www.definitelysuperior.com Definitely Superior Art Gallery Exhibition Listings

PAINT BOMB THE MAC'S @ 346 May St N.
DIE ACTIVE COLLECTIVE
BIG REVEAL + BACK ALLEY PARTY
Saturday May 5th @ 5pm

Definitely Superior Art Gallery's youth art collective "DIE ACTIVE," will be taking on a large public painting project in partnership with Mac's Convenience stores and the City of Thunder Bay's Crime Prevention Council. This initiative is a pilot project developed in celebration of youth, community and arts in Thunder Bay. A collective of youngblooded Die Active artists, including local professional graffiti artists, will be "Paintbombing the Mac's" at 346 May Street North in Thunder Bay. A large-scale professional contemporary wall art painting will be designed and executed by Die Active youth, following mentorship workshops and training at Definitely Superior Art Gallery. It all culminates Saturday, May 5th at 5pm with A BIG REVEAL and a BAcKAlleY Party to which everyone in the community is invited. Featuring break dancing and DJ performances by Classic Roots, with Die Active youth artists in attendance, pizza by Eat Local: Pizza&Pastry, car stereos, film crews, media and supporters! This innovative art partnership project builds upon the growing strength/phenomena of the Die Active youth art collective, now entering into its 4th year of contemporary art activities involving new generation artists. Part of National Youth Arts Week.

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY - RETROGRAD SHOW
PAINTING / DRAWING / PRINTMAKING / SCULPTURE / CERAMICS
May 11, 2012 to June 9, 2012

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents: Lakehead University RetroGraduate Exhibition 2012. Enjoy a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery for an exciting multidisciplinary convergence on Friday May 11th starting at 7pm. Featuring: The Lakehead University RetroGraduate Exhibition comprised of artwork the students have created / selected over a four year period of their program including new works. Congratulations to: Ashley Walter, Sarah Anne Eby, Aaron Veldstra, Ella Grace Bell, Elizabeth Hoskin, Brittney Dupuis, Hannah Johnson, Kathleen Twomey, Jessica Buzanko, Leanna Resengren, Breanna Bakkelund, Christina Kehler, Cindy Arpin, and Ginnie Culver Anatoniazzi. Music by Rory Bohler along with a bevy of fresh spring refreshments provided by Sweet Pea Home Catering & Restaurant . Artists in attendance. Support the artists of the future!

SUPERIOR ART - LOCAL ART IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
E-BOOK LAUNCH
CRITICAL WRITING + 21 ARTISTS
May 11, 2012 to June 9, 2012

The Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture (aig+c) and Definitely Superior Art Gallery, are hosting a gala opening and E-Book Launch for Superior Art: Local Art in a Global Context edited by Clara Sacchetti, Kezia Picard, Mark Nisenholt, and Todd Dufresne. Superior Art began with the recognition that there is excellent art made within, and about, Thunder Bay. Indeed, Superior Art showcases 21 diverse and accomplished artists: Oliver Reimer, Marianne Kyryluk, Kasia Piech, Duncan Weller, Ann Clarke, Quentin Maki, Julie Cosgrove, Guy Dufresne, Patrick Doyle, Linda Dell, Mark Nisenholt, Ryan Slivchak, Sam Shahsahabi, Elizabeth Buset, Sarah Link, Roland Martin, Christian Chapman, Chris Stones, Alison Kendall, Luke Nicol, and Mavourneen Trainor. The E-Book will be projected via slide presentation on the large screen for all to see. Artists in attendance. Music by Rory Bohler along with a bevy of fresh spring refreshments provided by Sweet Pea Home Catering & Restaurant .

URBAN INFILL - [ART IN THE CORE]
DOWNTOWN-WIDE ART EXHIBITION & LIVE PERFORMANCES

350 ARTISTS - 15 DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS
RE-DISCOVER YOUR DOWNTOWN NORTH-CORE WATERFRONT DISTRICT THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART!
START AT DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY - MAPS / PERFORMATIVE TOUR GUIDES
EXHIBITION ALSO RUNS: SUN.APR.1 - TUES.APR.3, 12-6PM

GALA OPENING RECEPTION:
SAT.MAR.31, 7-10PM
MASSIVE AFTER-PARTY: SAT.MAR.31, 10PM-2AM

Sat. Mar. 31 (7-10PM) – A Gala Downtown Wide Opening Reception - exclusive features - the only night to experience:
Window Performances-See original “Wearable Art” creations by 15 incredible artists!, Dahab belly dancing-from Las Vegas!,
Music with 7 Live Bands & DJ’S, Drag Queen/King performances, Fierce and fantastic food by SWEET PEAS HOME CATERING & Restaurant, Delicious drinks, Unparalleled musical talents & much much more...You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Tour Guides will show you the way! - Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery located at 250 Park Ave. & pick up your art map!

+AFTER THE OPENING RECEPTION, join in for more arty fun at our Massive After Party (10PM-2AM)!19+ ID Required
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GALA ART EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE EVENT YOU MUST EXPERIENCE! SAT. MAR.31 @7PM

Featuring: critically-acclaimed International/National artists at definitely superior art gallery: Brandon Vickerd-Kinetic Art and Sculptural Installation[Toronto] Dr. Chaudhuri International contemporary art collection-12 acclaimed artists!

+ In the downtown see: Lakehead University Visual Art Students/Major Studio Graduates, Confederation College Film & Multimedia Student Work, Bay street Film Festival, Commercial Art Galleries: Chenier Fine Arts Gallery, Ahnisnabae Art Gallery, Local Colour Art Gallery, Painted Turtle Art Shop, Locomotion+Perfect Fit Lingerie window spaces, Hill City Comics + Ponty & Co. window spaces + Lot 66

+Empty retail spaces are being taken over & converted into new art gallery’s at: 214 Red River Rd..-[Former RBC Bank Centre.], 232 Red River Rd.-[former Treasure House]-215 Red River Rd.-[Arthur Square]…and more... over 11,000 square feet of new exhibition spaces to explore. EXHIBITION ALSO RUNS: SUN.APR.1 - TUES.APR.3, 12-6PM

CHAMPIONS OF ENTROPY #3
BRANDON VICKERD
MULTI-MEDIA KINETIC / ROBOTIC INSTALLATION
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 28, 2012

Internationally known artist Brandon Vickerd’s presentation 'Champions Of Entropy #3' at Definitely Superior Art Gallery comprises of two fully functioning robotic machines, whose sole purpose is to replicate the organic movements of two male deer locked in constant combat. Purposely diverse, Vickerd’s work is an examination of sculpture as a catalyst for critical thought, enriching the audience’s engagement with the physical world through the creation of spectacle. Vickerd is a professor at York University, Toronto and has an extensive CV. A critically acclaimed artist who has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and Internationally with an upcoming show in New York. You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery - located at 250 Park Ave. Sat.Mar.31@ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national /international artists. Pick up your art map, re-discover your north core through art & culture -15 downtown locations - 350 artists, Art / Music / Performance / Refreshments.

14 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
DR BOB CHAUDHURI COLLECTION
NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 28, 2012

'International contemporary artists' features an impressive collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in this borrowed exhibition from Dr. Bob Chaudhuri of Thunder Bay. Featuring 12 critically acclaimed Canadian artists like Marc Seguin, Julie Oakes, Diane Feught, James Nizam, Amar From Afar and more... internationally known and featured in major art magazines. This exhibition is part of our focused professional programming that informs and feeds into the regional arts expression, providing a forum for the public / artist community coming into contact with works and artists that would otherwise not be available.

DEAD ASTRONAUT
BRANDON VICKERD
SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 28, 2012

Internationally known artist Brandon Vickerd’s presentation Dead Astronaut at Definitely Superior Art Gallery employs the language of monumental figurative sculpture in this pop culture reference, a wood-carved skeletal astronaut which gives presence to secret failures of the space race. Purposely diverse, Vickerd’s work is an examination of sculpture as a catalyst for critical thought, enriching the audience’s engagement with the physical world through the creation of spectacle. Vickerd is a professor at York University, Toronto and has an extensive CV. A critically acclaimed artist who has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and Internationally with an upcoming show in New York. You never know what you’ll see downtown!

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art Saturday March 31 @ 7-10pm. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception for Thunder Bay’s Premiere Art - Music - Performance Event you must see to believe with exclusive features that you can experience only on this night. Window Performances Downtown! See original “Wearable Art” creations by 15 artists, “Dahab” Belly Dancing direct from Las Vegas!, Newly crowned Drag Queen / King Performances, Live Music and Dj’s, catering by Sweet Pea Home Catering and more... Stay and join the massive arty After Party [10pm-2am] at 214 Red River Rd [former RBC Bank Centre]. You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery located at 250 Park Ave Sat Mar 31 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists. Pick up your art map, re-discover your north core through art & culture -15 downtown locations - 350 artists. Downtown exhibitions will run from Sunday April1 to Tues April 3, 12-6pm.

DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY MEMBERS
REGIONAL MULTI-MEDIA
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 3, 2012

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The DefSup Members Show represents one aspect of some 15 projects in the core. The idea: that with vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces and help to connect and create a unique urban arts district. DefSup Members Exhibition locations - generously donated and located at 214 Red River Rd [former RBC Bank Centre], 232 Red River Rd [former Treasure House], and 215 Red River Rd [Arthur Square]. Totalling over 11,000 sq.ft. of new exhibition space. You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery located at 250 Park Ave - Sat.Mar.31@ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists. Pick up your art map, re-discover your north core through art & culture -15 downtown locations-350 artists, Art / Music / Performance / Refreshments. Downtown exhibitions will run from Sunday April1 to Tues April 3, 12-6pm.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Commercial galleries involved are:
Chenier Fine Arts @ 8 S Court St. features 60+ accomplished national / regional artists
Local Colour Art Gallery @ 33 Cumberland St. S features a selection of 65+ regional artists
Ahnisnabae Art Gallery @ 214 Red River Rd. former RBC Bank Centre featuring a selection of accomplished regional / national Aboriginal artists
Lot 66 Tapas Bar @ 66 Court St. features a selection of regional / Def Sup artists
Painted Turtle Art Shop @ 33 Cumberland St. S featuring Lakehead University Drawing Students
All will represent one aspect of some 15 projects in the core. You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery.

Chenier Fine Arts, Local Colour Art Gallery, Ahnisnabae Art Gallery, Lot 66 Tapas Bar, Painted Turtle Art Shop

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY VISUAL ART STUDENTS / GRADUATES
REGIONAL / NATIONAL MULTI-MEDIA
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 3, 2012

CONFEDERATION COLLEGE FILM / MULTI-MEDIA STUDENTS + BAY STREET FILM FESTIVAL
REGIONAL / NATIONAL SCREENINGS
Mar 31, 2012 to Apr 3, 2012

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Confederation College Film / Multi-media Students and Bay Street Film Festival participation represents one aspect of some 15 projects in the core. Confederation College / Bay Street Film Festival locations were generously donated and are located at: 214 Red River Rd [former RBC Bank Centre / Balmoral Properties], 232 Red River Rd [Former Treasure House], and 215 Red River Rd [Tapaks Bldg - Arthur Square]. You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery.

Marc Seguin is the subject of the award winning 2010 documentary film Bullseye, A Painter On The Watch by Bruno Boulianne. A highly metaphorical film of one of most important and successful painters in Canada, the film offers a rare glimpse into the world of an artist who paints like he hunts: with patience, faith and passion. Originally from Ottawa, Marc Séguin lives and works in Montreal and New York, his work has been exhibited in Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, New York, Chicago, and Miami. Séguin’s first novel, La foi du braconnier, was recently published by Leméac to wide acclaim and is the 2010 winner of the Prix des libraires du Quebec. Bull’s eye, [un peintre à l’affût], the 75 min. feature-length documentary on the artist’s life directed by Bruno Boulianne, is currently touring internationally and has won the ARTV Award at the 2010 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art, the film has been featured at Tate Modern in London,and the Musee du Louvre and Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features the return of Julie Cosgrove [MA University of Calgary], in her first post-Masters solo exhibition in Thunder Bay, comprising of exciting new contemporary painting / multi-media works. Cosgrove's work considers concepts of place, wilderness, geographies and cartographies, technologies, and processes. Her paintings develop from an external, technological experience of place as well as from an internal and poetic experience of space. She continues to explore and integrate these ideas. Cosgrove is a well recognized artist in the region for her powerful visual works. Julie will be featured at the new Esker Foundation Gallery in Calgary later this year and has shown nationally.

Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon form an artists duo who live and work in Montreal in the fields of sound sculpture, kinetic sound installations, audio art, electronic art and performance. The duo’s installations put into perspective the transient and ever-changing nature of things and beings as well as our temporal presence in the world. The Circulation of Fluids Supports listening, interaction and sound generation with recordings of water as source material. It probes water’s resonance as a pervasive and familiar fluid that is present in all aspects of our lives, in our bodies, the earth, and the planet as a core substance. Visitors perform the work, their physical movement captured by sonar sensors. The sounds trigger the imagination, but as well raises ethical, economic and political questions. Their collaborative works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and Internationally such as the Czech Republic, Brazil, the United States and Germany to name a few. Gala Opening Reception of 3 new shows - featuring: art / music performance and a wintery wonderland of refreshments

DERELICTE 4-A FASHION ODYSSEY-30 ACTS - WEARABLE ART - FASHION - MUSIC - PERFORMANCE + DJ FASHIONISTA DANCE PARTY - DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY + LU RADIO 102.7FM @ THE BLACK PIRATES PUB
$10 - 19+ EVENT @ 8PM

DERELICTE 4-A FASHION ODYSSEY!... on Saturday January 21-2012, starting at 8pm, EXPERIENCE!… ONE HAUTE COUTURE NIGHT OF WEARABLE ART, FASHION, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE!!!... Featuring: 7 LOCAL FASHION HOUSES - Lux Boutique - Creation Body Piercing - Pnuematicity - Red Earth Imports - The Loop - The Craft Collective and Crafty Cocoon -15 WEARABLE ART FASHION EXHIBITIONS - Marlee Bygate - Sarah Furlotte - Kathleen Baleja - Keith Catton - David Hotson - Barbara Benwell - Christian Chapman - Kasia Piech - Sam Shahsahabi - Jeff Starcok - Sarah Kuraitis and Leslie Hill - Elizabeth Buset - Alana Forslund and Kamila Malek -Sarah Eby and Nikolas Tsonis.

Expect 30 ACTS - 4 LIVE BANDS with SEASIDE VILLAINS, MARRIED SINGLEMEN, ALASKA ARMY BAND, BAY CITY SOUND COLLECTIVE and DJ'S to keep this Fashionista Parti swinging, along with - 85 ARTISTS AND TANTALIZING MODELS; HUNDREDS IN RAFFLE PRIZES; BEST D.I.Y. FASHION COSTUME PRIZES - [create your own fashion of recyclable clothes / paper / plastic / cardboard / cans...whatever you imagine and win big prizes!]

WALK OFF” CHALLENGES; CATWALK BRAWLING... BELLY DANCING WITH DAHAB [Las Vegas] & NICOLE ANTHONY [Antigua] - DERELICTE DANCERS.... SO HAUTE COUTURE! PAPARAZZI MOMENTS, CHICHI DRAG QUEEN PERFORMANCE with Paloma Marquez - FASHIONISTA DJ DANCE PARTY and delectable CATERED hors d'oeuvres COURTESY OF RETRO BAKERY, HERE YOU WILL BE TREATED RIGHT!... ADVICE - COME EARLY!... 550 people in attendance last year! WHAT’S YOUR FASHION TRIBE?... BE HAUTE! BE DERELICTE... SO CHIC!... A FUN and FABULOUS FUNDRAISER for DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY and LU RADIO SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 at the BLACK PIRATES PUB - $10 -19+ - ID required.

FEATURING: 7 LOCAL FASHION HOUSES

Creation Body Piercing
Pnuematicity
Red Earth Imports
The Loop
The Craft Collective
Crafty Cocoon w/Jewellery by Zingara
Lux Boutique

15 WEARABLE ART FASHION EXHIBITIONS-BY PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Marlee Bygate
Sarah Furlotte
Kathleen Baleja
Keith Catton
David Hotson
Barbara Benwell
Christian Chapman
Kasia Piech
Sam Shahsahabi
Jeff Starcok
Sarah Kuraitis and Leslie Hill
Elizabeth Buset
Alana Forslund and Kamila Malek
Sarah Eby and Nikolas Tsonis

Haute Beats with DJ DORAN and LIGHTING by ILLUMINATE... will keep this parti going

PERFORMANCES

Belly Dancing with DAHAB - [from Las Vegas] and Nicole Anthony - [Antigua]
Drag Queen -Paloma Marquez
Derelicte Dancers
Walk Off Challenges
D.I.Y Fashion Costume Contest-Dress yourself up and win big...think Derelicte, think Haute Couture.
Catwalk Brawling
Paparazzi

CATERED HORS D'OEUVRES..by RETRO BAKERY...We treat you right!

