PAVED Arts
424 20th Street West S7M0X4 Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Part 2 of our Anti-Racism Community Conversation is coming up next Tuesday! In this 3-part series, we invite you to share, listen, and question the role of organizations, artists, arts-admin, and boards through the lens of anti-racism. Part 2 of this series will be guided by conversations on:... The different ways white supremacy manifests in our organizations Strategies to include more BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ voices in all programming and juries Artist compensations Please take the time to read this article in advance: The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun - https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-c

Local Artist Residency Opportunity Aka artist run centre and PAVED Arts are opening up the Event Space and Apollo Room to provide free studio space to the community from June 1 to August 31, 2021. If you are a Saskatoon based artist and in the need of studio space please contact [email protected] or [email protected] to inquire. AKA and PAVED are working to accommodate different needs, understanding that artists will need space for longer or shorter per...iods of time so all inquiries are welcome. In your inquiry please provide responses to the following questions: What is your Ideal room; Event Space/Apollo room/No preference? How much space do you need? What is your ideal month to start? What is the minimum time you'd want space for? What would you be using the space for? Please note: We will be prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals for these opportunities.

We love seeing work made by our members (and filmed at PAVED)! Congrats Stephanie and Farideh!

We're hiring a Programming Assistant! Application Deadline is this Friday, May 14th. Are you returning to school in the fall? Come work with us for the summer! Working closely with the Technical Director, the Programming Assistant will coordinate our annual Summer Youth Camp and assist with other outreach programs. ... Additional duties may include; digital archiving and data entry, website maintenance, assisting with content creation, and admin support. You may also assist with exhibition and event documentation, installation, as well as packing and shipping of artworks. This is a Young Canada Works position, so you must be returning to school in the fall. PAVED will be prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals in all employment opportunities. How to apply here: https://www.pavedarts.ca//job-posting-programming-assista/

Happening Saturday, don't miss it!

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See you tonight!

Thank you to @CBC Saskatoon for your thoughtful coverage.

A little background about why we were banned! Also, this exhibition event was what got us gone: Clint Enns: Internet Vernacular // Conspiracies in Isolation, check it out, and be sure to come by the gallery and pick up a copy of Clint's book!

Clint Enns: Internet Vernacular // Conspiracies in Isolation January 22 February 27, 2021 On view at PAVED Arts For in-person visits, please email [email protected] at least 24-hours in advance to book your exhibition viewing. Appointments are available Tuesday to Friday, between noon to six in half-hour blocks, capacity of 5 people.... ~ For the few of us obsessed with found photography, we often dream about treasure troves containing a variety of snapshots in various photographic formats, from Polaroids to prints to sundry forms of photographic negatives. These photographic objects are often obtained at flea markets, yard sales, thrift shops, estate sales, and in the trash. Vernacular photographs are anonymous snapshots of everyday life. As such, they were not intended to be artistic, and are often not technically proficient, yet these are some of the reasons this form of photography continues to capture the imagination. Although there might only be one gem in a collection of abandoned photos, that one photograph is often more compelling than the moments captured by those who consider themselves professional or artistic photographers. These vernacular gems reposition the amateur as an artist, and reveal the inherent democratized nature of photography. Internet Vernacular is a collection of digitally-born vernacular photography obtained while rummaging through the online photographic collections of users who haven’t posted in years. Conspiracies in Isolation is a PAVED-commissioned artist book. This short artist book will be available online (with a limited number of physical copies available in-person), and is compiled from a series of thoughts and ideas related to Qn. The book was developed under lockdown and contains personal reflections, observations, snapshots, and a few images found on the Internet while attempting to decipher the secrets behind the secrets. Image: Internet Vernacular, found image.

Call for Submissions!

