The 2012 Festival has wrapped up...Thanks, everyone, for a fantastic festival! We're all tired and glowy, and dealing with tidy-up, but we'll be posting photos, updates, and videos soon. Check back in a few days for more, thanks. In the meantime, flap on over to Corvus Magazine to check out some new work! |
Poetry Gabriola Society's Summer Art Lab Series
Take a short detour to the Yurt at the Commons THIS SUNDAY
Victor Anthony’s All-Day Interactive Photo Shoot is a one-of-kind opportunity to create a new work of art using a favorite piece of artwork and yourself as the subject. Swerve off of North Road anytime on Sunday, park your buggy and walk into the Commons. The results of this collaborative event will be displayed the following week and a print of you and your treasure will be yours to keep! This is community documentary-making at its finest.
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Art Lab #3
Interactive All-Day Photo Shoot Sunday July 10th
With Victor Anthony
You’ve probably heard of a photograph being referred to as “a still”, but Victor Anthony thinks photography should be more interactive than that. Gabriolans are invited to help him bring his All Day Interactive Photo Shoot to life. Choose a favourite piece of art, preferably but not necessarily of local origin, and take it to the yurt at The Commons. Once there, Victor will collaborate with participants on the setting up and taking of a black and white analogue photo.
Making the picture is only half the fun. Everyone is invited back the following weekend for an in-the-round show of all the images created. And possibly the best part of the whole thing is, afterward, participants get to take home a signed, archival print of themselves and their art.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1952, Victor Anthony started snapping pictures as soon as he got hold of his first camera, a Brownie. In 1978, his hobby evolved into a more serious study of the craft, thanks to the classic slice-of-life images coming out of the Magnum collective of photojournalists. . Street photography became both his obsession, and his passion. In 2007, he and his wife, Joëlle, emigrated to Canada, settling on Gabriola Island. Victor has photographed Poetry Gabriola’s Festival for two years now, and last year, Artworks hosted his first Canadian one-man photography show.
Art Lab #4
Spontaneous Poetry in the Yurt: Sunday July 17th
1pm – 4pm
