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SUMMARY:Fermata: Charcoal drawings by Liz Charsley
DESCRIPTION:Gallery hours Tuesday to Sunday\, 11 am to 5 pm\nOpening reception Tuesday\, March 31\, 5-8 pm \nFermata is a musical term meaning a pause of unspecified length. For Liz\, who sings with the choir Ensemble Laude\, a walk in the woods or along a beach can deliver a visual fermata\, caused by light glancing through the trees or bouncing off the water. Her charcoal drawings\, many of them rich in detail\, capture these moments\, preserving them in the dreamy stillness of soft monochrome. \nLiz studied art and theatre at UVIc before moving to London\, UK\, where she worked as a theatrical propmaker for many years. The long hours and drafty workshops took their toll\, eventually\, and Liz went back to her art practice and did an MA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art. Liz joined a burgeoning art group\, South London Women Artists\, exhibiting with them for 10 years\, and was appointed Artist in Residence at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London for their Painting Canada exhibition. \nMoving back to Canada in 2020\, spending the covid years in Calgary\, then back to her original home of Victoria\, Liz rekindled her joy of the wild outdoors in the forests and wild coastlines near the city\, from which she draws inspiration for her work.
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LOCATION:Gage Gallery\, 19 Bastion Square\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W1J1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Triple Book Launch Event - Featuring Eve Joseph\, Patrick Friesen & M.A.C. Farrant
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a triple book launch featuring three local authors – Eve Joseph\, Patrick Friesen and M.A.C. Farrant! You can enjoy a wonderful night of poetry and profound storytelling\, meet the authors in person\, and get your books signed. Don’t miss this exciting literary event! \n\nIn Eve Joseph’s latest book\, Dismantling\, the poet is occupied with the idea of poetic imagination and how that often elusive thing can transform the mundane into the mysterious. It contains new works of prose poetry\, along with a series of centos – poems build entirely on the lines of other poets. Old voices engage with new ones. Tomas Tranströmer and Ocean Vuong speak about a great unsolved love while Audre Lorde walks with Ahmad Almallah and César Vallejo as the grass bends\, then learns to stand again. Joseph’s poems are about language; how lonely it is until time enters the poem and places it where it is meant to be. \nIn Patrick Friesen’s new book\, Sightings\, the poems move between the visible and invisible\, between the contradictions of human history and the immediacy of a complex present. He examines memory and music\, rivers and personalities\, open to all possibilities and sceptical of wisdom. This book marks a half century of poetry collections by Patrick Friesen! \n\nM.A.C. Farrant’s new memoir\, Seventy-Two Seasons\, is inspired by the Japanese practice of celebrating one feature in nature every five days\, creating seventy-two seasons instead of four\, Farrant embarks on a yearlong mission to focus her attention on the small spellbinding changes around her. With her signature humour\, she skilfully blends observations\, meditations\, literary references\, memoir\, essay-ettes and arcane facts as she explores the natural world. \n\nWhat: Triple Book Launch with Eve Joseph\, Patrick Friesen\, and M.A.C. Farrant \nWhen: Tuesday\, April 7th from 7:00-8:30pm (doors at 6:30) \nWhere: Munro’s Books – 1108 Government St \nHow: This event is free to attend
URL:https://events.downtownvictoria.ca/event/triple-book-launch-event-featuring-eve-joseph-patrick-friesen-m-a-c-farrant/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, v8W1Y2\, Canada
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