Dress to impress and lead the fashion trendroids... challenge... win! This promises to be the event to be at for 2012... complete with a real CATWALK with the models +b ands completely in your face! courtesy of FRANKLEY SCARLET PRODUCTIONS. Stay tuned and get Haute

Urban Infill-Art In The Core, celebrating it's 6th year; the next evolution of creative possibilities. The idea is to help revitalize our downtown core by capitalizing on assets of art and culture and linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts, commercial business/social spaces. With vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces in our downtown and help to connect and create that unique niche of an urban arts and entertainment district. The projects comprised of multi-disciplinary and new media/multi-arts by national, international and regional artists will work to enhance our level of arts programming by involving all facets and mediums of the contemporary arts and involving innovative new media technologies. Premised upon the concept of creative cities partnerships we will utilize our multi-functional gallery spaces as a creative hub for generating collective/collaborative projects not only in our gallery space but in empty / underutilized / established / commercial / art spaces throughout the downtown north core of Thunder Bay.

Re-discover your North Core Waterfront District through contemporary art! The projects begin January 21 with Derelicte 4 and continue through February and culminates in March with a flurried and frenzied art affair. The results of last years Urban Infill - Art In The Core projects were highly successful in terms of statistics and participatory results: 17 Art Projects, 350 multi-disciplinary artists (most regional as well as critically acclaimed national/international artists), 15 downtown locations, 150 volunteers, 35 businesses and an audience of 5,000+ over the duration of the projects.

DIS.LOCATION - 23RD ANNUAL REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTISTS
Regional

Dis.Location - theme for our 23rd Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, an open regional call for entry format that is designed with the following objective in mind: that local/regional professional, emerging and established artists are given an opportunity to consider the relevance of the concept of Dis.Location in terms of their own experiences, interpretations and relationships to current contemporary art practices. The gallery adheres to our mandate of identifying and encouraging contemporary artists working in all media and engaging ourselves to identify our place and role as contributors in the regional and national context. [CARFAC] fees paid to successful applicants. Deadline to drop off art is November 26. Featuring 25-30 individual, eclectic and diverse contemporary artists selected from the region in the only professional paid juried format exhibition in Northwestern Ontario. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception with Art and Musical performances by Evan Pang & Renee Parr [gypsy, blues/soul] - Refreshments, and two additional shows opening same night.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features a regional artist from Atikokan, Ontario, Joseph Fredrich who generates his own very unique style and interest in exploring the properties of materials utilized in the creation of exciting new contemporary large scale painting and sculptural installation artworks. Joseph is a well recognized artist in the region for his powerful and inventive visual art works and has shown internationally as well as being a recipient of Ontario Arts Council Creation Grants.

Mutate Britain is a collaboration between the legendary Mutoid Waste Company and the Cordy House Family, Together they create ground-breaking art events that use surprising locations to produce strikingly unique atmospheres. A monster of a street art show, cheekily dubbed MuTATE Britain, ran amok in London, leaving tens of thousands of gobsmacked visitors in its aftermath. Billed as an “interactive multimedia pile-up”, this free, non-corporate extravaganza didn’t disappoint. In a city where more conventional art exhibitions are as commonplace as rats in biology labs, the work featured here leapt out like some orgiastic post-apocalyptic cybernetic experiment. MuTATE Britain showcased a gargantuan collection of some of the best and most alternative street artists, grafitti artists, kinetic and sculptural artists, live performances, video art/projections, music/sound and installations. London's major ANTI-CORPORATE art show, literally in the streets....start muTATE-ing!

Internationally known artist and multi-award winning abstract painter, educator, writer John Kissick is a man of many talents, and in the past decade he has built a reputation with his abstract paintings that use an encyclopedic array of painted motifs and textures drawn from a global pool of visual representation. In an artist statement he writes “Max Ernst coined the term ‘fever vision’ in the early 1920s to describe a kind of visual delirium and psychological slippage that can occur in front of certain kinds of visual assemblages. I am finding myself increasingly attracted to this notion. ” Why? “ Because of … a certain heightened loss of control on the part of the viewer in attempting to apprehend meaning. ” And because it also implies illness, rapture-apt metaphors for the historical predicament of abstract painting." Kissick is Director, School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts, University of Guelph, and has an extensive CV. A critically acclaimed artist who has been featured in major galleries / magazines worldwide, Kissick is also an award winning critical art writer and contributor to Canadian Art Magazine. Gala Opening Reception and Artist Talk with invited artist John Kissick.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Ray Atwood [HBFA Lakehead University], in his first post-graduate solo exhibition in Thunder Bay comprising of exciting new contemporary painting assemblage works. Atwood explains “This work is an exploration of challenges we face regarding housing and habitation linked to the psychological and environmental implications of where we live. The materials used in my work come from long dilapidated homes and industrial sites that I find while in nature. The surfaces I use are worn and weathered which communicates to the viewer the decisions we make today live long past our momentary lifetime." Atwood is a well recognized artist in the region for his powerful visual works.

4 Short Films by Phillip Barker of Toronto - A critically acclaimed award winning International avante garde filmaker, production designer, installation artist and screenwriter. Barker’s films are playfully surreal and revel in the pleasure of the visual, undoubtedly one of the most interesting filmakers in our visual culture today! Barker has worked with Atom Egoyan on many films as set designer and collaborated recently at Nuit Blanche in Toronto utilizing film projection/installation. Barker has screened throughout the world at major film festivals and galleries as well has had the assistance from The Canada Council - Media Arts - The Ontario Arts Council - The Toronto Arts Council - The National Film Board of Canada in the production and creation of his works.

THE HUNGER V.666
MONSTER OF MASSIVE HALLOWEEN EVENTS
-46 ACTS-36 BANDS/DJ'S-6 VENUES-
SAT. OCT.29@8PM

Here it is the uber-unrelenting Halloween event you have been waiting for! The Largest Music & Performance Event in Thunder Bay. If you were at last year's event, which seduced an incredible 2,150 in attendance, you know what hell-fire madness is! We now invite you to The Hunger Cabaret V.666 - a Halloween event of epic proportions, featuring 46 acts, so massive an event, it will take up SIX bar venues... see Black Pirates Pub + Jack's + Kilroy's + Crock's + The Sovereign Room + HELL's Story - for only one cover charge of $10. Pick your story, diabolic or devilicious. Move between bars and interact with every soul along the way, you could even win prizes in the street. Feed your hunger with a night of death defying performances and orgiastic maneuvers of delight... with 46 red hot incendiary acts!

Featuring an unbelievable 36 live bands of all musical genres and Dj’s playing head to head for scario-tronic sound supremacy with 3 DJ Dance Party's ending the night. See Saharan Belly Dancers of Sin, Satan’s Sister Fire Hooping, hot as hell Burlesque and Asylum GO GO Dancers, Necromancers "gore-lesque" Fire Manipulators, Drag Performances, Delusionist, Rocky Horror performance, Horror/Noir film, and Roller Derby Girlz givin' you rough and tumble while dealing out their treats... big screen video projections and surprises!

Advice... come early. There were 2,150 in attendance last year and you don’t want to miss a thing. Thousands in raffle prizes, and big prizes for best costumes at each location, free candy and suckers! Treat yourself to the wildest, slickest Halloween you’ll ever experience because at the midnight hour you’ll want more! And more you shall have with glee on SATURDAY OCT.29 at 8:00pm - The Hunger Cabaret V.666 -a sensual feast of poise and attitude! Nothing will be the same.

Presented by Definitely Superior Art Gallery - A fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts and sponsored by our friends:
Lu Radio 102.7fm - listen for ticket giveaways
www.tbshows.com and www.baycore.net
Stay connected!

RECEIVE A MULTI-PASS THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT WITH TIMES AND LOCATIONS FOR ACTS. YOU GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND HEAR...
WE BRING YOU FIRE!

There are nine levels of HELL... We bring you to all of them.... Featured Bands & DJ's:
D-SISIVE
[TORONTO]* - [ Hip Hop / Indie / Rap]
myspace.com/dsisive
*Double Juno Award Nominee-Polaris Prize Nominee-6#1 Releases on Earshot-Exclaims Year end Top 10 List-Critically acclaimed-Cross Canada Tour launching his new CD-Run With The Creeps

DJ-TECH 12
[BANGKOK-THAILAND]*-[ Electro / Hip Hop / Powerpop ]
myspace.com/djtech12

FOREVER DEAD
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Psychobilly / Punk / Rockabilly ]
myspace.com/foreverdeadmusic
*New CD luanched with amazingly evolved dynamic new sound

ALASKA ARMY BAND
[THUNDER BAY]-[ Folk Rock / Jam Band / Psychedelic ]
myspace.com/alaskaarmyband

NANOCHRIST
[TORONTO]*-[ Gothic / Industrial / Metal ]
myspace.com/nanochrist
*Nanochrist are a big part of the alt industrial electronic goth scene in Toronto -Definitely a must see band- BONUS... Are you an artist? Click here nanochrist.com/covercontest to enter their album cover contest

BOTTOM ROCKERS
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Rock / Post Punk / Ska ]
bottomrockers305.bandcamp.com
*One of the most powerful/energetic performances you will see, hear and love -recently Bottom Rockers were selected to open for American Punk band Against Me -new tunes up as well

JAGSTOG
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Metal ]
http://www.myspace.com/jagstog
Jagstog will be doing an abridged Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute and performance, Lets do the Time Warp... Again!

THE GREASY CREASES
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Bluegrass ]
facebook.com/pages/Greasy-Creases
Best Bluegrass in the Bay!

LAUGH AT THE FAKES
[TORONTO]*-[ Metal / Rock ]
myspace.com/laughatthefakes
*Drawing influences from classic rock to thrash metal, Laugh At The Fakes is a hard rock band that pushes the limits of the genre -formerly members of the band called APE, a mainstay in the Toronto scene

LOVE CANDY
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Rock ]
http://www.myspace.com/lovecandymusic
*Sleazy bluesy hard rockers, Love Candy dominated the last Hunger V.5 at Kilroys with throngs of screaming minions at their feet -expect another over the top experience to fill your sense holes!

REVERB BOMB
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Experimental / Punk / Noise Rock ]
*One of the most refreshing new sounds out of the bay, a must see live!

THE AUDITOR GENERAL
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Folk Rock / Indie / Western Swing ]
myspace.com/theauditorgeneral
The Auditor General have performed at many Festivals and tours throughout Canada and may have produced some of the best music to come out of Thunder Bay

EMPIRE LIES
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Alternative / Pop Punk / Rock ]
myspace.com/empirelies
*Veterans of the music scene and no stranger to touring Canada their aggressive /original California skate punk sound to those who hunger for it...they deliver!, expect new CD coming soon!

THE DWEEZILS
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Jazz / Metal / Rock ]
myspace.com/thedweezils
*"Instrumental band The Dweezils, get the crowd going with their blend of funk, metal, punk and everything in between. The trio blend genres constantly in a seemingly effortless way." - Jamie Smith -Dowload their album free!

THE COMMUNICATION
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Rock / Funk / Indie ]
facebook.com/pages/TheCommunication
*An amazing 3 piece band that knows how to communicate music to the people and when it happens people can't stop movin, groovin and shakin...they could be possessing people?

THE MARRIED SINGLEMEN
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Funk / Rock / Ska ]
myspace.com/marriedsinglemen
*Definitely a band that knows how to get the hordes a hoppin...they killed at last years Hunger V.5!, A cross Canada Tour behind them and CD in 2010, people want more...expect new CD coming soon...well there better be!

ROCK TRUCK
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Rock ]
myspace.com/rocktruck
*Rock Truck is a rock n roll party that always kicks ass and will drive their rock all over you...and you will love them for it!

PURITY CONTROL
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Gothic / Industrial / Psychedelic ]
http://www.myspace.com/otishaket
*Purity Control is thematically cyberpunk with an ever-evolving and inspiring live musical/visual/artistic performance that leaves the audiences... astonished, always a solid and amazing performance.

THE ANTS MARCHING BAND
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Alternative Rock / Blues / Roots Rock ]
facebook.com/pages/TheCommunication
*New and amazing 5-6 piece band with a blending of of uber talented musicians -a tribute to Dave Mathews Band - Jenn Bryan - Dane Newbold - Aubrey Brandt - Mike Butt - Kaj Erickson - Jessica Nunes

WEBSTER DEATH+GRIMMACE THE BUTLER
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Hip Hop / Indie]
myspace.com/websterdeath17
*Over one million hits on myspace tells the story! Webster Death has won 3 international Video Music awards and with Grimmace the Butler as back up, they produce amazing choreographed performances, that you must see!

THE FIN'R THINGS
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Garage Rock ]
myspace.com/toonewformyspace
*Three former members of The Wayback... what more can you say... how about talented! - Matt / Harris / Jon... bringing you great new sounds in a sonically reformed way. The Hunger would not be the same without these guys, some of the members have been around since the very first Cabaret, like over a decade, nice.

LIANN ROBBINS
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Rock / Country Rock ]
reverbnation.com/juliannrobbins
*One girl and her guitar... definitely new and definitely an inspiring must see singer/songwriter with the most incredible voice... passionate and powerful. You will want more... buy her CD!

OCEAN CITY DEFENDER
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Electro / Indie / Shoegaze ]
myspace.com/oceancitydefender
*Uber talented electronic musician creating the sounds of entire bands and incorporating live instrumentation and vocals in the mix.

SNS-STRAKT N SUAVE
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Hip Hop / Rap / Underground]
reverbnation.com/sns807
*Dystrakted and John Suave... performed as soloists in the music scene for years, now the brothers are united as SNS and have performed with some huge names in Hip Hop, they blew all away at last years The Hunger V.5... exciting they are!

HAIR STRAIGHT BACK
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Sludge Rock / Blues / Funk ]
myspace.com/toorenewedformyspace
*Their back! After a several years on hiatus, this band of uber talented musicians will perform at The Hunger... nothing will be the same, also look for them to perform in November at their own personal showcase of amazing music... nice!

SEA SIDE VILLAINS
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Funk / Rock / Ska ]
myspace.com/patm3000
*These are the guys to party with at The Hunger, last year they held a packed audience at Crocks and forced everyone to dance until closing... yeah take that! You will want more... buy CD and you can take them home!

IGBC
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Electro / Experimental / Industrial ]
igbcsound.com
* "it reminded me of a clown party where they invited some elephants over to drink coffee and pop pills".. .IGBC is an electronic/noise studio project incorporating live instrumentation in the mix. See... Hear... Fun! Buy one of their six albums to keep the party going at home!

SLEEP CLINIC
[THUNDER BAY]*-[ Hip Hop / Indie / RAP]
myspace.com/thesleepclinic
*Sleep Clinic have performed with some huge names in Hip Hop since forming in 2007 and have produced some amazing video performances, now see them live, The Hunger V.666... exciting they are!

DJ Tony Dekker
[electro funk/midtempo swagga-DJ at Shambhala-2011]

The Inner Circle Of HELL - PERFORMATIVE+EXOTIC ACTS meant to thrill and delight!

BURLESQUE w/LES COQUETTES ROUGE [Hell just got a little hotter]

THUNDER BAY ROLLER DERBY GIRLZ [rough and tumble dealing out treats for you]

SAHARAN BELLY DANCERS OF SIN [exotic/entrancing!-Jessica D, and Academy Afra Middle East Belly Dance & Drum]

ASYLUM/GO GO DANCERS + DARK MESSENGERS [dancing all night] - You could win prizes in the street from them!

THE DEVIL'S QUEEN - Paloma Marquez [Premiere Drag Performance]

THE NECROMANCERS-"gore-lesque" [Performance w/Mary Murder-Ivanna Torture, Karma Lily Carnage, Nathan Carcinoma & Deadly Destiny]

MACKINELY THE DELUSIONIST [Manipulator of the Mind!...in the streets...He is amazing!]

SATAN'S SISTER OF FIRE HOOPING [Kelly Von Hoop! She will hoop you into a dazzeling and dizzying spin of hell fire]

Wandering Video Monkeys!

Thousands in raffle prizes -Horror/Noir Films by Hill City Comics

Big Prizes for Best Halloween Costumes at all SIX locations... You are the performers here! There were amazing costumes last year, so get your brain meats working.

CROCK’S -KILROYS -JACKS -BLACK PIRATES PUB -THE SOVEREIGN ROOM-HELL -MUSIC WORKSHOP -DINING ROOM STUDIOS -LOT 66 -PNEUMATICITY -MALTESE GROCERY -BOSTON PIZZA -HILL CITY COMICS -THE BOOK SHELF [MAY ST.] -CREATION BODY PIERCING -STATIC -PAINTED TURTLE ART SHOP -RED EARTH IMPORTS&THE BEAN FIEND -INFINITY DESIGNS -DRAGONSEED -FALLEN FORGE SILVERWORKS -RESTING FROG YOGA STUDIO -ACADEMY AFRA-[BELLY DANCING&DRUM] -CALICO COFFEE HOUSE -UNDERGROUND INK -FRANKLY SCARLET PRODUCTIONS -UNCLE MOWGLIE’S SCREENPRINTING -THE GROWING SEASON -PETRIE’S CYCLE AND SPORTS -THE LOOP -MAGNUS THEATRE -HMV CANADA -MERLE NORMAN -LUX BOUTIQUE -THE WALLEYE -THE CRAFT COLLECTIVE -THAI KITCHEN -RETRO BAKERY -WAYSIDE CAFE -MDMDEVELOPERS -SIGNAL RESOURCES -SHELDON REPRODUCTION CENTRE

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL-INFORMATION SESSION
FUNDING FOR MUSICIANS/BANDS/SINGER/SONGWRITERS/SOUND RECORDING
TUESDAY OCT.18@7-9PM

Definitely Superior Art Gallery will be hosting an Ontario Arts Council Music/Arts Information Session on Tuesday October 18 at 7pm -9pm. So, for all the musicians taking part in The Hunger V.666 and all musicians, bands, singers, songwriters, sound recording producers, interested artists and arts professionals in Thunder Bay and the region of Northwest Ontario, you should attend this! A representative from the OAC Popular & World Music and Arts Service as well as The Ontario Arts Council Northern Arts Grant will be on hand to offer information as well as potential opportunities.

