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CONTENT: 1. FASA Events

- FASA LOVES YOU EVENT – February 4. COME! Outside of our office on EV 5.777 between 5 & 8 pm there will be wine, cupcakes, love, presents, and information! Clubs will be there too!

- ASFASA is coming up!

- SPECIAL PROJECT DEADLINE – FEBRUARY 12, 2010. 2. Art Matters

- Art Matters @ Nuit Blanche, and Art Matters FESTIVAL!!!!!! 3. Club Events

- PSA Cash & Carry Fundraising Event! *** poster attached. ***

4. University Happenings - Go and see METAMORPHOSES – Theatre Department’s upcoming Production !

- Harmonies for Haiti – Benefit Concert Feb. 6 by Concordia Students. *** poster attached ***

5. Calls for Submissions - ASFASA Call for Submissions via the Philosophy Department.

- Film Submissions wanted for a festival in April at De Seve Cinema.

- Phosphorus Journal – Call for Philosophy Essays/Drawings.

- Cultural Mediators wanted for ART SOUTERRAIN **attachment** 6. Community Events

- La Raza Group Full Circle Retrospective

- La Centrale – Quoi de neuf, Julie?

- OBORO Vernissage

FASA EVENTS: FASA LOVES YOU CLUBS, ELECTIONS, SPECIAL PROJECTS INFO!

A friendly 5 à 7 complete with cupcakes, wine and love (all free, free for all).

We will be offering the following info to students: !!-Upcoming events and recruitment of next year’s members and leaders!-Elections, FASA is recruiting for next year’s execs!!-Special project grant application questions!-FUN

On FEBRUARY 4 please come and join us outside our office EV 5.777 to learn more about how to get in on student life and how to fund your artistic visions with FASA’s money.

With love,

The FASA team:

Cameron Mckinnon, Stephanie Bokenfohr, Julie Johnston, Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Roch Thibault, Claudia Espinosa

GET SOME CA$H MONEY FROM FASA SPECIAL PROJECT DEADLINE

The Special Project Deadline for the Winter Term will be FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010. Attached is the Special Project Form and if you have any questions please go to our website and read the sections ‘Funding Options’ and ‘Financial Policies’. You can also email FASA here or at fasafina@gmail.com should you have any extra confusion.

All submissions must have a completed Special Projects Form as the title page, and all other necessary documents attached to it. Feel free to slide your application under the door if no one is here.

ASFASA IS UPON US ASFASA FESTIVAL 2010

The ASFASA Festival is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims at creating links between students from the Fine Arts and Arts & Science faculties while encouraging communication and the cross-pollination of ideas between departments of Concordia University. By the same token, another objective of this project is to promote undergraduate scholarship and provide opportunities for students to share their work and be recognized by their peers. After the success of last year’s festival (featuring thematic exhibits presented in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the Sociology and Anthropology Department and the Geography, Planning and Environment Department), FASA

has reinvested the project. This year’s endeavour will feature three exhibitions held simultaneously from FEBRUARY 8th -19th in the Psychology, Biology, and Philosophy departments. The themes for these exhibitions are linked to the areas of study of the aforementioned departments. By hosting these exhibitions within departmental spaces (such as hallways, lounges, atriums, conference rooms etc…), FASA wishes to strategically contextualize artwork so as to render it available to wider audiences. As such, FASA is venturing away from spaces deemed “traditional art venues” so as to incorporate artwork within environments frequented by targeted publics whose interests revolve around the themes touched upon in the exhibits. The Webster Library will also be hosting some artworks in its glass display casings. The pieces presented at this venue are conceptually and aesthetically linked to ideas of text and bookwork, while also resonating with one of the themes explored by the exhibitions held in the departments.

For this project, FASA is collaborating with colleagues from ASFA and Arts & Science departmental associations so as to create an integrative and interdisciplinary whole. Notably, the Philosophy Student Association, Sophia, is organizing parallel activities to be held from FEBRUARY 8th -12th on the 7th floor of the Hall Building, as well as a lecture on aesthetics on FEBRUARY 11th at 8:30 pm at 2149 Mackay. A retrospective publication of the project is also in the works. This publication will serve as footprint of the events and will also be used to promote the works of Concordia students beyond the universities parameters. !

Do Tell Me More Psychology Exhibition Feb. 8-19 PY Building (Psychology) 1st and 2nd floors, Loyola campus

Vernissage date: To be confirmed Themes: the psycho-social, human relationships, imagination, emotions, cognition… !

Cyborgs Galore Biology Exhibition Feb. 8-19

SP Building (Science Complex) atrium Vernissage date: To be confirmed Themes: the organic, the environment, micro/macrocosms, forms of life, bio diversity… !

