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Open Sesame Exhibitions
July 6 - August 25, 2018 : Sherry Czekus: Those Who Walk Between Us
Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, August 2, 6 PM Those Who Walk Between Us features new paintings by Kitchener-based artist, Sherry Czekus. Each painting immerses the viewer in busy streets where the crowd fills the frame and blurs into a patchwork of colour and pattern.
May 11 - June 30, 2018: Ashley Culver - Open wide to pronounce its name as well as to ingest it
The exhibition title, Open wide to pronounce its name as well as to ingest it, is a line in Francis Ponge's poem "The Orange." The line illustrates one's interaction with an orange as material as well as through recognition and language. Similarly, the exhibited photographs and sculptures seek for a knowing of this thing. The collection of photographs, O, indexes found peels and their context. The image is all texture: dimpled orange peels and their soft pith with the support of the ground they've happened upon due to gravity. When Culver photographs a peel, she records an event she did not witness: the peeling of the fruit, the fall of the peel onto the ground. In this manner, photography is a way to acknowledge an encounter.
Open Sesame Events
Friday June 22, 7PM: Sweet Pablo, Ten Boy Summer, EDDYEVVY, The Lovegoods
All the way from Cincinatti, Sweet Pablo are joining their KW and Guelph friends for a show that you won’t want to miss! Grab your...
Thursday December 21, 7 PM: An Evening of Light: Stories of Integrity, Hosted by Feminine Harbor
4 women, of 4 different generations, sharing real life stories combined with beautiful live music. That's the LIGHT Stories: described as "The Vagina Monologues meets...
Saturday December 16, 4:00 PM: Robert Dayton's The Empty Bed Book Launch + Performance
Robert Dayton will read excerpts from The Empty Bed. He will be joined by Chris A Cummings of Marker Starling for a special performance of...
Tuesday December 5, 7:00 PM: Emily Anglin's The Third Person: Reading + Reception
Emily Anglin presents The Third Person (BookThug, 2017). In this new collection of uncanny, darkly humorous short stories, tense professional and personal negotiations between two...
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