Please join Michael Murray, Popular & World Music and Arts Service Organizations Officer and Marilyn McIntosh, Northwestern Consultant for The Northern Arts Grant, if you have funding questions about:

• Your artistic practice or the practice of the artists you support
• How you, your collective or organization are eligible for OAC grants
• The application process (deadlines, etc.)
• How grant decisions are made and how juries are selected
• How to select and prepare support material
• Drafting clear, concise grant applications
• BudgetingPlease bring your questions, project ideas or proposals.

RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY - 2011
Thunder Bay's finest spoken word performers / singer songrwriters

The Biindigaate Film Festival is back ~ Sept. 23-25 @ Paramount Theatre! [International. Indigenous. Insight. www.biindigaate.ca] Don't miss the Gala Celebration & Opening, Fri. Sept. 23, doors open @ 7:30pm, with music starting @ 10:30pm @ Definitely Superior Art Gallery, with visual art by contemporary regional Aboriginal artists ~ Christian Chapman, Candice Twance, Melissa Twance, Rachel Mishenene, Jean Marshall, Danny Cutfeet & more, and a borrowed collection from Louise Thomas of the Ahnisnabae Art Gallery ~ featuring the art of Roy Thomas and other national aboriginal artists. Also featuring selected films/videos.
Musical performances by: Jason Burnstick [Juno Nominee + CAMA award winner -acoustic/blues/folk rock - Winnipeg], Faye Blais [acoustic/folk/indie - Toronto/Melbourne Australia], and from Thunder Bay: Sea Ballast [Candice Twance - acoustic/folk/pop] & Kianwe [Devon Meekis - hip-hop]. Art/Music+Fabulous Refreshments await! Stop in before/between or after the films. Exhibitions run until Sat.Oct. 1 [hours: Tues-Sat/12-6pm] ~ Engage Art!

We’re having a Birthday P.arty!... and everyone is invited, we encourage all members to submit and help celebrate Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s 23rd anniversary year. The Annual Members Exhibition offers the opportunity for both emerging and established artists to share exhibition space. The lack of restriction is designed to encourage eclectic and experimental works in response. Presentation of the work facilitates those artists whose art investigates social, political, and critical issues of importance. We encourage all members to submit and help celebrate! A selection of work from the members show will also be exhibited at Lot 66 in the lounge from August 20 to October 31. Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art / musical performances and two additional shows - Lots of exquisite birthday tarts and summer refreshments a plenty.

THE BEASTS OF INTENTIONS
Denise Smith - Ceramics Installation - Regional

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, by allowing access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Denise Smith [HBFA Lakehead University], in her first post-graduate solo exhibition comprising of an exciting new contemporary installation of ceramic based art works which takes a satirical examination of the differing scientific, cultural and religious beliefs surrounding the origin of our species. Denise says she uses kitsch as her weapon and irony as her ammunition. Smith is a well recognized artist in the region for her ceramic visual works; with high technical skill and cultural commentary, she engages viewers both visually and intellectually.

KILL YOUR IDOLS
Documentary Film - New York 30 Years of Alternative Music
No Wave to Present

Kill Your Idols - A must see 75 min. Documentary art film on alternative music in NYC originating in the 70’s. Scott Crary is a film director and writer based in New York City. Crary filmed, produced, edited, and directed the film Kill Your Idols, a documentary examining three decades of New York art punk bands. Kill Your Idols features such noted no wave and art punk bands as sonic Youth, Swans, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Suicide, Black Dice, Gogol Bordello, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, among others. The film received the award for Best Documentary at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and was subsequently screened at over 50 international film festivals. This is about anti-music, atonal and extreme, but very much in step with the punk ethos of breaking down the barrier between artist and audience.

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents: Lakehead University RetroGraduate Exhibition 2011 - Haru [spring] Edition. Enjoy a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery for an exciting multidisciplinary convergence on Saturday May 14th, starting at 7PM. Featuring The Lakehead University RetroGraduate Exhibition which is comprised of artwork the students have created and selected over a four year period of their program including new works. Congratulations; Vincent Rey Jones, Kathleen Beda, Sarah Kuraitis, Leslie Hill, Shannon Leigh Martens, Tim Boyce, Kari Smith, Kathleen Tamminen, Natalie Hotson, Rebecca Pugh, Andrea Nickerson, Tavis Lea, Kristal Kuivila, Victoria Bolduc, Kelly Chartier, Chris Keetch, Ella Bell. Art-Music and a bevy of fresh Spring Refreshments. Artists in attendance.

THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE
Ben Lewis - London UK - Documentary Art Film

The Great Contemporary Art Bubble - A must see 60 minute Documentary art film about the business of art by UK reporter Ben Lewis. Lewis investigates the cynical romance between capitalism and the art world through an economic lens. The award winning and entertaining documentary acts as an economic analysis of the high end contemporary art market, in a way that was Lewis’s art-critical point, that most of the art in the film did not merit being assessed within the framework of art criticism, and should only be considered as products in a market. Doubting the compelling idea that capitalism nurtures art and creates a free-trade zone for ideas and feelings, he suggested that the current art market might actually not be good for either making meaningful art or for democracy and freedom of expression. Critics commented that the film "...made them think about how much they appreciated small, artist-run gallery spaces sustained by dedicated individuals who are happy for the privilege of living on creativity, no matter how small their bubble might be."

Czech Republic born, Internationally known artist Lenka Novakova's presentation at Definitely Superior Art Gallery comprises of a fully immersive 3 dimensional video installation. River features up to 20 large conical structures fabricated from clear cast glass and mono-filament. The cones are arranged in a concentric formation through the length of the gallery at which point projected images are discharged through the transparent and opaque materials allowing the image to be simultaneously visible and fleeting. It attempts to transform the entire space into a beautifully sparkling submersive experience of a river current running through. Her practice is concerned with an ephemeral poetic quality, a moment of recreation and reﬂective thought through constructed environments, simple technologies and moving light; with crossover in cinema and theatre technologies. Novakova, based in Quebec, received her MFA from Concordia, recipient of Canada Council/Ontario Arts Council and Quebec Council arts grants and has done major residencies throughout the world, she has shown throughout Canada and Internationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects.

International contemporary artists comprise an impressive collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in this borrowed exhibition from Dr. Bob Chaudhuri of Thunder Bay. Featuring critically acclaimed Canadian artists like Marc Sequin, Tony Taylor, Twelve Midnight, Scott Ellis, Jay Issac, Srdian Segan and more... internationally known and featured in major art magazines. This exhibition is part of our focussed professional programming that informs and feeds into the regional arts expression, providing a forum for the public/artist community coming into contact with works, artists that would otherwise not be available. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects.

Internationally known London UK based artist Kelly Richardson's artistic practice falls under the category of media-art. Her consistently original and innovative video work explores the latest in cinematic innovation and transmedia storytelling. Mining the aesthetics of cinema and science fiction, The Erudition - video installation presents a lunar-esque looking landscape with what appears to be an unlikely monument or proposal, consisting of holo-graphic trees blowing in fictional wind. Is this slightly malfunctioning display a forgotten site for proposed colonization? Better yet, is this some kind of alien artwork? Richardson has exhibited internationally from the Busan Biennale, Korea to the New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, featured artist at the Americans for The Arts National Arts Awards, The Art Gallery of Ontario and recently in Canadian Art Magazines 25th Anniversary as one of the top 10 artists to watch for... Internationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects

MARCH 26 - 29
URBAN INFILL - [ART IN THE CORE]
DOWNTOWN WIDE ART EXHIBITION & LIVE PERFORMANCES

RE-DISCOVER YOUR DOWNTOWN NORTH-CORE WATERFRONT DISTRICT THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART!

Sat. Mar. 26 (7-10PM) – A Gala Downtown Wide Opening Reception - exclusive features - the only night to experience:

Window Performances - See original “Wearable Art” creations by 15 incredible artists!, Dahab belly dancing-from Las Vegas!,

Live Music & DJ’S, Drag Queen / King performances, Fierce and fantastic food by SWEET PEAS HOME CATERING, Delicious drinks, Unparalleled musical talents & much more... You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Tour Guides will show you the way! - Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery located at 250 Park Ave. & pick up your art map!

+AFTER THE OPENING RECEPTION, join in for more arty fun at our Massive After Party (10PM-2AM)!

A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GALA ART EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE EVENT YOU MUST EXPERIENCE! SAT. MAR.26 @7PM

Featuring: critically-acclaimed International / National artists at definitely superior art gallery: Lenka Novakova - [Montreal/Czech Repuplic] Kelly Richardson - [London UK], Dr. Chaudhuri International contemporary art collection with12 acclaimed artists!

+ In the downtown see: Lakehead University Visual Art Students / Major Studio Graduates, Confederation College Film & Multimedia Student Work, Commercial Art Galleries: Chenier Fine Arts Gallery, Local Colour Art Gallery, Painted Turtle Art Shop, Underlay Window Gallery, Uncle Mowglies, Lot 66, Hill City Comics + Ponty & Co. window spaces + Ruttan Block Artist Studios!

+ Empty retail spaces are being taken over & converted into new art gallery’s at: 28 Cumberland St. S.- [Fladgate Exploration Bldg.], 232 Red River Rd.- [former Treasure House], 215 Red River Rd.-Teleperformance Window Spaces... over 6,000 square feet of new exhibition spaces to explore. Engage Art!

URBAN INFILL-ART IN THE CORE PROJECT 5
ELECTRONIKA 3
A PREMIERE ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVENT

Come out for an original night of Electronika, stylistic fusions involving traditional and electronic instruments will collide in a live forum of massive video projections and innovative musical performances by; The Kettle Black - Purity Control - Byte Smasher - Ocean City Defender - IGBC - DJ Doran - DJ Kelsey and more!... Begin the evening with the screening of ground breaking and seminal video works - hyperkinetic imagery and art cinema filmmaking with extreme surrealistic vision; film at 8:00pm-9:00pm, get here early! Digital mayhem then begins with the new sounds of Electronika... A MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCE. FIERCE FOOD, FRUITLOOPS, DELICIOUS DRINKS, AND UNPARALLELED MUSICAL TALENT AWAIT ... Experience electricity in your diet! Special Feature performance sponsored by CREATION BODY PIERCING - [Matt Bressmer] - A FULL ON HOOK SUSPENSION PERFORMANCE by Otis Hacket of Purity Control. All part of Urban Infill - Art In The Core projects. Don’t miss Electronika Sat.Mar.19 @ 8PM - all ages-resfreshments - $5 at the door - licensed event - ID required. Electronic Music from experimental to dance - Massive video projections - Suspension performance - Cyber Arts Films... DANGER... ELECTRONIKA SHOCK HAZARD! All at Definitely Art Gallery, location 250 Park Ave.

Feature performance sponsored by CREATION BODY PIERCING - [Matt Bressmer] - A FULL ON HOOK SUSPENSION PERFORMANCE by Otis Haket of Purity Control... with live music by IGBC and Video Projections... not to be missed!

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community - at - large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary and multi-media arts on an international level. IV-Incidental Video provides an injection of newer forms of Multimedia performative experiences with consistently original and innovative video work accessible through portals of the internet and bringing a vast range of content, providing connections, focussing on art / indie film / animation / performance / grafitti / interventions / art documentaries / international gallery tours and reviews. View and absorb the art therapy that is Incidental Video, where you never know what you may encounter in the gallery as you stumble upon constantly changing content that will manifest fascination on an international scale... please sit back, relax any pre-conceived notions and enjoy!

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community - at - large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Marianne Kyryluk, of Thunder Bay, in a solo exhibition titled Within Our Grasp. Kyryluk’s installation work is about communication, connection and the intimacy of touch which are integral components of her work, and are reflected in the sculptural forms she has created, comprised of 180+ cast arms and hands including a sound component. Kyryluk states: “much of my work has come about through the accumulative process of collection and repetition. I am intrigued by the subtle variations of the human form juxtaposed by the endless diversifications of the human spirit”. Kyryluk is a well recognized artist in the world of visual arts and has been a recipient of the Northern Ontario Arts Council Creation Grant.

The Further Adventures of Girl addresses the complexity of negotiating the current socio-political climate through the simplistic visual language of children’s media. Diyan Achjadi’s print series portray a single character, “Girl”, as she navigates perilous dystopic landscapes informed by news events and popular culture images in cartoon - like visual narratives. Diyan Achjadi was born in Jakarta Indonesia and is now based in Vancouver, where she teaches print media and visual arts at Emily Carr. She has received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York and an MFA in Print Media from Concordia University, Montreal. Her installation and print works have been exhibited across the US and Canada including Access Artist Run Centre (Vancouver), Open Studio (Toronto), Articule and Oboro (Quebec), Richmond Art Gallery (Vancouver) and AIR Gallery (New York); group exhibitions at the American University in Cairo, Romo Gallery (Atlanta), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York). Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions - art - refreshments, artists talks, music-performances.

JANUARY JUST GOT A LITTLE HAUTE!!! DERELICTE 3 - A FASHION ODYSSEY!... on Saturday January 22-2011, starting at 8pm, EXPERIENCE!… ONE HAUTE COUTURE NIGHT OF WEARABLE ART, FASHION, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE!!!

FEATURING:4 INCREDIBLE BANDS

ALASKA ARMY BAND
www.myspace.com/alaskaarmyband

FOREVER DEAD
www.myspace.com/foreverdeadmusic

MARRIED SINGLEMEN
www.myspace.com/marriedsinglemen

THE GREASY CREASES-confirmation pending

Haute Beats with DJ DORAN ...who will keep the parti going

FEATURING: 6 LOCAL FASHION HOUSES

Creation Body Piercing
Red Earth Imports
The Loop
The Craft Collective
Crafty Cocoon
Lux Boutique

15 WEARABLE ART FASHION EXHIBITIONS-BY PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Marlee Bygate
Sarah Furlotte
Kathleen Baleja
Keith Catton
Denise Smith
David Hotson
Barbara Benwell
Keith Catton
Helen Leaf Black
Christian Chapman
Kasia Piech
Sam Shahsahabi
Jeff Starcok
Sarah Kuraitis and Leslie Hill
Elizabeth Buset
Kamila Malek

PERFORMANCES

Northwest Burlesque -[premiere performance] featuring-Tanya Elchuk and Sarah Furlotte - expect wooly wonderfulness!
Belly Dancing with DAHAB - direct from Las Vegas
Drag Queen - Paloma Marquez
Derelicte Dancers
Walk Off Challenges
D.I.Y Fashion Costume Contest - Dress yourself up and win big... think Derelicte, think Haute Couture.
Catwalk Brawling
Paparazzi

CATERED HORS D'OEUVRES..by GOOD NEWS CAFE...That's right we treat you right!

Urban Infill-Art In The Core, celebrating it's 5th year; the next evolution of creative possibilities. The idea is to help revitalize our downtown core by capitalizing on assets of art and culture and linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts, commercial business/social spaces. With vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces in our downtown and help to connect and create that unique niche of an urban arts and entertainment district. The projects comprised of multi-disciplinary and new media/multi-arts by national, international and regional artists will work to enhance our level of arts programming by involving all facets and mediums of the contemporary arts and involving innovative new media technologies. Premised upon the concept of creative cities partnerships we will utilize our multi-functional gallery spaces as a creative hub for generating collective/collaborative projects not only in our gallery space but in empty / underutilized / established / commercial / art spaces throughout the downtown north core of Thunder Bay. Re-discover your North core Waterfront District through contemporary art! Last year had an audience of 4,500 over the duration of 20 projects. It begins... January 22-March 30, 2011 N-Gage Art!

Evolation - [evolution+revelation] is the theme for our 22nd Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, an open regional call for entry format and is designed with the following objective in mind: that local/regional professional emerging and established artists are given an opportunity to consider the relevance of the concept of Evolation in terms of their own experiences, interpretations and relationships to current contemporary art practices. The gallery adheres to our mandate of identifying and encouraging contemporary artists working in all media and engaging ourselves to identify our place and role as contributors in the regional and national context. Deadline to drop off art November 23- 27 - Please provide a brief artists statement relating to the theme of Evolation. Artists may submit up to two artworks. Evolation - Featuring 25-30 individual, eclectic and diverse contemporary artists selected from the region in the only professional paid juried format exhibition in Northwestern Ontario. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music - Performance Refreshments, and two additional shows opening- Friday December 3@7PM.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community - at - large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Sarah Furlotte, in her first solo exhibition comprising of exciting new contemporary painting works and box artforms in various mediums. As Furlotte explains, she likes to approach a piece of work uninhibited, free of constraints, throwing paint on the paper and has learned it takes longer to free yourself than to attempt to render realism. The icons in her work develop their meaning as she places them in context with each other. This forms the language of her work, that she uses to explain what she filters out of life. Furlotte is a well recognized artist in the world of visual / theatre / film / performative arts and is a recipient of a Northern Ontario Arts Council Creation Grant.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community - at - large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. Spooks Of Hazard and Vov Abraxas provide a Multimedia performative experience with their consistently original and innovative musical stylings and video work. The music which clearly manifest the artist’s fascination with all aspects of the social / political / natural world and are expressed both lyrically and through use of YouTube video creations and live performances. Spooks of Hazard are punk / funk - psychedelic and experimental, the crew is made up of regional musicians / artists Brian Aysanabee - Jesse Horricks - Jordan Strum - Kristin Krievin.

