Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she emigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Greatly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger, more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work—her childhood. She has famously stated “My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s work is in the collections of most major museums around the world. She lives in New York.

Pour mes amis français, voici une biographie détaillée :

Biographie de Louise Bourgeois sur Artzari.fr

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FUSION

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Fusion
Pleins feux!
ARTICLE - 14 février 2008
Nathalie Guimond

Fusion, c'est une vingtaine d'artistes verriers, fondateurs et diplômés d'Espace VERRE, exposant des oeuvres flamboyantes et inattendues... Surprise à l'Espace Création Loto-Québec! L'Espace Création Loto-Québec est ce même endroit, niché en plein coeur du centre-ville, qui a accueilli en 2007 l'admirable exposition sur l'oeuvre de Frédéric Back. Montée en collaboration avec le centre de formation et atelier Espace VERRE qui fête cette année ses 25 ans, l'exposition Fusion est une véritable éruption volcanique de couleurs et de visions, qui réunit des pièces en verre ainsi que des oeuvres, également marquées par le thème du feu, qui sont issues de la collection Loto-Québec.
LA MATIERE
Le verre est fabriqué à partir de sable, de soude et de chaux, qu'on chauffe à une température élevée pour rendre le mélange liquide. On manipule ensuite ce dernier quand il est chaud, pour lui donner la forme voulue, qu'il conserve en refroidissant. La recette n'a pas bien changé au fil des siècles, mais la chimie a raffiné les techniques: l'ajout de potasse et de plomb améliore la qualité du verre, le cobalt, le souffre et d'autres minéraux lui donnent des couleurs. Par exemple, aujourd'hui, le verre utilisé dans plusieurs ateliers est pré-fusionné sous forme de pastilles transparentes pour en diminuer la toxicité et augmenter la production.
L'EXPOSITION
Ici, on est très loin des objets usuels et autres assiettes à dîner... Les objets sont créés par pur plaisir d'engendrer des structures et non pour remplir les fonctions ménagères qu'on assigne la plupart du temps au verre. Entre verre soufflé, pâte de verre, verre thermoformé, coulé dans le sable et j'en passe, les sculptures témoignent de la grande flexibilité du médium et de ses techniques. Entre fluidité, opacité, légèreté, lourdeur, fluidité et toutes les autres qualités que peut prendre le verre se crée un espace particulier où l'âpreté et la délicatesse de cette matière se conjuguent amoureusement.
S'y côtoient, par exemple, les robes de verre de Tanya Lyons, le coussin piquant de Vanessa Yanow, les Contes muets sur écran télé de Michèle Lapointe, les personnages de BD en pot de Catherine Labonté, la bouche d'égout montréalaise de Ronald Labelle et les magnifiques (gravement fragiles) sculptures de Maude Bussières.
EN COULISSE
Intégrées à l'exposition, des photos et une vidéo tournée dans les locaux d'Espace VERRE nous font voir l'autre versant des choses, soit les étapes de la fabrication du verre. On y observe des étudiants et artistes pratiquer différentes techniques, et ces exemples nous donnent un aperçu de la vigueur physique qu'exige le travail aux fours et en atelier.
Une exposition originale, qui démontre à quel point le verre d'art québécois a acquis ses lettres de noblesse.
Jusqu'au 23 mars
À L'Espace Création Loto-Québec
Heures d'ouverture
Mercredi au vendredi : de 11 h à 18 hSamedi et dimanche : de 12 h à 17 h500, rue Sherbrooke Ouest à MontréalTéléphone :514 499-7111, poste 2829514 499-5087Métro McGill

New Art Poem

another day in the quest
of finding true inspiration & creativity
i rest my weary head in my hands
falling deep into artistic revery
of painting in the most unusual way
using blood, earth & sepia pigments
mixed with water, sap & yoke mediums
applied in almost lucid airy brushstrokes
with elm tree branches & leaves
on canvases made of feathers & bones
showing outworldly imageries delved
from the subconscious despair & fear
of facing another day without any sign
from the muse of artistic inspiration

Travelling Sketch Book Voyageur

C'est un projet d'envoyer 10 carnets de croquis en circulation libre dans la ville de Montréal etc. À la fin, Je garde l'espoir de recevoir de l'information sur leurs modifications pour enfin de les recevoir pour possiblement les exposer sur internet et publiquement (des adresses courriel et postale seront à la première et dernière page).

