Panel Discussion on March 22 for "I like to believe I am telling the truth"

Gallery 1C03 & Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre present a panel discussion related to the exhibition Chris Reid: I like to believe I am telling the truth.

Featured panelists include Dr. Pauline Greenhill, Dr. Svitlana Kukharenko and Dr. Mavis Reimer.

Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall) The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue Free Admission NOTE: Gallery 1C03 will be open to the public immediately prior to the panel on March 22 from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth includes large-scale pastel drawings, quirky re-interpretations of Ukrainian Easter eggs and multi-media sculptural installations that incorporate recycled and found objects. Through these diverse media, artist Chris Reid invents lush visual narratives containing a sundry cast of characters – from folkloric symbols of her Ukrainian heritage and her husband’s African heritage such as Baba Yaga buildings and Anansi the spider to idiosyncratic anthropomorphic cats, dolls, bunnies and bread – that play out their actions in surreal prairie landscapes and unsettling domestic environments.

Three academics have been invited to share their current research as it relates to themes in the exhibition. Dr. Pauline Greenhill, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Winnipeg, will present “That’s Not Folklore! (A)Musings on Art and Tradition” which includes a discussion of how Raymond Williams’ ideas of archaic, residual and emergent traditions focus an understanding of processes linking folklore and art. For her presentation "Folklore Characters as Perceived by People, Art and the Media", Joint Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Manitoba’s Department of German and Slavic Studies and Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies Dr. Svitlana Kukharenko will deliver an overview of anthropomorphism in Ukrainian folklore. She will also speak to representations of Baba Yaga and Koshchey in Russian high art and Soviet cinema. Dr. Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and Professor of English at The University of Winnipeg. In "No Place Like Home: Some Thoughts about Unhoming in Contemporary Culture", Dr. Reimer will talk about the ways in which the ideas of place, the relationships and the feelings associated with "home" are disrupted in contemporary culture. She will focus on the ways in which the work by Chris Reid can be read beside a group of Canadian narratives for young people that represent and encode such unhomings. Following the presentations, audience members are encouraged to engage in a question and answer dialogue with the panelists.

The exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth continues at Gallery 1C03 & Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre until April 14. Regular Gallery 1C03 hours are Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Regular hours at Oseredok are Monday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Gallery 1C03 is closed April 6 and Oseredok is closed April 6 and April 13. Admission to both venues is free and all are welcome!

Gallery 1C03 and Oseredok gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the Wasyl Topolnicky Memorial Foundation Inc. for this project.

Image: Chris Reid, Screaming Bread Flees Grain Elevator, 2010, hard pastel on paper, 50” x 60”. Courtesy of the artist.

3 events!

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to partner in the presentation of 3 great events coming your way soon!

EVENT 1 - TONIGHT

Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) as Cinema Politica UWinnipeg present the film Dive! Living off America’s Waste in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Tuesday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m. For more info, see this post.


EVENT 2 - TOMORROW NIGHT

Gallery 1C03 has partnered with Migrating Landscapes and the Winnipeg Art Gallery to present "National Jury Forum: Reflecting on Migration & Identity" on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg's Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall. Tickets are $10 or $5 for students. To register, email your name and phone number to migratinglandscapesjury@gmail.com. Tickets must be reserved in advance. Maximum two tickets per reservation. Payment will be made at the door (cash only). Background info can be found here.


EVENT 3 - MARCH 22

Gallery 1C03 & Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre present a panel discussion related to the exhibition Chris Reid: I like to believe I am telling the truth.

Featured panelists include Dr. Pauline Greenhill, Dr. Svitlana Kukharenko and Dr. Mavis Reimer.

Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall) The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue Free Admission NOTE: Gallery 1C03 will be open to the public immediately prior to the panel on March 22 from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth includes large-scale pastel drawings, quirky re-interpretations of Ukrainian Easter eggs and multi-media sculptural installations that incorporate recycled and found objects. Through these diverse media, artist Chris Reid invents lush visual narratives containing a sundry cast of characters – from folkloric symbols of her Ukrainian heritage and her husband’s African heritage such as Baba Yaga buildings and Anansi the spider to idiosyncratic anthropomorphic cats, dolls, bunnies and bread – that play out their actions in surreal prairie landscapes and unsettling domestic environments.

