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COMMUNITY Experiments in Improvised Dinner Party Performance with Marya FolinsbeeSaturday, November 4, 2023 *TODAY*1:00 PM to 3:00 PMWhere: Oxygen Art Centre, #3-320 Vernon St. (alleyway access behind Baker St.)Admission is free The second Lost Cat! workshop takes place on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Oxygen Art Centre. Clown, actor, playwright, and teaching artist Marya Folinsbee leads the workshop, which will guide participants in experimental participatory theatre practices. In this workshop, participants will be guided in the use of theatre and clown techniques to create and embody an original character.  Those characters will then gather for an improvised, hour-long “dinner party” where the collective maintains their fictional characters for a performance art “meal.”  Props, costumes, prompts, and wrinkles will be provided by the Host to enhance the improvisatory experience. The goal of this workshop is to create a safe container for a bizarre and committed theatrical improvisation where participants can play with creative character building, improvisation, and collective performance art. The public are invited to attend the second Lost Cat! event at Oxygen Art Centre *TODAY* Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All materials provided. No experience necessary. Interested participants are expected to take part in the full two-hour session. Contact Oxygen Art Centre with any questions about the sessions or access needs to the facility. Lost Cat! is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Learn more about upcoming events via Oxygen’s website and social media. ARTIST BIOMarya Folinsbee is a clown, actor, playwright, and teaching artist from Edmonton/Amiskwaciy Waskahikan, who now lives in the Slocan Valley/Sinixt Territory, in the West Kootenays.  Marya loves to explore the confluences of theatre and everyday life, seeking to cultivate interactive, flexible, curious, and open-ended performance spaces that blur the lines between performer and audience, art and the ordinary. Marya studied theatre at the Victoria School of the Arts and McMaster University, and independently with artists including David Diamond (Theatre for Living), Jon Davison (London Clown School), Deanna Fleysher (Don’t Call it Clown), and others. Writing credits include “In Transit” (Nextfest 2001); “Be/Longing” (2018, co-written with Martina Avis); and “Domesticated Disputes” (2020, AKA “Immaculate”). Marya devises and performs interactive theatre performances and installations, facilitates clown and theatre workshops for all ages, and is currently writing several new works – Buttons & Pockets, PLAY! and The Mosquitos.

FALL SEMESTER

Painting from a Model #4 (No Instruction)IN PERSON1 Class: Nov. 12Sunday 1 – 5 pm Participants will have the opportunity to work from a model holding a single pose for an extended session (3.5 hours).  No instruction is offered.articipants will be asked to bring their own materials in their preferred medium.TOTAL FEE: $35Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 6REGISTERONLINE Figure Drawing  (No Instruction)via ZOOM5 Classes: Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14Tuesdays: 6 – 8 pm This series of classes provides an opportunity to draw from a model from the comfort of your own home via Zoom . No instruction is offered and poses will range from 1 minute to 20 minutes.  TOTAL FEE: $75Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 7REGISTERNOTICE OF AGMOxygen Art Centre’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will review the 2022 – 2023 year. The community are invited to learn about the artist-run centre’s programming highlights and financial reporting. Renew or become a member prior to the meeting to vote. Oxygen memberships range from $2 – $10 and directly support the artist-run centre! Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 5:00 PM Duration: 30 – 45 minutesEveryone welcome! Admission is free. In person:Kootenay Studio Arts at Selkirk College Room 311, 606 Victoria St, Nelson, BC V1L 4J4Attendees can expect someone to greet you at the entrance of the KSA building. Light refreshments will be provided.  Online:ZoomRegister in advance for this meeting, here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. LEARN MOREREGISTER (ZOOM)UPCOMINGThe Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) Group exhibition Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Pateau Residency: 13 – 30 November 2023 Exhibition: 1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024 Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to present the group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) featuring international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Pateau (Germany/Colombia). Guest curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara conceived of the exhibition as a response to the global pandemic alongside the very state of collapse and acute uncertainties of life caused by the current neo-colonial system. D’Alcântara’s curatorial practice focuses on Brazilian contemporary art and Latin American futurisms and continues this research as a doctoral candidate at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) as a concept and exhibition title draws on spiritual implications of the pandemic. It directly alludes to an Indigenous Brazilian Guarani-Nhadeva cosmology that foresaw an invisible smoke arriving to take people’s lives. At once concerning the material and ephemeral, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) looks to repetitions of systemic colonial violence on bodies, the land, and our communities to contend with the present towards alternative futurities. Prior to the exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre will host the curator and artists on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx, otherwise known as Nelson, B.C., for a three-week residency program from November 13, 2023, to November 30, 2023. The residency creates space for the group to engage with exhibition thematic and to work collaboratively on new process-based pieces that will be presented alongside existing multimedia and two-dimensional artworks in the exhibition. The public will be invited to a series of adjunct programming and events to meet with the artists and learn more about their practices. The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2023, to February 3, 2024. Oxygen Art Centre will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 PM throughout the exhibition run. Exhibition didactics will be available in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada). Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close. This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay.LEARN MOREJOINSupport your artist-run centre by becoming an Oxygen Art Centre Member. Oxygen Memberships run from $2 (Senior/Student) to $5 (Single) to $10 (Families) and significantly help our organization. Become a member today! MEMBERSHIP BENEFITSEvents, Tours and Artist TalksVolunteer, Networking and Mentorship ExperienceRegular mailings and newslettersVoting Privileges at Oxygen Art Centre’s AGMAccess to current Exhibition Publications and CataloguesArtist-in-Residence and Exhibition ToursRegister ONLINE or by MAIL Already a Member? Consider making a Donation.REGISTERImages (top to bottom): (1) LOST CAT! Promotional material for Event #2, 2023; (2) Marya Folinsbee headshot, Courtesy the Artist; (3) OAC Notice of AGM Promotional material, 2023;  (4 – 6) OAC 2023 Fall Semester promo images, 2023; (7) Aribada, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar in collaboration with Zamanta Enevia, Video, DCP, 5,1 sound, 30 min, 2022; (8) “Become a Member” text overlaid on an image documenting an installation in progress at Oxygen Art Centre, 2015;

