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Newsletter for Jan 2009 (Vol.4; Iss.1) (PDF)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca
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1) Art's Birthday January 17th in Mississauga (and around the world)
2) NAISA Youth initiative updates
3) NAISA January/February workshops
4) NAISA space events: Toronto Artist Soiree Jan 31st with Michelle Irving
5) Deep Wireless & Radio Without Boundaries 2009
6) Sound Travels 2009
Feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and associates who are looking for new arts events.
1) ART'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION on JANUARY 17th, 2009
Saturday January 17 noon - 8pm
Erin Meadows Community Centre and Library
2800 Erin Meadows Blvd, Mississauga
FREE Admission
The Mississauga Office of the Arts and Culture in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art will serve up an audio feast in celebration of Art’s Birthday on January 17th on the theme Ecology: water, sound, air. Featured artists/groups include Christine Duncan, David Powell, Alison Kobayashi, Chandra Bulucon, Shannon Cochrane, Darren Copeland, the Underground Garage Sale, Gintas Tirilis, and the Mississauga Youth Choir, plus many more. Swim with Fish (sounds) during the public swim, create your own art trading cards, learn how electronic gizmos work (NAISAtron and micro-radio transmitters) from the youth that made them, take a SOUNDwalk, step up to the mic (during open-mic) and of course there will be birthday cake! The entire event will be web-streamed on www.CKLN.fm . Bound not by transmission medium, weather or creative genre, Art's Birthday will be a feast of the acoustic imagination.
Art’s Birthday is an annual exchange-art event celebrated since 1963 by artists and organizations around the world on January 17, featuring performance, installations and telecommunications art. Happy One Million and Forty-Sixth Birthday, Art! Go to www.artsbirthday.net for more info.
2) NAISA Youth Initiative Updates
NAISA worked with youth at the Erin Meadows community centre in December to create NAISAtrons and micro-radio transmitters, document sounds from in and around the community centre and create art with sound. These youth-created works will be presented during Arts Birthday on January 17, 2009. NAISA gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the SOCAN foundation for their financial support of its NAISA youth initiative. Upcoming workshops are planned for Oakville, Richmond Hill and Kingston Ontario in the coming months.
The NAISA youth initiative is targeted toward youth at high schools, arts centers and community centers. If you are a teacher or run a community centre and are interested in being a part of this youth initiative, email naisa@naisa.ca .
3) NAISA Workshops January/February
All workshops @ the NAISA space, 601 Christie St #252 (equipment provided)
Pre-registration required. Call 416 652 5115 or email naisa@naisa.ca to register
Jan 24th, noon-5pm, $100
(cost includes the NAISAtron kit)
NAISAtron soldering party
The NAISAtron, created for NAISA by Rob Cruickshank, is a small sound sculpture, an electronic gizmo. This workshop is an opportunity to make your own NAISAtron to take home with you. If you haven't soldered, we'll help you with that as well.
Jan 25th, 10am-5pm, $100
SOUND AS ART 1 Recording & Editing workshop with Darren Copeland
This workshop is geared towards the budding sound artist, the visual and media artist exploring sound, the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic recording, editing, processing and mixing practices.
Feb 9th, 10am-4pm, $100
PODPOEMS Workshop with Victoria Fenner
A one day skills based hands-on workshop to take you through the whole process ..voicing, recording, editing and uploading to a website.
4) NAISA Toronto Artist Soirée
January 31st 1-4pm PWYC
(and we mean this literally!)
SOIRÉE - an evening gathering, typically in a private house, for conversation or music. Although it's in the afternoon, the intent is the same: a time for artists to talk about their works, listen to other people's works and network. Featured artist Michelle Irving will be presenting and discussing her recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
5) DEEP WIRELESS + RADIO WITHOUT BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE 2009
May 1st - 31st, 2009
Deep Wireless is a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art that includes broadcasts, installations, performances, workshops and the Radio Without Boundaries Conference (May 29-31, 2009). Performance dates are May 3, 9, 29 & 30th with more dates TBA and installations running throughout the month. Featured artists include Brandon Labelle, Kristen Roos, François Girouard, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura and Andrea Dancer with more TBA.
6) SOUND TRAVELS Festival of Sound Art
June 1st - October 1st, 2009
Sound Travels brings sound art to the outdoors on Toronto Island in a way that entices the curious and provides a unique experience each and every year. This 11th edition of the annual festival will once again feature an expanded set of indoor and outdoor interative installations, performances, soundwalks, artist talks and workshops. Featured artists include Nicolas Bernier, Annette Vande Gorne, Ben Thigpen and Barry Prophet with more TBA.
7) RELATED NEWS / LINKS
LINKS
For information about the upcoming Third Coast International Audio Festival http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org
For a chance to listen and download radio pieces check out the public radio exchange http://www.prx.org
To listen to sound works of all stripes go to http://wwwsonus.ca
For listings of most Toronto and area events http://www.upcoming.org; http://www.livewithculture.ca; http://www.torontoartsonline.org
For listings of Montréal events (http://www.laliste.qc.ca)
For listings of Vancouver events http://www.oscillations.ca
For info on the speakers used by New Adventures in Sound Art visit Tannoy's web site http://www.tannoy.com/Ellipse8
Media inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
Phone 416 652 5115; email naisa@naisa.ca
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