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The Lower Fort Art Fair 2008

Friday, August 22 from 8pm to 11pm
Saturday, August 23 from 11am to 4pm

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The second annual Lower Fort Art Fair brings Victoria's arts organizations together into one room. Similar to last year’s successful event, participants will present themselves with art fair booths for a two-day period. Individual booths aim to entertain, amaze and subvert expectations. Join us for what will certainly be an an entertaining celebration of Victoria’s burgeoning arts sector.

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Open Space Arts Society Annual General Meeting
Saturday August 16, 2pm 
Open Space 510 Fort Street, Victoria, BC

Join us at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday August 16, 2008 at 2pm. We review the financial statements, report on the past years programming and operations, and discuss special initiatives.

 

Breaxmas Klatch
Saturday, December 15
11am - 3pm
$5 individual / $8 families

Come and celebrate! Open Space will host its annual funraiser on Saturday 15, between 11:00 and 3:00 with its famed Breaxmas Klatch, a tasty pancake breakfast along side stimulating entertainment. There will also be a raffle and live auction.

The Breaxmas Klatch Grill Cam will project live video of Celebrity Pancake Flippers making pancakes for you.

Auction and Raffle with John G. Boehme as auctioneer @ 12 PM

Music by Cheers in the Belfry and Guests @ 1 PM
Candy Mandala made by Dallas Duobaitis all morning and then and then eaten by everyone @ 1PM

And, of course, Pancakes galore!

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                                open space facade circa 1978
 

Open Space Arts Society
35th Anniversary and Annual General Meeting
Saturday September 15 2004, 2pm 
Open Space 510 Fort Street, Victoria, BC

Join us at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday September 15, 2007 at 2pm. At this special AGM (we also celebrate Open Space's 35th birthday) we review the financial statements, report on the past years programming and operations, and discuss special initiatives.

Schedule:

2:00 pm: AGM

3:00 pm: Break

3:15 pm Second Life virtual landscape, intro by avatar Tran Spire (Doug Jarvis)

3:20 pm Avatar Orchestra Metaverse performance and talk on Second Life. The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) will be performing Miulew’s Audiospace work as well as 2 additional pieces from the AOM repertoire as part of the re-launch of Audiospace.  This live SL performance will be projected onto a screen at OS for audience viewing. This will include an introduction to the AOM and its virtual instruments by Miuliew Takahe and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse 

3:45 pm Audiospace showcase featuring Chantal Dumas' work, conference via Skype with Audiospace artists and via Second Life with Miuliew, Wirxli and other Avatar Orchestra Metaverse members) and technology permits

4:15 pm Open Space web launch with Jim Olson (TBC) and Ross Macaulay

4:30 pm Archive exhibit tour with Colleen Sanders, Blair Taylor and Ross Macaulay

4:45 pm Birthday celebrations: introductions to former directors (Konrad), tenant Hideko (if available), cake, snacks.  Pulp mortgage to celebrate our debt holiday.

 

 

 

LOFOARFA

August 17, 18, 2007

Opening Gala     Friday, August 17, 8pm

Art Fair    Saturday, August 18, 11am to 6pm 

Victoria ---- Open Space presents an art fair of extreme proportions! Many of Victoria’s artist run centres and galleries assemble to offer the inquisitive, the playful and the unexpected for the art crawling public. Individual booths aim to entertain, amaze and subvert expectations. Join us for what will certainly be an an
entertaining celebration of Victoria’s burgeoning arts sector.

An indoor summer event like no other, LOFOARFA sheds the commercial skin of traditional art fairs in exchange for an imaginative and creative work-out. Ten organizations will be on hand to offer everything from virtual kite flying, interactive board games, burlesque and trading card design, visual art, live music, the written word and much that exists in between.


LOFOARA features a range of Victoria’s arts community active contributors. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Media Net, The Ministry of Casual Living, Perro Verlag (Mayne Island), Polychrome Fine Arts, The Slide Room Gallery (at VISA), Studio 16 1/2 Gallery and Arts Emporium will all be on hand to offer a counter-spin on the local art scene.