See you tonight at 7pm!! Please note that tonight's session is online only. Join us here: https://zoom.us/j/99174926676

NEW EQUIPMENT ANNOUNCEMENT! We've got some amazing new equipment in the Production Centre for our Members to rent, including a BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, a badass pro Podcasting kit, LAV mics, Super 8 cameras, a smart phone gimbal, and more!! Check it out here:... https://www.pavedarts.ca/production/equipment/new-equipment/ See more

As winter approaches and Covid hits harder, many people in our community need warm clothes and access to resources. This Tuesday, we're hosting a FREE online info session about funding that is available to help with these and other kinds of community challenges. If you are between the ages of 15-30, and have an idea that can make a difference in your community, a #RisingYouth grant is an easy way to make a difference. In this workshop, not only can we support you through the... very simple process of applying, but 5 lucky folks will win a $25 gift card from The Night Oven Bakery just for attending! Please email Lenore at [email protected] if you have questions, and share with others who might like to apply. Thank you!

Still a few spots left in tonight's info session! PLUS - 5 lucky folks can win a $25 gift card from The Night Oven Bakery just for attending! ~... If you are between the ages of 15-30 and have an idea that can make a difference in your community, a #RisingYouth grant empowers young people to imagine ideas that can support their local community and helps put those ideas into action through grants of $250, $750, or $1500.

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ISO-Lation opens today! For in-person visits, please email [email protected] at least 24-hours in advance to book your exhibition viewing. Appointments are available Tuesday to Friday, between noon to 5:30pm in half-hour blocks, capacity of 5 people per appointment. Artists include: Ian Andvaag, Simeon Taylor, Will Kaufhold, Nicole Hills, Michael Barber, Peter Stinson, Gillie Chartier, Laura Lee Giesbrecht, Zack MacGregor, Kaitlin Wong, Devin Hyde, Cindy M. Thomson, Kyle Zurevinski, David Stonhouse, Bhupender Singh, Chantelle Matkowski, Emilie Neudorf, Quin Martin, Mateusz Lewczuk, Paul Chavady, Kira Stillwell, Kate Wright, Janice Weber, and Ben Bona

930 by Laura Gildner Curated and commissioned by PAVED Arts Featured November 10 to 23, 2020 tofeelclose.com / Aka artist run centre .... . . 930 is a collection of excerpts from an archive created in collaboration with fellow tenants in my former apartment building after it had been sold to developers and was slated for demolition. Our eleven-unit residence was home to a diverse and eclectic community of renters, some of whom had lived in their units for close to thirty years. At the time we received the news that we were being evicted, the vacancy rate in Victoria was the lowest in Canada at less than 0.5%, while rental costs had surged to the second highest in the country. Although focusing on the disparity of the situation was unavoidable, so too was the recognition that the idiosyncratic community we had formed over the years was going to be missed. In the six weeks leading up to our eviction I began interviewing each tenant in the building, asking what they would remember most about living there. These anecdotes became the basis for a body of work that began to take its form through a mediation of story and place: zines featuring photos taken by tenants on disposable cameras were distributed within the community, objects of personal in/significance became collaborative still life portraits and the subjects of museum-style vitrines, and interviews and domestic field recordings were transformed into sound installations while providing inspiration for participatory performative responses, most notably a dinner party with a harpist and nude waiter influenced by a book in one of the tenant’s collections. After unsuccessfully attempting to donate this project to the City of Victoria Archives and Records Division, the work’s cumulation took the form of a simple performative action: banal snapshots of each tenant’s unit were transformed into postcards and inconspicuously deposited onto gift card racks at local tourist shops. While the building we lived in no longer remains, small hints of the varied layers of significance it once occupied can still be found around the city. . . . Aka artist run centre's tofeelclose is a space for individual and collective reflection. The project gathers momentum and shape through every voice. Contributors offer unfolding ideas and inquiries, lay bare obsessions, wade through the mundane, stage a place for an encounter. Look for ways to feel close.

If you are between the ages of 15-30 in Saskatoon, and you have an idea about how you can contribute positively to your community, this workshop is for you! Rising Youth Community Service Grants empowers young people to imagine ideas that can support their local community and helps put those ideas into action through grants of $250, $750, or $1500. Presented in partnership with Taking It Global.