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

Serpent People
Aanmitaagzi, 2016

Deep Dark: Crossing
Caitlind R.C. Brown &
Wayne Garret, 2016

Nisidotan
Edgardo Moreno, 2016

A Humble Trawling
Jihee Min, 2016

Fishing for Sounds
Darren Copeland, 2016

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.