Look + Listen + Learn
6th Annual Corn Roast
Sunday, September 12, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Wolf Sculpture Garden
Join London artist and rogue roaster Ron Benner at his garden installation
As the Crow Flies for a corn roast. Part sculpture, part installation and
part performance, the event will feature Benner’s roving corn roasting wagon
Maiz Barbacoa. The site-specific piece—first exhibited in Montreal in 1984
after years of research—features a pond, garden and corn plants surrounded
by black and white laminated photographs that trace the militarization of
food and society, as well as themes of activism, environmentalism and global
food politics.
Musician Frank Ridsdale will entertain us with his resolute songs of
political misdemeanours covering a wide geographical range from the Port
Stanley harbour to Latin American revolutionary songs. The London native and
his band Slugfest are best known for their 2006 CD “The Port”, which pays
homage to the Lake Erie beach he visited as a child and performed at as an
adult.
Admission: FREE
Brenda Joy Lem in Conversation with M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip
Sunday, September 19, 1:00 pm
Artist Brenda Joy Lem will speak with noted writer M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip
about themes key to Lem’s work currently on exhibition: memory, ritual and
spirituality, racism, alienation and immigration, the enduring heart and its
capacity for transformation. M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip is the author of
several books of poetry, fiction, essays and drama. She is the winner of the
Casa de las Americas Prize and a Fellow in Poetry of the Guggenheim
Foundation. Her most recent work is the book-length poem, “Zong!” Her essay,
"All Her Relations,” on Brenda Joy Lem’s work appears in the exhibition
catalogue.
Admission: FREE
Performance and Lecture by Artist Natalka Husar, followed by Book Launch
Sunday, September 26, 1:00 pm
Assuming the costume of her alter ego, the stewardess, painter Natalka Husar
will take the audience on a trip–complete with in-flight movies—to her past,
her muses in Ukraine and then back to her painting studio in Canada. This
blend of artist’s talk and performance will delight all passengers.
After Natalka’s talk, please join us for a launch of the Husar Handbook, a
richly illustrated book, co-published by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre,
MacKenzie Art Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art and the Tom Thomson Art
Gallery. It contains essays by Gerta Moray (Toronto-based art historian),
Dawn Owen (Assistant Curator, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre), Carol
Podedworny (Director and Chief Curator, McMaster Museum of Art), Stuart Reid
(Executive Director, MacKenzie Art Gallery), and Meeka Walsh (Editor, Border
Crossings). The Handbook accompanies the catalogue Natalka Husar: Burden of
Innocence. Both books will be available for purchase.
This program is part of Culture Days, organized by the Ontario Arts
Council.
Admission: FREE
Appetite for Art
Eat a delicious lunch at On The Fork Restaurant at Museum London while
you learn more about artworks and artifacts from the Museum’s permanent
collection.
How does it work?
Held on Tuesdays at noon, Appetite for Art features 60-minute gallery talks by
knowledgable Museum staff, and lunches inspired by Museum London’s tastiest
works.
Tuesday, September 21 -- Les Radis du Mars by Mario Avati, surprise
artefact featured
Tuesday, October 19 -- Icebox and Kitchen Shelves by David Milne
Tuesday, November 16 -- Squash and Apple by Lionel Fitzgerald
Ticket price per person, including tax and lunch: $35 Museum London Members; $40
General Public.
Enjoy one free program by purchasing a series pass: $140 Members; $160 General
Public.
To register, call 519.661.0333
Space is limited and advance reservations are required five days prior to the
event. Lunch is prix fixe, with no substitutions. Allergies will be accommodated
with advance notice.
NEW!
HISTORY HIKES
Saturdays 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
From Castles to Cottages – October 16, November 6
Meet at Museum London
Unsettling the Thames – October 23, November 13
Meet at Museum London
River Walk – October 30, November 20
Meet at Eldon House
On these three walks, visitors will be taken back as far as the First Nations
peoples settlements in London and, specifically, in the downtown core. “From
Castles to Cottages” expounds on the architectural transformation of historical
buildings in the area as a reflection of growing industry during the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the lives of workers, “Unsettling the
Thames” will share stories about early settlement on the Forks of the Thames,
from just prior to European contact up to the late nineteenth century. Eldon
House’s highly-regarded “River Walk” explores the founding of London, historic
events such as the Great Flood, and discovers nature in this interactive walking
tour around the Thames River. Walks will go ahead rain or shine.
Admission: FREE
Book Launch
The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan
by Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn
with an essay by Laura U. Marks
Thursday, October 7, 7:30 pm
Lecture Theatre
Published as part of The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan, the first
curated project to bring together and examine Hassan’s use of moving image art
forms, this richly illustrated book represents an important new avenue of
research into one of Canada’s most prominent artists. The catalogue examines in
detail nine films and videos produced by Hassan over her career, which are
discussed and contextualized within her artistic practice through a series of
texts, including two major essays, as well as extensive visual documentation
relating these works to the installations or projects they are derived from.
Printed in two editions, the deluxe hardcover version includes a DVD of the nine
films as curated by Jordan and Haladyn.
Published by Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts and the Art
Gallery of Windsor in association with Blue Medium Press.
