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30 nutrients in art that you won’t find in kale. ART & DESIGN WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. the works art & design festival celebrates 30 years in 2015 june 19 - july 1 theworks.ab.ca THANK YOU 1 FOUNDING SPONSOR VENUE SUPPORTERS (Cont’d) ENBRIDGE ART INTERNS: The Works Art & Design Festival Downtown Business Association of Edmonton Unit B WORKS TO WORK 10635-95 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5H 2C3 Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Tel: 780-426-2122 SPONSORS Francis Winspear Centre for Music Production Team Fax: 780-426-4673 RBC Building Supervisor Laura Campbell During Festival, call Information Services on Churchill Square The City of Edmonton Melcor Developments Ltd. Coordinator Kasie Campbell at: 780-818-4420 Edmonton Arts Council [email protected] Alberta Foundation for the Arts Assistant Tegan Bowers CONTRIBUTORS www.theworks.ab.ca Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada Assistant Natalie Castrogiovanni Alberta Craft Council Assistant Matthew Carr vol.30, 2015 Bikeology: Festival Assistant Kezia Rooke SPONSORING PARTNERS, EDUCATION The Works takes an entire year to produce with 3 full- Enbridge Pipelines Inc. City Centre Mall Assistant Evan Terlesky time year round staff, 3 part-time staff, and 50 Seasonal/ Edmonton Business Council for Visual Arts Discount Flags contract workers. Each year, hundreds of individuals The Works Art Festival Fund at Edmonton Community Foundation Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society Curatorial Team contribute over five thousand volunteer hours to The Edmonton Cash Register Co. Ltd. Supervisor Lucille Frost Works Art & Design Festival Galleries West Assistant Agata Garbowska SPONSORS, MEDIA 30 Years of The Works By the Numbers MADE in Edmonton Global TV Design Team From 1986 to 2014: McCallum Printing Pattison Outdoor Advertising Assistant Dalaine Wall - 7.2 million patrons in total Nightlife - 350,000 people on average yearly attend the Festival Print Machine VEHICLE SPONSOR Marketing and Communications Team - 300,000 additional visitors to holdover exhibits yearly Terry Frost, Designer Architect Marketing & Churchill Square Supervisor Erin Valentine - 16,719 artists and designers featured Waterloo Ford Lincoln The Paint Spot Special Events Assistant Fren Mah - 1,375 electrifying exhibits The Fringe Festival, Edmonton SPONSOR, PRINT MEDIA Education and Outreach Coordinator Stephanie Bailey - 805 venues throughout Churchill Square and Downtown Unthinkable Edmonton Metro News Unit B Volunteer Team - 11,694 volunteers and 243,966 hours of volunteer time Velo Coordinator Dana McLean The Works education programs to 2015: 233 internships & 206 SUPPORTER, MEDIA scholarships Assistant Carly Ball Arttec Advertising Inc. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Amount of energy and creativity The Works has brought to Edmonton? Endless. President Kevin Feehan The Places Team SUPPORTERS, PROGRAMS 30 years... and counting. VP Community Programs Melanie Nakatsui Projects Assistant to Exec. Director Elana Bizovie Fairmont Hotel MacDonald VP Main Programs Garry Zarowny Special Projects Coordinator Grace Law Big Rock Breweries VP Education Jane Ponto McCallum Printing Treasurer Steve Carlstrom SPECIAL THANKS TO Edmonton International Jazz Festival - “Works with Jazz” Secretary Walter Raponi Yang Lim Program Member at Large Sydney Young Bob MacDonald Member at Large Lois Greabeiel Bryce Zimmerman KEY SUPPORTERS Member at Large Mary Elizabeth Archer Cliff Philipps Morguard Investments Ltd. Member at Large Christie Schultz Ellen Finn Matrix Hotel Member at Large Will Truchon Marie Scarlett FIND US ON City Lumber and Millwork Member at Large Eleanor Lazare Cheryl Taylor CKUA Member at Large Tim Starchuk Julie Stormer Days Painting (1974) Ltd. Student Rep Emily MacDonald SOCIAL MEDIA Shelley Switzer Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Student Rep Lucille Frost James Davis Rigoletto’s Café Ex-Officio - Pres. Dyanne Lyons Chris Roberts Chief Operating Officer Linda Wedman The Works Art & Design Festival Bernie Kollman VENUE SUPPORTERS Canada Place FESTIVAL STAFF @TheWorksFest Citadel Theatre Complex Executive Artistic Director Amber Rooke Edmonton City Hall Operations & Technical Supervisor David Simmonds Kids in the Hall Bistro Assistant to the COO Elana Bizovie @TheWorksFest Manulife Place Designer Christine Frost Matrix Hotel Rigoletto’s Café FESTIVAL PROGRAMS Scotia Place Shaw Conference Centre Family Programs Hilary Mussell Stanley A. Milner Public Library Stage Programmer Ben Sures Don Wheaton YMCA 2 VIP MESSAGES KEVIN FEEHAN JIM TAYLOR HIS WORSHIP, THE HONOURABLE President Executive Director DON IVESON SHELLY GLOVER The Works Downtown Business City of Edmonton Minister of Canadian International Visual Association Mayor Heritage and Official Arts Society Languages It’s summer in Edmonton again, and that means it’s time for the Thirty years ago a brand new organization called the On behalf of City Council and the people of Edmonton, Our Government understands how important arts and culture 30th anniversary of The Works Art & Design Festival: 13 days of Downtown Business Association made the wise decision to Alberta’s Capital City, I welcome everyone to the 30th annual are to our identity, our society, and our economy. On the road to visual art, design, music and performance in the heart of the city! become the founding sponsor of a brand new event called Works Art & Design Festival. Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, we have a wonderful opportu- The Works Art and Design Festival and that partnership has nity to celebrate everything that makes this such a remarkable As president of The Works International Visual Arts Society, it As North America’s largest free outdoor art and design festival, continued to this day. Why wouldn’t it? The Works is the country—including the innovative visual arts that add vitality is my pleasure and honour to welcome you to the 2015 Works The Works is a fun, family-friendly event that makes visual largest free art and design festival on the continent with to our cultural landscape. We are proud to support events like Art & Design Festival, from June 19 to July 1, featuring the very culture accessible to everyone. This year’s theme, “Making venues indoors and outdoors and it’s entirely staged in our The Works Art and Design Festival that give Canadians the op- best in art, design and new media. Space,” is especially poignant as Edmonton’s downtown Downtown! Our Business Association clearly understands the portunity to experience the arts in their communities. continues to develop, giving life to an increasingly diverse The Works is North America’s largest free outdoor art and de- value of the goodwill and economic benefit generated in the and vibrant arts scene. Like Edmonton itself, The Works offers On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Govern- sign festival. Last year it attracted 330,000 people enjoying heart of the City by the excitement and vitality of the hundreds something for everyone. ment of Canada, I thank everyone who helped bring this festi- 1,092 works of art by 713 artists, featured in 51 exhibits and of thousands of festival goers over the 13 days of art, design, val to life. Happy 30th anniversary! 233 events, including 36 participating Arts and Culture Orga- music, food and so much more. Thank you for continuing to I thank The Works International Visual Arts Society and the nizations in Edmonton’s Downtown Arts District and around bless us with your amazing festival in 2015; good luck and good many volunteers, sponsors and contributors who make this The Honourable Shelly Glover town. This year the festival theme is Making Space; exploring weather! festival possible each year. Their passion and enthusiasm processes of growth, action and accommodation, reflecting on enhance our city’s culture and help make Edmonton an exciting Jim Taylor, Executive Director new ways of understanding and interacting with our environ- and uplifting place to live. ment. In addition, the festival again features The Works Cana- Yours Truly, dian Aboriginal Artists Program for the 7th year. Don Iveson Thank-you for helping us kick off summer with an a visual cel- Mayor ebration featuring artists from Edmonton, across Canada and from around the globe! Kevin Feehan, President AMBER ROOKE Executive Artistic Director The Works Art & 2016 ARTS & EXHIBITORS CALL TO ENTER Design Festival BE PART OF THE WORKS THE WORKS MARKET Planning has begun for the 2016 Works Art & Design Festival, and Artisans, craftspeople, and food vendors are invited to join The Works In 30 years, the Works Art & Design Festival has seen millions you are invited to take part! at Churchill Square in 2016. Look for discounted rates by signing up of visitors, featured thousands of artists, and made over a early or committing multi-year. thousand partnerships with businesses and supporters. The We are currently accepting applications for exhibits, programs, story of The Works, however, is not in the magnitude of these events and performances on the theme: Early-bird registration is before February 15, 2016, Final date to apply numbers, it is that these numbers exist side by side. is April 15, 2016. Applications can be found online Connection points Since 1986, The Works Art & Design festival has made a THE WORKS STAGE space for businesses, artists, and for the public at large to get In drawing class you learn that there are no lines in real life, only together and celebrate creativity. spaces where two tones meet. The line, which we often use as a Performers, presenters, artists, and musicians of all genres are invited metaphor for division, is actually a meeting point: a definition of the to apply. As a theme, Making Space has become about: removing area where two objects, perspectives, or disciplines touch. In order FOR APPLICATIONS & INFORMATION VISIT: authorship, supporting the work of others, finding spaces between to collaborate or connect, one must cross the line. Proposals may “here” and “there, and questioning what “space” is in the age of the consider interdisciplinary practices, A-Ha! moments, isolation/out- internet. Through visual arts and design, space is created to start theworks.ab.ca under Applications reach, and other ways of coming together or connecting.