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Special event for April 1st..

"FIRST THURSDAYS" in West Queen West

SANDRA HAWKINS, M.E.S., B.F.A., C.F.A., B.A. soc
Ecology of Narrative Space
Multimedia Installation and Photomontage Prints

March 30 – April 1, 2010 (Talk 7:30/8:30 pm)
@ Reference, 1142 Queen St. West (next to Drake Hotel) Toronto


Special Event: On "First Thursdays" evening, April 1st, this exhibition is on the West Queen West Art + Design Walking Tour.

Media Contact: shawkins@rogers.com   http://www.artengine.ca /sandra 613 820-0783 or 416 968-1720 (until April 4)

Artist Statement
The Ecology of Narrative Space is an ongoing aesthetic investigation on the simultaneity of filtered memory and time, and the intersection of personal and institutional identity. The Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 and 2 photomontage print series (2008-09) are a contemporary discussion on global warming and filtered memory. Part 4, Arctic Journal Reading Installation, inspired by the Part 3 Arctic Journal Reading Performance (2009 Banff), is reconceived in the sub title, The Ecology of Narrative Space.
Biography
Sandra Hawkins is a recognized contemporary visual/media artist showing in major centres across Canada and internationally in China, Russia, Germany, Hungary, United States, the SUBA Biennale in Colombia, and the National Gallery of Pakistan where images from the Arctic Crisis Project are part of their National Collection. Hawkins lived and worked in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1980 and 1982 during which time she visited Central Arctic communities now part of Nunavut, as preventative health educator. She currently resides in Ottawa, and periodically Toronto, traveling out from these centres for her international multi media art exhibitions, residencies and research. Hawkins is a 2010 K.M. Hunter Award nominee by the Ontario Art Council and the Ontario Art Foundation for contributions her art is making in her field.

WEST QUEEN WEST fashion comes alive on the web......

"...Slice, a Canadian women-orientend cable network, will launch a web series called JacLife  on Monday, March 8, 2010. The show was created exclusively for Slice's web site and is centred on the life of Jaclyn, a 24-year-old woman from Toronto who loves fashion, partying and spending time with her best friends (her closest friends happen to be her colleagues)..."

"...We also learn that Jaclyn is also the owner of Jacflash (a fashion boutique on Queen St. West) and one of the creators of the fashion line Jac and Gill..."

The Cultural Post

From left to right: Lauren, Gillian, Jaclyn and Kaity.

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Toronto’s monthly cultural crawl!

On the first Thursday of every month,
arts organizations, boutiques, hotels and restaurants
in the West Queen West area will stay open late and offer
special programming, deals and events.

FREE walk on West Queen West
HOSTED by Betty Ann Jordan of Art Insite Tours
ACTIVITIES encounters with creative people in the areas of
Art, design, food, drink, dance, design, local history, salsa dancing

Click here to view ITINERARY

FREE GIFT a work of original art courtesy of the Drake Hotel

Live Music at
The Toronto Institue for the Enjoyment of Music
(821 Queen Street West)

February 4th, 2010, First Thursdays @ TIFEM

A WEST QUEEN WEST ICON...

"...I bought my first real record, The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, just before Christmas 1993.

My father took me to Doc's Leathers on Parliament and left me in the stacks while he talked to the owner and looked at lord knows what.

And two Jewish hippy bikers bantered a room away while a 12-year-old discovered "Sympathy For The Devil..."

City Tv.com

DOC'S: A TORONTO TRADITION from untold city on Vimeo.

WEST QUEEN WEST'S Featured artist....

Jeffery Chong Wang

music by Nicholas Longstaff