 OXYGEN ART CENTRE PRESENTS WORKSHOP, OPEN STUDIO AND RECEPTION FOR THE HUNGRY MIST

Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to present the forthcoming residency and group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada). 

The exhibition features international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau (Germany/Colombia). During the residency, Peruvian transdiscipinary artist, feminist chola techno-witch and language activist Cecilia Vilca (Peru) joins as a special guest artist contributor.

Prior to the exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre will host D’Alcântara, Leite, and Jakiriuma Paetau on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx, otherwise known as Nelson, B.C., for a three-week residency program from November 13, 2023, to November 30, 2023. Artists Potyguara and Vilca will join the residency program via online platforms from Brazil and Peru, respectively. The residency creates space for the group to engage with exhibition thematic and to work collaboratively on new process-based pieces that will be presented alongside existing multimedia and two-dimensional artworks in the exhibition.

The residency comprises a series of workshops developed by D’Alcântara on the topics of embodied practice and trans-ancestry to engage the artists in collective artmaking and discussion. The public is invited to take part in a workshop entitled “Drawing Flux 1” on Friday, November 17, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Interested participants are expected to gather at Oxygen Art Centre at 10:00 AM. The group will be led by D’Alcântara on a participatory walk in Nelson with a drawing workshop to follow to think in fantastic terms with nature. An online component will also be provided via Zoom. A Zoom link will be posted on Oxygen’s website. No registration required. 

The public is invited to meet with the artists and curator at an online Open Studio event on Saturday, November 25, 2023, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM (Zoom). This event is free to attend and will be an opportunity to learn more about each artist, the curator, and their practices, as well as their experiences working together during the residency itself. A Zoom link will be posted on Oxygen’s website. No registration required.

We close the residency program with an Opening Reception on Friday, December 1, 2023, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM (In-person/Zoom). The public is invited to join in the festivities as we gather to mark the opening of The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta). The artists and curator will be in attendance, both at Oxygen Art Centre’s facility and online via Zoom. The event will include performances and light refreshments to celebrate the opening of the group exhibition and the ending of the three-week residency.

The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2023, to February 3, 2024. Oxygen Art Centre will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 PM throughout the exhibition run. All events are free to attend. Everyone welcome to attend.

Exhibition didactics will be available in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada). Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close. 

This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay. 

