Join PAVED Staff and board for a night of celebration as we officially launch our most recent publication “PAVEDmeant” and screen “shortest day of the year” a seasonal short film series accompanied by two local films; John Graham’s “dreams and the spaces in between” and Andreas Buchwaldt’s “Accordia”.  The night will conclude with a holiday celebration that will merge our event with AKA’s bi-annual art draw and feature Karaoke and DJ’s in the PAVED gallery space.  A holiday party not-to-miss.

We also encourage you bring donations for the Open Door Society to assist in newly arrived Syrian refugees.  PAVED Arts and AKA Gallery are proud to assist in this initiative by being a public drop-off centre through-out December.  To learn more click here

7PM – PAVED Meant Book Launch
8PM – Shortest Day of Year Screening
9:30PM – Holiday Celebration Party!

See you then!

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During this time no production centre rentals will be available.  We apologize for this inconvenience.

Join us on Friday January 15th for our first gallery opening of 2016.

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Do naming conventions, file management systems, and digital storage strategies make you shudder? Have you ever wondered how to make digital collaboration with other people easier? Curious about how things like cloud based storage work? Then this is the workshop for you!

We all know that sometimes the organization side of media arts is a low priority when doing creative work. But it’s an absolutely critical skill to being an efficient artist and could be a life saver if you ever have a hard drive fail you. In this unique workshop, our instructor will teach you how to organize your digital life so that you can manage your media and elevate your career as an artist with a minimum of stress, so that you can focus on creating. This workshop is taught by one of the most prolific artists in Saskatoon, Carrie Gates.

You will also have access to a Q & A session with Carrie about your own specific topics of interest. This workshop will be followed up at a later date with a session on topics like social media management, SEO, online security, and other subjects defined by workshop attendees.

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Intro to Rasberry Pi
November 7th, 1PM – 5PM
PAVED Arts Production Centre Classroom
Host: Geronimo Inutiq

PAVED Arts is excited to host visiting artist Geronimo Inutiq for this very special workshop presentation.  The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card–sized single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries.  Geronimo will show how he uses these computers in a media arts context and will demonstrate some of the computers capabilities.

***Limited to 8 participants

3D Printing
November 22nd and November 29th, 1-5PM
PAVED Arts Production Centre
Host: Jean-Sebastien Gauthier

This 2 part workshop will introduce participants to the basics of developing 3D models (using open source and free software) and best practices and considerations when preparing for 3D printing. After going through the basics of model development participants will have the opportunity to make their own 3d scans and small 3D print at this workshop.

***Limited to 10 participants

Each person will need to bring their own computer or ask to have one provided by PAVED.

Media Management and Organization Strategies for Media Artists
Wednesday December 2nd, 6:30PM
PAVED Arts Production Centre
Host: Carrie Gates

Do naming conventions, file management systems, and digital storage strategies make you shudder?  Then this workshop might be for you.  We all know that sometimes the organization side of media arts is a low priority when doing creative work.  But it’s an absolutely critical skill to being an efficient artist and could be a life saver if you ever have a hard drive fail you.  This workshop will cover the basic best practices to abide by when doing media art work by one of the most prolific artists in Saskatoon, Carrie Gates.

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The Surface brings together several video and photographic installation works by Chun Hua Catherine Dong. Shared among these works, for Dong, is the underlying premise that the body is political. She is interested in blurring boundaries between personal and political, between private and public, between performance and everyday practice. She has established her body as a visual territory, and a primary material in her artwork to activate social commentary on immigration, race and gender. Through encapsulating these global issues in microcosm or magnifying personal predicaments until they become universally visible, she presents the body as a defined and experienced reality, and locates herself at the nexus of author, artwork and audience.

Multimedia artist Chun Hua Dong is a visual artist working with performance art, photography, and video. She received a M.F.A. from Concordia University and a B.F.A from Emily Carr University Art & Design in Canada. She has exhibited her works in New York, Boston, London, Delhi, Dublin, Helsinki, Moscow, Turin, Tornio, Toronto, Venice, Montreal and Vancouver. Her video work has been screened in Mexico, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Colombia, Spain, The Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Greece, Romania, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, USA, and Canada. Among many other awards, she is the recipient of the prestigious Franklin Furnace Award for avant-garde art in New York in 2014. Dong lives in Montreal.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6 pm; Saturdays Noon – 4pm

PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.

