Ice Follies 2016
February 13th - 27th, 2016
Theme: Ojichaagobiishin: It reflects in water
A call to action for other groups to engage the festival by responding to water as the source of all life on earth. With the imminent threat of land development and pipelines looming over Canada, both Aboriginal Territories and Municipalities turn their attention towards “Life”. Without the fresh water sources such as Nipissing nothing can survive. “Ojichaagobiishin” forces us to reflect on water and look at what we see. Looking in water reflects our own image back forcing us to look at ourselves. In order for the world we live in to change towards a safer, healthier place, we have to change ourselves.
Presented Artists
2016 Events
Opening Reception 2016
Warm refreshments and artists on site
Marathon Beach (Memorial Drive, North Bay)
February 13th, 2016 @ 5:00pm
Serpent People
Performance by Aanmitaagzi Storymakers
Marathon Beach (Memorial Drive, North Bay)
February 20, 2016 @ 6:00pm
Family Day 2016
Come down to Ice Follies for free Hot Chocolate and Art Viewing!
Marathon Beach (Memorial Drive, North Bay)
February 15th, 2016
Fishing for Sounds*
Audio Art Workshop with Darren Copeland
February 13 & 14, 10am – 4pm
Taking place at White White Gallery 122 Main St E.
*Registration Required
Open Studio Aanmitaagzi
Please note both Wednesday’s will be Big Drum nights. These open studio workshops invite community memebers to join Aanmitaagzi in the creation of installations, giant puppets and performance. All Welcome
161 Couchie Memorial Drive, North Bay, ON
February 1st – 4th, 2016 (Monday – Friday) 6:00 – 8:30pm
Story Telling Event
Join Aanmitaagzi for an evening of story telling and singing.
161 Couchie Memorial Drive, North Bay, ON
February 23rd from 6:00 – 8:30pm
Pathways
Pathways, an installation by Cristina Lella, engages with Aanimtaagzi, Serpent People and community, exploring relationship to local routes and pathways. These open workshops will continue until the festival opening.
Taking place at White White Gallery 122 Main St E.
Additional Presenters
Zakide
Presenting: Nisidotan
Zakide aims to advance the public’s appreciation of contemporary Aborigional art by producing public art exhibitions and presentations, and by providing a forum for qualified Aboriginal artists to exhibit, present, or perform their artistic works through participation in such events.
Gallery 44
Presenting: A Humble Trawling
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices.
Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.
Nipissing Regional Curatorial Collective
The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective is an ad hoc, project-based group of media artists, curators, writers and educators mandated to curate, promote, develop and facilitate regional contemporary and site-specific art in the region of northeastern Ontario and to foster the production and presentation of contemporary visual arts in Canada. Our main goal is to bring all forms of contemporary arts created by Northern Ontario artists to audiences from across the country. By initiating unique and high quality contemporary art projects in our region, we hope to increase the profile of regional artists, develop the concepts of a regional art practice, travel exhibits of northern regional art to other parts of the country, and develop a discourse between artists working in regional areas and critics or curators of “international” contemporary art.
4Elements Living Arts
Presenting: Ice Folly
4Elements Living Arts is a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, non-profit arts organization on Manitoulin Island. We investigate and integrate relationships between landscape, creativity, and community, through research, arts creation, and community cultural and economic development.