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Image Credit: Aribada, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar in collaboration with Zamanta Enevia, Video, DCP, 5,1 sound, 30 min, 2022

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Executive Director

Oxygen Art Centre 

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Program Details:

The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta)
Group exhibition
Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara
Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Paetau
Residency: 13 – 30 November 2023 w/ the participation of guest artist Cecilia Vilca

Open Studio: Saturday, November 25, 2023, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Zoom)

Opening Reception: Friday, December 1, 2023, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM (In-person & Zoom)
Exhibition: 1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024

Curator Biography: 

Rodrigo D’Alcântara is a Brazilian visual artist, curator, film/video-maker and PhD candidate in the Art History Interuniversity Doctoral Program at Concordia University (Tiohtiá:ke/ Montréal, CA). His practical and theoretical research articulates symbolisms, dreams and counter-hegemonic mythologies in contemporary times, through personal and collective dissident narratives. His doctoral studies are supported by Concordia University Graduate Fellowship and Concordia International Tuition Award of Excellence. He holds a Master degree in Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a Bachelor degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Brasília (Brazil) – with an exchange term in the Los Andes University (Colombia). Rodrigo’s works have been screened internationally, in countries such as Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Germany, Greece, Italy, among others.

Artist Biographies:

Bento Ben Leite was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1990. He lives and works in Fortaleza and is represented by Alfinete Galeria and A Pilastra Galeria, both in Brasilia, DF. With a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Universidade de Brasília, Bento focuses his studies on painting, engraving, drawing, and cinema. His collages are what guide his creative process, addressing subjects such as violence, conflict, daily life, love, questions about gender and sexuality, and the strength of the TLGBQI+ family. Music shows up in his works as the soundtrack of metaphorical fictional images. It may be surprising to see his painting series including movie names, music albums, blogs, and memes of Ceará’s drag queen reality show. Furthermore, he proposes links between composition texts and acclaimed pop culture images. Bento has participated in multiple solo and collective shows throughout the Brazilian territory and was a nominee at the PIPA Prize 2019 and 2020 editions.

Dyó Potyguara is Rastros de Diógenes (Brasil, 1994) a proposer of performances, poetry, and pedagogical interventions in which she intersects ecologies, memory, presence, and virtuality. She has collaborated with collectives and institutions, taking part in exhibitions, residencies, publications, and festivals throughout Abya Yala and Europe, such as Campo, Capacete, Casa Mata, Acciones al Margen, Transweb, Ehcho, MEXE International Art and Community Festival, and Schwules Museum. She is part of the Ocultas collective and works with the Terreiro Afetivo laboratory of artistic and ecological practices, selected by Campo’s Várzea research grant. Most recently, she has been selected as a resident at Pivô Pesquisa 2023 (São Paulo, Brazil).

Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau is a German-Colombian interdisciplinary artist. Their works are

located between cinema, video installations, and performance, dealing with queer

decoloniality. Simon(e) studied Media Art at the KHM Cologne and Film at the EICTV Cuba.

Simon(e)’s films have premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight, BFI London, New York Film

Festival, documenta14, New Directors/New Films MoMa, and Rotterdam, and won, among

others, the Emerging Talent Award at kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2022, the Norman Award

2022, the Best Director Award at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival

Colombia 2018, and a nomination for the Queer Palm at Cannes 2022. Simon(e)’s

performances and installations have premiered at Wexner Center of the Arts, Berlinische

Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, HKW, Monitoring Kasseler Dokfest, Studio Я of Maxim

Gorki Theater, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Hebbel am Ufer, Cinemateca de Bogotá, as well as

the 11th Berlin.

Cecilia Vilca
Born in Lima, Peru. M.A. in Digital Arts, Universitat PompeuFabra, Barcelona, Spain. Graphic Design Degree from School of Design Toulouse-Lautrec, Lima, Peru. Grant awarded in GIS and Atlas Design at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) – University of Twente, The Netherlands. Founding member of creative and digital heritage division, MyAP – Microscopia Electrónica y Aplicaciones en el Perú. Her artistic work is made with technology in concept and realization exploring its relationship with gender, society, and nature. From a decolonizing vision it develops in the borders of art and science, connecting ancient technologies with the new ones. Her main goal and poetic are to encourage reflection through revelation using technology. She has already participated in six Artist-in-Residency Programs in Mexico, Bolivia, and Brazil. Cecilia was a member of the Independent International Program Committee of ISEA2020 and is a reviewer for the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. She has exhibited and organized exhibitions and lectured in Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Spain, Cuba, Chile, Norway, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Austria and USA.

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Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FOR NELSON FINE ART CENTRE SOCIETY

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING for the NELSON FINE ART CENTRE SOCIETY (OXYGEN ART CENTRE dba) to be held on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM (PST) at the Kootenay Studio Arts at Selkirk College building (Room 311, 606 Victoria St, Nelson, BC V1L 4J4) OR Online via Zoom (Registration required).

