay Beaulieu from Sudbury (sound landscape and poetry) and Cheryl Rondeau from Toronto (physical and virtual intervention).
La Slague du Carrefour francophone :
Geneviève Crépeau and Matthieu Dumont from Rouyn-Noranda (performance)
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario would like to thank its sponsors 50 Carleton, The Townehouse Tavern, Laughing Buddha, ICI Paints, Revue Liaison des Éditions l’Interligne, Revue d’art actuel ESSE, Programme Arts d’expression from Laurentian University, All About Massage & Laser Services, Fromagerie Elgin, Books & Beans, Lindemans and Old Rock Roastery.
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario would like to thank its season sponsors CBON, la Première Chaîne, Espace musique and Radio-Canada Television.
Eight galleries have joined the fair to present artists from their communities
Come join the artists and presenters on May 5, 6, 7, 2008
Schedule
Monday May 5
12 to 5pm
Installation of exhibition rooms
5 to 7pm
Opening party
GNO
Tuesday May 6
10am
Artists talk: artists from invited galleries
Books and Beans
12 to 8pm
The rooms are open to the public
Laughing Buddha and Townehouse
2pm
Come meet the artist: Cheryl Rondeau’s arrival (Cycle 2008)
GNO
8pm
Performance evening
Artists from invited galleries
Townehouse – admisssion $5
Wednesday May 7
11am
Artists talk: artists invited by partners
Old Rock Café
12 to 8pm
The rooms are open to the public
Laughing Buddha and Townehouse
8pm
Performance evening
with artists invited by the GNO, le Salon du livre
du Grand Sudbury, and La Slague du Carrefour francophone
Townehouse – admission $5
CYCLES
In response to the opening of two major cultural events in Sudbury, within days of each other - Fair of Alternative Art (FAAS) and Salon du Livre du Grand Sudbury - Cheryl Rondeau will realize an intervention that continues her exploration of the intersection between the artworld and the everyday. From 3 to 6 May 2008, she will conduct an expedition by bicycle of approximately 600 km from Toronto to Sudbury – symbolically and physically linking the Ontario’s anglophone and francophone cultural centres. Upon arrival in Sudbury, this endurance initiative will culminate in a tour of the FAAS exhibition sites and Salon du Livre.
« Rondeau’s trip took a total route of 559 kilometres and took place in four stages. The first leg was Toronto-Orillia, followed by a route through Orillia-Magnetewan, followed by a trip through Magnetewan-Noelville and finally Noelville-Sudbury. The trips importance is magnified by Rondeau who recognizes the route as both a symbolic and physical connection to Ontario’s Anglophone and francophone cultural centres. »
Excerpt from article by Jorge Cueto ‘Cycles’ rolls into Sudbury, Northern Life, May 13, 2008
http://cherylrondeau.blogspot.com/
MARIE-MINOU MIAOU MIAOU
Bring out your pots and pans and start practicing your best pea soup recipes.
Marie-Minou Miaou Miaou will host the FIRST PEA SOUP CONTEST IN THE WORLD.
The contest will be held at the Taverne Townhouse, 206 Elgin Street, Sudbury, May 7th, 8 pm.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to let your culinary talents shine in front of a prestigious jury. Prizes will be offered to the winners.
SECRETS DE JAVA
Discover your secrets at the bottom of a coffee cup.
Come to the Old Rock Café on Minto Street Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th from noon to 5 p.m. Dominique Banoun’s “Secrets of Java” will give you a glimpse of your secrets, and of an ancient Middle-Eastern practice combined with the digital wizardry of today.
The visual cues from the cup itself, its reading and the faces of the persons being read to are technologically combined in images (granular, of course) to be show in the artist exhibition room at the Town House Tavern on Elgin Street, Tuesday and Wednesday May 6 and 7 from noon to 8pm.
This event is part of FAAS – Fair of Alternative Art of Sudbury.