Event type: Performance

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.

Music on Union presents Spencer Evans, Piano, and Oscar Evans, Bass, on

Friday 6 August, 12:10-12:50pm, as part of the “Sounds of Hope” concert

series. The series of free 40-minute live indoor concerts runs every

Friday through 24 September at St James’ Church, 10 Union St in

Kingston, sponsored by the Music Performance Trust Fund and St James

Church. A live audience of up to 50 people can be accommodated, with

appropriate physical distancing. To reserve a seat visit

stjameskingston.ca/concerts, or call 613-548-7254. The concert will also

be live streamed via stjameskingston.ca/concerts.

Spencer and Oscar will perform pieces from the Great American Songbook,

through classic Jazz standards by Duke Ellington and Horace Silver, to

original compositions by Spencer. These original works will be featured

on Spencer’s upcoming debut self-titled release (currently available on

Spotify and iTunes).

Music on Union presents the Dave Barton Trio (Guitar, Bass, Drums) as part of the “Sounds of Hope” concert series. The series of free 40-minute live indoor concerts runs every

Friday through 24 September at St James’ Church, 10 Union St in Kingston, sponsored by the Music Performance Trust Fund and St James Church. A live audience of up to 50 people can be accommodated, with appropriate physical distancing. To reserve a free seat visit stjameskingston.ca/concerts, or call 613-548-7254. The concert will also be live streamed via stjameskingston.ca/concerts. Visit facebook.com/MusicOnUnion Dave will be joined by Rich Bannard (Drums) and Paul Clifford (Bass) performing a mix of Jazz Standards and original compositions. Dave Barton is a man of many talents—jazz guitarist, studio musician, arranger and composer, percussionist, and private teacher working in jazz, pop and classical music. He has performed in concert and recording studios with many of Canada’s great jazz players, including recording and touring with the late jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler.

In partnership with The Witch Institute, Minor Hockey Curatorial is proud to present ~A Gesture, A Reading~ featuring virtual performances by Erika DeFreitas and Maggie Groat on Saturday, August 21, at 7pm EST. ✨✨✨

Exploring themes of gesture, touch, and incantation, this event will contemplate how haptic and oral rituals are taken up within the disparate realms of contemporary performance art and the occult.

Attendance is free but registration is needed.

Please register via The Witch Institute website:

https://witchinstitute.com/events/performances/a-gesture-a-reading/

✨ARTIST PRINTS:✨

In conjunction with their performances, Erika DeFreitas and Maggie Groat have created a limited number of physical artist prints to be mailed out in advance of the performances. Once you’ve registered, email minorhockeycuratorial@gmail.com with your name and mailing address to request your free prints!

✨ACCESSIBILITY:✨

Please email minorhockeycuratorial@gmail.com by August 1st, 2021 if there are specific accommodations we can implement to make this event more accessible.

✨ARTIST BIOS:✨

Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based artist whose practice includes the use of performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, works on paper, and writing. Placing an emphasis on process, gesture, the body, documentation, and paranormal phenomena, she works through attempts to understand concepts of loss, post-memory, inheritance, and objecthood. DeFreitas’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; and Gallery 44, Toronto. A recipient of the Toronto Friends of Visual Artist’ 2016 Finalist Artist Prize, the 2016 John Hartman Award, and longlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award, she has also been awarded several grants from the Canada Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.

Maggie Groat is an artist who strategically mobilizes a range of media including works on paper, sculpture, textiles, site-specific interventions, and publications to interrogate methodologies of collage and salvage practices. Her current research engages a meandering and expansive interdisciplinary approach, surrounding possibilities of site-responsiveness, decolonial ways-of-being, gardens, slowness, margins, utility and beauty, the transformative potentials of found and ritual materials, domestic space and its relation to caregiving and becoming, powerful images, the double, the otherworldly, and the influences of the astronomical on the terrestrial. Her practice is informed by her Skarú:ręʔ and Settler backgrounds, her role as a mother, and the environmental impacts of the Anthropocene. She lives with her partner and three children on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Anishnaabeg.

✨IMAGES:✨

i. Erika DeFreitas, She may be moved and they multiplied most in exaggeration, digital Inkjet prints, 28″ x 18″, 2019

ii. Maggie Groat, flowers also gardens, gardens also seeds (detail), found paper printed textile, 2020

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.