‘I See You’ by Lara Lewis is a performance art piece about her experiences as a figure drawing life model, exploring the relationship between artist and subject, the body as a means of profit, and the body image and gender feelings the work raises. I See You is part performance, part life drawing session, in which audience members are also artists drawing the performer.
Audience members are invited to bring art supplies to participate in this special life drawing session (this is optional if you’d like to be a spectator). This event is for 18+ y/o audiences.
Julie Aubé, sometimes a musician, sometimes a poet, and often both at the same time, Julie Aubé is a multidisciplinary artist from Memramcook, New Brunswick. Well established in the Canadian musical playing field, she is first known for her involvement in the group Les Hay Babies.
It was in 2017 that she began her solo career as a singer-songwriter and revealed her captivating vintage folk-rock-country look with the long game Joie de vivre, winner of a prize at the Music NB Awards in the “Solo Recording of the Year” category.
With her dashing voice and her pen carrying a love for song model.ed on her Chiac orality, Julie Aubé sings from the belly, and sings powerfully, to describe her gratitude, her relationship with her native region and love, of course.
There will be a $25 fee to help w/ food and facilitation fees.
Join us for an evening of improv comedy from a wide range of Solo Chicken Improvisers, including current students and alum!
Admission is pay what you can, with a recommended payment of $5 or $10. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite or at the door the night of the event. The proceeds from this event will go towards supporting further Improv programming from Solo Chicken, as well towards the Charlotte St. Arts Centre.
Doors at 7:00, show at 7:30. The CSAC bar will be running.
‘Sleeping On / The Present’ is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between percussionist Noam Bierstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and composer/media artist Sam Salem, combining two new, ambitious long-form solo works for instruments, objects, live electronics, and video. Sleeping On / The Present explores time, distance, and the psychogeography of memory, reimagining the relationship between performer, electronics, media, and audience.
‘The Way Up & The Way Down’ explores and reinterprets Salem’s own archive of materials and associated memories, repurposing a 12-string acoustic guitar as an augmented percussion instrument. Bierstone navigates a delicate and volatile setup of the work in an intimate, devotional space, drifting in and out of timelessness in a world where dreams of the past have replaced visions of the future.
In ‘Bury Me Deep’, Olencki forms a duet, a kind of seance, between their present self and an AI model created from a comprehensive database of over 3000 recordings of their performance techniques made specifically for this project. A suspended trombone reincarnates the disembodied acousmatic sound world of the piece, which moves from the present to the past, from snapshots of South Carolina to AI-mediated footage of a Drum Corp competition. A ghostly choreography, Bury Me Deep is Southern Gothic in the age of the Machine.
A fantastic double billing of music coming to Charlotte Street Arts Centre this month!
Don Ross and Pipo Romero bring their masterful musical workings to the Centre on May 19th. Advanced tickets are on sale now through our office, but you can also snag your early tickets online
What’s a Draw-a-thon? It’s a Drawing Marathon, and a fundraiser for CSAC! To participate, you and your team of 4-8 must work together to collect a minimum of 10 donation pledges for the Centre. Then, on the day of the draw-a-thon, all teams work together to draw up to 15 drawings. These drawings are then collected and will be combined into a colouring book for all participants!
All ages and all skill levels are welcome to participate. Sign ups are open NOW!
What’s a Draw-a-thon? It’s a Drawing Marathon, and a fundraiser for CSAC! To participate, you and your team of 4-8 must work together to collect a minimum of 10 donation pledges for the Centre. Then, on the day of the draw-a-thon, all teams work together to draw up to 15 drawings. These drawings are then collected and will be combined into a colouring book for all participants!
All ages and all skill levels are welcome to participate. Sign ups are open NOW!
We are thrilled to publicly announce not one but TWO upcoming exhibitions at the Arts Centre! Mark your calendars for May 18th when we will be hosting a dual gallery opening to welcome both of these beautiful collections into our space.
‘Smoke Signals and Radio Waves’ is a collection of minimalist 2”x2” prints by Campbellton based artist Maurice Cormier. It will occupy the Penny Gallery.
‘Love this Town’ is a collection of watercolour works that are aim to celebrate Fredericton and show it in a different light. The series was created by Fredericton based artist Eva Christensen. It will occupy the Charlotte Glencross Gallery.
In this free workshop, participants will begin by interacting with images from the Pride/Swell+ archive, which is made up of over 300+ artworks encompassing 20 art practices and prompts, ranging from collage to zines to jewelry to sculpture to cellphilms.
We will then guide workshop participants to make art with:
