Great art opportunities in Ottawa this weekend!

Friday

Karsh-Masson Gallery
136 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa
Liberating Containment: Richard Finney & Michael Hosaluk
Curated by LafrenièrePai
Presented in conjuction with Prairie Scene
April 8 to May 29, 2011
ARTIST TALK (in English): Friday, April 8 at noon
SWARM GALLERY CRAWL: Tuesday, April 26, 6 to 9 p.m.
MICHAEL HOSALUK (Saskatoon) takes the chair as his point of departure, “liberating” it from its function by making it an outline building block. The public is then invited to interact with the chair units to create larger sculptures, even to the point of taking a chair to plant it in a new environment, bursting beyond the specialized public space of a gallery into real public space. Hosaluk’s chairs have been rescued by Saskatoon’s Fire Department from a thawing river and dismantled from a tree in the downtown core. There have been many such acts of “Chairorism” that have gone on to inspire a play and short film.
KARSH-MASSON GALLERY
136 St. Patrick Street
Free admission. Wheelchair accessible.
613-580-2424 (14167)  TTY: 613-580-2401
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3SUM
Date:     Friday, April 8th, 2011
Time:     7pm-11pm
Location: Patrick Gordon Framing and Founddesign,
         160/164 Elm Street, Ottawa
The School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa, Patrick Gordon Framing, and Founddesign + Funky Furniture invite you to 3SUM:
1.     The Launch of the 3rd issue of The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa’s magazine - PUSH/PULL.
2.     An Exhibition of “Threeness” themed photographs and live music presented by Patrick Gordon Framing.
3.     The Official Grand Opening of Founddesign + Funky Furniture!
The Third PUSH/PULL magazine will be available to purchase for 5$. Distribution kits will also be available if your business is interested in carrying Ottawa’s only photography magazine.
Join us on April 8th, 2011 at Patrick Gordon Framing and Founddesign located at 160/164 Elm Street, from 7pm-11pm to celebrate!
Launch RSVP: admin@spao.ca 613.562.3824
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OPEN FORMAT 04 -- benefit for the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives (www.policyalternatives.ca)
Friday, April 8, 2011
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset St. West), Ottawa
9:oo PM to 1:oo AM
Pay what you can (donation requested)
ALL AGES

Friday and Saturday

In the fourth CTV Pops concert of the season, some of the Great White Way’s hottest singers join the National Arts Centre Orchestra when Broadway’s Leading Men is performed in Southam Hall on April 8, and 9
In the fourth CTV Pops concert of the NAC Orchestra’s 2010-11 season, NAC Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly returns to the podium to lead the National Arts Centre Orchestra and special guests directly from Broadway. This spectacular songfest takes place in Southam Hall on Friday April 8, and Saturday April 9, 2011 at 8 p.m. Be wowed by the glitz and glamour of Broadway as you enjoy some of the most popular musical highlights from West Side Story, Gypsy, The Music Man, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Oliver!, La Cage aux Folles,Victor/Victoria, Jekyll and Hyde, The Boy from Oz, and more!

Ticketmaster may also be accessed through www.nac-cna.ca.

Saturday

OXBERRY ANIMATION CAMERA WORKSHOP
When: Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Where: IFCO (#2 Daly Ave, Suite #140)
Time: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: Full Members - $80.00/Basic Members - $90.00/Students - $120.00/Non-Student - $175.00
(Non-Member rates include an IFCO membership)
Instructor: Diederik Van den Weghe
Registration Deadline: Tuesday,  April 5th, 2011
Note: All prices include 4 hours of additional practice time.
IFCO’s Oxberry camera and animation stand can be used for filming essentially any 2-D animation, such as traditional cell animation or collage animation. It can also be used to film stills or titles. The camera can be converted to run either 16mm or 35mm film. Camera movements can be made manually or computerised.
Note: This camera will only be rented to members who have taken the workshop.
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The Visual Arts Student Association of Ottawa University is proud to present
their annual End of Year Auction! This fundraising event will showcase some of
the amazing work created by the students of the Visual Arts Department at Ottawa
University. The auction will be run as a silent auction with starting bids posted below each work along with the works details. There will be refreshments and beverages throughout the evening along with great music and wonderful company!
So please, join us Saturday, April 9th from 7 – 10pm for our final celebration of this
school year!

