Ontario Arts Council

FREE Information Sessions about OAC’s

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is pleased to invite you to one in a series of: FREE Information Sessions about OAC’s Literature and Northern Arts Programs.

The dates, times and locations for the information sessions are as follows:
North Bay
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
6th Floor Conference Room
City Hall – 200 McIntyre St. E. 
North Bay, Ontario

Kirkland Lake
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Hockey Heritage North – 400 Government Rd. W.
Kirkland Lake, Ontario

Timmins
Thursday, September 6, 2012
5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre – 325 Second Ave.
Timmins, Ontario

Sudbury
Friday, September 7, 2012
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Art Gallery of Sudbury – 251 John St.
Sudbury, Ontario

Please join John Degen, OAC’s Literature Officer, and Gouled Hassan, OAC’s Northeastern Consultant, if you have questions about:
· Services and support for literature artists;
· Your artistic practice or the practice of the artists you support;
· Whether you, your collective or organization are eligible for OAC grants;
· The application process (deadlines, etc.);
· How grant decisions are made and how juries are selected;
· How to select and prepare support material;
· Drafting clear, concise grant applications;
· Budgeting.

Please bring your questions, project ideas or proposals.

Please tell others about the information sessions.

*** The sessions will be conducted in English. For more information, please call Gouled Hassan, OAC’s Northeastern Consultant, toll-free at 1-877-265-8842 ***

Please register here 
For info about OAC grant programs, guidelines and application forms call 416‑961‑1660 email info@arts.on.ca, or visit www.arts.on.ca.

Bertrand Pitt: Travellings, Opens Aug 10th!

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Bertrand’s work is an exploration of unexpected connections between sound and image and their place in space questioning perceptual habits. His video installations and interactive works explore sensitive and cognitive connections between body and landscape giving condition for experiences which amalgamates contemplation, doubt and fascination.

Travellings is an installation of filmed landscapes that arise first as electronic abstract pictures eventually their origins are revealed gradually by the interaction of the viewer. Travellings questions the experience of motion; the idea that the faster we move, the more we may “see without seeing”. When the lines painted on a highway seem to stretch as our speed increases, what about the travelled landscapes? Do they merge into mixed impressions that has more to do with the memory than the objective eye? When travelling at high speed, does the depth of field vanish to become a surface, a screen, or a painting machine?