Carpe the last of those sunny diems.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 01, 2024
Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 01, 2024

Hi, art lovers!
 
Digital illustration in a cartoon style. Horizontal canvas filled with a green natural landscape. Winding paths cut through the scene, leading to various small icons including a spraypaint can, high heel shoe, crown, lollipop, glass bottle, snow castle, pyramid and gopher. Titles in large yellow block letters read

(Justa Jeskova/Tourism Whistler)
 
People always talk about the Labour Day weekend being summer’s last hurrah, but if you want to get technical about things — and I do — the season won’t actually be over for weeks. So if you want to carpe the last of those sunny diems, I’ve made us a checklist. See how many of these things you can do before Sept. 22.
 
  • Finally finish this year’s beach read … and then get started on a few dozen more.
  • Watch a classic movie in a cemetery (among other outdoor locales).
  • See Shakespeare in a park … although you’ll have to do it tonight! 
  • Not free until later this month? There’s also Bard on the Beach.
  • Do the Fringe (in Halifax and Vancouver).
  • See an art show — by bike! — before diving into a pool to hear an underwater sound installation.
  • Wander through a free street festival
  • Or if you’re in Hamilton between Sept. 13 and 15, go for a “Supercrawl” on James Street North. There’ll be free art … and music and dance and fashion and theatre and wrestling and drag and even mini-putt.
  • Rummage for craft supplies at the 70 Mile Coastal Yard Sale …
  • And then see a musical based on it.
  • Relax with a staycation. (CBC Life has tips on how to score free museum tickets.)
  • Explore the outdoors on an art hike.
  • Sign up to build a 2.5-kilometre domino run through downtown Toronto.
  • Take a studio tour … which will introduce you to “the Gaudis of Durham Region.”
  • Learn how to salsa.
  • Or spend an entire afternoon learning about ballet, flamenco, vogue — and all kinds of other dance styles.
  • Make art — and new friends — at a drawing social under the Gardiner Expressway.
  • Go to an all-ages dance party on a city beach.
  • Or a three-day party, which blends art and science!
  • Quibble about the Oasis reunion with anyone who’ll listen.
  • Choose your favourite song of the summer.
  • Banish the following phrases from your vocabulary: brat summer; very demure, very mindful.
  • Explore an art biennial …
  • And Gallery Weekend 2024.
  • Lead your own art tour of Montreal …
  • Winnipeg.
  • Halifax.
  • Vancouver.
  • Saint John.
  • Toronto.
  • Edmonton.
  • And all of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Make a list of the most unique and wonderful arts attractions near you … and then share it with me!
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Photo of a white walled gallery. Eleven rectangular canvases of identical size are hung on the walls. They are painted with abstract patterns in the same multicoloured palette with a reddish background.

Lucie Chan
If Not Now, Then When by Lucie Chan (as seen at the Blue Building gallery in Halifax).
 
Oil painting of a cucumber being cut with a large kitchen knife. The inside reveals seeds in the shape of a sad face.

Minyoung Kim
Chop Chop by Minyoung Kim.
 
Surreal painting. A window into a bedroom scene. One figure lies on an unmade bed looking at their glowing phone. Their long black hair floats to the sky. Another figure stands at the end of the bed with their arms crossed.

Jessica Wee
I Told You So by Jessica Wee.
 
Outdoor photo. Two towers rise from an overgrown green field. The towers are covered with colourful abstract murals.

Jacquie Comrie
You’ll find this 14-storey splash of colour in Laval, Que. It’s a freshly painted mural by Toronto’s Jacquie Comrie. 
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
A row of mannequins dressed in clothing from the 20th century.
CBC Arts

How did Queen Victoria’s underwear wind up in Cambridge, Ont.?
 
That’s not all you’ll find at the Fashion History Museum. Check out these treasures from its sprawling collection of clothing and accessories.
 
A grand old movie theatre with rows of red seats and murals showing peacocks and outdoor scenes painted on the walls.
Gary Shilling

Canada’s longest-running movie theatre restored to its former glory
 
For generations, residents of Powell River, B.C., have experienced movie magic at the Patricia Theatre. 
 
Close-up of Mattea Roach in the Q studio. They are a white person. They are wearing a dark blazer, oversized headphones, wire-frame glasses and a blue bandana on their head. They smile while seated in front of a microphone.

CBC
 

Who is CBC Radio’s newest host?
 
Bookends with Mattea Roach debuts Sept. 8. The Jeopardy champ stopped by Q to announce the news.
 

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Aerial photo of Sudbury. At centre is a long building near train tracks. It has been painted with a mural of two surreal figures in profile, painted in shades of grey, brown and dusty blue.

Fathima Mohiuddin
CBC News spoke with Fathima in Sudbury, Ont., when she was working on this mural for the Up Here festival. In that interview, she revealed what inspired the piece: “[The mural] is very much about the human spirit, which is vulnerable and emotional and sensitive — and at the same time, incredibly powerful and able to harness the power of fire and resilience.”
 

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