For media inquiries or more information, contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director, tel. (306) 652-5502 ext.1. artistic(at)pavedarts(dot)ca

PAVED Arts offers Free admission to the public with barrier-free accessibility.

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Artists Michelle Gagne, Emily M. Kohlert, Samra K. Sheikh and Kyle Zurevinski collaborated on the photographs and chose to represent twelve hours from dusk until dawn. Working in pairs, the artists produced one image each hour in locations throughout the city of Saskatoon including both interior and exterior sites. As a tribute to the video performances of Lisa Birke’s “Calendar Girls” the artists posed themselves in the frame with their faces obscured by bags, masks, bubble wrap, scarves, baskets and even the sunrise.  The photographs are therefore not simple portraits or selfies but rather playful, more complex metaphors that highlight the relationship between the viewer and the subject being viewed.

The project was organized by David LaRiviere (PAVED Arts), Professor Jennifer Crane (Department of Art and Art History, University of Saskatchewan) and artist Lisa Birke.

The  project was generously funded by the City of Saskatoon as part of Culture Days 2015.

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In June of 2015 PAVED Arts, with support from the City of Saskatoon, embarked upon a unique project of placing the work of Saskatoon area photographers onto city transit. The response to our call for submissions was overwhelming. In the end the community jury were tasked with selecting 35 photographs from a total of 317 images that were submitted.

You can view the selected works on city busses this fall.  You can also visit the PAVED Arts media gallery to view a collection of outstanding submitted work from Saskatoon photographers.

The artists selected for Toon’s On Transit (in alphabetical order) are:
Suzy Bourque, Stew Coles, Ron Cooley, Kate Cronin, Samantha den Hollander, Kenton Doupe, Brayden Elliott, Bob Ferguson, Shelby Fitzgerald, Shelly Fox, Jeff Glasel, Ken Greenhorn, Arnold Isbister, Will Kaufhold, Kaela Klingenberg, Emily Kohlert, Natasha Kooy, Don Kossick, Arvid Kuhnle, Aralia Maxwell, Rae McLeod, Jelena Misevski, Leila Olfert, Marcel Petit, Perseus Plaza, Jannik Plaetner, Laliberte Renée, Derek Sandbeck, Stefan Scott, John Shelling, Stephanie Strauss Hall, Justin Tendeck, Janice Weber, Maury Yee and Kyle Zurevinski.

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PAVED Arts is proud to present FRACTURED LAND in cooperation with the ICCC.

This Hot Docs festival Top 10 Audience favourite has been touring festivals across the country, and we are very excited to bring the documentary to Saskatoon. Caleb Behn, the subject of the documentary, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

“Deep down we’re all fractured,” an oil and gas representative tells young Aboriginal leader and lawyer Caleb Behn. Behn knows that feeling all too well, as he struggles with the role he’ll play in protecting his territory in northern British Columbia, currently under siege from some of the world’s largest natural gas operations. The troubling reality is that the same industry threatening traditional practices and livelihoods is also responsible for giving his parents jobs that provided him with his lifestyle and education. Whether hunting beaver, throwing hatchets or studying legal briefs, the burden of leadership is visible in Behn, as he knows others are looking to him for a better future. Following him from the pristine North to downtown Vancouver and a fracked territory in New Zealand, Fractured Land provides optimism and empowerment toward issues that can seem dire and insurmountable.

Learn more about the film

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This fall the Saskatoon visual arts community is excited to launch “Art Passport YXE”; your personal guide to the brilliant ecosystem of arts and culture that lives in our city.

Art Passport is a free book that helps foster the arts by increasing individuals connectivity to art spaces and the connectivity between the spaces themselves.

Use the book  to keep up to do date with your visual arts community, discover new spaces, and connect with other passport holders.

Learn more about the project and sign up for a free passport here

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Press conference to be held at PAVED Arts, 424 20th Street West: 10:30am Tuesday, September 15
(Artists will be in attendance)

A public reception will be held on Friday, September 11 at 8pm, for the screening of all Toon’s On Transit submissions. This slide show of the submitted photographic works will be staged in the PAVED Arts Media Gallery.

In June of 2015 PAVED Arts, with support from the City of Saskatoon, embarked upon a unique project of placing the work of Saskatoon area photographers onto city transit. The response to our call for submissions was overwhelming. In the end the community jury were tasked with selecting 35 photographs from a total of 317 images that were submitted.

