Summer at The Roundhouse Community Centre

 This summer I helped the Art programmers and planning Special Events at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Some Art related events I have helped with are "Drawdown" - a drawing weekend where we did chalk murals, riding bikes through tempera paint onto paper to make marks, comic drawing with local artists and life drawing of dancers. It was great to be involved with!

Being involved with the community and the Art programmers, Marie and Shana, and to see dancers and artists and people in the public stopping to take part was something different than sitting in a studio and creating art, and I really enjoyed this aspect of performance art.

I was also able to help the Western Front at the Roundhouse location during the Jazz Festival weekend with their amazing collection of sound installation artists in the kids zone "Sonic Playground". http://front.bc.ca/newmusic/events/3346 . This was an experience to remember, and the adults had just as much fun as the kids. Plus they had a killer lemonade recipe!

I also planned the Picnic in the Park event in David Lam Park where we did mask making, face painting, yoga, bbq, hiphop demos, a band played and a baby change station...unfortunately it was rained out and then postponed to the hottest day of the summer, but it was still fun and a huge learning curve for planning events.

Amanda Lye - Minatures: Systems, Structures and the Inane

This show was at Lucky's Gallery at 3972 Main Street from June 24th to July 8th, 2010
Curated by Jenn Jackson

Written by Jenn Jackson:
A study of order, Lye presents a collection of acquired objects representing an affinity for the miniature. An ongoing project, her ever-shifting installation offers an engaging conversation with the contemporary condition of escalating pluralism. The collection's orientation to multiple aspects or parts disturbs symbolic representation, underscoring the oblique nature of an archive composed of recalcitrant material. The placement of each inventory within appropriate box (along walls and upon shelves and tables) proposes value distinctions and provides structuralized containment for a frenetic assemblage. Although precarious, the varied objects are arranged in a carefully maintained order of idiosyncrasy. With a utopian spirit, Lye’s anomic structures recoup failed visions, vital knowledges, and familiar narratives of what has been or what could be.

Here are a few detail shots from the show: