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18.01528 G/Mol Existential Cafe

10/13/2018

October's special edition of the Existential Cafe features discussion topics relating to the current exhibition 18.01528 G/Mol The Molecular Weight of Water.

Join us on Sunday 28th October at 2pm to talk art-making, philosophy, politics, popular culture and more, with the artists
Susan Bizecki, Myron Campbell, Jim Kalnin, Aaron Leon, Joanne Sale and David Wilson

We'll have coffee, tea and cookies to share too ...

Contribute to the Tribute Tree

7/27/2018

We welcome you to participate with our August 16th Picnic in the Night event by contributing to the Tribute Tree. The Tribute Tree is a large scale installation filled with tributes by community members for loved ones, friends, family, etc. The tributes will be hung on the large tree outside of the ArtHouse. On the night of the event there will be opportunities to create tributes as well.

Picnic in the Night

7/20/2018

Save the date for this eventful end of summer picnic!

We are also encouraging you to create a tribute to a loved one to be hung on the Tribute Tree as part of the large scale installation in front of the ArtHouse! Opportunities to create a tribute will be available at the event as well.

Call for teen/youth Participants

7/10/2018

Existential Cafe: Without Giving Way & Pulp Fiction Paper Jam

7/10/2018

Call for Spray Paint Artists - Summer Fest in Lake Country

7/1/2018

The Gallery will be at Swalwell Park July 14 hosting a spray paint activity for youths and teens as part of the Skatepark re-opening at Summer Fest. These works will later be installed in the Art Alley at the Gallery. We are inviting any teens and youths who are interested to participate and are looking for spray paint artists to mentor. Please email us if you are interested in being a mentor!!

Summer Evening Picnic under the Tribute Tree

5/1/2018

Our Annual Summer Evening Picnic for 2018 will take place under the TRIBUTE TREE August 16th from 6pm
Enjoy an installation of community artwork hung from the beautiful Manitoba Maple Tree.

We will also be celebrating local youth artists with their installation of GRAFFITI BOARDS in the Art Alley.

We invite you to participate in the creation of the artwork in advance of this event in two ways:

1. YOU can create a wind catcher and painted rock tribute to be hung from our tribute tree. Create it as a tribute to someone. Honour someone you respect, be it a loved one living or passed, a friend, a pet, a historical figure or even a celebrity. Deliver this to the art gallery by August 10th for installation.

2. TEENS find us at the Teen Festival to take part in the Grafitti board art project at Swalwell Park July 14th

For more information contact TINA

BIG DAY OUT

3/20/2018

Spend SATURDAY APRIL 7th in Lake Country and you will enjoy all of this ...

11am David Jacob Harder SCULPTURE unveiling at GESS
11:30am back to the Gallery for Opening of RESTLESS EARTH plus PANCAKE BREAKFAST with the artists and curators
1pm AGM [Annual General Meeting of members and Directors]

Complete the afternoon with a cup of Wanda's *Special* Hot Cocoa ....

.11am: Unveiling Ponderosa Sphere by artist David Jacob Harder

David Jacob Harder uses "...the tree and some of its ecological cousins in a wild dialogue about how humans impact nature, even at the unintentional or incidental level but all the way up to the industrial and global economy level. This conversation is a silent one, at least at Harder's end. He is expressing his hypotheses using the voices of art."

This work is my investigation of the interaction between us and animate tissues. Often raw materials are appropriated for our “progress” and made to serve our advancements in technology and engineering. I am interested in this dialogue and how the conversation relies on the fundamentals of bio-mimicry and ultimately change the future of the biosphere.
I use the tissue of the ponderosa pine to speak to the change seen in BC’s interior and the noticeable changes that have ensued in my short lifetime. Throughout the Thompson Okanagan region thousands of these dying and dead trees speckle the hillsides and valley bottoms. This change helps to inform my work and ultimately introduces new topics in my dialogue with the landscape. In the creation of the sphere I look to further investigate the symbol of the bark tissue as a landscape cell unto itself and continue my investigation into the conglomeration of the mechanical and the raw.
The symbol of the sphere allows me to call to mind the planetary concerns of the changing landscape through the implications of shape and form. The round cell also enables me to juxtapose the raw tissue of the tree with the constructed and deliver the concepts into a new territory of contemplation.

11:30am Lake Country Art Gallery for PANCAKE BREAKFAST (leave your car at GESS)

CELEBRATE the opening of a NEW EXHIBITION: A RESTLESS EARTH
with guest Curator Hanss Lujan

Hanss invited our Gallery Members to submit artwork based on his theme A Restless Earth. This exhibition is a selection of art from our Member artists that explore current ecological crises. The exhibition presents a platform for discussion on the Anthropocene—the current ecological epoch that represents humanity’s dominant influence on the planet.

Hanss Lujan is a Peruvian artist, writer and emerging curator living in the Okanagan. Hanss has worked on a variety of exhibitions and projects for galleries in Kelowna including the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. His project research themes include place and cultural identity, globalisation, and socially engaged practices.

1pm Gallery Members are invited to stay for the *Annual General Meeting

A short presentation about the achievements of 2017, plus a PREVIEW of our plans for 2018
VOTE for a REVISED MANDATE
ELECTION of Directors

Please preview the proposed revision to our Gallery Mandate HERE

* Your attendance at the AGM is essential for the continuance, eligibility and sustainability of the Lake Country Art Gallery Society and YOUR PRESENCE & INPUT are HIGHLY VALUED :)

Finally, let us THANK YOU by sharing with you Wanda's *special* Hot Cocoa to close the day <3

Your are Invited....

2/5/2018

... to gather around the virtual campfire during one of the following programmed events, or bring your own group to enjoy the 'fireside' experience...

Fireside Yoga & Meditation - gentle, chair-supported, comes as you are

Thursdays Feb 8th & 15th at 5pm with Megan Gerace
Fridays & Saturdays, Feb 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th with Tonette deVera

drop-in, by donation

Family Day, Fireside Stories & singalong Feb 12th 11am and 1pm: Gather the family around the virtual campfire for some tales of Okanagan legends from First Nation storyteller David Florence. There will also be a round of campfire songs and a cup of hot chocolate to complete the experience.
The event is free, but tickets are still required to get in as space is limited.

Thank you to everyone that came out for Family Day and thank you to Angelika for this great report

Lake Country Indoor Children’s Festival

2/4/2018

Find the Lake Country Art Gallery - Fun Art Activity Table at:

The 3rd Annual Lake Country Indoor Children’s Festival!
sponsored by TD.

This years Lake Country Indoor Children’s Festival is on March 3rd from 11-3

Look out for: interactive magic acts throughout the festival; vendors including Balloons by Rene, Face Painting by Christina, and Caricatures by Marzio. The 2018 Global Citizens Event activities in the community gym include: Try a Turban, Mexican Bingo, Henna and more. Also check out the Young Entrepreneur’s section where three young people will be selling their homemade products for families to enjoy. Main Gym will have Stuffy Riders! And there will be an Interactive Theatre in the Drama Room. For the little ones the Main Gym will be filled with Mega Blocks to play with as well as a seating area for parents.

Doors open at 11:00pm.
Thanks again to our sponsors Telus Pure Fibre, Castanet, TD, and Global Citizen Events.

Suggested Donation for Admission is $2/Child, $5 Adult, $10/ Family.

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