The artists selected for Toon’s On Transit (in alphabetical order) are:
Suzy Bourque, Stew Coles, Ron Cooley, Kate Cronin, Samantha den Hollander, Kenton Doupe, Brayden Elliott, Bob Ferguson, Shelby Fitzgerald, Shelly Fox, Jeff Glasel, Ken Greenhorn, Arnold Isbister, Will Kaufhold, Kaela Klingenberg, Emily Kohlert, Natasha Kooy, Don Kossick, Arvid Kuhnle, Aralia Maxwell, Rae McLeod, Jelena Misevski, Leila Olfert, Marcel Petit, Perseus Plaza, Jannik Plaetner, Laliberte Renée, Derek Sandbeck, Stefan Scott, John Shelling, Stephanie Strauss Hall, Justin Tendeck, Janice Weber, Maury Yee and Kyle Zurevinski.

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I Am The Bridge is a unique outdoor screening event hosted by PAVED Arts and the City of Saskatoon as part of Culture Days. This Saturday short films from Saskatoon media makers will be projected from the westside pier underneath the Idylwyld bridge.

Earlier this month a community jury selected these works to be featured as part of this years program.

01) “Saskatoon Skateboarding – From the Parks to the Streets” by Ryan Goldak (10′ 37″)
02) “Balance” by Sienna Waskewitch (2′ 23”)
03) “Babywka Rara” by Imaan Mirza (2′ 13”)
04) (Untitled) A Film by Agatha Mutongolo (5′ 20”)
05) (Untitled) A Film by Tun Maung (2′ 32”)
06) “Compound Theory 2a” by Terry Billings (2′ 29”)
07) “Together We Will Live Forever” by Adeel Salmon (7′ 16”)
08) “Short Eagle” by Jessica Generoux (5′ 09”)
09) “Victoria” by Ryley Konechney (1′ 44”)
10) “Location Location” by Morgan Tannis (1′ 04”)
11) “Too Much” by Jordan Becker (2′ 57”)

To start the evenings program we will also be screening the film “66 Physiognomies” as part of the Placemaker Program

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Twelve Calendar Girls, exemplifying different character types, enter landscapes representing the months of the year. Initially, all of the Girls stand motionless facing the viewer until a conductor’s baton is heard taping, counting in the orchestration. The work is a humorous exploration of the societal expectations of woman as aesthetic symbol and spectacle who is intrinsically at home in nature.

Lisa Birke is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Waterloo (2013) where she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Master’s Scholarship and the University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship. She was also awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies distinction. She has had solo exhibitions and screenings across Canada and internationally.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6 pm; Saturdays Noon – 4pm

PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.

For media inquiries or more information, contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director, tel. (306) 652-5502 ext.1. artistic(at)pavedarts(dot)ca

PAVED Arts offers Free admission to the public with barrier-free accessibility.

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Artists participating in Sounds Like 2015 explore the thematic of Locations and Borders through experimental audio performance and installation. Spread throughout the three-day festival, performances and installations will be held within AKA and PAVED Arts shared building at 424 20th Street West as well as various off-site locations throughout Saskatoon.

Festival passes $20 for three days or $10 each night. Passes available in advance on Picatic, or at the door.

Artists

Kyle Armstrong and Mark Templeton (Edmonton, AB) will perform Extensions inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s prediction for the “extensions of man” and the present and future impact of technology and media. The trio Burden comprised of Caitlin Hutchison, Doreen Girard and Shelagh Pizey-Allen (Winnipeg, MB) perform on an amplified piano soundboard using handmade tools and found objects. Anitra Hamilton (Toronto, ON) will install Territoriality, a captured sound recording of a gas-powered push mower which experienced outside of its performed action creates a sense of displacement. Eric Hill (Regina, SK) explores the space between audio and video, converting one into the other in an ongoing improvised loop. David Jensenius (Kitchener, ON) will collect sounds throughout Saskatchewan, presenting a special version of his mobile application network FoundSounds in which the audience can interact with and contribute to the collected audio. Karl Fousek (Montreal, QC) will present Solo Synthesizer an ongoing performance based on the aleph sound computer that relies on interaction and decision made by both computer and performer. Ben Grossman (Guelph, ON) will create a kind of invisible audio sculpture from sine waves and room dimensions in the performance Invitation. Wasted Cathedraland Chad Munson (Saskatoon, SK) will collaborate to perform Auditory Borders, drawing on spatial division, temporal frequency, environmental manipulation and collaborative sound synthesis in an oppositional but interlocking auditory dialogue. In partnership with BlackFlash Magazine and The Roxy Theatre we are pleased to screen A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness written by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell featuring Robert AA Lowe (OM, Lichens) and others in three situations and locations: an Estonian island, the isolated wilderness of Northern Finland and in Norway during a black metal concert, in what is described as “an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation”. In addition to the outlined performers the kick-off evening of Thursday, July 23 will include a DJ line-up and party to be announced. Finally, Sounds Like is happy to partner with MoSoFest in the presentation of Le Révélateur Roger Tellier-Craig and Sabrina Ratté, June 20 at The Refinery, Saskatoon, SK.