This is a project that I am elaborating of sending 10 sketch books around Montreal and elsewhere...I will place these sketchbooks in places that they can be picked-up by strangers (with email and website info so that they can send notes on their whereabouts). While hoping that they one day return back, allowing them to be shown in public and on the Net...(Information, about email and posting addresses will be inscribed on the first & last pages of each sketchbooks).

http://travellingsketchbook.spaces.live.com

Loosing my inspiration

I am at a point of lack of inspiration in my art work...
I feel drained of all creative energy...
I am too stuck to the Internet...
I made ceramic jewellery that need assembling...
I have plans to make polymer and textile jewellery...

I found this list of reasons that artists stop painting...Many of the reasons are just hilarious...
http://painting.about.com/

Don't you hate things that force you to stop painting?!
What things or events stop you from painting or interfere with your painting? And which do you hate the most? This list came out of a discussion on the Painting Forum. There are a lot that I relate to really well, and I'm sure you will to!

1. The phone or doorbell rings (again and again, and won't be ignored.)
2. I have fix lunch or dinner (or there'll be a family mutiny).
3. Mother nature calls (and I've kept putting it off).
4. It's almost noon and I'm still in my nightclothes (and not the set I've already ruined by getting paint on them).
5. The house is a mess and company is coming.
6. Someone lets in the company we're expecting (and my hands are covered in paint).
7.My husband wants to go to bed (our bedroom is my studio).
8. I have to go to work (to earn money to pay the bills and buy art supplies).
9. I get whiffs of burning food from the kitchen.
10. My ankles are too covered with bug bites from plein-air painting.
11. I had a doctor or other appointments.
12. I have to go and pick up my kids.
13. I've chores that need to be today still.
14. A friend phones with a 'problem' (and never tell her you're busy watching paint dry!).
15. I make a mess that needs cleaning up, whether it's on the ground or my shirt, or something in need of a plaster.
16. I get a headache.
17. When my feet have gone numb but I never noticed.
18. My lips are crusting over and my tongue is swollen from extreme thirst.
19. My body has been in one position for such a long time that, like the tin man from Wizard of Oz, I am seized up solid.
20. I have to pry my fingers apart and away from my brush as arthritis and lack of blood flow sets it into a claw like appendage.
21. The dog has been scratching a groove into the door trying to tell me that he needs out NOW!
22. My cat is plastered flat -- all four legs stretched out north, south, east, west -- against my studio window in hope that I am so impressed by this great trick that I let him in to get to his food dish.
23. My family or friends have called out the search squad because I have not been answering the phone messages or the door and no one has seen me in days and days.
24. I'm painting a summer scene and it starts to snow.
25. I have to leave a painting class early to catch a train home.
26. I rationalize that the extra rinse my laundry is getting from the downpour is actually a good thing.
27. I've run out of a particular colour that's crucial to this particular painting.
28. The light bulb has blown again and I can't see what I'm doing. (Must get an electrician to sort out the problem! Maybe I can sketch him doing it... I'll be paying him enough.)
29. I have to get a haircut because my hair's grown over my eyes.
30. I hate to stop painting ... PERIOD!

