See & Do 2013

Circling the Inverse Square includes sculptures, installations, photographs and drawings that illuminate boundaries and connections between the individual and the universal.
Adam David Brown, Jessica Eaton, Karilee Fuglem, Marla Hlady, Richard Sewell, Charles Stankievech. Curated by Shannon Anderson.

The Lost Minutes, Stage One: Shadow of the Platypus is a three-channel video, audio and mixed-media installation that explores the collective modern conditions of melancholy and anxiety.
David Hoffos. Curated by Crystal Mowry.

Seeing is Believing features works from the KWAG’s permanent collection including Vasarely, Dallegret, Albers and Yvaral . These pieces of Op Art are from one of the most popular art movements of the 20th century. Curated by Jennifer Bullock

9:00PM–3:00AM – BikeKitchener.ca ‘s BIKE\SHIFT

Show us your bike face!

BIKE\SHIFT is a set of cycling-centric activities: Hop on a bike for an action shot (and prizes!) in our “ show us your bike face ” photo booth with photographers Darin White and Joe Martz or take a spin on the uWaterloo Sustainable Technology Education Project ‘s bike generator. Bikes provided by McPhail’s Cycle & Sports.

Drop by the WaterlooBikes interactive display about getting around Waterloo Region sans L’Auto, bring your bicycle for a free tune up, hear live music, speakers on bicycle touring and try out a folding bicycle, a cargo bicycle and a classic dutch oma fiets (dutch for bicycle). Click for details .

Talk to the Community Access Bikeshare (CAB) about getting around Downtown without owning your own bike, and chat with Grand River Car Share about how you can make going car-free easier with a Car Share membership and check out one of the electric cars in their fleet.

Marco Barakoski
Check out artist Marco Barakoski ‘s sculptures made from recycled materials and watch him work on a new bike-themed piece!

Read our Artist Spotlight on Marco Barakoski

8:00PM–1:00AM – CLIPPED Outdoors ‘ family-friendly, outdoor-loving activities
CLIPPED Outdoors will be running family oriented games that build knowledge of cycling and what it means to be a cyclist in Waterloo Region, plus running workshops to increase your bike skills! Join in on big group games at 9:00, 10:30, and 12:00.

10:30PM, 11:30PM , 12:30AM & 1:30AM — Juggling Metaphors
Best Intentions is a glow-in-the-dark juggling performance by uWaterloo and uGuelph Juggling Clubs . The interactive, live-performance metaphor for intervention encourages people to consider the ramifications of their actions.

7:00PM–3:00AM – Jack-O-Lantern-O-Rama
Bring your otherwise-useless-as-of-November-1st Hallowe’en pumpkin to the park to show it off for a second time! If a late-night adventure doesn’t work for your young’uns, drop yours off early: City of Kitchener Ward 10 councillor Dan Glenn-Graham will be holding down the fort from 4:00-7:00pm, protecting your pumpkins from passers-by turned smashers-by. You can also help arrange the jack-o-lanterns at 7:00, and stick around for more family friendly activities at 8:00 with CLIPPED Outdoors as part of Bike\Shift .

Can’t make it out on the 2nd but still want to contribute your jack-o-lantern? Drop it off at the A\J office (195 King St W, Suite 202) on November 1st during regular business hours.

8:00PM–1:00AM – Cord Community After Dark
Cord Community turns the table on the audience by hosting interactive interviews throughout the night with any passerby who can take the heat of a live talk show interview. This could be your 5 minutes of fame.

Beauty Reconsidered
Samantha Johnston presents Through the Looking Glass , an installation that will challenge viewers to reconsider standard definitions of beauty.

12AM — Multicultural Cinema Club presents the winners of Local Focus Film Festival , The Grand River Film Festival , Berlin Shorts , Charlie Awards and Kitchener Youth Winners and more. Films include animation, documentary, music video, feature and youth-created videos.

2:30AM — A\J’s Planet in Focus K-W presents There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void . Winner of the 2013 Tromsø Palm for “Best Film From the North,” it is a brilliant, ambitious and unconventional tour de force. The film is a semi-fictional, sci-fi documentary, made as Director Saeed Taji Farouky’s love-letter to the Arctic.

There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void (teaser) from Saeed Taji Farouky on Vimeo .

[INNER]National Parks
Meg Harder designates small natural areas of the cityscape as National Parks, challenging the dichotomy between natural and human-made spaces and satirizing the preservation of tiny pieces of nature surrounded by vast unprotected, developed regions.

Read our Artist Spotlight on Meg Harder

7PM–LATE – Bright satire
Toronto-based artist Matt King will occupy Cheeses Murphy’s storefront window with two new collage works from his Chose (Somethings) series, creating a site-specific riff on commercial advertising signage. King also plays in Absolutely Free , and his visual art can currently be seen in Micah Lexier’s One and Two (and More Than Two) exhibit at The Power Plant , as well as in an upcoming show at Forest City Gallery .

8PM–12AM – Nighttime Art Market
Browse the works of 11 local artists and artisans.

9PM–3AM – Water Pump Incognito
This is a working model of a water pump disguised as a piece of playground equipment, from THEMUSEUM’s Surface Tension exhibit. Created in partnership with uWaterloo’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department , it was designed for areas where pumping water is a daily and tedious chore, common in many developing countries.

9PM–3AM – SWIGS Against Bottled Water
Ban the Bottle presentation by Students of the Water Institute Graduate Section ( SWIGS ) is a provocative intervention into the bottled water industry. This multimedia installation will inform viewers of the wasteful resource inputs required and suggest policy options to inspire change.

