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Maker Maker: Magic Shrink Plastic with Vanessa Blackier 🧵

January 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Magic Shrink Plastic with Vanessa Blackier
Wednesday 18 January
7-9 PM

Small fruit shapes in a hand.

After three years on pause, we are thrilled to relaunch our MAKER MAKER workshop series! Join us as we kick off our 2023 program with Sackville artist, Vanessa Blackier, and discover the magic of shrink plastic.

At this workshop, you will learn tips and tricks for working with shrink plastic. We’ll have everything you’ll need to get started;shrink film, Sharpies, and scissors. Draw and cut out your designs and pop them into one of our portable toaster ovens, then watch in amazement as they shrink to half their original size. Turn your small-scale creations into charms, pendants, pins and more!

Vanessa Blackier is a crafter and connoisseur of cute tiny things, so naturally shrink plastic is her medium of choice. Finding inspiration anywhere from the garden to the thrift store, she designs colourful jewellery pieces for quirky and kitschy souls. You can find her handcrafted accessories at @veebeeshoppee on Instagram.

MAKER MAKER is a monthly program of seriously small after-hours art workshops. Led by diverse Maker Mentors, each workshop introduces a pocket-sized art project that can be made in two hours or less. Designed for accomplished and aspiring makers alike, MAKER MAKER is for anyone interested in making small things by hand with friends and fellow makers. This informal workshop series explores how working small can be practical, portable, and playful, economical, sharable, and even wearable.

While the hot chocolate and cookies are still on hiatus, we are so looking forward to gathering with you again! Masks are required at the Owens and in all buildings at Mount Allison University.

MAKER MAKER is free and all materials are provided; no registration required.

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Make Something Sunday 👷🏽‍♀️

January 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm 4:00 pm

Make Something Sunday: A Program for Families at the Owens Art Gallery

Make Something Sundays return with a new series of family workshops for winter and spring. This monthly program introduces new materials and ways of working through informal hands-on workshops for kids 12 and under and their adults. Drop-in for half an hour or stay for two. No booking required. This program is offered free of charge.

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15 January, 2:00-4:00 pm
Pasta Maker Printmaking
Discover how a hand-cranked pasta maker can become a printing press. Make your own printing plate, ink it up, and run it through our pasta maker press.

12 February, 2:00-4:00 pm
Patchwork Valentines
For this special Winterfest Make Something Sunday, we’re hosting a Valentine’s card making extravaganza. Let our fabric stash be your inspiration as you cut and collage fabric shapes onto cards for family and friends.

19 March, 2:00-4:00 pm
Button Press Studio
Transform your miniature artworks into buttons that you can wear home or one-of-a-kind magnets for your fridge.

23 April, 2:00-4:00 pm
Hand-Stamped Mini Banners
Play with pattern, stamp out a message, and create your own canvas banner to hang at home.

28 May, 2:00-4:00 pm
DIY Sketchbook
Design your own sketchbook and bind it with a few simple stitches or our stapler. Decorate the cover with washi tape and collage, then head outside to draw the first signs of spring

Free
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Holiday members' show and sale. December 9-16th. Opening Friday, December 9.

Struts Gallery Holiday Show and Sale ☃

December 9, 2022 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Struts Gallery Holiday Show and Sale on from December 9-16th, 2022.

Opening Friday, December 9th, 5 to 7pm!

Holiday members' show and sale. December 9-16th. Opening Friday, December 9.

Come on over to Struts for the Holiday Members’ Show & Sale Opening. Great work from our members shown inside. HOT SNACKS served outside.

7 Lorne Street
Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 3Z6 Canada
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Holiday members' show and sale. December 9-16th. Opening Friday, December 9.

Struts Gallery Holiday Show and Sale ☃

December 10, 2022 @ 1:00 pm 5:00 pm

Struts Gallery Holiday Show and Sale on from December 9-16th, 2022.

Opening Friday, December 9th, 5 to 7pm!

Holiday members' show and sale. December 9-16th. Opening Friday, December 9.

Come on over to Struts for the Holiday Members’ Show & Sale Opening. Great work from our members shown inside. HOT SNACKS served outside.