Emile GALLÉ

Émile Gallé
(1846-1904)

Was a French glass maker, ceramist and designer
Born in Nancy, France, in 1846, Emile Gallé is considered one of the most outstanding glass artists of his time, as he greatly contributed to the development of the art of glassmaking and to the Art Nouveau Style. He traveled in Paris, London and Weimar after his training, which included art, botany, and chemistry, and began producing fine pottery, furniture and jewelry. In 1873 he set up his own glass studio and a year later he took over his father's glass and ceramics factory in Nancy. At the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris he was inspired by the glass works of some of his contemporaries. At the Paris International Exhibition in 1889, he presented his own new types of glass, including carved cameo and pate de verre work, new shapes of vases and extraordinary new colors. In 1901, he founded "L'Ecole de Nancy".Throughout the 1890's in his "Cristallerie d'Emile Gallé", he created abundant new glassworks and therefore employed a team of craftsmen-designers, who worked on his designs and applied his signature after his approval. In those years, he also exhibited his Art Nouveau works with great success, thus winning international awards, recognition through commissions and increased popular demand. After his death in 1904, his widow continued to run the glassworks until the outbreak of war in 1914, all the glass sold being marked with a star after his signature. The Gallé glassware, mainly made by acid etching on two and three layer cameo glass with landscape and floral designs, continued to be made until 1935, when the firm closed down.The works of Emile Gallé had a major influence on the Art Nouveau movement. Clear and enameled or stratified, applied, engraved, acid etched or wheel-carved, his glass was very elaborate. Nature inspired his designs, which were mostly floral, some with foliage, or landscape decorations and some with a strong Japanese feeling. He developed a technique for the production of cut and incised flashed glass and enameled designs, enhanced by bright colors and transparency of the material.Gallé made vases and lamps in two distinct qualities of glass: his "masterpieces", that took hours of precise work to make and his less expensive, though of high quality art glass, that would later be called "industrial Gallé".Major works (from 1989 to 1904):Glass vases and lamps, with cameo or wheel-carved Gallé signature, etched to depict landscape scenes, flowers, butterflies or birds amongst foliage, in double or triple overlaid and etched glass; internally decorated, overlaid, wheel-carved glass; cameo glass; flashed, engraved, chased and enameled glass.

Visiting the Montreal Owen-Illinois glass plant

The Owen-Illinois Glass

Yesterday, I went to the Montreal Owen-Illinois glass company with Espace VERRE's 2nd year students, glass/instructor Donald Robertson, his wife Susan Edgerley (also a glass artist/instructor on a sabbatical) and our General Director Christian Poulin...All I can say is Wowzy...It was very impressive with their Five story high glass furnace that holds 4 feet high of molten glass. We took turns looking in the pits of Hell with a welding mask. We started the visit by going to the mold warehouse with countless metal molds... Their main productions are beer bottles...So we saw so many empty beer bottles among other kinds stacked up into giant walls...It made me think about the many houses made of recycled bottles...

http://www.maisonsdebouteilles.com/about.cfm

What made me laugh the most was the comment that our guide said about burns that he had received in his multitude of jobs that he held for the company so I said Okay girls (our glass students are mainly women) show him yours and they all rolled up their sleeves and he said okay okay... You see when you play with fire, you'll most likely burn yourself and when you play with glass, well cutting yourself is inevitable...

To see glass artist Karine Demers blow glass in French at Espace VERRE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c-ln2a4dVSA

Glass is made of silicate, soda ash limestone, Alumina-Silicate, Salt Cake and Minor Ingredients to create color... Well this plant mixes the ingredients with recycled crushed glass called cullet. Their facility has the possibility of recycling up to 80% of glass for the production work and they only reach 20%. Now that's wrong...we must recycle more!!!

