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The Winnipeg Effect: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 3-5, 2016 
Symposium Program [pdf] THURSDAY evening, November 3 6:30 pm Registration 7:00 pm Welcoming Remarks Winnipeg Art Gallery MC Patricia Bovey, Director Emerita, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Past-Chair, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art WINNIPEG EFFECT PROJECT LAUNCH Bill Kirby, Founder and Director, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art GUEST SPEAKER Dr. Martha Langford Research Chair and Director Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University 7:30 pm CCCA 20th ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION FRIDAY, November 4 8:30 am Registration / Coffee 9:00 am Welcoming Remarks READING Jeanne Randolph: Sewer Stories Spotlight 1: Kegan McFadden: Border Crossings PANEL 1: The Winnipeg Effect (those from here, who left or stayed) Panelists: Suzanne Gillies Robert Houle Laura Letinsky Moderator: Noam Gonick [Panel sponsored by Plug In Inc., Buhler Gallery, Video Pool, & Platform centre for photographic + digital arts] Spotlight 2: Leona Herzog & Ted Howorth: Bill Lobchuk, Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop, & CARFAC Manitoba 10:45 am Health Break 11:00 am Spotlight 3: Liv Valmestad: Diane Whitehouse and MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women's Art) PANEL 2: The Winnipeg Effect (those who came and stayed) Panelists: hannah_g: Institutional Generosity Kristin Nelson: A Winnipeg Effect Alexis Kinloch Moderator: Mary Reid [Panel sponsored by MAWA, aceartinc., and School of Art, University of Manitoba] Spotlight 4: Celebrating the legacy of The Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. in Canada [guest presenter: Jaimie Isaac] 12:30 pm LUNCH [included with registration] 1:30 pm Spotlight 5: The 1980s in Winnipeg [guest presenter: Jon Tupper] PANEL 3: The Winnipeg Effect (assessing the history of contemporary art in Winnipeg & the impact of Winnipeg-themed exhibitions) Panelists: Sigrid Dahle: The Gothic Unconscious Steven Loft David Churchill Moderator: Kegan McFadden [Panel sponsored by Urban Shaman, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, and Martha Street Studio] Spotlight 6: The Royal Art Lodge [presenter: Diana Thorneycroft] 3:30 pm Health Break 3:45 pm Spotlight 7: Doug Melnyk [guest presenter]: The Sleeping Beauty Cabaret KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan: Why Winnipeg? Introduction by Bev Pike [sponsored by the Library Gallery / Cliff Eyland] 4:30 pm BOOK LAUNCH AUNT AGONY'S CAVALCADE OF MYSTERIES, by Bev Pike. [designed by Susan Chafe, Lives of Dogs Press; distributed by Also As Well Too Book Library] Winnipeg Telephone (Artist) Book. Also As Well Too Press 5:00 pm Evening open for FIRST FRIDAY Exhibition Openings and Events SATURDAY, November 5 11:00 am Open for visits to Winnipeg's many galleries and artist-run centres. SYMPOSIUM SPECIAL EVENTS 4:00 pm EVERYTHING MUST GO!: Plugette ephemera 1972-1980 [Archival material & photograph documentation of the first decade of Plug In] [From the personal archives of co-founders Suzanne Gillies and Douglas Sigurdson] Publication Launch: MONDO TRASHO, edited by Kegan McFadden. (As We Try & Sleep Press) LANTERN Gallery, Winnipeg 6:00 pm There's More Than One Way [An overview of collective art making practices in Winnipeg, 1968 - NOW] Curated by Kegan McFadden. Special Collections Gallery, School of Art, University of Manitoba 8:00 pm The Revival of the Sleeping Beauty Cabaret: The Afterlife Cabaret Organized by Doug Melnyk [Performers: Ellen Peterson, Cathy Nosaty, Sharon Bajer, Debbie Patterson, Lori Freedman, Erika MacPherson, Gerry Atwell, Angie St. Mars, Allysa Watson and Frances Koncan]. Jekyll & Hyde's Freehouse, Winnipeg |