All Posts Tagged With: "The Artel"


Pecha Kucha

On behalf of The Kingston Arts Council, you are invited to our first Pecha-Kucha Night at The Artel, featuring artists from The Artel and Union Galleries. This will be a unique art presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps [...]


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Friday Foto

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Happy New Year!  I hope you had a fun and restful holiday.  I spent mine overindulging, to which I’m sure most you can relate.  I’m making up for it now with resolutions geared towards personal health and fitness.  I recently took up yoga and it has changed my life.  I don’t mean to sound overly [...]


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Life Drawing Session

The Artel presents a life drawing session.  Instruction is not provided, but newcomers are welcome. For those who don’t know how to draw but want to come, you’ll find this to be a very relaxed, informal, supportive environment to be drawing in.  So come on over!  Newsprint and pencils are provided. The life drawing sessions [...]


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Art’s Birthday

CFRC presents an Art’s Birthday Radio Cabaret as the second event in its 2010-11 RadioActive Carnival series of sound performance.  Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, who suggested that one million years ago, on the 17th of January, Art was born when someone dropped a [...]


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Giant Hand and Winchester Warm

Giant Hand and Winchester Warm will make a stop at The Artel on their Winter Tour.  Kingston’s own Megan Hamilton will join them for this show.


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Lisa Bozikovic, Megan Hamilton and Abigail Lapell at The Artel

Lisa Bozikovic, Megan Hamilton and Abigail Lapell play The Artel.  Check out these three talented women in an intimate setting.  Tickets are $5 at the door.  This is an all ages event.


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Below the Line

CFRC presents a special broadcast and sound installation of audio stories by Kingston residents about their experiences of poverty. Participants in “Below the Line” received training in digital recording, multitrack editing, mic technique, narration and scriptwriting, as well as access to portable recorders and digital audio studios from CFRC to produce their stories. The finished [...]


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Friday Foto

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I am flying high this morning after an incredible evening celebrating the arts with other members of the community.  Last night was the Kingston Arts Council‘s Cultural Kaleidoscope.  Artists and arts related organizations set up displays and performed for art lovers of all kinds at The Renaissance Event Venue from 7-10.  Booths were set up [...]


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Guide to the Skeleton Park Music Festival

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The Skeleton Park Music Festival officially kicks off tomorrow night, with three consecutive evenings of fantastic entertainment prior to the main event this Saturday in McBurney Park.  Due to the popularity of last year’s festival guide received, we thought that it would be beneficial to outline SKMP 2010, specifically the schedule, venues and musicians.  So [...]


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The Relevance of Labour Unions Today

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The downtown public library hosted a panel discussion last Tuesday on the role of unions locally and internationally as part of the Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts.


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