About the Artists/Projects

Kyle Armstrong and Mark Templeton have collaborated on a 30 minute film/record released as a 12” LP and DVD in tribute to Canadian media visionary Marshall McLuhan. The audiovisual elements include both original and sampled film and audio inspired by the media visionary. Their live approach is an improvised audiovisual performance, using both digital and analog tools. 2015 marks the 104th birthday of Canadian visionary Marshall McLuhan. With each passing year the revelatory nature of his prophetic vision becomes more evident. The global village is becoming a distinct reality in this technological age.  www.fieldsawake.com

Burden is Caitlin Hutchison, Doreen Girard, and Shelagh Pizey-Allen. Their collaboration emerged from working together at Negative Space, a collectively-run venue and art space. Where they released two tapes independently in 2014. Burden is a trio that creates composed and improvised works for the amplified piano soundboard. Amplifying the soundboard of a disassembled piano with contact microphones. Using handmade tools and found objects, the artists manipulate its strings and frame to create dark warm drones and immersive soundscapes. Removing the piano’s dampers has created a resonant instrument that requires an intimate form of collaboration.  https://bbrrddnn.bandcamp.com/album/burden-3

Eric Hill is a self described dabbler. He has worked in various mediums such as film, video, projection, installation, music, and sound art. Lately, he has worked to combine these separate interests into participatory or interactive events for both performer and audience. Through the assistance of the Holophon Mentorship program, he was able to create such an event with new software and techniques under his belt. This Must be the Space (Naive Technology) is an exploration of the space between audio and video. Using MaxMSP, video information is turned into audio and then through the use of CoGe is then turned back into video information. As well, sci-fi sounds and samples are part of the mix, adding to the tumbling feedback loop.

Karl Fousek is an emerging electronic sound composer and performer. Recently his work has focused exclusively on analogue voltage controlled modular synthesizers, culminating in 2014 with the release of his debut album on Relative Position of Figures on Danish imprint Phinery. Fousek has been developing a live electronic performance system based on the aleph sound computer designed by monome and Ezra Buchla (son of synthesis pioneer Don Buchla). The aleph acts as control device for a small analog voltage controlled synthesizer by generating user controlled, probability based control signals, while acting as a virtual tape splicing machine, reorganizing the synthesizers audio output in real-time. The system as a whole skirts the borders of generative composition and live free improvisation. www.karlfousek.com  http://soundcloud.com/analogue01/live-at-casa-del-popolo-montreal-01122014

Ben Grossman is a hurdy-gurdy player, percussionist, composer and improviser. He performs both as a soloist and as part of various ensembles. Grossman’s work is featured on over 80 CDs. He has also been recorded for film soundtracks, radio dramas, as well as for television shows and commercials.  His performance for Sounds Like, Invitation, explores the borders between installation and performance, and seeks to create an invisible audio sculpture from nothing but sine waves and room dimensions. http://macrophone.org

Anitra Hamilton‘s works have been presented at the 8th Havana Biennale, Zendai Moma, Shanghai, The Centre For Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Greece, the Art Gallery of York University, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Marrakech Biennale.  Territoriality is a captured digital sound recording of a professional gardener employing a gas- powered push lawn mower to cut the grass at a client’s home in a wealthy district of Toronto.  At times the recording resembles the sound of a droning bomber airplane creating a sense of displacement. As innocent as home gardening/maintenance may appear on the surface, it often becomes a platform for competition/conflict between neighbours. The notion of a sound-based work featuring the recording of a lawn in the process of being mowed/manicured and later presented in an area of Saskatoon that is rapidly gentrifying speaks of the unfortunate reality in order to create we must destroy something that is currently extant.

