Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery is calling all artists to submit art work relating to any of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Seven Deadly Sins: angry, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, and sloth.

The gallery is organizing a group show on The Seven Deadly Sins.
Deadline for submissions: April 20th 2010.
Exhibition dates: June 10th to 26th 2010.
Meet the Artists: June 12th. Saturday 12 – 6 pm.
June 12th, Saturday 12 to 6 pm is also the Mid Month Music in the Sculpture Garden.
The gallery will be considering all forms of art: installation, photography, poetry, drawings, video, sculpture, painting… anything relating to The Seven Deadly Sins.
Please send samples of art work to
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
286 Hinchey Ave. Ottawa, Ontario. K1Y 1M2. t: 613 729 0406
(Submissions will NOT be returned - No email submissions)
Only artists that have been selected will be contacted.
Please visit website for more information and other opportunities:
www.PatrickJohnMills.ca

Deadline for applications April 30, 2010

Welcome to your 2nd Ottawa Art Expo, the Capital's premier fine art event and the largest indoor art show in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec! This fall, thousands of art lovers will stream into The St. Elias Centre on the River Road, across from Mooney’s Bay to browse the works of over 50 talented Canadian artists at the Ottawa Art Expo 2010.

We listened when you, the artists, spoke and we have made some important improvements. We will be including power and lights in every booth this year!

Ottawa – Funding to create murals to combat graffiti vandalism is now available through a partnership between the City and Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO).

CPO will receive $50,000 from City Council this year to administer the Paint it Up! program that will fund projects that engage at-risk youth in creating legal, outdoor murals in graffiti-prone areas. The new mural program is one component of the City’s Graffiti Management Strategy. The strategic placement of murals in graffiti-prone areas has been shown to prevent future graffiti vandalism from occurring. Applications for “Paint it Up!” funding are available at www.CrimePreventionOttawa.ca or by calling 613-580-2424 ext. 22454. The deadline to apply is April 9, 2010.

Property owners or artists who wish to commission murals are encouraged to call the City at 3-1-1 or visit ottawa.ca/mural for guidance or resources such as the new Mural Guide.

Ottawa - Aspiring artists are invited to submit their work for the new City of Ottawa C4 Gallery - a travelling showcase with an emphasis on contemporary, conceptual, compartmental and community art. Submissions will be accepted by mail or by hand until Monday April 5, 2010 at 3 p.m.

The request for submissions is open to all residents (young, older, amateur or professional artists, etc.) living within a 150-kilometre radius of the City of Ottawa. Participants must be Canadian citizens or have landed immigrant status.

Current Exhibition:
Shenkman Arts Centre
245 Centrum Boulevard
February 25 - March 26

To welcome spring, arts&architecture would like to invite Ottawa photographers to submit their best flower/nature photographs for a group exhibition scheduled for May 5 – May 23, 2010, to run concurrent with the Ottawa Tulip Festival.

How to submit work:
Send an email to info@artsandarchitecture.ca before the deadline of Sunday, April 11, 2010 and include:
your name;
up to three image entries in jpeg format, under 1MB each;
each file should be titled with your name and the title of the image.

We will contact artists by April 18, 2010 to let them know if their work was chosen for exhibition.  Artists will then have until Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm to bring their finished print to the gallery.

Learn to move your arms gracefully, use your face expressively, and tell a story via Persian Dance. An art form that promotes physical, mental, and emotional well-being, Persian dance helps you walk on the dance floor with grace, energy, and confidence. Women of all ages and abilities are welcome to join. Those interested, please contact Maria Sabaye via email msabaye@yahoo.ca or phone (613)271-3036. The classes are offered free of charge (women only) at Nepean Creative Arts Centre on Saturday afternoons.
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam has sought Persian dance training in Canada, Iran, and the US as well as training in a variety of world dances such as Kathak, Bollywood, and Flamenco in Toronto and Ottawa.
Maria founded Bahar Ensemble in 2002 in Toronto. She has had numerous performances in various artistic and cultural events and appeared on Rogers Television.  She holds Persian dance classes for both youth and adults in Ottawa. Maria has also undertaken research on Iranian dance and dancers and published many articles including one in Encyclopaedia Iranica.  She was the dance director for “Tirgan” festival (www.tirgan.ca) held at the Harbourfront Centre in July 2008. Maria is a member International Council of Dance, a worldwide dance organization recognized by UNESCO.
This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the government of Ontario.

