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AL PURDY A-FRAME ANTHOLOGY FUNDRAISER & EXHIBIT
Opening Reception - November 11, 2009, 7:30 pm
Join Duncan Patterson and George Bowering for the Waterloo region launch of The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology ($26.95, Harbour Publishing) and the exhibition “Room Enough Between the Trees: Al Purdy’s A-Frame” at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture—in the Stantec Gallery located at 7 Melville Street South, Cambridge—on Wednesday, November 11th beginning at 7:30 pm.
The Exhibit runs from November 7 to 20, 2009 in the Stantec Gallery at the School of Architecture.
Duncan Patterson’s exhibit “Room Enough Between the Trees: Al Purdy’s A-Frame” coincides with the release of The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology. Duncan Patterson and George Bowering are two of over twenty celebrated Canadian writers who contributed reminiscences and poetry to The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology. Patterson and Bowering, along with a few other Anthology contributors, will share their A-frame anecdotes at this unique event. Book sales and proceeds from an auction featuring Al Purdy items and artwork will help raise funds for the Al Purdy A-frame Trust, an organization dedicated to preserving the A-frame as a retreat for future generations of Canadian writers.
In 1957, Al Purdy—one of Canada’s most influential and culturally significant poets—began building for himself and his family a lakeside A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh, Ontario. No writer’s home has played such a starring role in the work of its owner since Orillia stood in as Mariposa in the work of Stephen Leacock. But, more than that, the Purdy A-frame served as a kind of tribal mustering place for notable Canadian writers from the 1950s to the 1990s including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Milton Acorn, Patrick Lane and a host of others. The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology collects memories and poems by a roll call of famous writers about inspiring days and nights spent at the A-frame, in addition to a selection of Purdy’s own writing which shows the depth of his feeling for the place where he put down his roots. The “Room Enough Between the Trees” exhibit will showcase a series of photographs and drawings documenting this house, supplemented by a series of samples of Purdy’s writing which further illuminates the role of the house in both his personal and creative life.
While the “Room Enough Between the Trees” exhibit is scheduled to run from November 6th to November 20th, the opportunity to hear readings from and obtain signed copies of The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology is limited to the evening of November 11th as Bowering returns to his home in Vancouver, BC the following day. Bowering was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, he has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada and he is the two-time winner of the Governor General’s Award.
For more information on the book or to schedule an interview with Duncan Patterson, please contact Berglind Kristinsdottir at Harbour Publishing
PO Box 219, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0
Tel: 604-614-1431 Fax: 604-883-9451
SONIC CHAPEL by Yiu-Bun Chan
October 27, 2009 - Reception 6:30pm Design at Riverside
Join us on Tuesday, October 27th from 6:30-8pm at the Cambridge Galleries, Design at Riverside for the exhibition opening:
The exhibition continues to November 8, 2009.
This annual exhibition showcases the studio work or projects by Masters students and graduates from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. The Design at Riverside Advisory Committee which selects the winning proposal is comprised of representatives from Cambridge Galleries and the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture.
Situated between music and architecture, Sonic Chapel explores the composition and performance of sound space. In the 1950s, composers began to include spatial directives in their musical scores. These notations provided a visual record of sonic experiments, and created a tradition of conceiving, conserving and communicating sound's potential to construct space. These sonic blueprints, as used by Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, encourage the current vision-based architectural discourse to consider the aural properties of space. The three multi-media installations inSonic Chapel invite you to navigate the intersection of sight and sound, to pause, and to listen.
Yiu-Bun Chan was born in Hong Kong and currently works in Cambridge. He received a Masters degree from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in 2009. His work has previously been installed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.
http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca/cambridge.taf?section=2
THE ART OF WALLPAPER
01.09.09 - 18.10.09
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2:30pm
Wallpaper emerges from the background to the forefront of new design. The Art of Wallpaper celebrates the art behind the popular, yet often maligned decorative device, and its’ recent revival. From early 20th century hand painted samples by Europe’s top studios, The Art of Wallpaper fast forwards to today’s bespoke, limited edition, and designer production lines that serve as a unique creative outlet for artists and designers from around the world. The contemporary designs were selected to challenge the perception of wallpaper as a benign background by emphasizing the current exploration of new materials and subject matter, and to convey the impact of digital technology on wallpaper design and production. Both limited production and mass produced designs will be featured. A small format catalogue will accompany the exhibition. All hand painted historical samples courtesy of the private collection of Hugh Thompson, Cambridge, Ontario.
http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca/cambridge.taf?section=2
PAST EXHIBITIONS
"41 to 66" EXHIBITION
18.06.09 - 22.08.09 41º to 66º Architecture
in Canada: Region, Culture, Tectonics Select projects from The Canadian
Entry to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, the 2008 Venice
Biennale
41º to 66º
Architecture in Canada: Region, Culture, Tectonics Select projects from
The Canadian Entry to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition,
the 2008 Venice Biennale
June 18-August 22, 2009
Opening reception: Tuesday June 18, 6:30pm
Cambridge Galleries celebrates the return to Canada of 41º to 66º Architecture
in Canada: Region, Culture, Tectonics from the 2008 Venice Biennale (September
14-November 23, 2008) with this display of selected projects from the
exhibition and a lecture by the curators on their Venice experiences.
41º to 66º was originally created under the auspices of Cambridge Galleries,
who served as the official Canadian Commissioner at the 2008 Venice Biennale.
www.cambridgegalleries.ca
"While
Venice Sleeps"
18.06.09 - 22.08.09 a collection of photographic
images by Michael Curran
In Design at Riverside and Stantec Architecture Gallery , School of
Architecture. Photographs by Michael Curran, visual artist and exhibition
coordinator for 41º to 66º at the Canadian Pavilion in Venice. While
Venice Sleeps features intimate portraits of Venice's neighbourhoods
at night.
The Opening Reception on Thursday, June 18,2009 at 6:30pm.
www.cambridgegalleries.ca