CARNEGIEDAYS A festival of art and language | September 28 to October 1 Organized by the MacLaren Art Centre | maclarenart.com In partnership with the Barrie Film Festival, Simcoe Contemporary Dancers 2 017 and the Barrie Public Library Presented for Culture Days Carnegie Days draws on the origins of the MacLaren Art Centre’s building as a 1917 Carnegie public library in Barrie and celebrates the legacy of Scottish-born American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who built over 2,500 public libraries in the English speaking world. This annual arts festival offers great events for visitors of all ages that explore the role language plays in contemporary art. Special exhibitions, public art projects, performances, readings, artists’ talks, film and video screenings, guided tours and hands-on workshops for families take place at the MacLaren and across the city of Barrie. Carnegie Days coincides with Culture Days, which highlights free, cultural attractions in downtown Barrie. This year’s festival theme is Translation: the translation of experience into expression as it shapes our sense of self. WHAT’S ON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Seraphine, Seraphine Presented by the Barrie Film Festival Live Musical Performance by Ray Dillard Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop Street West, Barrie MacLaren Art Centre | The Carnegie Room 7:00 pm | Admission free 7:30 to 8:30 pm, Doors open at 7 pm | Admission free In Seraphine, Seraphine, Vancouver-based artist Krista Belle Musician Ray Dillard will give a live percussive performance Stewart layers archival footage with current footage of her in response to the artwork on view in current exhibition Act subject, her mother Seraphine Stewart, the first Indigenous Naturally by Jaime Angelopoulos. Inspired by the visual contrasts Public Health nurse in British Columbia. In this two-channel video in Powers and Hypnos, Ray will create two original compositions work, Stewart sheds light on the complexities of the historical that sonically play on the vibrant colours, lines, textures and representation of Indigenous peoples. Seraphine, Seraphine emotions in these two drawings. A question and answer period highlights the profound divergences between history as it is will follow the performance. Texas-born, Toronto/Barrie-based recorded and reality as it is lived. Followed by an artist talk and producer/percussionist Ray Dillard received his Bachelors and public discussion. Masters of Music degrees from West Texas State University. For several years, he was percussionist for the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra and Director of Percussion Studies at West Texas State WHAT’S ON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 University. He then served as Guest Lecturer and Instructor of Percussion at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, before Carnegie Days Storytime: Celebrate Being becoming the head of Percussion and MIDI Technology at Canadian! San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas, a position he held until Barrie Public Library, Downtown Branch, 60 Worsley Street, Barrie 1998 when he relocated to Toronto. Ray Dillard has toured 10:00 to 10:45 am | Admission free internationally for over four decades, most notably performing Learn and celebrate what makes Canada special! In this story- with NEXUS, Buka and The World Drum Ensemble. time for families, children will enjoy picture books by Canadian authors that explore the idea of family and being Canadian. At this library program, children will have fun making a related craft after the stories, rhymes and songs. No registration required. WHAT’S ON: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 MacLaren Exhibition Tours Art for Lunch: Collecting Photography MacLaren Art Centre with John Hartman 11:00 to 11:45 am | Admission free MacLaren Art Centre | Rotary Education Centre Visitors are invited to join MacLaren staff for tours of the current 12:15 to 1:00 pm | Admission free exhibitions, beginning in the Main Lobby. For more information In conjunction with the exhibition Collecting Canada: Selections on MacLaren tours, visit www.maclarenart.com. from John Hartman’s Photography Collection, regional artist John Hartman will offer an insider perspective on his private collection The Journals of Mary O’Brien: Readings of historic photographs, which includes over 500 vintage prints by Joy Thompson documenting the landscape of Canada. MacLaren Art Centre | Gallery 3 1:00 to 2:00 pm | Admission free Sculpture Garden Dedication Join us for entertaining and insightful readings by Barrie actor MacLaren Art Centre | Main Lobby Joy Thompson from the journals of Mary O’Brien, the mother of 1:30 pm | Admission free Shanty-Bay artist Lucius O’Brien (1832-1899). Lucius O’Brien Join us for the public launch and dedication of the MacLaren’s was a painter