Oxygen Art Centre’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will review the 2022 – 2023 year. The community are invited to join the meeting to learn more about the artist-run centre’s staff and board of directors as they highlight programming, share organizational updates, and review financial reporting. Everyone is welcome to attend. Admission to both the in person and online event is free.

The event is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 5:00 PM (PST). Attendees can expect the meeting to be 30 to 45 minutes in length.

The in-person event will be hosted at the Kootenay Studio Arts (KSA) at Selkirk College in Room 311 at 606 Victoria St, Nelson, BC. Attendees can expect someone to greet you at the entrance of the KSA building. Light refreshments will be provided. Meeting documents will be available in print and projected on a screen.

Occurring adjacent to the in-person event, attendees are also invited to join remotely through Zoom. Interested attendees must register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Online attendees will receive meeting documents via email. Board member Christine Wallace will provide support to online attendees and closed captioning will be enabled.

Renew or become a member prior to the meeting to vote. Oxygen memberships range from $2 – $10 and directly support the artist-run centre!

AGM meeting documents will be uploaded to the Oxygen website and shared with members by November 2, 2023.

Please contact info@oxygenartcentre.org with any questions about the meeting, becoming a member and how to attend.

The public are invited to attend Nelson Fine Art Centre Society’s (Oxygen Art Centre’s dba) Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 5:00 PM. The meeting will be held both online via Zoom and in-person at the Kootenay Studio Arts building in downtown Nelson, BC.

