AGSM to host Nuit Blanche event on Saturday
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The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (AGSM) will hold its annual Nuit Blanche festival on Saturday, which celebrates multi-disciplinary art and performance for an evening.
The festival — currently in its sixth year — is a three-decade-long tradition celebrated the world over and is inspired by the French concept of “Nuit Blanche” or “White Night,” which encourages creative people and cultural spaces to keep their doors open for one night.
The theme for this year’s event is “Curious Dialogues” — selected to encourage would-be participants to think about where an open sense of wonder will lead them, and to whom, producers Lucie Lederhendler and Leanne Zacharias, from the AGSM and Brandon University’s School of Music, respectively, stated in a press release on Wednesday.
Visitors can interact with various artists and performers from the Westman region, including Kevin McKenzie, Deanna Smid, Tara Leach, Ariadna Ortega, the 2 Wesleys, Carlos&Ester, SLAM Poetry from the Western Manitoba Regional Library and Mecca Productions, students from BU’s School of Music and the Ishkaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art.
It will also feature the inaugural works from the RAW (Rural Arts Westman) Collective of artists — Chris Reid, Surien Fourie, Derek Ford and Erica Lowe. Attendees can also check out the immersive installation “Still and Sound” by Danielle Morrisseau, and other performances scheduled for the evening, such as a live drawing performance entitled, “Split Second/Lasting Impression” by Dhairya Vaidya.
“It’s a showcase for experimental and innovative creative work that includes students, established community-based artists and emerging artists alongside professionals in one multi-disciplinary space. It’s really important to us that it remains a free, all-ages, eclectic event that is easy to access. Folks will get something unique out of it whether they pop in for five minutes or stay for five hours,” said Zacharias.
The full schedule for the event can also be accessed at agsm.ca
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Artwork by Kevin McKenzie, a Brandon-based Cree/Métis artist and a member of the Cowessess First Nation. He has exhibited across Turtle Island and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institute. His practice juxtaposes sacred and ceremonial objects from Indigenous cultures with similar objects from settler cultures, building tension between elevation and denigration. (Submitted)