Radio spot produced and hosted by CKUW 95.9 FM hitting the airwaves soon!
Today Rob from CKUW sent me an .mp3 of the radio spot he and his team produced to help promote Showing Up, Speaking Out. It’s fantastic!!
I know all of you already listen to CKUW, right? *ha ha* But, in case you can’t wait to catch it throughout your listening day, I synched it up to the graphics Jess designed and made a lil’ YouTube video. Check it out!
Deepest thanks to CKUW for this great work and generous promotional consideration. Big big thanks to the UWSA for suggesting the idea and coordinating things =-)
Hi everyone!
Tomorrow it all begins! Inge Hoonte will start workshops with participants at Art City and I’ll be working with Collin to start installing the Showing Up, Speaking Out “staging ground” at aceartinc. After picking up a bicycle this morning to get around town more easily, Inge has been working away on “behind the scenes” aspects for her workshops, and I’ve been back and forth between meetings and errands also in preparation for the launch.
Here are some details:
Inge arrived yesterday so she, Cam from Art City, and I met at Cousin’s for dinner and to discuss further details concerning her schedule of activities. Inge had a ton of ideas during our last Skype meeting, and she had even more to share yesterday! It was so exciting. No, make that *is*. It *IS* exciting! We think the kids at Art City are going to have a blast thinking about recreation and how it affects the experience of city life.
Actually, two awesome people arrived in Winnipeg yesterday. Matt is also here now and is all ready to take on the role SUSO social media expert and all ’round facilitator! We met for lunch at Stella’s to get further acquainted and to talk about the schedule for the upcoming week. Matt shared a great idea to help circulate news related to SUSO activities, but I’ll leave it to him to share details =-)
What else? Well, aside from a great meeting with Amber-Dawn from Urban Shaman Gallery, that’s probably all there is worth reporting. You’ll see the fantastic paint colour selected for the SUSO staging ground tomorrow 
I am posting a link to this comprehensive article concerning the critical nation-wide issue of missing Aboriginal women, experienced in very real terms in Winnipeg, to share important information.
Please join Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Action Group (incl. collaborating artist, Leah Decter) at aceartinc. on Saturday Sept 11 from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. to get involved in a series of actions seeking to draw greater attention to this epidemic and help bring justice through education and solidarity.
Please click on the link below to access the article…
Chris Arsenault, “Native women ‘disappear’ in Canada (On the International Day of the Displaced, activists say fate of hundreds of missing indigenous women must be examined). Aljazeera Online. August 30, 2010. (http://english.aljazeera.net/quoteofday/2010/08/201083018253280225.html)
Red Tent 2010 is a nation-wide project in support of Bill-304, which calls for a federal housing strategy. This bill is going into its third reading in October and, if it passes, it will significantly affect the struggle to ensure all people in Canada have access to decent, safe housing.
Housing is a matter that affects all levels of community life: national, provincial and municipal. It has been included as a subject for discussion and action through Showing Up, Speaking Out because each municipality needs to identify and address regional conditions while working to involve and support local citizens.
The work being undertaken through the Red Tent campaign is inspiring on so many levels, but a reason I want to mention it here is because it is employs a distinctive visual element to draw attention to, and consolidate energy around, a discussion that needs to stay top of mind in order for change to happen. The red tent is a reminder to decision makers that people care about their fellow citizens and demand serious action ensuring the right to housing. The red tents that have started to, and will continue to, appear across the country creates something we can all point to as a visual indicator of support for the right to housing. It can not be ignored.
I don’t know a great deal about the image below, but I am very excited by it, and would love to find out more. If anyone has more information, please post details below. I found the image on the front page of Red Tent 2010’s website (http://www.redtents.org/), and see that it is a large gathering of people in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery, clearly rallying together to bring an end to homelessness.
I understand Red Tents are going to start appearing in Winnipeg soon. You can get involved by sponsoring a tent and placing it in a location that will spark attention in support of housing for all. Visit http://www.redtents.org/ to find out how.
What additional actions can we Winnipeggers take to make visual the critical need for housing for all? Join with Tomas Jonsson from September 13 – 18 to start brainstorming and doing!
Find out more about Red Tent 2010 by clicking http://www.redtents.org/ or here http://www.facebook.com/redtents?ref=ts&v=wall
Winnipeg (August 29, 2010)
Showing Up, Speaking Out is a four-week project offering Winnipeggers unique opportunities to speak out on important topics such as housing, poverty, and accessibility by co-creating temporary art works in public spaces with local and visiting artists. This project is about how art can help us express ourselves while building community. It also emphasizes the legitimacy of public space as a site for conversation about about city life.
To participate, community members are invited to attend free workshops focused on brainstorming ideas and creating art to be displayed and/or performed as a group. The works will be presented in various locations across Winnipeg and aceartinc. (2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.) will host photos, notes and other related items left by participants about their their involvement as an installation that will transform over time.