View this email in your browser Lost Cat!, AGM, Education, Exhibition, and moreCOMMUNITY Experiments in Improvised Dinner Party Performance with Marya FolinsbeeSaturday, November 4, 20231:00 PM to 3:00 PMWhere: Oxygen Art Centre, #3-320 Vernon St. (alleyway access behind Baker St.)Admission is free The second Lost Cat! workshop takes place on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Oxygen Art Centre. Clown, actor, playwright, and teaching artist Marya Folinsbee leads the workshop, which will guide participants in experimental participatory theatre practices. In this workshop, participants will be guided in the use of theatre and clown techniques to create and embody an original character.  Those characters will then gather for an improvised, hour-long “dinner party” where the collective maintains their fictional characters for a performance art “meal.”  Props, costumes, prompts, and wrinkles will be provided by the Host to enhance the improvisatory experience. The goal of this workshop is to create a safe container for a bizarre and committed theatrical improvisation where participants can play with creative character building, improvisation, and collective performance art. The public are invited to attend the second Lost Cat! event at Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All materials provided. No experience necessary. Interested participants are expected to take part in the full two-hour session. Contact Oxygen Art Centre with any questions about the sessions or access needs to the facility. Lost Cat! is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Learn more about upcoming events via Oxygen’s website and social media. ARTIST BIOMarya Folinsbee is a clown, actor, playwright, and teaching artist from Edmonton/Amiskwaciy Waskahikan, who now lives in the Slocan Valley/Sinixt Territory, in the West Kootenays.  Marya loves to explore the confluences of theatre and everyday life, seeking to cultivate interactive, flexible, curious, and open-ended performance spaces that blur the lines between performer and audience, art and the ordinary. Marya studied theatre at the Victoria School of the Arts and McMaster University, and independently with artists including David Diamond (Theatre for Living), Jon Davison (London Clown School), Deanna Fleysher (Don’t Call it Clown), and others. Writing credits include “In Transit” (Nextfest 2001); “Be/Longing” (2018, co-written with Martina Avis); and “Domesticated Disputes” (2020, AKA “Immaculate”). Marya devises and performs interactive theatre performances and installations, facilitates clown and theatre workshops for all ages, and is currently writing several new works – Buttons & Pockets, PLAY! and The Mosquitos.   LEARN MORENOTICE OF AGMOxygen Art Centre’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will review the 2022 – 2023 year. The community are invited to learn about the artist-run centre’s programming highlights and financial reporting. Renew or become a member prior to the meeting to vote. Oxygen memberships range from $2 – $10 and directly support the artist-run centre! Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 5:00 PM Duration: 30 – 45 minutesEveryone welcome! Admission is free. In person:Kootenay Studio Arts at Selkirk College Room 311, 606 Victoria St, Nelson, BC V1L 4J4Attendees can expect someone to greet you at the entrance of the KSA building. Light refreshments will be provided.  Online:ZoomRegister in advance for this meeting, here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. LEARN MOREREGISTER (ZOOM)FALL SEMESTERLetters to the Beyond with Rayya LiebichIN PERSON1 Class: Oct. 29Sunday: 10 am – 12 pm Join poet and writer Rayya Liebich in this two hour workshop to write letters to your departed. In a safe space explore your grief through private writing and take some time to honour your loved ones. These letters can be delivered to the magical mailbox at the Remember The Dead event organized by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society’s on Sunday November 5 (https://polkadotdragon.ca/) All writing materials, stationary and envelopes are being provided by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society.TOTAL FEE: $10Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 20REGISTERONLINE Figure Drawing  (No Instruction)via ZOOM5 Classes: Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14Tuesdays: 6 – 8 pm This series of classes provides an opportunity to draw from a model from the comfort of your own home via Zoom . No instruction is offered and poses will range from 1 minute to 20 minutes.  TOTAL FEE: $75Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 7REGISTERRemembrance Luminaries with Myra RasmussenIN PERSON1 Class: Oct. 29Sunday: 1 – 3 pm In this class, visual artist Myra Rasmussen invites participants to make a lantern or luminary altar for an ancestor, friend, or relative that has passed on.  We will explore collage, incorporation of text, and images, and some paper lantern making techniques.  All participants are encouraged to bring their luminary to the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society’s celebration of All Souls on Sunday Nov, 5th. (https://polkadotdragon.ca/)Materials: Provided by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts SocietyTOTAL FEE: $10Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 20REGISTERHand – Eye – Heart – Drawing and Painting Intensive with Deborah ThompsonIN PERSON4 Classes: Nov. 6, 7, 8 & 9Mon. – Thurs: 10 am – 3 pm This four-day intensive explores the affinities of art’s beloved siblings: drawing and painting. The day will begin with playful drawing based exercises that explore form, space, and material. The afternoon will move into a translation of the drawn experience into a painted one. Topics to be covered will include; pictorial space, use of colour and value, and scale and mark making. Photographs, writing, objects, a life model, and still life materials will be referenced as departure points. Process over product will be emphasized in this dynamic intensive. The intensive is suited to anyone who wishes to create a lot of new work by digging into the drawing process and its relationship to paint! Critiques will be