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Julie York Lecture, Oct. 13

Reminder of special lecture coming up soon, hosted by the
North-West Ceramic Foundation:
Julie York, Conflagration of Object and Image
Wed., Oct. 13 , 7 p.m.
Emily Carr University north building, in the IDS
- Motion Capture Studio

Call for Artists

Deadline: Oct. 17

Are you an artist or artisan looking for a place to display and sell
your work at Christmas? Place des Arts, a multi-disciplinary arts centre
in Maillardville Coquitlam, is seeking new artists for its Christmas
Boutique Nov. 12 to Dec. 17, 2010. A $5 jury fee applies. The
deadline for registration is Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. For registration
forms and artists identification cards, interested artists may visit
www.placedesarts.ca and follow the “Our Programs” dropdown
menu to “Christmas Boutique.” For more information, contact gift
shop coordinator, Lidia Kosznik, at 604.664.1636 or email her at

Ikosznik@placedesarts.ca

Menorah Chanukah Competition
Deadline: Oct. 25

‘This competition and exhibit is open to artists to celebrate winter
light. Artists from all communities are welcome to submit artwork
that interprets the meaning of Chanukah and the menorah design.
For more information about the menorah design and the observation
of Chanukah, please visit www.burquest.org. There is a $1,000 cash
award to the winning artist of the Judges vote, and a $100 cash award
will be awarded to the winning artist of the public vote. Details are
available for download at: www.portcoquitlam.ca/__shared/assets/
Menorah_Chanukah_Competition_Call2010_final8437.pdf

LADYSMITH, B.C.

Potters Discussion Group

Hello fellow potters:

‘The next Discussion Group meetings will be on Sunday, Oct.
3 and Sunday, Jan. 9 from 1 p.m. onward at my pottery in
Ladysmith on Vancouver Island. Everyone is welcome, beginners
to professionals, and there is no charge. The idea is for a free
flow of discussion covering whatever areas people may be having
problems with. I personally like to help with problems around
finding your style and the creative process but am happy to help
in other areas too if I can. Mary Fox Pottery is located at 321 Third
Ave. Ladysmith 250.245.3778, maryfox@shaw.ca

An email or phone call to let me know you are planning on
attending is welcome but not a requirement. Looking forward to

seeing you,

—Mary Fox

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2501 Migrants: A Journey

2501 Migrants: A Journey is a full-length documentary about a
huge sculpture project that explores questions of art, and indigenous
community in the context of global migration.

Daily, thousands of primarily poor and young indigenous Mexicans
abandon their native homes. They start voyages to the first world
in search of jobs and the hope of a brighter future—or, indeed, any
economic future at all. In their wake, they leave behind the hollow
footprints of a cultural and domestic abandonment. 2501 Migrants
illustrates this through the story of Alejandro Santiago, a middle-
aged artist and family man from Oaxaca, Mexico. Relatively affluent
and erudite, Alejandro returns home after a brief self-exile in France.
But upon arrival to his native Teococuilco, he is struck by what he
perceives as a virtual ghost town. Alejandro experiences, first hand, the
reality that Oaxaca has emerged as one of Mexico's leading exporters
of human labor to the United States. Inspired by this, he decides to
create a monumental installation art piece: 2,501 life-size sculptures
an homage to each individual migrant who left his village.

See part of the documentary here:

http://250 Lmigrants-themovie.com/trailer.html

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