This is the Owen-Illinois statement on their website:

Environmental Commitment
O-I is committed to sustainable packaging solutions that are safe, recyclable, non-toxic and add value to both people and the environment. Our approach will enable us to sustain our business in all economic regions of the world, for present and future generations, while protecting the consumer and the environment.
We realize that caring for the environment is the responsibility of everyone working within the organization and we will actively encourage all individuals to be environmentally responsible.
We take measurable actions to reduce our impact on the environment, while supplying quality products that are pure, safe, healthy and infinitely recyclable to our customers. O-I has implemented a program of continuous improvement appropriate to the nature, scale and location of its activities, products and services.
Glass’ Sustainability
Glass is beneficial, safe and healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle. It is made from materials that are safe in all probable end-of-life scenarios and it has been a trusted package for more than 3,000 years of human experience. And it is the only packaging material to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Further, glass is the only true “cradle-to-cradle” or endlessly recyclable product. Once glass is sorted, it remains the most easily processed and most readily recycled container. Even when recycled again and again, the quality, purity and clarity of glass does not deteriorate.
Used bottles can be reused to make new bottles forever. For example, a bottle can go from a curbside recycling box, through the recycling stream and re-made into a new bottle and on a store shelf in as little as 30 days
Recycling
In communities around the globe, O-I provides outreach and support in setting up recycling programs. These programs result in decreased consumption of raw materials, reduced emissions and improved energy conservation.
O-I plays a vital role in U.S. recycling as an active supporter of the Keep America Beautiful Foundation and the National Recycling Coalition. As early as 1973, O-I received Business Week's National Award for Business Citizenship and was cited for having some of the cleanest glass factories in the nation and leading the industry in glass recycling. Today O-I is the largest user of recycled glass containers in the United States, with nearly a million tons recycled annually.

Newest poem

Youth
the absurdity of our minds have gone wild
while colorful neon lights flash quickly
as we passengers of the godly metal
are drenched in the summer's sweat
these wild & throbbing times
are heard through howls in the night
with loud music blaring on the radio
capturing this very moment
on the celluloid of our naive minds
& in a split second realization
we are seized by the united thought
& understanding that tonight
we are immortal

Copyright ©2007 Suzanne Delorme

recent exhibition of my student work

6 oct. 2006
Cabinet des estampes

CABINET DES ESTAMPES Sélection de 18 albums collectifs réalisés aux ateliers d’estampe de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM de 1989 à 2006
Galerie de l’Atelier Circulaire,
5445 rue de Gaspé, espace 503
Du 6 au 28 octobre 2006
Vernissage le 6 octobre à 17 h.
Heures d’ouverture : mercredi - samedi de 12h à 17h
Cette exposition regroupe des productions inédites réalisées dans les ateliers d’estampe de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal de 1989 à 2006. Près de 250 étudiants ont participé à la planification ainsi qu’à la réalisation de ces estampes originales qui composent des albums thématiques, des livres d’art et des livres-objet.

L’esprit même qui a prévalu à la réalisation de ces projets a toujours été celui de déroger aux balises de la tradition séculaire de l’estampe traditionnelle afin d’aviver la créativité qui nourrit l’art et la vie. Il s’agit d’un Cabinet des estampes quelque peu délinquant qui témoigne encore et toujours de la vivacité des arts impressions. Aide à la mise en forme de l’exposition : Fanny Curtat, étudiante à l’ÉAVMCommissaire de l’exposition : Jean-Pierre Gilbert, professeur à l’ÉAVM

Participants: Pierre Bellefeuille, Andrée-Caroline Boucher, Pascal Doyon, Laurence Faidutti, Lise Fortier, Christine Lacroix, Claude Langevin, Dominique-Chloé Lefèbvre, Gaétane Lemieux, Sandra Vaillancourt, Isabelle Côté, Anne Couture, Jeanne Deschesnes, Joey Doire, Sonia Fontana, Gaétan Gagnon, Jean-Pierre Gilbert, Jean Leclerc, Brigitte Nantel, Joël Patrick Phibel, Georges Ringuette, Claudette Tardif, Patricia Healy, Louise Larin, Rachel Audet, Catherine Ayotte, Micheline Desrochers, Chu-Xe Diep, Dominique Dion, Nicole Dupuis, Marco Gonzalez, Elaine Gosselin, France Lord, Geneviève Mercure, Andrée Millette, Margot Pépin, Benoît Senécal, Sandra Vaillancourt, Mario Bergeron, Madeleine Biard, Yves Boucher, Martine Cazale, Michel Houle, Guylaine Larouche, Camille Leblanc, Philippe Méthé, Bertrand Rainville-Pitt, Diane Raymond, Louise Senay, Fannie Saint-Germain, Anne St-Louis, Cristina Torrent-Oriol, Christian Barré, Nathalie Boisvert, Marjorie Caron, Mariane Charland, Pierre Gagnon, Rollande Goudreault, Claude L’Archevêque, Marie-Danielle Leblanc, Maria Nadeau, Isabelle Plourde, René Provencher, Richard Rajotte, Mireille Tourigny, Guy Lamothe , Marc Beauchamp, Patrick Bourque, Sylvie Corneau- Bourgeois, Stéphane Corriveau, Frédéric Desjardins, Sébastien Gingras, Édith Jackson, Élisabeth Leclerc, André Milot, Nathalie Provost, Yves Renaud, Chantal Bernier, Lorraine Bernier, Yan Chubby, Gabriel Drolet, Katia Maria Gomes Da Silva, Louise Isabelle, Michelle Lauzé, Paul Lebel, Mélanie Lord, Geneviève Oligny, Maryse Phaneuf, Marc Piché, Robert Tanguay, Christiane Thibault, Christine Thibodeau, Claudine Trudel, Nadia Bertrand, Nadine Cartier, Josée Chartré, Stéphanie Chalut, Solange Courval, Suzanne Delorme, Geneviève Dubois, Daniel Langevin, Chantal Lévesque, Mélanie McNicoll, Llano Rossy, Marie-Ève Robidoux, Marielle Roy, Justin Sanscartier, Amélie Thomas, Diane Tremblay, Jean-Noël Bilodeau, Judith Bourgouin, Rachel Boudreault, Patrice Cantin, Véronique Chartrand, Nicole Francoeur, Marie-Ève Gauthier, Marie-Claude Hade, Marie-Pier Roy, Yvan Royal, Alexandre Saint-Jalm, Marie-Joël Turgeon, Nadia Veilleux, Isabelle Auger, Élise Bergeron, Martine Bruneau, Élise Cropsal, Charles Desgroseilliers, Marianne Dubuc, Catherine Lachapelle, Jean-François Lantagne, Ariane Pelletier, Pascale Rousseau, Roxanne Arsenault, Annie Boileau, Nathalie Clouâtre, Marc Gariépy, Valérie Gauthier, Simon-Pierre Gérard, Michel Labelle, Shin ah Lee, Katheryne Pichette, Carline Ponsart, Kathleen Rousseau, Phonesavanh Thongsouksanoumane, Marie-Ève Bertrand, Étienne Carrier, Carolina Espinosa, Andréa Fortin, Jannick Guillou, Brigitte Heloua, Marc-André Roy, Roxana Zegan, Ginette Aubin, Simon Bilodeau, Julie Carignan, Élise Charette, Robin Charron, Heidi Deschesnes-Doré, Martine Desjardins, Céline Dion, Karine Landerman, Mathieu Lavoie, Josée Lecompte, Annie Muller, Marie-Ève Payette, Marie-Ève Séguin, Valérie Vincent, Yoann Voyer, Linda Beaulieu, Amélie Bernard, Simon Bilodeau, Marylyn Boudreault, Évelyn Charette, Jessica Dauphinais, Geneviève Flageol, Émilie Forget, Mariane Kathy Labonté, Marie-France Laplante, Édith Lebeau, Catherine Massouras, Jean Morissette, Valérie Parizeault, Mathieu Penarroya, Pauline Rhéaume, Karen Riley, Isabelle Roy, Lucie Vervaet, Domonique Audet, Émilie Bouchard, Marie-Maude Brunet, Cynthia Desrochers, Marjolaine Groulx, Francis Jodoin, Olivia Keable, Élise Lassonde, Sylvie Moisan, Célia Provencher-Galarneau, Karine Vaillancourt, Dominique Boileau, Mélanie Bureau, Ariane Castonguay-Arsenault, Marianne Chevalier, Mathilde Destelle, Martin Dubé, Annabelle Giard, Fabienne Hardy, Stéphanie Homier, Katerine Lafrenière, Géraldine Pierrot, Marjolaine Samson, Isabelle Vanier, Josée Véronneau, Catherine Ballard, Véronique Béland, Louis Bouvier, Livienne Hélène César Grenier, Mathilde Corbeil, Catherine Gauthier, Sonia Lapierre, Véronique Larose, Véronique Lévesque-Pelletier, Geneviève Milette, Karine Payette, Marie-Pier Viens, Vincent Beauchemin, Crystelle Bédard, Arianne Bordeleau-Bergeron, Emmanuelle Bressan, Fanny Curtat, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Maxime Fortin, Youssef Gharbaoui, Clémence Grieco, Sophie Juneau, Emmanuel Lagrange Paquet, Sonia Lapierre, Karmen Mantha, Jean-François Ouellet, Cynthia Thibault

