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2012 Lineup:
Friday September 28th
Art of the Peace Launch Party
Montrose Cultural Centre
Friday 10am – 11am
Join Art of The Peace for a fabulous morning coffee break. Start Alberta Culture Days off with a magazine launch, exciting announcements and information on all of the weekend’s events.
Cultural Coffee Break
Alberta Provincial Building – Main Foyer, 10320 – 99th Street
Friday 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Co-hosted by the Grande Prairie Guild of Artists and Alberta Culture. Everyone is welcome to attend this refreshing event. Enjoy coffee and goodies, view works by members of the Grande Prairie Guild of Artists, and enjoy a performance by the Edge Skills Academy Dancers. Pick up your Culture Days Guidebooks here and get information on all of the weekend’s exciting events.
Grand Opening – Community Block Party
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
Friday 7:00 pm
The board and staff of the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie wish to invite you to join us for the grand opening of the newly restored building! We hope you will join us for a special evening to celebrate the gallery. All of our guests will enjoy drinks, food, a ribbon cutting ceremony in the new courtyard, and the evening’s musical guests the Chris McIntyre Band and Nathan Rogers. The gallery’s previous home in the historic 1929 Grande Prairie High School building partially collapsed in 2007 and has been under construction for past two years. The building has been fully restored and we’re happy to welcome visitors to explore the new space and view four art exhibitions. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday September 29th
Grand Opening – Family Festival
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm
Our Family Festival will be a day to celebrate the grand opening of the newly restored building! Enjoy guided tours, family art activities, art exhibits, face painting, body painting demonstrations, food and drinks and our Speaker Series (12 – 4pm). We hope you’ll join us to celebrate the gallery’s opening and learn how we preserve, inspire and explore. This event is free and open to the public.
Third Annual Wearable Art Show
Centre for Creative Arts
Saturday 5pm Free Showing
Saturday 7pm, tickets $25, purchase in advance at the Centre for Creative Arts
Back by popular demand, this high energy event shines a spotlight on contemporary art in Grande Prairie. The event will feature a catwalk style showing of wearable art pieces created by local artists. The 7pm showing also includes refreshments and a performance by local hoop dancer Amanda Syrdya. Select pieces will remain on display at the Centre for Creative Arts for the duration of the weekend.
Wayne Arthurson – A Writer’s Journey
Grande Prairie Public Library, Linda Smith Story Room
Saturday 10:30 am
Winner of the Alberta Reader’s Choice Award, Wayne Arthurson who is the bestselling author of the Leo Deroches mysteries including Fall from Grace and A Killing Winter is here. Like his protagonist, Wayne is the son of Cree and French Canadian parents. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a drummer in a rock band, and as a freelance journalist and big time blogger. Coffee and muffins to help kick-start your day.
Writing History – Yours, Ours or Theirs
Grande Prairie Public Library, Rotary Training Room
Saturday 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Do you have a life story to tell? Wayne Arthurson, a writer of Alberta history, will be able to give you help and ideas for researching and then getting the story told in such a way that your readers will want to not only finish the book or article but will be looking for more of the same. Coffee is served!
Book Launch: The Piper of Shadonia by Linda Smith
Grande Prairie Public Library, Linda Smith Story Room
Saturday 2:00 pm
The Piper of Shadonia beautifully captures the struggle of a young man destined to free his country from foreign rule. Join us as we celebrate the much anticipated release of this final book by beloved local author and former GPPL children’s librarian Linda Smith. Refreshments will be served.
Mary Lambert, Children’s Musical Performance
Grande Prairie Public Library, Rotary Community Room
Saturday 11:00am – 12:00pm OR 1:00pm – 2:00 pm
This is a fun, interactive concert for families of all ages! Drop-in program.
Juno Award Nominee Mary Lambert will be performing two concerts at the Library with her unique mix of song, dance, and colourful props: “Family Fun” and “Fun with Fall.” Mary’s concerts are energetic and interactive, so come prepared for Mary to ask you to join her on stage!