part of this course to ask ourselves: “ What if?”and “What would make it better?” and “What is working?”Material Fee: $25 + Material ListCourse Fee: $235TOTAL FEE: $260Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 30REGISTERMagic of Memory 2 with Rayya LiebichONLINE4 Classes: Nov. 8 – 29Wednesdays: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Memories can be written and recorded out of sequence and can stand alone. They can also be part of a larger collection (a memoir) that doesn’t follow a linear arc. By borrowing the safety of craft structures, we can express our life stories in authentic and innovative ways. Each week we will take a deep-dive into a different literary form (Flash Nonfiction, Micro Memoir, the List Essay, and the Decentered Hermit Crab Essay). Each class will include a study of the craft, guided writing prompts, and readings by authors who push the boundaries of creative nonfiction (CNF). Come ready to experiment with form and structure and discover how constraints can create both safety and freedom. TOTAL FEE: $95Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 1REGISTERPainting from a Model #4 (No Instruction)IN PERSON1 Class: Nov. 12Sunday 1 – 5 pm Participants will have the opportunity to work from a model holding a single pose for an extended session (3.5 hours).  No instruction is offered.articipants will be asked to bring their own materials in their preferred medium.TOTAL FEE: $35Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 6REGISTERUPCOMINGThe Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) Group exhibition Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Pateau Residency: 13 – 30 November 2023 Exhibition: 1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024 Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to present the group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) featuring international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Pateau (Germany/Colombia). Guest curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara conceived of the exhibition as a response to the global pandemic alongside the very state of collapse and acute uncertainties of life caused by the current neo-colonial system. D’Alcântara’s curatorial practice focuses on Brazilian contemporary art and Latin American futurisms and continues this research as a doctoral candidate at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) as a concept and exhibition title draws on spiritual implications of the pandemic. It directly alludes to an Indigenous Brazilian Guarani-Nhadeva cosmology that foresaw an invisible smoke arriving to take people’s lives. At once concerning the material and ephemeral, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) looks to repetitions of systemic colonial violence on bodies, the land, and our communities to contend with the present towards alternative futurities. Prior to the exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre will host the curator and artists on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx, otherwise known as Nelson, B.C., for a three-week residency program from November 13, 2023, to November 30, 2023. The residency creates space for the group to engage with exhibition thematic and to work collaboratively on new process-based pieces that will be presented alongside existing multimedia and two-dimensional artworks in the exhibition. The public will be invited to a series of adjunct programming and events to meet with the artists and learn more about their practices. The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2023, to February 3, 2024. Oxygen Art Centre will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 PM throughout the exhibition run. Exhibition didactics will be available in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada). Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close. This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay.LEARN MOREJOINSupport your artist-run centre by becoming an Oxygen Art Centre Member. Oxygen Memberships run from $2 (Senior/Student) to $5 (Single) to $10 (Families) and significantly help our organization. Become a member today! MEMBERSHIP BENEFITSEvents, Tours and Artist TalksVolunteer, Networking and Mentorship ExperienceRegular mailings and newslettersVoting Privileges at Oxygen Art Centre’s AGMAccess to current Exhibition Publications and CataloguesArtist-in-Residence and Exhibition ToursRegister ONLINE or by MAIL Already a Member? Consider making a Donation.REGISTERImages (top to bottom): (1) LOST CAT! Promotional material for Event #2, 2023; (2) Marya Folinsbee headshot, Courtesy the Artist; (3) OAC Notice of AGM Promotional material, 2023;  (4 – 10) OAC 2023 Fall Semester promo images, 2023; (11) Aribada, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar in collaboration with Zamanta Enevia, Video, DCP, 5,1 sound, 30 min, 2022; (12) “Become a Member” text overlaid on an image documenting an installation in progress at Oxygen Art Centre, 2015;Oxygen Art Centre info@oxygenartcentre.org #3- 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance) Nelson, B.C. V1L 4E4 Canada 250-551-6329 Facility access information Hours of Operation: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1:00 – 5:00pm (during exhibition run) Admission by donation Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons. We are grateful for the financial support we receive from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, BC Gaming, Province of BC, Government of Canada, Vancouver Foundation, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, Columbia Basin Trust, United Way, Osprey Community Foundation, Nelson Lions Club, and Nelson and District Credit Union. We offer thanks to Elephant Mountain Literary Festival and other key partners including Hall Printing, Speedpro Signs, and Selkirk College for their support. We especially thank all of our volunteers, donors, and members. Oxygen Art Centre is committed to ensuring all exhibitions, programs, and events are accessible to visitors. Our facilities are wheelchair accessible and equipped with an all-genders washroom. Please contact Oxygen if you have any questions or concerns about your visit.