David Jensenius has developed a mobile application network, FoundSounds, for recording and sharing sounds. Each recorded sound is geotagged, allowing users to interact with a map and see where sounds are recorded. Users can also collage geographically located sounds together to create an artificial sound environment informed by what other users have recorded. Finally, FoundSounds allows users to go for a sound walk. nearby sounds get louder or softer as you physically navigate towards or away from their recorded location, creating a sort of temporal collage. For Sounds Like, an installation of FoundSounds, with sound collected in Saskatchewan, will enable audience interaction through both installation and app.   www.david.jensenius.org  www.foundsounds.me

Wasted Cathedral is Christopher Laramee a performer creating recordings of looped sound from melodic arcs to dissonant feedback.  Laramee plays guitar in Saskatoon bands Shooting Guns, The Radiation Flowers, The Foggy Notions and The Switching Yard. Chad Munson is an instrumentalist and sound engineer producing textural pieces focused around analog synthesis and guitar manipulations. Munson runs the cassette label Magnetic Domain and performs with The Moas and Grey Light District. Auditory Borders draws on the elements of spatial division, temporal frequency, environmental manipulation and collaborative sound synthesis through audio performance. Exploring concepts of the theory proposed initially by composer Iannis Xenakis that, “all sound, even continuous musical variation, is conceived as an assemblage of a large number of elementary sounds adequately disposed in time. In the attack, body, and decline of a complex sound, thousands of pure sounds appear in a more or less short interval of time.” The piece explores this concept as well as expands and further challenge these ideas through the utilization of a physical divide. https://soundcloud.com/wastedcathedral  https://soundcloud.com/chadmunson/citation

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black met al band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort, A SPELL is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in the present. Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead role, A SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction – it is at once a document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation.  http://www.aspelltowardoffthedarkness.com

Thank you to our partners Ed Video Media Artist-Run Centre and AKA Artist Run and to the Sounds Like 2015 Programming Committee of Travis Cole (Managing Editor BlackFlash Magazine, co-founder Open City Cinema), Tod Emel (intermedia artist) and Stephanie Norris (photographer) and the jury Travis Cole, Stephanie Norris, Mehta Youngs (sound artist, past Sounds Like performer) and Chris Worden (Director Eclectic Electrics Festival). Thank you to our festival partners BlackFlash Magazine, MoSoFest, The Roxy Theatre and Prairie Sun Brewery. Thanks to our generous funders the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskLotteries, SaskCulture and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Click here to read more about Sounds Like Audio Art Festival

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Currently Sounds Like Audio Art Festival seeks

Door Attendants

Bar Tenders

Videographers (equipment provided by us)

Volunteers will receive a festival pass for one night of volunteering and our unending gratitude for helping us put on one of Saskatoon’s favourite art events.  If you are interested in volunteering email director@akaartistrun.com.

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Soundwalk
David Jensenius
Tuesday July 21st 7:00PM
Storefront 224 20th Street West
This workshop is open to the public to attend
Join David Jensenius (Kitchener, ON) on a soundwalk through downtown Saskatoon. Participants will go for a slow walk listening closely to the natural environment and also how their own participation shapes the soundscape of the city.

Build a Bread Board Synth
Ben Grossman
Saturday, July 25th 2:00PM
AKA/PAVED
This workshop is for festival pass holders only
Ideal for first-time hackers, circuit benders and synth-builders, this workshop will give you an introduction to working with breadboards (solderless prototyping boards), through-hole components and the venerable 555 timer chip.  Participants will come away with a working, noisy, hackable little synth and (hopefully) a sense of empowerment and the confidence to start building, tinkering and making homemade sound devices.

All parts are provided, no tools required, all are welcome. Limited to 15 participants.

Programing and performing with analog modular synthesizers
Karl Fousek
Saturday, July 25th 2:00PM
AKA/PAVED
This workshop is for festival pass holders only
Workshop and informal discussion with Karl Fousek. Topics will range from simple and complex analog synthesis techniques, to performance and patching strategies, to integrating “computing” into a voltage control environment without the use of a personal computer. The workshop will also include a demonstration of the monome aleph sound computer as well as monome’s new teletype module for the use of ‘command line’ scripts within an analog synthesizer. Questions welcome!