It’s All Relative Philosophy Exhibition Feb. 8-19 PR Building (Philosophy annex) 2100 Mackay Vernissage date: To be confirmed

Themes: the conceptual, philosophical theories, knowledge, a search for meaning… Lecture on aesthetics: Feb. 11 2010, 8:30 pm, 2149 Mackay

FASA EVENTS: ART MATTERS @ NUIT BLANCHE “NOUILLE BLANCHE”

Art Matters will host and we'll all make a toast to proper ladies and gentlemen, literary potions in motion, majestic domestics, nostalgic teas and oral histories. Cupcakes, tea, Kafka, and steam are all part of this evening of interactive performance.

Shows run on the hour from 8pm to 1 am. Limited space available, reserve your spot! Email nuitblanchematters@gmail.com with your desired showtime in the subject line!

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010 Time: 20:00 – 01:00 Venue: District 101 Espace Créatif

(48 Notre Dame Ouest, suite 101)

ART MATTERS FESTIVAL MARCH 1 – MARCH 19 | OPENING PARTY MARCH 5

CLUB EVENTS: CASH & CARRY PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER

Concordia's graduating class of photography student's are hosting a fundraising silent auction event. The event, entitled Cash & Carry, will be hosted at the school's VAV Gallery to help raise money for their final year end exhibition in April. This event will be a great opportunity to get your hands on some work by emerging artists at affordable prices before they graduate and find fame! The work will be displayed from February 1st - 12th with the silent auction being held on the evening of February 11th from 6pm to 8pm. All prints start at $75.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ASFASA VIA THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT CALL FOR FINE ART OF ALL VARIETIES

There will be a Fine Art Festival on the 7th floor of the Hall building from February 8th to 11th from 11AM to 3PM. Theme is open but we prefer pieces/performances that touch on love, passion, or

wisdom. There are three venues: 1. One venue for still pieces like canvas paintings, paintings, sketches, sculptures, photographs, and prints. 2. One venue for performance pieces including dance, modern dance, and theatre/drama. 3. One venue for music and poetry recitals. There is also a TV and DVD player for any electronic pieces.

All venues are located on the 7th floor of the Hall building. Please contact social@sophiaconcordia.ca if you wish to submit. Deadline is February 5th

This event is a SoPhiA (Students of the Philosophy Association) in partnership with FASA (Fine Arts Student Alliance. If you want more information, have any questions/comments, or wish to get involved please contact social@sophiaconcordia.ca or external@sophiaconcordia.ca

DE SEVE CINEMA CALL FOR FILM

There will be a film festival from April 31st to May 3rd at the De Seve Cinema. The title of festival is “Four Days of Therapy for the Population”

Deadline is April 15th

Theme is existentialism: Questions that explore the various aspects of the human condition. Three sub-themes: One with Self. One with Others (living others). One with Objects (everything in the universe and the universe itself)

MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDE

Purpose in life. Nihilism. Transcendence. Sense of self-worth or self-meaning. Identity. Being lost in life. Finding oneself through oneself, others, and objects. Finding others through oneself and objects. How objects impact who we are and our sense of self-worth and the worth of others. Belonging, alienation, solitude. Search for purpose, direction, or meaning. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre.

MAJOR QUESTIONS INCLUDE:

Who am I (you)? Why am I (you) here? What do I (you) mean? What am I (you) worth?

All genres accepted: Experimental, Short, Animated, Stop-motion animation, Documentary, Silent, etc. Max length of film should be 30minutes. All languages accepted, please include English subtitles if film is in a language other than English. Please contact social@sophiaconcordia.ca if you wish to submit or have more questions or phone 514.2989096 This event is a SoPhiA (Students of the Philosophy Association). If you want more information, have any questions/comments, or wish to get involved please contact social@sophiaconcordia.ca or external@sophiaconcordia.ca

PHOSPHOROUS JOURNAL CALL FOR SUMISSIONS

The Concordia University Philosophy Student Association is very pleased to announce the launch of its new undergraduate philosophy journal. PHOSPHORUS was started with the intention to provide specifically undergraduate students a venue for publication. Readers will be presented with

original, well researched, well argued papers on provocative topics from emerging writers. All areas of thought will be considered. Students specializing in areas other than philosophy are welcome to submit, provided that the work is of a philosophical nature. Philosophy students from other Canadian schools are welcome to submit papers, but be warned: Concordia students will receive preference.

