Results tagged “studiogallery”

Should you be headily developing plans for CONTACT, Toronto's beloved photo-fest, here's a (news) flash: with a cruel month of waiting still ahead, the festival program went live today. You can read all about it online and plan accordingly, but that seems rather proletarian. Why bother, when a city-cultural blogger can do the highlighting for you? Open your Moleskine to May 1 and mark the pages according to our picks, all laid out after the jump.

These (recessionary) days, with “shop” and “excuse to” so rarely separable in a breath, what’s as perfect as the pop-up? Nothing. Sale signs, in their bright, pleading ubiquity, have lost their ubiquity. This winter’s long, and garages haven’t turned out their doors yet; neither have the farmers’ or Kensington street markets.

Remember Contact? It was made in 1997 and was adapted from a weird Carl Sagan novel about extraterrestrial life and faith—ergo, starred Jodie Foster, plus a pre-indie fame Jena Malone. She's an outer space–obsessed girl who grows up to be a SETI scientist, receiving alien transmissions while searching for proof they exist, and eventually falling in love with one. It's among the greatest science fiction films ever made, which does not mean that it's good. It's terrible.

FUNDRAISER: Fight AIDS and the bare walls of your woefully under-furnished apartment all at once at the Cape Town Shakedown: Silent Auction and Fundraiser tonight. Proceeds from the sale of art produced by local talent will go to The Cape Town Children’s Scholarship Foundation and provide scholarships to youth in Khayelitsha Township (just outside of Capetown), South Africa. We're a media sponsor, and this is a really great cause, so we'll take it very personally, un-friend you from Facebook, and delete all your texts if you don't show up. Studio Gallery (294 College Street), 7–11 p.m., FREE.

“I couldn’t tell you,” says multi-hyphenate artist Tim Barber with barely a hint of impatience. “I could only show you.”

ART: Photographer/former photo editor of Vice Magazine Tim Barber is celebrating the release of his new limited-edition art and book series, TV Books, adapted from his online art gallery Tiny Vices. Tonight's opening reception is being held at Studio Gallery and will feature appearances by Tim Barber and some of the other Tiny Vices artists. Studio Gallery (294A College Street), 7 p.m., FREE.

If you notice a more concentrated prevalence of Wayfarers and Vans around the College/Spadina area over the next month, it's because that's where Manhattan skate photographer/documentarian Patrick O'Dell is plunking down his first solo photo exhibit starting tomorrow.

If you're not getting tickets from the "Safe Cycling" cops this week, spend that extra cash and get them for this week/end's Bicycle Film Festival. Now in its eighth year, the round-the-world celebration of two-wheeled transport careens into Toronto this Wednesday night, June 18, through Saturday, June 21.

Fans of the French electro scene are having the best week ever. First, DJ duo Justice arrived in Toronto to play a sold-out concert at The Sound Academy on Monday, and now their friend/artistic collaborator So Me is opening an exhibition, Portraits, this Friday, March 21 at Studio Gallery (294 College Street, above the Savannah Room).