News & UPdATES

AS SOON AS WEATHER WILL PERMIT
FEATURE EXHIBITION AT THE IMAGE CENTRE September 13–December 9, 2023Salah J. Bachir New Media WallGuest Curator: Alexandra Gooding Artist Su Rynard’s correspondence with her uncle, Vernon Rowley, inspired As Soon As Weather Will Permit—the haunting and disquieting story of one soldier’s participation in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. This two-channel video combines their verbal and written exchanges with family archives, historical footage evoking nuclear warfare, and stark landscapes of the Utah airfield and bombing range where Air Force radar operator Rowley trained for the atomic mission by the US government. Threading these disparate audiovisual elements together,

Études for Augmented Piano
We are very pleased to share that the short film featuring Eve Egoyan – Études for Augmented Piano will screen in the 38th edition of the International Festival of Films on Art. The screening will be held Sunday March 19, 2023 @ 17h00 at the Cinéma du Musée – Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings – Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Hope you can make it!

SEED BANK
Exhibition at Paul petro contemporary art February 24 – April 1, 2023 As part of a group show entitled Editions Part Two Paul Petro Contemporary Art has re-mounted my Seed Bank collection of photographs first exhibited in 2012. The show runs February 24 – April 1, 2023. These photographs were taken at the Millennium Seed Bank just outside London UK. This seed bank, like others around the world, functions as a repository for endangered plant life and as an insurance policy against near apocalyptic disaster, and the current biodiversity crisis wherein 38% of the world’s known plant species are threatened

THE MESSENGER DOCUMENTARY
STREAMING WITH HOT DOCS AT HOME We are pleased to share that for the months of Feb. & March 2023 The Messenger documentary will be streaming on the HotDocs.ca “Hot Docs at Home” platform. To stream (rent) the film go to HotDocs at home https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/watch-online and scroll down to the series “Around the World with Ontario Filmmakers” / The Messenger. You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xXV95gYHC8 Enjoy!

EVE EGOYAN – PREMIERE SCREENING
After a couple of Covid related re-schedulings, we are pleased to share that the premiere of the short film Études for Augmented Piano is finally happening! Please join us April 8th, 2022 at 8pm for the film screening and live concert performance at Koerner Hall. Tickets at the link below. Hope to see you there! TICKET INFORMATION BELOW https://www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/21c-cinq-a-sept-eve-egoyan-(5) Eve Egoyan performs the world premieres of Works for Augmented and Acoustic Piano, which she created for a newly imagined instrument that delves into the space between what a piano can do and what Eve has always wished a piano could do. The core of these works is