Reel Shorts Sneak Preview
Second Street Theatre, 10130 – 98 Ave
Saturday 1:30pm – 2:45pm
Tour the world in 70 minutes with this package of 7 great films from Canada, the US, France, Germany, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. These docs, comedies, and dramas are suitable for school children and adults. Check them out now before they screen at the 7th Reel Shorts Film Festival May 1-5, 2013. The foreign-language films (German and Hebrew) have English subtitles. The films are:
- · Unwieldy Beast (USA, 2011, 6 minutes) – an award-winning and delightful doc about a musician who wanted to play a piano in the streets of San Francisco so he invented a bizarrely funky way to do it
- · Kidnapped (Germany, 2011, 20 minutes) (German with English subtitles) – an 11-year-old boy is kidnapped by a classmate who has a crush on him in this sweet, award-winning story of captivity and freedom
- · Brad & Gary (France/USA, 2011, 4 minutes) – a supremely silly tale of misadventure as two friends, stuck for something to do, find it increasingly difficult to get unstuck
- · The Basketball Game (Canada, 2011, 5 minutes) – an award-winning, poignant and humorous account of the filmmaker’s experience as a boy in 1983 when kids who’d been taught anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial at their school in Eckville, Alberta were invited to a basketball game against his team at Jewish summer camp
- · The Other Side (Israel, 2012, 25 minutes) (Hebrew with English subtitles) – an unusual friendship forms when a soccer ball becomes the link between a boy on the Israeli side of the West Bank separation wall and someone on the Palestinian side
- · The Maker (Australia, 2011, 6 minutes) – an award-winning animated film about a strange creature who must race against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life
- · Abiogenesis (New Zealand, 2011, 4 minutes) – an award-winning sci-fi spectacle in which a startling mechanical device lands on a bleak and desolate world to enact a profound transformation
Sunday September 30th
“Five Alarm Photography Competition and Exhibition” Opening Reception
Centre for Creative Arts, third floor
Sunday 2pm – 4pm
Join us for the opening reception of the Five Alarm Photo Project, a friendly competition between 5 local Grande Prairie photographers featuring the work of Al Gervais, Chris Beauchamp, Chris Fox, Doreen Altman and Nicky Hemingson.
“Hip Flick Hoops” Spin Jam
Muskoseepi Park Amphitheatre
Sunday 1pm – 3pm
Join Hip Flick Hoops in an afternoon of Spin Jam fun filled with spinning, dancing and trickery with both adult and child hula hoops and other flow toys. While this is not a structured workshop a hoop dance instructor will be on site to share some amazing hooping moves! This is a great opportunity to try something new or share your skills with others and have fun in the great outdoors! Hoops and other props will be provided but please feel free to bring your own if you have them.
Prairie Tales 14: Alberta Film & Video on Tour with Wednesday Lupypciw
Grande Prairie Public Library, Rotary Community Room
Sunday 2:00 pm
A showcase for some of the best recent work by Alberta’s media artists, Prairie Tales 14 treats viewers to an impressive range of genres and styles. We are also pleased to have Wednesday Lupypciw, the writer-producer of Why Daddy MMXI with us to discuss her work and share her knowledge about filming in Alberta. Coffee is served!
“Afternoon Tea” Party
Four Corners Tea Shop, 9927B 100 Ave
Sunday 12pm – 4pm
Reception for “Afternoon Tea” Patricia Peters Exhibit. Meet the artist and enjoy a delicious tea sample at this public reception for local artist Patricia Peters’ tea themed exhibit
Exhibits, Enjoy All Weekend Long:
Centre for Creative Arts
“5 Alarm Photography Competition and Exhibition”
“My Divers Diversion” Whitney Lee Hayes
“Boreal Forest Class of 2012” Joselyn Aldred/Courtney Warr
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
“Narrative Quest”
“Good Intentions” Jon Sasaki
“Winter on the Wapiti” Robert Guest
“6 points of resilience” Catherine Hamel
Four Corners Tea Shop
“Afternoon Tea” Patricia Peters
The Grande Prairie Public Library
“Art of the Peace Traveling Exhibit”