Amy Malbeuf: Amy Malbeuf - Modicum Divine

Saturday, September 10th at 1pm

-empty lot to the next to The King Edward Hotel

Sunday, September 11th at 1pm

 -empty lot to the next to The King Edward Hotel

Amy malbeuf creates a spiritual, colorful performance through the use of stained salt, and brightly colored costumes, creating a portal to a sacred place in the midst of the urban landscape.

Various: Artcity Opening Gala

FREE ADMISSION

Come celebrate Artcity's 20th year at the historic Royal Canadian Legion #1, on SATURDAY, SEPT 10th at 9pm! Meet and chat with our artists, designers and architects, enjoy a FREE musical set by local band Deadhorse and dance the night away to a DJ set by Ryan McClure Scott.

The Royal Canadian Legion #1 is steps away from the 1st Street West LRT station and Artcentral.

Adults only please.

Licensed.

See you there!

Director - Lynn Hershman Leeson,Sharon Stevens,Sandra Vida,Michelle Wong,Wednesday Lupypciw and : CUFF Screening - !Women Art Revolution

Sunday, September 11, 2pm - The Uptown Stage and Screen

!Women Art Revolution

Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson

http://womenartrevolution.com/

Sunday September 11 @ 2pm, Uptown Stage & Screen

"It was excitement, it was empowerment, it was a lot of fucking work." — Harmony Hammond

An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of feminist art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates the courageous tenacity of pioneering women artists, resulting in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust, Strange Culture) has collected 40 years’ worth of interviews with her contemporaries, shaping them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers. !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, Marcia Tucker and countless other visonaries, historians, curators and critics.

Kickass panel with amazing lady artists to follow screening. Yesss! Panel moderated by Sharon Stevens of the Arusha Centre. Panelists included Sandra Vida, Michelle Wong, Wednesday Lupypciw.

Director - Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope: CUFF Screening - Desert of Forbidden Art

Thursday, September 15th at 7pm - Uptown Stage and Screen

Desert of Forbidden Art

Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope

Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, Ed Asner, and Sally Field

http://www.desertofforbiddenart.com/

Thursday September 15 @ 7pm, Uptown Stage & Screen

How does art survive oppression? Artists staying true to their vision under Soviet rule are executed, sent to mental hospitals or gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. Incredibly, he daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from KGB eyes. Penniless Savitsky cunningly amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art, even discovering an unknown school of artists with a startlingly original style. Located in one of the world's poorest regions, one of the world’s most remarkable collections of 20th century Russian art is now a lucrative target. The collection remains as endangered as when Savitsky first created it, begging the question: whose responsibility is it to preserve this cultural treasure?

Q&A with visiting director Tchavdar Georgiev to follow screening!

David Hoffos: David Hoffos - Keynote Lecture

September 17th - 730pm

Engineered Air Theatre

David Hoffos is a video installation artist based in Lethbridge, AB. He has shown at the National Art Gallery, been featured in Canadian Art Magazine and has received many awards including 2nd place in the inaugural Sobey Art Award. Join us as Hoffos takes us through his large body of works, his interdisciplinary collaborations and his take on art today.

Jack Bride: Jack Bride - Heir Today, God Tomorrow

September 12th to 17th

Located outside the Old Y Building for Community Organizations

Jack bride builds an outside construction with the paintings and sculptures he manically manufactures for the duration of the festival. Like an occult growth recalling the favela, Jack’s work changes and grows daily.

José Luis Torres: José Luis Torres - Staging

September 10th to 26th

The Ledge Gallery in the EPCOR CENTRE For the Performing Arts

Jose Luis Torres' "do it your self construction" based installion takes over The Ledge Gallery in The Epcor Centre for the Performing arts. Constructed completely out of found and scrap material, Staging adresses ideas of transformations, movement and exploration. The installations construction will be visible to the public, beginning on the 10th and the completed project will remain in The Ledge Gallery until September 26th.

Lowell Smith: Lowell Smith - Digital Wind

September 9th to 17th

Locations include:

The Hop In Brew

Broken City

Pith Gallery and Studios

Haight Gallery

Outside the Art Gallery of Calgary

and more!

Lowell Smith has created small cube shaped devices, to be installed at various indoor and outdoor locations. These cubes will sense the blowing of wind, or breath, and digitally represent the movement of air.

Sarah Smalik: Sarah Smalik - My Father, The Sun and The Hungry Ghosts

September 16th at 7pm

Haight Gallery

Haight Gallery hosts an exhibition by Sarah Smalik. Smalik's installation includes 7 light-catching veils, constructed out of hand cut glass mirrors.

Opening Reception on Friday, September 16th at 7 pm.

Also Open:

Saturday September 17th, 12-5 pm

Saturday, September 24th, 12-5pm

Saturday, October 1st, 12-5 pm

Saturday, October 8th, 12-5pm

Shon Anderson: Shon Anderson - Flowing

September 10th to 17th

Stephen Avenue Mall - Outside Sport Chek (The Old Mcnally Robinson)

Shon Anderson presents Flowing, a hand painted animation that depicts abstracted, sea creatures in an hypnotic, rythmic rainbow environment. Catch a glimpse of Flowing, playing on loop on the Artcity Television, on Stephen Avenue, close to the Art Gallery of Calgary.

Sonia Edworthy: Sonia Edworthy - Public History Oral Network Experiment Booth

September 12th to 17th

The Old Y Centre for Community Organizations

Part public service, part political action, part therapeutic and part public art, the Public History Oral Network Experiment Booth draws attention to the crucial issue of public access to basic communication technology. The booth provides a free, direct line to an answering machine for the duration of Artcity.

Stephanie Dawn Murray: Stephanie Dawn Murray - Infesting Contemplations - Conversations

September 10h to 17th

Located outside of DaDe Art & Design Lab

Stephanie Murray explores rebirth through the use of ceramic organic growths covering a phone booth. The works addresses ideas of private vs. public space, and the growth of technological advancement and its ever regenerating qualities.

Suzen Green: Suzen Green - The Come From Away

September 9th to 17th

'Family of Man' sculptures at The Calgary Board of Education building

Suzen Revisits The Family of Man sculptures outside the Calgary Board of Education building with The Come From Away. One Figure will be completely clothed in a Mummer's costume, an elaborate and often humorous disguise popular in Newfoundland and Labrador folk tradition.

Tiffany Eng,Richard Williams and : Tiffany Eng and Richard Williams - Unnamed Sources

September 9th to 17th

Locations include:

The New Gallery
Stride (in the book section downstairs)
Triangle
Truck
Untitled Art Society (Satellite Gallery)
Beano
Kensington Art Supply

Playing with the ages old game of ‘exquisite corpse’, Tiffany and Richard present a series of drawings, starting with one person, added on to by another, passed around to someone new, bound in a small booklet, and built into a series of books available for free at various locations around the city.