In an exciting effort to cultivate new perspectives on the media arts landscape, Vague Terrain (Toronto) and Artengine (Ottawa) are collaborating on a residency for an emerging critic or cultural journalist from the Ottawa-Gatineau area. For one year the selected participant will pen a monthly cross-post to the Vague Terrain and Artengine blogs. The residency kicks off on May 6th with a paid trip to the 2010 Elektra Festival in Montréal to post reviews and more from one of North America's premiere digital culture events. Applicants must be based in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, and are requested to send a resume and letter describing their interest in the electronic and media arts as well as what they would bring to the respective online publications. You may also submit links to previous on-line writings.  

The successful applicant will receive a $1,200.00 stipend; one trip (Ottawa-Montreal) including travel, accomodation and per diem during the festival; and one festival pass to all Elektra events. The resident will also receive workshops from the Ottawa Art Gallery during their 2011 critical writing series Articulation.

Applicants must be available for travel to Montréal from May 5th to 9th, 2010. 
Please submit letters and CV in PDF form to artistic@artengine.ca. The deadline for submission is Monday April 5th. The successful applicant will be notified by April 15th, 2010.
For questions or further information please contact Ryan Stec at Artengine.
Ryan Stec
Artistic Director 613-686-1941
artistic@artengine.ca
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About Artengine
artengine.ca

Artengine is non-profit artist-run center that foster democratic and innovative approach to creative expression with technology. Based in Ottawa-Gatineau, Artengine runs a modular media and electronics laboratory, produces the biennial Electric Fields festival and operates an artist-run server providing on-line tools to artists and cultural organizations. 

If you haven't yet, we highly encourage you to go this week to see the play "Where the Blood Mixes," at the National Arts Centre (on until April 3rd). Focusing on the lives of two natives from BC, Floyd and Mooch (played by veteran actors Billy Merasty and Ben Cardinal) as they drink, fish and bicker, and gradually come to terms with their residential school experience and the impact its had on their friendships and family lives. With a live musical score performed by guitarist Jason Burnstick, the play is 90 minutes of humour, pathos and understated morality; a portrayal of good people who have been victimized and are struggling heroically not to be defined by that victimization. It is everything a night at the theatre should be: funny, moving and inspiring.

From contributor Kris Millet:

Hi everyone. Just letting you know that No Fly List (me, Russ on bass, Reza on drums) will be playing this Monday night at Zaphod's at 9:00! No cover!

Zaphod's is a great venue to play, so we're pretty pumped about it. They do Showcase Mondays every week made up entirely of local acts, allowing them to do their thing and develop. They even record each band's performance for free!

So come on out and support some local music! Here's the little ad the bar put together:
Monday, March 29 - 8pm - *FREE* Showcase Mondays presents 
THE PANAMA
+ ORCHID THIEVES
+ THE WHEAT POOL
+ NO FLY LIST
Followed by RECAP with DJ Matty

Hopefully see you out there, thanks.

Kris

SPECIAL CALL TO ALL TULIP ARTISTS!
The Canada Aviation Museum, a proud partner of the Canadian Tulip Festival, is offering artists the opportunity to paint 5-foot acrylic tulips in the museum.
These tulips have become an icon and are a favourite with visitors and tourists, as witnessed by the many pictures that are taken of them throughout the Festival.
This year’s theme is “Liberation:”  The Canadian Tulip Festival will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of The Netherlands by Canadian soldiers and the Canadian Navy’s Centennial.
We invite you to send us your proposals for painting a tulip by March 26th to events@tulipfestival.ca.  Painting of the tulips is scheduled to begin April 1st 2010.
We thank all artists and will contact those that have been chosen.
Leave a legacy with the Canadian Tulip Festival!

