DARE-DARE

Saturday, August 28th from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

This round-table will be held in a reception room at Motel Oscar in Longueuil.

Participants wishing to attend will be able to get a ride from the Longueuil Metro to the motel by RSVP ‘ing prog@dare-dare.org or calling 514-793-7002 before the 27th of August.

DARE-DARE and curator Geneviève Chevalier are thrilled to present Motelisation, a round-table event that will find Roxanne Arsenault and Gerard Beaudet tackling, from several diverse vantage points, the political, architectural, historic and socio-cultural issues surrounding motels in all their tacky glory.

Motelisation is in conjunction with the recent exhibition of the same name curated by Genevieve Chevalier for the Foreman Gallery at Bishops University. The exhibition explored the themes and aesthetic concerns of the world of the motel through the eyes of several Canadian artists: Alison S.M. Kobayashi & Gintas Tirilis (Toronto); Andrew King & Angela Silver (Calgary + Montreal); Chantal Séguin (Sherbrooke) and Andrée Anne Vien (Montreal).

Catalan artist Miquel García Membrado is actually finishing up his artist-in-residency at DARE-DARE

The vernissage for his residency will be held at Dare-Dare on the 15th of July at 5 p.m., and an artist talk will follow on Sunday the 17th at 1 p.m.

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OPENING, Friday, June 11 at 17:00
at DARE-DARE, metro Frontenac

lesmots.dare-dare.org
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OPENSPACE FORUM, Saturday June 12, from 1 to 6:30 p.m.

An event organised by DARE-DARE, facilitated by Sophie Le-Phat Ho and Anne Goldenberg and directed by the participants.

All people – whether we consider ourselves artists, citizens or activists - help invent, defend and shape the diverse meanings of today’s city. We do so in a multiplicity of ways. Some appropriate platforms. Others instigate new concepts of what space and time can mean. Still others struggle for their rights and the survival of their neighborhoods.

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The Mentana Gardens

February and March 2010
Opening Thursday March 11 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Habitations de Mentana, 4095 St-André Street, between Rachel and Duluth
In collaboration with the Place aux familles project of the CLSC Plateau Mont-Royal

www.lesjardinsmentana.com

Jacinthe Robillard explores the documentary portrait by studying domestic environments of specific social groups. She is particularly interested the experience of the other and the intrinsic link that it maintains with location. Her work engages the themes of identity, the occupation of space, individuality within a community, intimacy and authenticity. Using photography and the Internet, emphasizing a realist aesthetic without artifice, she allows her subjects to speak for themselves.

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