Whether in New York, Tokyo or Berlin, Nathalie Daoust has always asserted a child's contempt for reality. This Canadian photographer, born and raised in Montreal, has devoted all of her art to unveiling the secrets hidden beneath the apparent stability of life. The aesthetic of Frozen in Time continues and enriches her visual exploration at the border between dream and reality. Her artistic treatment of black and white photographs taken with a pinhole camera and subsequently hand-coloured, illustrates her exploration of that which is found in the blurred image, the ghostly shadows and the blotted contours. ”Daoust explores the indefinable realm between truth, fantasy and the human desire of escapism. Daoust's artistic journey has taken her from Japan and China to Spain, France, Brazil and Austrailia. She is truly a critically acclaimed international artist with an extensive CV and has been featured in major galleries / magazine publications and is a multi-award winning photographer worldwide. Gala Opening Reception and a harvest of art / musical performances with The Bay City Sound Collective and two additional shows.

Definitely Superior Art Gallery wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Janice Andrews [HBFA Lakehead University], in her first post-graduate solo exhibition in Thunder Bay comprising of exciting new contemporary abstract painting works. Andrews explains her work in this way: “I try to capture the essence of that fleeting moment of magical light and colourful forms as they filter through my mind and senses, emerging as an emotional, spiritual and physical journey on canvas. Andrews is a well recognized artist in the region for her powerful visual works

BLU is an Italian artist who has deliberately concealled his real identity, however we do know he lives in Bologna Italy and has been active in the street art scene since 1999. The list of the places where BLU has left his trace is impressively long, and his work is critically acclaimed internationally from the Tate Gallery London UK, to the streets of Sao Paulo Brazil. Blu is a painter in the landscape, urban or industrial. He always tries to communicate with the society which inhabits those spaces, searching for the uniqueness of each place. His murals and his videos are given free to the public space of the cities and on the world wide web. BLU’s aesthetic search is motivated by a belief in an open source philosophy, persistent in its anarchical revolt against contemporary art conventions and unique in beauty, and is undoubtedly one of the most interesting in our visual culture today. Join us for a screening of Big Bang Boom! - not to be missed.

THE HUNGER CABARET V.5 - HALLOWEEN MONSTER OF MASSIVE EVENTS -40 ACTS -28 BANDS -4 DJ'S - 4 BAR VENUES - SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 @ 8PM-19+ EVENT-[ BLACK PIRATES PUB-JACK'S-KILROY'S-CROCKS/THE OFFICE] ONE COVER OF $10 GETS YOU INTO ALL 4 BARS

Here it is the uber-unrelenting Halloween event you have been waiting for! If you were at last year's event, which seduced an incredible 1,750 in attendance, you know what hell-fire madness is! We now invite you to The Hunger Cabaret V.5 ... FIVE years in the making. A Halloween event of epic proportions, featuring 40 acts, so massive an event, it will take up FOUR bar venues... see Black Pirates Pub + Jack's + Kilroy's + Crock's Story - for only one cover charge of $10. Pick your story, diabolic or devilicious. Move between bars and interact with every soul along the way, you could even win prizes in the street. Feed your hunger with a night of death defying performances and orgiastic maneuvers of delight... with 40+ red hot incendiary acts!

Featuring an unbelievable 28 live bands of all musical genres and 4 Dj’s playing head to head for scario-tronic sound supremacy. See Saharan Belly Dancers of Sin, Satan’s Sister’s Burlesque and GO GO Dancers, Fire Manipulators, Drag Performances, MadMen of Mariachi, Texas Chainsaw Massacre of the Accordian and Paranormal Theatre, Horror/Noir film, and Roller Derby Girlz givin you rough and tumble while dealing out their treats... big screen video projections and surprises!

Advice: come early, there were 1,750 in attendance last year and you don’t want to miss a thing. Thousands in raffle prizes, and big prizes for best costumes at each location, free candy and suckers! Treat yourself to the wildest, slickest Halloween you’ll ever experience, because at the midnight hour, you’ll want more! And more you shall have with glee on Saturday Oct.30 at 8:00pm - The Hunger Cabaret V.5 - a sensual feast of poise and attitude! Nothing will be the same.
Presented by Definitely Superior Art Gallery - A fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts and sponsored by our friends at LU RADIO 102.7FM - listen for ticket giveaways, check out www.tbshows.com and www.baycore.net - stay connected!

RECEIVE A MULTI-PASS THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT WITH TIMES AND LOCATIONS FOR ACTS
YOU GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND HEAR-WE BRING YOU FIRE!

ENTERTAINMENT

15 LOVE CANDY [Glam/Rock & Roll]
www.myspace.com/lovecandymusic

16 THE GREASY CREASES [Bluegrass-Jamie Smith of The Auditor General, Kevin Element, Suzanne Halet, Aubrey Brant]

RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY - THUNDER BAY PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Thunder Bay's finest spoken word performers / singer songrwriters

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery in order to present a series of 30 spoken word / singer-songwriter performances throughout the City of Thunder Bay to promote literacy, art & poetry in places where people live their everyday lives. See and hear the Definitely Superior Poetry Construction Crew as they randomly bring urban interventions to our public venues, schools and institutions, coffee shops, radio, television, street corners, transit... your very home! Warning!... it’s Poetry Construction season! Spoken Word Poetry Construction Crew 2010 consists of - Duncan Weller, Chris Roy, Mary Frost, Taina Maki Chahal, Chris Waite, Tanya Elchuk, Sara Mackie, Solomon [Nolan Schmerk], Shy-Anne Hovorka, Megan De Roover, Vov Abraxas [Brian Aysanabee], Sharon Irvine, Douglas Livingston, Gwen O’Reilly, Sherri Lankinen, Steven Gothard, Rian Riot, Helen leaf Black, Carol Kajorinne, Sue Blott, Erin Stewart, Sean Devine, Renee Terpstra, Scott Pound, Holly Haggarty, Aubrey Brandt. Schedules available at gallery & on www.facebook.com for one of the largest poetry performances in Canada

BBLOOD, BRAINS + ROCK N ROLL-[BAY OF THE DEAD 2]-Z-VS ZOMBIES VS EVERYONE-13 PERFORMANCE ACTS-6 BRAIN EATING BANDS-8PM-BLACK PIRATES PUB-19+EVENT-ALL FOR ONLY $6
NEVER SLOW DANCE WITH A ZOMBIE! So the battle begins with 13 performance acts - 6 brain eating bands - films - performances - projections - hundreds in raffle and costume prizes - appetizers - The last stand for humanity is at 8pm at the Black Pirates Pub. Bring it on for some killer boss battles - ZOMBIES VS EVERONE!

MUSIC

PROMONIUM JESTERS-[TORONTO]-[Psychedelic/Industrial/Thrash]
www.myspace.com/promonium

NANOCHRIST-[TORONTO]-[Metal/Industrial/Gothic]
www.myspace.com/nanochrist

OMEGA CROM-[VANCOUVER]-[Metal]
www.myspace.com/omegacrom

SUPER FOSSIL POWER-[MONTREAL]-[Electronic Beats/Techno-Tyler Rauman]
www.myspace.com/superfossilpower

VEGA-[THUNDER BAY]-[Rock/Alternative/Pop]
www.myspace.com/vegaaudio

ALASKA ARMY BAND-[THUNDER BAY]-[Psychedelic/Folk Rock/Jam Band]
www.myspace.com/alaskaarmyband

DJ-ZOMBIE ELECTRO DANCE PARTY...
GO ZOMBIE!
GO DEADMEAT!

PLUS SPECIAL FILM PRESENTATION AT 8PM COURTESY OF HILL CITY COMICS-BIG SCREEN-BIG SOUND

FILM-WILD ZERO
HEY-HO! LETS GO! THE GREATEST JAPANESE ROCK N ROLL ZOMBIE MOVIE EVER!
WILD ZERO FEATURES CULT JAPANESE BAND GUITAR WOLF-[LOUDEST RECORDED AND SELF
PROCLAIMED COOLEST BAND IN HISTORY-THINK RAMONES...ISH-ROCK/PUNK/ROCKABILLY/
GARAGE/SURF] A GONZO JAPANESE ROCK N ROLL/GUTMUNCHER/ACTION ZOMBIE FLICK THAT HITS
THE SUBLIMELY JUNKY HORROR-GOOD-TIME BUTTON VERY HARD! 5 STARS-wILD ZERO WAS HUGE
ON THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT...NOW YOU CAN SEE IT HERE. EXPECT YAKUZA STYLE ROCK MANAGERS IN
WAY TO TIGHT SHORTS, TRANSEXUALS, NAKED WOMEN WITH GUNS, ZOMBIES, ALIENS, LOUD
OVER-MODULATED MUSIC, LASER GUITAR PICKS, LOTS OF FIRE! WE WILL BE PLAYING THE VERSION
WITH THE DRINKING GAME. IT’S EASY WHEN THE BEER MUG APPEARS ON SCREEN, DRINK...
WARNING YOU MAY DIE! DRINK WHEN...ZOMBIE HEADS POP, SOMEONE COMBS THEIR HAIR, FIRE
SHOOTS OUT OF ANYTHING, SOMEONE YELLS ROCK N ROLL, SOMEONE DRINKS, SOMETHING
EXPLODES. SEARCH WILD ZERO/GUITAR WOLF- MUSIC/MADNESS/FILM/FOOD/PERFORMANCE/
ZOMBIES AND YOU!...ALL FOR ONLY $6

PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE!

Zombie GoGo Dancers-Zombie Drag PERFORMANCES-[THUNDER BAY’S qUEEN/kING-NATALIA
SUMMERS+IVAN LOVE]-Zombie FILMS-WILD ZERO+PROJECTIONS-BIG PRIZES FOR BEST
Zombie COSTUME CONTEST/PRIZE AND BEST EVERYONE ELSE COSTUME PRIZE-THINK ...[AMAZONS
ROBOTS-FURRIES-COWBOYS-VAMPIRES-bikini zombie slayers-Punks-ALIENS... ANYTHING THAT
WILL STOP A ZOMBIE] Raffle PRIZES-free sushi+BLOODY FREEZIES for Zombies/Victims

BLOOD, BRAINS AND ROCK N ROLL, SATURDAY AUGUST 7, 2010 AT 8PM-GET BLOODY!

We’re having a Birthday P.arty!...and everyone is invited, we encourage all members to submit and help celebrate Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s 22nd anniversary year. The Annual Members Exhibition offers the opportunity for both emerging and established artists to share exhibition space. The lack of restriction is designed to encourage eclectic and experimental works in response. Presentation of the work facilitates those artists whose art investigates social, political, and critical issues of importance. We encourage all members to submit and help celebrate! A selection of work from the members show will also be exhibited at Lot 66 in the lounge from August 20 to October 31. There will be a Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances with Solomon + Rory Bohler. Come out and enjoy summer refreshments a plenty.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Elizabeth Buset [HBFA Lakehead University], in her first post-graduate solo exhibition comprising of exciting new contemporary large-scale painting works. In this exhibition titled: Comment/Critique, Buset, through juxtaposition, recontextualizes mundane objects, creating an alternative lexicon in which to articulate contemporary issues. Buset is a well recognized artist in the region for her visual works and with high technical skill and cultural commentary, she engages viewers visually and intellectually. There will be a Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances with Solomon + Rory Bohler. Come out and enjoy summer refreshments a plenty.

Definitely Superior offers an alternative venue for the Film students outside the institution of the College system. This is an ongoing partnership with Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. Over the duration of the show there will be selected screenings of graduate films - Conflix Films. The fusion of art exhibitions is successful in cross pollinating audiences as it results in a greater number of the community viewing and participating in an amazing multi-disciplinary art forum. There will be a Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances with Solomon + Rory Bohler. Come out and enjoy summer refreshments a plenty.

Sydney Australia based artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s artistic practice falls under the category of multi-media art. Her consistently original and innovative sculptural/video work involving inter-species relations/materials and nature have been exhibited and critically acclaimed internationally from the Tate Gallery London UK, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Sao Paulo Brazil to Bogota Columbia. Cardoso also participated in the 50th International Venice Biennale. Her Emu Series is the most recent body of work, consisting of artworks / photographs / video and original fashion creations from native Australian bird feathers which clearly manifest the artist’s fascination with all aspects of the natural world. There will be a one time performance involving artist Kathleen Baleja who will be presenting a truly exotic/artistic emu-lation wearing/performing one of Cardoso’s creations and it is not to be missed, so join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions - Art - Music - Performances - Refreshments, and Artists Talks.

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Quentin Maki, MFA, a well recognized contemporary artist whose current work stems from a primary interest in combining found objects with traditional painting materials. The objects have been chosen not only for their formal elements but often have a personal significance as well. The addition of 3-D objects into Maki’s compositional layout has resulted in works that put additional emphasis on structure. This structure provides a formal equilibrium to the responsive mark making often present in his work. Sculptural objects naturally pose a physical presence, while drawn or painted images are more suggested. Combining an interest in mark making and tactile surface treatment with found objects has allowed more exploration into a wider range of possibilities through these recent works

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Cheryl Wilson Smith of Red Lake Ontario, in her first solo exhibition comprising of exciting new contemporary sculptural figurative glass works. Wilson is a well recognized artist in the region for her visual/craft works as well as a recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Creation Grant. Her current work is thematically based on what lies beneath the surface and what we take at face value, just like the glass and light constantly invites the viewer to explore what is happening beneath the surface. It is a view of our emotions and morals that lie inside each of us and are imposed on us as we carry on everyday life.

Join a collective of new artists working to create a unique and contemporary publication that is distributed nationally as well as in the region. Including; an art and creative writing zine, a CD of local bands, buttons and much more, forming a multi-media arts package for release in September 2010. Join by emailing loradefsup@hotmail.com You look us up on Facebook - just search ‘die active zine’ or ‘definitely superior art gallery’. Send us an e-mail or join the facebook group, we will send you a summer schedule of events and workshops. Submit your art work, music, photography, writing.

Come check out last years zine publication at the gallery and see what 160+ young artists are up to!

Definitely Superior Art Gallery provides annual gallery space to the Lakehead University graduating students encouraging a positive transition into their status as professional artists. All graduates will present works they have completed in their last four years as well as new works. Congratulations; Denise Smith, Allie MacAskill, Trevor Heydens, Martha Dippo, Callen Banning, Tanya Cormier, Kaiti Comrie, Erin Briska, Kerri Whitehurst, Jason Ducen, Kayleigh Ellen Jackson, Emily Wahl, Erica Lange, David Hotson, Hannah Guthrie, Stephen Slattery, and Carol Kajorinne. Artists in attendance. Support the artists of the future! There will be a Gala Opening Reception with Art-Music-Refreshments.

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features a regional artist from Atikokan, Ontario, Joseph Fredrich who generates his own very unique style and interest in exploring the properties of materials utilized in the creation of exciting new contemporary large scale painting and sculptural formworks. Joseph is a well recognized artist in the region as well as a recipient of Ontario Arts Council Creation Grants. There will be a Gala Opening Reception with Art-Music-Refreshments

BABELGUM.COM - NICHE NEW MEDIA ART - FREE SHARE INTERNET
ART / INDIE / FILM / ANIMATION / GRAFFITI / INTERVENTIONS - INTERNATIONAL

BABELGUM - According to the company's website, Babelgum's goal is "to act as an international 'social glue'", bringing a vast range of content to a global audience of different nationalities, like a "modern-day Tower of Babel”. Babelgum only airs professionally produced content, focusing on art-indie film-animation/ music/ urban culture, social - political works - International in scale - view the world of niche new media art in this unique video installation. There will be a Gala Opening Reception with Art-Music-Refreshments.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Commercial galleries involved - Chenier Fine Arts [at 8 S. Court St.] features accomplished national / regional artists - The Rainge Gallery [at 204 Red River Rd.] features a selection of regional artists - Lot 66 Tapas Bar [at 66 Court St.] features a selection of regional / Def Sup artists- Uncle Mowglies Skate N Paint [at 215 Red River Rd.] features Urban Art&Grafitti - Northern Womens Bookstore [at 65 Court St.] featuring books / literature - Artists Studios in the Ruttan Block - featuring: Linda Dell, Sarah Furlotte, and more... All will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. Exhibition dates: Wed. Mar. 24-27, 12-6pm.

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY VISUAL ART STUDENTS / MAJOR STUDIO - PAINTING / DRAWING / PRINTMAKING / SCULPTURE

WINDOW PERFORMANCE ART - DOWNTOWN NORTHCORE - WEARABLE ART ARTISTS - LAS VEGAS BELLY DANCER 'DAHAB' - DRAG QUEEN & KING - MUSICAL PERFORMANCES - PERFORMATIVE TOUR GUIDES... & MORE!