Jean-Pierre Gilbert

new ceramic work and Solstissage

"Anselm Kiefer Quotes"

Inspirational Art Quotes by the German expressionist painter and sculptor Anselm Kieferborn Anselm Kiefer - Germany - 8th of March, 1945 / Lives - GermanyPopular Anselm Kiefer works include large scale expressive paintings using a minimal palette and sculpture using materials like lead.

+ I'm interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

+ The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

+ The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

+ I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Soldiers of peace

On October 1st, I participated in a workshop with 39 people where we created a soldier for peace with clay... Please read, visit her website and find out how you can participate in one of her future sessions...Suzanne









Created for peace
And notCreated against war,
A flame for peace
That, symbolically,
We all carry within us
Let this become a reality
So that the world that is to be,
May manifest itself

http://www.soldiersofpeace.ca/

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
ART PROJECT DEDICATED TO PEACE
By Claude Desjardins











Meet Claude Desjardins

Environmentally Guided Sculptress

Claude is a seeker of truth through the material world. She creates in order to give meaning to her life. She has explored many different approaches in her quest to understand how the environment affects the human being. She creates as a way of trying to discover how nature can help her reconnect with ancient wisdom and teachings. Her work is an ongoing process. Using natural resources within her environment, she comes in contact, experiments with, and learns about the sacred essence of life. From the invisible to the visible, the work of a being is never completed. The being evolves with the creator’s level of consciousness.

One of the most important aspects of her creative process is the participation of the community. She needs to have the vision of others in order to understand the meaning of her work; the meaning of her life. She has a story that illustrates why it is so important. She says that when we are sitting around a bonfire, everybody is in a circle looking at the fire. Everybody has a unique vision of the fire. Each time someone puts a piece of wood in the fire, it changes not only the person's view, but also a neighbor's perspective. So, to Claude the responsibility of any human being is to name what is personally seen in the fire and to nourish it. And when we express our uniqueness, we help the collective to grow.

MAM FINE CRAFTS COLLOQUIUM 2006

Many Espace VERRE students and graduates are members of this organisation, please visit their Website :

http://www.mam-montreal.com/splash.html


MAM FINE CRAFTS COLLOQUIUM 2006
The MAM Fine Crafts Colloquium 2006 will be held at the Cegep du Vieux Montreal (255 Ontario Street East) from September 25 - October 8 2006. The Colloquium will include an exhibition, conferences, and professional workshops:

EXHIBITION : THE MAM SHOW at the Agora Gallery at the Cegep du Vieux Montreal OPENING - Monday September 25 @ 7:00pm255 Ontario Street East Montréal (Quebec) H2X 1X6 until Sunday October 8 2006

CONFERENCE : Is Fine Crafts Practice Possible Today? Louise Lemieux Berube, Director: Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal ...Wednesday September 27 from 4pm to 6pm (in French) Cegep du Vieux Montréal, 255 Ontario Street East, room # 4.01-4.27

