To celebrate Canada Culture Days, Waking Giant is hosting Improv Cafe – a celebration of all things improvised.
We will have comedy, theatre sports, jazz, hip-hop, dance and other extemporanea.
This will run September 26,27,28th from 6pm to 9pm.
Join us for a Coffeehouse and Art Auction in support of Walking With Our Sisters Thunder Bay. Great entertainment, beautiful art, and wonderful company, in support of an important event.
Saturday, October 11 at 7pm
$5 at the door
Coffee, tea and refreshments by donation
Live musical performances
Silent Art Auction (Credit cards and cash accepted)
Performances by Robin Ranger, Damon Dowbak, Stan Legarde, Bobby “Nish King” Narcisse, Cassidy Belisle! More to come! MC Ron Kanutski!
Artists and Art Auction pieces coming soon!
RAFFLE BONANZA PRIZES!!
DefSup Presents,
3 new exhibitions
Gala Opening Reception, Fri Sept 26, 7-10pm
Featuring artist talks, jazz music by Robin Ranger, and refreshments including delectable catering from Sushi Bowl and Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery. All ages welcome, all by donation.
___________________________
MAVOURNEEN TRAINOR- CHAMBERS
Digital Art Series
Chambers – Twenty-seven cement rooms are used metaphorically as blank slates that form the canvas for this body of work. Trainor has filled these rooms with images inviting the viewer to contemplate expressions of female identity and ageing. She encapsulates the space with her imagination to create playful dream states, hallucinogenic and nightmarish scenes to serve as vehicles that express burdens of choice and states of mind from grief and anxiety to tranquil silence and humour. Digital art has allowed her to transpose iconic images from art history to enrich symbolism. References to fairytales, folklore, literature and poetry also cultivate dialogue involving the viewer to deconstruct content. Mavourneen Trainor-Bruzzese (HBFA Queens University) born in Mexico is a Thunder Bay based artist and full time faculty professor at Lakehead University and has exhibited internationally: Mexico City, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Caracas, Venezuela; Great Britain; Kee Lung, Taiwan and throughout Canada. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception featuring Art, Music, Artist Talk and two coinciding shows, catered refreshments and more!
Gallery 1
___________________________
PAULA THIESSEN- PEEPS SHOW
Photography Series
Paula Thiessen is an accomplished writer, editor, researcher and photographer, in this series of black and white photographs, a body of work that spans decades, Thiessen endeavours to show her “peeps” as they have never been represented before. Thiessen is attracted to photographing people, as they offer her a greater margin for chance and opens an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression, but also a world of new relationships, and most importantly new stories. As Sontag states:”[t]o photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves.” And in her view, if photography is illicit in this way, then the gallery-goer is also implicated, for looking at photos of people one doesn’t know, recalls the pleasurable voyeurism of the peep show. Paula Thiessen (MA-Lakehead University-English) accredited photographer, designer, writer and researcher contributing to: This Magazine, The New Quarterly, as well chief researcher for Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Bruce Mau Design.
Gallery 2
_______________________________
DUNCAN WELLER- LARA WOOD BOOK PROJECT
Painting Series
Duncan Weller is an accomplished writer, illustrator, filmmaker, photographer and painter, and currently completing a young adult novel titled Lara Wood. Weller has won two of Canada’s top awards, the Governor General’s Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. Weller has a varied portfolio of work, of non-objective and abstract works, surrealism, sci-fi, photo-realism, expressionism, oversized cartooning, and allegorical works. In this latest exhibition of paintings, Weller takes on a more human approach with his portraited figure works, similar to that of Varley or Christina Sealey, and found a voice with themes that required adherence to allegorical works, resulting in a consistent aesthetic journey. Duncan has secured several grants from the Ontario Arts Council to continue work on his paintings, animation, and books which have an international audience and distribution.
Gallery 3
______________________________
Shows run until October 25, 2014
Da- India Night
Dance at the tune of Traditional Indian music !!!
No experience required.
Dance lessons for the first time dancers !!!
Delicious food !!!
Join us for annual cultural celebration of dance, music and delicious food.
Ticket $10 only
3rd Oct, Fri, 8 pm onwards
Airlane Hotel and conference centre, Thunder Bay.
Call 623-3111 for tickets.
Classic and Romantic works by the chief guitar composers of the early and later 19th century, plus Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango. Music by Giuliani, Von Call, Carulli, Barrios, Vicente Amigo.
DORIS DUNGAN – Flute
JOSEPH ROY – Classical Guitar
MATT SELLICK – Flamenco Guitar
The Joy Ride Tour Ft. Tim Neufeld and the Glory Boys will be stopping at FAITH CITY CHURCH Thunder Bay for a great WORSHIP HOEDOWN! Wednesday October 29th
Doors open at 6:30 pm – show starts at 7:00 pm
Everyone Welcome – Free Admission
A freewill offering will be received!
“The Very Best of Celtic Thunder Tour” kicks off in Florida in February 2015 and features an eclectic collection of the group’s best-loved and most popular songs from the past seven years. Drawing material from Celtic Thunder’s nine Public Television Specials, eleven CDs and DVDs and eight US tours to date, “The Very Best Of Celtic Thunder” tour aims to combine all Celtic Thunder classics, fan favorites and hit songs into a formidable stage show, married with that huge Celtic Thunder signature sound, dramatic lighting and imposing set that audiences and fans everywhere have come to expect from a Celtic Thunder show.
Celtic Thunder’s principal singers, backed as ever by the amazing 8 piece Celtic Thunder band, will deliver their much loved ensemble numbers with selections including “Heartland” from Celtic Thunder -The Show, “Galway Girl” and “Seven Drunken Nights” from Voyage, “A Place in The Choir” from Heritage and “Turning Away” from Mythology. Of course, no Celtic Thunder show would be complete without a performance of their rousing anthem “Ireland’s Call”, which generally acts as the show’s finale and never fails to bring the audience to its feet. In addition to these incredibly popular ensemble performances, “The Very Best of Celtic Thunder” tour will also feature a wide variety of solo hits from the principal singers such as “Ride On”, “The Dutchman”, “Noreen”, “Danny Boy”, some “Puppy Love” and many more.
Celtic Thunder is the brainchild of producer Sharon Browne and since its inception in 2007 has released 11 albums, toured the U.S. and Canada, coast to coast, eight times, and Australia three times performing at over 800 shows to date. Celtic Thunder has also been hailed as BILLBOARD’s “Top World Music Artist,” along with “Top World Music Imprint” and “Top World Album” of in 2008, 2009 and again in 2011. The Celtic Thunder official YouTube channel, “Thunder Tube” has received over 28 million views since 2008. Celtic Thunder is is backed by the dynamic Celtic Thunder Band and their shows are known for the use of dramatic effects of lighting and choreography as well as a stage set resembling an ancient stone pathway suggestive of those referenced in Celtic lore.
Don’t miss The Very Best of Celtic Thunder – Live on-stage at your TBCA!
Thia great evening of music returns to your TBCA in support of The United Way, Westminster United Church, and George Jeffries Children’s Foundation. Enjoy The Smith Family Singers, Flipper Flanagan’s Flat Footed Four, Mood Indigo and The Knackers – all performing live in one of North America’s finest concert halls – your TBCA!