of the Canadian landscape, a passionate, early revitalized sculpture garden, a Canada 150 legacy project advocate of the Canadian arts scene and a significant figure in marking this important national milestone and the centennial the region. Joy Thompson has graced the stages on Broadway, of the 1917 Carnegie Library. Made possible by an Ontario150 the “Old Vic” in England, The Kennedy Centre, Sony Centre grant through the Ontario Trillium Foundation with support and major theatres across Canada. She performed in three from the City of Barrie’s Public Art Committee and The Sarjeant productions at the Royal Alexandra, two seasons at Stratford and Company. The MacLaren will also honour the 30th anniversary of The Charlottetown Festivals, two international tours, as well as the installation of the Spirit Catcher at Barrie’s waterfront and the Grand Bend, MTC, and the Citadel in Edmonton just to name a generous bequest from the Estate of Charles McCrea Peacock few. Joy received the Barrie Arts Award for “Excellence in the for its long-term care. Arts” and the “Local Live Arts Award” for her dedication to the development of artists in Simcoe County. She teaches vocals and MacLaren Exhibition Tours is a workshop leader for businesses with “The Joy of Speaking”. MacLaren Art Centre 3:00 to 4:00 pm | Admission free Visitors are invited to join MacLaren staff for tours of the current exhibitions, beginning in the Main Lobby. For more information on MacLaren tours, visit www.maclarenart.com. Culture Days Open House Re-enact: Sarah Ciurysek, Michael Farnan, Meryl MacLaren Art Centre | Rotary Education Centre McMaster, Emma Nishimura, Krista Belle Stewart, 2:00 to 4:00 pm | Admission free Elinor Whidden Join us for our Culture Days Open House and the reception for MacLaren Art Centre | Janice Laking Gallery Self-Portrait, an exhibition featuring work by artists who teach at Re-enact explores how six Canadian artists interpret, the MacLaren, in the community and in schools. Meet the artists commemorate and renegotiate moments of the past. and participate in a fun exhibition-based activity for families. Collectively, their works open up spaces for empowerment through imagination, sharpening our awareness of historical bias. Challenging the authority of historical narratives, WHAT’S ON: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 their projects pose questions about representation—and reconciliation—in the future. NFB Film Screenings MacLaren Art Centre | Rotary Education Centre Jaime Angelopoulos: Act Naturally 12:30 to 12:45 pm |Admission free MacLaren Art Centre | The Carnegie Room and The Massie Family From Far Away by Shira Avni & Serene El-haj Daoud Sculpture Courtyard (Animation, 2000, 6 minutes) Act Naturally pairs select drawings with a major outdoor This short animation tells the story of Saoussan, a young girl sculpture by Toronto artist Jaime Angelopoulos. Allusions to struggling to adjust to life in Canada after being uprooted from bodies, behaviours and states of consciousness are revealed her war torn homeland. She has come to seek a quieter and in these abstract drawings, with striking combinations of line safer life, although memories of war and death linger, memories and colour that illustrate a profound empathy and interest in the that are awakened when the children at her new school prepare human psyche. for a scary Halloween. From Far Away speaks to the power within Collecting Canada: Selections from John us all to adapt like Saoussan and to welcome a newcomer. Hartman’s Photography Collection Asthma Tech by Johnathan Ng (Animation, 2006, 7 minutes) MacLaren Art Centre | Molson Community Gallery In this animated short, young Winston, who suffers from chronic Collecting Canada presents historic photographs from the asthma, isn’t able to participate in the everyday activities of collection of senior regional artist John Hartman. This focused his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament exhibition documents the landscape of Canada during a through his vivid imagination, with paper and crayons. On one period of rapid westward expansion in the late 19th and early particularly rainy afternoon, Winston discovers that the magic of 20th centuries. imagination has the power to transform and empower, and his skills and talents save the day. Doris McCarthy: Wavements MacLaren Art Centre | Joan Lehman Gallery Mail Art: Carnegie Days Family Workshop Known for her Canadian landscape paintings, Doris McCarthy MacLaren Art Centre | Rotary Education Centre (1910-2010) was one of Canada’s foremost artists, a recipient 1:30 to 2:30 pm | Admission free of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario amongst Join regional artist Sean George for a workshop focusing on all other awards and recognitions. Wavements includes two of her forms of mail art. Families will have fun working at three different rare hard-edged