StarBuzz, Toronto-The Mississauga Arts
Council will be hosting their next Media Arts Mash up Networking
Event on September 27 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Art Gallery of
Mississauga with a special guest speaker! If you are a filmmaker, videographer,
media artist or an avid cinefile, then this event is for you. This will be a
great opportunity for like-minded people to meet, mingle and share their
creative ventures and network with others who share their passion for film. Ben
Donoghue, the Executive Director from the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of
Toronto (LIFT) will be discussing technology and the current climate of independent
and artist based film. Come one, come all as we find out what is going on in
our community and the opportunities that are available and discuss the
challenges of being a filmmaker in Mississauga. If you would like to attend,
you must RSVP with Communications Coordinator, Luiza Sadowski by emailing her
at media@mississaugaartscouncil.com.
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com
Limelight Call for Videographers! The Mississauga Arts Council is on the lookout for a fresh videographer
to create a professional video commercial for its Limelight Association of
Young Artists. The video will be featured on the Arts Council website and
social media platforms. The video will be a three minutes long and will capture
the excitement of MAC’s various programs including open mics, festivals,
concerts, workshops, art exhibits etc. All interested videographers are asked
to submit a letter of interest to the council by Monday, September 27 to
youth@mississaugaartscouncil.com. Compensation will be provided to the selected
applicant. More on Limelight Association of Young Artists: The hottest wave of
new artists have come together to join the Limelight Association of Young
Artists. Limelight is an exciting community of young artists under the umbrella
of the Mississauga Arts Council. Limelight's mission is to: connect aspiring
young artists and provide them with the support, recognition and opportunities
required for them to thrive. Limelight is instrumental in the production of
exciting projects including MAC's youth showcases, travelling open mics, the
Mississauga Future Star Competition, the Mississauga Youth Writers Guild,
workshops and more! Members include visual artists, filmmakers, dancers,
singer/songwriters, writers, graphic designers and more! For more information,
please email youth@mississaugaartscouncil.com.
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The
Mississauga Arts Council is delighted to partner with Whole Foods Market Square
One in Mississauga for this year’s 2012 Culture Days in Mississauga by hosting
the Wholistic Family Fair 2012 on September 29,
2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mississauga Novotel Hotel. It will include:
natural skin care and beauty products; tea sampling; palm reading; free
acupuncture; complimentary allergy testing and much more. Exhibitors will be
featured on the HazeFM Health and Wellness station. All admission proceeds go
directly to the Women’s Centre and the Mississauga Arts Council. The Novotel Hotel
is located at 3670 Hurontario Street. For more information or if you would like
to exhibit, please contact Lydia Loo at lydia@liferesources.ca
or by calling her at 416-564-9800. There will be a
plethora of other exciting activities taking place for Culture Days throughout
the city of Mississauga and country! Culture Days is a national event,
celebrating arts and culture and will encompass dancers, visual artists,
culinary artists and much more. Culture Days this year takes place from
September 28 to 30, 2012. To plan your weekend accordingly, visit the Culture
Days website at www.culturedays.ca. For more information, you can also visit the Mississauga
Arts Council website.
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com
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The
Mississauga Arts Council is delighted to continue to work with Whole Foods
Market Square One in Mississauga. Art and cuisine has collided in this
beautiful new partnership dedicated to promoting healthy living and artistic
expression in Mississauga. The Mississauga Arts Council has been selected as
Whole Foods Market Square One’s featured charity for its One Dime at a Time
Program.
For the whole month of September, customers can choose to donate 10 cents to
MAC when they re-use their own shopping bags. What a beautiful opportunity for
MAC! We are delighted!! Thank you Whole Foods! For more information, please contact
the Mississauga Arts Council at info@mississaugaartscouncil.com.
www.mississaugaartscouncil.com
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Tickets
are now on sale for the most scintillating gala event of the year, the
Mississauga Arts Council’s ARTBEATS Gala and Reception
on October 26, 2012. Mark your calendar for this exhilarating event
featuring breathtaking performances, culinary delights, entertainment, fine art
and auctions. ARTBEATS will begin at
6 p.m. at the Mississauga Convention Centre, located at 75 Derry Road West.
Arts aficionados are invited to come out and enjoy the most prestigious of
Mississauga’s flourishing arts community at this red carpet event. All proceeds
from MAC’s ARTBEATS fundraiser will
help to raise funds to support Mississauga’s thriving arts community. The
general public is welcome to come out and indulge their senses at this soiree,
filled with a diverse array of Asian, Greek, Italian, and Egyptian cuisine,
wine, coupled with sweet melodies and rhythms from around the world. Guests are
in for a luxurious evening of performances as leading performers take centre
stage. MAC is enthralled by the caliber of talent of its artists and is
ecstatic to announce the event’s Rock ‘n’ Roll theme, incorporating
performances by Mississauga’s Little Peter and the Elegants, as well as many
other talented musicians. Tickets are now on sale at $125 for an individual,
$200 for a couple and $700 for a table of 8. The dress code for the event is
formal business attire. All benefits from the ARTBEATS Gala and Reception will directly benefit the community at
large as MAC continues to make Mississauga one of Canada’s most creative,
innovative and artistic cities. Media are invited to come to the event’s
reception taking
place from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. During this time, there will be ample photo and
interview opportunities with MAC Board members, dignitaries, ARTBEATS performers as well as local
artists in attendance. Please call 905-615-4278 or email info@mississaugaartscouncil.com to purchase your tickets today!
