Bicycle Rehabilitation Project: A Traveling Interactive Art Piece
Bicycle Rehabilitation Project
A Traveling Interactive Art Piece
May 29 - 31 The Ministry of Casual Living. Daily
June 1, 2 Open Space. Daily. Artist Talk Saturday, June 2, 12pm.
How long has it been since your last tune up? Does your bicycle work the way you want it to? Do you care about the impact that your life and lifestyle make on the environment? If you want a better world and a better ride, you will probably enjoy taking part. The Bicycle Rehabilitation Project depends heavily on audience participation, and each individual participant strengthens the message that the project creates. Its creator Michael Flaherty will be on site both at the Ministry of Casual Living and Open Space to provide participants with a bicycle tune up.
Video Art Therapy: 14 Videos by Brian MacDonald
Video Art Therapy: 14 Videos by Brian MacDonald
Friday May 18 2007. 8PM
Award winning Victoria videomaker Brian MacDonald will premiere Video Art Therapy #1: journey to a distant planet at Open Space on Friday evening, May 18 at 8pm.
Video Art Therapy #1: journey to a distant planet is the first in a series of videos that aspires to make video art a useful commodity by providing therapeutic benefits for the viewer. A reassuring voice will help those who wish to escape depression or anxiety by guiding them on a fantastic virtual journey to an unexplored planet. Images of pretty lights, magic tricks, and ingenious sculptures are set to soothing music to facilitate relaxation and enable a temporary escape from a stressful world. Featuring sculptures by Aston Coles, Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie. Video art by Tor Jørgen van Eijk with music by Bryce Janssens and voice by Kate Lackey.
Voice + +
Voice + +
Monday May 7 - Saturday May 12
Workshops: Free. Concerts: $10/$12 or $20 for 3
The 3rd annual Voice++ Festival continues open space's exposition of the depths and edges of human vocal expression. Voice++ brings together local and national practitioners in performances, collaborations and public workshops that illuminate relations between people, places, cultures, and technologies - all through the human voice.
Voice ++ offers 3 concert performances, a range of community workshops, an artist panel discussion and a Voice++ Listening Room from May 7 through May 12 at Open Space.
Voice ++ begins Monday evening, May 7, with the opening of the Voice++ Listening Room, a reception, DVD screening and a preview performance by 2 of Canada’s most adventurous vocalists. Christine Duncan, regarded by National critics as “one of the most elastic and versatile vocal instruments in Canada” is joined by Festival alumnus and well-known experimental vocal specialist DB Boyko in a wild mix of selections from their recently released CD Idiolalla. The evening also offers the first workshop by Duncan and Boyko to start the creation of Large Noise Goes Walking (At Dusk), a community-created composition commissioned for the Voice++ Festival by CFUV Community Campus Radio. Victoria singers and musicians are invited to collaborate with Duncan and Boyko in workshops May 7 – 11 to form a Voice++ ensemble that will perform the created work on Saturday, May 12.