OXYGEN ART CENTRE TO HOST LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN GUEST CURATED RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION

Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to present the group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) featuring international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Pateau (Germany/Colombia).

Guest curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara conceived of the exhibition as a response to the global pandemic alongside the very state of collapse and acute uncertainties of life caused by the current neo-colonial system. D’Alcântara’s curatorial practice focuses on Brazilian contemporary art and Latin American futurisms and continues this research as a doctoral candidate at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada).

The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) as a concept and exhibition title draws on spiritual implications of the pandemic. It directly alludes to an Indigenous Brazilian Guarani-Nhadeva cosmology that foresaw an invisible smoke arriving to take people’s lives. At once concerning the material and ephemeral, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) looks to repetitions of systemic colonial violence on bodies, the land, and our communities to contend with the present towards alternative futurities.

Prior to the exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre will host the curator and artists on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx, otherwise known as Nelson, B.C., for a three-week residency program from November 13, 2023, to November 30, 2023. The residency creates space for the group to engage with exhibition thematic and to work collaboratively on new process-based pieces that will be presented alongside existing multimedia and two-dimensional artworks in the exhibition.

The public will be invited to a series of adjunct programming and events to meet with the artists and learn more about their practices.

With this premise, curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) and international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Pateau (Germany/Colombia) will be immersed at the Oxygen Art Centre from 13 to 30 November 2023 producing works related to the tensions between spiritual, urban, natural, and territorial spheres in Nelson, BC.

The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2023, to February 3, 2024. Oxygen Art Centre will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 PM throughout the exhibition run.

Exhibition didactics will be available in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada). Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close.

This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay.