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Wed. Mar. 24 - Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with exclusive features that you can experience only on this night. Window Performances! - See original “Wearable Art” creations by 10 incredible artists, “Dahab” Belly Dancing direct from Las-Vegas! Drag Queen/King Performances with Natalia Summers/Ivan Love, Music by The Ukelaidies, Solomon & Rory Bohler, Superhero action and more... You never know what you’ll see downtown! Performative Spring Tour Guides will show you the way to all the exciting Urban Infill locations! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery - located at 250 Park Ave - Wed.Mar.24 @ 7-10pm.

Internationally known London UK based artist Kelly Richardson’s artistic practice falls under the category of media-art. Her consistently original and innovative video work involving photoconceptualism and nature have been exhibited internationally from the Busan Biennale, Korea to the New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, featured artist at the Americans for The Arts National Arts Awards, The Art Gallery of Ontario and recently in Canadian Art Magazines 25th Anniversary as one of the top 10 artists to watch for... critically acclaimed internationally.

International contemporary artists comprise an impressive collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in this borrowed exhibition from Dr. Bob Chaudhuri of Thunder Bay. Featuring 14 critically acclaimed Canadian artists such as Cybele Younge, Julie Oakes, Angela Grossman, George Vergette, Dougal Graham, Marc Sequin, Chris Ellis, Chris Woods, Bradley Harms and more... internationally known and featured in major art magazines. This exhibition is part of our focused professional programming that informs and feeds into the regional arts expression, providing a forum for the public/artist community coming into contact with works, artists that would otherwise not be available.

Nationally/Internationally known Toronto based artist Alex Bartosik is inspired by the particularities, delicacies, sensitivities, beauties and obsessions held within relationships between lovers, siblings/twins, friends, strangers, or themselves; a feminist figurative painter exploring issues of gender and identity and psychological adversity in topical, intrepid and unforeseen ways. Her female figures are rendered with rare skill in open arenas of suffering and transformation – and with a consummately theatrical, take-no-prisoners bravado. Bartosik has been the recipient of numerous creation grants / awards / residencies and is exhibiting internationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed. Mar. 24 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists. Aleks Bartosik will also be in attendance and giving an Artists Talk. Pick up your map and then follow the Tour Guides to all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture [refreshments-music-performances]

DOWNTOWN-WIDE ART EXHIBITION & LIVE PERFORMANCES GALA OPENING RECEPTION
WED.MAR. 24 AT 7PM-10PM

A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GALA ART EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE EVENT YOU MUST EXPERIENCE!
WED. MAR.24 @7PM

Urban Infill-Art In The Core; the next evolution of creative possibilities. Revitalizing our downtown north core by capitalizing on assets of art & culture-linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts & commercial business/social spaces. The projects comprised of multi-disciplinary & new media/multi-arts by 350+National, International & Regional artists

International/National artists at Definitely Superior Art Gallery: Aleks Bartosik-[Toronto]-Kelly Richardson-[London UK], Dr. Chaudhuri International Contemporay Art Collection-14 critically acclaimed artists!

+ In the downtown see: Lakehead University Visual Art Students/Major Studio Graduates, Confederation College Film & Multimedia Student Work, Commercial Art Galleries+Artist Studios: Chenier Fine Arts Gallery, The Rainge Gallery, Underlay Window Gallery, Urban Art at Uncle Mowglies Skate n’ Paint, Northern Women’s Bookstore, Lot-66, Hill City Comics Window Space, Ruttan Block Artist Studios-Linda Dell-Sarah Furlotte & MANY MORE...

+Empty retail spaces are being taken over & converted into new art gallery’s at: 12 St. Paul Street Gallery, Ponty & Co....over 6,000 square feet of NEW EXHIBITION space!

+Wed. Mar. 24-gala opening RECEPTION EXCLUSIVE FEATURES...THE ONLY NIGHT TO EXPERIENCE: catered refreshments by sweet pea home catering,

WINDOW PERFORMANCES ! - SEE original “Wearable art” CREATIONS by 10 incredible artists, DAHAB BELLYDANCING-FROM LAS VEGAS!,

Drag Queen/king performances, music BY: the ukelaidies, solomon+rory bohleR & more...You never know what you’ll see downtown!

Performative Tour Guides will show you the way! - start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery located at 250 park ave. & pick up YOUR ART map!

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members, regional artists and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This show entitled Drawn And Stained features 13 accomplished artists in the contemporary arts from the region working in painting, drawing and printmaking. Definitely Superior Art Gallery recognizes artistic excellence in our regional artists and their continuing research and investigation of new visual works. Featuring: Sarah Furlotte, Christian Chapman, David Hotson, Stephen Slattery, Jean Marshall, Douglas Livingston, Lora Northway, Elizabeth Buset, Chris Merkley, Aislinn Maxwell, Kearon Roy-Taylor, Randi-Lynn Shandroski, Kamila Malek. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, join us for a Gala Opening Reception Fri. Feb.5 with three new exhibitions featuring regional / national / international artists -Art. Artists talks, refreshments, music, performances and of course...Art

Nationally / Internationally known Montreal based artists / printmakers Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux’s artwork compliment each other in their exploration and creation, combining vivid colours, line, narratives of social and political conscience of everyday life blended with absurdity, humour, the bizarre, and surreal. Moore and Desmarteaux provide alternative storytelling and cultural observation from both ones immediate environment and popular culture creating a beautiful and fantastical artform. Both artists have been the recipient of numerous creation grants / awards / residencies and are exhibiting internationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, join us for a Gala Opening Reception Fri. Feb.5 at 7pm, with three new exhibitions featuring regional / national / international artists - Moore and Desmarteaux will be in attendance and giving an Artists Talk. Refreshments, music, performances and of course...Art!

Internationally known Minneapolis based artist / painter Jennifer Davis’s artwork comprises of portraits that have a surreal candy-land exterior full of innocent charm, which only hints at an undercurrent of darker truths. Her acrylic / graphite paintings on panel contain a mysterious yet familiar language of invented symbols that continually grows, repeats and changes. The figures in her narratives play out the delicate balance between their beastial natures and the more humane and generous qualities of their souls. Davis has shown extensively in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, join us for a Gala Opening Reception Fri. Feb.5 at 8pm, with three new exhibitions featuring regional / national / international artists. Jennifer Davis will be in attendance and giving an Artists Talk at this, her premiere showing in Canada. Refreshments, music, performances and of course...Art!

Marlee Bygate
Kerry Crooks
Tulja Hansen
Kathleen Baleja
Lora Northway
Sarah Furlotte
Alana Forslund
David Hotson
Barbara Benwell
Keith Catton
Helen Leaf Black
Christian Chapman

Expect 15 PERFORMANCE ACTS - 5 LIVE BANDS and 2 DJ'S to keep this fashion Parti swinging, along with: 70 ARTISTS AND TANTALIZING MODELS; HUNDREDS IN RAFFLE PRIZES; BEST D.I.Y. FASHION COSTUME PRIZES - [CREATE YOUR OWN FASHION OF RECYCLABLE CLOTHES / PAPER / PLASTIC / CARDBOARD / CANS... WHATEVER YOU IMAGINE AND WIN BIG PRIZES!]; “WALK OFF” CHALLENGES; CATWALK BRAWLING... SO HOT! PAPARAZZI MOMENTS, CHICHI DRAG QUEEN PERFORMANCES X 2 with Paloma Marquez and Fabulous Portia and delectable CATERED hors d'oeuvres COURTESY OF GOODNEWS CAFE, HERE YOU WILL BE TREATED RIGHT!... ADVICE-COME EARLY!... 450 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE LAST YEAR! WHAT’S YOUR FASHION TRIBE?... BE HAUTE! BE DERELICTE... SO CHIC!... A FUN and FABULOUS FUNDRAISER for LU RADIO and DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY - SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 at the BLACK PIRATES PUB - $8/19+/ID required. Listen for free ticket giveaways! Dress to impress and lead the fashion trendroids... challenge... win! This promises to be the event to be at for 2010... complete with a real CATWALK with the models + bands completely in your face! courtesy of Magnus Theatre.
Stay tuned and get Haute!

Urban Infill - Art In The Core, celebrating it's 4TH year; the next evolution of creative possibilities. The idea is to help revitalize our downtown core by capitalizing on assets of art and culture and linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts, commercial business / social spaces. With vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces in our downtown and help to connect and create that unique niche of an urban arts and entertainment district. The projects comprised of multi-disciplinary and new media / multi-arts by national, international and regional artists will work to enhance our level of arts programming by involving all facets and mediums of the contemporary arts and involving innovative new media technologies. Premised upon the concept of creative cities partnerships we will utilize our multi-functional gallery spaces as a creative hub for generating collective / collaborative projects not only in our gallery space but in empty / underutilized / established / commercial / art spaces throughout the downtown north core of Thunder Bay. Re-discover your North core through contemporary art! Last year had an audience of 4,500 over the duration of 20 projects. It begins... January 23, 2010... N-Gage Art!

Experience one red-hot sultry and celebratory night at Definitely Superior Art Gallery's PUBLISHING HOUSE LAUNCH PARTY! A new publishing house that will serve Northwestern Ontario and hundreds of literary artists with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council. Featuring! the official unveiling of the inspiring new name of our publishing house: burning.books.press, and the launch and sale of the 1st issues of our "Die Active" and "Squeeze" Zines that premiered at the 2009 Toronto CanZine Festival.

Enjoy a varied spectrum of award-winning word and song that will entice and delight! Featuring music by: Shy-Anne Hovorka, Vov Abraxas, Solomon, Jamie Smith of The Auditor General, Jess Horricks, and The Ukeladies; as well as author readings by: Duncan Weller, Dr. Scott Pound, Taina Maki Chahal, Sara Mackie, Chris Roy, Rick Fedorick, Douglas Livingston, Mary Frost, Chris Waite, Marianne Jones, Kaitlyn Khubyar, and Katie-Ann Berube. Plus: guest speakers-including an OAC representative, publication submission info, fire juggling by Eric The Juggler, video projections, and refreshments with arty servers dealing out treats! All ages / by donation.

CONNECTIONS - REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION
21ST ANNIVERSARY featuring 30 REGIONAL ARTISTS

Connections - the theme for our 21st Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, an open regional call for entry format designed with the following objective in mind: that local/regional professional emerging and established artists are given an opportunity to consider the relevance of the concept of Connections in terms of their own experiences, and relationships to current contemporary art practices. The gallery adheres to our mandate of identifying and encouraging contemporary artists working in all media and engaging ourselves to identify our place and role as contributors in the regional and national context. CARFAC fees are paid to artists with accepted submissions. Connections features 30 of the finest regional artists. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music - Performance - Refreshments - and three new shows. During Art Zoom.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Kathleen Baleja, in her first solo exhibition comprising of exciting new contemporary sculptural works and forms in various mediums, especially organic/found materials and the utilization of wasp paper in her figurative depictions. A unique aspect to Baleja’s show will be a live performance at the opening in Gallery 2. Baleja is a well recognized artist in the world of visual/craft and performative art as well recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Creation Grant. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music - Performance - Refreshments, and two additional shows opening.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Duncan Weller and Carol Cooper, in a two person exhibition entitled Digital Playground, comprising of an exciting series of new contemporary computer/digital works. Cooper is a well established artist in the field of digital arts and has shown internationally. Weller is an award winning artist and has been honoured with the Governor General Award for Literature in Children’s Illustration as well an accomplished literary/visual/film and multi-media artist having worked and shown extensively throughout Canada. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music - Performance - Refreshments, and two additional shows opening.

AIDS THUNDER BAY - 25 YEARS SERVICE WITHOUT JUDGEMENT
INTERNATIONAL POSTER EXHIBITION & MULTI-MEDIA

Aids Thunder Bay - 25 Years Service Without Judgement: Definitely Superior Art Gallery and Aids Thunder Bay presents an International exhibition of HIV/Aids posters to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Aids Thunder Bay. The International exhibition is strategically aimed at raising awareness of HIV/AIDS through art and social marketing. These posters provide rich and sometimes controversial examples of the diverse ways the epidemic has been viewed worldwide. This visual panorama provides a powerful opportunity for the community to see Aids Thunder Bay’s 25th Anniversary theme of Service Without Judgement come to life as the exhibition will also provide a local history from the poster archives and video & multi-media works of Aids Thunder Bay to compliment the International perspective. Poster Art-Music-Talk by Michael Sobota-Refreshments-Opening Reception Saturday Nov.ember 21 @ 7PM. All are welcome.

NEOPRIEST - 14 INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN COMTEMPORARY ARTISTS
HEADBONES GALLERY - TORONTO

You are cordially invited to NEOPRIEST - [New Pop Realists Intellectually Engaged in Story Telling] - a contemporary exhibition featuring 14 internationally known Canadian artists from Headbones Gallery - Toronto - which specializes in exciting contemporary artists and artforms of drawing, painting, sculpture and works on
paper in order to introduce curators, collectors, art appreciators and the curious general to new works. A must see exhibition of vital contemporary artists in Canada. Featuring: Srdjan Segan - Scott. P. Ellis - Robert Farmer - Ashley Johnson - Jesse McCloskey - Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo - Billy Copely - Zachari Logan - Julie Oakes - Jenny Wing Yee Tong - Scott McEwan - Ed Giordano Jr. - Aleks Bartosik. Director Richard Fogarty of Headbones Gallery will be present and giving a talk - as they are always looking for cutting edge contemporary artists in Canada - see what he has to say - you may be one of those artists! Fogarty will also be bringing a few of the
14 artists to talk about their art as well. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Artists Talks/Music Performance/Refreshments.

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Meghan Niittynen, one of the premiere drawers in Northwestern Ontario in her first solo exhibition in gallery 3. Niittynen depicts in her photo-realistic coloured pencil drawings, a record of events culminating towards a completed image/icon portraiture of individuals within the music subcultures of Metal and Rock. An important aspect is the subliminal element of visible tattoos in her portraiture, a mirror of our times capturing the zeitgeist of rock and culture today. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art-Music Performance Refreshments, and an additional show opening with Neopriests - [14 International known Contemporary artists]. Artist in attendance.

You are cordially invited to Jean-Paul De Roover’s gala launch of his new cd/dvd “Windows and Doors”-a multi-disciplinary experience of performance/music/art/film. One could compare Jean-Paul De Roover's music to a visual artist's venture, such as a painting on canvas. However, instead of admiring the finished product, he revels in the journey he takes you on over the course of a performance; a fusion of artforms befitting a gallery space. In Gallery 1: Live musical performances with Jean-Paul De Roover / Gaelin Brown / The Sparrows and “Fix” music video showcase. Gallery 2 will focus on the artists packaging showcase - original album artwork
by Greg Dubeau - behind the scenes photography by Shannon Lepere and the artistic sculptural element of the cd itself! In Gallery 3 will be the DVD content of live performance video screening from Apple Wagon Films. Jean-Paul De Roover performed at NXNE 2009 and has toured throughout Canada. He is a critically acclaimed artist and the recipient of an Ontario Arts Council grant towards the production of this CD/DVD - Music/Art/ Performance/Refreshments. One night only!

THE LATEST ARTISTS - TOUR OF NEW MEDIA - [LIVE DJ / VJ PERFORMANCE + WORKSHOPS/TALK] - OTTAWA

Internationally known The Latest Artists [ DJ Andrew O’Malley + VJ Deborah O’Malley] from Ottawa are a dynamic audio/visual [a/v] team who seamlessly blend electronic music with video art to create captivating and intriguing, coordinated a/v performances. After launching their duo act in Berlin Germany in 2007 they have continued to hone their craft performing extensively in Ottawa, but include Toronto, France, Dublin, and Amsterdam. On a national tour with a stop in Thunder Bay, you have an opportunity and are invited to a live and very unique multi-disciplinary performance by The Latest Artists in the art of improvising live interpretations of visual/audio art and then stay for the workshop and artists talk designed to inform, educate and exchange ideas with students, artists and other professionals in the growing world of live audio/visual mixing. Performance and workshops are by donation and refreshments will be served - everyone is welcome.

We’re having a Birthday P.arty!... and everyone is invited, we encourage all members to submit and help celebrate Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s 21st anniversary year. The Annual Members Exhibition offers the opportunity for both emerging and established artists to share exhibition space. The lack of restriction is designed to encourage eclectic and experimental works in response. Presentation of the work facilitates those artists whose art investigates social, political, and critical issues of importance. We encourage all members to submit and help celebrate... wow, we are finally of legal drinking age in the USA, get you’re passports ready... growing up is very exciting! A selection of members work will also be exhibited at Lot 66 in the lounge until August31. Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances and two new exhibitions Friday June 26 @ 7:00PM

Definitely Superior offers an alternative venue for the Film students outside the institution of the College system. An ongoing partnership with Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. Over the duration of the show will be selected screenings of graduate films. The fusion of art exhibitions is successful in cross pollinating audiences as it results in a greater number of the community viewing and participating in an amazing multi-disciplinary art forum. Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances and two new exhibitions Friday June 26 @ 7:00PM

PART ONE - ZOMBIEWALK

Entertainment on the Harbourfest Main Stage-6:45pm
Lots of Zombies All Ages
FOREVER DEAD - [Punk/Rockabilly/Rock]
Zombie Dancers

BYOB - Bring your own brains for the Zombie Walk - for those who know not what they are we encourage you to google it - this is a fun and participatory public performance activity started by horror movie fans turned mainstream / popular. People get together dressed up like zombies, and do what zombies do best, lurch, shamble and drag barely hinged limbs down the street - this is campy theatrical fun anyone can participate in! They’re everywhere worldwide and have even encouraged cities to compete in breaking the world record for the largest gathering of Zombies - are you a world record breaking city Thunder Bay? For example; Grand Rapids, Michigan holds the 2008 Guinness World Record of 4,000 Zombies, crazy for a city their size. For Zombie Walk participants, donations of non-perishable and canned food items for local food banks would be appreciated. One of the aspects of Zombie walks is to raise awareness of Hunger in the world.