[Editor's Note: This call just came in today]

CALL TO ARTISTS
NEW DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2010
Blink Artist Collective is currently accepting submissions for the 2010 exhibition season.  Blink Gallery can be found in Header House, a small, stone NCC heritage building in Major's Hill Park, across the bridge from The National Gallery.
Blink will be mounting another exciting series of one-week shows from June to September, which will feature the work of Blink artists, as well as showcase a variety of guest artists.
Blink is encouraging artists of all disciplines to apply.
Please apply with a non-refundable application fee of $25.
-10 images & image list
-72 DPI jpg (750 x 900 pixels)
-Artist statement/proposal (max 500 words)
-CV/Bio
-Contact information
-Include a SASE
For any questions regarding application go to: jeanjewer@rogers.com
All submissions will be juried by Blink.
Please mail applications to:
Blink Gallery for the Arts Inc.
PO Box 53070
RPO Rideau-centre
Ottawa, ON.   K1N 1C5
NEW DEADLINE – March 31st 2010
Change of deadline is due to a deadline discrepancy.
NOTE: If you must send application through e-mail (jeanjewer@rogers.com) please mail the application fee.

Friends, there are movies (movies! plural!) to be seen this weekend. Let's get to it.

New on the Hollywood front, you've got The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan as a Blair-esque former British PM who led the country into an undesirable war and noted feminist Ewan McGregor as the ghost writer tasked with completing the PM's memoirs. You've got Repo Men, in which Jude Law and Forest Whitakre reposse people's purchased organs for Liev Schrieber. You've got Diary of a Wimpy Kid, about, um, a wimpy kid in middle school and his over-sized delusions  of grandeur. Finally, if you've got any desire to go see The Bounty Hunter, let Tony Scott cure you.

Over at the Bytowne, you've got Colin Firth's heartbreaking performance in A Single Man, Xavier Dolan's heartbreaking debut J'ai tué ma mère, Darwin biopic Creation, and Fellini-inspired fiasco Nine.

Friday

La Petite Mort Gallery presents
FIVE DAY EXHIBIT
JANE BURNSTEIN, "Bound in Banyans - In Black & White"
Vernissage: Friday March 19, 2010 / 7 -10pm
306 Cumberland

Community Labyrinth Walk: Join us for an evening seeking balance between the melodic and the rhythmic to find completeness within.
We welcome Violinist Janice Mah and Percussionist Benilda Formoso to blend the melody of the strings with the beat of the drum to form an original soundscape to accompany your walk in the labyrinth.
Friday March 19th at 7:00 pm| Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa | 420 Sparks Street
An introduction to the labyrinth as walking meditation will be provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $20.
For information contact: barbara.brown1@sympatico.ca

The Block by Matthew Higgins, documents in chilling detail, weapons made by the inmates of Kingston Penitentiary. Vernissage: Friday March 19th, 2010, 17:00 - 20:00
On View: March 19th - March 30th, 2010
Viewing hours: Mon - Fri 10:00 -18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00
Sundays and late evenings by appointment or by chance.
The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market.

Despite previous reports, Jake Gyllenhaal will not be filming scenes for the upcoming thriller Source Code. VIA Rail couldn't come to terms for their fee with the producers, so Ottawa will miss out on as much as $200,000 injected into the local economy. Also, we'll miss out on Jake Gyllenhaal. Thanks, VIA. If you can't get the trains to run on time, you could at least expose us to a hottie or two (co-star Vera Farmiga).

Exhibit and Sales Opportunities for Fine Artists and Craftspeople.
Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Gladstone Clayworks, 949b Gladstone Ave
Contribute to an information sharing session of Ottawa, Gatineau and surrounding area exhibit and sale opportunities - a session facilitated by Lisa Brunetta (sculptor), and presented by the Working Creatives group and HarryNowell.com.
Join us to compare notes about the opportunities in our region to show and sell our work. Lisa Brunetta, a sculptor and fine craftsperson based in Gatineau, will moderate this session where all are invited to give their impressions and ask their questions. Thinking about doing a show? Maybe you'll pick up some good feedback from someone who has done it already. Already done a show and have some comments? Bring them on!
If you are already a member of the Working Creatives group and are planning to attend the session, please RSVP to Lisa at lbrunetta@yahoo.ca. You can also contact Lisa if you have any questions about the session.
Working Creatives is a free group designed to share information among people working full time in their creative field. We have been offering free monthly info and network sessions to support fine artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, writers, etc. This is our third season. Sessions are organized and run by the 170 members - themselves full time working creatives. Need more information about the group?
Our seasonal social:
www.harrynowell.com/blog/2009/12/17/393-creatives-networking-hits-the-ice/
Or contact Harry@HarryNowell.com