Image Credit: Mourning Stage, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Carlos Motta, Experimental video short film still, 2022

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View this email in your browser Event, Fall Semester, and moreEVENT          Kyle Whitehead          IMMANENT UNION (2021)          *TODAY* Friday, October 6, 2023 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Film screening with a Q&A period to follow. Admission is free. Everyone welcome to attend.SYNOPSISThis Super 8 film on two reels is a retrograde attempt to resolve a personal archive and index, confronting the inexorable passage of time into memory, memory into echo and echo into resonance. IMMANENT UNION was spliced together live over the course of six performances in Mexico, the United Kingdom and Canada – these Drafts for a Scenario facilitating an aleatory approach to the global composition of disparate memories, fleeting images of recorded time that have no story to tell. Performative in essence – where sound is modulated live by the projected light itself – this mystical union justifies an immanent plane as an act of pastoral simplicity. A divine presence.ARTIST BIOKyle Whitehead is Canadian artist, programmer and educator, who works with material film to create experimental and expanded cinema projects. His handmade films, moving image installations and projection performances trade in material self-consciousness, the artist’s labours and elastic treatments of light, space and time. These works in film have exhibited internationally in numerous festivals, galleries and museums including CROSSROADS at the SF Cinematheque (USA), the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (Mexico), Alchemy Film and Arts (Scotland), Antimatter Media Art (Canada), Contemporary Calgary (Canada), TRUCK Contemporary Art (Canada) and the Canadian Film Institute’s Café EX (Canada).LEARN MOREFALL SEMESTERRegister today! Spaces limited! Oxygen’s Fall 2023 Semester Pt.2 is open for registration. Continue learning a medium or explore a new one, dream, sing, and gather together, or make your own screen printed artist book! Learn about the classes, instructors, and how to register via our website. Spaces limited. Contact Natasha Smith (Education Coordinator) with questions or registration support.Letters to the Beyond with Rayya LiebichIN PERSON1 Class: Oct. 29Sunday: 10 am – 12 pm Join poet and writer Rayya Liebich in this two hour workshop to write letters to your departed. In a safe space explore your grief through private writing and take some time to honour your loved ones. These letters can be delivered to the magical mailbox at the Remember The Dead event organized by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society’s on Sunday November 5 (https://polkadotdragon.ca/) All writing materials, stationary and envelopes are being provided by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society.TOTAL FEE: $10Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 20REGISTERONLINE Figure Drawing  (No Instruction)via ZOOM5 Classes: Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14Tuesdays: 6 – 8 pm This series of classes provides an opportunity to draw from a model from the comfort of your own home via Zoom . No instruction is offered and poses will range from 1 minute to 20 minutes.  TOTAL FEE: $75Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 7REGISTERPoetry & Bookmaking with Rayya Liebich and Myra RasmussenIN PERSON1 Class: Oct. 14Saturday: 10 am – 3 pm (1hr lunch) Join visual artist, Myra Rasmussen, and poet, Rayya Liebich on an interdisciplinary journey to create a handmade book with your original poetry inside.  We will start by reading poems for inspiration and then move into a “patchwork poetry” writing activity.  We will then explore a few techniques for creating handmade books. The afternoon will be devoted to each participant working on their own handmade book using mixed media, collage, and poems from the morning session.Material Fee: $5Course Fee: $95TOTAL FEE: $100Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 6REGISTERSunday Painters – Learning to Paint with Catherine McIntoshIN PERSON2 Classes: Oct. 15 & 22Sundays: 10 am – 4 pm (1hr lunch) This studio-based course will get you started painting with acrylics. The focus will be on still life painting where students will benefit by drawing and painting from direct observation. We will cover the use of materials, composition, colour, light, shadow, creating shapes, and building three-dimensional forms. Material Fee: $25Course Fee: $145TOTAL FEE: $170Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 6REGISTERFigure Drawing #4  (no instruction)IN PERSON4 Classes: Oct. 15 – Nov. 5Sundays: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Drawing sessions will provide the opportunity to draw from a model with poses ranging from 1 minute to 20 minutes. No instruction is offered. Students are expected to provide the drawing materials of their choice.TOTAL FEE: $60Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 6 CLASS FULL / REGISTER FOR WAITLISTREGISTERPlaying with Shakespeare with Valerie CampbellIN PERSON2 Classes: Oct. 21 & 28Saturdays: 10 am – 4 pm Calling all lovers of the Bard!This class is an immersive and experiential study of Shakespeare through the lens of the actor. Bringing  Shakespeare‘s works to life with truthfulness and clarity is no small feat but as actors and non-actors alike will attest, the rewards of the work are incredible. This two-day workshop will deepen both your understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare through performance, voice, and movement explorations.Come play, laugh, cry, and marvel at the genius of Shakespeare.TOTAL FEE: $170Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 16REGISTERRemembrance Luminaries with Myra RasmussenIN PERSON1 Class: Oct. 29Sunday: 1 – 3 pm In this class, visual artist Myra Rasmussen invites participants to make a lantern or luminary altar for an ancestor, friend, or relative that has passed on.  We will explore collage, incorporation of text, and images, and some paper lantern making techniques.  All participants are encouraged to bring their luminary to the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society’s celebration of All Souls on Sunday Nov, 5th. (https://polkadotdragon.ca/)Materials: Provided by the Polka Dot Dragon Arts SocietyTOTAL FEE: $10Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 20REGISTERHand – Eye – Heart – Drawing and Painting Intensive with Deborah ThompsonIN PERSON4 Classes: Nov. 6, 7, 8 & 9Mon. – Thurs: 10 am – 3 pm This four-day intensive explores the affinities of art’s beloved siblings: drawing and painting. The day will begin with playful drawing based exercises that explore form, space, and material. The afternoon will move into a translation of the drawn experience into a painted one. Topics to be covered will include; pictorial space, use of colour and value, and scale and mark making. Photographs, writing, objects, a life model, and still life materials will be referenced as departure points. Process over product will be emphasized in this dynamic intensive. The intensive is suited to anyone who wishes to create a lot of new work by digging into the drawing process and its relationship to paint! Critiques will be part of this course to ask ourselves: “ What if?”and “What would make it better?” and “What is working?”Material Fee: $25 + Material ListCourse Fee: $235TOTAL FEE: $260Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 30REGISTERMagic of Memory 2 with Rayya LiebichONLINE4 Classes: Nov. 8 – 29Wednesdays: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Memories can be written and recorded out of sequence and can stand alone. They can also be part of a larger collection (a memoir) that doesn’t follow a linear arc. By borrowing the safety of craft structures, we can express our life stories in authentic and innovative ways. Each week we will take a deep-dive into a different literary form (Flash Nonfiction, Micro Memoir, the List Essay, and the Decentered Hermit Crab Essay). Each class will include a study of the craft, guided writing prompts, and readings by authors who push the boundaries of creative nonfiction (CNF). Come ready to experiment with form and structure and discover how constraints can create both safety and freedom. TOTAL FEE: $95Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 1REGISTERPainting from a Model #4 (No Instruction)IN PERSON1 Class: Nov. 12Sunday 1 – 5 pm Participants will have the opportunity to work from a model holding a single pose for an extended session (3.5 hours).  No instruction is offered.articipants will be asked to bring their own materials in their preferred medium.TOTAL FEE: $35Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 6REGISTERJOINSupport your artist-run centre by becoming an Oxygen Art Centre Member. Oxygen Memberships run from $2 (Senior/Student) to $5 (Single) to $10 (Families) and significantly help our organization. Become a member today! MEMBERSHIP BENEFITSEvents, Tours and Artist TalksVolunteer, Networking and Mentorship ExperienceRegular mailings and newslettersVoting Privileges at Oxygen Art Centre’s AGMAccess to current Exhibition Publications and CataloguesArtist-in-Residence and Exhibition ToursRegister ONLINE or by MAIL Already a Member? Consider making a Donation.REGISTERImages (top to bottom): (1 & 2) Kyle Whitehead, IMMANENT UNION, 2021, documentation; Courtesy the Artist; (3) Kyle Whitehead headshot; Courtesy the Artist;  (4 – 14) OAC 2023 Fall Semester promo images, 2023; (15) “Become a Member” text overlaid on an image documenting an installation in progress at Oxygen Art Centre, 2015;Oxygen Art Centre info@oxygenartcentre.org #3- 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance) Nelson, B.C. V1L 4E4 Canada 250-551-6329 Facility access information Hours of Operation: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1:00 – 5:00pm (during exhibition run) Admission by donation Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons. We are grateful for the financial support we receive from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, BC Gaming, Province of BC, Government of Canada, Vancouver Foundation, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, Columbia Basin Trust, United Way, Osprey Community Foundation, Nelson Lions Club, and Nelson and District Credit Union. We offer thanks to Elephant Mountain Literary Festival and other key partners including Hall Printing, Speedpro Signs, and Selkirk College for their support. We especially thank all of our volunteers, donors, and members. Oxygen Art Centre is committed to ensuring all exhibitions, programs, and events are accessible to visitors. Our facilities are wheelchair accessible and equipped with an all-genders washroom. Please contact Oxygen if you have any questions or concerns about your visit.Copyright © 2023 Oxygen Art Centre, All rights reserved. Thank you for supporting Oxygen Art Centre! Our mailing address is: Oxygen Art Centre#3-320 Vernon StreetNelson, British ColumbiaV1L 4E4Canada