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February 2005 

My last contribution to Main Street.  Article submitted to Main Street: parts were published in different locations throughout the paper.*

 

January 2005

In the News: The January-February issue of NY Arts, a bi-monthly art revue, includes an article by Masha Shturman about a few artists of Route des Arts.   Masha interviewed a few of us in July.  The article is on NY Arts website at http://nyartsmagazine.com/articles.php?aid=840.

ARTS Etc. October 2004

 

 

ARTS Etc September 2004: 

Article in Main Street August 2004.

Music, Song & Dancing Feet

ARTS Etc August 2004:

Art Nature Dialogues…..Book Launch

John K. Grande, a well known art writer, who last year promoted Land Art projects, created in-situ in the Laurentians, is launching  his new book Art Nature Dialogues, Interviews with Environmental Artists.  The book launch will take place at 2 p.m. on August 14^th, 2004 at the Earth Shack, 5991 Rue Morin, Val Morin.  For more information call ( 819) 322-7655.

Note: Jan. 2006, you can read John K. Grande articles in the English section of Vie des Arts.

ARTS Etc June 2004:

World Class Performances - Right Here at Our Doorstep! 

The 8^th annual Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur takes place from July 30 to August 8.  This year’s festival will present 35 events featuring more than 250 artists. The Festival opens with the Canadian premier of the Ballet Internationale.  Ballet Internationale, renowned for classical dance, was put together by Eldar Aliev, former star of the Kirov Ballet and by Irina Kolpakova, who was the favourite partner of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolph Nureyev.

 (Photo:  Ballet Internationale's Karen Scalzitti-Kennedy and Alexei Tyukov performing in Carmen.) 

ARTS Etc May 2004:

Philippe Boissonnet  “Un espace entre 2 temps”   

Until June 20^th, 2004 at the Laurentian Museum of Contemporary Art, 185, rue du Palais, St. Jerome. 

 This is a professionally mounted 20-year retrospective exhibit.  The show includes Boissonnet’s drawings, photographs, copy-art and holograms.  The exhibit is accompanied by a full colour catalogue.

 

 

ARTS Etc December 2003:

Music

A wonderful artistic project inspired by Water.  We, who live in the Laurentians, enjoy the abundance of this life-giving resource.  However, it needs our protection.

 

The beauty and fragility of water is revealed in the book Water Music (University of Michigan Press, 2003).  It features 100 photographs of water by photographer Marjorie Ryerson, accompanied by the writings and musical contributions of 66 musicians.  Including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dave Brubeck, Bruce Cockburn, Pete Seeger and, other celebrated musicians from around the world.

 

Because of Water Music, Ryerson has been chosen as the 2003 winner of the Paul Keough Award, in recognition of “efforts to communicate to the public the need to protect the water environment.”

Marjorie Ryerson is donating all her net royalties from the sale of Water Music to a United Nations Foundation to restore water and provide clean drinking water for families worldwide.  For book orders, call 800-621-2736 www.press.umich.edu.  To contact the Project, write:  Water Music Project, P.O. Box 44, Randolph, VT 05060.  Phone: 802-728-3173 e-mail: wtrmusic@sover.net.

ARTS Etc. Main Street, October 2003

La Ligne du Nord

Land Art “causes the public to reassess their relation” to nature.  John K. Grande reports that a contemporary art project took place in the Laurentians this summer.  The artworks were created in situ, thus merging nature and art.  The photo shown here is Mobius Manic, featuring circles of maple branches in a still pond.  An installation made by the U.S. artist Roy Staab, at Domain St. Bernard (Greyrocks area).   (John K. Grande is a well known art writer who owns a cottage near Kilmar). 

Another interesting work can be seen at Domain St. Bernard, entitled “La carrière dans la forêt: faire naître ensemble une ile-jardin et la protèger” (Sand pit in the forest: create a garden island in the pit and protect it), built by the French duo of Bruni-Babarit (Photographs:  provided by Mr. Grande).  Catherine Widgery’s project can be seen in St. Jovite, near the bike-path.  Bill Vazan’s rock face work is beneath the telecabine at Mt. Tremblant.  Dominique Valade created a boat and archway sculpture on the Rivière Rouge near Labelle. These are but a few of the artworks created during August 2003. The project was co-ordinated by the Centre des Arts contemporain du Québec à Montréal.

A new edition of John K. Grande’s book “Balance -Art and Nature” will appear in October, (Black Rose Books.)  It contains five new chapters.   The book can be ordered by calling 1-800-565-9523. 

Colours and dimensions artwork may be slightly different from the original.

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