La Petite Mort Gallery, 306 Cumberland
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The Green Door Restaurant presents "Fusion", April 3-29, a solo exhibition by mixed media artist Fortunée Shugar.
198 Main Street, Ottawa
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 am to 9:00 pm
Meet the artist Saturday, April 9, 3:00 pm- 5:00pm.
Examples from the show can be seen on my website - www.fortuneeshugar.com - by clicking on "Fusion" on the home page.
Sunday

Creative Sundays! Last workshops of the season.
Of Earth and Sky: Shoebox Landscapes
In the Prairies, the horizon seems to go on forever. Here is your chance to try and capture it in a shoebox that you can take home! Create a prairie landscape inspired by the ones in the exhibition, or invent your own fantasy landscape.
Sunday April 10th, 17th and May 1st
*The Ottawa Art Gallery will be closed on Easter Sunday (April 24th)
Next Up: Look for the OAG’s “Art Tent” during summer festivals across Ottawa!
Creative Sundays!
Every Sunday between 1 pm and 3 pm at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Free hands-on art-making activities for children and adults!

Any time at all!
Conceal/Reveal: Works in Cloth by Jennifer Smith-Windsor at the Lee Matasi Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, 35 George Street, K1N 8W5, (613) 241-7471
A series of wall mounted textile works exploring the fragility of the human condition. Using second hand textiles, the pieces are hand and machine stitched, waxed stained and burnt to create lyrical and intimate studies in cloth.
April 7-19
Vernissage April 7 5pm-7pm
Gallery Hours
Monday to Thursday 9:00AM-9:00PM
Friday and Saturday 9AM-4:30PM
Sunday 1-4:30PM

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The management of the Casino du Lac-Leamy is pleased to invite you to “Visual Dialogue”, an exhibition of paintings by Vasile Mosanu. The exhibition is open from February 4 to May 5, 2011.
Address: “La Traversee des arts”, Casino du Lac-Leamy, 1, boulevard du Casino, Gatineau, Quebec.
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For the month of April, Georgia Mathewson invites you to view her "Random Collection" of new and old paintings/mixed media works at the James Street Wellness Centre. The collection includes work created over the last 7 years and follows experiments with ink processes, studies in colour, series and repetitive themes.
The James Street Wellness Centre is located at:
20 James Street, 3rd Floor, Ottawa
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On behalf of the Introduction to Fine Art Program, Algonquin College, you are cordially invited to:
PRINT THIS!
March 28 - April 24
The Mud Oven
1065 Bank Street K1S 3W9
Located across from the Mayfair Theater
613-730-0814
www.mudoven.com
Students from the Introduction to Fine Art Program are proud to present an exhibition of artist prints this April at the Mud Oven in downtown Ottawa.  Under the guidance of Professor Deidre Hierlihy, the students have prepared an exhibit within a professional environment that reflects the creative output of this ambitious group.  The work represents diverse and subjective approaches from a roster of fresh new artists.
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Dennis Cooley, rob mclennan, Linda Crosfield, Heather Cadsby, Fern G.Z. Carr, Alice Major, Mary Angela Nangini, Carol Little, Carol Rose,
Stevens  Taeho Han, Susan McMaster, Carmelo Militano, Rebecca Leah Pepucaru, Gillian Harding-Russell, Kelly-Anne Riess, Joe Blades, Bruce Rice, Bernadette Wagner
   To read/comment/share their poems, see
   http://lcpnationalpoetrymonth2011.wordpress.com/
   More poems come, all month long!