ZOMBIE WALK - Get Dead at 5:45 - 6:15pm meet at Definitely Superior Art Gallery then at 6:15 - 6:45 the dead will walk out into the Downtown Thunder Bay North Core - we will give you instructions - at 6:45 Zombies will take over the Main Stage at Harbourfest where Rockabilly band faves Forever Dead will perform along with Zombie Dancers - please refrain from eating others while Zombie moshing. During the day in front of the Black Pirates Pub there will be a make - up station to help you get Zombified and a Blood Orange Juice station - maybe a dirt pit to roll around in to truly make it look like you were in the ground - We are encouraging all forms of Zombies to form, from high art Mexican Day of the Dead zombies to classic horror zombies, fast zombies, slow zombies, green and blue and grey zombies, bloody and beautiful zombies as long as your dead... What do we want?... Brains! When do we want them?... uunghh!

PART TWO - ZOMBIE BALL

Entertainment at the Aftermath Party Black Pirates Pub-8pm-19+Event-$8 at the door

1 RAH RAH - [Regina - NXNE-Montreal Pop - charted in Exclaim] - [Indie/Alternative/Rock]
www.myspace.com/rahrahband

2 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS - [Halifax] - [Shoegaze/Rock/Alternative]
www.myspace.com/thesleeplessnights

3 FOREVER DEAD - [Punk/Rockabilly/Rock]
www.myspace.com/foreverdeadmusic

4 VEGA - [Rock/Alternative/Pop]
www.myspace.com/vegaaudio

5 ROCK TRUCK - [Rock/Rock/Rock]
www.myspace.com/rocktruck

6 MERCEDES OVERDOSE - [Skitzo Crack Rock/Performance]

7 WEBSTER DEATH - [HipHop/Indie/HipHop - Winner Cravefest International Video Awards - Toronto]
www.myspace.com/websterdeath17

8 BOTTOM ROCKERS - [Rock/Post Punk/Ska]
www.myspace.com/bottomrockers

9 ADAPTIVE REACTION - [Hard EBM - Industrial/Electro/Gothic]
www.myspace.com/adaptivereaction

10 THE KETTLE BLACK - [Ottawa - Progressive Folk Art/Punk]
www.myspace.com/nickjohannes

Zombie Sushie Chef Performance
Zombie Drag with-Zombie Huntress-[Fabulous Portia]
Zombie GoGo Dancers
Zombie Projections
Zombie Costume Contest
Zombie Raffle
Appetizers for Zombies and Victims

All 19+ Zombies and victims are invited to The Zombie Ball aftermath party at The Black Pirates Pub with an incredible 10 Living Dead bands + performances. There will be a Zombie Sushi Chef performance and of course appetizers for all those walking dead and see Zombie GoGo Girls and Zombie drag as well as best Zombie costume contest for amazing prizes and lots of raffle prizes to take back to your grave. Be there or be eaten! Starting at 8pm - The Black Pirates Pub-$8 at the door. Proceeds from the Zombie Ball go towards a musicians development fund, specifically for alt/indie [original all genres] Thunder Bay Bands to aid in CD Production and Touring. Times / Locations: keep informed here or at WWW.TBSHOWS.COM - WWW.BAYCORE.NET - WWW.HARBOURFEST2009.COM and sponsors LU Radio 102.7fm tune in for reports on the dead.

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents: AN INDIE FILM NIGHT - Minicine DOUBLE BILL - featuring the screening of UNDERTOW, a critically acclaimed film directed by Piotr Skowronski of Thunder Bay, having just won Best Director at the 2009 Northern Ontario Music and Film in Motion Festival in Sudbury. The Undertow screening is also the DVD launch complete with new music and sound mix by composer Paul Valikoski - [Berlin Germany]. Proceeds will go towards assisting with festivalization of the film, help support and send a unique story about identity filmed in Thunder Bay out into the world! Undertow features the talents of Canadian professional actors and actresses [ACTRA] and has received production grants from the National Film Board and Ontario Arts Council. The second film is THE
WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER 1962 - underground cult film featuring music by a young Frank Zappa. A classic example of underground film-making and an impossible to forget oddity that was light years ahead of its time. Carey’s wildly uninhibited lead performance so inanely over the top it nearly attains its own category. 2 Films and live music by Jason Lennstrom - [$5/doors open 7:30pm] N-Gage Art!

Part of the gallery’s SPRING VERNISSAGE comprised of 3 new exhibitions is a musical cocktail of critically acclaimed Montreal bands featuring MIXYLODIAN - [Psychedelic/Ghettotech/Pop] and KARN - [Club/Club] with local stars AIR AMERICA - [Hiphop/Electro/Rock]. Come get your fill of all that is art and a taste of Montreal POP. Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music - Refreshments - Tues. May 12 @ 7PM. Artists in attendance. Suggested donation of $5 or pay what you can. All Ages at Definitely Superior Art Gallery. N-Gage Art!

Definitely Superior Art Gallery provides annual gallery space to the Lakehead University graduating students encouraging a positive transition into their status as professional artists. All graduates will present works they have completed in their last four years along with new works. Congratulations; Vernon Allen, Janice Andrews, Elizabeth Buset, Katelynn Clarey, Dimitra Maluzynsky, Barbara Rickards, Alyx Sparkes, and Kim Warwick. Opening reception with musical performances by Montreal bands Mixylodian, DJ Karn and Thunder Bays own Air America. Art - Music - Refreshments. Artists in attendance. Support the artists of the future!

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features recent graduates of the Visual Arts Program at Lakehead University - Lorne Glena and Jay Starratt in an individual yet collaborative exhibition. Glena and Starratt both share a unique style and interest in exploring the properties of materials utilized in the creation of their two and three dimensional works.

Internationally known Italian based artist known as BLU, has consistently created highly original and innovative public works utilizing drawing - animation and the streets as his canvas in a unique hybrid of new media art. See what internationally, and via the internet, everyone is talking about - an incredible street stop motion animation video presented in the gallery on the big screen. You won’t believe your eyes!

The Tokyo Pop + Shock Cabaret is an event of epic proportions, featuring 30 acts, so massive an event, it will take up three bar venues!!! but only one cover charge of $8!!!! Pick your story, Pop or Shock, move between bars and interact with 30+ red hot incendiary acts! Exotic Fire Performance, Sensational Super Circus - [tight rope walker, jugglers, twirlers], Belly Dancers, Pop + Shock film, Drag Queens + Manga Dancers giving treats and 19 live bands and Dj’s playing head-to-head for mangatronic sound supremacy - big screen video projections, lots of product placement and surprises! Advice... come early... Thousands in raffle prizes, prizes for best manga/anime or tokyoshock costumes, free sushi! Treat yourself to the wildest, slickest ****Year of the Ox**** party you’ll ever experience! Saturday March 21 starting at 8pm- Tokyo Pop + Shock.... Super good number one! This will not be Tofu! 19+ ID required. Closing party for Urban Infill-Art In The Core-700 in attendance last year...support the arts!

Promonium Jesters [Toronto-industrial/psychedelic/rock]
The Kettle Black [Ottawa-experimental/punk/folk]
Forever Dead [red hot rockabilly/psychobilly]
Webster Death [hiphop/indie-international video awards]
Cosmic Granola [60’s/funk/jam]
Rock Truck [rock/rock/rock]
The Alaska Army Band [hybrid rock/funk/jazz/rock]
Ocean City Defender [indie/shoegaze]
Love Subtract [doom folk /rock]
Mercedes Overdose [skitzo crack rock]
Makeshift Astronaut [garage/psychedelic/big beat]
Jean Paul De Roover [experimental/indie/acoustic]
Air America [hiphop/electro/rock]
Adaptive Reaction [industrial/electro/gothic]
Death & Destruction [grindcore /punk/rock]
The Communication [reggae/rock]
The Gaelin Brown Experience [indie/pop/rock]
Eyes of Chong [rock/stoner rock]
Rian Riot [dark folk/ indie]
DJ Panda [asian pop} - DJ MOFO [asian shock]
Manga Word / Performance
Capalu's Comicon Circus -[tightrope walk/juggling...more]
Satu’s Tokyo Belly Dancers-[exotic+entrancing]
Linzee Martin -[fire animation-poi performer] Anika Marques does Tokyo -[drag performances]
Ray Atwood Live Painting -[to be raffled off @ event]
Manga Dancers / Messengers
Film / Projections -[TokyoPop/Shock-anime/horror]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Discover Urban Art at Uncle Mowglies Skate N Paint located at [215 Red River Rd.Arthur Square.] - a fresh and exciting new art enterprise downtown, dealing with aspects of youth / urban graffiti art and skate culture. Owners James and Dave are filling a unique and vital niche in the downtown core for younger alternative artists and enthusiasts - bring your skateboard, they even have a half tube in the shop and all the paints / supplies and clothing to keep you edgy. Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

12 St. Paul Gallery - Chenier Fine Arts - The Rainge Gallery - The Ruttan Block Studios

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Commercial galleries - Chenier Fine Arts [at 8S Court St.] features highly accomplished national as well as regional artists - 12 St.Paul Gallery [12 St. Paul St.] features critically acclaimed international contemporary art from the Dr. Bob Chaudhuri Collection as well as regional artists - The Rainge Gallery [at 204 Red River Rd.] features a selection of regional artists - Artists Studios in the Ruttan Block - featuring Christian Chapman - Linda Dell - Foster Gauley - Rory Bohler and more.... All will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Northern Womens Bookstore celebrating their 25th anniversary in the community represents one aspect of some 20 projects in the core, offering the opportunity for you to explore women’s art, literature, books and poetry. The Bookstore fills an important niche as it provides local and regional access to feminist literature in Northwestern Ontario and an important resource for women in Thunder Bay who are keen to explore feminist philosophy and analysis. Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Lakehead University Visual Art Students / Graduate work represents one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. Part of our ongoing partnership with Lakehead University Visual Arts Department to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. LU Student Exhibition locations were generously donated and are located at the former Treasure House [232 Red River Rd] and the former Whole Nine Yards at [222-224 Red River Rd. - Al Azzolini owner] - Exhibition dates: Wed, Mar, 18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Confederation College Multimedia students will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. The exhibitions will feature a series of digital designs both 2D & 3D to celebrate the students exceptional skills and involve video displays of their animation work; look for video projections as well. The Con College Multimedia Production Students locations were generously donated and are located at the former Treasure House [232 Red River Rd] and the former Whole Nine Yards at [222-224 Red River Rd. - Al Azzolini owner] - Exhibition dates: Wed, Mar, 18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Confederation College Film Program students will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. An ongoing partnership with Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. Over the duration of the show will be screenings of a compilation of some 25 films by students in their first and final years. The Con College Film Production Students locations were generously donated and are located at the former Treasure House [232 Red River Rd] and the former Whole Nine Yards at [222-224 Red River Rd. - Al Azzolini owner] - Exhibition dates: Wed, Mar, 18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty + active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts / cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The DefSup Members Show represents one aspect of some 20 projects in the core, offering the opportunity for both emerging and professional artists to share exhibition space. The idea: that with vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces and help to connect and create a unique urban arts district. DefSup Members Exhibition locations were generously donated and are located at the former Treasure House [232 Red River Rd] and the former Whole Nine Yards at [222-224 Red River Rd.-Al Azzolini owner] - Exhibition dates: Wed, Mar 18-21, 12-6pm. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception at Definitely Superior Art Gallery Wed.Mar.21 @ 7-10pm with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists - pick up your map and then follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination and all the exciting Urban Infill locations. Re-discover your north core through art & culture. [refreshments - music - performances]

International contemporary artists comprise an impressive collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in this borrowed exhibition from Dr. Bob Chaudhuri of Thunder Bay with the assistance of Steve Potosky, of 12 St. Paul Gallery. Critically acclaimed artists such as Angela Grossman, Gregory Payce, Vessna Perunovich, Dana Wyse, Bradley Harms, Adam Makarenko, Cybele Young, Marc Sequin, Bradely Harms, Jane Irwin, Ken Singer, Chris Kukura and more... All featured in major art magazines. This exhibition is part of our focused professional programming that informs and feeds into the regional arts expression, providing a forum for the public and artist community coming into contact with works, artists and experiences that would otherwise not be available. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture - Art, refreshments, artists talks, music performances

Internationally known London UK based artist Kelly Richardson’s artistic practice falls under the category of media-art. Her consistently original and innovative video work involving photoconceptualism and nature spring not only from a long history of Canadian landscape art, but more specifically derive from challenging the Vancouver School of Jeff Wall, Roy Arden and Stan Douglas. Her works have been exhibited internationally at various galleries from the Busan Biennale, Korea [2008] to the New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival and critically acclaimed in major national and international art magazines. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture - Art, refreshments, artists talks, music - performances

Internationally known Toronto based artist Melanie Authier’s abstract paintings are intense colourful journeys of an imaginary world. Authier's paintings express the idea of the mediated landscape, while remaining attentive to all the rhetorical possibilities of the languages of abstract painting. Her paintings probe both the ways that landscape is presented to us and the ways that we experience it in the 21st century. Authier has been the recipient of numerous creation grants/awards and is exhibiting extensively nationally. She received Honourable Mention and a purchase prize for the 9th Annual RBC National Painting Competition (2007). Authier will also be giving a talk on her artform. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national / international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture - Art, refreshments, artists talks, music - performances

Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. Be on the lookout for culture jamming, subvertisements or just plain beautiful art making, and film, all projected into our urban environment. These will be interventions, so get out of your house and into the city, you’ll never know what you might see and discover when you explore. More from the new art of electronic graffiti and credit to Krzysztof Wodiczko for bringing this technology into the streets. Definitely Superior Art Gallery brings the general public and the artistic community into contact with works, artists and experience that would not otherwise be available. Location-somewhere/anywhere downtown north core. N-Gage Art!

Come out for an original night of Elektronika, where stylistic fusions involving traditional and electronic instruments will collide in a live forum of massive video projections and innovative musical performances by;

featured artist performing Japanese Noise Music, Paul Hegarty from Ireland
Adaptive Reaction
Jean Paul De Roover [and his theremin device]
IGBC
Spasmod
Purity Control
Dee Anna Bortion with the fabulous Fantasia
Rian Riot
Kevin Element
Air America (turntablism & mixing)
plus the music of DJ Metal Machine Myke
Alex Pudas
and Tenka!

...Begin with the screening of videos/films by Director Chris Cunningham; one of the most ground breaking and seminal cyberpunk film makers whose work has infiltrated the underground and the mainstream with his state-of-the-art video techniques for such bands as Aphex Twin & Rubber Johnny, Portishead, Bjork, Madonna, Squarepusher, and more- characterized by hyperkinetic imagery with extreme surrealistic vision. Screening at 8:00pm - 45 min. Digital mayhem then begins with the new sounds of Electronika... Experience electricity in your diet. Electronika 2; Saturday February 28 @ 8PM - resfreshments - $5 at the door - licensed event - All Ages - ID required. N-Gage Art!

Paul Hegarty is a professor at the University College Cork, Ireland, specializing in thought & visual culture and is a practicing sound artist composing installation and performance work as well as specializing in Japanese Noise Music. This is an informational / hands on workshop and talk open to the public. Hegarty will present material from his critically acclaimed book, which will also be available for purchase - NOISE / MUSIC: A HISTORY... yes, he actually wrote the must have book on noise. Hegarty delves into a socio-musicological examination of the ever-changing threshold of tolerance between music and noise in a wide variety of musical genres during the 20th century. Noise is also put into an historical context spanning through the first experiments with electronical music in the fifties, the avante-garde in the sixties, the Industrial and Punk movements in the seventies, musique concrete and free jazz to Japanese noise rocker Merzbow. What is it? Where does it come from? What possibilities open up with new sound processing opportunities? Come by the gallery if you want to know more. All served up for you with refreshments too! Definitely Superior Art Gallery-250 Park Ave - admission by Donation. N-Gage Art! Thanks to Dr. Gary Genosko of the Lakehead University TechnoCulture Lab.