7 Lorne Street
Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 3Z6 Canada
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(506) 536-1211
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Drop Spindle Yarn Spinning workshop. Sunday, December 4, 1-3pm. 18 Lorne St., Sackville, NB. us@coworksackville.com

Drop Spindle Yarn Spinning Workshop 🐑

December 4, 2022 @ 1:00 pm 3:00 pm

Learn how to spin yarn on a drop spindle. All materials included in registration fee.

Drop Spindle Yarn Spinning workshop. Sunday, December 4, 1-3pm. 18 Lorne St., Sackville, NB. us@coworksackville.com

Sun, 4 December 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM AST

Sackville Commons & Coworking 18 Lorne Street Sackville, NB E4L 4A7

Drop Spindle spinning is a traditional craft dating back to 1 AD. The drop spindle predates the spinning wheel and since it uses less moving parts, is simpler for beginners who want to learn how to spin their own yarn. This workshop offers an introduction to the composition of wool and how spinning evolved; discusses spinning as necessity, spinning for pleasure; explains the parts of the spindle; discuss single yarn and plies; explains carding wool in preparation for spinning woolen and worsted, and includes demonstration of drop spindle spinning with class learning on their own spindles. This workshop uses natural fibres and emphasizes the connections between where we live and the materials we choose, including sustainability.

$48.76

506-939-2232

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18 Lorne Street
Sackville, New Brunswick E4I 4A7 Canada
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Image is a coloured drawing of a shopping bag with items spilling out of it. Text reads: The Heart and Pocket Review. An independent craft market.

Heart and Pocket Review Craft Market 💕

November 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am 4:00 pm

Saturday, November 19, 2022 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Royal Canadian Legion, 15 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB
Admission Free/Masks Mandatory

Image is a coloured drawing of a shopping bag with items spilling out of it. Text reads: The Heart and Pocket Review. An independent craft market.

The Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery are pleased to present the Heart & Pocket Revue, an independent market featuring handmade wares by regional and national artists and artisans.

Featuring wares by:
Alana Morouney
Anointment Natural Skin Care
Atelier Imago
Bailey Cameron
Baytown Creative
Cricket Sound Studios
Fairy Ware
Gobsmacked Yarn
Izzy Francolini
Jerry Ropson
Jeska Grue
Jon Claytor & Ashley Legere
Kaeli Cook Pottery
Katelynne Gagliostro
Laura K. Watson
Lichen & Lace
Melissa Gauthier
Nothing Else Press
Patrick Allaby
Rebecca Blankert
Shoshi Designs
Susie Vokey
The Hardscrabble Press
VeeBee Shoppee
Wild Bramble Nursery
Willow Farm

Also featuring a rug hooking demo extravaganza with artist Libbie Farrell.

Libbie Farrell will be spending the day working on a new rug and folks will have the opportunity to stop by, learn a bit of rug hooking, and contribute some stitches to a rug. Experience the highs and lows of rug hooking… in real time!

Libbie Farrell (She/They) is a white settler and interdisciplinary artist from rural Treaty 6 Territory (Alberta), Canada. An interdisciplinary artist, they create fiber, textile, print, and performance art, that uses appropriation of materials and imagery as a major tool. Their work uses comedy to explore their relationship to, and alienation from gender and womanhood.

15 Lorne St
Sackville, NB Canada
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Image of poppies. Text reads, Bluebirds by Vern Thiessen, TNB, Theatre New Brunswick.

TNB: Bluebirds by Vern Thiessen 🐦

November 1, 2022 @ 7:30 pm November 6, 2022 @ 9:30 pm

Bluebirds is set in Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital. Through it all, the three women find friendship, independence, power, and influence in a place where men, once again, are trying to destroy the world.

Image of poppies. Text reads, Bluebirds by Vern Thiessen, TNB, Theatre New Brunswick.

