 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | In this photo taken at Vancouver's Thunderbird Stadium on Aug. 24, 1997, Sarah McLachlan performs at Lilith Fair. (Crystal Heald) | | | Hang up your lanyards, movie nerds! TIFF closes today, and for the last couple weeks, the team at Commotion has been producing a podcast devoted to festival chatter. If you’re desperate for a comprehensive recap of the breakout hits and buzziest stories, TIFF in 12 has you covered, and you can binge all the episodes on YouTube.
At CBC Arts, we interviewed Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, the creators of one of the most talked-about comedies at TIFF, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. (The duo also dropped by Q; listen to that convo.) Plus we’ve wrapped another edition of Cutaways, our series featuring essays by Canadian filmmakers. Here’s one you might have missed: Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi on the making of Still Single, a doc about the first chef in Canada to be awarded two Michelin stars.
But I’ll leave you with news about another TIFF doc … one you’ll be able to stream for free this week! Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery premieres Wednesday on CBC Gem. Featuring a wealth of archival footage, the film charts the history of Sarah McLachlan’s game-changing music festival. CBC Music got a sneak peek and shared a few takeaways. Here’s a trailer to take you back to the ‘90s. | | | | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Shary Boyle | | What keeps you up at night? Seriously. Shary Boyle wants to know. The artist (previously seen here) is debuting a new exhibit (The Sleeper) at the Oakville Museum this week as part of Ontario Culture Days, and recently, she’s been building a big cardboard sculpture that’s part of the project (this is a picture of the work in progress). Starting Friday, visitors to the museum’s Erchless Estate can see Shary’s finished sculpture and leave a note. The idea is to scribble a message about whatever fears and worries are plaguing you. All of those letters will be stuffed inside Shary’s biodegradable insomniac, and eventually, when the festival wraps, the piece will be buried outside the building. Come springtime, a garden of white flowers is expected to bloom on that site, transforming the town’s collective dread into something more palatable. There’s more info here. | | | | |  | Brandon Vickerd | | Brandon Vickerd (last covered here) recently opened an exhibition at Art Mûr in Montreal, and he has one more event to celebrate this month: the debut of a new public sculpture (Animals). Find it at Hall Park in Stony Plain, Alta. | | | | |  | Artwork: Sarah Anne Johnson; Photo: Stephen Bulger Gallery | | At Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto, a solo exhibition from Sarah Anne Johnson promises to take viewers on a (surreal and magical!) trip through Alberta’s Jasper National Park and the cedar forests of British Columbia. The show is on through Oct. 25. Pictured: Crossing Over (Mountain). | | | | |  | Artwork: Marney McDiarmid; Photo: Chris Miner | | Here’s another show that sounds like the next best thing to inventing teleportation. Friday in Kingston, Ont., artists Marney McDiarmid and Clelia Scala will open the Clearing, an off-site exhibition for the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Step inside a shipping container, and the artists will transport you to another environment, “a quiet space for ecological contemplation.” This is a preview of one of the ceramic works created for the installation. | | | | |  | Artwork: Maya Beaudry; Photo: Rachel Topham Photography/Art Gallery at Evergreen | | You can marvel at this piece by Maya Beaudry (Condemned I) at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam, B.C. Maya has a show there (Nesting) through Nov. 16, and it features several new textile works devoted to “the emotional residues of place.” | | | | |  | Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press | | | | | Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol always wanted to play the Rivoli, but they’ll settle for the next best thing: a red-carpet premiere at TIFF. | | | | |  | AIFF | | | | | Veterans of the East Coast movie scene reflect on the event's enduring influence. | | | | |  | Hummingbird Interactive | | | | | | | Last One Standing returns to the Vancouver Fringe Festival after a sold-out run in 2024. | | |  | Yan Wen Chang | | Earlier this summer, Yan Wen invited us to her studio in Guelph, Ont., and we captured the creation of a new painting, which is now hanging at Toronto’s Susan Hobbs Gallery. Like a lot of the artist’s recent work, it features a pair of mysterious lookalikes named Jillian and Gillian. What’s their story? Watch Yan Wen’s episode of In Process. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time! | | | | | |
