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World of Threads Festival 2018 opens on October 13. The Opening Reception is on October 20, 2018. Solo Shows and Installations promises to be the festival's lar...gest exhibit, featuring the work of 25 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions. Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre i2302 Bridge Road, Oakville. We hope to see you there! Curators: Gareth Bate & Art Untangled and Dawne Rudman. Full info is on our website: http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/exhibitions_menu.html See more

World of Threads Festival 2018 opens on October 13. The Opening Reception is on October 20, 2018. This image is from our major show "Flow" which will be in The ...Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre in Oakville. We hope to see you there! This show was curated by Gareth Bate & Art Untangled and Dawne Rudman. Full info is on our website: http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/exhibitions_menu.html Flow The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre Our main festival exhibition Flow is inspired by the natural processes and rhythms of the world around us. Some works drape and hang from the ceiling, others use found and repurposed materials. These elemental works bring to mind swirling rivers, cascading waterfalls and gradual erosion. Some works evoke a universal scale with floating gas and star dust. Others are more grounded and feel like mud slides, bubbling lava, dripping sap, decaying plants and churning debris. This show is filled with the energy of one form changing into another over long periods of time. See full website info. Artists: Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver: Anna Heywood-Jones, Northwest Territories: Yellowknife: Hermina Joldersma, Nova Scotia: Bedford: Pat Loucks, Ontario: Aurora: Lori Birkbeck, Fort Frances: Carolyn Mount, Oakville: Ixchel Suarez, Sault Ste. Marie: Barbara Ramsay, Toronto: Mary-Anne Wensley, Quebec: Beaconsfield: Helena Scheffer, Vaudreuil-Dorion: Tina Struthers. Denmark: Copenhagen: Charlotte Østergaard. Northern Ireland: Belfast: Hazel Bruce. Norway: Oslo: Ragnhild Monsen. USA: California: Malibu: Elise Vazelakis, New Jersey: West Orange: Szilvia Revesz. #worldofthreads, #worldofthreadsfestival

Some shoes from the Iris Van Herpen show at the ROM

This show ends Oct 8 https://www.rom.on.ca/en/iris

Ok I may have nightmares tonight because of this exhibit.

Two amazing exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum.... Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion .... and the immersive installation Philip Beesley: Transforming Space. Most jaw-dropping shows at the ROM in a long time. Wearable sculpture... just don't sit down in it. And the 2 installations makes you feel like you're living inside a rain forest... on another planet ... with a little bit of horror thrown in. That is about as close as I can get to describing the experience.

The Hand and the Fire: The Life and Art of Sylvia Lefkovitz opens Saturday, September 8, 2018: http://www.gevik.com/exhibitions/2018/9-hand-and-fire/ This ret...rospective exhibition of the work of Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987) is an ode to the versatile artist's stunning output in both painting and sculpture. The paintings in this show encompass scenes of daily life in 1950s Mexico, sun-soaked Italian hideaways and the snowy streets and bustling markets of her native Montreal. Also known for her rich and textured sculpture rendered in bronze, silver and marble, the threads that connected Lefkovitz's work to the past connect it to our present some thirty years later. #CanadianArt #WomenArtists See more

When Kitchener was Berlin...

Remembering the lovely garden at Doon Heritage Village

The books of Peter Gilchrist McArthur (March 10, 1866 October 28, 1924), a writer from Ontario. His family homestead is now at Doon Heritage Village. Peter led quite an interesting, cosmopolitan life ... educated at university, worked in Toronto, New York and London England as a reporter, magazine writer, editor, advertising copywriter. After his rambliings, he returned to rural Ontario where he settled on a farm and continued to write until his early death at the age of 58.

scary-looking bird on this coverlet. Not sure I'd want to sleep under it.