NUIT BLANCHE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

White Water Gallery has sent out a call for submissions on behalf of BRAVO Centre (our regional office of BRAVO Arts, the Franco-Ontarian visual and media arts service organization) for the celebration of Nuit Blanche in downtown North Bay this fall. This year’s theme, La vie est belle (Life is beautiful), was chosen by Stefan St-Laurent, curator of la Nuit Blanche Ottawa, BRAVO Centre’s sister event.

BRAVO Centre is seeking francophone or francophile artists for the following activities:

  • In situ installation, creation or other
  • Visual or media art projects
  • Street art
  • Performing arts (music, singing and/or dancing)
  • Communication through Social Media (Skype or other)
  • Documentation (photography or film) of the event for an exhibition that will be hosted by the W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery
  • A project manager with suggestions for an outdoor low-budget community art project

For more information please read the submission guidelines below and print out and submit an idea to support francophone culture in North Bay!

Nuit Blanche Guidelines

Nuit Blanche Submission Forms

Aleks Bartosik: Real Human Beings

Aleks Bartosik: Real Human Beings
Exhibition: March 23rd – April 28th, 2012
Reception: March 23rd @ 7pm
Artist Talk: March 24th @ 1pm

A series of large-scale figurative paintings, loosely based on the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Real Human Beings explores the boundaries between the real and the imaginary.  Motivated by the particularities, delicacies, sensitivities, beauties and obsessions held within the relationships between lovers, siblings/twins, friends, strangers, and ourselves, Bartosik observes interactions between people and re-creates them using her own scenarios, environments and narratives. She challenges the viewer to dream through her deliberate narration and obsession with drawing in painting to investigate her/his own ability and willingness to imagine, pretend, dream and suspend disbelief.

The White Water Gallery’s presentation of Aleks Bartosik: “Real Human Beings” is produced in partnership with Line Gallery.