Soundwalk by Daniela O’Fee
All ages, FREE

Listeners are invited on a soniferous trail from the Kamloops Art Gallery, along Victoria Street to 1st Avenue, through Riverside Park, to the Station Plaza and back to the KAG via the 3rd Avenue crossing. Guided by the audio download for personal mobile device with headphones, the sound journey will unfold at a leisurely, unhurried pace with moments for lingering and live environmental listening.

The audio is a through-composed tone poem that scores eco-responsive, historically shifted matter from site-specific field recordings, archival renderings, temporary interventions, and instrumental improvisations. Intersecting with real-time conditions, the composition imagines how linear and cyclic soundmarks from the natural and mechanized atmosphere can mobilize limitless listening perspectives within the resounding Kamloops amphitheatre.

The soundwalk is activated as an event score offered by the artist:
As the rivers converge through this land, step into its sonic flow. Move among the shifted and hidden sounds feeling resonant frequencies from all dimensions to perform your creative act of listening.

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a self-directed program. Following registration, you will receive a download link with the audio file for you to use on your own device. The artist recommends using headphones for the best experience.

MP3 players and headphones are available to borrow at the Kamloops Art Gallery, enquire at the Admissions Desk.

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Engaging with the worlds of clothing, sewing, protest, and celebration, participants will work virtually with Vancouver-based artist Hazel Meyer to design, embellish, and present a jacket/artwork that can be worn in daily life, or hung on the wall of a gallery.

We will approach clothing as more than just a covering for the body, but as a tool for empowerment, communication, and celebration. We will look to past and present social movements, in particular the LGBTQ2S+ movement, that have used clothing, banners, and text to communicate politics, desires, and identities.

Sewing skills are not needed for this workshop, only a willingness and eagerness to engage with the most amazing tool: a sewing machine, and its analogue partner, a thread and needle.

A materials kit will be provided with registration and a limited number of sewing machines are available to borrow for the duration of the program (Kamloops area residents only).

This program is generously sponsored by the British Columbia Arts Council and is FREE and open to ALL youth aged 14 to 18.

Register online or by phone at 250.377.2400

Image credit: Hazel Meyer, Muscle Panic, 2016. Photo: Cait McKinney

Please meet in front of the Kamloops Art Gallery at 465 Victoria Street at 6:30 pm.
We will follow Daniela O’Fee on the sound walk route through downtown and end at the Gallery at about 8:00 pm.

Listeners are invited to join artist Daniela O’Fee on a guided soniferous trail from the Kamloops Art Gallery, along Victoria Street to 1st Avenue, through Riverside Park, to the Station Plaza and back to the KAG via the 3rd Avenue crossing. Guided by the artist and audio download for personal mobile device with headphones, the sound journey will unfold at a leisurely, unhurried pace with moments for lingering and live environmental listening.

This guided version of Daniela O’Fee’s sound walk will include two short intermissions for discussion and experiential listening guided by the artist. The program will be about 1 hour 30 minutes in duration.

The audio is a through-composed tone poem that scores eco-responsive, historically shifted matter from site-specific field recordings, archival renderings, temporary interventions, and instrumental improvisations. Intersecting with real-time conditions, the composition imagines how linear and cyclic soundmarks from the natural and mechanized atmosphere can mobilize limitless listening perspectives within the resounding Kamloops amphitheatre.

The soundwalk is activated as an event score offered by the artist:

As the rivers converge through this land, step into its sonic flow. Move among the shifted and hidden sounds feeling resonant frequencies from all dimensions to perform your creative act of listening.

REGISTER

Come and join the determined and dedicated young artists of a new era pushing light, darkness, colour, and shadows with pen and ink, acrylic painting, wire sculpture, hand made jewelry, printmaking, and more!

Fight the evil of boredom and melancholy with other creative people (and one turtle), in this year-long workshop series with Chris Bose.

Folks of all skills and abilities are encouraged to participate.

Materials kits for each workshop are available for pick up at the Gallery Store, or can be mailed to you. Shipping is free within British Columbia. Out of province participants, please contact us for a shipping quote.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign up HERE.

Image: Chris Bose.

In collaboration with the Kamloops Music Collective, this workshop is an opportunity for senior level band students to engage in creative music making. Participants will explore composition and improvisation in a fun, safe environment. At the end of the workshop, musicians will be given the opportunity to interpret graphic scores they have created.

During the morning session, students will be guided through improvisation exercises and games at the Kamloops United Church. In the afternoon, the instructors and participants will walk down to the Kamloops Art Gallery where participants will get to create their scores at the Kamloops Art Gallery. The day will end with a group ensemble play through of a graphic score on display in the Gallery.

Please register HERE through the Kamloops Music Collective website.

Image Credit: Graphic score accompanying Tania Willard's work Surrounded/Surrounding, 2018 at the Kamloops Art Gallery, June 2021. Photo: Garnet Dirksen.

Join us ONLINE on Wednesday afternoons to make art and be creative! Each week, participants have the opportunity to learn from local and visiting artists about new mediums and techniques for art making. Folks of all levels of ability and experience are encouraged to join. We are a safe space that welcomes EVERYONE aged 13 to 21.

Materials kits for each workshop are available for pick up at the Gallery Store, or can be mailed to you. Shipping is free within British Columbia. Out of province participants, please contact us for a shipping quote.

This program was created by the KAG Summer Interns and is generously sponsored by the Edwina and Paul Heller Memorial Fund with the Vancouver Foundation.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign up HERE.