Art and Fashion happenings in Ottawa
October was indeed Rocktober with a slew of musical happenings I couldn’t even keep up with. November changes channels but not the tempo. Two items of business here.
First…November 13 – 23 is the Electric Fields festival which describes itself as “a biennial festival dedicated to the presentation of new and significant performance and installation works created at the crossroads of art, science and technology.”
The program is pretty packed over the 10 days and you can check out the whole schedule at electricfields.ca. Hats off to Ryan Stec at artengine for pulling this together.
I’m most excited about the Electric Evangelicals night on Friday, November 14 at St. Brigid’s (ex-church, now cultural centre). Some cool musicians and performers will be present on this night. If yr into DIY electronics and circuit-bending and generally bizarre things, this might be for you! Anyway, I’ll be covering this event so if you see me, come say hello!
Also, on Saturday, November 22, the closing party has a pretty solid line up of DJs and performers including Radio Radio, this sort of funny acadien/francophone electro/hiphop outfit from Moncton/Montréal and some other places perhaps…
Good festival. Oh…most of this festival is FREE too. Unbelievable.
Second item on the agenda…Capital Fashion Week!
I’m happy that people are getting together in Ottawa to work on this. It’ll be very exciting to see where things progress from here. There are a lot of pretty interesting lines being shown on November 21 & 22. None from Ottawa but all Canadian nonetheless.
Also, Ottawa Fashion Week is happening November 13-15! This is their second time doing this and while I’m not sure if there is a friendly rivalry between CFW and OFW, I say, the more the merrier! Does lead to a bit of confusion though. There seems to be at least two designers being shown as part of OFW that use fur in their creations. Maybe people think this is OK since we’re in Canada and it gets cold but in my view, unless you’re camping on the outskirts of Iqaluit in March, no this is not OK.
Overall, it’s also too bad that very little seems geared towards men but I can’t blame them…there isn’t really much going on here in that department. I am actually quite interested in jewelry, however. Victoire, represent! Magpie too!
Competing with the Electric Fields closing party and also the Redbull Shoot To Thrill/Top of the World video premiere on November 22 is Capital Fashion Week’s own closing party. Basically, it’s going to be a rave like it’s 1997 again. Except, it’s in a legit venue and we already know where it is and you don’t have to take a 40-minute shuttle bus to a remote location to get there. OK…not really like a rave. Long story short, Guns n Bombs from Los Angeles are going to be performing with Ottawa’s Jokers of the Scene and some others. It’s going to be bananas.
PS: Images from my Active Absence series will be up at Wurm Gallery this December. Some stuff people have already seen. Other things that haven’t been shown yet. More news later about this. Stay tuned…
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