About Sounds Like Audio Art Festival, July 23 to 25 2015:
Artists participating in Sounds Like 2015 explore the thematic of Locations and Borders through experimental audio performance and installation. Spread throughout the three-day festival, performances and installations will be held within AKA and PAVED Arts shared building at 424 20th Street West as well as Bridges Art Movement, the Roxy Theatre and the Storefront. Full line up here:  http://akaartistrun.com/portfolio-item/upcoming-sounds-like-audio-art-festival/

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Please remember that you must be a member in good standing to have voting privileges.
If your membership has lapsed, you can renew prior to the meeting to reinstate your standing.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

PAVED Arts is seeking individuals to fill upcoming vacancies on the volunteer Board of Directors, voted in by the membership. This role offers a rewarding opportunity to support and advise an established artist run centre. Nominees must be residents of Saskatoon.

PAVED Arts is a non-profit, community-based organization that exists to advance knowledge and practices in what we call the ‘PAVED Arts’ arts: photography, audio, video, electronic and digital. We help artists and independent producers make and exhibit their work.

We operate an access centre for media production and post-production, offer training and professional development for media artists, and bring examples of cutting edge work in the ‘PAVED Arts’ arts to Saskatoon audiences through our free gallery exhibitions and public screenings.

The Board meets every six weeks. Meetings include: reviewing and addressing issues related to the governance and sustainability of the organization as a whole, such as budget, finance, Executive Director recruitment and evaluation, fundraising, and major strategic and policy initiatives.

The Board maintains several standing committees to assist in the governance of the organization: Personnel Committee, Outreach Committee, and Fundraising Committee.

Applicants should be prepared to commit an average of 6 to 8 hours per month of volunteer time. Those who fill the vacancies on PAVED’s Board of Directors will have two-year terms, beginning July 22, 2015.

Nominations received by:
July 17, at 5 p.m., 2015
AGM and election announcements:
July 22, 2015 6pm

For further information and to submit your letter of interest and C.V., please contact:
Alex Rogalski, Executive Director
Executive@pavedarts.ca 306.652.5502 ext. 2
or visit www.pavedarts.ca

AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Appointment of Secretary
3. Acceptance of the Agenda
4. Acceptance of Minutes
5. Business Arising from Minutes
6. Executive Directors Report
7. President’s Address
8. a Presentation of Audited Financial Statements
b Re-appointment of Auditor
9. Election of new Board Members
10. Other Business
11. Next AGM

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Please join us for a public exhibition of the media project undertaken by Scott during his time at PAVED Arts.
One day only! Saturday, July 18th from 7-10pm in the PAVED Arts Main Gallery Space.

Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist that works primarily in photography,video, audio and printmaking. Scott has recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (2012), Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and has most recently been awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency 2013, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. He is currently in Montreal, having recently completed a year long Canada Council New Media Production grant through OBx Labs/Abtech and Concordia.

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Each dorkbot is different and is driven by the needs and interests of people in the local community. But generally, the main goals of dorkbot are to create an informal, friendly environment in which people can talk about the work they’re doing and to foster discussion about that work; to help bring together people from different backgrounds who are interested in similar things; to give us all an opportunity to see the strange things our neighbors are doing with electricity. dorkbot isn’t really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures, but rather a chance for diverse people to have friendly conversations about interesting ideas.

Visit the GLOBAL dorkbot site or dorkbot Regina.

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An Edward Poitras Billboard Project
Don’t Speak

For the subject of his billboard project, Edward Poitras drew from archival photographs of young girls in the residential school system in Saskatchewan. In a deeply personal text entitled “Don’t Speak” the artist remarks, “Even now when I look at this image, I can’t help but wonder about what happened to these girls. I imagine they became mothers, grand mothers and great grand mothers. With children of their own, some or all taken from them and sent to residential school. Some would know or hear of others who would go missing, like not being there for a group photo. Some would lose their language and others would get it back.”

The work of Edward Poitras has been included in numerous important group and solo exhibitions over the last 20 years. In 1995, he represented Canada at the prestigious Venice Biennale, the first Aboriginal artist to do so. He has exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau; the National Museum of the American Indian, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, Tampere, Finland. In 2002, he was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

The PAVED Arts/aka artist-run billboard space faces onto one of the busiest corridors in Saskatoon: 20th Street West, located in the burgeoning “Riversdale” district.

PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.

For media inquiries or more information, contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director
tel. (306) 652-5502 ext.1, artistic@pavedarts.ca

PAVED Arts: 424 20th Street West Saskatoon SK. S7M 0X4
Free admission to the public with barrier-free accessibility.

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