Three academics have been invited to share their current research as it relates to themes in the exhibition. Dr. Pauline Greenhill, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Winnipeg, will present “That’s Not Folklore! (A)Musings on Art and Tradition” which includes a discussion of how Raymond Williams’ ideas of archaic, residual and emergent traditions focus an understanding of processes linking folklore and art. For her presentation "Folklore Characters as Perceived by People, Art and the Media", Joint Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Manitoba’s Department of German and Slavic Studies and Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies Dr. Svitlana Kukharenko will deliver an overview of anthropomorphism in Ukrainian folklore. She will also speak to representations of Baba Yaga and Koshchey in Russian high art and Soviet cinema. Dr. Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and Professor of English at The University of Winnipeg. In "No Place Like Home: Some Thoughts about Unhoming in Contemporary Culture", Dr. Reimer will talk about the ways in which the ideas of place, the relationships and the feelings associated with "home" are disrupted in contemporary culture. She will focus on the ways in which the work by Chris Reid can be read beside a group of Canadian narratives for young people that represent and encode such unhomings. Following the presentations, audience members are encouraged to engage in a question and answer dialogue with the panelists.

The exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth continues at Gallery 1C03 & Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre until April 14. Regular Gallery 1C03 hours are Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Regular hours at Oseredok are Monday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Gallery 1C03 is closed April 6 and Oseredok is closed April 6 and April 13. Admission to both venues is free and all are welcome!

Gallery 1C03 and Oseredok gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the Wasyl Topolnicky Memorial Foundation Inc. for this project.

Image: Chris Reid, Screaming Bread Flees Grain Elevator, 2010, hard pastel on paper, 50” x 60”. Courtesy of the artist.

Migrating Landscapes - National Jury Forum at E-G Hall

Gallery 1C03 has partnered with Migrating Landscapes and the Winnipeg Art Gallery to present "National Jury Forum: Reflecting on Migration & Identity". Migrating Landscapes is Canada's official entry to the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture. An exhibition related to the Migrating Landscapes Competition will be on view at the WAG from March 16 - April 26.

The National Jury Forum features jurors Eleanor Bond, Ian Chodikoff, Anne Cormier, Bruce Kuwabara and John Patkau and will be moderated by WAG Director Dr. Stephen Borys.

The event takes place Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg's Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall. Tickets are $10 or $5 for students. To register, email your name and phone number to migratinglandscapesjury@gmail.com. Tickets must be reserved in advance. Maximum two tickets per reservation. Payment will be made at the door (cash only).

Next Cinema Politica Screening - Dive!

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film Dive! Living off America’s Waste in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Tuesday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m.

Directed by Jeremy Seifert, Dive! Living off America’s Waste (United States, 2010) was selected by UWSA EcoPIA (Ecological Peoples in Action) and is presented in conjunction with second annual Grass Routes Sustainability Festival on campus. The film has received 21 awards in festivals worldwide.

Dive! follows director Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive behind several grocery stores in the Los Angeles area to demonstrate the massive amount of food that is wasted each year in America. After showing that much of the food found in dumpsters is perfectly edible, Seifert confronts the managers of the stores to question why they don't donate more of it to local food banks, especially in light of the 1996 US Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which protects them from liability for such donations. The legality and ethics of dumpster diving are discussed when the stores begin locking up their dumpsters. Finally, Seifert considers waste created by individual consumers when they throw out food that is only partly bad or just past its expiration date.

From the film’s website:

Facts About Food Waste

“The kind of society that would waste this much food is one that doesn't value the earth or the products it produces. It's in our own personal detriment to continue the process.”
-Dr. Timothy Jones

Every year in America 96 billion pounds of food is thrown away.

One half of all food prepared in the US and Europe never gets eaten.

The US Department of Agriculture estimated in 1996 that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day; recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people. Today we recover less than 2.5 percent.

Please stay for discussion after the film with Quincy Brandt from EcoPIA.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from Dive! by Jeremy Seifert.

TOMORROW: !Women Art Revolution

FREE screening of !Women Art Revolution, a film on the Feminist Art Movement by Lynn Herschman Leeson. Followed by a panel discussion on feminist art with Roewan Crowe, Shawna Dempsey and Tasha Hubbard. For more information, visit the Facebook page.