Theatre New Brunswick‘s production of Bluebirds is on tour in New Brunswick at the following dates and venues:

November 1

Theatre Restigouche | Campbellton, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

November 2

Empress Theatre | Moncton, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

November 3

Imperial Theatre | Saint John, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

November 4

W.C. O’Neill Arena Theatre | St. Andrews, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

November 5

Carleton North High School | Florenceville-Bristol, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

November 6

Motyer-Fancy Theatre (MTA) | Sackville, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS

$30 – $35
Group exhibition of Undone

Double Vernissage for Undone and Shaheer Zazai: Are We Even

October 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Friday 14 October @ 7:00 pm

Join the Owens Art Gallery for a vernissage to celebrate the exhibitions Undone and Shaheer Zazai: Are We Even

Undone
8 October to 11 December 2022
Curator: Emily Falvey

Group exhibition of Undone

Erika DeFreitas, Ursula Johnson, Adriana Kuiper + Ryan Suter, Andrea Mortson, Roula Partheniou, Tara K. Wells

This group exhibition features seven artists whose work both centres and expands our understanding of the handmade and its relevance to contemporary art. It is also a meditation on our shared and personal circumstances during a period of multiple crises, as well as our capacity to imagine a better future. Building on the various meanings of “undone,” the exhibition makes connections between artistic process, grief, impermanence, transition, undoing, not doing, and doing differently.

Shaheer Zazai: Are We Even
15 October to 11 December 2022
Curator: Emily Falvey

Afghan-Canadian artist Shaheer Zazai is known for incredible digital works that use thousands of individual, manual key strokes in Microsoft Word to mimic traditional Afghan carpet-making techniques. More recently, he has expanded his practice to include textiles, translating his digital works into jacquard weavings. The works in Are We Even continue his ongoing exploration of cultural identity in the context of diaspora and contemporary geopolitics, while also engaging with concepts of mirroring, transformation, splitting, and merging into new forms.

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Shaheer Zazai, 1114.1 (detail), 2018, digital print on watercolour paper produced in Microsoft Word, edition of 10, 28 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Patel Brown.

Visiting Artist Talk with Shaheer Zazai 💬

October 12, 2022 @ 4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Visiting Artist Talk with Shaheer Zazai. This talk is a part of the Visiting Artist Program, organized by the Owens Art Gallery and the Department of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University.

All are welcome to attend. CART transcription will be available.

Shaheer Zazai, 1114.1 (detail), 2018, digital print on watercolour paper produced in Microsoft Word, edition of 10, 28 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Patel Brown.
Shaheer Zazai1114.1 (detail), 2018, digital print on watercolour paper produced in Microsoft Word, edition of 10, 28 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Patel Brown.

12 October @ 4:00 pm
Owens Art Gallery

Shaheer Zazai received a BFA from OCAD University in 2011 and was artist in residence at OCAD University as part of the Digital Painting Atelier in 2015. He is a recipient of Ontario Arts Council grants, and he was a finalist for EQ Bank’s Emerging Digital Artist Award in 2018. Since graduating, Zazai has had several solo and group exhibitions such as those at the Capacity 3 Gallery, CAFKA Biennial 2019, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Double Happiness Projects and Patel Brown Gallery. His digital works have been covered by CBC Arts in 2018, Ajam Media Collective in 2019, and the Globe and Mail in 2020. In addition to his solo exhibition at the Owens, his upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at the Agha Khan Museum (Toronto), the group exhibition Shifting Ground at Digital Arts Resource Centre (Ottawa), Every Answer is Correct, an off-site group exhibition curated by the Power Plant (Toronto), and Porous Identities, the inaugural group exhibition for Patel Brown Gallery’s Montreal location.

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Faculty Gala Concert. Friday September 9, 2022. 7:30pm. Brunton Auditorium. Featuring performances by faculty members of the Department of Music.

Mt. Allison Faculty Gala Concert 🎻

September 9, 2022 @ 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

Mt. Allison Department of Music, Faculty Gala Concert
Friday September 9, 7:30 pm, Brunton Auditorium

Faculty Gala Concert. Friday September 9, 2022. 7:30pm. Brunton Auditorium. Featuring performances by faculty members of the Department of Music.

Celebrate the beginning of the 2022-2023 concert season with our annual Gala recital – a fundraiser for MtA Music student scholarships – featuring performances by faculty members of the Department of Music.

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