Come and soar through the themes of love, lust and life with MOTUS O's [critically acclaimed Toronto multi-disciplinary theatrical dance company] interpretation of Carl Orff's CARMINA BURANA. Fate or freedom? Divine rule or personal fulfillment? A band of renegade monks denounce their training and journey through colourful landscapes to drink deeply of the offerings of this world. Along the way, they meet an array of characters, including an angel, a devil, a pair of lovers, a cowboy, a taskmaster, even Fate herself! Each encounter with these and other seemingly whimsical and non-sensical figures further illuminates the shadow and light found in the human soul. With Orff's powerful operatic score pumping through MOTUS O's seamless weaving of live video footage, stunning costumes and their signature innovative choreography, this show erupts on stage as an exhilarating theatrical barrage of the senses! Motus-O will also be offering a bonus performance of Varitions In Love. SATURDAY,February 21 at 8pm Definitely Superior Art Gallery - $10/All Ages. Location 250 Park Ave. Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core-featuring-20 projects-350 artists-15 downtown locations and an audience of 4,500 last year- N-Gage Art.

Internationally known Toronto based artist / printmaker Leszek Wyczolkowski’s artwork comprises of a series of aquatints, etchings and embosings that reflect the artist’s continued quest for the balance of two worlds; one comprised of intellect, geometry and order bound by strong craftsmanship; the other soft, organic, sensitive and instinctive. These two key elements are the foundation of Wyczolkowski’s art, the result of which is the starting point of the viewer’s imagination. Wyczolkowski has shown extensively in more than 150 exhibitions in over 15 countries and his works appear in as many collections worldwide. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with a second new exhibition featuring national artist Daryl Vocat and a Premiere Performance of Heart-Strings featuring regional artists Tanya Elchuk and Amy Crnkovic. Art-performance-refreshments-music.

Nationally known Toronto based artist / printmaker Daryl Vocat’s artwork comprises of a series of screen prints that explores the creation and maintenance of ideology. It looks at the intersections between natural, cultural and social influences, and how an understanding of these concepts influences who we are, what we identify with, and how we act. Vocat’s work is a collage of sorts combining vivid colours, line, narratives and combination / juxtapostions in ways to tackle intimidating subjects with images and phrases from literature and popular culture creating a beautiful artform. Vocat has been the recipient of numerous creation grants awards and is exhibiting extensively nationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with a second new exhibition featuring international artist Leszek Wyczolkowski and Premiere Performance of Heart-Strings featuring regional artists Tanya Elchuk and Amy Crnkovic. Art-refreshments-artists talk-music.

Heart-Strings is a new, original physical comedy not for the faint of heart, coarse language and blood 'n guts warnings apply! The tale of one girl's inquiry into the impossibly irrational nature of a certain blood-pumping organ, this sensory feast of movement, storytelling and live music will take you on a dynamic, rollicking adventure through the irresistible desires and tumultuous emotions of the heart. Created / performed by Amy Crnkovic and Tanya Elchuk - Written by Tanya Elchuk - Original music by Amy Crnkovic - Premiere performance Friday February 6 and an encore performance Saturday February 14 @ 8pm. Come early on Friday Feb. 6 @ 7pm for the gala opening reception of two international printmaking exhibitions in the gallery featuring Dialogue: Nature and Geometry by Leszek Wyczolkowski and The Translator's Conundrum by Daryl Vocat both of Toronto. Join us for catered refreshments/music and of course the premiere performance of HEART-STRINGS, start off your night right! Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core Projects featuring - 20 projects - 350 artists - 15 downtown locations and an audience of 4,500 last year. N-Gage Art.

DERELICTE!... on Saturday January 24th, starting at 8pm. EXPERIENCE!… ONE HAUTE COUTURE NIGHT OF FASHION, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE!!! Featuring: 6 LOCAL FASHION HOUSES - Paper People Clothing, Creation Body Piercing, Red Earth Imports, The Loop, Natural Habit, Pneumaticity and Le Chic; WEARABLE ART FASHION EXHIBITION with Jen Fukushima[Nabuko], Tulja Hansen, Marlee Bygate, Kathleen Baleja, Lora Northway, Sarah Furlotte, Caitlyn McMillan; 70 ARTISTS, 15 PERFORMANCE ACTS and 5 LIVE BANDS - Mercedes Overdose, Cosmic Granola, The Communication, Adaptive Reaction and Rock Truck; 2 DJ’S - Doran and Savvy; Hundreds in raffle prizes; Best D.I.Y. Fashion costume prizes; “WALK OFF” challenges; Catwalk Brawling... So hot! Paparazzi moments, Chichi Drag Queen Performances X 2 - Paloma Marquez and Fabulous Portia, and delectable hors d'oeuvres by SWEET PEA HOME CATERING! Advice... come early! What’s your fashion tribe? BE HAUTE! BE DERELICTE! A Fun and fabulous fundraiser for LU RADIO and DEFINITELY SUPERIOR ART GALLERY. CATWALK courtesy of Magnus Theatre.

Urban Infill-Art In The Core, celebrating it's 3rd year; the next evolution of creative possibilities. The idea is to help revitalize our downtown core by capitalizing on assets of art and culture and linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts, commercial business/social spaces. With vision, innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces in our downtown and help to connect and create that unique niche of an urban arts and entertainment district. The projects, comprised of multi-disciplinary and new media/multi-arts, by national, international and regional artists will work to enhance our level of arts programming by involving all facets and mediums of the contemporary arts and involving innovative new media technologies. Premised upon the concept of creative cities partnerships we will utilize our multi-functional gallery spaces as a creative hub for generating collective/collaborative projects not only in our gallery space but in empty / underutilized / established / commercial / art spaces throughout the downtown north core of Thunder Bay. Re-discover your North core through contemporary art! Last year had an audience of 4,500 over the duration of 20 projects. It begins... January 24-March 31, 2009 N-Gage Art!

NOCAA-10:
[NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ARTISTS]
10 multi-disciplinary regional artists

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents NOCAA-10, [Northwestern Ontario Contemporary Aboriginal Artists]. A multi-disciplinary experience of visual art and performance. This thought-provoking exhibition showcases new and existing works by 10 of the leading emerging contemporary Aboriginal artists in the region. The exhibition features painting, film/video, musical performances and spoken-word, which explore the ways in which past and present continue to merge and shape the artists art-form and means of story telling. NOCAA-10 will be on display from December 6 to January 10. This exhibition features 10 artists with more than 30 individual artworks and performances. The Visual Artists: Eric Keast, Richard (Asham) Fedorick, Christian Chapman, Danny Cutfeet, Michelle Derosier + Thunderstone Pictures, Musical Performances by: Shy-Anne Hovorka, Solomon-[Nolan Schmerk], Department of Rhythmic Affairs featuring Robin Ranger, Tenka-[Jonah Mamakeesic] and Spoken Word with Chris Waite. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception Saturday December 6 at 7pm with Art - Musical Performances - Spoken-word - Refreshments - all artists will be in attendance and all are welcome.

Featuring 39 acts - 21 live bands - 3 DJ's - 110 artists,
@ 3 Bars: JACK'S / KILROY'S / BLACK PIRATES PUB
ALL FOR ONE COVER CHARGE OF $10

The Hunger Cabaret is a Halloween event of epic proportions featuring 39 acts! So massive an event it will take up three bar venues... see Kilroy’s, Jack’s, and the Black Pirates Pub Stories unfold - for only one cover charge of $10. Pick your story, diabolic or devilicious. Move between bars and interact with every soul along the way, you could even win prizes in the street. Feed your hunger with a night of death defying performances and orgiastic maneuvers of delight... with 39 red hot incendiary acts! Featuring an unbelievable 21 live bands and 3 Dj’s playing head to head for scario-tronic sound supremacy. See Satu’s Belly Dancers, Dead Dolls Burlesque, Fire Manipulators, Drag Performances, Amy Whinehouse [parody], Circus of Doom, Shadow Word Performance, Noir film, Dehva's Tarot Readings and our Dark Angel Messengers dancing and dealing out their treats... big screen video projections and surprises! Some good advice... come early. There were 900 in attendance last year and you don’t want to miss a thing. Thousands in raffle prizes, and big prizes for best costumes at each location, plus free candy and suckers! Treat yourself to the wildest, slickest Halloween you’ll ever experience on Friday, October 31 at 8:00pm - The Hunger Cabaret V.3 - a sensual feast of poise and attitude!.

Communication - the theme for our 20th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, an open regional call for entry format designed with the following objective in mind: that local/regional emerging and established artists are given an opportunity to consider the relevance of the concept of Communication in terms of their own experiences, and relationships to current contemporary art practices. The gallery adheres to our mandate of identifying and encouraging contemporary artists working in all media and engaging ourselves to identify our place and role as contributors in the regional and national context. The deadline for submission is Saturday Oct 11, 2008. Drop off your art between Tues Oct 7 - Sat Oct 11 with an artists statement. CARFAC fees paid to successful applicants. Art-Music Performance-Refreshments Opening Reception Fri. Oct.17 @ 7PM. Artists in attendance.

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Chris Stones and Quentin Maki in an individual yet collaborative exhibition in galleries 2 and 3. Chris Stones' approach to art construction is with intuitive, spontaneous and qualified abandon. It is an art of parts that is drawn largely from materials quarried over years, and often from waterfronts. Transmission, the working title for this exhibit, hints at an infatuated appreciation for vintage machinery that Quentin and he share. Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music Performance - Refreshments and an additional show opening with the DefSup Annual-Regional Juried Exhibition with artists in attendance.

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Chris Stones and Quentin Maki in an individual yet collaborative exhibition in galleries 2 and 3. Quentin Maki describes his paintings as visceral and serve as a record of events [movements] that have transpired, and culminating towards a completed image. He says of his abstract paintings; the expectation of a final product drives him to create, however, the end result is usually unexpected. A personal voyage into the unknown is where he feels the least comfort, but at the same time most compelled to explore. Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art - Music Performance - Refreshments and an additional show opening with the DefSup Annual-Regional Juried Exhibition with artists in attendance.

A partnership initiative between the Thunder Bay Public Library and Definitely Superior Art Gallery in order to present a series of 30 spoken word performances throughout the City of Thunder Bay and all branches of the library during National Literacy and Random Acts of Poetry Week from October 6 to October 12. See and hear the Definitely Superior Poetry Construction Crew as they randomly bring urban interventions to our public venues, schools and institutions, coffee shops, radio, television, street corners, transit... your very home! Warning!... it’s Poetry Construction season! Spoken Word Poetry Construction Crew 2007 - Chris Roy, Taina Maki Chahal, Chris Waite, Tanya Elchuk, Sharon Irvine, Douglas Livingston, Amy Crnkovic, Sarah Mackie, Black Rose, Katie Berube, Mary Frost, Sue Blott, Erin Stewart, Alice Sabourin, Sean Devine, Josh Deperry, Renee Terpstra, Scott Pound, Holly Haggarty - up to 20 artists. It may very well be one of the largest poetry performances in Canada! Performance schedule available at the Public Library front desk as well check at www.facebook.com [click “groups” and search Definitely Superior Art Gallery]

Marjorie Clayton formally of Thunder Bay returns from London England with her award winning internationally recognized photography dealing with global socio-political ideas/concepts, to exhibit alongside her father, Charlie Clayton-[one of DefSup’s founding members], a photographer of Northwestern Ontario’s urban and natural landscapes. A unique global meets regional show that celebrates former members making their international mark and DefSup’s 20th Anniversary! Bumpsters of Banjul [Gambia West Africa] is a series of poignant B&W photographs dealing with the marginalized people known as Bumpsters and their life as illegal hustlers in the tourist trade of Gambia, away from the tourist complex, at their homes with family and friends. Accompanied by quotes and other caption material, the viewer is given insight into the bumpsters and their lives as people fighting for survival rather than illegal hustlers in a society that shuns them. Artist Charlie/Marjorie Clayton and Peter Kingstone present new works with photography/video around the curatorial thread of Communication.

Charlie Clayton, one of DefSup’s founding members and one of the premiere photographers of Northwestern Ontario’s urban and natural landscapes exhibits alongside his daughter and international artist Marjorie Clayton. This is a unique global meets regional show that celebrates former members making their international mark and DefSup’s 20th Anniversary! Memoryscapes is a series of thought provoking B&W photographs dealing with the idea of memories as an almost physical thing, as if we could look into ourselves and "see" a landscape of memories through images. There are many shadows in a memoryscape, It is full of mystery, It is losing oneself in place, objects and people in Northwestern Ontario from long ago... these memories are to be found echoing throughout Clayton’s imagery. Artists-Charlie/Marjorie Clayton and Peter
Kingstone present new works with photography/video around the curatorial thread of Communication.

COMMUNITY PROMOTION PARTNERS:
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Award winning Toronto-based artist Peter Kingstone works with video and photography, often experimenting with narrative to explore ideas of personal history and the intangible nature of truth. Kingstone’s new documentary, 100 Stories About My Grandmother, is a video installation weaving together portraits of male sex trade workers [international interviews] telling stories about their grandmothers. Sharing family stories may seem banal, but inviting sex trade workers to do so becomes a way of including them in a society that is all too frequently eager to reject them. Audiences are invited to spend time listening to the thoughts and memories of this marginalized community. Kingstone holds a Philosophy degree from Trent University and MFA from York. His work has been shown across Canada and throughout the U.S.A. He is a winner of the best solo exhibition in an alternative space at the Toronto Untitled Awards 2004. Artists-Peter Kingstone and Charlie/Marjorie Clayton present new works with photography/video around the curatorial thread of Communication.

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents: FLY ON THE WALL - discover the downtown northcore alleys with a series of original art performances by the Empty Space Collective. Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and take a Guided Tour of unique performances with the conceptual starting point of “the day before the end of the world” with you as voyeur! Performances by: Amy Crnkovic, Jolene Simko, Sarah Mackie, Tanya Elchuk, and Douglas Livingston. The tour begins at 7:30pm, and if you should miss the gala performance there will be a 2nd Tour date: Sat. June 14 @ 7:30PM. Fly On The Wall is part of the Gala Opening Reception of three exhibitions: Art + Refreshments + Music - and there will be exquisite birthday cupcakes, artist talks and much much more... It all starts Sat. June 7 @ 7:00pm during The City of Thunder Bay Great Weekend / Harbour Arts Festival. Join us for a grand after party [Pirate Patch Party - Decadance] at The Black Pirate Pub @ 10pm - located downtown @ 215 Red River Rd. in the alleyway beside Scotia Bank.

Thar be a PIRATE PATCH PARTY on th' har'izon in Plunder Bay! Come join us for Definitely Superior Art Gallery's after party Pirate Patch Party-DecaDANCE at the hottest new entertainment venue in town, The Back Pirate Pub, starting at 10pm. We encourage all to wear an eye patch... just b'cause it'd be Biz..ARRRe! or any kind of neo pirate wear and enjoy summer in a truly decadent manner as we will be serving exquisite pirate cupcakes. There will be lots of booty to be won. Come out and see Tattoos and Body Piercings and five diverse and incredible live bands to entertain your parrots off. Forever Dead [Rockabilly], Adaptive Reaction [Industrial / Electronic], The Wayback [Rock / Punk / Garage], Rian Riot [Acoustic Folk / Punk], The Rad Kids [Punk] Savvy! Win a prize for best patch... eye patch that be. All proceeds are going to a regional musicians development fund for touring bands and CD production of which all performers at this event will be recipients, help artists as only you can. Only $5, 19+ event, Music starts at 10pm at the Black Pirate Pub located in the downtown northcore @ 215 Red River Rd in the alleyway next to the Scotiabank. Welcome The Black Pirate Pub to the downtown and help celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Definitely Superior Art Gallery [supporting contemporary art and the artists that produce it!]... Glee!

We’re having a Birthday P.arty!...and everyone is invited. We encourage all members, past and present, to submit art and help celebrate Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s 20th anniversary year. The Annual Members Exhibition offers the opportunity for both novice and established artists to share exhibition space with no restrictions... except your own imagination. A selection of members work will also be exhibited at Lot 66 in the lounge until August31. A special feature of this show will be some of the artwork of Stan Kalaska dedicated to the memory of a unique and outstanding artist who has recently passed away - LU Alumni - DefSup Member - Friend, he will be sadly missed, but, he also loved a great party... make it so! Gala Opening Reception of three exhibitions and performance art: Art-Refreshments + Music. See FLY ON THE WALL - [downtown northcore alley’s will be a place of discovery with art performances - take the guided tour] - and there will be exquisite birthday cupcakes, artist talks and much much more... It all starts Sat. June 7 @ 7:00pm during The City of Thunder Bay Great Weekend / Harbour Arts Festival. Join us for a grand After Party at The Black Pirate Pub @ 10pm!

Vancouver Artist Kelly Phillips presents a unique installation of large graphite etchings and pewter castings of Highway 587 to Silver Islet. By bringing graphite and paper to bear on 587 through direct pressure frottages, Phillips attempts, like long ago monks and alchemists to “read” the story of the road revealed on its surface. Its “material failure”, as geologists would call it, is a record of the struggle for scarce resources as much as the impact of extreme weather. The “road runes” record the environmental conditions of northern Ontario as well as its social and political geography. Gala Opening Reception of three exhibitions and performance art: Art + Refreshments + Music. See FLY ON THE WALL - [downtown northcore alley’s will be a place of discovery with art performances - take the guided tour] - and there will be exquisite birthday cupcakes, artist talks and much much more... It all starts Sat. June 7 @ 7:00pm during The City of Thunder Bay Great Weekend / Harbour Arts Festival!

