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June 09, 2023 July 23, 2023
http://www.artopenings.ca/alison-bigg.html
Alison Bigg shares her journey into hearing loss using wit, wisdom and a collection of devices called “auricals” (artist’s word). A series of prints called #lostfoundsound showcase her technical excellence and 3D printing.Bigg believes that our society has a type of communal deafness cause by information overload. With Auricals, she invites us to navigate the important difference between hearing and listening.
Victoria Arts Council, 1800 Store Street,
Victoria, BC V8T 4R4. Phone: 778-533-7123
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12:00-5:00.
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April 29, 2023 05:00 PM October 23, 2023 12:00 AM
Curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques & Denise Ryner
While Black: a forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold is a multi-year series of forums, talks, and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers, and audiences. This project is a collaboration between Or Gallery, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the AGGV, and is organized by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques and Denise Ryner in consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, Allison Yearwood.
In 2021, the curators asked each artist to produce a document of their relationship to the art gallery and its systems of representation as Black artists working in Canada, including consideration of the project query what the gallery can’t hold? Through multimodal and multimedia responses, these ten artists offered questions, imperatives, proposals and insight into their own experiences within contemporary art institutions. Since While Black was intended to initiate conversation and exchange between artists, curators and audiences, space to talk, respond and introduce new questions and ideas into the project is an important element within the presentation space. Artists in the iteration at the AGGV present questions, imperatives, narratives, and proposals to initiate exchange on the space for Black art in public culture with local respondents, collaborating curators and gallery visitors. As well as three exhibitions of these projects at Or Gallery (Vancouver), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and now the AGGV, While Black has also included two discursive gatherings in Montreal and Saskatoon.
Artists include: Lucie Chan (Vancouver, BC), Karma Clarke-Davis (Toronto, ON/Berlin, Germany), Kemi Craig (Victoria, BC), Spatial Esk (Toronto, ON), Stanley Février (Montréal, QC), Iyunade Judah (Winnipeg, MB), Anna Jane McIntyre (Montreal, QC), Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Winnipeg, MB), Jan Wade (Vancouver, BC), Valérie D. Walker (Vancouver, BC).
Exhibition runs April 29, 2023 - October 22, 2023
Image Credit: Iyunade Judah, Bond, 2019, digital print
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June 23, 2023 03:00 AM
TD Victoria International JazzFest Presents: Snarky Puppy
Thursday, June 22 | Royal Theatre | 8pm
$105/$85/$64
https://jazzvictoria.ca/snarky-puppy/
FOUR-TIME GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING GENRE-DEFYING 18-MEMBER SUPER-BAND
Four-time Grammy Award-winning Texas-bred powerhouse Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk, and represents the convergence of many different music cultures from around the world. After over a decade of relentless touring and recording in all but complete obscurity, including their last performance in Victoria as a part of TD JazzFest 2015, this super-collective suddenly found itself held up by the press and public as one of the major figures in the jazz world. With as many as 20 members in regular rotation, four Grammy awards (“Best R&B Performance” in 2014, “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” in 2016, 2017, and 2021), and multiple Reader’s and Critic’s Poll Awards from JazzTimes and DownBeat Magazine, the defining characteristic of Snarky Puppy’s music is the joy of performing together in the perpetual push to grow creatively.
Their latest and eagerly anticipated fourteenth album, Empire Central, was released in September 2022 and most recently nominated for “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Empire Central shouts from the rooftops how far Snarky Puppy have come since bassist, composer, and bandleader Michael League formed the group at the University of North Texas in 2004. It also raises the question – where will Snarky Puppy go next? For Snarky Puppy fans, the answer to this question is a very exciting prospect, and for those in Greater Victoria and beyond, look no further than June 22 at the Royal Theatre as a part of the 40th edition of TD Victoria International JazzFest!
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