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July 25, 2019 July 28, 2019
The Flamenco de la Isla Society presents
The Victoria Flamenco Festival
Victoria comes alive with the passion and rhythm of Flamenco music and dance! The 7th annual Victoria Flamenco Festival runs from July 25 to 28 and showcases local and national dancers, singers, and guitarists collaborating to bring their love of this fiery art form to the stage. Be inspired by free ‘por fiesta’performances at Cameron Bandshell on Friday afternoon and invigorated at Centennial Square on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday afternoons with the powerful line-up of local, regional, aspiring, and professional flamenco artists. Enjoy our ticketed events: Flamenco Music Night at Hermann’s Jazz Club on Thursday evening and our showcase La Otra Orilla from Montreal on Saturday night at the McPherson Playhouse.
FREE PERFORMANCES
Flamenco in Centennial Square
Friday, July 26: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27: 12:00-5:40 p.m. Sunday, July 28: 12:30-5:00 p.m.
TICKETED PERFORMANCES
Flamenco Music Night
Flamenco in the Park (Cameron Bandshell)
Friday, July 26: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Date: Thu, July 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm (Doors at 6:00 pm)
Venue: Hermann's Jazz Club
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/flamenco-music-night-tickets-63168860763
Enjoy the passion and rhythm of flamenco featuring guitarists Juan de Marias, Nazir Salameh, and Meer Mahmoud, with pianist Jo Ann C. Dalisay in an evening of traditional and innovative flamenco music.
La Otra Orilla’s RITE
Date: Sat, July 27, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The McPherson Playhouse
Tickets: http://www.victoriaflamencofestival.com/events/event/la-otra-orilla-rite/
RITE exposes the relationship between body, rhythm, voice, and guitar. At the heart of this artistic proposition lies an intimate conversation where each element reveals itself while defining the other. This initiatory journey will engage both aficionado and newcomer to the art of flamenco. Energetic, poetic, and powerful. La Otra Orillafeatures acclaimed Montreal flamenco artists Myriam Allard, Caroline Planté, Hedi Graja, and Miguel Medina.
Victoria Flamenco Festival: Zoey Wells, Festival CoordinatorEmail: flamencoisla@gmail.com Tel: +1 250.514.9222
Website: http://www.victoriaflamencofestival.com/
Upcoming Events
July 28, 2019 August 25, 2019
HORIZON LINES are elemental to us; humans have always had to orient to the landscape as a fundamental aspect of our survival. I look at Irma Soltonovich’s paintings of abstracted horizons and see things that may or may not be there; it’s a mirage, a mystery, and a map all at once. She applies paint to the canvas in calculations of sparse but effective visual cues—colours, contrasts, and geometry—so the viewer can, in a fraction of a second, place themselves into their own familiar landscape. I see specific and known places in Soltonovich’s paintings the way I sometimes discover a heart in a rock on the beach, or a face in the surface of a rusting metal door.
Irma Soltonovich
Scale, style, and subject matter all must convene in harmony in order for someone’s visual expression to land with viewers. Soltonovich’s large, horizontal, abstract landscapes have struck such a solid chord with so many that gallery owner Dawn Casson hosts an annual solo show for the artist, regular as clockwork. “If it’s August, it’s Irma,” Casson says, and that’s all collectors need to hear in order to plan their summer holidays around the Gallery at Mattick’s Farm and these shape-shifting, evocative works.
In actual fact, Soltonovich’s subject matter is often drawn from the prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Casson says. “She grew up in Saskatchewan; that’s usually her inspiration. Warm yellows, ochres, bits of greens and reds in them…they’re not super-defined…people see what they want to see. A lot of times people look at one and say, ‘It’s a water scene,’ and another person says, ‘That looks like the prairies to me.’ It’s in the eye of the beholder, I guess.”
Soltonovich made the commitment to practicing her art full-time in 2013, after years spent painting part-time while working in the development and delivery of programs in the criminal justice field.
“Of Self, Place, and Belonging,” new works by Irma Soltonovich, runs July 28 to August 25 at the Gallery at Mattick’s Farm, 109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd. Artist's reception August 11, 1-4pm, 250-658-8333, www.thegalleryatmatticksfarm.com.
—Mollie Kaye
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July 10, 2019 05:00 PM July 28, 2019 11:30 PM
Leonard Butt's sculptures and Anina Kunstler's paintings are showing at Cedar Hill Gallery from July 10-July 28.
The show, entitled "Dialogue" is inspired by curiosity, questions and answers, archetypes, iconography and everyday ephemera.
Opening reception is on Friday July 12 from 6:00 to 8:30.
Upcoming Events
July 17, 2019 04:00 PM August 28, 2019 11:00 PM
Art Show and Sale
By
MARG WENGER
June 28, 2019 – August 28, 2019
Viewing hours: Mon. – Fri. 9:00am – 4:00pm
For a preview of the event, visit www.gowardhouse.com/artshow
Media Contact: Elaine Leonard, Administrator
Goward House Society
gowardhouse@shaw.ca
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July 27, 2019 07:00 AM August 28, 2019 07:00 AM
Art Show and Sale
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Goward House
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
May 31, 2019 – August 28, 2019
Viewing hours: Mon. – Fri. 9:00am – 4:00pm
For a preview of the event, visit www.gowardhouse.com/artshow
Media Contact: Heidi Hodgins, Administrator
Goward House Society
gowardhouse@shaw.ca
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