Concordia's first attempt at an Undergraduate Philosophy journal is accepting submissions until JANUARY 31ST 2010

Please send your papers to phosphorusjournalconcordia@gmail.com Make sure they meet the submission criteria:

1. Papers should be no longer than 5000 words 2. Include an abstract of 150-500 words 3. Citations must appear at the end of the document in the MLA style

4. Submissions must be sent electronically to the email address below (preferred file formats - .doc, .rtf, .txt) 5. Submissions must include a cover sheet with the following information: name, title, university, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and word count

6. The author’s name should not appear on the paper itself, to facilitate ‘blind’ review 7. French and English submissions are accepted; papers will be published in their original language DON'T FORGET:

Deadline for submissions is January 31st, 201 For further inquiries, and to submit: phosphorusjournalconcordia@gmail.com ART SOUTERRAIN CALL FOR CULTURAL MEDIATORS Art Souterrain, Gallerie SAS

Art Souterrain is looking for cultural mediators for its underground visual arts festival taking place on Nuit Blanche and running a series of presentation and conferences throughout the following two weeks. In preparation for Nuit Blanche, mediators have to first research the artists they will be working with in order to familiarize themselves with their works. Throughout Nuit Blanche, mediators are required to interact with visitors in order to bridge the gap between contemporary art and the general public.

The project was first launched by Frederic Loury, the owner of Galerie SAS last year. It is a huge artistic project in which Montreal’s underground network is transformed into a cultural mecca of sorts. Last year, the works of 80 renown artists were strategically exposed throughout the underground city from Palais des congrès to the Eaton Center shopping mall. One-hundred and fifty mediators were each assigned artists in order to guide the public towards a deeper, and perhaps, more appreciative understanding of the works before them.

This is a great opportunity to meet artists and participate in an amazing interactive public art

exhibition! Please e-mail us your CV at: artsouterrain@gmail.com

COMMUNITY EVENTS: LA RAZA GROUP FULL CIRCLE RETROSPETIVE

February 6th to March 14th, 2010 Vernissage : Sunday, February 7th at 1 pm Francis Caprani, G. Scott MacLeod & Gerald Perdros

While art does not often make headlines, its history is defined as much by the passage of time and social/political events as is the global narrative. In fact, artists have always engaged in the unraveling of the contemporary condition.

In the late 1980s, the collective artists’ group, La Raza, officially found its voice in Mexico City during a Canadian/Mexican cultural exchange program. The three original artists, Francis Caprani, G. Scott MacLeod and Gerald Pedros, appropriated the name, which actually means “the first race”, from a slum area in Mexico City. Moved by the powerful social realism of the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfredo Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, La Raza began their exploration into the realm of public art making – an art form that found its forum in the public sphere outside the white walls of the museum or art gallery. Its discourse was with everyday realities, a commentary on life on the street, urban experiences and the ever-changing social and political situation. With each new project, La Raza extended their social commentary transforming specific concerns and issues into analogies with a universal perspective.

The Stewart Hall Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, La Raza : Full Circle, which presents works from three key series - Patriarchy and the Goddess (1991), Owe Canada Owe Quebec (1992) and Urban Realities (1994). Within each set of paintings, La Razapoignantly unveils the travesties and myths that perpetuate and permeate the socio-political environment. The work is still relevant today, for its subject matter can easily be transposed to present political hot spots around the globe. Since 2003, through their art and activist out-reach initiatives La Raza continues to link with local communities, giving support to food banks, AIDS hospices, orphanages, and Amnesty International, among others. We saluteLa Raza for their commitment to the world community.

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LA CENTRALE QUOI DE NEUF, JULIE? !

Exposition 5 février au 7 mars 2010

Vernissage vendredi 5 février, 19h

présentation d’artiste samedi 6 février, 15h

«soirée vidéo avec Julie Lequin» pour la Nuit Blanche samedi 27 février, représentations à 22h et 1h

La vidéo intitulée True Stories (almost) s’inspire de conversations récentes entre l’artiste et trois personnes qui ont des liens intimes avec elle : sa mère, son éditeur et une collectionneuse. Les notes recueillies sur ces conversations sont à la fois personnelles et plein d’humour, tout en demeurant bien terre-à-terre. Ces reconstitutions entièrement réinterprétées et performées par l’artiste portent sur des conseils donnés concernant l’organisation de son quotidien, de sa vie privée et comment (elle devrait) orienter sa carrière artistique. True Stories (almost) est produit dans un style de collage narratif où 4 séquences simultanées sont insérées dans un split screen qui sera projeté en primeur à La Centrale.

Chaque personnage de la vidéo affiche une allure très particulière, caractérisée par des perruques, accessoires et costumes conçus spécifiquement par l’artiste. Les esquisses réalisées préalablement à leur fabrication seront aussi présentées en galerie. Elles font partie d’un projet continu de l’artiste intitulé Get ready for the Camera qui montre les recherches préparatoires à la réalisation de ses vidéos.