WORKSHOP : Representing Oneself at Galleries. Elizabeth Marier, glass artist / instructor at Espace Verre Wednesday September 27 from 6pm to 8pm (in French) Cegep du Vieux Montréal, 255 Ontario Street East, room # 4.01-4.27

WORKSHOP : Researching Financing. Christiane Jobin, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec Martin Thivierge, Societe de Developpement des Entreprises Culturelles Stephane Carrier, for the Agence Quebec Wallonie Bruxelles pour la Jeunesse, theOffice Franco-Quebecois pour la Jeunesse and the Office Quebec-Ameriques pour la Jeunesse.Thursday September 28 from 6pm to 8pm (in French) Cegep du Vieux Montreal, 255 Ontario Street East, room # 4.01-4.27

PBS

PBS
I have watched PBS programming for years... I stopped for a few years because, I didn't have cable...I occasionally could catch fuzzy programs with my cheesy antenna...For years they have brought us wonderful instructive and engaging programs: Sesame Street, Mystery, Nova, Julia Childs and my new found culinary interest Ming Tsai (ooh la la, he can cook in my dreams)...In my teens, I saw a documentary on Jackson Pollock that inspired me to make my own drip paintings on paper which I framed and gave to my family for Xmas. In my early twenties, I saw a documentary on John Cage, the musician that made me see everyday sounds as music and silence as a positive addition to all living things... They are a beautiful rainbow spectrum among some of the garbage that is currently on TV...Heck, even the Dalai Lama is addicted to the BBC news seen every night on PBS.See what's playing in your town...www.pbs.org
Ming Tsai’s Website: www.ming.com

Check out my Pally's Musical Blog

Linda Fraser is one of my best friends...In her late teenage years, she moved to Hamilton Ontario. Over the years, she has encouraged the rich music scene there. It has become an important part of her life...

Linda's blog:

http://www.myspace.com/playmetheblues

Last Night at the Cafe de l'artiste...Verdun

Last night, I discovered two wonderful young musical artists Melissa Laveaux and Marie-Josee Houle both reside in Ottawa. Melissa's voice is rich and soulfully textured perfectly in-sync with her acoustic guitar giving her voice a perfect rhythm. Marie-Josee transported us to a far away cafe/cabaret somewhere in Paris with her beautiful voice and her exquisite accordion playing........The gypsies and Edith Piaf where not far away...

Their distinctive styles finally merged wonderfully in the very last song of their third set.

Please visit their Website to find out more about these emerging musical artists:

http://www.melissalaveaux.com
http://www.uglysocks.com/

Banksy is a world renowned, London-based graffiti artist whose artwork is often political and/or humorous in nature. He has attempted to hide his identity; however, according to The Guardian he is one Robert Banks born in 1974 in Bristol, England. His artwork has appeared throughout London and various cities around the world. His street art which combines graffiti with a distinctive stencilling technique has garnered him underground notoriety and widespread coverage in the mainstream media.

More info: http://www.banksy.co.uk/

September 13th 2006

Yesterday Wednesday September 13th, an armed 25 year old man opened fire at Dawson College (Montreal's largest pre-University College), a young student Anastasia DeSousa was killed and 19 people were injured (some are in a very critical state)...

Today people are trying to find answers for his senseless actions...Perhaps blaming his gothic lifestyle...I think that the problem was deeper inside his own mind...Time may tell...

I am a proud graduate of Dawson College's New School program, class of 92...It was a highlight of my academic years with very fond memories... After hearing of this deadly rampage, all I could do was to imagine all the places that this took place and hope that there would be no one seriously hurt... But unfortunately, that was just a wish...

The Alexis-Nihon shopping mall just next door is very familiar to me, as I go there regularly...It is my favorite shopping destination.

My heart goes to all the victims families and even to the killer's own family, for they also have to come to grip with their son's actions and death...

A Message from Dawson College's Director General: http://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/
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Les oeufs

Transformation of my eggs before today's omelette was made...