AVAILABLE LIGHT SCREENING COLLECTIVE: CALL FOR CURATING PROPOSALS FOR THE AUTUMN 2010 - SUMMER 2011 SERIES

Available Light Screening Collective (AL for short) is an Ottawa, Ontario-based volunteer organization committed to curating and presenting experimental film and video artworks within the local community. From its inception in 1995 as a Super 8 production group, AL has functioned as a non-incorporated artists' collective, a democratic and flexible form of governance in keeping with the shifting character of the dynamic experimental media artworks it is dedicated to presenting.

Available Light Screening Collective is currently seeking written proposals for media arts curating projects for its 2010-2011 season. The series is scheduled to begin in September 2010 with most programs presented at our primary exhibition venue in Ottawa, Club SAW at Galerie SAW Gallery. Proposals for other venues in the region, including outdoor sites, will also be considered. A professional curator's honorarium, as well as individual artists' fees for each work screened, will be paid upon the successful completion of the project.

At the National Arts Centre tonight, the Mariinsky Orchestra, under the baton of Valery Gergiev, performed works by Berlioz, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. The Rachmaninov was the 3rd Piano Concerto, with the dazzling Denis Matsuev as soloist. Here's a clip of Matsuev playing another piece of Rachmaninov's, "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini."

And here's the Mariinsky playing Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony. (They played the 15th tonight.)

The whole thing was spectacular. All I can say is that, if these Russians take over the world with as much elegance, sophistication and verve as their musicians display, then I, for one, will welcome our new imperialist rulers.

Hollywood certainly has a diverse offering this week to suit you as follows:

• If you need to see Matt Damon, action, war, politics, Paul Greengrass' trademark shaky-cam, go see Green Zone
• If you need to see Robert Pattinson, brooding, romance, daddy issues, whatever possessed Chris Cooper to act opposite Robert Pattinson, go see Remember Me
• If you need to see Jay Baruchel, a sex farce, maybe romance, definitely a premature ejaculation joke in some sort of bizarre 40 Year-Old Virgin/There's Something About Mary mash-up, go see She's Out of My League.

All three sound hard to watch for wildly different reasons. Ah, well. At least Baruchel has two more movies coming out soon (How to Train Your Dragon and The Sorcerer's Apprentice).

If you're looking for something different, there's Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould, Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2009 (Animated), Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2009 (Live Action), World’s Best Commercials 2009, and Marina Of The Zabbaleen playing at the Bytowne.

Call to Local Artists
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery is now accepting submissions for a Group Show. Please send samples of your art work to the gallery (postal submissions only). Video, painting, poetry, drawings, installations, sculpture, anything.... crazy is good. The more interesting the art is the better.
Going Local. Group Show.
April 1st - 24th. 2010
Meet the Artists: April 1st, Thursday 6 - 9 pm.
Deadline for Submissions: March 18th.
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
286 Hinchey Ave, Ottawa, Ontario. K1Y 1M2.
www.PatrickJohnMills.ca
No email submissions
Submissions will not be returned and only accepted artists will be contacted.

Ottawa - Local not-for-profit organizations such as volunteer-based community or recreation associations are invited to apply for funding under the 2010 Civic Events Funding Program, to provide one to two-day civic events with free admission that foster civic pride and develop community cohesion. These events are linked to and celebrate a civic/statutory holiday (i.e., Victoria Day, Canada Day), are held in a specific geographic district in Ottawa, and encompass a broad range of activities (family entertainment).
Maximum Allocation: $2,000
Application Deadline: March 24, 2010
Application forms are available at City of Ottawa Client Service Centres or by visiting ottawa.ca/communityfunding. For more information on the program or for any clarifications, please contact Brenda Denault at 613-580-2424, ext. 26459.
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For more information:
Media contact
613-580-2450
Public inquiries
3-1-1