Les projets de Julie Lequin tissent des liens entre l’autobiographie et la fiction de manière à brouiller la ligne entre l’artiste comme individu et l’artiste comme personnage construit de toutes pièces. Partant souvent de son expérience particulière comme Canadienne-française ayant vécu aux États-Unis, ses projets explorent les questions de langue et d’identité à travers un filtre fantaisiste, bricolé et satirique. Julie Lequin est une artiste multidisciplinaire qui vit et travaille au Québec. Ses médiums de prédilection sont la performance, la vidéo, l’écriture et le dessin. Elle a complété sa formation académique en 2005 par l’obtention d’une maîtrise en arts du Art Center College of Design à Pasadena aux États-Unis. Son travail a été présenté internationalement, dont à White Columns à New York, au Los Angeles County Museum of Art et au Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum en Californie. Plusieurs de ses projets peuvent être vus sur le site de l’artiste www.julielequin.com <http://www.julielequin.com>

L’artiste aimerait remercier Rosie O’Gorman & Frank Abruzesse du Cow House Studios et le Conseil des Arts du Canada pour leur support.

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!Exhibition february 5 to march 7, 2010

Opening friday, february 5, 7pm

Artist Talk saturday, february 6, 3pm

“Video Night with Julie Lequin” as part of Nuit Blanche saturday, february 27, screenings at 10pm and 1am

The video titled True Stories (almost) is loosely based on recent conversations with three people closely involved with her personal life: her mother, a publisher and a collector. The result of the notes taken from these exchanges is personal and full of humor. The reenactments, all performed by the artist, are inspired by the advice given to her on how she should manage her everyday life and art career. Edited to create a coherent narrative collage, the video piece is exhibited as a split screen four-channel projection, and will be premiering at La Centrale.

Each persona in the video has a very distinct image that is constructed by wigs, accessories and costumes made specifically for each by the artist. The sketches done before their fabrication will also be presented in the gallery. They are part of an ongoing project titled Get ready for the Camera, that shows preparatory research for the costume and the script for the video.

Julie Lequin’s projects interweave personal history with fictionalized events in a manner that blurs the line between the artist as individual and an artist as a self-constructed persona. Coming from the experience of being a French-Canadian in the U.S.A., her work explores questions of language and identity through a whimsical, crafty and satirical lens.

Julie Lequin is a multidisciplinary artist that lives and works in Quebec. Her preferred mediums are performance, video, writing and drawing. She received a MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, U.S.A. in 2005. Her work has been presented both in the Americas and internationally at institutions such as White Columns in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in California. Most of her work can be seen online at www.julielequin.com

The artist would like to thank Rosie O’Gorman & Frank Abruzesse from Cow House Studios and acknowledge support from The Canada Council for the Arts.

La Centrale would like to thank our artists, members and Les Brasseurs RJ. !!!!!!

OBORO LES PETITS RIENS

[English follows] ˆÉVÉNEMENTˆ Les petits riens

(mécanique du quotidien) FRAGMENTS Chantal Dumas

causerie et écoute le jeudi 4 février 2010 à 18 h

Chantal Dumas a commencé à développer ses « petits riens » sonores au cours d‚une résidence dans la régie multiphonie d‚OBORO, en s‚attardant aux sons discrets, aux chants trop doux pou qu‚on y prête vraiment attention ou tellement usuels qu‚on ne les perçoit plus. En situant l‚ambisonique au coeur de l‚expérimentation, l‚artiste a élaboré une série de séquences-jeux et de fragments composes qu‚elle partagera avec le public lors d‚une causerie et d‚une séance d‚écoute.

Pour en savoir plus sur Les petits riens sonores de Chantal Dumas, cliquez ici http://www.oboro.net/pdf/press/0910/exhibi_event/dumas_presentation_fr.pdf

ˆACTUALITɈ Des habits neufs et un landau pour OBORO ! L‚équipe se renouvelle.

Pour un aperçu des nouveaux visages de l'équipe, cliquez ici http://www.oboro.net/pdf/press/0910/news/nouveau_personnel_fr.pdf

ˆEVENTˆ Les petits riens (mécanique du quotidien) FRAGMENTS Chantal Dumas Artist Talk and Listening Session Thursday, February 4, 2010, at 6 pm

Chantal Dumas initiated her « petits riens » sounds during a residency and creative laboratory in the OBORO‚ sound studio, focusing on those subtle sounds, songs too soft to catch our attention, or so mundane that we no longer perceive them. By situating ambisonic at the heart of the experimentation process, the artist is developing game sequences and compositional fragments that she will share with the public.

For more information on Chantal Dumas's "petits riens", click here http://www.oboro.net/pdf/press/0910/exhibi_event/dumas_presentation_en.pdf

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