The public is invited to attend, free of charge, to both the opening gala at 8pm on Friday, August 17 and the art fair on Saturday, August 18 from 11am - 6pm. Door prizes, silk screens (bring your own t-shirt for screening on Saturday afternoon!) and food will be on hand.
 

Featuring:

 The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria

The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Island Blueprint, Island Blue Art Supplies

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

 Media Net

 The Ministry of Casual Living

 Perro Verlag

 Polychrome Fine Arts 

 The Slide Room Gallery (at VISA)

 Studio 16 1/2 Gallery and Arts Emporium 

 

  

Friday March 23, beginning at 5pm throughout Victoria

On Friday, March 23, Victoria’s artist run centres will collectively open their doors for
Off The Grid, an official en mass open house event.

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Breaxmas Klatch
Saturday, December 2
11am - 5pm
$5 individual / $8 families

Come and celebrate! Open Space will host its annual funraiser on Saturday December 2, between 11:00 and 5:00 with it's famed Breaxmas Klatch, a pancake breakfast with entertainment by Hank Pine, David P Smith & Dad's Juice and the Great Giffoni. There will also be a raffle and silent auction with a chance to bid on an original painting by Eric Metcalfe.

ART CENTRAL STAMPEDE
BREAXMAS KLATCH 2004
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11,
HIGH-NOON
OPEN SPACE 510 FORT STREET

WITH:
PANCAKES FROM THE NEGATIVE VORTEX,CELEBRITY FLAP-JACKERS, THE GREAT GIFFONI, BOOT STOMPIN MUSIC PROVIDED BY DAVID P. SMITH AND DAD’S JUICE, RAFFLE PRIZES OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, AWARDS FOR THE BEST DRESSED, A ‘LIVE’ GRILL CAM, OLD TIME TV, EGGNOG, CHEER, ETC... ZERO TO ART IN 3.798 PANCAKES

Resource Centre Exposé
510 Fort Street
Friday, June 4 & Saturday, June 5, 2004
11am-8pm
Free

Open Space 30th Anniversary

Open Space Celebrates 30th Anniversary

On October 19, 2002, Open Space celebrated its 30th Anniversary as Victoria’s oldest Artist Run Centre, which was incorporated on that same auspicious date in 1972. The past 30 years of cultural growth not only mirrors the multi-disciplinary programming at Open Space, but represents the support of artists in their attempts to bring new ideas to the ever-changing face of contemporary art. In the least, it speaks of this institution’s involvement with the community-at-large as Victoria continues to grow in stature as a creative locale.

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Open Space AGM

June 24 

Open Hand fundraiser for the Mustard Seed Foodbank
with Daniel Lapp & friends

December 2 

quickdraw two 

April 28 & 29

Open Space fundraiser 

Speaker's Forum with Rosemary Brown

February 26, 7 pm 

 

Public Art and the Word on the Street: A Symposium on Art in the Public Realm

September 24-30 

Open Space, Camosun College, Fine Arts Department and the University of Victoria, Fine Arts Department presented a week long discussion on art in the public realm in conjunction with the extensive Open Space exhibition of Mowry Baden's recent work entitled A Choreography of the Ordinary: Recent Works 1988-1998. The symposium will attempt to foster critical comparisons and discussions of the wider significance of the artist's investigations inside and outside the gallery space. 

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Visual Art Program Fundraiser - Pecking Order

February 24-March 14

Birdhouses, Feeders and Baths by Artists, Architects and Artisans 

Fundraiser: Quick Draw

November 21-24

A Benefit Sale of 250 Drawings by Contemporary Artists. 

Day of the Dead celebration

October 31

Funeral procession of Orozco-Quiyono's installation through downtown Victoria to Rogue Art, costume party at Open Space, 10pm-1am. 

Quick Draw

February 6-9

A benefit sale of over 100 contemporary drawings.
 

Fundraiser: Quick Draw

November 21-24

A Benefit Sale of 250 Drawings by Contemporary Artists.