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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 
Medium close-up photo of Measha Brueggergosman-Lee. A Black woman with curly chin-length hair, she wears a marigold top and sings into a microphone on a darkened stage.

FreeUp! Freedom Talks

 

Monday is Emancipation Day, and two new CBC specials will be airing back to back that night. Both feature stellar lineups featuring some of the country's leading Black artists and entertainers, so expect to see some moving performances, folks. Here are some fast facts about what's on deck.

FreeUp! Emancipation Day
Ngozi Paul, award-winning theatre artist and creator of the TV series 'da Kink in My Hair, hosts this one-hour program. Filmed all over the country, the show will be highlighting communities that have celebrated Emancipation Day for generations, visiting everywhere from Halifax to North Buxton, Ont. (an endpoint on the Underground Railroad). Musical guests include Shad, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir and Zaki Ibrahim. More info here.
Showtime: 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC TV and CBC Gem. 

FreeUp! Freedom Talks
Stay tuned for even more music. Jully Black, TiKA and Measha Brueggergosman-Lee deliver heartfelt performances on this followup special, but the focus of the hour is a series of roundtable conversations between Black and BIPOC creators. They’ll share their thoughts on freedom — the meaning of the day — and the relationship between activism and art. Watch a trailer.
Showtime: 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC TV and CBC Gem.

 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a mural on a one-story wall. It is an abstract composition of colourful forms, like the blobby swatches of paint left behind on a used palette.

Festival Inspire

Downtown Charlottetown is home to this splashy new mural by Misterpiro. The Spanish artist was in P.E.I. as part of Festival Inspire’s Inspire 2022 Tour.

 
Photo of a mural, taken on a sunny day. Against a white background, the mural depicts multiple figures -- animal and human -- in profile. They are rendered in a bold geometric style of colour-blocked hues.

Ledania

And because it nails the eye-candy brief — like, 1 million per cent — I had to pull another pic from the Inspire 2022 Tour. This one’s a collab between Eelco and Ledania. Find it in Woodstock, N.B.
 
Cartoon style illustration in shades of purple and pink. Cartoon animals dance and play rock music beneath an underpass. A pink train is stationed on the other side of the underpass' fence. Another cartoon animal stands on the bridge above, looking down at the scene.

Amery Sandford

Did you read this article in April and immediately book yourself a trip to Sappyfest? It’s happening right now in Sackville, N.B., and Montreal illustrator Amery Sandford is the festival’s artist in residence this year. This little illo, though, was “inspired by magical summer underpass shows in Montreal.” Ack, summer is going by so fast. Bye bye, July!
 
3D digital render of a silvery fish floating in a pink sunset.

Jenn E Norton

Nuit Blanche is coming back to Toronto Oct. 1, and the 2022 edition will be even more expansive than it was in the Before Times. Exhibition sites are planned for Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and downtown. One project to watch for: Tributaries by Jenn E Norton. It’ll be a mix of augmented reality and IRL imagery projected on a water screen.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo composite of exposed body parts (backs and thighs) covered with scratchy linework tattoos.
Jenna Crook, Emerik, Rene Shin

Why are these deliberately weird tattoos suddenly trending?

 
Tattoo traditionalists don’t approve, but “bad” drawings and designs inspired by Y2K are seemingly on the rise. 
 
Close-up photo of Azza El Siddique, a young Black woman who wears her dark curly hair in a low ponytail. Photographed against a grey backdrop, she wears a blank expression on her face.
Merik Goma

This artist explores power and politics in multi-sensory environments

 
Born in Khartoum, Sudan, and raised in Vancouver, Azza El Siddique is nominated for the 2022 Sobey Art Award.
 
Film still of steel pan drums. Type is displayed over the image. It reads:

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It’s the sound of carnival

 
Learn the history of the steel pan from musician Jaigan McKenley-McDonald. He'll explain its origins and how it connects to his own Trinidadian heritage. 
 

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Sugarbones

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Photo of a two-storey brick building, taken on a sunny day. A person stands on a chairlift, painting on the wall. A large cartoon fairy is already painted. The fairy has long purple har and carries a sword. Surrounded by cartoon stars, she coyly looks over her shoulder in a pin-up pose.

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Sugarbones (a.k.a. Cheyenne Federiconi) painted this mural for the Concrete Canvas Festival in Hamilton. It’s not a typical gig for her. Cheyenne’s built her own art-merch empire, designing pins and patches (among other things) full time. How’d she pull it off? Read her story in the latest instalment of Making a Living.
 

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