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The City of Mississauga’s Culture Division Director, Susan
Burt and Andrew Whittemore of the Arts and Culture Division will give a talk
about the Arts and Culture Division on October 2, 2012
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The discussion will answer the following questions: What do they do? What do they bring to the
city? What initiatives are there that we as artists can tap into? Artists are
invited, feel free to bring a friend or three, and come and speak up! The Art
Gallery of Mississauga is located at 300 City Centre Drive in Mississauga. Please
RSVP your attendance to Claudio Ghirardo by emailing him at ghirard-stra@sympatico.ca.
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Mimos Kids Art invite the whole community in Mississauga and
GTA to the the first and unique Children Artistic Festival
made by boys and girls to adults on September 29, 2012 from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Mimos Kids Art misión is to integrate both latinoamerican and Canadian cultures
through art, while focusing on the promotion and advancement of multicultural
talent. The event will take place at the Meadowvale Theatre in Mississauga,
located at 6315 Montevideo Road. Tickets
are on sale for $15. To
purchase, please contact Taima by calling 905-607-3861.
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Mississauga Arts Council member and internationally renowned
visual artist, Michael
Pape is now offering his new painting, Silence Speaks - Snow
Leopard. It will be available
throughout the month of October in limited edition. "Giclée" prints will be
on Canvas and on Watercolour Paper. If you require any information, have any
questions, or would like to reserve the very first low number Artist Proofs
please email Michael at mike@theartofmichaelpape.com.
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Have you ever wanted to write a
novel? Well now there’s an amazing opportunity to learn everything there is to
know about the whole process! Come out to the workshop on writing, How to Build Your Story: Plotting novels and writing short stories.
An editor and an author explain it all on plotting novels and writing short
stories on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This workshop
will show you how writers plot a novel. You’ll also get the best tips on
writing short stories, where to get them published and how to win contests.
Best yet, you’ll see how to apply the story-building techniques you’ve learned
to your own writing. Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative
writing teacher for more than 25 years. He teaches at Ryerson University and
has led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Moncton.
But his proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get
published. Guest speaker Lynda Simmons has published eight novels and has built
a reputation for herself as an outstanding comic novelist. But her most recent
novel, Island Girl (from Berkley Books, a Penguin USA imprint), represents a
departure for Lynda in that it's a much more serious book. Set on the Toronto
Islands, the novel recounts the emotionally riveting story of a 55-year-old
mother, Ruby Donaldson, who fights to reunite her family as she struggles with
the diagnosis of early on-set Alzheimer's and her determination to control her
own future. Lynda's previous novel before Island Girl was Getting Rid of Rosie
(Berkley Books), which sold especially well in Germany. Prior to going
mainstream, Lynda served her apprenticeship as an author by writing six romance
novels, published by Harlequin, Silhouette and Kensington. As Lynda specializes
in comic novels, it’s not surprising that her presentations are known for their
humour. At the workshop, she'll share her insights into plotting novels and
creating a character arc. The fee is $44 if paid in advance and $48 if you wait
to pay at the door. To reserve a spot now, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca. For more
about other Saturday workshops and weekly creative writing courses, and for information
about literary agents seeking authors, writing contests inviting entries, book
publishers looking for books, journals and magazines calling for stories,
poetry and other short pieces, visit Quick Brown Fox, Canada's most popular
blog for writers.
http://quick-brown-fox-canada.blogspot.ca
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The Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives
(PAMA) would
like to invite everyone to their official launch of the art gallery on
September 30! The Peel Art
Gallery, Museums &
Archives, owned by the Region of Peel caters to artists in the cities of
Mississauga,
Brampton and Caledon. The Peel Art
Gallery is pleased to announce
its official opening after 2 years of
renovations on September 30, 2012 from 2:30 p.m.
to
5 p.m. The gallery is about
4000 square feet,
three times of what it
was
prior to its renovations. The facility is beautiful, located right in the heart of Downtown Brampton (right
off
of
Main Street), with a view of
Brampton’s Gage Park right across the street. It holds immense art
storage, with a large capacity
of
25,000 square feet,
encompassing over 5000
contemporary and historical art
collections! It also has a revolutionary tunnel
with bright glass windows that links both the Art Gallery and the Museum. The opening reception is open to the general
public and will
have an array of hands-on-
activities for family and friends.
There will be a special
performance by Peter Jarus and behind- the-scene tours of the facilities. Artists, Lyn Carter will be exhibiting her textile art and hybrid
sculptures. There will also be multimedia passages including photography and videography and
two exhibitions from
the
permanent collection.
The grand opening of the museum
section of
the building will
take place on November 24 and 25,
2012. The final
phase of the complete opening of the building will take place on February 18, 2013 (Family Day). Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy all
three phases
of the opening of
the
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives. It
will also be a great opportunity for
like-minded artists to interact and network. Judy
Daley, Supervisor/Curator Art Gallery & Education Services for PAMA
explains how “the philosophy PAMA
has moving forward is having a stronger
presence in the community for Peel.
Not just through exhibitions, but also through public programs at a special discounted rate.” The Peel
Art
Gallery, Museum & Archives
is located at 9 Wellington Street
East. For more information on any of the openings or
public programs, please contact Judy at Judy.Daley@peelregion.ca.
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