Inge Hoonte (Netherlands/USA) is the first of five artists/artist groups involved with Showing Up, Speaking Out. She will work with participants at Art City (616 Broadway) on September 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. On Sunday, September 5 from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m., she will work with a wider range of community members at aceartinc.
Participation is free and all are welcome! Please join us!
Artist biography: Hoonte orchestrates and documents human interaction, communication, and physicality in public and private settings. Her multidisciplinary approach combines writing, performance, audio, video, and community-based projects. Hoonte has presented her work throughout the United States (i.e. the Whitney Biennial, New York City), Canada (i.e. Toronto Free Gallery), and elsewhere (i.e. Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki). Hoonte holds a BFA in Visual Art and Public Space from the School of the Arts Arnhem, Netherlands, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Other participating artists will include: Tomas Jonsson (Calgary) on housing and poverty, Deborah Kelly (Australia) on diversity, Kristin Nelson (Winnipeg) on accessibility, and Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group including collaborating artist Leah Decter (Winnipeg).
As part of First Fridays (http://www.firstfridayswinnipeg.org),Winnipeggers are welcome to drop in to Showing Up, Speaking Out at aceartinc. on September 3 between 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. to learn more about how to this project works, and how to get involved. Information is also available at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca. Please visit often for regular updates.
This project is made possible thanks to partnerships with many local organizations: aceartinc., Art City, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, newinnipeg.net, RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, The University of Winnipeg’s Students’ Association, Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
Generous financial support for this project has been made available by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
News releases will be issued throughout the duration of this project to share details about each element. A growing calendar of events can be found at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca/get-involved.
For more information, please contact:
Milena Placentile, Independent Curator
showingupspeakingout @ gmail [dot] com
http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca
Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/SUSOWinnipeg
We recently picked up the awesome posters Jess designed, and we’ve passed them along to be distributed throughout the city. Keep your eyes peeled =-)
Marlo Campbell’s preview of Showing Up, Speaking Out in this week’s issue of Uptown Magazine is fantastic! Thank you so much for your interest in this project, Marlo!
Click on the image below to see a screen shot of the article, or click here to view it on Uptown’s website.
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The Winnipeg Free Press has just taken note of Showing Up, Speaking Out as breaking news in their online edition. Very cool! Check it out: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Show-up-speak-out-in-civic-art-project–100540539.html
In other news, I just had a fantastic interview with Uptown reporter, Marlo Campbell. An article will appear in a few weeks and I’ll definitely post news about it here =-)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Showing Up, Speaking Out offers Winnipeggers unique opportunities to engage with civic issues that matter
Winnipeg (August 11, 2010)
Beginning September 3, citizens from across Winnipeg are invited to participate in an experimental project that involves collaborating with local, national, and international artists to develop and present temporary artworks in public spaces throughout the city in response to various subjects relevant to municipal life.
Showing Up, Speaking Out recognizes the importance of art to everyday experience and finds it can support the right of all people to act within their communities by generating creative means for expressing values, sharing input, and building solidarity.
As such, Showing Up, Speaking Out seeks to highlight the critical role of artists as public thinkers and social communicators capable of inspiring new ways of engaging with the world. Showing Up, Speaking Out also seeks to enhance relationships between artists and other community members by facilitating opportunities to collectively explore the notion of public space as a valid forum for thoughtful idea exchange.
The staging ground for this project will be local artist run centre, aceartinc. (2nd floor, 290 McDermot Avenue). From this place, citizens and artists will work together to determine the form and content of artistic actions related to pre-determined themes (i.e. housing and poverty). After brainstorming ideas, they will make props or other items as required for their interventions and later present their work outdoors. aceartinc.’s Flux Gallery will serve a site for exhibiting content related to each artistic action (i.e. used props, photos and videos, and messages to other participants). The gallery will also offer a venue for participants to discuss the potential impact of their actions, and reflect on their experiences working together to express ideas about life in Winnipeg, and the kind of city they would like to shape together.
Activities associated with this project will be supported through regular blogging and an online forum at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca. A free e-publication including contributions from participants and responses from local writers will be available a few months after the project ends on October 5.
Participating artists include: Inge Hoonte (Netherlands/USA) on recreation, Tomas Jonsson (Calgary) on housing and poverty, Deborah Kelly (Australia) on diversity, Kristin Nelson (Winnipeg) on accessibility, and Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group including collaborating artist Leah Decter (Winnipeg).
This project is made possible thanks to partnerships with many local organizations: aceartinc., Art City, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, newinnipeg.net, RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, The University of Winnipeg’s Students’ Association, Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
Generous financial support for this project has been made available by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
Press releases will be issued throughout the duration of this project to share details about each element. A preliminary calendar of events can be found at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca/get-involved.
Contact: Milena Placentile, Independent Curator
showingupspeakingout [at] gmail [dot] com
http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca
Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/SUSOWinnipeg