Solar-Powered Roads
The Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) , based at uWaterloo, are demonstrating their current research on solar road panel design. The team is developing a way to harness the solar energy bombarding Canada’s paved highways and hopes to spur public interest in the ways that infrastructure can be designed for more sustainability.
Andrew Northmore, Susan Tighe & uWaterloo’s CPATT .

Mu lti-Media Comic Extravaganza
The world premier of the final instalment of The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff , ordinarily heard on 100.3 SoundFM . This audio-visual comic features the work of numerous K-W musicians and visual artists in a multi-media collaborative extravaganza. You can preview the audio track on the SoundFM website.

Read our Spotlight on Mano A Mano Radio

Watch the first episode:

Read our Artist Spotlight on Kim Ho and Chris Mosiadz

Bass Lions will be continuously screening the audio/video convergence Body Doubles in the alley beside StylFrugal during NIGHT/SHIFT.  Come look and listen – bring your own headphones, or use a pair provided, keep your eyes on the prize and prepare to be mesmerized as ‘Body Doubles’ draws you in with its hypnotic combination of imagery and music.

StylFrugal will be open for all-night shopping during NIGHT/SHIFT: come inside, warm up, and peruse the racks of stylish consignment and new clothing for that certain something that screams “I’m walking around downtown Kitchener at night time in an artsy-kind-of mood.”

Body Doubles teaser video:

Make Your Point
Jennifer Gough ’s installation Clash explores the process of colliding ideas and how they can alter the course of events – is it the voice of force or the voice of reason that wins out?

Read our Artist Spotlight on Jennifer Gough

10PM, 12AM – Experimental Music & Multimedia Project
Syd Ursa, Goran Dmitrovic & Bernie Rohde . Binary Forest is a musical performance and technological art installation designed to stir up the K-W music scene and challenge your idea of what a typical music show should be.

Spoken Word Showcase
Enjoy performances by the KW poetry slam team – Beth Murch, Jaded, C-Command, Janice Lee & Alex McDonnell – plus 4-time member of the Toronto Poetry Slam team David Delisca .

Read our Spotlight on the KW Poetry Slam team

The Picto-Path : KPL’s Chain-Link Couture
Sketch or collage a small literary-themed doodle or write a few thoughts about a recently-read book and have your words and imagery help make a vibrant community entrance-way to the main library during the lengthy construction.

Activists’ Bazaar
Check out local environmental, food and social justice organizations, including LSPIRG, Grand River Indigenous Solidarity, Transition KW, the Waterloo Region Food Systems Round Table and more!

Home Sweet Home
Michelle Purchase ’s visual installation, Arborification , challenges assumptions about housing and notions of home. This artwork is a series of blacklit silhouettes occupying the second-floor windows of MCC and Brown Salon. These are viewable from the street and wrap around the building on Queen St. and Hall’s Lane.

8PM, 10PM & MIDNIGHT – Late-night body-movin’ yoga
Stretch, strengthen and have a blast at any of these three extra-special no-charge yoga practices crafted by Leena and Emma of Queen Street Yoga , with soundtrack provided by DJ Miss Herbasshifts .

9:15PM, 11:15PM – In Case of Emergency Please Break Glass
A beautifully offbeat intervention on Philip Glass’ Knee Play 4 featuring classical instruments, voice, and ballroom, contemporary, and contact improv dance to deconstruct and reinterpret a single composition. The piece, which brings together a dozen local performing artists, is produced by Sarah Tolmie & Dawn Parker of the Raw Nerve Research Group / Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation , University of Waterloo.

Read our Spotlight on Queen Street Yoga

The Simple Pleasures Chalkboard

Josh Martin of Lifestyle Citizens presents a giant chalkboard for participants to record their simple pleasures. In a time of over-consumption, this project encourages us to embrace non-material sources of fulfillment. What simple pleasures and experiential riches are on your list?

Read our Artist Spotlight on Josh Martin

Here’s Josh talking about the near-death origins of the Simple Pleasures Project:

Dance & rediscover K-W into the wee hours!
For a single moon, Cafe Pyrus will be recreated as an immersive environment designed to stimulate and nurture. Zero to One studios and the underground Blue Dot events have a long local history of creating highly charged evenings that function as richly connecting, atypical social spaces. Intelligent play gives room for our shared humanity.

Contributors: Brendan Lawless, Dan Browne, Ian Newton, Jess Fritz, Scarlet Spades, Gorbet Design & Zumone.

Experience the retro-possessed poetry machine From Me To You
This interactive work by Gorbet Design playfully explores the power of words in a relationship, where individual characters are significant. From the lyrical to the absurd, unexpected changes evoke suddenly powerful imagery.

Café Pyrus Lineup

Rich Aucoin headlines an experimental music showcase!
This is how Weird Canada founder Aaron Levin described Aucoin’s music when the Haligonian musician’s Public Publication EP dropped a few years back: “What starts out like a cosmic tiki lounge briskly lunges into a heady array of dance-floor filling funky white-man soul … the sound is really something you need to experience; the Rich Aucoin live show is an unparalleled journey into the furthest reaches of his self-proclaimed fun-core.” Aucoin will also serve up an extra-special audiovisual presentation.

Shifty Eyes
Folks from the CriMeLab will be roaming NIGHT\SHIFT events wearing a life-logging camera called Autographer. Check out the projection display at the PUC Pop-up party to see if you get logged!

Stay tuned for more details about the pop-up maker space’s inter-activities. Bands and approximate set times below.

Weird Canada Lineup