Definitely Superior offers an alternative venue for the Film students to show their work outside the institution of the College system. This is an ongoing partnership with Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. Over the duration of the show will be screenings of 25 graduate films. T he fusion of art exhibitions is successful in cross pollinating audiences as it results in a greater number of the community viewing and participating in an amazing multi-disciplinary art forum. Gala Opening Reception of three exhibitions and performance art: Art + Refreshments + Music. See FLY ON THE WALL - [downtown northcore alley’s will be a place of discovery with art performances-take the guided tour] - and there will be exquisite birthday cupcakes, artist talks and much much more... It all starts Sat. June 7 @ 7:00pm during The City of Thunder Bay Great Weekend / Harbour Arts Festival. Join us for a grand After Party at The Black Pirate Pub @ 10PM.!

The “Red Rebel Flag Brigade” is a super-fun! Mobile 1950’s hotrod/greaser girl style performance, inspired by the exciting cliff racing scene in the film “Rebel Without A Cause”, starring James Dean & Natalie Wood, and performed randomly at downtown north partner events. This is part of the City of Thunder Bay’s "The Great Weekend” and Harbour Arts Festival - Watch for them!

Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s ongoing partnership with the Lakehead University Visual Arts Department allows students to gain experience in research, production, presentation and provides annual gallery space to the graduating students encouraging a positive transition into their status as professional artists with developing careers in the arts. All graduates will present works they have completed in their last four years of the Visual Arts Program along with new works. Congratulations graduates; Sarah Furlotte, Matt Wyatt, Nevada Panteluk, Jasmine Martine Ruberto, Stephanie Trottier, Hillary McDowell, Caitlyn McMillan, Ryan Slivchak, Nolana Hardy, Lee Gastmeier. The opening reception will feature music performances by Foster Powell/This Celebrated pedestrian... and more. Art - Music - Refreshments. All artists will be in attendance. Come out and support the artists of the future now!

Urban Infill, Thunder Bay’s newest arts and culture event, will present “Quartets In The Harbour” on Thursday, March 27th at 8pm at the Paramount Theatre (24 Court St. upstairs). A World Premiere performance with scores by five contemporary national composers featuring; Jared Hynnes, Chedo Berone, Stephen Cortens, Patrick Horn, and Joseph Trivers. Quartets In The Harbour will showcase the talents of contracted Thunder Bay Symphony members string musicians Nick Ross, Jenn Bryan, Patrick Horn, and Vera Ronkos performing this exciting series of compositons for the very first time. Enquiries contact Definitely Superior Art Gallery at 344-3814. $10 at the door and will be a licensed event. All Ages ID Required .

The TokyoPop+Shock Cabaret is an event of epic proportions, featuring 30 acts, so massive an event it will take up two bar venues... but only one cover charge. Pick your story, Pop or Shock, move between bars and interact with 30+ red hot incendiary acts! Exotic Fire Performance, Sensational Super Circus [tight rope walker, jugglers, twirlers], Belly Dancers, Pop+Shock film, Drag Queens, Manga Dancers giving treats and 16 live bands and Dj’s playing head-to-head for mangatronic sound supremacy, big screen video projections, lots of product placement and surprises! Advice to the uninitiated... come early! Thousands in raffle prizes with prizes for best manga/anime or tokyoshock costumes, plus free sushi! Treat yourself to the wildest, slickest, Year of the Earth Rat party you’ll ever experience! Saturday March 22 starting at 8pm - TokyoPop+Shock.... Super good number one! This will not be Tofu! 19+ ID required. Closing party for Urban Infill - Art In The Core. Come out and support the arts!

Staylefish [reggae/rock/ska-London/Vans Warped Tour08]
Alpha Galates [EMI Label-progressive rock/metal-Toronto]
Forever Dead [red hot rockabilly/psychobilly]
Nocturnal Divinity [gothic/alternative/metal-Winnipeg]
Cosmic Granola [60’s/funk/jam]
Hair Straight Back [sludge rock]
The Kettle Black [experimental/punk/folk - Vancouver]
The Wayback [surf punk]
Jordana Divinorum [goth/rock/alt]
Makeshift Astronaut [acousmatic/psychedelic/big beat]
Jean Paul De Roover [alt/folk/rock/world music]
Camden Blues+The Overnight Sensations [blues/punk]
The Rad Kids [garage /rock n roll /surf]
The Communication [reggae/progressive rock]
Adaptive Reaction [industrial]
Gaelin Brown [indie/pop/rock]
DJ Mofo [asian shock]
Michele Gerow-Feaver [exotic fire breather]
Sensational Super Circus + Rachelle [anime tightrope walker]
Linzee Martin [fire animation-poi performer]
Fantasia does Tokyo! [drag performance]
Manga Dancers/Messengers/Devha’s Tarot Readings
Empty Space Performance -[Thinking In Machine]
Satu’s Tokyo Belly Dancers-[exotic+entrancing]
Spoken Word/Performance - Renee Terpstra-Cameron
Willis -Chris Roy-[w/noise music] -Solomon-[hiphop]
Best TokyoPop+Shock Costume Contest

CHENIER FINE ARTS - THE RAINGE GALLERY - RUTTAN BLOCK ARTISTS STUDIOS - HILL CITY COMICS - CREATION BODY PIERCING - PNUEMATICITY SALON

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. Commercial gallery spaces - Chenier Fine Arts [at 8S Court St.] features highly accomplished national as well as regional artists - The Rainge Gallery featuring regional artists [at 204 Red River Rd.]. The creative cultural art spaces are Creation Body Piercing [at 240 Red River Rd.], Pnuematicity Salon/Jewelry [at 49 S. Cumberland], Hill City Comics/Graphic arts [located at 26 S. Court St.], Artists Studio Spaces in the Ruttan Block with Christian Chapman, Linda Dell, Foster Gauley, and Factor [at 4A S. Court St.] All will represent another aspect of some 20 projects in the core. Opening Reception: Wed. March 19, 7-10pm at all locations and it will run until Sat. March 22 12-6pm most locations. Get your map and follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination-re-discover your downtown north core. N-gage art!

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Northern Women's Bookstore is celebrating their 24th anniversary in the community, offering you the opportunity to explore women’s art, poetry and performance. Artist Katja Maki will be displaying her photo based art -”In Her Eye” and there will be an artists talk Sat. Mar.22 @ 2:20pm. Participate in the Peace Graffiti Wall and Community Poem Building for Peace. All are invited to the Sisters in Spirit Reading;Thurs. Mar.20 from 12:15-1:30pm, Tea and muffins will be served. Finally on Sat. Mar.22 -Art & Activism featuring poetry and performance from 2:00 to 5:00pm with poetry /artist talk /performance by Jelena Psenicnik at 3:15 and at 5:00pm reading of the collective peace poem. Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.19-22, Opening Reception: Wed. Mar.19, 7-10pm.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Lakehead University Visual Art Students/Graduate work represents one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. Part of our ongoing partnership with Lakehead University Visual Arts Department to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. LU Student Exhibition locations were generously donated by; Dr. Brian Scott at [16 S. Court St. Of The Ruttan Block] and Lynn/Terry Tapak at [215 Red River Rd. Arthur Sq.] - Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.19-22, 12-6pm; Opening Reception: Wed. Mar.19, 7-10pm at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and all Urban Infill exhibition locations. Get your map and follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination. Re-discover your downtown north core.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Confederation College Multimedia students will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. The exhibtions will feature a series of digital designs both 2D/3D to celebrate the students exceptional skills and involve video displays of their animation work. Look for video projections as well in the downtown. The ConCollege Multimedia Production Students locations were generously donated by; Dr. Brian Scott at [16 S. Court St. Of The Ruttan Block] and Lynn/Terry Tapak at [215 Red River Rd. Arthur Sq.] - Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.19-22, 12-6pm; Opening Reception: Wed. Mar.19, 7-10pm at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and all Urban Infill exhibition locations. Get your map and follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination. Re-discover your downtown north core.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The Confederation College Film Program students will represent one aspect of some 20 projects in the core. An ongoing partnership with Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative workforce. Over the duration of the show will be screenings of a compilation of some 40 short films by students in their first and final years. The ConCollege Film Production Students locations were generously donated by; Dr. Brian Scott at [16 S. Court St. Of The Ruttan Block] and Lynn/Terry Tapak at [215 Red River Rd. Arthur Sq.] - Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.19-22, 12-6pm; Opening Reception: Wed. Mar.19, 7-10pm at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and all Urban Infill exhibition locations. Get your map and follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination. Re-discover your downtown north core.

Part of Urban Infill Art In The Core - empty+active spaces in the downtown North core will be converted into arts/cultural spaces with over 350 artists converging to exhibit their art. The DefSup Members Show represents one aspect of some 20 projects in the core, offering the opportunity for both emerging, youth and professional artists to share exhibition space. The idea: that with vision and innovative arts and business we can fill up the empty spaces and help to connect and create a unique urban arts district. DefSup Members Exhibition locations generously donated by: Dr. Brian Scott at [16 S. Court St. Of The Ruttan Block] and Lynn/Terry Tapak at [215 Red River Rd. Arthur Sq.] - Exhibition dates: Wed.Mar.19-22, 12-6pm; Opening Reception: Wed. Mar.19, 7-10pm at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and all Urban Infill exhibition locations. Get your map and follow the Urban Infill Tour Guides to your next art destination. Re-discover your downtown north core

A new exhibition series initiated by Definitely Superior Art Gallery in partnership with Lot 66 to exhibit only DefSup members art exclusively in an intimate setting. Currently showing for March 19 to May 19 is Linda Dell. She is an engaging new contemporary landscape style painter that exhibits excellence in our regional artists and their continuing research and investigation of new visual works. Stop in to the newest and coolest Tapas bar in town! You will not be disappointed. Urban Infill-Art In The Core Projects @ Lot 66, the Lounge Room - located at 66 S. Court St - open after 4pm Tues.-Sat. Weekly.

This exhibition comprises of an impressive collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in this borrowed exhibition from Dr. Bob Chaudhuri of Thunder Bay with the assistance of Steve Potosky, owner of Art Of The North Gallery. Artists like Z.Z.Wei, of Beijing China, Alessandro Papetti of Milan Italy, Dana Wyse USA, as well as highly acclaimed Canadian artists Kristina Kudryk, George Vergette, Dougal Graham, Max Weis, David Nizmar and more... All featured in major art magazines. This exhibition is part of our focused professional programming that informs and feeds into the regional arts expression, providing a forum for the public and artist community to come into contact with works, artists and experiences that would otherwise not be available. Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture.
Art, refreshments, artists talks, music.

Internationally known artist John Younge from Dublin Ireland works in the area of Post Industrial Culture and issues of dereliction and abandonment, whether it be on a physical or mental level. Younge presents a photographic/experimental sound and video installation with imagery such as abandoned factories, forgotten hospitals and health care facilities, institutions etc, works that relate in many ways to Thunder Bay’s industrial past/present. An artists talk will accompany the exhibition in order to inform, educate and exchange ideas with students, artists and other professionals. Younge has been the recipient of numerous awards and a recent Irish Council Research Grant. This exhibition is part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture.

Internationally known former Winnipeg based artist Lynn Richardson’s artwork is comprised of images that are based on the technological affects on the northern landscape. Through contextualized sculptural installation she questions the presence of corporate and government influences on the land. Richardson’s work looks specifically at consumerism and resources and their irrevocable effects on the Arctic landscape. An artists talk will accompany the exhibition in order to inform, educate and exchange ideas with students, artists and other professionals. Richardson has been the recipient of numerous awards and a recent Canada Council Research Grant to explore the north. Richardson is exhibiting extensively internationally. This exhibition is part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, Join us for an Opening Reception at the gallery with three new exhibitions featuring national/international artists and tour downtown spaces for art & culture.

Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. Be on the lookout for culture jamming, subvertisements or just plain beautiful art making with film all projected into our urban environment. These will be interventions, so get out of your house and into the city, you never know what you might see and discover when you explore. Get more from the new art of electronic graffiti with credit to Krzysztof
Wodiczko for bringing this technology into the streets. Definitely Superior Art Gallery brings the general public and the artistic community into contact with works, artists and experiences that would not otherwise be available. Location-somewhere/anywhere downtown north core.

Come out for an original night of Electronika, stylistic fusions involving traditional and electronic instruments will collide in a live forum of massive video projections and innovative musical performances by; The Kettle Black [Vancouver], Adaptive Reaction, Jean Paul De Roover [and his theremin device], IGBC, Tenka, Rian Riot, Kevin Element [Confederation College Multi-Media], Dr. Arnold Kim, and LU Radio 102.7fm’s-DJ KC/Kevin Coons (turntablism & mixing), DJ Metal Machine Myke and more!...Begin with the screening of Tetsuo the Iron Man which is widely accepted as one of the most ground breaking and seminal cyberpunk movies ever to have been produced with a cacophonus electro-industrial soundtrack, influencing bands like NIN, Throbbing Gristle, and Front242. It's full of hyperkinetic imagery and filmmaking with extreme surrealistic vision; film at 8:00pm-68 min. Digital mayhem then begins with the new sounds of Electronika... Experience electricity in your diet and don’t forget Fruit Loops will be available. Electronika: Part of Urban Infill-Art In The Core Projects.-Sat. All ages $5 at the door - licensed event ID required - For more info, visit: www.tbshows.com and listen to LU Radio 102.7fm our friendly neighbourhood sponsors. N-gage Art!

Wet your fingers and join us in a celebration of circuit bending, the art of creating musical noise instruments from electronic toys, so pop off the back of that kids speak and spell...all you need is patience, curiosity and the willingness to explore. This is a hands on workshop and open to the public, Mike Guerin will be our guru of bent toys and walk us through the toys struggling to become noise music. Workshop-films/performances, internet sites featuring toy based bands/music projected on the wall. Want to know more? Come out to play in the land of circuit bent toys, maybe you have something to show and tell, if you have knowledge, bring it with you. Reconfigure consumer electronics into works of sonic madness their designers never intended-hands on experimentation and fun with electronics All served up for you and refreshments too!

An initiative of Definitely Superior Art Gallery to allow access by members, regional artists and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Painters 13-an exhibition of 13 accomplished painters in the contemporary arts. Definitely Superior
Art Gallery recognizes artistic excellence in our regional artists and their continuing research and investigation of new visual works. Artists featured are: Leslie Shaw, Duncan Weller, Julie Cosgrove, Christian Chapman, Patrick Doyle, Alana Forsland, Stan Kalaska, Kathleen Nichols, Matt Wyatt, Thomas White, Lana McGregor, Lora Northway, and Linda Dell.

Nationally known and one of Hamilton’s most accomplished artists Jane Adeney, creates mysterious and ornate ceramics/multi-media works that searche for the roots of our longings, our dreams and our destructive passions. Adeney uses traditional craft techniques and elemental materials as the basis of her elaborate mixed media installations. The Eros Suite features a collaborative venture between Jane Adeney and her son, multi-media artist and highly acclaimed musician Chris Adeney [Wax Mannequin who will be performing at the galleries Art B-Lab Wed.Jan.30 at Definitely Superior Art Gallery @8pm]. The Eros Suite is a mixed media smoke fired earthenware sculptural installation which incorporates sound and video aspects and serves to delve deep into a topic of such magnitude as human existence and transformation . Jane Adeney has presented her work across Canada and is the recipient of Ontario Arts and Canada Council grants. Definitely Superior invites you to an Artstravaganza with 3 new exhibitions opening-Art, Refreshments, Artist Talks with [Dan Brault/Quebec City+Jane Adeney/Hamilton].

Quebec artist, Dan Brault’s painting practice is constructed on a recurrent interest in the confrontation of eclectic imagery, fascinated by the interconnections created when two or more paintings are brought together to form a mongrel. Brault employs different image genres [hard edge, comic book illustration, serigraphy, gestural brushwork, etc.] to investigate the rapport of visual entities and initiate dialogues between different image styles, creating complex visual puzzles. Much like the strategies of the techno musician who samples and mixes, Brault cuts across the conventions of comics, portraiture, still life and geometric abstraction, the pictorial codes juxtaposed by the artist become a new visual phrasing. Dan Brault has presented his work in Quebec and across Canada-recently in the Toronto International Art Fair and is represented by the Peak Gallery in Toronto. Definitely Superior invites you to an Artstravaganza with 3 new exhibitions opening-Art, Refreshments, Artist Talks with [Dan Brault/Quebec City+Jane Adeney/Hamilton]. The artist wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.

An evocative cocktail of music, art, performance and big screen video projections at the next inspiring multi-arts edition of ART B-LAB, featuring musical performances by: Hamilton’s own indie rock deity Wax Mannequin-his live performances are unequalled with a sense of conviction and intensity. Adeney is one of the hardest-touring artists in the Canadian indie-rock scene performing with a dramatic and theatrical style, a must to see. The Kettle Black [Vancouver] a one man sound experience aka Nick Johannes’ music has been described as "experimental/folk/punk" but that list falls a little short - at times danceable, at times jarring, definitely unique. Solomon provides another one man solid performance of intelligent and poetic hiphop/spokenword. See and hear diverse spoken word and performative art by Tanya Elchuk, Renee Terpstra, Amy Crnkovic, Cameron Willis, Douglas Livingston, and Jolene Simko-Core 6 literary Zine launch-refreshments will be served. 8PM sharp all ages welcome-ID required-$5 at the door-Music with a twist! For more info, visit: www.tbshows.com and listen to LU Radio 102.7fm our friendly neighborhood sponsors. N-gage Art!.